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As tempting as it is to reply "Lol, pics or it didn't happen.", it's probably best to just forward this to NCsoft.

That's what I thought. If I still played my namesake, I might look at doing something with his curly (closest thing was demon) tail. Couldn't hurt to go back to Icon and tinker.

Also: Typing enchantments, rather than enhancements will make it harder to get correct info out of the search function, both in this forum and at the wiki.
Otherwise, not a big deal.

Being able to throw someone over your shoulder would be awesome. Seen it done with one NPC who was carrying a bodybag and you had to escort said NPC to the door. Redside mission.

Being able to carry NPC hostages like that would be cool. As would being able to carry/drag defeated teammates.

What would you do with your existing powers while this toggle was on? Grey them out? Expect much vertical travel with it? Would be worse than Superspeed.

Natural heroes can justify any current travel power. Remember, Origin is the source of Most, not All of your powers. Manticore is Natural-Origin and uses Teleport. Justification: Hacks into Medical transportation grid.
They can also use Sprint+Swift+Hurdle. That isn't good enough for you? Then take Electric Armor or Super Reflexes as they both have a passive power for additional Run Speed (Bonus: they also grant +Recharge. Slot 1RunSpeed and enjoy!)


Tangent: Ninja Run is also an option, but with your mention of debt, buying virtual goodies may not be the best allocation of resources.
Getting your subscription paid for shouldn't be huge. 15$/month is three less fast food meals in a month or a grocery cart of empty beer cans, assuming you live in a state with a nickle deposit. Compare 15$ for a month of game time vs. the cost of a theatre movie, which is 90-120 minutes at most. Consider donating plasma? Get some scratch and save a life! Maybe work a few hours at minimum wage.

I like my (former) SG Leader (he jumped ship to a game that sucks), but as his RL friend, I know that his taste in music is far from mine. I really do not like the 1950s-70s era of Country music, nor am I a big fan of country in general. (I'm tolerant of a somewhat narrow portion of it, but I digress)

Redside: You can sell at any Quartermaster (look downstairs from the spawn point you entered Mercy from or on your map)

Blueside: Atlas Park or Galaxy City, look for the red and white guys near the trainer. (Almost Every zone has some place to sell at, but you're probably in the first zones.)
King's Row: at the train station or near the trainer.

Also: the Market is good for transactions like this. (see Black Market or Wentworth's on your map) What you are selling right now is not wanted by most players, so you'll get almost nothing at the Market for them, but the NPC vendors will buy them. Later, you will get stuff the the players will pay millions for, but the NPCs will buy for very little. Prices vary by item and by other factors.

Combining: type /manage to enter the enhancement management screen or click "manage" atop your enhancement tray. click-and-drag an enhancement on top of one that's already slotted.

Also: welcome to the game and to the forums. I hope that you enjoy them both.

If there's a demand for thier product, they'll produce more. If thier prices go up, it's because business is good for them. Not the best thing that could happen.

I like that you are trying to solve what you see as a problem. I just disagree as to the type of solution that you propose.

Hence my suggestion of adjusting the sell-back prices for TOs and DOs. Much smaller adjustment to the game, would primarily benefit only low level characters played by new players. Low level characters played by older players don't need the help, since they can just mail $inf from other characters, and presumably have the experience to know how to earn $Inf.
In this game, particularly in the Market, wealth is tossed at you and you have to duck to miss it.

Squirrels can rob vending machines. There's a video out there of one doing that.

Also: Ask Dr. Doom about Squirrel Girl.

Quick answer?
All I got is the "Inf-sink vs Inflation" argument. Personally, I find the level-decay annoying, which is why I switch to IOs ASAP.

Let's get back on track. Don't get too upset at Sharker's tone of voice. Let's focus on the topic.

Are you primarily worried about the amount of $Inf on a lowbie character as they head towards the better enhancements later?

Perhaps an upward adjustment on the sell-back prices of TOs and DOs would be a better solution. It would be less invasive than removing the decay on non-crafted enhancements, and (mostly) only affect the lower levels of play. By the time you get to L25, selling Recipe and Salvage drops at the Market would far outstrip anything you would get selling stuff at the NPC stores. But in those pre-teen levels, the NPC stores (a.k.a. Vendors) would give you more $inf than they currently do.

I would rather not go into this, but I will: If you wish to peruse the Market forum, you can find out exactly how easy it is to make millions in the very low levels with relative ease without having to be a master marketeer. But in the case of the "New Player" (term not fully defined), this might not be obvious, so let's stick to more traditional forms of $inf gain:
1) Selling drops at the Vendors. IMO, In the case of SET Recipes and Salvage, the first time that you try to sell these to a Vendor, you should get a pop-up saying "Are you sure? You might get a better vale selling this at the Market." (then never get this pop-up again)
2) Selling drops at the Market at "dump it NAO!" prices. Even if you dump everything IO-related at the Market for an asking price of 5 $Inf, you'll quickly accumulate wealth as the highest outstanding bid will snap up your item...if there's any Demand for it. Otherwise, yes, you're better off Vendoring it. See: Supply and Demand, as per your High School Economics class. (even an old fogie like me can remember that far back. )

Sharker's point that Enhancements can be bought at the AE stands. It would not be obvious however, to the new player until they actually played an AE mission and wandered upstairs to see what tickets could be redeemed for.

Regarding enhancement names: People tend to complain about the names of certain origins' SOs not being informative. What should I reasonably expect Polonium Exposure to do again? I have to right-click most of the list in the Science store and a fair portion of the Magic SO list.
Sure they're color-coded, but I find Def and Resist to look similar at the stores. Luckily, I'm not color-blind.

"Accuracy: Benedict Tech Adv. Tareting Eye" might be a better compromise, IMO.

Common IOs should retain thier simple names. They're the starter set for crafting. Set IOs have thier own naming in place. "Crushing Impact: Damage/Recharge" works for me.

By Epic, more like "tied into the game's storyline", than "super powerful".
I enjoy the redside EATs, and some folks enjoy the PBs/Warshades, but they don't have super-uber levels of power that far outstrips all other ATs, which is what some folks expect when the "Epic" name is applied.

Unfortunately, after offering that advice, I was unable to find the (still stickied?) thread, despite it likely being right under my snout.

Cool.


The Aztecs...Banished Pantheons aren't close enough, eh?

Those undead pirates....like the ones in Port Oakes?
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Spectral_Pirates
There's also the RWZ arcs. Join Vanguard and smash Rikti!
The AE is still open for business, even if the PL'ing crowd is no longer farming it in screaming droves.
Oh, and Cimerora is pretty popular for the L45+ crowd, if all those calls I hear for ITFs are any indication.

Pfft. No one watches women's basketball.















I kid! I kid!

This has been suggested before, and was relatively well-recieved. Detractors held the opinion that brevity is a virtue when writing a bio and that simply adding something like "see full description on VirtueVerse.com" was sufficient.
After a certain length, many people quit reading. I like reading bios, myself, but "too long" is a turn off to me. I'd only support this because I believe "more options=good thing".
Since the Dev in charge of costume pieces only reads his own (stickied) thread, post this there.
A good discussion of this would require it's own thread.

Ventrilo is already available as a third-party app that works quite well. Dev time required to bundle something like this into the game instead of working on other time seems like a waste to some (paraphrasing from previous discussion of "Add an official Ventrilo")
A good discussion of this would require it's own thread.
I'm interested in hearing of this in greater detail.
Interesting. I feel no need for it now, but I know that if I had it as an option I would certainly tinker with it out of curiosity. Who knows, I might end up prefering it over the square one.
Costume stuff should go in the stickied thread to get SexyJay to see it, otherwise you're just spitting in the wind.
The Animations Dev might see this last one if it were it's own thread (with "animations" in the title, I would suggest)
Incidently, I like all of the suggestions in this cluster, except for Mickey Mouse ears, depending on how close they come to the trademarked logo of the heavily litigious company we all know and love.
I rarely use horns, so I don't care much one way or the other on that.
Where would you add this? Would you grant a 10th power in the Shield Defence powerset or add a new power pool?
Add a single-target ranged attack into this defensive set? Several melee sets have a ranged attack already and if you wait until L41+ you can take ranged attacks in the PPPs/APPs too.

Added Personal Opinion: I like the concept of Captain America, but dislike the idea of throwing your shield frisbee-style at your opponents. YMMV.

Run arcs with normal, not custom foes? I don't like running against custom foes. Risk/reward was skewed last time I did (it's been adjusted since) such that the foes were either way tougher than standard factions for the same XP or were worth nearly nothing.
Oh, I almost forgot. AE missions don't get Patrol XP applied do they?
If the second-fastest travel power (after Teleportation, which has it's own annoyances, IMO) had vertical movement, why would anyone take anything else?


Requested and suggested before.
The Cliff's Notes:
1) Would require adding hundreds or thousands of connection points to every map in the game.
2) Would look stupid in maps like Independance Port, Nerva.
See previous notes regarding costumes.

I like that you want to improve this game and enjoyed reading your suggestions, even the ones that I disagreed with.