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Everything sounds great. Love that the Devs have a relatively set schedule for the Pocket D visit. It always seemed so chaotic before.

The in-game chaos was pretty fun last time. Looking forward to that as well.


Viva, CoH!

If they can be done so fast, why not have two in one day? With such a short window, and the zone cap, it's even easier to miss one. People could switch roles if they choosed (support one raid, assault the next, etc). It's probably easier to stick to the known time for Hami Raids if you want to increase their frequency. Venturing out to other nights might not have the same results, though the occasional impromtu raid does happen.

More food for thought--

I think, Avatea, a little clarification of how the calculations are supposed to work would be helpful.

Vet time is supposed to be total time paid + free months from any purchases/upgrades - unpaid (inactive) months, correct? I know it was this way before you changed the system, but is it still this way now?

Let's say someone got a badge for months that shouldn't have counted (any inactive period between active periods). Going forward, will they continue to be the extra badge ahead of where they should be, or will there not be a badge rewarded until the calculated time matches the correct badge reward? Some people I know that got extra badges are wondering when their next vet badge reward will be.

Welcome to the Red side, Black Pebble.


Lots of good ideas already mentioned, so I'll just sum up my thoughts about future marketing thusly:


Focus 80% or more of your energies marketing/promoting/whatever you want to call it, on putting this game into people's hands that have never seen it or saw it 5 years ago and forgot it's still around. The present game (including GR in this thought) is lightyears ahead of what the game was in its inception. Do everything in your ebil marketing powers to emphasize this to all media outlets, which includes (but not limited to) updating reviews, screenshots, videos, etc. We don't have to advertise at WoW levels, but there's a place for CoH.

The rest of your time is for "the choir." All of us that already play and enjoy the game. The shineys are nice, but it's the game that keeps us around. The Dev team does the things that keep us here, but Marketing can throw us treats to show us appreciation.

And please, good sir, keep the in-game advertising out. The second you gave us the ability to turn it off and not look at it was the second you sent the message to any potential advertisers that they would be better served spending their advertising dollars elsewhere. If you can't guarantee a certain number of people will see said advertising, it's not worth doing.


Thanks for putting a stake in the hearts of all the naysayers. Hopefully this won't be the only time we hear from your side of the team. Looking forward to what's coming for Going Rogue and beyond.

There was no reason to level bump a Demon MM. They already know how masterminds work. Plenty of ways for people to get to 40 or higher in a short amount of time. The powers that are unique to the set all come at lower levels (all the whip powers, Hell on Earth, etc.)

There's nothing more nerdy than pointing out the flaws in a comic that makes fun of comic book characters.

Congratulations, you all win.

Pro tip: Use the Ask a Question feature in the NCSoft account page (not an in-game petition). I've had to petition for a vet badge the last two times, and both times I went directly through NCSoft and got it taken care of in a day or two. Since that's where you see your calculated time, it would make more sense to involve the people you're actually sending money to, and not the folks that make the game.

The Positron TF is shorter than a Dr Q in missions, yet no one is complaining that it's getting redone. (How it's getting redone might be another story, but the fact that it's changing makes the majority happy)

Dr Q has plenty of room to be trimmed and still feel "epic." Also, pre-Ouro portals, it was way more tedious than it is now. It was easily the longest TF in the game in time spent.


To address the "Devs wouldn't withold content" line of thought: Sure they would. If big picture plans change, or if the staff gets reduced (which happened) content that made sense to put in before but no longer fit the current vision could be held back until there was time and/or people to tweak them. There's no way they made such a huge area for such little current content. War Witch, among other Devs past and present, have stated in old posts that the Shadow Shard was an unfinished product, and they've just been waiting for the right time to add to it. If you pay attention to the stories in there, there's a lot of hints about stuff that we haven't seen yet. Why get so in-depth if you don't have stuff in the works, or content to tie into it?

I like all the parts of it on their face. I was just in the Shadow Shard for a while the other day and thinking of how cool and underutilized it was. So much empty space that could hold a lot of promise.

I think requiring completion of the 4 Shard TFs would necessitate revamping at least the Dr Quaterfield one. It could be reasonably shortened without sacrificing the story of it at all...so many redundant missions. Perhaps insert an AV level encounter in the TFs that don't currently have one as well.

Aside from the blanket statements about how certain ATs or powersets aren't useful, or won't be wanted, and the hyperbole about how difficult it is to get temp powers or inspirations, I can see your point, but it raises a question:

Why should the game change it's playstyle to fit your needs, and not the other way around? You say you don't like endgame content as it has been done in other games. Even if something similar creeps in to CoH, why does that matter to the rest of us? YOU don't like it, so don't do that content. The rest of the game won't change, and you've been happily rolling alts and reliving content for howeverlong you've been playing. End-game won't change that a bit. Why does every piece of gameplay have to suit every playstyle out there? It's impossible to please everyone. I don't complain when there's attention being given to PvP, when I don't generally do it. I don't pay attention to how other players spend billions on builds for their characters when mine use generics and perform better than average on their own. There's a piece of this game for everyone to enjoy and spend their time in. End Game can be one of those (one that a lot of players have been wanting) and even if it's not executed how you'd like it, so what? You get by fine without it right now. If I were a Dev, I'd try to make the majority happy with new content I'd been working on, but I'd know that there would always be people out there that would hate it. It shouldn't stop me from making what I, and many, many other players, thought was fun.

Nah...if you follow that logic, a bicycle would be made for people with 4 legs.

Thanks for all your hard work, Niv. Your newfound ability to wrangle cats shall serve you well.

See you in game

New Issue dropping is too important to also drop a 2xp weekend on top of it. The potential for bad impressions from a buggy issue are too great, if you're trying to attract old subs back. They'll never do it, and they shouldn't.

Look for a free invite couple weeks after I17 drops (no double xp) if they do another one before Going Rogue.


OP needs to read the forums more, or he'd never have asked in the first place.

Just noticed that it lists all the different types of ammo as separate powers under the DP powers list...that's kind of lame.

Have fun with the Pew Pew.

*waiting on the next person to start a "No double xp in AE?" thread

It's the circle of life...brings a tear to my eye.

Me neither, and I was in first wave of DP. Looks like it's back to the usual way of doing closed beta testing. Very small group first, then adding in folks every week or so.