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Quote:Archive is one of the names of a character in the Dresden novels.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I still think you should see if the name Archive is available and go for it.
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Quote:No. I have no problem with someone else getting a name I like first as long as it means I can't be impersonated by someone else that wants one of my names.Originally Posted by Daemodand
Impersonation isn't the problem. Getting the names you want is.
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Quote:I don't think the underscore works. I tried it while checking my globals alternate spellings and it didn't go thru. The Hyphen works as does the period.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Curious to see if I hear back on this - in any case, the person that asked it to be held has it. (And I held hers before even trying for any of mine... surprisingly, no issues. Must not have irritated enough people... yet. Either that or someone did it and added the underscore, which I'd just laugh at.)
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Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I'm happy. Got my global back I lost 6 years ago. It's been in use on all the other servers ever since. I guess everyone want to be me.
Out of curiosity I checked alternate spelling of my global and found three of them have been snagged by other players already. So I quickly camped the other spellings I could think of before I lose them in case I want to make other variations of my namesake.
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I'm sorry but free accounts were restricted thusly for good reason. Before these restrictions we had problems with SG thefts and RMT spam.
Oh and ever heard of PayPal, or prepaid visa cards? Anyone can get a prepaid visa, put money on it and use it to pay for stuff in the game. -
Quote:I use the servers (Zukunft, Vigilance, & Freedom) where people don't speak English (or speak some sort of English gibberish) for some of my soloists. Never know when my preferred servers will be offline.Originally Posted by seebs
Language!
Which is to say: The non-English ones are completely useless to me. In practice, I only play on two. No number of characters I can play on Justice helps me bring a different character to play with friends on Virtue.
In practice, I have the slots I've gotten on Virtue, and that's 99% of what I'm using. This is why I have a second account.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Rodion
Travel powers are often required inside missions. For example, in one mission of the Lady Gray Task Force you have to fly up to mitos and use melee attacks. Which you can't do with your rocket board because you can't use any other powers when it's active.
Some brutes, tanks and scrappers have as many as 8 or 9 toggles. It's not a total deal breaker to waste 10 seconds turning them on again, but it gets old mighty fast. There are several other missions where you have to zip around vertically a lot -- the one where you fight on a Sky Raider platform comes to mind -- or the Sutter TF, and using a rocket board there would be very tedious and dangerous. There are also some rooms in the CoT caverns that are a lot easier if you can fly, and the rocket board is a pain there as well.
It's not uncommon for tanks and brutes to zip through missions using their travel power to quickly bypass mobs (this is common in the last mission of the Lady Gray TF). If you try that using the rocket board you will potentially take a lot of damage and will probably get held by the dozens of Rikti mesmerists standing in the hallways.
Again, not a tragedy. But if you're depending on the rocket board for all your travel needs, you'll suffer some annoying limitations.
I see the rocket board as useful for someone who prefers Superspeed, but occasionally needs flight. But, because of things like the LGTF, you're still going to have to keep a jet pack in your back pocket.
The point is that the rocket board is not game breaking because it suffers from so many limitations. It's not a one-for-one replacement for flight, as the OP opined.
We have so many temp travel powers that no one actually needs to take a travel power ever.
I've got level 50's that never took a travel power and still are using the original jetpack they got from the AP safeguard mission for their travel power needs.
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Quote:I like Beluga Caveats.Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
Is there anything about the game you enjoy without caveats?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Giant2005
Gotcha, so it is one of those annoying American only things.../This. Now the Europeans can be annoyed by them too.Quote:Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
It *was* one of those annoying American-only things, it's now available to everyone.
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Quote:/this.Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
I've wanted a simpler enhancement system for years, so, signed.
While we're at it, can we remove the origin requirement from SOs as well, so any origin character can use any SO enhancement?
If they won't do that at least get rid of the stupid confusing names on the DO's and SO's, or add the basic name to avoid confusion. -
Quote:Oh stop being melodramatic. There was nothing hostile in his post.Originally Posted by EtherealStar
There's no need to be hostile about this. I wasn't aware that this topic had been 'done to death'.
Just because you don't want it doesn't mean it's not a gift. Subscriber's are getting it for free. If they were paying for it the monthly subscription would be $25 dollars a month.Quote:Regardless though, it is not a 'gift'. We're paying for it as part of our VIP subscription. If it were a gift, everyone would get it for free. -
I've been getting a kick out of flying the skies on my Rocket Board while listening to "Benson Arizona"
A million suns shine down
But I see only one
When I think I'm over you
I find I've just begun
The years move faster than the days
There's no warmth in the light
How I miss those desert skies
Your cool touch in the night
CHORUS:
Benson, Arizona, blew warm wind through your hair
My body flies the galaxy, my heart longs to be there
Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I
Now the years pull us apart
I'm young and now you're old
But you're still in my heart
And the memory won't grow cold
I dream of times and spaces
I left far behind
Where we spent our last few days
Benson's on my mind
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Quote:No it's not. Regardless of how much you deny it your subscription gets you a minimum of 12 characters on 16 servers.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
It means that your $0.05/costume is a meaningless red herring.
What gave that away? Was it the fact that I said 16 servers which includes the new VIP server that only subscribers have access to, or was it the 12 characters per server which is 10 more than the Prem's and Free's get?Quote:Your value for the costume slots also completely disregards Premium users.
If someone has 980 characters on their account they aren't playing City of Heroes so they have no reason to be costume slots for this game.Quote:If someone actually HAS 980 characters (or more), then the last thing they are probably worrying about is the cost of costume slots.
Typical response from someone whose mad that they are wrong.Quote:Again, if you want to argue the theoretical limit, pony up the money for me to unlock said character slots. If not, then your numbers are false.
Cuz when you can't refute the argument pretend it was never made.Quote:Your comparison between this game and cable tv packages has nothing to do with this discussion. So I'm going to completely ignore the rest of your post.
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I'm happy. Got my global back I lost 6 years ago. It's been in use on all the other servers ever since. I guess everyone want to be me.
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Quote:That's why I posted it as a question. I wanted to know what he actually expected to get for just $5 dollars when the original booster was $10 dollars. Self Destruct was the only power and that can't possibly be worth half the cost of a booster.Originally Posted by Roderick
That doesn't sound like what he was assuming at all.
As far as what constitutes a bundle, we've known and have talked about it in various threads since July that the boosters were being broken up and we have had plenty of time to look at the store on the Beta server and see for ourselves exactly how the items were repackaged.Quote:To be honest, I thought the bundles would contain ALL the costume parts, including the auras, as well, with the emotes, costume change emotes and power being separate. Doesn't make much difference to me though; I already bought all the boosters. I still think that the costume bundle should include ALL the costume parts. -
I love how people keep trying to compare things to that other game company which has been such an overwhelming success (They lost $7.5 million) the only way the parent company could turn a profit this year was by dumping it on someone else.
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Quote:So go to the suggestion forums and suggest they add the option to buy individual costume slots per character. Then you can buy them for a specific character and other people can buy them for their account.Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
Likewise.
I do not use all 15 servers. I play one two servers mostly. Maybe play 5-6 characters actively. Not all of those would be intrested in having more costume slots.
I'd be far more intrested if they added a per character basis, for like... $0.50 per slot. which is 10x the current price atm. -
Quote:Don't really care what other games charge, and the fact that you don't play more than half a dozen characters doesn't change the fact that you have dozens of character slots available to use.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
If you are willing to put up the money to max out my character slots on all 16 servers for me, I'll grant you the $0.05 / slot.
As it is I play, at most, 5 characters regularly.
My comparison was apples to apples: Global Costume Slots in one game vs Global Costume Slots in another. In one game the cost per character slot is 225 points for a global costume slot. In the other game it is 800 points for a global costume slot. Ok, game 1's purchase is 2 costume slots (can be bought more times than game 2's, by the way) is 450 points vs 1,600 points for 2 costume slots in game 2.
Given that both are charging $1 per 80 points, that is a fair comparison to see relative value: game 1 is charging $5.63 for two global costume slots while game 2 is charging $20.
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Seldom:
Costume slots are 800 PP ($10) per costume slot. The only way to spend $50 is to buy all 5 slots.
This is no different than paying for cable tv. Just because you only watch 5 or 6 channels doesn't mean you'll only get charged for those specific channels. You still pay for all the others even tho you don't use them.
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Quote:It comes down to priorities. What's more important to you, a power set or an extra costume slot, or more enhancement trays. Each of us will have different things we want first. Nothing right or wrong with that.Originally Posted by Clouded
But I already have to save up my point for powersets? So which is it?
I'm sure some players look at the price of the enhancement trays as a bargain when they compare it to the cost of respecs they go thru when they strip a build of all it's enhancements.
I'm pretty much killing time myself.Quote:EDIT: I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the overall argument. I just wanted to kill some time. So nyah.
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Quote:So you thought you were going to get the old cyborg booster for less than what it actually sold for?Originally Posted by Devlin_Quaid
I went into the store to buy the Cyborg pack. As everyone knows, it doesn't say what exactly is part of the bundle, so I assumed it was the same as the Super boooster, excluding the powers.
I was wrong.
Turns out, after buying the cyborg bundle for 400 points, turns out I don't get the auras with it! What the crap?
Am I wrong? I this a bug, or bait and switch?
Yes you are wrong.
No it's not a bug.
No it's not a bait and switch. If it was advertised as the Cyborg Booster then it would be a bait and switch. But it's not, it's called the Cyborg Pack and the description makes no mention of any auras being included with it.
The Cyborg Auras are listed under Auras for 80 points.
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Quote:I remember the last thread where that was suggested.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Personally I'd have the "top 100" list removed and redo the entire SG search list. Prestige, frankly, means nothing.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Seldom
This assumes the slots are needed, used, and/or desired for every possible slot. They are not. Many have far fewer characters per server, and not all characters 'need' extra slots. From personal experience, I have around 10 characters that could use the spare costume slot. The developers would've done themselves a favor by selling individual slots, as that would be a more 'longterm' money source. As it is, they're pulling a US post office and charging 50 bucks for a forever stamp. Big money up front, longterm revenue comes up short, customers get sticker shock.What she said.Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
FYI the slots -are- being sold individually. People here are just throwing around the "5 for $50" phrase because they want them all at once.
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Quote:And as another paying customer I play on all the servers and have over 100 characters. My "mindset" is just as valid as yours. What to you is overpriced is a dirt cheap bargain for me.Originally Posted by Clouded
I play on one server. The other 15 servers are irrelevant to me. Just giving you the mindset of a paying customer.
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Quote:OH NOES! I has to take 5-10 seconds turning my toggles back on befores I enterz a mission. My life iz ruined! Woe iz me!Originally Posted by Rodion
Are you aware that when you activate the rocket board all your toggles go off and all your other powers are inactive, as they do with walk? That means, for characters that have a lot of toggles at least, it's not a practical substitute for a real travel power.
It's actually much more hamstrung than Ninja Run or the animal pack run power, which have been around for a long time and aren't seen as game-breaking.
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Quote:Yeah let's do the math on that.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I suggest that you take a look at your competitor's prices... The points are the same $1 = 80 points, yet their global costume slots work out to 1/4 of the price in this game (450 points for 2 global costume slots vs 800 points for one global costume slot).
I'm not going to compare the two markets, but it seems like Paragon Studios is shooting themselves in the foot with these prices.
16 servers with 12 basic character slots. That's 192 characters.
Now 5 global costume slots costs $50 bucks.
That means I'm getting 960 costume slots for roughly $.05 cents a slot.
OH MY GOD WE'RE BEING RIPPED OFF!!!
Five frickin cents a slot! What the hell is wrong with the devs? It's criminal I tell ya!!!