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If it isn't a bug then either someone else knows your login and password, or you deleted the characters in your sleep. Those are the only three possibilities.
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Quote:Prestige doesn't belong to you it belongs to the SG.Originally Posted by Metal Monkey 69
Or at least if you quit the SG, have all the Prestige points you made for the SG back at you. If that option for an SG transfer base is impossible. -
Dink's costume suggestin thread is in General Discussions at this link.
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Oh an in case the OP is wondering, no the devs are not planning to add more slots to the game any time soon. They did look into it but the results were disasterous. Unexpected things started crashing making the game unplayable during testing. So they dropped the idea.
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Quote:The only people that won were the lawyers.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Sure they have the right to sue.
And since they had the deeper pockets, they were able to put over a ridiculously overreaching settlement on NC.
So hurrah for freedom?
Yeah people couldn't possibly be thinking of protecting the rights of individuals like authors and artists. Nope, they have to be supporting the rights of corporations.Quote:It's always interesting to me how violently passionate some folk become in support of the rights of corporations to supersede their own. -
Quote:Sometimes I see used copies advertised as being "only used once" and wonder if the seller is a complete idiot or a devious <bleep> playing on the gullibity of inexperienced customers.Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself
Note that you have to make sure it's a new, unopened box copy. Used box copies are worthless, but are sometimes still sold.
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Quote:Did you actually read this? I'll bold the important part.Originally Posted by Hatred666
What if your actual real life name is Josef Stalin, Michael Jackson, or Barack Obama? And the character you create is suppose to be yourself with your own name?
You are not a "third party" so you cannot violate a third party's rights if you are using your own name. You can give NCSoft "permission" to use your own likeness or something you yourself created.Quote:8. PROHIBITED AND IRREPARABLY HARMFUL ACTIVITIES CONCERNING NCSOFT
You acknowledge that You may not, without signed written consent from a legally authorized representative of NCsoft, do any of the following:
(a) Misappropriate, violate or infringe any third-party IP right;
The "third party" being referred to in the EULA is anyone who is not you or NCSoft.
Someone mentioned Jim Butcher and how he plays a character from his novels in this game. He can do that because he actually owns the IP rights to the character he made in the game. He isn't violating a third parties IP rights. -
Quote:If everyone has rights then there is nothing wrong with the owners of an IP that they have copyrighted/trademarked enforcing their rights by filing a lawsuit when they find out people are using their IP without their permission.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
So you don't think you ought to have any rights just because you're in a game world?
That's an interesting point of view which I don't share. -
Quote:Don't blame the devs for what happened with that lawsuit. That was "resolved" by people farther up the corporate ladder. Also Cryptic was still running the game back then.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
The devs threw in the towel on player rights when they settled the Marvel case, it being cheaper to sell out your players than wrestle a corporate behemoth with lawyers on salary.
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Quote:Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
Name
Costume
Description
Powers
I try to only report those that infringe upon at least 3 of the criteria, although name and costume are usually the most damning of the four, as they are the most visible.
And there is some room for play on a few of these where I'd still report:
-Powers; this can be tricky, as many copyrighted characters have powers that just don't exist in CoH, or have so many powers that choosing two powersets doesn't do the character justice. Be your Batman look-a-like a sj/sr scrapper, a ma/dark stalker, or a something/devices blaster, he's likely getting reported.
-Costume; let's face it, as robust as our costume creator is, sometimes it lacks that one little detail, won't let two specific (and otherwise perfect) pieces be used at the same time, or the patterns fall just short of what you'd like. An Energy/energy blaster by the name of Iron Guy with a red/yellow colour scheme and the jewel chest detail is more likely to get me to report him than an Energy/energy blaster by the name of Iron Guy who looks like a medieval knight in grey plate armour.
-Name; For starters, obvious spelling mistakes to get around filters are obvious. If two other criteria match, no amount of "supah mahn", "Super Man 2.0", or "xXSupermanXx" are going to save you. Using a nickname of the character like "The Man of Steel" might earn you a bit more respect, but won't save you from the report button.
This three strikes system helps allow for things like tribute/cosplay costumes, and names of things that existed long before DC/Marvel/(insert company here) used it for one of their characters (Kyriani had mentioned an example using Pheonix).
Despite all of the above, if the character you are copying is not familiar to me, I can't report it. Heck, if it's sufficiently obscure (Like a character from a Magic: the Gathering card)- I, personally, would probably just let it go.
And just because these are what I go by doesn't mean that someone can't report you for less. And the GMs who look into the reports usually tend to err on the side of caution. In some cases you might even be able to escalate and have your name restored (I seem to recall stories on the forums of Jim Butcher running around as one of his characters from The Dresden Files, getting generic'd and then then having the name restored on the basis that he owns the character. And one about someone who got generic'd for having the same name as an NPC, but had the name restored because the character existed before the NPC in question was even added to the game).
I don't petition copyright unless the person does something to tick me off. If (generic) you're going to violate copyright don't act like the back end of a horse. -
Quote:You can appeal their decision if you don't agree with itOriginally Posted by Nethergoat
And since video game GMs are minimum wage cube drones, you can imagine how flawless their judgment is.
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Quote:Damn. I can't find the thread this happened in, but just a few months ago a redname posted in a thread where what Super Leaders can and can't do was mentioned and the redname flat out said the exact opposite and that CS looks into those disputes.Originally Posted by Oldeb
This issue is already resolved. As far as the GMs/Paragon Studios are concerned it's the Leader. There's only one person with that rank and all customer service responses are basically along the line of, "The Leader can do what they wish."
I got the distinct impression that the sudden flip flop statement was used to avoid admitting they have no intention of doing any significant development on bases.
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Quote:Do we really want to make the ERPers more comfortable?Originally Posted by Sevenpenny
As in elbow and knee pads...would it be possible to have these added in game?
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Quote:Except where account restrictions which affect game play, access to features, and communications are concerned.Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
VIP - Premium - & Free players are PLAYERS regardless of how they pay (or don't.)
So flagging players as "free" is totally unnecessary. -
Quote:And where exactly did I ever say that only players on free accounts griefed people?Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Just because it is known for being the friendliest and most helpful community doesn't mean everyone is friendly or helpful. People who grief are not limited to free players.
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Quote:Yes.Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
Must we identify free players?
Because they aren't. Free accounts have many restrictions, and being able to easily spot them makes it easier for Prem/VIP players to help them when those restrictions come into effect.Quote:Why can't they just be "players," like everyone else?
Asking the question twice isn't going to change the answer.Quote:Do we really need to put a marker on them and make it obvious that they are not VIP?
Because players free players can't answer because they aren't familiar with the chat restrictions, or some refuse to answer, and some flat out lie.Quote:Why not just... ask?
Why are you so negative and assume the worst about Prem/VIP's, when this game is well known for having the friendliest, most helpful community around. -
Quote:That was done on purpose by NCSoft's legal department to prevent smart<pancakes> from being able to find loopholes to claim they are technically not violating the games copyright/trademark policy.Originally Posted by Elf_Sniper
This, IMO, is where grey areas show up. Will the GM see your toon as a violation? This will, by its very nature, be influenced by the GM's perceptions. The EULA rule is stated very simply, but it's very open to interpretation.
By keeping it open to interpretation the GM's have the freedom to decide whether or not a player intended to violate the policy despite the howls of innocence that always follow.
And once a GM decision is made the player has the option of protesting the GM's decision by escalating it up to a Senior GM. -
Quote:A while back I suggested that their names be a different color (similar to the gold/purple used for help me/helper) and/or the get a title that identify's them (similar to the Help Me/Helper).Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
Last summer, somewhere, I had suggested the idea of having New/Free accounts be marked by having a small gold ring around at the base of their character - but it was wisely brought up the amount of griefing that that would lead to.
It's best that New/Free accounts not be "marked" in some way.
Best way to find out if someone is playing on a free account? Ask.
The unique name color for free accounts could also be coded into the chat channels so you know everyone with a name that is "x" color is a free account, and they have limited chat abilities like not being able to send tells.
As to the griefing potential, the devs should weigh that against the benefits of making it easier for players to identify free players. I've seen disputes occur when freems got upset over getting kicked from a team because they didn't know that freems weren't allowed access to restricted content.
I've also seen Freems try to grief others by joining pre-formed teams that are doing restricted content so they can't start, and refusing to admit they are on free accounts when asked. -
Quote:I've got it on the Beta Server and in my "opinion" it looks more Magicky than Techy. Well it's generic enough to be any origin but Sci/Tech aren't the first things that pop to my mind when I look at them.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Floating energy disc, yes? Sounds science/techy to me. Would work great for a Vanguard-themed character (I guess they're techno-mages but still).
I won't dismiss others as being wrong if they have a different opinion on what origin it looks like to them tho. -
Quote:/thisOriginally Posted by Arcanaville
I'm afraid that is the reason, although it may not be a satisfactory one to the OP. Even among the pet classes, not all pets are permanent or perma-capable. Controller tier 9 pets are perma, but the phantom army, say, requires enormous recharge to make perma, and even at that trying to make them up perma has an unavoidable problem: the first set despawns as the second set spawns (making using them to hold aggro permanently almost impossible by themselves in the general case). Mastermind Gang War isn't perma or perma-capable even though Masterminds are a pet class. The fact is that some pets are intended to be up all the time or available all the time, but that's limited to Controller and Dominator tier 9 pets, mastermind standard pets, and only some others. The Blaster pets aren't included among those pets intended to be up all the time.
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Quote:No argument on the ugly. Just trying to point out the other options available that can be used until we get more tech themed non combat travel powers. (If we get any more)Originally Posted by DarkGob
Except for the fact that it's ugly as sin.
More options = good...as long as they're not locked beyond Super Packs *coughVoidSkiffcough*.
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Quote:Originally Posted by shadow666
I c was wondering because I was going to screw around and make a pokemon for the hell of it wasn't going to keep it just play and mess around. Was wondering, had a feeling but wanted to clarify it.
You can parody a third party IP but you have to make it obviously different from the original IP itself. -
No. The EULA is quite clear on the subject.
Quote:8. PROHIBITED AND IRREPARABLY HARMFUL ACTIVITIES CONCERNING NCSOFT
You acknowledge that You may not, without signed written consent from a legally authorized representative of NCsoft, do any of the following:
(a) Misappropriate, violate or infringe any third-party IP right;
It doesn't matter what name you use or what the costume looks like. Nor does it matter how long you have manage to get away with it (5 minutes to 8 years or more). If the GM reviewing it deems it violates a third parties Intellectual Property it will be genericed. -
Rocket Board works fine for Science/Tech robot/android/cyborg themed characters.
You can also buy a market and IO lisence and craft costume recipes like Rocket Boots or Tech Wings.
You can also buy the Retro Sci Fi costume set for the Jet Pack costume pieces.
The great thing about the costume pieces is that you can use them with the regular travel powers and not worry about having all your powers suppressed while using them.
You can also use a Macro to use a costume change along with the travel power to create the "transformation" effect when you want to activate your travel power. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
It's placed a little bit out of the way in the sidebar on the right of the page, underneath the contact's name and picture. If the contact is referred to you by someone, or refers you to someone else, then the info will be in there. It says who the contact introduces, and at what level.
Also when Twinshot sends a player to Blue Steel in Kings Row Detective Becktrees or Freitag automatically appear in our active contact list. Going to whichever one is assigned unlocks the Radio/Safeguard missions.
The only way to complete Twinshot's arc without getting a Detective added to the active contact list is by dropping the mission that sends you to Blue Steel.
Detectives are automatically added to our contact lists the first time we enter a zone that has radio missions.