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  1. I Burnt The Toast
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Who's to say *you'd* get the name if it did become available?
    In a game with a lot of players the obvious stuff will generally be gone by the time you get to it, whether or not the devs periodically 'cull the herd'.

    Another presumption of thread is that the name you want is being hoarded by some lame-oh that hasn't logged in since forever. It's just as likely the name you want belongs to an active player.


    I've had many, many names I didn't get over the years- in each case applying a little creativity got me a name I liked *better*.
    Sometimes the obvious choice isn't the most satisfying.
    Well then I guess the name RNG would go into play then...whoever gets a freed up name first. A chance is better than NO chance when it comes to freeing up names. And if the name is being used by an active player...it is a moot point. I would think Paragon would be more concerned about the people who actually play and pay for this game than upsetting the few who do have names but haven't paid/played in years. Truth be told I doubt a name purge would result in very many "good" names being made available, but I still stand behind the idea, because like I said... A chance is better than NO chance
  2. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Brenodyja View Post
    Ok here is a crazy idea...

    Vigilance is about being alert and proactive according to its definition, but in its current form it is reactive and not very useful to many primaries correct? How about vigilance is about being "ahead of the game" in terms of damage...

    What if vigilance was a power that automatically buffed whatever ally the defender was targetting... you don't turn it on or off, its just auto-fire but only affects friendly targets... This power would somehow buff the target (ie +def, + res, +status prot, + regen?)...

    Essentially the idea is that as long as the defender has his eyes on the ally, that person would receive those buffs to be proactive about the damage! This would be great too because almost every set could benefit from keeping a single teammate extra safe and I think thematically fits in well with the "assistance" role that the archetype naturally plays!
    Except Traps and TA do not have any reason to target any ally. And while this is great for teammates...how would this help a Defender while solo?
  3. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    And were you to come back after an extended absence to find your character names generic'ed, you'd be ticked.

    What you're trying to argue is an arbitrary number that "sounds fair" to you. You can't actually justify the number you pick.

    Because it's arbitrary, I can counter-argue 5 minutes or 50 years. But I'm not going to. I'm just going to give a blanket "no" to it. Because it's not Paragon's fault, or the fault of the people who got your "chosen name" first that you're suffering a crisis of creativity and are ticked that you can't get XxWolverinexX



    And I say again. No. Because it's completely arbitrary. And it doesn't address the real problem (lack of creativity and flexibility). Indeed, as flexible as the character creation is, its worst failures are at Layer 8.

    It's already been stated that Paragon has NO plans to run a name-clearing script on their names database again. Eight years dormant or 8 minutes dormant, every account that's not banned represents a potential returned customer for Paragon. They're NOT going to waste time and effort on it because little Johnny can't create a toon called Batdude because LapsedGuy 2005 did it way the heck back..
    Not to nitpick but just because you thought of your name years ago for example does not mean I am not creative or that you are creative. So Player A thinks of AWESOMENAME in 2009..gets it..never logs in... Player B wants it... because well.. it's AWESOMENAME. It has nothing to do with being creative but everything to do with time....

    So please state your point in a less demeaning manner as the request has nothing to do with one's inability to be creative rather it has more so to do with people who logged in snatched a cool name and have since vanished. And as I have said...this whole idea is moot to me as in 7 years I ran across one creative name I wanted...couldn't get it so moved on. My stance has nothing to do with me personally rather to those who have thought of a cool name but thanks to a care bear system of "Ohh but AWESOMENAME may return after 3 years we should make sure they get their name..." Pfft how about actually making a system that rewards people who actually PLAY the game instead of ...oh not playing?

    If I came back after 3 years of not touching this game and my AWESOMENAME was now a Generic...so be it...Guess I should have played the game.
  4. I Burnt The Toast
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    I will say in spornse:

    HELL *BLEEP!* YEAH!

    If people can't bother to log into the game in a 3+ years, then mark the names as available. I've sent out tells consistently over the years to a few of those names, and I've yet to get a response.

    So that means they're still away after 3 years or they're ignoring me. And generally I'd get back some sort of response.

    So if I can /getglobalname /getlocalname /tell /friend these people consistently for 3 years and never get a response or see them online, free up the name, someone else can use them.
    I am with Brand on this one...if someone cannot be bothered to log into their account and/or toon in 3 years....I doubt the name is THAT precious to them. I have only ever not been able to get a name one time in 7 years of playing...and wouldn't even want that name now, but I am willing to bet there are some idle names somewhere out there that have been taken years ago....and their "owner" has not been on in years. I of course only stand behind this if the time frame is 3 years...otherwise I am meh on the subject.
  5. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU View Post
    As fart as we know, it is only the KB to KD conversion that is 100%. The knockdown may only be a "chance of" proc, making it no better than KD procs that can currently be slotted in RoF.
    hehehe u said fart :P

    Sorry it's late and I am sleepy silly
  6. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Iannis View Post
    Maybe they'll restore Tanker RES cap back to 99%, pre-Statesman nerfage. Brutes are muddy since they have Tanker resist caps but scrapper damage--best of both worlds!

    Remember when they could pull 1/3 of Brickstown onto themselves and then stand there whistling while the whole zone Mapserver'd due to that many mobs being defeated at once by their blaster teammates all nova'ing together? lol, the good old days.

    That or give tanker Taunts -RES or -DEF in addition to that 1st secondary attack swing debuffing a single target?
    Meh I do not miss the "good old days" - I will take all the advances etc that have been added over the "good old days."

    I actually just deleted my tanker - MA/Invul. I am cutting the number of toons down I had from each "class" and I have melee toons that are just as sturdy but actually do much more damage. (Also deleted my controller because my dom is much better at control and can dish out the damage better).
  7. I Burnt The Toast
    Since 79% of Freebie Friday falls on Friday in the EST zone of the US....not seeing any misrepresentation

    It is a freebie...and if you can't be bothered to log in for 24 hours well then it doesn't mean that much to you. I personally just mentally tell myself it is Freebie Thursday and when I log in on Thursday evening run to the store and click to redeem my lil freebie
  8. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
    Wouldn't work - Very Rare IOs REQUIRE you to be level 50 - not 49 but enough exp to go level up at the trainer, you must level up at the trainer FIRST. If new slots are added to 50, it means you aren't qualified to have Very Rare IOs and thus would lose them.
    No clue what you are going on about...but it has nothing to do with increasing the slots at 50 from 3 to 6.
  9. I Burnt The Toast
    I loathe having to go redside on my corrs/defenders just to get a frickin defense shield. I always thought the patron pools were a stupid idea being tied behind missions and hero ones were just there for you...and now there for everyone regardless of alignment.

    I truly wish the powers listed in Kirsten's thread were made available...I think it is time for more APPs for everyone. A friend of mine said "Yeah but redside is so dead..." meaning this (the patrons) brings more people redside...to which I replied:

    I go...I do what I need to do...I leave.
    I do not spend any significant time redside when I go for my PPP....I just do what I need to do to get back to being a hero
  10. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by chaetophile View Post
    I suggest that team leaders have an option added to their row of mission buttons. The option would be Knockdown. If selected, all chance-for-knockback powers in the team/mission become chance-for-knockdown instead.

    This way, melee AND/OR knockback toons can petition the leader to shut off the excessive knockback if they are being annoyed/being annoying, and nobody need be kicked. Players that are good at using knockback get to use it, and players that are not good at using knockback have an incentive to get better.

    I don't know if this would be technically feasable, but I suspect it would be sweet.

    I've played all sorts of toons for years, but never an energy blaster and never a storm summoner. They might be a blast to solo, but I wouldn't inflict them on any team.

    I'm seriously considering dropping my Peacebringers. Running them without the powers that do knockback would be about as effective as building a Mastermind without any pets, and when you add in the Voids and Quanta... I have a hard time getting them invited.
    And this is a horrible idea for so many reasons. You are a TEAM leader not a dictator. You lead the team you build...or choose different players. Altering the mechanics of someone's play style is not LEADING a team.
  11. I Burnt The Toast

    50+

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by jaad View Post
    How about some more levels and content for 50, 50+ toons?
    You mean like the ZONE they just added?

    Just saying...
  12. I Burnt The Toast
    I play on Freedom...which tends to be a very min/max server and have never been kicked from a team for using KB.... I swear I have no idea what server these build nazis are on or why people get kicked as much as they do but.. eeek.

    I have toons with KB and on one of them I will be using the new KD proc...not because people complain but because KD will allow me to be more effective with Explosive Arrow (TA/Arch Defender) and still always keeping baddies in all my debuffs
  13. I Burnt The Toast
    I miss Jericho too... and I miss Dollhouse...
  14. I Burnt The Toast
    I would love for all power/app/ppp to be customizable, but right now I would just settle for hasten and ss to either be customizable or have a no fx option.
  15. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    The Doctor is on BBC America, isn't he?
    Never really got into Doctor Who....I watched one of the movies which I thought was pretty good, but when I tried watching the series it just did not hold my interest.

    I think my next Netflix series I will start watching is Supernatural.
  16. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
    With the expand we would auto-unlock when we get to level 35, so we can get to Cimerora without running the mini-arc to unlock the access.
    That would be a nice QoL, people dont need to care about unlock that to play the Cimeroran arcs and Impy TF.
    I loathe the unlock for Cim. I have done it soooo many times. I wish they would just introduce a Cim unlock on the market... I would buy it in a heartbeat hehe.
  17. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    Checking out ParagonWiki, the only thing they can be used for without the Invention License would appear to be for purchasing large inspirations and SOs... that doesn't seem very likely to be all that persuasive. Especially considering that it doesn't seem to be doing an excellent job of persuading the VIPs that can get reward merits.
    QFT...

    The purpose of the hybrid model is to entice players to buy more points to move up the tree....hence why the better goodies are further up. I have absolutely no issues with the current rewards/reward tree of the Freedom system. To increase the rewards to freemie/premium players would do nothing but devalue the incentives to be VIP.
  18. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Scythus View Post
    Well I'm a bit disappointed that a workaround isn't being searched for. Those three extra slots would have been wonderful.
    While I think they would be a nice QoL feature... I am guessing the time needed to implement it would have taken away from several QoL features...hence why it was shelved. Who knows maybe one day it will be a possibility, but not gonna hold my breath.
  19. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by EvilGeko View Post
    Now that you mention it, I don't even think I bothered to notice what the set bonuses were!
    It has a decent ranged defense bonus which is nice since on my TA/Arch Defender that is what I am going for capping
    (every lil bit helps hehehe)
  20. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Pebblebrook View Post
    Interesting that you got "this game is in terrible shape" out of re-evaluate the freemium experience but yes, now i remember why i ignored you before your hiatus. Oh well, i better stop before the thread further devolves i guess.
    There is no need to re-evaluate the freemium experience - like other mmos that run the same/similiar model...CoX gives the same if not more benefits to free players.
  21. I Burnt The Toast
    So this all started because of Stargate Atlantis - I caught an episode on tv and was like WOW.. I like this..so I went to the Mart of the Wal and bought all 5 seasons...it was a SGA marathon. So then I discovered SGU...and was so disappointed they cancelled that

    Now I am on Season 3 of SG1... Maybe I should slow down and they will bring out another SG series before I finish all 10 seasons LOL!

    I also have to remember to watch the 2 movies of SG1 after I finish season 10..
  22. I Burnt The Toast
    Just watched the video - Looks fun Hoping the Colosseum and movie theater get used more than just in summer event.
  23. I Burnt The Toast
    It doesn't affect me either way, but in saying that...I think if an account (not a toon) has been inactive for 3 years - regardless of level....their name should be made available.

    I mean seriously... 3 years??? That's not a break from the game...that's not a "having a lil financial probs and will return in a month..or 6."

    Like I said though... I personally do not care if they do something like this, but I would support a 3 year inactive ACCOUNT having all their names be made available.
  24. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    And there are (I think) five to choose from. So running DFB five times makes sense to me.
    The most I have ever ran it on a single toon is twice; same goes for DiB.
    I no longer run the AP arcs/missions because they simply bore me.
  25. I Burnt The Toast
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    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    Yep, totally could hear it. They likely just pulled from the same set of generic canned sounds.
    I thought I was going crazy for a minute Kept telling myself "Self.. I think it's time for a break from CoH when yer hearing these sounds everywhere." hehehe