Greycat

We went through a long argument about this when someone else passed. The devs aren't going to add an NPC, for multiple reasons. *If* anyone gets added, it's going to be someone on the actual dev team. Dev response - They're not *opposed* to a wall of names/memorial, but it doesn't sound high on the list. (Yes, I'm replying because I'm seeing this thread while looking in the forum to see if someone I've not seen around for a while who was sick was mentioned by anyone. I *know* their close in game friends, but even they don't know and brought it up.)

When using it when I went to MSRs regularly on a 50 +3 (both my 'shade and others,) to get the most effect and mobs I had to snag a Super inspriation, which bumps * your* level up by one.

No more tex-mex for you.

Usually when these sorts of things are suggested, it's things like a modern engine and newer graphics, without the various limitations for what can be done with a costume/more modifiable faces/etc, moving the timeline forward, fixing as much of the "we'd love to but can't due to structural limits in the game" sort of things. Usually paired with expanding the scope (starting out with going to other places in the world, going underwater/into space, etc.) Would I love to see it? Solid "maybe." Would I expect to ever see it? Nope. Especially as an MMO. I'm not sure when the most recent actual-MMO has been released and done well. I'd half expect if someone launched a COH 2 "officially" it'd be a squad based game (COHelldivers 2?) And given the way corporations are, it'd be a ton of microtransactions and such (unless they *did* follow the Helldivers 2 model... you *can* buy in game cash, but there's no reason to, since earning the same stuff in game is actually done at a reasonable pace.) Plus there'd have to be a demonstrable market for it as a "live service" game. So. Yeah. For those and many, many more reasons, I don't expect to see a COH 2 ever.

Semi-frequently, here.

Whenever I see the MSR listed on Everlasting these days, it's instanced - people go to the zone (or a shared zone) to get invited in, for this and other reasons. So they should have zero impact as it is. (Or, rather, it's already essentially IN an "MSR" zone.)

... flip side, sort of, I rather wish we had high tops / ankle boots, as well. One of the female sandal options has a (sort of) ankle-high sock, so it's not *that* out there to have that be the "height" of some footwear.

For many of us, there's more to a character than just the numbers. Again. Beta gets wiped. Someone who *plays on beta* for whatever reason now has to recreate the characters, recreate the SG, hope anyone they played with feels like recreating characters on beta, re load up his AE (I don't *believe* beta shares the AE database with live, for obvious reasons) and the like. And the comment that started all this was basically "play on beta," not "transfer a character." The two are different.

Everlasting. Not Excelsior.

Short answer, no. Long answer, still no. Honestly, I rather like the "It's time for you to rest, you don't have to carry all this any more, others are here" pass-the-torch sentiment. I'd hate to see that taken away.

Because *youv'e put time into the character,* you've gotten whatever badges. If its the *beta server and can get wiped,* that means your SG and everyone involved it it have also gone away. You cannot just make all that again "with everything you could ever want." There is no restore for the SG base. There is no restore for the friends list. You cannot wave your hand and have all your friends characters back - if THEY want to go through the trouble after a server wipe or massive change. Or, you know, you can not play on beta and have everything backed up and relatively safe... which is far more appealing to most folks.

... which means you're probably spending most of your time playing it on live, not beta.

If I'm playing a character, it's from level 1, and then playing them, RPing them and more. Which, again, is not something I would think anyone would want to do on a server that is at risk of being wiped or changed at any time. Thus "Nobody plays on beta." Because nobody's going to want to spend time on a character that could just go away at any time.

Solution: Tell people you're going to use the power. Implementation time: 0 months 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds. Why should Judgement get this special treatment? Why not blaster nukes, which have had this issue since... issue 0? Or - well, pretty much every power that affects a target in the game? Should I not be able to throw a heal on someone because their health has just hit 100% from someone else's? Should I not be able to hit a target because the blaster's snipe is still winding up and would take that target to 0? Should I not be able to use the big nuke I'm in the middle of a spawn to set off because someone started clicking Judgement half a second ago, or vice versa? (And on the programmatic side, how many of these checks on how many targets do you want the server - because this *can't* be done client side - to do for every player in every mission continuously?)

*Whose* expectation? Certainly not mine. I know I *can* do that if I want to, sure. But there's an entire game out there I enjoy playing at the levels the content's meant at, because that's what the challenge is tuned to. I've run godmode cheats in other games for a no-stress-blow-off-steam run and they generally make the game less fun for me. People don't play on Beta not because things are free, but because it's beta and subject to massive change and/or getting wiped at any time - and that's warned about. I wouldn't want to play there and have hundreds of hours on a character just to have "New patch, beta's had to be wiped" hit it.