GrinningSpade

About the reason why:

I can see why obtaining guns in this city is bound to tight control. There are to many punks out there. Too many guntoting maniacs rampaging around. They don't want to give bad guys acces to even more sources to obtain them.

Plus, don't forget in this town a lot of enforcing is handled with superpowered persons. There has to be a good difference between heroes and vigilantes.

Also, when only baddies and policeman have guns, it is easy to know who to 'arrest'. It is bad form to 'arrest' civilians.

On the rogue islands the law enforcers ARE the crooks. You don't want your prey to arm themself and shoot back. So Arachnos don't want to make it to easy to get weaponry.

About the idea:
I love temp powers but i hardly ever use them because i hate losing them. So yes i would love the idea. Although if i want to play an armed hero/villain i can. Temp powers should of course not replace the need for normal powers.

Sounds like a fun thing. Saves a bit of time and zoning to base/ourobouros as well. I don't think it is broken either and would fit nicely into the omg i reached 40 look what i can do now thing.

/Signed

afterthought for those without travel powers. You whistle and a cab appears? Of course cabs being cabs this takes a little while. So you got a nice waiting emote to fill the time.

I sincerely doubt that this will improve things. You get silly names or default ones and you need to redo the naming every time you start teaming. It might work if you rework the whole teaming thing with new search engines and such.

I rather have the devs work on something else to be honest.

I have inherrited so many SG's that i would love to give a personal touch.

/signed (not the micro pay version though)

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I'm fairly sure you wouldn't be allowed your name over on US Grinning Spade, when I played over there I started an MM and I wanted to use PIs names as names for my thugs, I decided to start with Dashiell Hammet's Sam Spade....only to find it wouldn't allow it, I renamed him as Marlow. Within 2 minutes of this there was a GM police drone watching me in Breakout. We had a nice conversation but I can only think he turned up because of the name. Spade in the States has racist overtones I'm afraid.
BTW I,m ok for global as i got Sekmet over there

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Sorry to go off topic but Spade has racist overtones in the US? seriously? is there any word across there that doesn't have racist overtones?

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Don't forget that the other half of the words mean something sexual. Quite hard to say anything at all over there. No wonder that they seem to curse so often.


But I am up to the challenge! Oh dear, the things you have to do to get a few more players.

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walkure outfits (somehow i imagine metalplated bikinis)

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That's in the Mac edition.

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Oh well, In that case throw in the norse runes as well

I concur with the idea that lowering the price wouldn't bring more players to this game. You either like it and pay up or don't.

Plus, they could lower the subscription fees. But then that will be the end to new issues. I am convinced that that will be the end of the game. So no thanks.

For me no thanks. I never use any of the alphabets be them greek or normal. It would mean more scrolling to do before i reach what i consider the good stuff.

However perhaps something for when they do a new package? A viking themed one? Complete with runic hammers, funny helmets, scraggy norman chain, francesca axes, viking swords, walkure outfits (somehow i imagine metalplated bikinis), wooden ironclad shields. Plus a special power to say summon the bifrost bridge teleporter so we could go to other zones?

Sigh, then i should have to buy that package as well of course. So I am still stuck with scrollng down.

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* Server merge... - No, not a good idea... For several already stated reasons.

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While i think this would be a good idea. I am more in favour for a server list merge.

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* Crossover merged PVP zones... - Fantastic idea. The stated added name for the server where the person is from will be the solution to the double name problem. This will bring waaay more PVP-ers together

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If this is just the EU servers then I am not so sure if this will give us many more PvP'ers. Sure, it will add the players from Zukunft and Vigilance into the mayhem. But I expect that the def players who want to PvP to be on Union allready.

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* Server List merge... - One list showing all servers and transfer possibility between them. Very good as it will give us one community... and waay more options.



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I assume you mean EU and US server list merge? I am very very very much in favour for this one. If only for the fact that i will get 8x12 more slots for my alts!!! Althaholics going balistic Weeee.

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* One global over all servers combined... - This will give a global name change which is not that bihg of a problem. Global names is not so important that there is no way around it.

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I will miss my global name. I was lucky to get it on the EU servers and I am sure some yank nibbed it on the US side. But it is a price i am willing to make.

Normally I am in favour of a server merger and even better an EU-US server merge.

However. With I13, we will become Mac compatible. I am hoping this will bring some much needed new blood into the game. So I will await the results of that one before i jump into the server merge bandwagon again.

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2 & 4 are quite good, 3 involves a lot of outdoor hunts and is uite boring. 1 is the most boring, repeatitive, soul destroying TF known to mankind. Done it twice and last time most of the team said they'd never ever do it again. There's 4 mishes in a row on the exact same lab map with the only difference being you have to find one more glowy than in the last one.

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Basicly the only fun stuff is trying to navigate through the shards. Trying to find the spot where to hunt. TG for ourobouros though to make traveling about so much more easy. It also saves at least 1 hour from the shard TF's that would normally be wasted in trasfer from the shards to a newbie zone.

What they lack though is something challenging to do. Just some mobs to beat up. No AV's, No EB's, No Nictus.

If you call this a half baked idea I wonder about your non half baked ideas.

To be honest this sounds like not an addition to this game but to a whole new game. I see problems with retiring the 50. Such a shame to retire someone especially after spending a few 1000 millions on those purples.

Then I am having trouble about what you actually do. It sounds like an old style command and conquer game. Send out peasant to gather goodies. Build up, get better warriors, kill enemies.

So I wonder what you as player do in your setup? Because the interface we are stuck with is not the best suited for a subgame like you propose.

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Every Issue, we get a little more 50 content - so the amount of endgame stuff is slowly building up.

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True of course. We got 35+ content, purple IO's and such and now merrits. Problem is what to do with those purples besides PvP. What epic destiny is there for my 50? I think that people would love to see epic stuff for their 50's to do. Something only one at those powerlevels are capable of. Something you could consider being an endgame.

I think it would be the suppreme of coolness if your character could be immortalised into one of those giant statues. Of course only after hitting lvl 50 and performing a mind boggling Arc/TF.

Because in a world where almost every player hits that mark, the statue couldn't be placed for real. Of neccesity it would be only vissible to the player himself. Every one else wouls either see his own, a default statue or a random player hero statue.

I expect this to be not an easy programming task but could it be done (at a reasonable effort and cost)? If so, would it be a good thing to do so?

Got the same problem as Donna has. Once I hit 50 on a toon. It got basicly shelved. Of course unlocking the epics was interesting but it ould be nice if you could do something special with your 50. Like Donna said some things for lvl 50's only. Things that make yu fel special lik Visits to the white house talk about a giant statue of you etc.

If a game mechanism can be broken it will be broken!

Good work indeed. Murphy would approve.

Merit awards should be shared with the team. Or teaming will be even more hard then before. I like the idea of getting merrits for every non paper missions. Even if it is only a single one. Everything to make people stop doing only papers.

Think of the great stuff this game got that WoW is lacking.

For example: Travel powers. Flight, Superspeed, Superjump and even teleport. Nothing gives the feeling of being a hero better then by jumping over skyscrapers, flying around the atlas statue, zipping past almost non moving automobiles or bamfing from spot to spot.

Unique methhods to fight. You can play the basic tanker, melee, archer nuker or healer like you do in WoW. But how about Controlling your opponents? Sending out your minions to do your evil work or using a specialised melee like dual blades where you have to combine your attacks to get special results?

Or try to team and experience that in this game you CAN team with level 50 and level 1 at the same time! So you never will outlevel your friends truly.

And about the sounds. Sure individually there is not much of it. But in a full team? The rattling of machineguns, the thumps of grenades exploding, the swords whistling through the air, the powerfull Boom from the tankers footstomp. With all those simultaniously sound effects going of at once it makes a cacophony of noise.

My tip? Buy the game, pay for one month and try to team as much as you can inbetween the restyling of your favorite hero or villain. Then try WoW again.

Well I collected the badges on my main badge collector characters. I made sure I got enougn salvage for every toon that did need it. Even managed to collect a load of badges on toons that are slightyly underused. I did not try to collct spirit badges on my characters though. Two of em was hard enough as it is.

Still sad to see that when i knock on doors now nothing will get out of it. Bye bye fun game while you wait for the team to gather.

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I just traded in some Halloween salvage on heroes and straight away zombie attacks sprung up in Faultline and Mercy.

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And i traded the stuff on CoV Defiant. Guess what. NO invasion. Considering the fact that there are less villains and def has a lower pop. The chance for accidental trigging is less likely so I think we can safely say that this is not the trigger.

Trip mine got its uses and is quite handy now and then but only when soloing. While time bomb is essentially a trip mine being awkward. My tip. /respec

It would make the MM's life a little easier. So you got my vote.

For one night to not be the bad guy. To be a hero rescuing old ladies hand bags and returning those to them with a smile and a bow.

Lets call it the night we got confused. Heroes moving around creating havoc on the rogue islands and villains saving Paragoncity.

Another thing that could use a little tweaking. The zombie Spawns. I think it would be better if they don't spawn in more then 1 area at the same time. Also lower the frequency a lot so we keep interested in doing them until the end of the event. It is a shame that the spawns don't get the attention they deserve anymore.

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What personal attack? Did I say any names? Did I indicate anyone in particular? No, then what personal attack did I make? I'm referring to "people", a purely generic term. If you think that's a personal attack, that ain't MY problem.

And people ARE whining about it...


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Since I started this thread. The most logical 'people' you refer to is me. Especially since this is the only EU thread that I know of that is talking about this subject. But to avoid misunderstandings here. Do you consider me one of those people whining about this?

Edited the quote from FFm into the post for clarity