PeregrineFalcon

Release date on Steam now shows as: "Coming soon." Holy cats! You weren't wrong about the Steam forums.

So it's been 2 hours. Did the game unlock? Can you download it?

Ship of Heroes was supposed to launch tomorrow, August 18th. It was just announced, earlier today, that launch has been delayed until Monday, August 25th. 😞

Semantics. You're simply taking advantage of poor wording on my part. By giving people a way to convert all KB to KD, however you do it, you then open them up to being pressured into turning that toggle on, or slotting that special IO, or whatever. So yeah, that's taking away knock back. And then, once that problem's "solved", the anti-KB crowd will move on to the next "problem" to be solved. Knock back is not a problem. Knock back is a part of the super hero genre. And, according to the Homecoming devs, it's not going anywhere. You all need to take the hint already.

Thank you. And I think that knocking people back is part of the super hero genre and that some people need to realize that knock back always has been and always will be a part of City of Heroes. The retail devs refused to take it away and the Homecoming devs have already said that they're not going to take it away, and why. So, 21 years later knock back is still here. How many more decades until people realize that that isn't going to change? How many more decades until people realize that they are going to just have to deal with it?

This isn't a problem that can be fixed. Look, if the devs gave everyone a free KB > KD power, sure the whining about KB would stop. But you know what would happen then? People would find something else to cry about. They'd fixate on something else and post about that for year after year after year, just like they've done with KB. The problem isn't KB. The problem is the human condition. People always complain about something.

And you know this how? Have you surveyed the entire player base? No you haven't, you're just making this shit up. I'll agree that a forum poll isn't completely reliable, but it's far more accurate that the random shit you're spewing. Make no mistake, you do not know what the entire player base thinks. You're just writing your own opinion and acting like you know the hearts and minds of everyone who plays on Homecoming. I'll agree that someone here sounds a bit delusional.

What's worse is that when, a couple of years ago, there was a forum poll about knockback and it turned out that the majority actually liked knockback. But the knockback haters still continue to post "The majority of people hate knockback." Even though that's been repeatedly proven to be false.

I have to admit. I don't understand what the OP means by "balance" in this context. While he did write this: But I don't understand how any of his bulletin points will accomplish this. The fact is that the only way to complete most missions is to defeat enemies, and the only thing that defeats enemies is damage. No amount of lowering a character's damage output will change that. All it accomplishes is reducing options and increasing mission completion times.

Please remember that this person does not speak English, and that they are using a program to translate. And worse, we have no idea how accurate that translation actually is.

Not in the US, no. There's certainly nothing illegal, or unethical, about customer privacy. I'm honestly not certain why this is even a question.

The City of Heroes RETAIL team had the rule that "we don't discuss moderator actions." And the City of Heroes HOMECOMING team has decided to follow that same standard. But that's not the only acceptable standard. I'll give you an example: Shortly after Guild Wars 2 launched a person started complaining on social media (maybe Reddit, I forget) that the GW2 team had banned them for no reason at all, and that they were horrible people, etc., etc. Gail (the head of the of the mod team at the time) responded showing screenshots of things he'd said in game that showed him saying ridiculous racist stuff in general chat. This had the effect of not only letting people know that that kind of behavior wouldn't be tolerated, but it also gave people confidence that the mod team was actually responding to reports like this which kept a lot of people from doing those things in the first place. Another example: whenever I play Rainbow Six Siege I constantly see messages pop up like: "Battleye just banned XxXwackynameXxX." Now I don't know much about how moderation works for Siege, but you know what I do know? I know that if I make a dumb name, or say something dumb in chat, I'm gonna get banned, so I don't do any of those things. So there is a legitimate reason to show players at least some of the results of moderator actions, if not all of the details. The Homecoming team has chosen not to do that, and that's fine, but just so people understand there are other legal and acceptable ways to deal with moderation.

Reviewers who I typically agree with have said it's probably the best Fantastic Four movie yet. I'm thinking of actually going to see it.

Rest in peace @Shenanigunner ! Until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness. See you on the Other Side.

You do realize that all of the moderators, Homecoming devs, and former devs, have normal forum accounts, right? And I don't mean their official dev accounts, I'm talking about their original, normal player, accounts. So at least some of the people who post stuff detailing what the devs can and cannot do literally are Homecoming devs, or former devs, on their normal accounts. You do understand that, right? And since you don't know who they are it makes no sense for you to complain that players shouldn't be posting about stuff they don't know about when some of them actually do. 😁

Yes, people are tired of seeing this thread at the top of the "All Activity" list. And, since they don't have the self-control necessary to just not click on a thread that they're tired of, they all start posting "Ok, it's over, shut it down." And yes, it is hypocritical when people post that they're going to disagree with your posts whether you like it or not and then they turn around and demand that the thread be shut down, but it's been standard procedure since this forum first opened. Like I said, most of you want so desperately to control what other people are allowed to say and how they're allowed to say it. Maybe you all should apply to be moderators. In the meantime, I'm going to continue to disagree with suggestions that I disagree with, and yes I am being excellent to everyone. Now I'm going to go party on.

Is that why you keep participating?

So the last week on the forum has seemed a little odd to me. First we had a thread where someone was claiming that we shouldn't be allowed to just react to a post that we should be required to actually post a response and say something. Then we had a thread where someone else proposed a list of restrictions on what we should post if we do respond. While both of those posts are contradictory, they both have one thing in common. Advocating for further restrictions on what/how we're allowed to post on this forum. So I guess my question is: Why do you so many of you want so desperately to control what others are allowed to say, or how they're allowed to say it?

I don't have an example of one of my suggestions being implemented in game, but I do have an example of a suggestion thread that I made where people didn't disagree with the suggestion I was making, some people even added stuff and improved upon my suggestion. It's time to develop the Shadow Shard Zones! So I'd like to submit that if you're unhappy that suggestions you like are not being wholeheartedly agreed with that you consider the possibility that they're just bad suggestions.

Yes. The unresolved issue is that people now days are immature, and they get shocked and horrified when people disagree with something they are saying. Too many decades of tone policing and participation trophies have lead to a generation of people who are so soft that they literally can't stand it when people don't slavishly agree with whatever nonsense falls out of their pie-hole.

Because the truth is that this thread is exactly the same as all other complaint threads in the suggestions forum. It's dressed up as one thing or another but the truth is that the real objection is that the person is upset because no one agreed with his suggestion. And so now, he's trying to make it so that people aren't allowed to disagree with his suggestion. We've had many other threads exactly like this one over the years.

Ok, and? Once again those handful of posters have been told, by a mod, that they're specifically allowed to do that. So your objection appears to me to be "people are doing something that a mod specifically said they're allowed to do and I don't like it!" Here, I'll even quote the relevant portion of the mod's post: “Don’t leave your child unattended.” In short, any suggestion made in this forum will be thoroughly examined by all of us, changed, ripped up, and added-on to until it’s possible that the resulting idea doesn’t resemble what you suggested in the first place. You need to allow others to add more consideration to your idea. If you find yourself having a problem with this, a good idea may be running your initial idea by friends first for feedback before sharing it here.

So, once again, your issue appears to be with the way people word their posts. Also, people are not, nor should they be, required to come up with a solution. "Don't point out a problem if you don't have a solution." Is the kind of thing that lazy middle managers say during meetings when they don't want their people to shoot down their stupid ideas. "This won't work because our delivery vans cannot fly" is a perfectly rational objection to a stupid middle manager suggestion. And when he responds with "Well, what would you suggest?" My answer will be "I don't know, but then again I'm not management. It's not my job to come up with solutions, it's yours. That's why you get paid the big bucks. But I'm telling you that it's a fact that our delivery vans cannot fly, they are ground vehicles." Similarly, suggestions like "everything should be free!!!!!" is a suggestion that I can disagree with, explain why it's a bad idea, and there is no solution for. TL;DR: You don't get to tell people how they're allowed to word their posts.

Sure. Here's a post made by a mod where they specifically explain how this forum works. Please pay special attention to the part where the mod specifically says we're allowed to disagree with suggestions. I agree with you on this. Of course we're not voting. No one here believes that we are. But that's simply an artifact of language. You're nit picking the way people phrase their posts. Not everyone is a lawyer who picks their words carefully so as to be certain that you don't have a specific adjective to hand your objection on. The mod post above specifically says "Assume Good Will." So just take their post how it's meant instead of arguing semantics. Sure it is. I shoot down ideas all the time. I'm allowed to do that. If you don't like it then feel free to log in to your moderator account and sanction me. I hate to say it but you're the one who's confused. Everything you're saying I can't do a moderator has already specifically said that I am allowed to do. And, since you're not a moderator, you have no say in the matter. You keep asking for a mod's opinion, but I've already linked you to a post with the official opinion of the mods. It's no one's fault but your own if you choose not to read it. CASE DISMISSED!