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Having EB's would be a bit much. I know I just don't need that much help. Watching the purchased pets slaughter everything (and take that big of a cut of the rewards) would get boring for me.
Having Minions, LT's and Bosses sounds right. You could grab one for a minor help, many for a bigger amount of help.
I only see this being useful for my weaker solo'ers in my stable of characters, and they are the ones who would be great buffers/support for these pets. My FF Defender would almost be no different (should she grab pets all the time) than my Bots/FF MM.

I like that.

I would like the psuedopet idea. Tossing a grenade (or using another, similar power) at the farthest foe in the spawn, it makes sense that foes should be KB'ed from the explosion, not away from me.


Of course, there's also the fact that I can toss a grenade at a foe, and if he's moving, the grenade will change course in midair to land on him, but that's another thing.

Yes, they do, and it's not a bad thing. One man's trash is another man's treasure. If I throw some utter garbage pieces onto the market, I do so at bargain basement prices. Anyone who wants to glean it from the system can buy it for a pittance and choose to either use it or sell it to the Vendors for a profit.
That's why using the Sets with cruddy set bonuses is such a bargain over SO's. Because of folks doing what I am.

Anyway, back to the Global Bank and Loot Mailbox ideas.
I think that if they were to make some kind of account-wide shared Global Bank, like other games (with far fewer character slots?) do, then they should have done so at the very beginning.
As for the Loot Mailbox? Send items for a postage rate of 10% of the amount that a Vendor would give you for that item. Thus, 25, 100 and 500 for Salvage. The Devs appear fond of $Inf Sinks and it's not like the items folks are going to want to transfer are going to be Vendor Trash items anyway.
If the mail transfer would put the recipient over the limit? Keep the amount still in the sender's inventory. Otherwise, you create a mailbox that serves as infinite storage.

While I'm not terribly against the idea, I don't expect it to ever happen. (Yes, I've been wrong before). Remember, these are the Dev's who said that letting us keep ten enhancements after a respec was generous and who designed bases to have an upper limit on Enhancement/Salvage storage tables and no Recipe storage devices. They appear to be anti-hoarding, and these ideas, depending on implementation, would lead to much easier hoarding.

Ignore?
Power isn't that bad.
Granted, he posts some bad ides (some of them repetitively), and his grammar is in bad shape, but his spelling has improved noticably since he started posting here. I can read his posts without having to stare at the screen for several minutes.

His posts lack the trollish intent and the level of general hostility and thrown insults that make for a good /ignore candidate in my book.
Maybe I'm just too forgiving, but there are only two people on my forum ignorelist, and three that used to be, but were dropped when the forums moved to this new format.

Never ran into him ingame, though. I have no idea what he is like there.

Thank you. Editted to include.

I assume that's sarcasm, since you already can transfer wealth from one character to another.

Here's my stock answer to this suggestion: "Meh."
Here's my reasons for that answer:
1) We can already do it.
We can transfer wealth (in the form of $Inf or valuable items that can be later converted to Inf) in several ways.
A) Same Server, Same Faction: Put them in a SG together, drop items (Enhancements, Salvage) into base storage.
B) Any Server (except Test), Same Faction: Use the Market to sell a low-demand item from the poorer character, pay a percentage transfer fee as the rich character buys the junk item for an extravagant amount.
C) Any Server, Any Faction: Arrange a transfer via another player. Check your server forums or global channels to easily find a trustworthy player, or use one of your friends.
Edit: D) Same Server, Same Faction: Use a second account to make the transfer.
((Thanks, Forbin! ))

2) We don't need to do it.
Any character can be monetarily self-sufficient by selling thier Recipe and Salvage drops at the Market. Not a hint of "marketeering" needed. Just use the darn thing normally and you will profit enough to set up with rather decent IO sets pre-50.
I admit that it would, however, be very convienient to be able to instantaneously transfer all character income wherever I felt the urge.

3) How much storage would be sufficient in this bank?
That's my question. Some folks have one character, some have a lot. If I have 12 characters on each of 10 Servers, and each character has storage for a minimum of 30 pieces of Salvage and 2 Billion $Inf, I currently could hold 3600 pieces of Salvage and 240 Billion $Inf, not counting the fact that personal Salvage can be twice that figure of thirty, nor "Tax Shelters" within the Market.
If the storage size of my Global Bank is dependant on how many characters I have, I could easily and quickly make a dozen throwaway characters on Servers that I don't frequent. I guess the EU players would be at a huge disadvantage there.

Let's say that there is no "Global Bank" per se, and you retain the current storage system. And instead, you add a mailing system for $Inf and items.
*Would there be a postage fee? What would determine the size of the postage for items? For currency, it's a straight percentage when you transfer $Inf via the Market.
*What happens when you try to mail Items or Inf that would put the recipient over the storage limit?
I can see myself right now creating a couple of throwaway characters for hoarding, and I'm not much of a hoarder. Increased hoarding would make decreased market supply, meaning higher prices. Higher prices will encourage hoarding, IMO.

Looks like the gals from the show "Charmed".

Edit:
This suggestion is one of Power's favorites. Usually it's along the lines of "Hire NPC's to go on missions" or "Have your alts (under AI control) go with you on missions" or some variant thereof.

Blappers do not get the Defensive benefits that Tanks do. Not too many Blappers can stand in the middle of a mob with Taunt on autofire and go AFK for a sandwich.
There is a tradeoff to every AT.

Edit to add:
You sound like someone who simply wants to be unhappy here. That's okay, be as unhappy as you want or go somewhere more to your choosing.
But simply flinging as many complaints as possible, (including many false ones in this thread) won't get any changes made.

Better written=Taken slightly more seriously. In this written form of communication it's what makes a first impression. Like wandering into a store with mashed potatoes in your ear and a set of car keys in your mouth, having sloppy diction makes you look a less professional, even a bit foolish.
Okay, your second post makes more sense.
1) Sure.
2) Sure. Just saw a colored Earth critter summoned yesterday.
3) Maybe they will make more changes, perhaps to your liking.
4) What rate are you suggesting? I'm playing under $15/mo for both CoH and CoV on my (single) account.

I believe his intended points are:
*Devs are trying to ruin the game (Obviously, as everyone wants to wreck thier paychecks, right?)
*Devs aren't listening to the players. Including costumes for MM's. (you know, since all the other AT's get to wear costumes.) And ranged attacks for Tanks. (You know, like Hurl Boulder and APPs?)
*Devs should have seen the exploiting of MA before they implemented it. (Okay, I agree with that.)
*Devs have nerfed MA to NO REWARDS! (Um....baloney.)
*Removal of many of the badges from MA will drive off badgers. (Annoyed them, but didn't drive them off)
*Some garbage about having to pay double for both games, when you don't.
*GR will be totally screwed up. (OP has a crystal ball? It's not even in Beta yet.)
*The PvP changes stunk. (Okay, some agree with him on that.) *Healing, Immobs and Slows don't work in PvP. (Really? Whatever. I don't care.)

Having the multi-instance popup for this power would indeed only affect Virtue, most of the year.
It would possibly affect all servers for the Christmas and Valentine's events.
Or whenever there's a ruckus on the Global channels where a Dev is in there handing out Yellow Titles.

But this could also be applied to other similar powers.
Like the Black Market Teleporter Day Job power could give you the choice between Cap Au Diable1 and Cap Au Diable2. The Blueside equivalent could see more than one Atlas Park or perhaps even Talos.

It might be a little more useful than you think.

Ah, I see.
Thank you.


Although, I'd still take that power.
*Summons "Leomund's Tiny Hut"*

Correct.
Of course, "more foes=more rolls of the Random Number Generator" as well.

For each character, find a balance of what settings work best for you.
I favor characters with AoE's, so increasing the number of foes works best.
With strong characters that are more Single-Target focused, hordes of low-rank, equal-level critters would be a waste of End for the XP gained, and take forever.
So I would focus on smaller spawn sizes, but bump up the level until the XP gain was good, but not so high that it took too much time for any one defeat.

And in response......Muahahahaha!

Thank you.
(See...as a villian, I'm still polite. One of my many positive attributes that I retain, while still being redside. {Dear lord, don't let Golden Girl get in here and start ranting about Hero vs. Villian})

Ah, yes. Point taken.
I'm gonna use "Been a while since I spent much time Blueside." as my excuse for forgetting that one.

I see retoggling 2 Armors, 1 Damage Aura, Tough, Combat Jumping and Acrobatics as the most my Fire Tank ever did. It's been a while, but I think I got most of that done in that time, and I'm not sure I had Tough.
Nowadays, I could drop Acrobatics for an IO.

I wouldn't rewrite ALL the storylines this way, just a fair number of them. Sure, a Nemesis storyline will affect much of the city. But with the Outcasts, you are probably only deal with one splinter of the gang at a time, as one Named Boss decides to edge his way over the others by performing one really big hiest. Most likely only based in one nieghborhood (zone) in his own "turf".

And yeah, plenty of three-part ways from P.I. to Atlas.
P.I.-> VIP pass to Pocket D->KR-->AP
P.I.-> Talos-->Steel-->AP
Etc.