ransim

Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul

Because I've noticed that, in the last week alone, we've had quite a sustained presence from "up there".

Zwillinger resurrecting Null and trying to take part in a CC.
Beastyle taking punishment in Atlas Square, and then recovering enough to party. (Let me be your bodyguard next time, eh?)
Freitag leading people on merry spider chases around Atlas.


Let me say this: please, keep doing it if the bosses let you. I think the good majority of us like having you around and actually in the community you serve.

-Q (24 alts, 1 mastered... and counting!)

Originally Posted by Matt_King

We are only 6 days away from the biggest event in Palladium Sentry history! If you happen to be online by 4 PM EST, make sure to stop by our Costume Contest and then join us in our base for a great party. We hope to see you all there!

Originally Posted by Organica

Hami raids on Virtue are traditionally Monday and Wednesday and Saturday blue side, and Wednesday and Sunday I think redside... might not have the weekend raids right. But after I20 came out people stopped doing hami raids. I haven't checked to see if they're doing them again.

Typically you can get a raid going with about 25-30 people. Max in zone is 50 of course. Monster Hunt is first phase, and during that you leave your inspiration tray with open slots because Essense of the Earth inspirations can drop and those are your only defense against hamidon type damage (normal defense and resist powers are useless against hamidon). Then when hami spawns -- which is random, can be right away or can take over half an hour -- teams regroup, buff up, and attack.

Before attacking hamidon you have to kill the mitos. Yellow mitos are attacked by melee characters -- they can't be attacked at range. They do big damage so the tank team needs to taunt them. Blue mitos are vulnerable to range, and can't be attacked by melee. They drain endurance. The green mitos heal. Typically you have teams of melee taking down the yellows while the tank team taunts them, and teams of ranged damage taking down the blues at the same time, then everyone attacks the greens, and all the while the main tank is taunting hamidon itself and has one or more support people keeping him/her alive.

And there are 4 waves... when hamidon reached 75% health, all of the mitos respawn. Same thing at 50% and 25% health.

In the old days teams would evac out after each respawn and reset everything, rebuff, and head back in for the next wave. Nowadays teams buff before the respawn and when the mitos respawn they move directing into mito clearing mode. Also, it's very typical to fight through the last wave instead of clearing the mitos -- eat an EoE and keep attacking hamidon until dead, while the tank team goes back to taunting the yellow mitos.

Sometimes people attempt to push through at 50% or even 75%, but that can be very dangerous if you fail because you can have a double or even triple mito bloom.

Something else that I've never actually participated in is a nuke raid -- everyone has warburg nukes and uses them all at once. I believe they'll clear the first mito spawn before doing this, but the idea is to nuke hamidon into the ground as fast as possible, without messing with the mito spawns. I know Virtue did one of these back in January I think.

Anyway. I've only been on one hami raid since I20 went live, and that was a redside raid on a weekend.

Originally Posted by jackattack

Where are people gathering for roleplay. There used to be RPers hanging out in the park in Galaxy almost 24-7, but since I rejoined the game after five years gone, I've never found a single character there.

Did bases send all of the RPers into private supergroup space?

Originally Posted by Xzero45

I was a member of RP Virtue for two years, and I think I saw maybe three genuine hero teams get formed and saw around one general team formed a month, if I was lucky. So it's never been that great for recruiting. And the wacky antics tended to get either dramatic or offensive far too often. I think we need a fresh new channel for RP, to be honest. I'll have to check this one out.

Originally Posted by Commander

Whatever happened to RP Virtue ?

Originally Posted by Freelancer

I just had another look today, and I am now seeing all the servers in the transfer list. Helpfully the list isn't actually big enough to fit them all, and there's no scrollbar so you have to do a reverse sort by name if you want anything past Union, but they are all there.

Originally Posted by Pocket Talley

Okay!
http://i53.tinypic.com/2z5oia9.jpg

Here's Arbegla, finally done~

I'll be updating my WIP link to the new commission I'm working on. : )

Originally Posted by Captain_Iron

I don't oft frequent the forums on VV, but I am trying to get more entries for my characters and SG. So, I figured a nice piece of art might look good on the entry as well.

Originally Posted by Erudin

Thanks guys! I am planning on a colored comission in the near future though

Originally Posted by Pebblebrook

The major effect from that might have happened 2 years ago. Think the majority of people who had a need to evaluate if CoX was worth keeping in light of their financial situation decided back then.

The subprime crisis started 4Q 2009 ish. Prior to that CoX sales were:

1Q09 6,837
2Q09 6,673
3Q09 5,471

Then the 15 months after:

4Q09 3,928
1Q10 3,348
2Q10 3,491
3Q10 5,709 (GR sales temporary spike)
4Q10 3,239
1Q11 3,055

Although the past year is still decreasing but is doing so with a more tapered rate. To me that might appear that decrease will mostly be from the merits of the game instead of a need to cut expenses.

But since the quarterlies doesn't specify the cost per game, we can't really know how low it can go before NCsoft will consider it as no longer financially viable. If the cost is way lower than that then it can still go for years.

But the decline is still somewhat worrying for me, since if it does keep decreasing that means more cost cutting somewhere.

Originally Posted by Daemodand

So 67,000 accounts? Of course, you'd have to adjust for pay services and boosters, but that sounds about right. Apparently we see servers in the yellow and red due to the downscaling of hardware (with another round of downscaling having just been tested).

It's sad to see such a solid game find an all-new low in earnings with every quarter. But the answer is before us as had been mentioned: F2P. Problem is, NCSoft simply does not understand or like F2P.