Zombie Man

Actually, the choice is a no-brainer.

The situation the Omega team faced was that they were losing a war to a foe that was going to kill them all anyway.

It's was a choice of sure death by doing nothing, or probable death by possibly saving the world.

No-brainer.

I've respecked IO'd-out builds before.

For the toons that had lower level IOs (in the 30s and 40s), there's only a handful of IOs worth more than a million... So, there's no problem there if I lose a few.

For the ones that were mostly level 50s, I looked up their worth at the market, and by the time I got the 11th most expensive IO, it was only worth a few million. So, again, for a power user like me... it was chump change to replace the ones that got deleted, while the Numinas and Gamblers were all nicely recovered. So, there's no problem there.

The only people I can see where the limit of 10 on IO recovery would be very expensive are the Purpled-out toons. And just how often is a Purple-out toon so completely respecked that more than two sets of Purples can't be reused in the new build? And if they really do need to do such a drastic rebuild (that can't be accomplished by using their second build), just how many times do they need to do it that a freespec and one of the earned respecs (of which there are at least 3 available to a level 50 toon) can't be used to pull out 20 Purples?

I think those complaining of losses are way overstating the problem.

If you're jonesing for Temp Powers, you can always make sure you're 'working' the Day Job powers and you can do the side job of a Mayhem/Safeguard mission to collect a double handful of Temp Powers.

1. Hook friends into playing since they can run the second account with full-access toons (no Trial Account limitations) while I'm on the first.

2. Spare account for CoH LAN parties where there's an extra person who doesn't have a CoH account.

3. Mostly though: Managing personal SG base, transferal of loot, marketeering, and other account housekeeping where two toons are much, much better than one.

4. Very rarely two-boxing. The second account may be used to deliver spare inspirations to a TF, e.g., EoEs to a LGTF.

5. Testing! Ghost Falcon has hooked up Beta Testers to get their second account in and it helps immensely being able to use two toons to test things, e.g., the effects of the new SuperSideKicking.

After watching several such videos, it seems to me the kitty 'nom nom' is a territorial growl warning you to back your darn hand/camera away before it gets bit.

Cute.

Marketing hasn't been totally absent:

1. They instituted an always-available free trial and made it easily accessible through the main site. (Regardless of what anyone may think of the restrictions on that free trial due to combating RMTers, at least it is a partial preview of the game. We've seen lots of folk posting to the boards about how to turn their trial to full.)

2. CoH banners at various comic and gaming websites.

3. NCSoft included CoH in their product placement deals with Chuck and Big Bang Theory.

4. Exclusive previews on various gaming websites of new features, interviews, pics, and vids. As much as forum regulars grouse about not getting that stuff here first, it's done specifically as a marketing tool to get gamers interested in other games interested in CoH.

5. Loyalty programs (perqs from HeroCon, Vet Rewards, loyalty badges) and free reactivation weekends. They're designed for retention of customers and to bring back old customers.

I can't see Base Raids and CoP with their IoP ever returning until the Summer of 2011. And that's only if GR is a smashing hit.

So... Don't hold your breath.

The Devs' time for other things is scheduled until the Winter of 2010. PvP is a dead end for development since it's not what the majority of players want enough to demand attention or else they'll leave.

Bases need to be fixed for Raiding. Zone PvP needs to be fixed as part of the revamp of PvP that never fully got done. Then the CoP TF needs to be fixed.

Summer of 2011. At least. Maybe.

Yeah, you need to put the way Resistance works out of your mind. With Resistance, each Typed Resistance (50% Smashing / 35% Lethal) gets applied to all corresponding types of incoming Damage (100 pts Smashing / 100 pts Lethal becomes 50 pts Smashing / 35 pts Lethal).

With defense, the highest Defense number is used for the ToHit Roll. (So, if you have 30% Melee Def / 20% Smashing Def / 10% Lethal Def, then versus any Melee attack that does Smashing/Lethal, you're Defense in the ToHit equation is 30%... the highest of the three).

So, for Defense toons, you'll either want to focus on shoring up you Positional Defenses (melee/ranged/AoE) or your Typed Defenses (s/l/e/n/c/f). Since toxic and psi attacks often don't have corresponding Defense or even a Positional attribute attached to them (that's right, a mental attack that's neither melee, ranged, nor AoE)... then you'll still want to find toxic/psi Resistance.

More on the cce: paragonwiki.com/wiki/Cce_%28Slash_Command%29

Dark Servant, a temp AT pet zones with you, just FYI.

The history of the 5th Column in and out and in the game:

• I3 - Council takes over 5th Column. In a sloppy cut-and-paste frenzy, nearly all mentions of the 5th gets replaced in-game by Council. The 5th remain in the game's historical backstory, though, outside of the game.
• 2nd Anniversary (right before I7) - 5th Column Gladiator unlockable
• I11 - 5th Column in Ouroboros Pseudo-Strask Forces
• I12 - 5th Column in Imperious Strask Force
• I14 - 5th Column available for Architect missions
• I15 - 5th Column Task and Strike Forces
• I16 - 5th Column in the streets and outdoor zones

Million influence says we don't hear from the OP again because the OP doesn't want to reveal just how underpowered the OP's graphics tech is.

This wasn't a question, it was a complaint.

...if you jump on a defeated Freakshow, he doesn't rez.