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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Yep, only attractive women should dress in a revealing way, to better help men fantasize about them.
    Sorry Silver but your only focusing on women because of the OP's suggestion. The truth of the matter is that only average looking people should dress in a revealing way.

    Attractive men and women should not dress revealingly because of the visual distraction they cause. And unattractive men and women should not dress revealingly because they cause hysterical blindness.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rodion View Post
    What prestige does represent is the sacrifice of personal wealth for group prestige -- either by tithing up to 50% inf during play or by directly converting inf to prestige.
    That stopped being true after I9 went live. When even the lowest level character is making millions hand over fist it's not a sacrifice.

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    The exception being for "founding" members of an SG who cause the group to get inf (is it 20K?) just by joining.
    And the 100k prestige that each praetorian gives the first SG it joins doesn't count? Or does it not count because unlike the first fifteen members the praetorian bonus is permanent even if the praet quits immediately.

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    It's sort of like putting the names of donors to a symphony hall on a plaques on a wall inside the building. The people who donated the most usually have bigger plaques at the top. It doesn't mean they're better, or smarter or nobler. It just means they gave more money.
    Exactly what we've been saying

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    If we recognize it for what it really is, it's not unreasonable to have it there.
    If people were doing that in this thread they'd be acknowledging that the prestige earned is directly linked to the date the character joined the SG. That's why when a character quits an SG it resets to zero and they start again from scratch when they rejoin.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    I still think it's worth it to keep bringing it up, because circumstances change. With Freedom, anything that players are likely to pay for is probably getting re-considered.
    Wrong. I can think of many things players would pay for that will never be re-considered, but don't let that stop you from making suggestions.
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    Rocket Boards?

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    Originally Posted by 8-J View Post
    So it's true that we're going to be able to take flight at level 6 now? Are any of the other pools like that, or just the travels?
    Only if you buy the vet reward that unlocks it.
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    Rocket Boards?

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    Originally Posted by Socorro View Post
    Hmmmm... grays out powers like walk. I suppose it has to have significant downside compared to regular fly.

    I'm fine with it making click powers unusable but why does it have to undo toggles? If it's a code issue I understand (but wish they'd find a way to get around it) -- but if it's a decision thing, then why???
    Makes sense to me. It prevents people accidentally activating powers and prevents people from using powers that the devs don't want active at the same time as Rocket Board.

    Walk suppresses all powers so there's already a precedent for it in the game.
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    Rocket Boards?

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    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    I guarantee that if there wasn't Hover people would use Fly in combat (more often than just accidentally leaving it on when they should have switched to Hover).
    No argument there but we do have Hover.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fixxer View Post
    I am totally against total power respecs but I have to address one recurring argument against it that just makes me LOL.. literally.

    This game is not hard at all. If you cannot figure out new powersets within 15-30 minutes... you will never figure them out. The argument against PLers/Total respecs because people won't know how to play is absurd. People like to point to Player A who was PL'd in AE and "made our TF fail" - "causes soo many team wipes" etc etc... That person is an idiot. It wouldn't matter if they spent 1,000 hours on a toon they will still be a bad player LOL!. I have seen people with 1000+ badges who are simply put; HORRIBLE players. I have seen PL'd toon rock in a TF.

    Back on topic.....

    /No
    Sorry Fixxer but that's total BS. You can't figure out how all the powers in a powerset works in 15-30 minutes because you can't get a character to level 50 in that length of time. There actually are tactics required that consist of more than simply mashing buttons.

    Yes PL'd toons can rock but that's simply because the player has previous experience with the game and is drawing on that experience.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tpull View Post
    Again, not true. There are all types of cases with intense discussion about what was signed, and how each party may have been forced to sign, and the validity of someone signing under duress. Withholding someone's check unless they agree to a contract that obviously is unfair to them is a sordid practice, and there's a reason nobody does it anymore, and it's precisely because of the concern that it might not be upheld in a court of law. It amazes me how people make sweeping generalizations without having the least amount of knowledge of the actual subject.
    It's not a sweeping generalization when it's already been upheld in court. Or have you forgotten that Kirby's heirs lost.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    The sad part for him, was that it took jumping on a grenade for the girl to even start to notice him.
    I don't know what version of the movie you were watching but the one I saw showed the girl noticing him and smiling when he outsmarted all the big guys at the flagpole.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    In the comics, didn't Red Skull at one point have a plot involving a Cosmic Cube fail and end up in some hellish dimension? So, in the movie maybe he got transported to Helheim and has been a "guest" of Hel.
    So he was sent to New Jersey and has been living with Snooky?
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thunder Knight View Post
    That was exactly what I was saying. Keeping all the badges (especially accolades and accolade powers) and other unlocks (unlockable weapon models, Roman costume parts, Vanguard stuff if you missed the Vanguard Pack, etc) would be the benefit, while avoiding the complaints of having to re-learn how the character plays as well as avoiding the "use 'easy' powerset to get through low-levels, then switch to the one you actually want at high levels" issue.

    I'm not saying they could, should, or would do this, but that it's an alternative idea.
    It's a compromise that players have been offering the devs for years, so far no luck.
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    Rocket Boards?

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    Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin View Post
    Wow that sucks... Probably wont get it now =(
    Why? People don't take fly for combat, they take it so they can avoid combat while they travel between missions.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mega_Jamie View Post
    The flip side of the latter half of that is then having to wait a whole year before you get a new Reward, which could stagnate for a lot of players.
    They don't have to wait a whole year. They can buy more points from the store.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    I'd be willing to wager a fairly large sum of money that once Freedom launches even the Free players will have access to /petition and /ignore as well as those paying a subscription.
    Actually if you look at the side by side comparison it says F2P players will not have access to any in-game customer support, so it looks like they won't be able to contact any GM's.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Giant2005 View Post
    Men have no more right to dictate what a woman wears than she has the right to dictate how they react to her promiscuous look.
    And yet a female school teacher will still be arrested and fired if she were to try teaching her students wearing nothing more than a g-string and high heels.

    And businesses frequently have dress codes and fire employees that don't follow them.


    The truth is that men and women both dictate what women can wear and how they can react to how they look every single day.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BattleWraith View Post
    Thanks for sharing your prejudice against people who like a type of gameplay you don't. I'm sure that makes them real "jackholes."
    It's not what you play that makes you a jackhole, it's how you behave while you are playing that makes you a jackhole.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tahliah View Post
    But so what? What do you care if someone else does this terrible terrible thing of taking a powerset in the same archtype that they've never played before?
    As I already explained to Captain Photon, I don't care. However the devs do and every single time this gets brought up, which is every couple of months they tell us the same thing.

    No.

    So we simply have to deal with the fact that this is their game and their rules. They want the game to evolve into a certain direction and total respecs isn't in that direction.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
    I'm having - as I do every time this comes up - a hard time believing that this would be any skin off my back (or yours, or anyone's who isn't that player who did that silly thing) even in the worst-case scenario where people are doing it. I mean, it isn't as if there aren't plenty of players who don't know what the buttons do anyway, and the Earth has not yet fallen into the Sun.

    It just ends up being another one of those CoH standard foot-stompy "Because I don't want you to!" things. Like Inherent Fitness.

    Hey Cap Please don't confuse the message with the messenger here. I've only repeated what the devs themselves have told us, and confirmed what others have said the devs told us.

    If you reread my posts I openly admitted that I have at least one character that I would use a powerset/AT respec on, and the only thing I wouldn't use it for would be to respec into one of the powerset/AT's that I'm unfamiliar with.

    Oh and this issue isn't the first time the devs have told us they aren't going to do something because they don't want us to do it. They make those unilateral decisions all the time.

    And Inherent Fitness was not one of those issues. What was actually said by Castle was if he could he'd prefer to remove Stamina entirely from the game rather than give us Inherent Fitness. That doesn't even come close to meaning the same thing as "Because I don't want you to!"
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Chicken View Post
    I hate getting harassed in game, and so I wish they would create a female only server. They have female only gyms for a reason. An online video game is not a dating site.

    If we can have VIP servers please make one female only.

    Thanks.
    And once a month there's a week long open world PvP event.


    *runs and hides*
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jagged View Post
    You know the more you argue that it means nothing the less I believe you.
    What you believe isn't relevant.

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    The top SG on Freedom last night are obviously a bunch of marketeers who are converting their ebil gains into prestige just to be at the top. Their SG message sounds like they are having fun and are anything but elitist.
    Reading comprehension you should try it. No one in this thread accused any SG's that convert prestige to inf as being elitist. I merely pointed out the fact that there are players in SG's that act elitist and snobbish towards SG's that convert Inf to Prestige in order to increase their ranking.

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    I'm sad you want to remove this game mechanic from them, but glad it won't happen.
    Here is the world's smallest violin,



    and it's playing just for you.

    And we're glad that the devs will continue to erase the amount of prestige earned whenever someone quits an SG.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
    ... Then you would hardly be likely to respec one of your existing characters into those power sets, would you?

    Do pay attention, 007.
    I wouldn't but other people would if they could. How do I know this you ask? Because people keep asking for total powerset and AT respecs every few months.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tahliah View Post
    Nor have I. So I wouldn't use a one-time respec to get a melee set; what on earth would possess someone who doesn't enjoy melee to respec into a melee set?
    Simple. As the devs themselves explained it, there are powersets that are easy to level up at low levels and powersets that are easier to play at high levels. Not allowing powerset respecs prevents players from abusing the system and starting off with an easy set then switching to a set that's easy at high levels
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by youganite View Post
    you're not called henk just because there is already a jan at work, you're called jan regardless of that fact.
    Let's see. At the hobby store where we got together and played games we had several guys named John. There was the owner John, Big John, J3 (can you guess why?), John W, Jonathan, Plus One (another John that always added a +1 to all his die rolls), and Hardcore (a nickname for another John)

    So yeah we called people different names even tho they all shared the same name.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Captain_Photon View Post
    Having to start over, but keeping that stuff, may be an attempt at compromise with the "No. Despite being a veteran player, you somehow wouldn't know how to play any more if you changed power sets, and that would make the Baby New Year* cry. Reroll" crowd. At least, that's how I perceive it.

    * This is not the actual expression, but, well, you know.
    Dude I've been playing for 7 years and I have never gotten a Melee AT over level 40. Mainly because I don't enjoy playing melee alts. So despite my level of veterancy I have no idea how to properly play any of the melee powersets.
  25. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Xanatos View Post
    10% is a big number. Especially when you're talking $$$ and subscriber numbers. Only a complete idiot would disagree.
    You are right that 10% is a large number, but it's also true that the other 90% is an even bigger number when talking about $$$ and subscriber numbers.

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    A large group of people used to play PVP frequently in this game. I imagine that number would only have grown under F2P if the mechanics had not been changed in I13.
    And I truly wish our PvP community had something they could be proud of playing.

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    All of this discussion has happened before. All of this discussion will happen again.