Hey , Devs. I was just wondering are you all gonna put a freakin' scoreboard in this game. After coh was shut down I played another ,ummm , not so great console based mmo, One of the things that ruined it is the scoreboard. Throughout battles or raids you got folks checking the scoreboard, and if the dps based players don;t have enough damage on the board they are kicked out of the raid by a really bad community. The board created an unfriendly competitive air that set up mean spirited and abused situations. Also how flexible will the powers be. They had the attitude of Call of Duty.
Will one power such as a healer do more than just heal ,or will we be forced into a role that lacks any diversity in its abilities. The defender class from coh was nice at being a jack of all trades. I think having a secondary effect from each power making it unique would be good.
I played that unmentioned game and a healer cannot survive solo If they get cut off from the group.and will energy be an issue in regards to the use of powers. Its terrible to be out of energy and unable to use fight back after blasting an enemy after 2 shots.
A lot of basic missions to keep folks busy is also good instead of queing up for the same redundant stuff daily, Hopefully we can form groups and go into missions like the old coh and the missions be different atleast most of the time. Coh had trials toward the end and that was nice for epic queing. I know this is new and ideas are still forming. Will out toons die from lack of content once the level cap is reached and will you all have content instead of endless feats and useless quest to take the place of a lack of content.
As a costume freak could you guys make a highly customizable costume creator. Think all sizes and being able to put something on all the toons body parts if desired.
Lastly, and I know you guys wanna make money,but is this gonna be a piece of freemium crap that nickel and dimes us to death even if were paying a subscription. Oh yah will folks get banned for constantly using the N word' cuz I am sick to death of that mess.
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 11:26
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Questions and random thoughts
Hi and welcome dayspanner. I'll try to field some of your questions or at least point you in the right direction to get those answers for yourself.
We have no plans to use a scoring system of any sort to measure dps and such in the team environment. As you said, it leads to a different type of community that was unlike the one we all miss in Cityof. Part of being a spiritual successor is an attempt at recapturing in some form those things we saw as best about the game and community we all miss.
Powers will be [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/625583]very customizable.[/url]
You also will get an idea for some of our classifications from the link above or you could check out our dated but still relevant [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/updated-classification-and-specification-chart]Classification chart[/url].
What you will notice is everyone has access to attack powers. We are designing the game so that no matter the build at least on a basic performance level (as in a player did not go out of their way to avoid practically all offense oriented attacks), every classification will be able to solo.
About content: we have [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/630570]plans[/url] for providing plenty of content between level 1 and 50. The post also says we have plans to implement raid-like content as well. All things in good time, though creating an alt and playing through content along a different path or maybe as [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/629385]a different alignment[/url] will keep people playing for a long time between end-game content releases.
Finally, about the monetization model. As with anything, nothing is exactly set in stone yet. Current plans are to have buy to play (buy the box, play for free), with a subscription for different perks or possible 'micro' subscriptions to pick out the perks you want the most and ignore the others that come packaged with a 'full sub'. There will be a cash store, however we will not institute any pay-to-win schemes. Look to the old cityof's cash store as part of inspiration - costume skins, animation skins (since we will have animation customization), and so on.
I highly recommend you take the time to read through our long update history on kickstarter or the home page of this website. There's plenty of lore to dig into if that's your thing, or the random art, tech, or gameplay posts to glean through.
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Also, to be fair, every AT in Cityof could solo just fine. Some ATs took a little longer to get things done than others however lol.
I, for one, would personally agree with a policy of banning anyone who persists in using pejorative racial slurs in an insulting way on a consistent basis despite warnings.
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Oh, THAT N-word! Yeah. Completely agree.
(< .< first thing that came to mind was NCsoft) :p
You can pry my insulting attitude towards NC$oft away from my cold, dead keyboard.
(you mean like that, WarBird?)
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