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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
    I think his problem has more to do with the revamped Galaxy City tutorial where you will be able to start as any of the 10 main ATs starting from level 1 on either side, which would seem to make the side-switching mechanic mostly useless (of course, you can still use it to switch back and forth, so it actually still has quite a bit of value), as well as starting in Praetoria as any AT (but again, Praetoria will soon have up to 24 levels of new content, while the revamped GC will likely only last a few levels, of that).
    After giving us GR where the Praets can be any AT at level 1, it was going to expand to the other factions as well sooner or later. I'll admit that I didn't anticipate it this quickly. I figured it would be at least 2-3 years getting Praetoria on somewhat equal footing content wise before they'd open all the AT's to all factions at level 1. I'm quite pleased to see it happening this soon.
  2. Just going to add that everyone getting access to Going Rogue was not a surprise to anyone. We all knew it was going to happen and when the whiners complained last August about GR costing so much we told them they could save their money and wait for it to be given to us for free a year later just like everyone was given CoV for free a year after it was launched. Lo and behold everyone with an active account gets it for free a year after it launched.
  3. Okay what's up with the forums deleting my spacing between topics? Stupid thing won't even let me add them in using edit. NVM just deleting the response altogether since it looks like an ugly wall of text.
  4. Forbin_Project

    CrashCrashCrash

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jiblets View Post
    FreezeCrashDC crashcrashcrash It's getting tedious. Can it stop now, please?
    No. Freezes, Crashes, and Disconnects are all services provided for free by the company. If you want them disabled you will have to pay extra.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LISAR View Post
    I wish all threads over a year inactive would be locked to prevent silliness.
    With any luck when Freedom goes live maybe the bored people that do this will lose access to the forums when their accounts go Premium.
  6. Speaking as a Squirrel I must concur.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    No, it was never going to launch today. Subscribers start accumulating the monthly points stipend today. But we have nothing to spend those points on until launch, which will likely be late summer or early autumn.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by starphoenix View Post
    Heard that it will launch around October or November, but I could be wrong. Starting July 1, you get 400 points for every month you are subscribed for. It is one of the perks VIPs get.

    Just a bit of clarification. Starting July 1st players with active accounts will be credited with 400 Paragon Points on the date their account is billed for the month.

    That means if your account was activated on the 5th of the month you won't get any points until the 5th of each month. Same goes for people that pay 6 months to a year in advance. If their accounts were activated on the 15th of the month they won't get points until the 15th of each following month.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade View Post
    What about the european and italian collector's edition that are for sale on the official store?

    Can we get the extra costume pieces and month of game time for those even if we're in America?
    It's really very simple.

    If you already have that edition unlocked you don't get the extra month. It doesn't matter what language it's in, or if its NA or EU. You can't double up free time on the same edition.

    For example if you already have Good vs Evil unlocked you won't get any extra time if you buy the UK version. They are still the same edition.



    Now if the edition comes with unique perks like a costume piece or temp power that isn't unlocked yet on your account, then those will be unlocked.

    For example if you can get your hands on a copy of the Architect edition you can unlock either the Magic or Cyborg Booster for free. As long as you have't bought them already. If you already unlocked them both you get nothing.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
    We need war walls down
    Sure great idea.

    Quote:
    We need trains down and telepad for supers to every zone.
    Nope. Telepads to every zone already exists in the game. Players just need to stop whining long enough to unlock them in an SG and use them.

    In addition to the already existing SG telepads there are over a half dozen alternative ways to travel to zones.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Robert_B View Post
    But MM's and Trollers are available to VIP's at any time correct? we just dont get them if we are not paying as a new account?
    First question: Yes

    Second Question: If a VIP, who hasn't unlocked those AT's by way of buying them early or by way of having an account active long enough to get them unlocked for free, switches to a Premium account will be unable to make any new characters using those AT's and he will also find that any characters he made using those AT's are locked until he either pays to unlock them or he upgrades his account back to VIP status.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    Everyone runs from the grenade but Steve Rogers jumps on it. Great stuff.

    He's still skinny.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GageEndaI View Post
    Before Issue 22 comes out they should run a purge one last time. Send out an eMail to all players who had trials when 21 comes out to get them to return and reclaim their toons. After the 3-4 month period between 21 and 22 if they don't log onto their account, their characters should be forefit. Full Trial Wipe when 22 lanches.

    If you bought the game, even if it was when it first came out, your characters over level 10 will be saved as they are. Any character L9 and under on a paid account is safe. Again, if they log on before 22 is released, those toons are safe.
    The first time they ran the script they had the level set around 35 so if the program was working as intended any name on an inactive account under 35 was freed up at that time.

    The second time they ran it they lowered the level to 6.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    But I took a travel power and still have to take the tram!

    And I fly!
    No you don't.

    You can use the Security gates, Tunnels (Like Atlas Park to Steel Canyon), the Sewers, RWZ, Pocket D, Ouro Portal, the Went/BM teleport, Helicopters (if villain), an SG teleporter, or the Midnighters Club.

    You choose to use the train. You aren't forced to use it.
  14. Paragon Points are not the same thing as Paragon Reward Tokens.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    There is no way to ignore the Paragon Reward Tokens you'll receive for having played umpteen years. Check the other scenarios I proposed .

    Just to clarify something...

    Paragon Points are spent in the Paragon Market (mtx store). In other words: You give Paragon money = We give you points (this is outside of the 400 pts included in the VIP Subscription of course)

    Paragon Reward Tokens are used to unlock nifty rewards and are granted much like the system currently known as the Veteran Rewards Program (it's a complete revamp/improvement of said system). One of these things you'll be able to unlock (your choice, it's a pretty flexible system) is the MM AT.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger
    Yes, they'll accrue on your normal cycle date, regardless of your billing plan.

    On a similar note in the future should you chose to continue the yearly sub, you will be allocated ALL of your Paragon Reward Tokens to spend up front for the year instead of having to wait for monthly rewards as the current veteran rewards program works.
  15. Latest official word as of 6/16/2011
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    We are following this thread and taking your feedback into account all.However, to be perfectly clear: We are not currently planning another name purge in the near future. There are reasons for this, which I am not at liberty to discuss at the moment.
  16. Forbin_Project

    Lfg

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Crysys View Post
    Personally, I've never once gotten into a league using the LFG feature. I'll stand in Pocket D with leagues forming all around me, coming and going, and even though I'm in the LFG queue it won't pull me in with any of them.
    You do realize that we as players have the right to form private leagues that block the Queue from dropping random players in their teams.
  17. Forbin_Project

    VIP server

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roughtrade View Post
    I just want to know when it goes live. I may or may not make characters there but with only one free transfer a month, if I do want to move one of my big guns there, I want to be sure to reserve the name for it.

    And preventing name camping is probably the very reason why the devs won't give anyone early access to the VIP server. Unless the devs make changes to the unique name policy what will probably happen is that all VIP's will be given access to the new server at the same time and it will be first come first server like it always has been.
  18. Just goes to prove that you can't force or bribe people to team together if they don't want to. They will either kick the unwanted extras or set closed leagues.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid View Post
    Had this happen on a sewers team last night. Three people on the team showed as not being in zone, and we kept asking 'you guys coming?' cause we thought they were still in Atlas. Then someone saw they were right there with us, but none of them said anything... then I realized they NEVER said anything. So if they had said anything in team chat, we couldn't see it, and they weren't seeing what we said.

    At some point, someone used ATT, and boom! Everything was normal. So if it happens again, there's a work around if you, or someone on the team doesn't mind burning that power for a while.

    I didn't /bug cause I had to leave for work, but if it happens again, bug it.

    Not what happened to us last night. Everyone was talking and joking but random people's names kept showing as not in the missions all night long.

    I did notice that when their names were blacked out I couldn't target that person with Mystic Fortune, but theres always the possibility that someone else had cast it on them.
  20. Any CoH Freedom videos will be released when the company is ready to realease them and not a minute sooner. When that will be is sometime between now and the day Freedom goes live.
  21. Maybe this would be a better response?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    We've been very pleased with the overall sentiment of at the very least giving the fresh blood a chance.


    One of the most exciting prospects of City of Heroes Freedom, to us, is the fact that players who no longer play the game will return. They'll have a chance to reestablish lost connections and renew friendships years old, all because they're going to automagically be made into premium players with their old accounts. Premium players won't have many of the restrictions that Free accounts will, and when Free accounts see the amazing Community surrounding them, they'll have the option to make the jump to either VIP or to Premium and enjoy some of the benefits we have to offer.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sente_ View Post
    The concept of value for money is precisely one reason I am in favour of this conversion. If you only offer subscription as the payment model, then you effectively will keep a number of potential customers away from your game. This is because depending on how, when and how often they play, they may or may not get good value out of that subscription fee.
    Yeah cuz only the wealthiest of individuals can afford a monthly sub that equates to .50 cents a day or roughly .02 cents an hour.

    Why that $15 bucks could be better spent on

    3 gallons of Gasoline
    A single dinner at a restaraunt
    Maybe a movie matinee

    But unlimited access to a game for 30 days? What a ripoff.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    I'm subbed to the newsletter and I think I mysteriously get a ton of copies that are meant for other people :P I get an announcement newsletter for every City account I've ever opened, even the supergroup padding trial account and the mistakenly-created CoH account when I was trying to update my CoV account. I get like six copies of the email where other people get none even when they ARE subscribed.
    Did you ever make a couple of trial accounts? I did when they had that big Prestige give away a few years back when they doubled the SG membership cap.

    Now I get half a dozen copies myself all the time. 1 for each account I made.
  24. Meh. After I realized I was wrong about assuming the game was dropping down to two servers, 1 Free and 1 VIP, I dropped any notion I had about moving characters enmasse tothe VIP server.

    The VIP server will just be another place to create alts, and Freedom will still be the server I prefer to retire characters to.