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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    And roughly 180-190 automatically available character slots.
    192 free character slots available to VIP's with the ability to unlock an additional 576.

    Also if it wasn't mentioned before, VIP's get access to Going Rogue for free with their sub but lose access to it when they cancel their subs.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Paladiamors View Post
    Forbin. I would say that this isn't the way to show your maturity level. But...considering what you are responding to...I can't say that I blame you.
    Sometimes you have to speak to them in their own language.


    The thing to remember is to use it sparingly so as not to sink to their level.
  3. Forbin_Project

    Loot Filter?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    Super. Do you individually consider whether to slot or combine each and every SO that drops? Or, like virtually every single person I've ever seen talk about enhancing via SOs on any team I have ever been on, do you wait until a multiple of five plus two level and then go fill up your entire build with SOs in a couple of minutes? I can tell you which of these two strategies is a better use of your time!

    You are right that there's no accounting for taste however so far be it from me to tell you to stop doing it the first way if that's what you do (which I never attempted to do, you'll notice). I'm sure you realize you could be playing in a more optimal way.
    Hmmm. Use the stuff that drops for free and enjoy playing the game with the occasional stop at a store to sell what I can't use or get my panties is a twist trying to squeeze every last bonus point out of my enhancements every 5 levels while miserably standing around at an NPC store where I'm constantly scrolling thru a seemingly endless list of enhancements with stupid names I can never remember.

    I'll take use the stuff that drops for free, sell the stuff I can't use, and only pay for new enhancements when it's absolutely necessary and sometimes not even then. I've lost count of the times I've let slots remain empty because I wasn't about to spend inf on enhancements that drop for free.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    Yes it is a con and your a troll go argue something else lol it seems what you enjoy doing.
    I'm made of rubber and your made of glue and whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell View Post
    Those aren't superhero games.
    The genre isn't relevant. The fact that they have larger populations and stricter naming policies and still haven't run out of names is the only thing that matters.

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    Give Chewbacca or Samwise Gamgee a different name and the character would be essentially identical.
    And so would any character in this game. The name itself means nothing until it's established with a unique character.

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    Give Batman or Wolverine a different name, and you've just changed a fundamental aspect of the character.
    Exactly. Which is why unique names are the right thing for this game. I'm glad you agree with the devs that allowing other players to duplicate established characters names would fundamentally change the aspects of those characters.

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    Fantasy (or fantasy-like) properties can get away with names that are basically gibberish as long as they sound good. Superhero names are typically supposed to mean something specific. A "correct" name means more in this genre than in most, just like a "correct" appearance does.
    Poppycock and balderdash. There is no such thing as a "correct" name.

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    (And please, everyone, spare me the exhaustive list of superhero characters whose names don't mean anything in particular like Cable and Etrigan. I'm speaking in generalities here; that's why I used the word "typically.")
    Yes everyone ignore all the evidence in the super hero genre that disproves Doc Roswell's argument about there having to be "correct" names. The only names that count are the ones that he approves of.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
    Mocking in and of itself is hostile.
    Believe whatever you like if it helps you feel better.

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    Next time, rather than asking me to provide "any other bad ideas from failing competitors I'd like to see ruin this game" why not tell me why exactly it's a bad idea and how it would actually cause our game to fail and leave it at that?
    Or you can use the search tool to look up all the reasons that have been given over and over in all the other threads where this was brought up instead of asking others to do it for you.

    And if the best defense for this idea you can come up with is CO does it, well that's easily refuted by the fact games like WoW, SW:TOR. LOTRO, DDO, don't allow it and in fact have even stricter naming policies than we do in that players are only allowed to use one word names. And those games all have larger populations than CO.
  7. Forbin_Project

    Loot Filter?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    There are no "more valuable" SOs. All you do is sell all of them to the nearest available store because they're all worth the same amount in the aggregate and nobody would ever use them.
    I hate to burst your bubble but most of my characters use regular enhancements like DO's and SO's. Less than a dozen are mixed IO's and DO/SO's, and only 3-4 are only IO's. Finally, none of my character use IO sets. Just basic IO's.

    And I have over 100+ characters.


    So in the future please don't speak for everyone.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
    And thank you for the hostility. I was just trying to make a simple suggestion.
    Mocking dismissal of a bad idea does not equate to hostility.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Apparently not.

    While I generally voice strong opposition in threads like this one, I don't see a problem here. Any account that hasn't been touched in over 5 years probably should be fair game. Realistically, the majority of people wouldn't even be able to dig up their original account ID and password (or their serial codes, etc).
    Aside from the fact that the name freeing script was run after those characters were created. So as long as the names met the criteria of the script they were freed up already. The ones that weren't were never intended to be released by the program the devs made.

    And whether or not we agree with the devs they have made it clear they have no intention on running that script again any time in the near future.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LISAR View Post
    Your bolding and under lining has my very confused at to what you are getting at, but I've taken the precaution of closing all my blinds and turning off the lights.
    I was getting at that you are neither a nerd, nor a wizard, your quite smart, and have no trouble navigating the forums without acting like the OP.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    To be fair about the passing of SBEs to one's alts - with items you can trade, most will fit in an SG base's storage tables. Which can be used to quickly move enhancements (well, quicker - despite the email cooldown it's still fairly quick) between alts on the same server and same side.
    A nice addition to the game would be to add a new personal storage bin similar to the Vault where we could place SBE's only and could access the storage from another alt. They could make the container hold the same amount as the number of slots a lvl 50 character has.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LISAR View Post
    Man you have a really sour attitude you know that?

    You get what you give.
    Heed Lisar's advice. The Lady knows what she's talking about.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Foxy_Ferret View Post
    I tried finding it only to be redirected here so please show me where I am to post. I'm not a wizard on forums sorry if that bothers you, not all gamers are complete nerds, this girl included.
    Yeah like it takes a wizard or nerd to count down two spots from this section.




    Oh and just an FYI, some of the smartest gamers on these forums are girls and none of them are nerds.
  14. Forbin_Project

    Loot Filter?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nihilii View Post
    The only thing that's relevant here is the ratio, and ten seconds every ten minutes starts to add up quick.
    I've been playing for something like 8 years and I've never seen inventory fill up so fast that it was necessary to stop and delete drops every ten minutes.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Paladiamors View Post
    You weren't really presenting factual "Cons" though, you were presenting your opinion as fact. The first being a strict rule in place to prevent people from flooding the market with these enhancements, the second being...just your average problem, not something specific to the question at hand. Understandable that it irritates you, but not really 'cons' overall.
    This isn't the first time he's made inaccurate statements.

    His persecution complex is amusing to watch. Every time he gets corrected he takes it personally and tries to portray himself as a victim.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Foxy_Ferret View Post
    Give me hell all you want about this thread, however keep in mind that I was told by GMs to make this thread to suggest the idea to the devs. If you're here to troll please move on, I have better things to do with my day.
    If you were making a suggestion you'd have put this in the Suggestion and Ideas section. Here it's merely a discussion. And if you bothered to use the Search tool before posting like you are supposed to, you wouldn't have made yet another meaningless thread that will only be ignored by the devs.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Amendment View Post
    Opinions can't be wrong. But don't worry, we won't hold it against you. No one is perfect.
    Incorrect my friend. Opinions can indeed be wrong. For hundreds of years people held the opinion that the earth was flat and one could fall off the edge.

    Others held the opinion that the Sun went around the Earth.

    Some people share the opinion that the lunar landings were faked.

    And others share the opinion that the CIA blew up the World Trade Center towers.

    I could go about some other incorrect opinions but you get the idea.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyger42 View Post
    Actually, IMO, that was one of the things CO did right. Just because the game is failing doesn't mean all its ideas were bad. They had some fantastic ideas. The bad just outweighed the good.
    Well your opinion is wrong in this case. But don't worry we won't hold it against you. No one is perfect.
  19. Forbin_Project

    Loot Filter?

    If that's really a problem then the person in question should buy the extra storage that's for sale in the store.
  20. Too little too late. The only reason I got cable years ago was the Sci-Fi network. Since then I've grown so disgusted with the direction their programming has taken I cancelled my cable subscription last August.
  21. Forbin_Project

    Loot Filter?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Machariel View Post
    How lazy ARE you people?

    There are stores everywhere, deleting the nearly worthless stuff takes seconds, and there are so many travel powers that you can pop to a store and back in under a minute.

    You already get things directly added to your inventory automatically and that isn't convenient enough?
    Are you serious? Some people won't be happy until they get an "I Win!" button, and others won't be happy until the game plays itself while they are offline.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xzero45 View Post
    Since we have globals, I wouldn't mind seeing a new system brought in where people can have the same name. Would free up all these problems about not being able to come up with a good name 'cause every variation of the two words that describe your character are taken.

    I believe CO does this, and Steam has a system in place like this, as well, and I haven't seen any actual issues with either.
    Yes CO does do that and CO sucks. Got any other bad ideas from failing competitors you'd like to see ruin this game?
  23. Forbin_Project

    change alignment

    Don't forget they are testing selling alignment changing tokens on the beta test server.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    Cons
    1) they are impossible to sell to anyone else.
    Translation: Marketeers can't abuse them by flooding the market with them. If they ant to manipulate the market they can't use the store as a short cut.

    Not a Con.

    Quote:
    2) they are hard to move to another character. (thru global e-mail, 20 at a time max, and those 20 take a few minutes cause the 15 sec rule)
    Which is no different than what players have to go thru when they want to email anything else to their own characters regardless of whether it's regular enhancements, inspirations, or salvage.

    While it is annoying it's not a con that is unique to account bound enhancements.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    I don't know why they suddenly had to force the help channel into your global tab.
    Because this past September the game went Free to Play and Free accounts have draconian chat restrictions so they put all the channels Free accounts use on the same tab.

    I know, you think there's got to be more to it than that. Well there is. Someone at the company, we don't know who, has a very low opinion about the intelligence of Free players. They didn't think Free players are smart enough to figure out how to toggle between tabs or how to edit the channels in their chat tabs.

    Don't believe me? Well, just look at the new tutorial. It was dumbed down because it was too hard compared to the old one. In the old tutorial players actually learned vital game mechanics. (If they took the time to read the pop up windows) Now those same mechanics are instead taught during the first AP story arcs.

    Like how players aren't taught how to go to a trainer to level up until level 5, because they are too stupid to realize what trainers do during the 4 times they went to a trainer to level up before getting to level 5.