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I'm quite surprised that Justice isn't at a higher percentage pop than that.
Surprised Face: ------>

Ever play a Mastermind? With the proper macros, you can control those pets to do all sorts of stuff.

But they hesitate in allowing other classes have such fine control over thier pets, such as there are in Controller, Defender, etc. powersets.

The idea of having established NPC factions as controllable pets is interesting. And certain Temp Powers allow a summon of such (Back-Up Radio?).

Meh.
As long as they steal a share of the drops (like teaming does), sure.

NPC pets don't keep up with me very well, so I usually have to either slow down or leave them behind. Not terribly useful.

Teaming with Faultline in the RWZ arc is fun though, for my Villains. I run ahead of him a little, hop to the other side of a pack of Rikti Monkeys (I'm usually running missions at x4 by then) and wait. "So, Big Boy, how's that Granite Armor against Psi Damage?"


Anyway, back to the suggestion. I'm hesitant for the idea for it making "Pocket Healers" or "Pocket Kins" or whatever.

Too often.
(Not a dig at the picture, which matches his screen name nicely, but a statement about the unfortunate frequency of foolishness we've seen posted.)

We can decline Mystic Fortune as it is cast, but that's it. Dismiss? Not so much.

I smell a "drive-by rant".

If the OP makes a second post in this thread and gives me his global (either via PM or post, whatever.), I will ingame Email him 10 Million Inf.
Double that if he cares to have a rational discussion about the incorrect information that he bases his rant upon.

Offer expires Monday Morning at 0400 Pacific.

False assumption based on anecdotal evidence, i.e. one play session.
Having different servers running different coding=coding nightmare. Expense wouldn't be worth it.
English, <expletive>. Do you type it?


It makes sense.
You could have downloaded the game for free, then gotten a free trial account. Granted, it would have been quite limited, but it's intended to give you a taste for the game enough to allow you to decide whether you want to walk away or pay to get the full experience.
Link to explanation: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Trial_Account

Oh, I get the WH40K reference. It's just that with all that dimension-hopping we've been doing over the past several years, Statesman getting kidnapped in another dimension, only come back and start hanging out in I.P., who can you trust?


Who came back?

Every server is a free server if you're on a trial account.

Different servers have different populations. Freedom (Yay PvP!) and Virtue (Yay RP!) have the most. The server list is:
Top: One you were on last.
2nd from Top: Lowest current population online.
3rd from top: 2nd lowest.
etc.
etc.
2nd from bottom: 2nd highest CURRENT population.
Bottom: Highest Current population.

Also, the population is split between three factions and boatloads of zones.
1) Join a global channel and/or turn on your LFT flag if you want to team. This is a VERY soloable game, though, so who needs a team?

2) Vague thread titles and poor grammar do not help present your ideas well. I am more than willing to discuss your idea, however.

3) You pay a monthly subscription, but the updates (a.k.a. "Issues" ) are free, with the exception of Going Rogue (which is quite large) and some VERY optional booster packs. Other games (watch out, compare/contrast vs other games by name is a taboo subject) make you pay for every update, do they not?

Wait, I thought Emperor Cole was in Preatoria? So which one is Statesman again?

Ask Gregor Richardson, he's standing in front of the vault.

Level-locking, then "popping open" the badges when unlocked?
Defeat Badges? When the character is the same level as the lowest level normal critter of that faction.
TF Badges? When character is lowest level able to do the TF.
Simple enough criteria to me.
Explore Badges? L1, or in the case of PvP zones, whatever level is minimum entrance.

Damage-Taken, Time spent Held/Mezzed, Debt Badges, etc? Yeah, I'm not sure about those.

My previous idea was that any defeat badge or any badge required for an accolade would be transfered over in a "shadow form". That is, it would be "a mere shadow of it's former self". It would be able to be used as a custom title for the character, but not actually count towards the Accolade until it was earned the "real way" by that specific character. This was my compromise for people leery of having L1s running around with a full set of Accolades.
Honestly, IMO, Accolades are pretty low reward for the time/effort required.

You've read enough threads in this forum. Just how common do you think "Sense of Perspective" is?

I bought it, crafted it and put it up at a significant markup.

I welcome any and all bids.

Many sets are, IMO, much more suited for one origin that any other. A well-written bio could, I suppose explain why a AR (or Dual Pistol)/Devices Blaster is Magic, or that Bots MM is Magic too.

For this one? "My super-science gadgets give me cool abilities, and throw out a holographic light show, just for added flair."

Apparently not.
The worst behavior makes the biggest impression and is therefore talked about more often. You've seen "I was in this PuG last night and this moron...." threads, right?

Then what happens is that the worst of the bunch are held up as being representative as being most of the bunch.

My support for the "Ultimate Respec" feature is always dependant on the new character being reduced to L1.
Rendering Anniversary badges as account-wide would, in my expectation, reduce the number of "Ultimate Respec" threads a bit, and reduce the support of such a thing.

Minor quibble: The prestige isn't really lost. It belongs to the SG and stays in the SG's piggy bank, with the exception, of course of the {bonus prestige per member for the first 15 members}, but that bonus prestige was never counted in a little number by your name in the SG roster. What you lose is the tracking of your character's contribution, which isn't the same. A good SG won't worry about that number by your new character's name.
I will admit that I'm competitive about trying to have higher Prestige numbers than other characters of the same level in the SG.

There's no reason to lose the loose "cash" Influence. Just Email it to another of your characters.
There's no reason to lose much of that character's slotted enhancements. Just respec out ten IOs at a time, burning freespecs and Vetspecs, then sell them. Sell SOs inside of the respec for full price!

The badges are the only thing you can't keep.

You can use the "Save costume" feature to transfer the costume from one character to the next.

Because the character would start over at L1, this works for me. It's the same as re-rolling, just with keeping the (level-appropriate) badges.
Because you're destroying the original character in the process, I have no problem with defeat badges and such "poppping up" as soon as the new character is level-appropriate to them.

Nah, I think you're asking for too much here. Leveling ain't nearly as hard as it used to be. (Patrol XP, reduced debt, etc.)
I've got every anniversary badge in the game. Just wish that they were treated like the Veteran badges and made account-wide, which makes more sense to me.

The only problem with this, IMO, is trying to call this a respec. It's not.
It's deleting a character and transferring thier badges to a new character.