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Issue 10 is a ways out, but it will bring us an update to an old familiar villain group. This group will have their power center altered

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Right, let's list all the villains that have a power centre.

1) The Council
2) ...
3) Er
4) That's it.

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Also, the Council is the only group with The Center.

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Can you tell us if the jetpack will remain visible or will it vanish when the 30 seconds is up. Obviously the power benefit would vanish after the 30 seconds but.. just hoping there's a way to keep it visible for those characters who want that option for their costume.

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From a powers/animation standpoint, the backpack geometry fades away after a period of non-use. I do not believe the geometry is available as a 'Cape' option so it is always present, though. I'm not Jay, though, so I could certainly be wrong!

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
<bunch of whining>

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I think you need to exercise your imagniation here. It seems to be lacking in flexibility. Or if it bothers you so much, just dont use it.

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Will GvE's VIP card unlock the tiki room in the Pocket D? If so, will there be another way to get in, such as by giving the badge out as a veteran reward, too?

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The VIP Teleport Card teleports you directly to the Tiki Room. This much was confirmed on the UK site.

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Why are the Brits getting info before us?

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Time zones. Bridger posts stuff over there during normal, daytime hours, which happen to be... maybe six hours or so ahead of us.

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Also, they have Dr. Who on their side. Depending on Time zone, UK is 8-4 hours ahead of North America.

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Will we be seeing these items as apart of the Veteran Rewards system after I8 launch or as future rewards?

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I dont see them giving away for free what they're trying to sell for money. Thats not exactly smart marketing.

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Well, I thought there could be a chance to "reward" people who have been playing for almost 3 years instead of guaging them. It seems like this is the perfect thing to introduce into a rewards system, but you're right, why give something away when you can charge for it?

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I believe the word you're looking for is "gouge". Which would be a childish, over-entitled sort of description to use.

They have a veteran rewards system, which will reward long term subscribers. However, it doesn't make sense to give away for free what people are willing to pay for, and it doesn't make sense to replace other possible veteran rewards with something that anyone who wants it can buy for the cost of a few cups of coffee. Hell, I haven't been inside a Starbucks lately, $9.99 could be the cost of a small coffee there by now I guess.

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Will we be seeing these items as apart of the Veteran Rewards system after I8 launch or as future rewards?

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I dont see them giving away for free what they're trying to sell for money. Thats not exactly smart marketing.

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No, there's generally only one if they make major changes to powersets.

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Unsuprisingly, with a free respec coming with the last few issues people will get used to it. The I7 one was technically for the two year CoH anniversary.

And it looks like I8 will likely hit around the one year CoV anniversary. I'd be suprised if there wasn't a free respec with I8, or slightly afterward.

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This may have been covered already, but any idea when the Hero side version of the LR TF will be implemented instead of the Hami hunt? I8 maybe?

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This is a feature of I9

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Positron, will issue 8 or issue 9 also finally give heroes a TF to do via the base mission computer?

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This might be how we'll access the Statesman TF.

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* "Looping Sound Crash" - We think we MAY have this finally fixed.

* "Invisible Players/Enemies on Map" - Again, we think we may have this fixed.

* Choice table for Lord Recluse's Strike Force. - Upon completion of the mission, you will get a choice table, instead of the Enhancements simply being put into your tray (and if your tray is full, put into oblivion). You will NOT be able to pick the specific Synthetic Hami-O, but you will be able to choose a +3 level SO instead of the random SHOE if you want.

Yes this means that the Freedom Phalanx will drop SO's again.

I don't know when these will be hitting Training Room, but these will probably be the last big fixes in I7... onward to Issue 8!!!

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Awesome news about the Choice table for the LRSF, if for no other reason than because its exactly what I suggested a week or two ago. Its the best solution, and it largely uses tech that you guys already had in the game.

I'm glad you guys think you've made progress with the invisible mobs bug. Its been around for ever. The sound bug stuff is good news too, though I play with my sound off and its never effected me.

Ah, right I see. Thats the only forum that's not purged.

Yeah, it does, for everything with a dev post in it. Dev posted threads never go away unless deleted AFAIK. I've got another tab open that shows 17 threads from 2004 still in this forum, with only a few of them locked. I don't know why some mod doesn't just go and lock them all.

Its the only reason a thread this old would still be here.

Really, anything over a year old at the most should be locked.

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Rebuttal: How can you hate a power with that cool an animation? That's right. You can't.

Therefore Moment of Glory is indeed, glorious. QED.

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That's fine. Only use it in Atlas to impress the noobs.

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Pfft. Simple solution. Give the MoG animation to Reconsruction.

I think its probably a given that the Invention System (which is basically crafting), when it comes, will use salvage as its base.

Also, we've been told in past interviews that the Universities will be used for Inventions, so I suspect we'll be doing our crafting there instead of in SG bases. Which is probably a good thing, since it makes Inventions accessible to those without SGs or without bases.

Edit: I need more caffeine. Using "their" isntead of "there". <facepalm>

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Ok, so player apartments are supposed to serve what need exactly: having an in-game "MySpace" 3D account?

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There have been several examples in this thread of potential functional uses for player apartments. Scaled down, personal versions of enhancement and inspiration storage, etc.

However, aside from all those potential uses, I'd say the big reason for some sort of individual player housing, whether linked from SG bases or not, is to democratize access to the base builder. The developers spent all this time and effort creating this new system in the game, and only a teeny, tiny, minority of people have access to it due to restrictions on editing in SGs.

Note that I'm not complaining because I don't have access to it. I'm in one of the larger SGs on Virtue (our villan group has been in the top ten in Prestige on our server pretty contstantly since CoV launched) , and have base editing privleges as an officer.

However, it just strikes me as rather inefficient use of time and resources to have created this huge, complex, new system when many players have little access to it either through editing restrictions or the rather crazy prestige costs of base plots and items which are prohibitevely expensive for smaller SGs.

Also, I'd like to see player apartments be bought with influence, not prestige. If nothing else, it would be a smart way for the devs to try to sop up some of the vast pool of extra influence in the game.

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I'm going to give my opinion then. I would just up and quit of loot and crafting went beyond the level it's currently at. Almost everyone I team with feels the same way.

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So, I guess you're going to quit when the Invention system comes out in I9 or 10 then?

A few things:

That is one of the more "interesting" site designs I've ever seen. I don't want to be offensive, but thats a color scheme I'd have expected on a 15 year old's geocities site in 1997. It kind of looks like a pink that rolled around in the mud.

Also: While I applaud the author for providing an accurate transcription, for public release it might be best to clean up some of the disjointed sentances and text so as to appear a bit more professional.

Safeguard Missions: It is likely far too late for any player feedback to effect their design at this point. I hope the developers haven't completely misunderstood that part of the sheer joy of mayhem missions is blowing stuff up. Sadly, it seems that they have. Sure, it may not have been heroic for us to blow up the Rogue Isles infrastructure, but every CoV zone with the exception of Nerva has Arachnos military installations that could have been used as the outdoor maps for Safeguard missions, which we would have been sent to raid commando style by Longbow. For Nerva, we could have raided some CoT area such as Thorn Isle.

I suspect however, that these Safeguard missions will use the same outdoor instanced maps of Paragon that the Mayhem missions do, to avoid the devs haveing to create more mission maps. I'd be happy to wrong about this, but I fear that I am not.

Giving Players What They Want:
Thats a good idea, since it helps the game stay in business, and hopefully grow somewhat.

However, I still contend that the developers would be in a much better position to give players what they want if they conducted some focussed surveys to gauge player desires and priorities. While the forums are a useful feedback mechanism, the signal to noise ratio here is high, and many opinions are contradictory (see: PvP, skills, loot discussions). Discussions can easily get bogged down with different sides who are very unlikely to change their positions spending a lot of time trying to convice each other to do just that.

So, I'm glad you guys want to give us what we want. I'm just not so sure you know what we want in any sort of reliable fashion. Especially when Statesman seems to be suprised by player behaviour in a number of instances, it bodes ill for my confidence that you guys will be able to properly deliver on your new mantra.

Here's the text from MMORPG.com. You can view it by clicking on News Room there, and limiting it to CoH.

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NCsoft gives heroes and villains a boost with double XP weekend for City of Heroes and City of Villains July 21-23

NCsoft is giving City of Heroes and City of Villains players a boost to their characters with a “Double XP Weekend” where players will earn twice the usual experience points for all activities that result in an XP reward.

The double XP weekend will start at 9 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, July 21 and ends on Sunday, July 23 at 9 p.m. Pacific Time.

The “Double XP Weekend” will give players the opportunity to level up their characters and gain access to many of the new features available in both City of Heroes and City of Villains.

The “City of” games have recently been updated with Issue 7: Destiny Manifest which introduced the action-packed mayhem missions to City of Villains and added the PvP zone, Recluse’s Victory, where heroes and villains fight for control over a future version of Atlas Park.

For more information on the “Double XP Weekend” go to www.cityofheroes.com or www.cityofvillains.com.

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Too bad I'm out of town that weekend, I'd have resubbed for this.

Positron:

First, a disclaimer. I don't currently play Dominators, because of the problems with the AT and their poor performance compared to other CoV ATs. However, I played Dominators nearly exclusively from the first day of CoV Beta(first wave), and have played a couple to the mid-teens on live. When it came time to create a character on live, my Corruptor just provided much more effectiveness, fun, and reasonable, though not equivalent, control.

I think its great that you guys want to buff Dominators. They need it. But I believe you need to focus your buffing efforts not on Domination, but on Dominators outside of Domination. Domination is great. It's a veritable can of whoop-[censored] when you use it.

The problem is, outside of when Domination is up, Doms are over all too weak. 65% Blaster damage for Ranged Attacks is pitiful in the post-ED world. It makes fights tediously long.

Also, whats the status of the shortenting of Psi Assault animation times that Statesman mentioned during CoV Beta?

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please please please i dont want to get an EAT based on somthing as irrelevant as badges. Its bad enough that i have to go through all this stuff to obtain accolades but if i have to collect badges to get an EAT i cant imagin how hard it must be.

Just when im close to 50 on CoV and think ill be first in line for an EAT i find out that thats not the requirement.

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The devs said a long, long, time ago that using the Level 50 requirment for an EAT wasn't something they were going to do again.

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though I8 may be slanted somewhat towards the heroic side.

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Granted, I only play villain side now, but I have to say that doing the same handful of villain missions over and over is really getting old. Hero side has 3 times as many zones. I think they're done. Villains need way, way more stuff to do.

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Man, I hope that is sarcasm. Those extra zones in CoH are content-void hazard zones. Zones are not content. They're just boxes with mobs in them.

By I8's arrival it will have been nearly a year since CoH had a PvE content update. It needs an update, stagnation does not a growing subscriber base make.

No mention of CoT Pain Crystals? I would think if you sat in one of those for a while and had enough Regen to keep it from killing you you'd rack up lots of points towards the badge. I could easily see someone getting an Oranbega mission and parking their character in a Pain Crystal and going to bed.

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Regen is soooo complete, its by far the best secondary of all the secondaries and you ppl thinking they are going to buff it are INSANE. First they will upgrade dark then MAYBE invul, itll be 5+ issues before regen is even given ANYTHING usefull and that really wont be that usefull, maybe some tiny amount of extra resist

SO GET OVER IT NOOBS

God Mode has left the building

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I give this a 7.5 on the froth-meter. We'll see what the Russian judge says.

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Crey Armor Top is available on male "Tight" chest.

But male "Tight" legs do not offer the Crey Armor Bottom.

The bottom is only available in armored legs.

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I believe this is fixed in the patch currently on Test.

The Old Loose Pants that had seperate settings for Top of the Pants and Bottom of the Pants which let you set different patterns are missing from the costume generator and have been for some time. The old Baggy Pants with this functionality are also missing.

Example of old Loose Pants with different patterns on top and bottom.

These pants were probably lost when the new costume options in I5 or so were brought in and the pants category was consolidated.

EDIT: My screenshot also shows that the double ammo bandolier clips on the chest in certain poses.