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  1. 4 hours ago, MattBold said:

    This is an industry first right?  Has any company EVER granted an official license to a rogue private server community?

    I think there is Project1999 from Everquest, but I'm not aware of any others: https://www.project1999.com/

    But this is indeed a very rare unicorn.

    Kudos on NCsoft for taking this step, I will now consider buying their games again.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Water said:

     

    yeah FTP on steam would keep the game busy.

     

    Let's hope.

    I've been playing it as a 3rd party title in Steam, but it's not the same.

    I would love to see the game return to and climb the Steam charts.

    It would be a worthy nominee for the Labour of Love Steam Award.

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  3. On 8/31/2022 at 3:08 AM, Coyotedancer said:

    You can't do much in the way of base building with the amount of Prestige you'll earn with a solo SG. You'll scrape to be able to afford a few teleporters and a storage table. And sometimes even to make the "rent".

     

    Ask me how I know that. 😝

     

    (Yeah. I lived it back in the Liberty days. I wouldn't trade our Homecoming base-building system for that kind of nonsense again. Ever. It was anything BUT fun as a would-be builder.)

    I don't remember the details, but I do remember that with our supergroup we had to grind for things like teleporters. And we started quite late before sunset.

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  4. On 4/13/2022 at 2:26 PM, Lightslinger said:

    The beautiful STO ship pics that get posted to reddit always make me want to give STO another try. I tried it for a few months around launch and nothing clicked for me, despite being a big ST fan.

     

    The thing I like most are the stories with voice acting by the original actors. A lot of the actors of the various series have lines, even some of the Original Series cast, like Leonard Nemoy. The stories are well done and the voice acting is the one great advantage over CoH. You can easily do those stories with basic random Mark 12 gear that is very easy to get by max level. Levelling is also easy, everything gives tons of XP, I have a level 34 character that hasn't left Star Fleet Academy yet.

     

    You can get up to Mark 15 gear, and also sets that give extra bonuses, mostly through long grinds, but sometimes also through mission rewards. It's like going from SO enhancements to IO enhancements to IO enhancement sets. Lots of the improvements are behind long but not very tedious grinds. I do think there are too many stupid grinds.

    The costume designer is ok-ish, on the Klingon side it is decidedly MEH, especially if you don't play an Orion.

     

    There are only 3 roles: Engineer, Science, Tactical. This doesn't really matter in space, where the kind of ship makes the difference, but on the ground your character's abilities matter. I like Engineer the most so far.

  5. On 4/27/2022 at 10:30 PM, Snarky said:

    I doubt I can add much to the conversation.  I have run a LOT of Willpower.  Love it.  Not much Regen.  It sits at a tough end of the CoH game design spectrum IMO.  Invulverability is custom made to be in the sweet spot and Regen is wayyyyyyyyy out in the sour,

     

    The only thing I look at when I eyeball it (and I am sure this is crazy as it gets) is why is Moment of Glory +Def/+Res.  (I know why, it works....)  But it does not match thematically at all.  Okay, you have a Moment of Glory, you finally get the powers you need for CoH is what it seems to say.  How about.....WAY MORE REGEN THAN THE GAME CAN HANDLE?  For those beautiful 15 seconds you can stand in death patches from incarnate trials....have BAB and POS and the entire Freedom Phalanx pound you into the ground (and smile back at them....)   How about Regeneration?  Show some theme truth.  Show some creative continuity.  Show what REAL Regeneration could be....

     

    I love my Regeneration/Street Fighting Brute. It's my favourite character and was my highest level back on live (49), Since yesterday she is my first full T4 incarnate.

     

    I think Regeneration is great.

    • It does have a big mathematical problem though compared to other defensive power sets: It doesn't scale (much) with incoming damage. This means that you are really solid until you suddenly are not as the incoming damage per second goes above your amount of regen. This is where Regen has its main game design problem. Moment of Glory helps, but doesn't last very long and has a long cooldown. Moment of Glory is the only power in the set I think needs some love.
    • Regeneration also requires a lot of active management and clicking, which loses you actions you can spend on other things. I would not remove this aspect, as I like the challenge, but it could maybe grant something to compensate.

    I haven't had (much) trouble with debuffs though, but that might depend on which content I play.

     

    I have played a lot of tanks in other MMOs, and I find that in comparison it's hard in CoH to anticipate damage spikes. There isn't enough clear telegraphing that something is coming and your HP buffer isn't big enough to really time your active abilities to react in time. There are just more random spikes from a lot of monsters hammering you at the same time, compared to a big boss monster with clear telegraphed moves.

     

    I do think that Regeneration is a really unique defensive set and I really like playing because of all the active abilities. It feels awesome when I time things correctly and survive. You really feel like a Wolverine type hero.

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  6. Some of the villain arcs are quite good, but a lot are fighting snakes in the sewers or something like that.

    I like the Seer Marino story line and the whole thing with the Luddites in Cap au Diable. There is also this story where there is a clone of yourself.

     

    I used to play a lot of villains and rogues back on live, because one of my friends only played villains. He loved just doing random bits of mischief, like kicking NPCs standing on high places like roof tops.

     

    I think that CoV is nice, but would have had much more potential if it had some of the morality choices that Going Rogue has and allowed you more to become the main villain instead of just a side character.

  7. On 4/9/2022 at 2:42 PM, Frostbiter said:

    I still got all my money in these babies:

     

    pog1.jpg

     

    I'm sure lots of people have already made the comparison but it's very apt.

    Well, flippo's were an actual item. A tangible object. NTFs are even more vaporous than that.

    I consider all of crypto to be a big Ponzi Scheme/Pyramid scam, NFTs are just the worst of it.

    For Bitcoin and a few others, I've looked at it in enough detail to be sure, the other crypto I'm just assuming.

    Doesn't mean that you can't get really rich by playing these games, but it's still a big scam IMHO.

     

    Line Goes up has a nice video about NFTs:

     

    KiraTV exposes a lot of the individual scams: https://www.youtube.com/c/KiraTV1

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  8. On 3/28/2022 at 2:55 PM, Anker Steadfast said:

    I usually see it through discord ping.

    I also usually miss it, because I'm on European time, so I might be sleeping when they put it up.

    Yeah, me too.

    I was wondering about the May donations, I would have expected them. Maybe tomorrow.

  9. Je crois que c'est impossible de applier traducions au moment, parceque la langue est definié dans le serveur.

    Nous avouns une seul serveur EU pour tous en Anglais: Reunion.

    Nous n'avons assez joueurs rancophones ou Alleman ou Néerlandais. 😐

     

    Combien vous voulez faire avec ces traductions? Vous mettez les fichers dans \coh\data ?

     

    (Pardonne moi, mon Français n'est pas très bon.)

  10. On 3/7/2022 at 4:06 PM, Greycat said:

     

    Didn't happen on live. Unlikely to happen.

     

    Well, there are names that I used on live, that are not available now.

    I wish we had some name trading system, or if people don't play a character for a year or so, their name gets released.

     

    In that sense, I like the system that Star Trek Online uses, where you can have overlapping character names.

  11. On 3/22/2022 at 6:08 PM, Rudra said:

    I like this idea. However, I would still like to add inf' back to that list. Why? Because when my lowbies are in dire need of enhancements, to the point I struggle with basic missions, I spend forever opening, checking, grumbling, then closing characters looking for one with money to send.

    I always have a few messages with inf in the mail for my characters to take if they run out of money.

     

    I only have about 50 alts, but I just remember who they are based on their name and costume. I also order them a bit. I spend a lot of time creating my characters, and have an easy time remembering them as a result.

     

    I would worry that such an addition might slow down the loading times of the characters because of the additional database requests that need to be made. It is one of the things I dislike about some other MMOs, how long it takes to switch characters because of such issues.

  12. On 3/3/2022 at 12:36 AM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

    I re-registered after reading this thread, found they still hadn't created a Mac client, left again. 

    Sorry to hear about your other laptop.

     

    Given your description of your "Mac Pro" I assume it is a Macbook Pro? I use an old 2010 Mac Pro, so your statement was a bit confusing.

     

    I'm also sad that there is no Mac client for STO, but on the other hand that means I play more CoH when travelling, on my Macbook Pro.

    Most Macbooks need adequate cooling to play a game, a lot of other laptops as well, unless you have a real "gaming laptop".

     

    And even then, over time thermal stresses can damage things over time. I used to have a Macbook Pro with an Nvidia GT9800, which over time broke itself from the repeated temperature cycles. It was a known problem, and Apple fixed it for free.

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