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Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

Time Manipulation.

Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

We know of five new sets since Freedom was launched. One was free. I know Titan Weapons will be Premium, and we don't know about Staff, but I'm assuming it will be Premium as well. That's 1 Free vs. 4 Premium.

Of course, they could have 100 free sets waiting in the wings, but I find that unlikely.

Originally Posted by Sfort

I'm a little rusty on my 'old school' games. Anyone care share what that's from? I don't remember ever playing it.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Yes, it added a whole new level of "Dear God, if I ever, EVER find out who did that DAMN patronising female voice in the tutorial I am going to do horrific things to them involving barbed wire and train tracks!!"

I mean, for crying out loud, how LONG must they have searched to find the most boring, godawful, nauseating and ear-bending typical cut-glass American womans voice to torture people with?

The voice-overs were bloody terrible. And no, they sure as hell should NOT port them over to the main game, not unless they are willing to get voice TALENT to do it, not vox robotica.

/rant+Opinion

Originally Posted by Psycho_Sarah

I just hope it looks better than the "tech mace".

Originally Posted by Commander

Really?

((Ok, instead of a one word questions, I'll expand on it.))

I don't mean you roll your alt and then "Hey look... this is my story." For the majority of CoH players that have been here for years, every power you pick from the tree has something to do with who your characters are. Some people want a super-speeder, so... they take Super Speed. Your character has the ability to fly... so you choose flight instead of Super Jump.

Some people have a specific idea of who their characters are and they reflect it from the powers they choose. Unlike 95% of the other MMO's out there, this is the staple of CoH. If we forget about the other Super Hero based MMO's, well, since this was the first...

The game with Orcs and Lich royalty, you have a specific tree based on the class you play. Everyone has the same exact tree, the same exact abilities. The only thing that differs is the amount of power you assign to each ability.

In CoH, you have 14 AT's. Each AT you get to choose how you want to play it. You and your friend could roll a Dark/Dark Corruptor at the same time, but chances are that you won't have the same character by the time you both hit 50. While you would take certain powers, he could have skipped those and built up other powers in that set. You could have taken Ghost Widow as a Patron, he coule have taken Black Scorpion. You both get different powers based on the patron you chose. You might have taken the Teleportation Pool for Recall friend, he could have taken First Aid. In this game, the choices you make are mostly based on your character. You don't get that in other MMOs.

I bet you don't roll a blood elf and go, "Hmm.. maybe I'll add more points to "lunge" and I'll skip "dodge" because he's really a clumsy oaf. So if I get hit and killed a lot, people will understand because it's my character."

Originally Posted by Commander

Level increases, in other games, are thrown around because it's easier content than having to design a complex system that allows you to expand beyond what would normally be available.

Levels are also the easiest things for the majority of players to see as "getting a job done." So, rather than expand more development time into the game, they just rehash the same old content and bump the cap up 5-20 levels.

50 levels or 100, in the end you're playing the game that whatever development team created. It's not meant, in reality, to give you a sense of accomplishment. If it was, they wouldn't need to add acheivements. Levels are just a way to pacify people so they feel that there is more available than they thought.

In CoH, the exact opposite is the case. Yes, the system is designed around a max level of 50, but there is more to CoH than leveling to the cap. There is the story the game presents and there is the story that you create for your characters. Unlike those other giants that only give you a new story when an expansion is purchased, every issue (major patch) has a new way to expand on the games lore as well as your own.

When you create a Superhero or SuperVillain, you always have the same goal: to be the best/baddest your mind can imagine. When you create characters in other games, since there is no room for your story, you only have the option of leveling or... sheesh, that I don't know. None of the other games I have played let me have my own story.

In CoH, the new systems allow you to expand your characters role in the lore of this game. You can become better/badder than you were by becoming an incarnate. You get tons of new power, tons of new enemies for you to use your powers on, and tons of new stories that make you feel that you are the center of the game.

I assume that many people that "hate" this game do so because they just didn't understand that the game is really about you living in a world of heroes & villains. Sure, you can follow the story the game leads you, but in the end, you can deviate and make your own rules. You wanted to be a villain but feel that, after time, you're not really that much of a bad guy? Well, you can take your character through a story to change your alignment. You're then given a whole new world of stories.

In the end, the game is only as good as YOU can make it for yourself. We're not spoonfed the same mindless tasks (well, not as much) as the other games.

I liken CoH to an All-You-Can-Eat buffet. You can make a combo plate of all different kinds of possibilities. If you don't like it, you can throw the plate away and make a new one with different options. In the other games, it's more of an all you can eat macaroni and cheese buffet. Sure, Mac and Cheese is good, but after the 2nd plate, you're still sitting in front of 100lbs of cheesy pasta.

Originally Posted by AmazingMOO

You don't start getting charged upkeep in bases until you start placing storage items. You can build all the medical items and teleporters you like. The second you place ANY storage item, you start running into a fee that's 200 Prestige x The Number of Storage Items, to a maximum of 3600 prestige.

Originally Posted by warden_de_dios

The only place Preems are locked out is at the SG registrar. That contact will not give a Preem the option to Start a SG, Pay Rent or Create a Base. Preems can do everything else, edit bases, set permissions on storage, they can even have the star.