Been said elsewhere they aint DEVS they dont make the game why should they have DEV tags >_>
Rename it to 'Employee Tracker' and all is well.
It'd be useful to be able to sift out the new stuff (like Ask Cryptic) instead of having to go through every forum and every thread to find out if they've posted answers.
Plus, community people were on the dev tracker before.
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More account-wide stuff in the Z-store. I want to buy stuff dammit.
Rename it to 'Employee Tracker' and all is well.
It'd be useful to be able to sift out the new stuff (like Ask Cryptic) instead of having to go through every forum and every thread to find out if they've posted answers.
Plus, community people were on the dev tracker before.
Yepp .. programmer or not doesn't matter so much .. the tracker should be there mainly
to find posts from the Cryptic team.
Yepp .. programmer or not doesn't matter so much .. the tracker should be there mainly
to find posts from the Cryptic team.
Yeah, it sucks to miss out on information or, for instance, an Ask Cryptic because I don't feel like sifting through forum chatter to find them. No offense intended or anything.
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was reading the vehicals portion of the until report, sounds awsome, hope this item gets bumped up the list. Also hoping the first vehical is a motorcycle, lots of my toons would beifit from this.
#1 how far into the planning stage is the vehical system, and when can we expect to see
it on test?
#2 When are we going to see some more actual story content instead of the quickie fight alerts. The latest alert for hi pan wasnt bad but a little disaponting. Personaly Im starving for some real story, can we please get another comic serries and stop focusing on the dumb alert system.
#3 XP gifting, really? Sounds like a cheet to me. I work hard at leveling up toons, and someone else can just have level 40 gifted to them? Seems unfair.
#4 Is the new moon area still on the table? I would love to see a new area that has been well thought out like Vibora Bay was. Vibora bay is the best area in the game so far, and its been a long time since its been released without another area to explore and play in with new questlines.
#5 Can we get the old crafting system put back in and fixed up? The old crafting system was fun, the only flaw I found with it was the types of base items and amounts of base items used to make the final items was confusing. Otherwise it was fun having to go to a crafting table to make things, and break down items to learn from them. Also it was cool to have a wide variety of things to make rather than just mods. Not saying to get rid of the moding system, just add it in to the old crafting system, and make it so you have to be at a crafting table to combine mods.
#6 Lairs going to alerts? Ive heared talk of this, doesnt sound to bad as long as the lairs themselves arnt dumbed down, or taken out of the storyline. I like having to actualy go to a lair as if its a real place in the game, as long as thier doors are still open for the more RP style of gamer I dont see a problem with this.
#7 Will there be any more RP areas? Lots of people like the big RP areas like the club in MC or the couple of bars in westside. More and different kinds of RP areas to hang out in would be cool, especialy if theres storyline in them or just some social activities.
I guess I'll ask a few questions, many of which I'm sure have already been asked, but anyway... here I go.
1. What are the plans for the new staff emanation points & the cat pet? It was said that they would be released along with the Wizard's costume set.
2. You've mentioned that the Foundry may come as early as late this year, is this still the case?
3. Any plans on creating more Comic Series? Alerts are fine, but not for the main source of content (in my opinion).
4. Air Guitar emote? Is this ever coming in an Emote C-Store pack?
5. Are there any plans for an Emote C-Store pack?
6. Are there any plans for new stances, such as the ones used by many npcs?
7. A lot of detail has been put in for the motorcycles at West Side choppers. While I know that the new vehicle system will probably only use enclosed vehicles... are there any plans to use the bikes other than display?
8. It was said that the C-Store wasn't put back in because you were waiting on some patch to go through on Live. I believe that was a few months ago. Are there any plans for the C-Store to return to the test server? I'm not one for buying things if I cannot test them out first.
9. What are the plans for Super Group bases? Also, how would they be aquired?
10. Could you give more detail on the planned Sidekick system? Would it be like a Sidekick device? Will you be able to give it dialogue? Will it only have one outfit? Will you choose it's powers like you would a nemesis?
11. Would it be possible to choose any weapon as a emanation point? Either the weapon would shoot out or swing the chosen type of damage... perhaps maybe something inbetween (depending on the weapon). I don't think I explained this very well, but that's alright... it would be a pain to do anyway.
12. Any plans for the Nemesis system, such as new story arcs, the ability to rename/delete a nemesis, the ability to pick their weapon model, new powersets to choose (heavy weapons/earth/wind to name a few), new minions types, and perhaps maybe a few more "personalities"?
13. Since the new gear update, power replacers no longer exist. Unfortunaltely, power replacers was how you aquired your weapon model unlocks. Any plans to bring these models back? As of right now, you can't even get a flintlock pistol, or any alien organic weapons (that I know of). Also, putting them up in the "Drifter" store isn't really the way to go... it would be better if they were bought with recognition instead (my opinion of course).
14. Will the new Hideout rooms (crafting etc.) be bought or will they be implemented for free?
15. Any plans for a "Shield" costume item that would replace the looks of your current block power? Or perhaps a whole Shield powert set?
16. Any plans for more Long Hairstyles for both men and women?
17. Any plans for more Insect heads... like ants, bees, beetles and such? Are there any plans for more insect pieces overall?
18. Speaking of insect type things, are there plans for more Arachnid type costume pieces... such as spider/scorpion heads, legs, claws, stingers, etc. ?
19. The animation for the emote "Worship" has been broke for at least a year. When using it, it horribly distorts your character. I've made bug reports on the Test Server forums when the bug first arrived. I've also made many bug reports since then. Is it ever going to be fixed?
Conditions on the test server have been very rough lately.
1. Can we expect the PTS character transfer function to return soon? Some ppl are completely locked out of PTS because of this. Others are (because of only having one character on pts) are unable to test multiple builds in parallel, this is even more of a problem with free respecs broken.
3. Unlocked costumes from live server are unavailable on PTS, will this be fixed soon? It would be nice if we could test new powers with a thematically appropriate costume. Also, as you know, some costume sets have made it live bugged, for example the Avian costume.
PVP is starving without rewards
1. Please give us Daily PVP missions that reward Questionite.
2. Please give us an exchange rate between Acclaim and Recognition so that PVP has access to all "On Alert" PVE rewards.
Given that one of this game's strongest and most attractive features is customization, variety and cosmetics I have two related questions.
1. Is there any plan on looking at the Nemisis System further than henchmen customization? Such as having an entire 'rogues gallery' and custom Nem missions? This question is, in a round-about-fashion, is related to the Foundry as well I suppose.
2. The new feature of vehicles and vehicle centric content is exciting. Will vehicles be able to be customized in appearance just as our Character is? Will we be allowed more than one vehicle?
-any news on a shield,water,or staff powerset?
-is there plans to add more missions to make different lvling paths?
-is a japan or kansas zone in consideration?
-What is the most exciting thing you are developing right now?
-what will the next big update be called?
-any news on the moon zone?
7) Will there be a Freeform guide for new free-formers? Its really confusing if you've never made a freeform before...
Now this is an interesting idea. I'm not really qualified to write this, given that I'm still learning some of the intricacies of Champs' stats and powers... any volunteers out there?
Paged through and grabbed a number of questions that I'll pass to the devs.
Now this is an interesting idea. I'm not really qualified to write this, given that I'm still learning some of the intricacies of Champs' stats and powers... any volunteers out there?
Since the devs are unlikely to write such a thing it would be a nice idea the the game to steer them into that section of the forum and also point them to the wiki.
The one major advantage I could see you give here trailturtle would be to help the wiki workers get input from the devs so they can update the wiki appropriately. There's been massive changes since On Alert that they've had to work out slowly with little/no help.
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Paged through and grabbed a number of questions that I'll pass to the devs.
When Robobo was here he would read through this thread him self and he answered almost all the questions last time.
Its disappointing that the devs are no-longer reading our thoughts directly and makes me feel less motivated to post if the people my posts are aimed at are not reading any more.
Also considering that we haven't had an ask Cryptic in in like 4-6 months its reasonable and historically consistent to answer as many questions as possible after a drought.
Heres a serious ask cryptic question:
There has been a sharp decrease in dev posts since the PWE merger and now trailturtle is implying that our new EP isnt reading the forums like our previous one did. Is the new deal that the devs wont be directly active on the forums as before, and trailturtle will be our only line of communication with them?
PVP is starving without rewards
1. Please give us Daily PVP missions that reward Questionite.
2. Please give us an exchange rate between Acclaim and Recognition so that PVP has access to all "On Alert" PVE rewards.
I am in the process or liaising with 2 PvP SGs to organise a friendly PvP tournament opened to all. We have generous sponsors who are willing to come up with in-game prizes for this tournament. We are currently targeting to have different categories for the tournament to provide as much a semblance of balance and even possibly matches for different tiers. All these are done as a means to revive friendly and healthy competition in PvP. It will also promote the much dying PvP segment of the game. I am hoping to be able to sustain this on a weekly or monthly basis rather than an once-off event. As such, I wonder if there is anything the devs could provide in terms of the communication of such an event and publicity. A simple note on the main chat to inform people about registration procedures or extravagantly a nice little banner on load page or in the RC will really be good. This is the community's effort in doing something for the game and it will be good if the dev team could help us a little. If you guys can offer us any help, please contact me.
Apologies if I am posting in the wrong section but this is probably the place with the highest likelihood of this post getting read.
Will the pieces that were offered in the grab bags (and are no longer available) be re-released as a Variety Pack 2??? Or somehow re-added to the game?
1.Can the holds system be reviewed please? Adding hold strength and Hold resistance does not seem to be working as intended. Also it would be nice if a blog featuring the design decisions behind holds could be made to make the holds system clearer to everyone
2.Can the powerset of Telepathy be reviewed please? It is in need of a revamping.
3. Are there any plans on revitalizing the Hero Games and making them more attractive to a new generation of potential PvPers?
Any plans to bring back or bring back AND enhance the number of crafted consumables removed in the On Alert update in either the "crafting" system or the Questionite store?
Some of us spent a good deal of time pursuing specific blueprints that fit our toon concepts and it would be nice to have the ability to make/obtain those devices again.
Is there any hope of giving "Back" the damage lost by the last big update? I don't use my might toons anymore, i had a nice balance of Offense and defense before the patch...but now no matter what i do, my might toons seem to underperform.
Maybe add a might only buff? You know, the way it used to be.
1) Some NPCs still have acces to costume parts that aren't available for players yet. Sinds alert bosses now have a chance to drop their iconic costume parts is there still a reason to keep some of the costume pieces from henchmen NPCs unavailable?
2) Is White Rhino ever going to have an alert on his own? I would like to have a chance to get his Rhino head.
3) Are you going to fix once and for all the character creator? A lot of costume parts are still buging and some don't have acces to glow depending on the texture you use, is that going to be fixed aswell?
Many of the questions I wanted to ask are at this point being asked.
First of all, my list of priorities:
#1. Bug Fixes(power descriptions, glitches that can & are being abused, laziness with regards to prices of items as if Cryptic has no clue of their in-game market value, copy & paste errors, etc.)
#2. New environmental content(aka. maps; new zone, new hideout updates, new adventure pack (buy), new comic series (free), new alerts... I am pleased to see that the Alert quality of design is improving with each step, but his takes a MAJOR precedent in priority to "vehicles")
#3. Restricting users who have paid money to be here, a significant effort to improve customer loyalty. (we're small enough it's critical to keep customers here and wanting paying money instead of feeling like they have to and then feeling scammed out of it when what they bought gets nerfed: i.e.: Resistance, Tempest Archetype, player region ban issue, automatic chat in-game ban abuse issue, etc.)
Any other questions asked are completely secondary to these, no matter how "cool" it is. Bells & whistles are pretty, but not sufficient for viable business model longevity.
So, second, my list of agreed questions I also would like to see get answered:
Are we going to be able to get to those other rooms in our hideouts any time soon? I know they are there and I can actually see them at my moon base so let me in them already!
This is true to all the hideouts. It would be nice to see those maps updated and expanded with further detail (perhaps put the upgrade for sale and you can get paid for doing this work).
No, don't remove it; but please fix its broken functionality! Also, the Report Bug feature in help needs to be improved. There's no evidence the ticket system works at all anymore, and that's SERIOUSLY messed up...
2) Will we be able to design our own nemesis minions and be able choose each single power like freeforms? I hope a yes that we can do our own designs and freeform design on the minions powers
3) Will the update to the nemesis system, allow us to rename/delete nemesis and will it allow us to freeform power choosing for our nemesis? I really hope for a yes
This has been ask for ages, and the most we've gotten is vague responses about wanting to review the Nemesis system and improve it, but no real evidence of commitment from the dev team to do so. Can we please get some meaningful progress on this?
6) Will Hideouts get jukebox to play music? As how City Of Heroes have the emote of the boom. But it be great to have user play music they bought from iTunes, to play as background music in hideouts for partys and to dance too
7) For XP Gifting. Won't this ruin the fact to level by mission? Smash Alert is already showing that. Get XP Boost by Z-Store, then get nemesis XP boost gear, then the XP boost from alert. You already given them a reason not to do any mission out there. I believe this should not be added to the game. Or Just Make it account-bound and limit how many times in the characters can get or give XP to there characters. I still prefer that this be not added at all to the game, it's a bad idea
There are major issues with this. It's common knowledge by now that Smash Alert Farming (XP) is the new Shadow Colossi farming. People are using it to level up and do it in record time compared to doing missions.
Take that as you will. Some would say this is a good thing, others would say it's killing the game. Both points of view have validity in some respects.
Regardless, I feel that I don't honestly trust this particular team of developers to successfully implement changes that take into account human behavior and knowledge of the community's demographics.
Food for thought:
If something is too easy to succeed at, it becomes boring quickly.
17) Will the hideouts get the training room and the crafting room. And will the training room allow duel PVP?
18) Will there be more designs for the older hideouts and will you be adding for the other hideouts a way to get to MC such as how penthouse as? It be cool for example: the basement hideout having a teleport system to take you to the MC.
Yep, hideout updates. Falls under the general improvements to existing game content.
Q: What is this team's feeling on the balance between
Q: What is this team's feeling on the value of PvP in the game, specifically how do y'all feel about players who prefer to PvP over PvE or RP, in general? http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=154351
Oh and yeah, can we finally some secondary color adjustments? It would be nice to finally make the alphabet soup spam spewing from R3 AoPM (Aura of Primal Majesty) go away... Not critical, but it would be lovely
1. Will we be seeing support style gameplay expanded? There's only passive that boosts healing, none that boost any kind of crowd control (Manipulator is really nice but we need more), and one of the main support sets in the game doesn't even have a passive (I'm looking at you Telepathy!). Will we see these things change? Aside from the Celestial pass that is, even though I'm so excited to see it come our way!
2. Since the wizard set was released without us being able to use weapons as emanation points, does this mean it isn't viable? Has it put off because of technical difficulties? Basicly, what is happening with weapons as emanation points and can we still expect them at some point?
3. The Original talents, will they now boost a third stat to 12 like the AT talents boost a third stat to 10? Or shall they remain untouched?
I say stuff and I say things, sometimes together but only when I'm feeling adventurous.
To agentnx5, I apologize. I notice my error in my spelling forgot to spell BoomBox, but I just add boom. I re fix my posting, just asking if you can re fix the quote by the editor. Thank you for quote my question I ask.
Beyond the retooling of gadgets For the upcoming hero, what and when will be the next entirely new powersets? Plant based? Stretching? Transforming?
With every one getting excited over the new vehicles, is there any way we could get a sneak peek at what they are? Motorcycles? Mech suits? Helicopter? Goblin glider?
What ever happened to hide outs and group bases? With all the questions about them on here what can we expect to see with them other than a crafting room?
What ever happened to crafting? The current system is mod and fuse only and is a hassle to level some times. Will there be any changes and improvements to this system?
I say this in every remotely appropriate venue, so here I go again; Kinetics is the only thing I still miss from CoX. Any chance of something very much like it coming here?
Also, can we have travel powers/ranks removed from the regular powers retconning progression, since they do not have dependencies other than ownership?
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I was Dubsy on the Old Forums. I am still @Dubsy in-game. Also, lol.
2. Are there any plans for a character creator review? (ie Costumes order in menus are weirdly categorized, just using alphabetical order would be better. Certain costumes you can't even find in the menus, you have to search for the names. Some combinations of categories, or even certain parts within those categories, are restricted without any apparent reason. Some of the older textures are REALLY low quality. Some parts have odd material restrictions. Body/face sliders are a bit restricted, the height slider for instance. More high heeled shoes/boots please. etc)
3. Could all the useless devices please get some attention, there are only a few really useful ones. The one I personally think is the biggest waste is the Daemonic Avatar device (since it looks so nice).
1. Are their any plans to make leveling via missions worthwhile, as alerts have killed them as a leveling route when smash missions are so much faster?
2. Are their any plans to add a new zone this year and will there be a charge? Note I would pay up to ?19 for a substantial new zone with end game content.
3. Can you please make control powers more useful so they become a viable option when fighting mobs as it still usually makes more sense to just kill them as fast as possible. It would be great if debuffs and buffs played a bigger part and an alternative to just healing all the effects of a boss. It would also be far more like the comics. I would like bosses to be vulnerable to all control powers, albeit to a lesser extent than trash mobs. As it stands trash mobs are killed by alpha strikes so why control them and bosses are nearly immune to many of them.
4. Could we please get multiform powers, so we could have several versions of a hero we could switch between with completely different powers, energy builders, superstats, talents and specializations. They could be linked to a build, so we could switch from a fire toon to an ice one etc to represent control of all elements. Obviously to ensure the toon isn't OP, each form would be less powerful than a non multiform one.
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1. Why, after defeating Medusa, does Corporal Harrison think he sent you to help out the fake Martha Reese? If it was intended that he should, I've yet to have a character (out of over thirty) that got sent to the fake Martha Reece. They take care of an infiltrator into VIPER, and there she is needing help. Even if you haven't taken care of Poe in the sewers yet.
2. Why does the Female Precog have missions for you if she sent you to help the Male Precog and you do, but none if you just notice him in trouble and help him out?
3. Why did getting the Project Awakening Report mark off the Combat Readiness Report, while getting the Lab Report marked off the Project Awakening Report?
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To agentnx5, I apologize. I notice my error in my spelling forgot to spell BoomBox, but I just add boom. I re fix my posting, just asking if you can re fix the quote by the editor. Thank you for quote my question I ask.
Eh? Aren't they the same thing essentially? o_O (boombox = jukebox) An odd request but sure, just give me some time though. There some kind of character limit issue I'm encountering and I'm afraid it'd cut off that long post midway through if I edited it with this phone (yes I'm typing this on a cellphone because I'm traveling).
Eh? Aren't they the same thing essentially? o_O (boombox = jukebox) An odd request but sure, just give me some time though. There some kind of character limit issue I'm encountering and I'm afraid it'd cut off that long post midway through if I edited it with this phone (yes I'm typing this on a cellphone because I'm traveling).
I know, but in city of heroes its call a boombox. And since I miss spell that word before, I thought I ask for just a friendly request to update the Quote. Since I re fix that miss spelling and you have added the Quote of my question in the ask cryptic topic, to your question asking. But it's no a big deal, no worries about it. Sorry for bothering you on a silly request about re updating it. Again no worries about re fixing the quote.
1. Any plans to bring back power re placers and rework them into being slot-able in there own slot.
2. Is this also in the plans to Add a weapon sound FX option in the weapon customize in the tailor so you can change the way each weapon based model sound as well having a option to add Effects to the models.
3. Any plans to come up with a totally new power that isn't a re-skin of the existing one that does something new or a combination of new travel.
4. Any plans add back all the original weapon model unlocks that came with the power re placers, as well adding more models for the Claws,Mini-Guns,Rocket Launchers.
5.Adding more Single Pistol powers to go with the single pistol energy builder, As well adding Energy Builder versions of the Shotgun,assault rifle, and Sub-machine gun. As well adding more powers based on those types of weapons. Like what we have with the dual pistol powers.
6. Are there more controlled pets powers coming, That are human based that isn't some form of a demon,monster or whatever. Would I would do to be able to have Soldiers as a controlled Pet. As well as a Gang war type summon like in CoX.
7. Are there gonna be Aura FX's for Costume options, so you don't have to select a passive power just for the way it looks on you. Like not having ot take Fire passive just because you want the Fire aura that goes around you when your hit, or take Fire flight just for the active FX while it toggled.
7. Are there gonna be Aura FX's for Costume options, so you don't have to select a passive power just for the way it looks on you. Like not having ot take Fire passive just because you want the Fire aura that goes around you when your hit, or take Fire flight just for the active FX while it toggled.
For that matter, is there any chance that the passive-power Auras could be revisited? There's an effect in "Let's Stop a Riot!", where if you get too close to something that's burning, you're briefly covered in flames and take minor damage. That was what I was hoping the Fire aura would look like; as it is, every time the aura appears on Backfire, I half-expect the EPA to show up and ticket me for excessive air pollution...
"Science teaches us to expect -- demand -- more than just eerie mysteries. What use is a puzzle that can't be solved? Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the universe to make sense!"
While the create a villain contest was a fun community event it begs the question if there is any more plans to use the champions books for more content?
I'm noticing a lot of talk about vehicle system, and I must say before you all put resources
into something as useless as a vehicle in this Champion's world you all created, will you first address the fact that each zoning map needs to be harmonized and expanded together so that one can actually travel from one zone to the other without ever using the jets or submarine... etc. and actually make the water around the city if it is connected to the sea actually swimable so you can swim to Lemuria if you wanted to or fly to water with respect to any hero's travel power.
Secondly , please re-do Lemuria, to be an actual city, not some miniature facade of what should be a city close to the size of Paragon city, or the Champion city , i keep forgetting the name.
Geeze I do abhor minitiurization.. i mean cmon, its "virtual" make it big, "to size".
Will the Champions ever have the capacity to become legendary themselves and actually go into space and battle cosmic threat?
Also, ever consider putting "Soloable" end content with worthwile rewards?
Furthermore, why is Regeneration so weak now, it's always failing to heal at the proper time, it's suppose to constantly heal.
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Rename it to 'Employee Tracker' and all is well.
It'd be useful to be able to sift out the new stuff (like Ask Cryptic) instead of having to go through every forum and every thread to find out if they've posted answers.
Plus, community people were on the dev tracker before.
More account-wide stuff in the Z-store. I want to buy stuff dammit.
Yepp .. programmer or not doesn't matter so much .. the tracker should be there mainly
to find posts from the Cryptic team.
Yeah, it sucks to miss out on information or, for instance, an Ask Cryptic because I don't feel like sifting through forum chatter to find them.
More account-wide stuff in the Z-store. I want to buy stuff dammit.
1. Will we be able to buy Zen with CO's Resources?
2. When will the awful "Report" feature be removed?
3. Will we be able to trade Zen/Q between alts/friends?
#1 how far into the planning stage is the vehical system, and when can we expect to see
it on test?
#2 When are we going to see some more actual story content instead of the quickie fight alerts. The latest alert for hi pan wasnt bad but a little disaponting. Personaly Im starving for some real story, can we please get another comic serries and stop focusing on the dumb alert system.
#3 XP gifting, really? Sounds like a cheet to me. I work hard at leveling up toons, and someone else can just have level 40 gifted to them? Seems unfair.
#4 Is the new moon area still on the table? I would love to see a new area that has been well thought out like Vibora Bay was. Vibora bay is the best area in the game so far, and its been a long time since its been released without another area to explore and play in with new questlines.
#5 Can we get the old crafting system put back in and fixed up? The old crafting system was fun, the only flaw I found with it was the types of base items and amounts of base items used to make the final items was confusing. Otherwise it was fun having to go to a crafting table to make things, and break down items to learn from them. Also it was cool to have a wide variety of things to make rather than just mods. Not saying to get rid of the moding system, just add it in to the old crafting system, and make it so you have to be at a crafting table to combine mods.
#6 Lairs going to alerts? Ive heared talk of this, doesnt sound to bad as long as the lairs themselves arnt dumbed down, or taken out of the storyline. I like having to actualy go to a lair as if its a real place in the game, as long as thier doors are still open for the more RP style of gamer I dont see a problem with this.
#7 Will there be any more RP areas? Lots of people like the big RP areas like the club in MC or the couple of bars in westside. More and different kinds of RP areas to hang out in would be cool, especialy if theres storyline in them or just some social activities.
Guess thats all I've got for now
1. What are the plans for the new staff emanation points & the cat pet? It was said that they would be released along with the Wizard's costume set.
2. You've mentioned that the Foundry may come as early as late this year, is this still the case?
3. Any plans on creating more Comic Series? Alerts are fine, but not for the main source of content (in my opinion).
4. Air Guitar emote? Is this ever coming in an Emote C-Store pack?
5. Are there any plans for an Emote C-Store pack?
6. Are there any plans for new stances, such as the ones used by many npcs?
7. A lot of detail has been put in for the motorcycles at West Side choppers. While I know that the new vehicle system will probably only use enclosed vehicles... are there any plans to use the bikes other than display?
8. It was said that the C-Store wasn't put back in because you were waiting on some patch to go through on Live. I believe that was a few months ago. Are there any plans for the C-Store to return to the test server? I'm not one for buying things if I cannot test them out first.
9. What are the plans for Super Group bases? Also, how would they be aquired?
10. Could you give more detail on the planned Sidekick system? Would it be like a Sidekick device? Will you be able to give it dialogue? Will it only have one outfit? Will you choose it's powers like you would a nemesis?
11. Would it be possible to choose any weapon as a emanation point? Either the weapon would shoot out or swing the chosen type of damage... perhaps maybe something inbetween (depending on the weapon). I don't think I explained this very well, but that's alright... it would be a pain to do anyway.
12. Any plans for the Nemesis system, such as new story arcs, the ability to rename/delete a nemesis, the ability to pick their weapon model, new powersets to choose (heavy weapons/earth/wind to name a few), new minions types, and perhaps maybe a few more "personalities"?
13. Since the new gear update, power replacers no longer exist. Unfortunaltely, power replacers was how you aquired your weapon model unlocks. Any plans to bring these models back? As of right now, you can't even get a flintlock pistol, or any alien organic weapons (that I know of). Also, putting them up in the "Drifter" store isn't really the way to go... it would be better if they were bought with recognition instead (my opinion of course).
14. Will the new Hideout rooms (crafting etc.) be bought or will they be implemented for free?
15. Any plans for a "Shield" costume item that would replace the looks of your current block power? Or perhaps a whole Shield powert set?
16. Any plans for more Long Hairstyles for both men and women?
17. Any plans for more Insect heads... like ants, bees, beetles and such? Are there any plans for more insect pieces overall?
18. Speaking of insect type things, are there plans for more Arachnid type costume pieces... such as spider/scorpion heads, legs, claws, stingers, etc. ?
19. The animation for the emote "Worship" has been broke for at least a year. When using it, it horribly distorts your character. I've made bug reports on the Test Server forums when the bug first arrived. I've also made many bug reports since then. Is it ever going to be fixed?
20. Any plans for a Dieselpunk type costume set?
Thank you
1. Can we expect the PTS character transfer function to return soon? Some ppl are completely locked out of PTS because of this. Others are (because of only having one character on pts) are unable to test multiple builds in parallel, this is even more of a problem with free respecs broken.
2. Can we expect the return of the Z-Store to pts? We need this for free respecs and to test new z-store stuff (The ninja vanish travel power needed testing....)
3. Unlocked costumes from live server are unavailable on PTS, will this be fixed soon? It would be nice if we could test new powers with a thematically appropriate costume. Also, as you know, some costume sets have made it live bugged, for example the Avian costume.
PVP is starving without rewards
1. Please give us Daily PVP missions that reward Questionite.
2. Please give us an exchange rate between Acclaim and Recognition so that PVP has access to all "On Alert" PVE rewards.
2. Barring that, can the "remember account name" be fixed so that it remembers my new account name instead of the old one?
1. Is there any plan on looking at the Nemisis System further than henchmen customization? Such as having an entire 'rogues gallery' and custom Nem missions? This question is, in a round-about-fashion, is related to the Foundry as well I suppose.
2. The new feature of vehicles and vehicle centric content is exciting. Will vehicles be able to be customized in appearance just as our Character is? Will we be allowed more than one vehicle?
In other words, is the foundry still planned?
More account-wide stuff in the Z-store. I want to buy stuff dammit.
-is there plans to add more missions to make different lvling paths?
-is a japan or kansas zone in consideration?
-What is the most exciting thing you are developing right now?
-what will the next big update be called?
-any news on the moon zone?
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Now this is an interesting idea. I'm not really qualified to write this, given that I'm still learning some of the intricacies of Champs' stats and powers... any volunteers out there?
There's been a fair few the community have written over the years, the combat & powers thread in particular.
(big box o guides for instance http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=113142)
Since the devs are unlikely to write such a thing it would be a nice idea the the game to steer them into that section of the forum and also point them to the wiki.
The one major advantage I could see you give here trailturtle would be to help the wiki workers get input from the devs so they can update the wiki appropriately. There's been massive changes since On Alert that they've had to work out slowly with little/no help.
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Its disappointing that the devs are no-longer reading our thoughts directly and makes me feel less motivated to post if the people my posts are aimed at are not reading any more.
Also considering that we haven't had an ask Cryptic in in like 4-6 months its reasonable and historically consistent to answer as many questions as possible after a drought.
Heres a serious ask cryptic question:
There has been a sharp decrease in dev posts since the PWE merger and now trailturtle is implying that our new EP isnt reading the forums like our previous one did.
Is the new deal that the devs wont be directly active on the forums as before, and trailturtle will be our only line of communication with them?
PVP is starving without rewards
1. Please give us Daily PVP missions that reward Questionite.
2. Please give us an exchange rate between Acclaim and Recognition so that PVP has access to all "On Alert" PVE rewards.
When will we see the Z/C-Store reactivated on the PTS, as we were told months ago it would be?
I am in the process or liaising with 2 PvP SGs to organise a friendly PvP tournament opened to all. We have generous sponsors who are willing to come up with in-game prizes for this tournament. We are currently targeting to have different categories for the tournament to provide as much a semblance of balance and even possibly matches for different tiers. All these are done as a means to revive friendly and healthy competition in PvP. It will also promote the much dying PvP segment of the game. I am hoping to be able to sustain this on a weekly or monthly basis rather than an once-off event. As such, I wonder if there is anything the devs could provide in terms of the communication of such an event and publicity. A simple note on the main chat to inform people about registration procedures or extravagantly a nice little banner on load page or in the RC will really be good. This is the community's effort in doing something for the game and it will be good if the dev team could help us a little. If you guys can offer us any help, please contact me.
Apologies if I am posting in the wrong section but this is probably the place with the highest likelihood of this post getting read.
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1. The current Ultimate powers, well they do not feel that Ultimate, so do you have any plans to make them more worth choosing or even remake them ?
2.Does Cryptic have plans to make more Ultimate Powers?
Thanks for your time.
2.Can the powerset of Telepathy be reviewed please? It is in need of a revamping.
3. Are there any plans on revitalizing the Hero Games and making them more attractive to a new generation of potential PvPers?
Thanks a lot for your Time and Consideration
Some of us spent a good deal of time pursuing specific blueprints that fit our toon concepts and it would be nice to have the ability to make/obtain those devices again.
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Maybe add a might only buff? You know, the way it used to be.
1) Some NPCs still have acces to costume parts that aren't available for players yet. Sinds alert bosses now have a chance to drop their iconic costume parts is there still a reason to keep some of the costume pieces from henchmen NPCs unavailable?
2) Is White Rhino ever going to have an alert on his own? I would like to have a chance to get his Rhino head.
3) Are you going to fix once and for all the character creator? A lot of costume parts are still buging and some don't have acces to glow depending on the texture you use, is that going to be fixed aswell?
First of all, my list of priorities:
#1. Bug Fixes (power descriptions, glitches that can & are being abused, laziness with regards to prices of items as if Cryptic has no clue of their in-game market value, copy & paste errors, etc.)
#2. New environmental content (aka. maps; new zone, new hideout updates, new adventure pack (buy), new comic series (free), new alerts... I am pleased to see that the Alert quality of design is improving with each step, but his takes a MAJOR precedent in priority to "vehicles")
#3. Restricting users who have paid money to be here, a significant effort to improve customer loyalty.
(we're small enough it's critical to keep customers here and wanting paying money instead of feeling like they have to and then feeling scammed out of it when what they bought gets nerfed: i.e.: Resistance, Tempest Archetype, player region ban issue, automatic chat in-game ban abuse issue, etc.)
Any other questions asked are completely secondary to these, no matter how "cool" it is. Bells & whistles are pretty, but not sufficient for viable business model longevity.
So, second, my list of agreed questions I also would like to see get answered:
This is true to all the hideouts. It would be nice to see those maps updated and expanded with further detail (perhaps put the upgrade for sale and you can get paid for doing this work).
Bad idea, don't do this. Ever. Sorry, Silviumc. Use some common sense to see why this is a poorly thought out idea... (use human behavior analysis)
No, don't remove it; but please fix its broken functionality! Also, the Report Bug feature in help needs to be improved. There's no evidence the ticket system works at all anymore, and that's SERIOUSLY messed up...
Now that's a good question to ask.
This has been ask for ages, and the most we've gotten is vague responses about wanting to review the Nemesis system and improve it, but no real evidence of commitment from the dev team to do so. Can we please get some meaningful progress on this?
That is a cool idea! Is this feasible to do?
There are major issues with this. It's common knowledge by now that Smash Alert Farming (XP) is the new Shadow Colossi farming. People are using it to level up and do it in record time compared to doing missions.
Take that as you will. Some would say this is a good thing, others would say it's killing the game. Both points of view have validity in some respects.
Regardless, I feel that I don't honestly trust this particular team of developers to successfully implement changes that take into account human behavior and knowledge of the community's demographics.
Food for thought:
If something is too easy to succeed at, it becomes boring quickly.
Yep, hideout updates. Falls under the general improvements to existing game content.
We're long overdue for a response on this... Please update?
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
Q: Users who are "leeching" in Alerts, how will this be dealt with?
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=153411
Q: What is this team's feeling on the balance between
Q: What is this team's feeling on the value of PvP in the game, specifically how do y'all feel about players who prefer to PvP over PvE or RP, in general?
http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=154351
Oh and yeah, can we finally some secondary color adjustments? It would be nice to finally make the alphabet soup spam spewing from R3 AoPM (Aura of Primal Majesty) go away... Not critical, but it would be lovely
PS: Thanks for fixing the Reign of Frogs open mission! Keep fixing bugs please! http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/profile/80/2e/802e97775d402b859a6041c1287b5d911343862676.jpg
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
1. Will we be seeing support style gameplay expanded? There's only passive that boosts healing, none that boost any kind of crowd control (Manipulator is really nice but we need more), and one of the main support sets in the game doesn't even have a passive (I'm looking at you Telepathy!). Will we see these things change? Aside from the Celestial pass that is, even though I'm so excited to see it come our way!
2. Since the wizard set was released without us being able to use weapons as emanation points, does this mean it isn't viable? Has it put off because of technical difficulties? Basicly, what is happening with weapons as emanation points and can we still expect them at some point?
3. The Original talents, will they now boost a third stat to 12 like the AT talents boost a third stat to 10? Or shall they remain untouched?
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With every one getting excited over the new vehicles, is there any way we could get a sneak peek at what they are? Motorcycles? Mech suits? Helicopter? Goblin glider?
What ever happened to hide outs and group bases? With all the questions about them on here what can we expect to see with them other than a crafting room?
What ever happened to crafting? The current system is mod and fuse only and is a hassle to level some times. Will there be any changes and improvements to this system?
Also, can we have travel powers/ranks removed from the regular powers retconning progression, since they do not have dependencies other than ownership?
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So further questions:
2. Are there any plans for a character creator review? (ie Costumes order in menus are weirdly categorized, just using alphabetical order would be better. Certain costumes you can't even find in the menus, you have to search for the names. Some combinations of categories, or even certain parts within those categories, are restricted without any apparent reason. Some of the older textures are REALLY low quality. Some parts have odd material restrictions. Body/face sliders are a bit restricted, the height slider for instance. More high heeled shoes/boots please. etc)
3. Could all the useless devices please get some attention, there are only a few really useful ones. The one I personally think is the biggest waste is the Daemonic Avatar device (since it looks so nice).
4. Any news on the foundry for CO?
1. Are their any plans to make leveling via missions worthwhile, as alerts have killed them as a leveling route when smash missions are so much faster?
2. Are their any plans to add a new zone this year and will there be a charge? Note I would pay up to ?19 for a substantial new zone with end game content.
3. Can you please make control powers more useful so they become a viable option when fighting mobs as it still usually makes more sense to just kill them as fast as possible. It would be great if debuffs and buffs played a bigger part and an alternative to just healing all the effects of a boss. It would also be far more like the comics. I would like bosses to be vulnerable to all control powers, albeit to a lesser extent than trash mobs. As it stands trash mobs are killed by alpha strikes so why control them and bosses are nearly immune to many of them.
4. Could we please get multiform powers, so we could have several versions of a hero we could switch between with completely different powers, energy builders, superstats, talents and specializations. They could be linked to a build, so we could switch from a fire toon to an ice one etc to represent control of all elements. Obviously to ensure the toon isn't OP, each form would be less powerful than a non multiform one.
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1. Why, after defeating Medusa, does Corporal Harrison think he sent you to help out the fake Martha Reese? If it was intended that he should, I've yet to have a character (out of over thirty) that got sent to the fake Martha Reece. They take care of an infiltrator into VIPER, and there she is needing help. Even if you haven't taken care of Poe in the sewers yet.
2. Why does the Female Precog have missions for you if she sent you to help the Male Precog and you do, but none if you just notice him in trouble and help him out?
3. Why did getting the Project Awakening Report mark off the Combat Readiness Report, while getting the Lab Report marked off the Project Awakening Report?
Keep your powder dry.
Eh? Aren't they the same thing essentially? o_O (boombox = jukebox) An odd request but sure, just give me some time though. There some kind of character limit issue I'm encountering and I'm afraid it'd cut off that long post midway through if I edited it with this phone (yes I'm typing this on a cellphone because I'm traveling).
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
I know, but in city of heroes its call a boombox. And since I miss spell that word before, I thought I ask for just a friendly request to update the Quote. Since I re fix that miss spelling and you have added the Quote of my question in the ask cryptic topic, to your question asking. But it's no a big deal, no worries about it. Sorry for bothering you on a silly request about re updating it. Again no worries about re fixing the quote.
(>http://co-forum.perfectworld.com/profile.php?do=editoptions< (including timezones, posts-per-page, etc.) - thanks to jonsills and liphook2, too!)
Keep your powder dry.
Keep your powder dry.
2. Is this also in the plans to Add a weapon sound FX option in the weapon customize in the tailor so you can change the way each weapon based model sound as well having a option to add Effects to the models.
3. Any plans to come up with a totally new power that isn't a re-skin of the existing one that does something new or a combination of new travel.
4. Any plans add back all the original weapon model unlocks that came with the power re placers, as well adding more models for the Claws,Mini-Guns,Rocket Launchers.
5.Adding more Single Pistol powers to go with the single pistol energy builder, As well adding Energy Builder versions of the Shotgun,assault rifle, and Sub-machine gun. As well adding more powers based on those types of weapons. Like what we have with the dual pistol powers.
6. Are there more controlled pets powers coming, That are human based that isn't some form of a demon,monster or whatever. Would I would do to be able to have Soldiers as a controlled Pet. As well as a Gang war type summon like in CoX.
7. Are there gonna be Aura FX's for Costume options, so you don't have to select a passive power just for the way it looks on you. Like not having ot take Fire passive just because you want the Fire aura that goes around you when your hit, or take Fire flight just for the active FX while it toggled.
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into something as useless as a vehicle in this Champion's world you all created, will you first address the fact that each zoning map needs to be harmonized and expanded together so that one can actually travel from one zone to the other without ever using the jets or submarine... etc. and actually make the water around the city if it is connected to the sea actually swimable so you can swim to Lemuria if you wanted to or fly to water with respect to any hero's travel power.
Secondly , please re-do Lemuria, to be an actual city, not some miniature facade of what should be a city close to the size of Paragon city, or the Champion city , i keep forgetting the name.
Geeze I do abhor minitiurization.. i mean cmon, its "virtual" make it big, "to size".
Will the Champions ever have the capacity to become legendary themselves and actually go into space and battle cosmic threat?
Also, ever consider putting "Soloable" end content with worthwile rewards?
Furthermore, why is Regeneration so weak now, it's always failing to heal at the proper time, it's suppose to constantly heal.