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We were warned about even making missions that could LOOK like a farm. Just because you try to give it 5 seconds worth of backstory doesn't make it NOT a farm... fyi

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We were warned SPECIFICALLY about making an arc with "Farm" in the title EVEN AS A JOKE. Guess they were serious.

You can still get your slot back (if your arc truly isn't a farm), but now you need to contact customer support and have them review the arc.

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Yes we clearly warned about it in this thread.

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•• Players are urged to avoid using common farming terms in their story title and/or descriptions. Even if it’s a joke, DO NOT run the risk of having an arc banned and requiring Customer Support to grant you your publishing slot back.

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The OP has no one to blame but himself.

Edit: added highlighting

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lol XD Steve I dont think that remark was needed.

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Oh Really?

Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday Bill,
Happy Birthday to you!


¡Que los cumplan feliz!
¡Que los cumplan feliz!
¡Que los cumplan Bill!
¡Que los cumplan feliz!


Joyeux Anniversaire
Joyeux Anniversaire
Joyeux Anniversaire Bill
Joyeux Anniversaire


Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Zum Geburtstag liebe Bill
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!


Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!





Oh and /unsigned to the OP's idea.

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Just a couple of suggestions I have for AE.

1. Limit AE to non trial accounts.

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No.

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2. Move AE to a restricted zone. at least 25+.

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No.

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AE has come to replace the entire game

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No it hasn't.

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way too many people have no idea how to play their AT.

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Provide links to the datamining where you are basing your opinions on. I know 120,000+ players that know how to play the game.

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Lets put some skill and dedication back into the game. Sitting at an AE mission exit till you are 50 somehow makes this game destined for failure.

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No it doesn't. What the AE has done is make it more likely some new players will cancel their subs in a month or two when they get bored.

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I for one want my old game back.

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Everything changes. Deal with it.

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Removing the AE buildings from starter zones would have no effect on players ability to use it to level from 1-50.

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They aren't going to plop a building down in a zone and then pull it back out like a rotten tooth one issue later. Especially when it goes against the obvious design philosophy for the content, and when removing the buildings won't stop the behavior as some people think.

They saturated the game with AE buildings so everybody could easily get to it, unlike trekking to PI with your level 1.

And pulling it from this or that zone won't really do anything to curb "exploiting" or PL'ing because the folk who're interested in it will seek out AE as long as it keeps over-rewarding.

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They don't have to remove the buildings from the starter zones. They can expand the Arson event that already exists in Steel Canyon. That way new players can enjoy trying to stop Hellions from blowing up the AE buildings in Atlas and Galaxy. They can also help the Hellions blow up the one in Mercy.

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debunking a couple of the silly ideas people keep demanding:

ridiculous idea #1:
OMG GET AE OUT OF NOOB ZONES!

They said we'd be able to level 1-50 in AE and they meant it.
That means AE buildings in starting zones.
So get over it.

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Removing the AE buildings from starter zones would have no effect on players ability to use it to level from 1-50.

How do we know this is a fact?

Simply because prior to I14 players with level 1 characters had no trouble getting to Peregrine Island and Grandville and spamming the channels with PL requests.

So Kings Row and Port Oakes are no inconvienence.


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ridiculous idea #2:
OMG THEY NEED TO NERF REWARDS SO AE IS ONLY FOR THE TRUE AND PURE STORYTELLERS LIKE THE DEVS ALWAYS WANTED!

The second AE rewards fall below 'normal' rewards, it will become a ghost town populated by a handful of RPers. And, again, the devs want people to be able to level 1-50 inside AE.

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This I agree with.

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voilaitons? Do I even want to know what a voilaiton is? On reflection I'm pretty certain I don't.

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You're lucky. I had an aneurysm and died when I read "reguatlaitons of consuimer rights".

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I was trying to ignore that I saw that the Voilaitons are going to be beging NC Soft. I think I could completely drunk by making a drinking game and taking a shot of Irish Mist every once for every spelling error in that sig.

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I hesitate to guess how many shots you'd have to drink if you tried that with one of his complete posts.

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voilaitons? Do I even want to know what a voilaiton is? On reflection I'm pretty certain I don't.

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You're lucky. I had an aneurysm and died when I read "reguatlaitons of consuimer rights".

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I don't know if I necessarily really care if vehicles are in put into CoH, but I just had an idea so I might as well throw it out in these shark infested waters and see if it stays afloat.

What if:

1. Vehicles were limited to only aircraft simiilar to longbow chasers or sky raider skiffs.
2. Vehicles were made similar to kheldian transformations
3. Vehicles were not allowed to click on objects, doors, etc.
4. Missions were labeled as either outdoor or indoor with vehicles being unsummonable indoors.

Now onto my suggestion for the actual Power pool setup (assuming its possible)



Flying vehicle travel pool

Lvl 6 - Summon Vehicle and Teleport vehicle (these come together in one power) - Summoning Vehicle calls your vehicle to you from your lair, hideout, base, whatever. Your vehicle has 2 minutes of fuel, after that it will be teleported back to your base for a 30 min refueling time. Summoning Vehicle allows you to toggle your vehicle on and off without the recharge until the 2 minutes is up. Teleport vehicle sends your vehicle back before the time is up so it can be refueled.

Lvl 14 (requires level 6 power) Fuel efficiency - allows for up to 30 mins of flight time on 1 charged battery/tank of fuel

Lvl 14 (requires level 6 power) Assault vehicle - adds weapons for battle to your aircraft namely 1 gatling gun (30 rounds of ammo) and 1 assault cannon (5 rounds). These weapons can be reloaded only when your aircraft is sent back to base for refueling.

Lvl 20 - flight path - allows you to jump to one of the zones next to the zone you are in at the cost of 2 minutes of fuel.


Final suggestion, since flight and other travel powers would be useable indoors and this is not I would suggest this should get a slight increase in flight speed compared to fly.

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My compliments on the effort you put into this. Very nice job.

Tell me what you think about this limitation.

Because the player is in a vehicle they have a limited camera view. They can only see as if they are actually sitting in the "cockpit"

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Who?

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Pikabko

<ul type="square">[*]Was upset his petitions about the fact that Elite Bosses, which are only to spawn in TFs, kept spawning in his missions, were closed without being fixed.[*]Stated that since he paid them money every month, was entitled to order NCSoft and it's staff around.[*]Accused NCSoft of needing to take English lessons despite the fact the least of HIS (pikabko's) problems was being unable to find the Enter/Return key.[*]Required several levels of translations.[*]Had at least one person remark "I didn't realize stupid was a communicable disease"[*]Liked to cross- or multi-post[*]Never once responded to those who responded to him.[*]Almost forgot this one - apparently believed one should be able to make all their basic living expenses for the month in mere days or something. Mentioned he should not have to pay to play since he already had/has to for his house, computer, internet connection, and the game account.[/list]
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You forgot that:

He changed his forum name to voidaccount.

He claimed in his Sig that:

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I am voiding my account due to reguatlaitons of consuimer rights. Voilaitons of sevel charges is beging made against NC soft

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And finally all but one of his 57 posts have been deleted. The only one remaining is from 2007. You can still read his sig there.

I think Ron White had pikabko/voidaccount in mind when he said, "You can't fix stupid."

After reading the OP's posts something tells me he is not doing one of two things.

1. dropping the mission after the first contact tells him to go see Wincott.

2. Not interacting with Wincott so he can clear the mission with the first contact.

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Maybe this is like Surveillance from the Blaster epics and the Bane secondary, but it allows you to look at fellow Heroes and Villains stats? That would be pretty awesome.....

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No. That would not be awesome. One thing I can't stand is when I run into those obnoxious jackhole build-nazi's that presume that you must be a sucky player if you don't build your character to their preconcieved notions of a perfect build.

It's bad enough I have to let them see the powers I've chosen, I sure as hell don't want them seeing how I prefer to slot my powers.

Removing the AE from Atlas and Galaxy would have no detrimental effects to new players.

The one in Kings Row is located a block from the train, the trainer, the market, and the Pocket D entrance. It's about two blocks from the Vault, the Hospital, and the Safeguard contacts where they can get the Jetpack at level 5 and the Jumppack at level 10.

Level 1 characters can easily get from the train to the AE with very little effort and by having to use the train they have to read the destination window and choose which of the zones they want to go to, thus they learn that there are more zones in the game than just Atlas Park.

The reduction of AE farm spam in Atlas will also give new players a chance to actually learn some of the basics that we all learned from doing the initial contact missions.

They can still choose to skip past Atlas and head straight for the AE to level from 1-50 but they won't be inundated with the AE PL mentality from the moment they finish creating a character.

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Don't want to be in on the AE hate really, but AE has cut into the supply for these quite a bit.

That's not me hating, that's just how it is.

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The AE hate is about people making farms to PL their way up to level 50.

If they weren't using the AE they wouldn't be getting purple drops anyway because they'd still be leveling to 50 the slow way.

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Allow players to transfer characters between servers FREE OF CHARGE!

Thank you.

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No.

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No, I don't have a Kubelwagen. I have the amazing JUSTICE MOBILE. And it has rocket thrusters on the bottom for the occasion that I need to hop over insurmountable foot high walls.

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No, you don't. You have a car. You have to drive on the same roads as other cars and you travel at the same speed as other vehicles. This isn't the Flintstones. You can't stick your feet thru the bottom of the car to make it go faster.

If the devs did waste time on vehicles they would be a seperate powerset like the other travel powers. That means you would have to sacrifice power choices and slots in order to have them and keep them balanced.

Take a look at Khelds. They have Nova form. You would essentially see a powerset something like that only much weaker. Why weaker? Because travel powers are tiertiary sets. Also like Khelds Nova form set, you would not be able to use any of your other powers while using the vehicle.

So what would it look like?

Car

1. Some weak power, maybe an attack that can become vehicle mounted when you get the car.
2. Another weak power, maybe a defence that can be integrated into the travel power.
3. The actual vehicle you want at level 14
4. Another power that compliments the travel power at level 20



Then you have to look at how it would gimp a character, because your not gonig to be able to drive a car in an office building or in a tunnel. Doesn't matter if NPC's can do it. They are allowed to cheat, you aren't.

So this means that everyone that chooses a "vehicle" travel power is going to choose a second travel power so they can still get the extra mobility inside of those missions. That means there will be 2-4 powers and 4-24 slots that they won't be able to use from their primary/secondary sets and power pools.

And those same players are still going to want to take Fitness, Leadership, and an PPP/EPP set and whatever additional pool that fits their character concepts.

Not gonna happen.

Also in case you don't know, for every year your account is active, you will get 1 free character slot which you can redeem on the server of your choice. You can't go over 36 slots tho.

Yes.

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He says he is keeping an eye out for good feature requests for the future?

What about all the lists of good features that have been on here for months to years?

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And this suggestion has been made several times with those other good ideas over the years.

The decision is subjective. Whatever the judge likes is who wins. There is no way to predict someone personal tastes. It's their Influence and they can give it to whomever they want.

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I have sent PMs regarding use of NCcoin on CoX but have gotten no response.

I would love it if NCCoin were usable for monthly subs as well as the Boosters. My family is always trying to figure out what to get me for holidays, and a couple of NCcoin cards would be great if they applied to this game.

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You obviously don't understand the purpose of NCcoin. Exteel is a free game. There is no monthly subscription. NCcoins are used to buy in game items to trick out a players Mechanaught.

If your family wants to get you something, they can buy you a 30 or 60 day PlayNC time card, or even a $20 CoH game card which comes with the nifty Jetpack.

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Not sure the reason for the "snark". I thought the OP made a reasonable point.

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I wasn't addressing the OP. If you bothered to look at who I quoted to see who I was responding to you would have seen that.

Furthermore the OP never made a suggestion, nor did he say anything about sending PM's to the powers that be.

This is what the OP actually asked:

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See the EULA for a discussion of NCCoin--but what IS it? How do we get it?

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His two questions were asked and answered in the first three posts. The OP has yet to post a second time in this thread.

A friend led me to the Matrix room inside the Arena once. That was before I got my new system and lost the screenies I had taken.

I wish each zone had a secret room that they didn't advertise, just let us few explorers find them on our own.

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I recently conducted a national survey on this very subject, and in this shocking exposé I bring you the truth!

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OH NO! You can't fool me twice! I ain't following any of your twisted evil links to Bizarro Fooley-Coolie land! I remember what you done dood in dat tread up in Player Questions. You sick &lt;insert insult here&gt;.

I banish you back to the foulness from which you came, on the 7th plane of the Abyss.

Get thee hence lest I force thee to drinkith the Holy elixer of purity and goodness!

&lt;brandishes a frosty bottle of Coca-cola in Kits direction&gt;

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/seconding Oldeb.

I have over 12 characters on some servers. Giving me a full server swap for $25 would definitely be a bargain for me (not that I'd do so) and a huge chunk of potential income gone for them. $150 of transfers (15 characters on one server) for $25? I don't think they'd go for that, for some reason.

The packages make sense.

Of course, having to purchase extra slots for those characters would have to be separate.

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/seconding Bill /seconding Oldeb.


And is it just me or do these ideas always show up around a 2xp event.

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Wrong. I neither hate or love the AE and I think pie is like the worst thing you can do to fruit or meat.

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You're not eating the right kind of pie.

My grandma used to tell me about her famous hare pie. She gave it to all the soldiers when they came back from the war. It made her the most popular girl in town.

Sadly she never taught us the recipe before she died. I think the secret is in how she prepared the bunnies.


Anyway this is the recipe we use now.

[u]Hare Pie[u]


Ingredients

2 each rabbit jack, or 4 cottontail
1 each celery stalk diced
1 large onion diced
1 x salt
1 x black pepper
1 package biscuits prepared

Gravy

1 x stock reserved
1 x chicken bouillon
1 medium onion diced
1 x celery from above stalk
1 x flour, all-purpose
1 x salt
1 x black pepper
1 x sage
1 x poultry seasoning

Directions

Soak rabbits in salt water in refrigerator overnight.

Dry, cut up and stew rabbits with celery and onions for 2-3 hours.

Add salt and pepper to taste, then strip meat from bones and put in 26-inch pie pan, add stock or gravy for moisture.

Cover with biscuits.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour.

For gravy, take reserved stock, add bouillon, onions and celery.

Bring to a boil.

Strain.

Mix flour with an equal amount of water, add sauce to thickening.

Season to taste with spices.

I just don't see them switching this game over to it any time in the near future.

Now if this plan is a resounding success for DR, and I mean more than just covering their expenses, then they might think of expanding it to other games like this one.

Right now tho it's still in the "I hope this works" phase for DR.