I heard CO got two devs back from Neverwinter?

hocofaisan · May 2013

Anyone know who they are?

jonsills · May 2013

Where did you hear that?

(Please note that Ouija boards are notoriously unreliable sources of information.)

hocofaisan · May 2013

It was mentioned in zone chat figured you guys would be able to confirm it.

crypticbuxom · May 2013

Logging in every once in a while doesn't mean they are officially back. Consider it a scouting party.

jorifice1 · May 2013

jonsills wrote: »

Where did you hear that?

(Please note that Ouija boards are notoriously unreliable sources of information.)

Ouija boards? Fe!
Gef The Talking Mongoose is what you need!

honestresearcher · May 2013

Unfortunately only 1 of them knows what theyre doing. Thats not mr squeeze.

sistersilicon · May 2013

I'll believe this when we get something more significant than a third route through the Malvan Race rings.

atring · May 2013

Wait, there are three routes? Well, now I know what I'm doing tonight!

sparhawk · May 2013

I've neither heard nor seen anything myself. I have seen two or three of the former CO devs posting on the Neverwinter boards recently though.

chaelk · May 2013

we had a different one posting while TT was on holidays

rianfrost · May 2013

have not heard anything about that. would be nice if we got someone like synapse or arbiter hawk here, or go very old school and get chris (babs) bruce.

battybattybats · May 2013

jorifice1 wrote: »

Ouija boards? Fe!
Gef The Talking Mongoose is what you need!

That reference and now by extension this thread is officially EPIC.

towershield · May 2013

jorifice1 wrote: »

Ouija boards? Fe!
Gef The Talking Mongoose is what you need!

I use a magic conch shell and haven't regretted it yet.

kojirohellfire · May 2013

shieldtower wrote: »

I use a magic conch shell and haven't regretted it yet.

Bah, Magic 8-Balls are the king of divination sources.

nepht · May 2013

hocofaisan wrote: »

Anyone know who they are?

crypticbuxom · May 2013

shieldtower wrote: »

I use a magic conch shell and haven't regretted it yet.

Collect 7 more and summon the Wind Fish. Maybe this nightmare will end.

gamehobo · May 2013

Girl I heard she eat one cracker a day
Oh well I heard the b**** was married to Tim and started f***ing with Trina
I heard the b**** got hit with three zebras and a monkey
I can't stand the b**** no way

nepht · May 2013

gamehobo wrote: »

Girl I heard she eat one cracker a day
Oh well I heard the b**** was married to Tim and started f***ing with Trina
I heard the b**** got hit with three zebras and a monkey
I can't stand the b**** no way

From what I heard its Crush and Splo and Crush is fixing telepathy.
So see that cracker . Sit . It . Down

sockmunkey · May 2013

You are mistaken it was not two devs. It was two employees. The difference being the employees are janitors, simply here to clean off the dust and cobwebs.

jennymachx · May 2013

hocofaisan wrote: »

It was mentioned in zone chat figured you guys would be able to confirm it.

Confirm with what, an official announcement?

If there's one, I ain't seeing in on the main page.

crypticbuxom · May 2013

Making an official announcement about the return of Devs would only admit that there were none there at all.

dinosaurface · May 2013

keep dreaming

nepht · May 2013

hocofaisan wrote: »

It was mentioned in zone chat figured you guys would be able to confirm it.

If you seen them talk in zone why u asking then

jennymachx · May 2013

nepht wrote: »

If you seen them talk in zone why u asking then

The bigger question is why ask us to validate it? He could have asked TT.

But hey, it's not like I expect Hocofaisan to properly think things through. :rolleyes:

rianfrost · May 2013

if one were paranoid, one could assume that this is an attempt at starting a rumor without being asked to source it. it gets a unsupported claim out there for people who want to support cryptic to quote, and so long as it doesnt attract too much attention and since its an "i heard it" it cant be directly verified or dsproven by questioning the rumor starter. over tiem people who want to believe the rumor will repeat it since its not officially disproven and suddenly ardent cryptic supporters have a socially engineered factoid to call out in arguments, similar to the only 2 devs thing that got traction earlier this year by people disgruntled by cryptic. in other words, a paranoid person could assume this is a lie that specific people want to massage into the "truth"

nepht · May 2013

rianfrost wrote: »

if one were paranoid, one could assume that this is an attempt at starting a rumor without being asked to source it. it gets a unsupported claim out there for people who want to support cryptic to quote, and so long as it doesnt attract too much attention and since its an "i heard it" it cant be directly verified or dsproven by questioning the rumor starter. over tiem people who want to believe the rumor will repeat it since its not officially disproven and suddenly ardent cryptic supporters have a socially engineered factoid to call out in arguments, similar to the only 2 devs thing that got traction earlier this year by people disgruntled by cryptic. in other words, a paranoid person could assume this is a lie that specific people want to massage into the "truth"

But its not that. Its not a rumor. Crush has said on several channels thats he is at the moment looking at telepathy powers on Champions. Splo's also back it seems.

Shock horror. Devs really do give some {beeps} about Champions online

Seems it was really just all hands on deck to finish off Neverwinter and now its out teams are returning to the other games.

kojirohellfire · May 2013

nepht wrote: »

But its not that. Its not a rumor. Crush has said on several channels thats he is at the moment looking at telepathy powers on Champions. Splo's also back it seems.

Shock horror. Devs really do give some {beeps} about Champions online

Seems it was really just all hands on deck to finish off Neverwinter and now its out teams are returning to the other games.

I'll believe it when I see it.

nepht · May 2013

kojirohellfire wrote: »

I'll believe it when I see it.

Crush was on the forumites channel just two days ago and said about the mind powers overhaul . Just ask Smackwell.

rianfrost · May 2013

hey, i said paranoid people, never said if i was paranoid:P that said, for those of us who haven't been playing for the past few days (work overtime and occasional sleep, not game related), that info could have been posted a sooner upthread if you had it. rather than just saying "from what i heard" or posting bert and ernie pics, you could have clearly told us what was said directly by a dev. not everyone accepts hco's word.

kojirohellfire · May 2013

Uh huh, sure, but just saying it doesn't make it necessarily true.

nepht · May 2013

kojirohellfire wrote: »

Uh huh, sure, but just saying it doesn't make it necessarily true.

Yes it does. Because Nepht is saying so. And Nepht is always right. Even when Nepht is wrong Nepht is right. You are still young you will learn this.

Nepht is also very modest. You will learn this also.

flamingbunnyman · May 2013

nepht wrote: »

Devs really do give some {beeps} about Champions online

I'm sure that they never stopped. However, regardless of which game they want to work on, if they want to keep getting a paycheque, they code the game that they're told to. I'm glad that there's some evidence that they ARE still doing as much as they can here.

nepht · May 2013

flamingbunnyman wrote: »

I'm sure that they never stopped. However, regardless of which game they want to work on, if they want to keep getting a paycheque, they code the game that they're told to. I'm glad that there's some evidence that they ARE still doing as much as they can here.

Now that people is an intelligent air tight argument. Cant argue with that. Will still post a picture of a bunney with a pancake on its head just because.

natsume+with+pancake.JPG

No you are mistaken this is a bunneh.

xcaligax · May 2013

I'm too lazy to read the whole thread. Somebody just give me a quick recap, and also:

What 2 devs?

jonsills · May 2013

xcaligax wrote: »

I'm too lazy to read the whole thread. Somebody just give me a quick recap, and also:

What 2 devs?

It has been alleged that Gentle Mancrush was spotted in the Forumites channel, speaking of how he and Splosions have been working on CO (specifically, there was some mention of Splo working on Telepathy).

These rumors are as yet unconfirmed...

fantasycharacter · May 2013

Ooh ooh did they bring back anything? Like flying nightmares and unicorns for vehicles?

I joke not.:cool:

nepht · May 2013

fantasycharacter wrote: »

Ooh ooh did they bring back anything? Like flying nightmares and unicorns for vehicles?

I joke not.:cool:

LOL Neveronlines emo sparkle pony XD

xcaligax · May 2013

jonsills wrote: »

It has been alleged that Gentle Mancrush was spotted in the Forumites channel, speaking of how he and Splosions have been working on CO (specifically, there was some mention of Splo working on Telepathy).

These rumors are as yet unconfirmed...

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kemmicals · May 2013

xcaligax wrote: »

You seriously have to stop looking at yourself in the mirror. You're going to die of laughter at this point.

agentnx5 · May 2013

I'll believe it when I see results.

More specifically results in the areas the games needs most such as bug fixing and new explorable content (new maps, new quests, open world zone upgrades and new adventure packs, etc.)

For me, I...

Will pay for new explorable content.
Will pay for a full expansion pack.
Will pay for a new adventure pack (you know, like you use to have to?)
Will pay for Rank Up Catalysts if the price is reduced 50%. (either that or make R9 much more useful, but doing so would imbalance things even more)
Will pay for emotes and emote packs.
Will pay for Super Group bases.
Will pay for more hideout upgrades.
Will pay for aura slots.
Will pay a ton for an unlimited RetCon option.
Will pay for formal military outfit costume pack.
Will pay for better hats. And shoes. And belts.
Will pay for rental-able instances where the host(s) could hold Costume Contests and kick problematic trolls out.
Will pay for Foundry aspects (if it's good enough).

Won't pay for more vehicles.
Won't pay for useless consumables in the Z-Store (i.e.: Team XP, Acclaim boost, 1-hr Sidekicks, Team Star Refill, etc.)

Also four critical things we need as a community:

1. Cryptic, please sell a gold / resources cap increase, available to Silver members (above the 250g cap). This will drive the "micro" in micro-transaction and is a boon to Gold members as well as a whole new market of buyers can appear on the auction house. Cryptic profits off the micro-transactions, Silvers are able to buy things securely without risk of being scammed, all players can access a larger market population to sell to, and the gold sink that the 5% auction house fee does will help curb some of the inflation we've been seeing on high-demand items back to reasonable levels. Everybody wins. This has been asked for, for like... 2 years now?

1. We need a means to get specific 8 core-stat mods (that's CON, DEX, STR, EGO, INT, PRE, REC and END) in enhancement or armoring varieties from the Recognition vendors is critical at this point. The economy needs this, badly. Compare the price of END against CON if you don't believe me, supply & demand are not equal.

2. Something needs to be done about taking player control away from the chat ban/mute/silencing system. There's been way too many threads about this already with the players practically screaming for action, so I'll leave it at that.

4. We need a Refer-a-Friend program. Where if you refer a friend and they create an account crediting yours at the one that refered them and level a character to 40, you get a small resources reward (maybe like 5g?). However if they, in addition to taking a character to level 40, also spend at least $25 to get Zen that they transfer to Champions Online, then you get a one-time 250 Zen bonus. This has been proven in other MMO's to drive up population numbers, which is something this game desperately needs. In short, you're giving small token rewards to existing customers to recruit and advertise for your game.

If the above is done. I'll believe we have a developer team that is back and listens to their customers. Until then, I'm inclined to believe it's just that. A rumor. A sighting with no meaningful improvements in sight.

fantasycharacter · May 2013

nepht wrote: »

LOL Neveronlines emo sparkle pony XD

I know, but just imagine it with fire vision and a teleporting unicorn with annoying baaah sound, like Uni from the AD&D cartoon, OMG. This is going to be my new CO campaign. I will surpass he who shall not be named in my obsession. J/K like I have time to campaign

chaelk · May 2013

nepht wrote: »

But its not that. Its not a rumor. Crush has said on several channels thats he is at the moment looking at telepathy powers on Champions. Splo's also back it seems.

Shock horror. Devs really do give some {beeps} about Champions online

Seems it was really just all hands on deck to finish off Neverwinter and now its out teams are returning to the other games.

Finish off Nevermind, thats sound like a good idea *holds up big rusty knife* can I help?:biggrin:

beldin · May 2013

4. We need a Refer-a-Friend program. Where if you refer a friend and they create an account crediting yours at the one that refered them and level a character to 40, you get a small resources reward (maybe like 5g?). However if they, in addition to taking a character to level 40, also spend at least $25 to get Zen that they transfer to Champions Online, then you get a one-time 250 Zen bonus. This has been proven in other MMO's to drive up population numbers, which is something this game desperately needs. In short, you're giving small token rewards to existing customers to recruit and advertise for your game.

Or they should just find a form to reimplant the old system, from where i got my Sapphire AF from, if my memory is correct. I think it was when somebody payed for a subscription at that time, so it should be now simply when somebody payed $15 in the shop.

honestresearcher · May 2013

chaelk wrote: »

Finish off Nevermind, thats sound like a good idea *holds up big rusty knife* can I help?:biggrin:

Real life threat! real Life threat!

Only jkin. Yeah screw NW.

crypticbuxom · May 2013

agentnx5 wrote: »

1. We need a means to get specific 8 core-stat mods (that's CON, DEX, STR, EGO, INT, PRE, REC and END) in enhancement or armoring varieties from the Recognition vendors is critical at this point. The economy needs this, badly. Compare the price of END against CON if you don't believe me, supply & demand are not equal.

You mean none of that 500 Nemesis tokens for a random R5 mod crap? I'm down with this.

zedbrightlander1 · May 2013

jorifice1 wrote: »

Ouija boards? Fe!
Gef The Talking Mongoose is what you need!

Nope. It's the The Internet Oracle or nothing for me.

fantasycharacter · May 2013

zedbrightlander1 wrote: »

Nope. It's the The Internet Oracle or nothing for me.

Hmm in my house the Oracle and the Internet are synonyms. If you ask me a question, Itell you to go consult the Oracle.

foxyperson · May 2013

Truth or not, I plan to spread the rumor as a form of pressure.

gavinruneblade · May 2013

agentnx5 wrote: »

Won't pay for useless consumables in the Z-Store (i.e.: Team XP, Acclaim boost, 1-hr Sidekicks, Team Star Refill, etc.)

I might if they actually priced them sensibly. For example, a team star refill at 35 zen? Yes I can see myself buying this.

These items are like candy at the supermarket. Notice that the price for a single candybar runs from 45-cents US to about a dollar. Only the premium stuff like godiva hits $9. nothing in the current consumable list other than the harajuku sidekick warrants that price, and even they only get it because they come with costume bits.

jaguar40 · May 2013

here we go again. So what is the dev count for this month? Last month it was what? 2? This month want to make it 4? How about 5? 5 sounds better.

agentnx5 · May 2013

gavinruneblade wrote: »

I might if they actually priced them sensibly. For example, a team star refill at 35 zen? Yes I can see myself buying this.

These items are like candy at the supermarket. Notice that the price for a single candybar runs from 45-cents US to about a dollar. Only the premium stuff like godiva hits $9. nothing in the current consumable list other than the harajuku sidekick warrants that price, and even they only get it because they come with costume bits.

I should have been clearer I suppose, although I'm often accused of being too wordy as well so... meh.

But yes I agree and this was my intent. If the price was "micro" enough you might see regular transactions for minor boosts like this stuff, but as it is, the price is so high that you don't have good sales volume.

I heard CO got two devs back from Neverwinter?

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