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Quote:Just an FYI, make sure to find out what inf cap the OP is under. It's quite possible he doesn't have the 2 billion limit unlocked.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Welcome back!
If your money went "poof" or something, PM me your global with the missing sum and I'll issue a refund on behalf of the game. -
Quote:You might want to mention this in Dink's costume thread hereOriginally Posted by Zilver_NA
would love some more street clothes, Hoodies, sweat pants, bathing suits, sneakers without socoks for males, some more casual looking shoes like the sneakers.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=289044
where she asked people to post costume ideas. -
Quote:Not just that. There are far too many items (Paragon Rewards, Badges, Purchased Powers, Attuned IO's, etc) in the game that are account specific unlocks for the devs to allow character transfers between accounts.Originally Posted by Blue_Fenix
Nope, can't be done, and probably never will be done. I don't know of any MMO in existence that allows this.
The main reason why not is probably because it would make it easier to buy and sell characters, power leveling, etc. with real-world money. -
Quote:Global character slots can be assigned semi-permanently to any server. How many global slots you have is based on how many you earned/purchased.Originally Posted by SPARKKS
Wow thanks a lot guys. That's a whole bunch of information and to the guy that mentioned the inventions and all of that.....that's exactly where I stopped (it was getting to be a little much with school and everything so I just stopped. I think you guys are right the best option is probably going through all the patch notes which will be a pain in the ***, but it's really my only option. I'm really confused though abou thtese global servers and all of that....all my players were locked when I started back up and I unlocked 2 50's and 38, but now what? My mind is just full of f**** haha. Like what did it mean that they were now on the global server or something? I know one of you touched on it, but more explanation would be greatly appreciated there. Meanwhile I'll be delving into the patch notes.
2 free slots were awarded if a player was subscribed at the release of Issue 12 and for a few weeks after (no longer obtainable). If unassigned, these turned into Global Slot Tokens at Freedom launch. If assigned, these turned into Server Slot Tokens at Freedom launch.
2 free slots are awarded for applying a Going Rogue serial code (if applied before Freedom launch only) (no longer obtainable). If unassigned, these turned into Global Slot Tokens at Freedom launch. If assigned, these turned into Server Slot Tokens at Freedom launch.
1 free Global Slot Token is granted for every 12 months of paid subscription time.
Premium Players receive at least two Global Character Slot Tokens to apply to any server except the VIP-only server, Exalted. Premium Players can unlock more character slots on each accessible server, for a total possible of 36 characters on 15 servers (540 total slots).
Please note that Premium Players can unlock character slots occupied by characters that require further licenses to utilize. For instance, Masterminds and Controllers require 13 Reward Tokens or a separate purchase on the Paragon Market before being able to play them as a Premium Player. However, the game will allow a player without these licenses to unlock a Mastermind, resulting in an unlocked character that still cannot be played because the system has no way of knowing that a player doesn't intend to buy the unlock for the restricted AT's. -
Quote:No actually that is exactly what I have been saying, but feel free to deny it if that makes you feel better.Originally Posted by Runo
Right, and I think that's fair, but that's not the argument Forbin was making.
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Quote:Okay I'll accept that I was wrong and you are two different people, I just thought the posts sounded similar when I read them.Originally Posted by TClauss
Forbin_Project, you cant be more wrong. We are 2 completely different people.
Respectfully please don't dismiss the validity of the "It's just 2 dollars" point of view. There are more than a few players that live on extremely tight budgets that manage to pay full subscriptions each month because they want unrestricted access to the game.Quote:Please people do not throw out the whole "it's only 2 dollars joke" some of us have different situations in life.
If they can find ways to scrape $15 bucks together regularly, then anyone can get $5 bucks once a month. -
The best advice I can think of to help you learn the ropes after so long an absence is by getting in touch with the members of the Mentor Project.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=212083
Also I don't know how many Paragon Rewards you were awared for the time your account was previously active, but if you don't have enough already I strongly urge you to get at least 5 Paragon Reward tokens so you can unlock permanent access to the global channels.
The global channels are where most of the games communities congregate. They offer easy communication across all the servers and factions making it much easier to find teams, especially if you play on more than one server.
You get Paragon Rewards one of two ways. 1 reward for each month you subscribe or 1 reward for every 1200 Paragon Points you buy.
Another great way of meeting people is participating in player sponsored event such as Tanker Tuesdays. Each week players with Tanks meet on a different server and run missions, task forces, etc. The only requirement is that everyone runs a Tank.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=292041
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Quote:Originally Posted by Runo
The idea of transactions needing to be based around the premise of 'having up to 768 characters' is laughable at best.
The average user isn't going to see use out of this on even a fraction (maybe 10% if you're a hardcore player across several servers-- give or take) of these 768 available character slots; which you should consider are already quite costly to unlock, and take a substantial amount of time to earn.
If you like being gouged, that's fair enough, but arguing that a digital service isn't 'a fair price' because it costs too little is comedic. I don't know about you, but when I walk into a hobby shop and see something at a lower price than I expected, I don't go "Oh, I can't buy this frivolous item, this is going to save me way too much money."
No it isn't. One of the major selling points of this game has always been the vast number of alts players can make, and the average user has dozens of characters.
So cry all the crocodile tears you like about the big bad prices, the fact still remains that the price is more than fair for what we get. You always have the option of doing without and using the other methods to pull enhancements off of builds. -
Quote:400 points would be a fair price if they were sold individually per character. However these are account wide unlocks, and the devs are basing the price on the fact that each account can have up to 768 characters on it.Originally Posted by Hercules
Yeah, ive seen the extra enhancement slots available for sale - for 1600 points. Way too rich for my blood - 400 pts would be more reasonable.
I wasnt aware the unslotters could be sold on WWs, I'll definitely look into this next time. -
Quote:Agge needs 5,000 cc's of irish coffee STAT!Originally Posted by Aggelakis
OK, that's what I thought but I was like "we already have those?" and wasn't sure. I was also pretty tipsy so I could have easily been misreading.
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Quote:What botch-up? It was a scheduled dowtime that was announced ahead of time.Originally Posted by JakHammer
I frankly hope that they in fact suffered a non-recoverable and substantial loss of revenue (say 10-20 thousand dollars perhaps,) such that in future they will spend the planning dollars necessary to prevent a repeat of yesterday's botch up.
Quote:Greetings!
The PlayNC website will be offline for extended maintenance Thursday, 7/12/2012, at 5:00 AM CDT/3:00 AM PDT/6:00 AM EDT/11:00 AM BST. At this time we anticipate that the site will be back online no later than 5:00 PM CDT/3:00 PM PDT/6:00 PM EDT/11:00 PM BST. During this time all PlayNC master account related services will be unavailable. This includes all aspects of account management, password resets, payment options and the purchase of Paragon Points. We apologize for the inconvenience and will work to have all services restored ASAP.
Following this maintenance, all players who have a Lineage 2 or Aion game account on the same master account as their City of Heroes Freedom game account will be prompted to migrate their Lineage 2 and/or Aion account over to a new game account management system. Upon completion of this migration, you will then have a separate account management option for your Lineage 2 and/or Aion game accounts. This will have no impact on your City of Heroes Freedom game account. Your City of Heroes Freedom game account/master account management remains unchanged. Please remember that you can always manage your account in game through the Paragon Market interface, whenever possible.
Thanks!
Update 7/12/2012 - 10:43 PM PDT: PlayNC maintenance complete. All City of Heroes related services have been restored.
The fact that you are too lazy to read the announcements isn't the companies fault.
Being almost 60 years old you should know better than to act so childish and petty. -
Quote:Now I recognize who this really is.Originally Posted by TClauss
So, your trying to call me a child? I still do not follow you.
I'm sorry you guys yes I will point the finger now at the community. Whats the problem with it? Some would consider waving a carrot in front of a starving animal, animal cruelty. Well paragon I can be cruel too! There is still plenty of content to get people to spend their hard earned money (when they are earning it).
I remember why I never started to publicly discuss on forums, and other media. So I am gone...not that any of you give a flying fkkkkk.
That is all.
I recall a similar argument being made in another thread because the poster didn't think the Freedom Freebies were valuable enough.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=86
Quote:Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
It's like the old saying "beggars can't be choosers" being applied to giving a starving person moldy rotten food with maggots and tapeworms in it to where they are "dead if they eat it, dead if they don't".
It's not about being "picky"; it's about being decent and fair and wise.
I wouldn't give a starving man something as harmful as starving or not enough to get a cheap meal at least, though I would rather feed him than give him money as that accomplishes the goal without opening it up to a scam by somebody who ends up begging up to a hundred thousand dollars a year or more. -
Quote:/unsignedOriginally Posted by JoshexDirad
3rdly and lastly: the above is great for people who are just slotting thier toons, but what about those people who already fully slotted thier toons? do they have to do a bunch of respecs to eventually take off and convert all thier IO's? or do they havee to completely rebuy them? I say; no. instead why not allow enhancement modification of already slotted enhancements?
If a player wants to strip a build of it's enhancements he or she can buy enhancement unslotters and additional enhancement trays in order to minimize the number of respecs they need to burn if any.
If a player isn't concerned with reassigning the slots on his builds powers he can strip a build by just using enhancement unslotters and never use a respec at all. -
Quote:Oh! Wasn't aware more trays were on beta. Thanks for the update.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Enhancement Unslotters
Extra Enhancement Trays (can currently purchase trays 2 and 3, trays 4 and 5 are on Beta)
Those were added as part of a response to the issues raised in your Change 1 listing. There were other reasons for adding them besides Respecs, but Respecs were part of the reason.
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Don't see it happening but Good luck with this tho.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Pauper
Well, since there isn't anyplace else you can go to get CoH account stuff, I'm guessing pretty much everybody who couldn't spend money yesterday ended up spending it today.
Net sales lost: approximately $0.
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Pauper/Double this.Quote:Originally Posted by Ironblade
NCSoft isn't like a grocery or convenience store.
I'm curious where exactly the OP thinks players are going to go to buy stuff for their NCSoft accounts?
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Quote:1. Use Mids to design your next build and determine eactly which enhancements need to be pulled off of the old build.Originally Posted by Hercules
Change 1)
I just did a respec for one of my scrappers yesterday. There were enough changes that I ended up losing a significant number of IOs, and to be frank, the "value" creditied for these items is well below market value.
I also dont think i should have to burn several respecs to keep these IOs.
My proposal is to add an email icon at the bottom where you can drop IOs.
An email would be automatically created - sent to your global id with the IO as an attachment.
Change 2)
I cant tell you how many times I'm in the middle of a respec, and someone sends me a tell. You have 2 options, ignore it or cancel out of the respec to respond - then start all over.
It would be nice to have a very small, unobtrusive chat section somewhere on the screen - maybe limit it to just responding to tells.
2. Buy enhancement unslotters and the two extra enhancement storage trays to remove the extra enhancements that won't fit into the 30 slots in your enhancements trays once you start the respec, and put them into base storage, emails, whatever to clear your trays.
3. Use /hide so you won't be bothered by annoying tells.
4. Do the respec in 1 shot.
Oh and the respec pays you what the enhancements are actually worth, not what you can sucker out of impatient players on the market who suffers from "gotta have it now!" impulse issues. -
Quote:The OP didn't say anything about reassigning the slots the enhancements were in. Just that he "lost" enhancements he couldn't keep in his trays.Originally Posted by MisterD
Unslotters only let you remove an enhancement..the actual SLOT is still in your build..a slot-respec would allow you to move a slot..without starting from 1.
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Quote:Originally Posted by monkeyslap
July 13, 2012 @ 2:45 AM Pacific time, California.
I can go to http://us.ncsoft.com/en/ and everything seems fine........until I try to log in to my master account. LOL.
And that's been discussed in this thread.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...08#post4305908 -
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Quote:Yeah we all want that but the devs have flat out told us if they ever decided to add the ability to send SG invites by email, they would deliberately design it so we wouldn't be able to send SG invites to characters on the same account.Originally Posted by Hercules
While we are on the topic of solo SG invites.
It would be nice if they could implement SG invite emails ( with an 'invitation attachment' ) that you could send to your global email id or to anyone else Then when you claim the email attachment it could prompt you "Do you wish to join this SG?".
Why? Because the devs feel solo SG's are not the proper use of a feature that was designed to be multi-player content, and they won't make it easier for us to "misuse" the feature. -
Quote:Great minds think alike.Originally Posted by zachary_EU
Lusca head with and without a fishbowl helmet.
Damn you Forbin
I have almost similar waterdude.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hercules
Not simple to get alts into a one man SG, unless you beg someone to temporarily join the SG.
I would definitely like to see this, even if it's just a small storage area for just a dozen or so items.
Wait we can beg other people to join our SG's and invite our alts? Damn, all these years I've been using two accounts to send myself SG invites.
Why didn't anyone tell me I could get SG invites for my characters to my solo SG's by annoying other players?
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Quote:You can't put attuned IO's purchased from the Paragon Market in SG storage.Originally Posted by Azuwezia
/signed
It's so tendious to mail things back and forth between toons, especially salvage.
Before you ask: yes I am in an SG, but my main crafter is currently Rogue and cannot use it. Not to mention I have toons on both side of the fence to craft for.... -
Quote:The cheapest ones first so they can get the most enhancements possible.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Devil's Advocate time with one of your caveats.
If you don't have enough influence how does it decide which enhancements to upgrade? Shouldn't the player have a choice as to what gets upgraded first?