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Honestly, I won't make much, if any, use of it, except to see how it looks on a few characters.

However, I am going to assume that you were not here when they introduced Veteran Rewards. When they released the Veterans Rewards video, and it showed the characters walking down the street, you would not believe the outrage when the Devs told us that we would not be getting the ability to walk.

And the feature was oft requested before then, but, prior to that, we had never seen what were apparently player models walking.

Don't like it, don't use it. I know I won't. But I don't begrudge the fact that lots of players who wanted the feature finally got it. Some people don't care for Architect, or Power Customization, or Holiday Events. How would you feel if your own pet favorite feature got canned or rolled back because a bunch of Debbie Downers claimed that it was the "worst waste of Dev resources for the game, ever."

If you think the Devs are wasting too much of your time or money with "wastes of time" like the walk power, exercise your own power to walk away. Send them a polite e-mail about why you are dissatisfied, followed by a polite snail mail, and then unsub until they change their ways.

On the other hand, if you can accept that you won't like everything that everyone else seems to, and are willing to wait for the features you do want, nothing is preventing you from sending a polite e-mail to the Devs detailing some of the things you would like to see.

If you do decide to leave, don't tell us (well, don't bother telling me, I don't care beyond the lost subscription revenue), but definitely tell the Devs, and do it politely (Ragequits rarely see the desired results, and are easily dismissed as irrational).

I don't think our answers are necessarily mutually exclusive. I cornered Brian literally 5 minutes after the Keynote Address. I was two people away from the mike when they stopped taking questions, so I was burning to get my question answered.

It is possible that PuceNonagon talked to Brian later in the day after he had had a chance to mull over my earlier question or talk it over with the rest of the Devs.

That being said, I think time will be a little too tight for there to be a full issue. If we get 16.5, it will need to be in the Training Room by early / mid November so as not to interfere with the Going Rogue testing.

*cough*

Hasten and Practiced Brawler aren't "toggle powers."

You can have as many toggle powers running as you like.

Hasten and Practiced Brawler are "click" powers, just like every attack in the game.

You've been playing since June 2004, and this is just now becoming an issue for you?

You, apparently, didn't have a problem with this for 5 years. Why would you pitch a fit now?

And no, I don't have a problem with it. I much prefer the tactical use of my powers, thank you very much. Autoing anything before you have the ability to perma it will lead to situations where you don't have the power available when you really need it. (unless that be Auto-Brawl for fury building, especially now that Brawl cost no End.)

Ooooohhhhh!

You can combine the crab pack with the bolero? It automatically removed my cape, so I didn't even think to try it.

Time for Webmistress Diaea to go back to the Facemaker.

It doesn't make us mad because it doesn't happen to us.I solo when I want to solo, and I have relatively little trouble finding a team when I want to team, even on the low pop servers. If it happens to be a slow day, I still consider a duo to be a team, and will do missions while I am hunting for more players. I'll just send out more tells while the rest of the team is resting, leveling or selling between missions.

There are already rewards for teaming. They seem to work just fine from where I am standing.

The players who wrecked AE were the players in AE who abused AE. We were told before AE launch that it was not to be used for farming. Yet people made farm after farm, even after their farms were deleted and they began locking publishing slots. From day one, using exploits has been punished, yet many AE users found every convenient loophole they could to get massive rewards for little time, little effort, and even less risk. AE was "wrecked" in direct response to those who used it and abused it, not at the behest of the roleplayers "holding Pocket D down." Those people didn't care about AE in the first place (Pocket D was the one place where you would never hear the AE farm spam that dominated Atlas Park until Issue 16).

I think you need to reparse this sentence, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Removing the double negative; "Now,I am presenting to you all something else to destroy:The players ability(including me) to be able to say yes to teams,whether it be trying to get a coveted reward we all want,or something else entirely."

According to you, our ability to say yes to teams has already been destroyed (which has been proven to be untrue). Again, there are ample rewards for teaming, but there are also rewards for soloing. This is how it should be. I team when I want to level. I solo when I want to get involved in the character and story. I team when I want influence and XP. I solo when I want Salvage and Recipes.

We don't have your problem. For me, part of this is that I have no expectation that folks I invite must join me. If they want to, they will tell me to send the invite. If they don't, they will ignore my tell or send me a polite no in response. One thing I most assuredly do not feel is mad when they tell me that they would like to join, but they want to complete the mission they are on first. In that case, I ask them to send me a tell when they are done, and I take the team that I have and start our next mission. I never wait for them, but I do do them the courtesy of leaving a slot open for them for 10 to 15 minutes (generally one mission). If they don't get back to me by then, I try to fill the slot with someone else.

Your issues seem to be self inflicted. If I had refused one of your invites and been treated to some of your invective, I would promptly put you on global ignore. I don't think I am alone. If your attitude in game is comparable to your attitude here, it is entirely possible that you have alienated yourself from a large percentage of your main server's population.

Look within to find your answer.

Nope.

The Mission Architect is cross server, like the market. If you create an arc with a Liberty hero, a Pinnacle villain can play it, no problems.

This was one of the front page news items in September. You can probably still find it.

I, and I think many others, are as starved for info as you are. However, the forum community as a whole has proven unable to handle new information too far out. If the Devs announce something too far out, and it doesn't materialize exactly the way they initially promoted, or on schedule, or at all, we take them to task for it, and never let them forget it. We create these wild conspiracy theories about bait & switch or how the Devs are purposely trying to kill the game. As a group, it is almost impossible for us to keep a level head about, well, anything.

This is why we didn't know Power Customization was coming until July, despite the fact that they had been working on it since May of 2008. Even then, we complain incessantly about how EATs and Power Pools were left out of the Customization, regardless of the fact that we were told in the initial announcement which powersets were getting customized, and the first Q&A about it told us that Power Pools and APP/PPP are next to be worked on.

Add into this already guarded mindset that City of Heroes now has competition. They now need to play their cards even closer to the vest so that the competition can't rush out some comparable feature just to claim they had it first.

My guess is that we might see some trickle of information in the next two weeks, and expect a major bomb to drop at HeroCon.

That would be the "Sinister" pattern, available (with the Justice costume set) with either the Good vs. Evil version of the game, or as part of the G v E Goodie Pack.

There is a "Sinister" texture as well as pattern. Sinister also comes with gloves (w/ or w/out armguards), shoulder pads, and boots (w/or w/out shinguards).

I tend to use the Sinister Boots (w/out guards) a lot, and I've gotten some good use out of the Sinister gloves (also w/out guards).

I've gotten a ton of use out of the various Justice pieces, too.

And the Jump Jet.

And the Pocket D Teleporter.

I have mixed feelings about this cover. It is so completely different from the original version. Karen truly made the song her own. On the other hand, I love the original version, so the Carpenters' version sounds funny to me.

Maybe it fits in the "so bad, it's good" category, like William Shatner's version or Mr. Tambourine Man.

Positron confirmed in an interview that Praetoria would consist of multiple Zones, but I do not recall seeing the number of Zones quantified.

He also confirmed that a character could begin their career in Praetoria (new low level content), that heroes would be able to become villains, villains could become heroes, or they could stay in the middle if they chose and become vigilantes and rogues, respectively.

New high level content has been hinted at, but not elaborated on, aside from to say that the planned high level content is supposed to make current high level content look easy.

Castle has hinted at advancement beyond 50, but not the form that advancement would take. He emphasized that it would not be a level cap increase, but something else.

While high level content and post 50 advancement have been talked about, they have not been specifically linked to Going Rogue.

Badgers? Badgers?!? We don't need no stinking badgers!!

In addition to the new Praetorian content, I'd like to see some of the old content cleaned up. Fewer "busywork" missions, and a more streamlined flow, like the Villains content.

Now that we have the system in place that adds a contact to your list when you unlock them, I'd like to see the "introduction" missions go away. i.e; at level 5, David Wincott gets added to your contact list, at level 7, the Perez Park Security Chief, at level 10, the Steel Canyon Security Chief, at level 12, the Bloody Bay Liason, etc.

Since we will have the ability to "go rogue," there isn't a lot of point keeping the ATs exclusive to one side or the other, so I'd like to see us have the ability to make a heroic Dominator or villainous Blaster (for example) from level 1 and start in the appropriate zones.

I expect to see a boatload of new costume pieces, a new Co-Op / PVP zone for heroes and villains, and another Epic AT unlocked by having a hero or villain switch sides, and then go back again (complete both sets of story arcs, leading to an accolade). This last would obviously be exclusive to those who bought the Going Rogue expansion.

I figure once they are sure the servers are stable from the launch of I16 (people are still reporting DCs while zoning), they will announce the "make up weekend." I figure we'll see at least one patch to Test then Live before then.

His defenses may be weak, but so are the enemies. The attacks may be few(?, at level two, my Brutes have four attacks, and by level 6, they have five or six), but the enemies don't have a lot of HP.

I've noticed that with the changes to the End Cost of Brawl and the Origin "Temp" powers, I've been able to fight a lot more enemies before I need to rest.

Travel power is usually taken care of by level 7 (I usually ding 7 during my first Mayhem Mission).

My experience does not match your experience.

But if you listen closely, the world's tiniest violin is playing in time with the sound of your sobs.

I think I would get bored faster without the leveling and variety of content found at lower levels (why would you even fight street gangs and mobsters if you didn't have to level up through them first?). Bored faster means lower retention and faster churn.

Actually, the Devs have access to this information. BAB gave us the complete breakdown of most and least played Arcehtypes some time last year. From what we've been led to understand, the Devs datamining tools are fairly comprehensive. We just don't have access to them.

That being said:

I wouldn't mind seeing a feature like this either, maybe using the guts of the poor, abandoned City Vault.

/signed.

/em threadjack

This is not "cook(ing) dinner", nor is it sighworthy to put a pizza someone else prepared into the oven for 25 minutes, take it out, and then cut it. I'm hoping the sigh is just you being melodramatic.

Unless this was the standard alerady established in your household when she requests that you "cook," you should be beaten with a lasagna noodle that has only been cooked for 4 minutes until you see the light.

Papa John's is a perfectly acceptable temporary measure, but you should cook her up a really nice dinner this weekend (I hate cooking after coming home from my 9 to 5, so I wouldn't expect you to be any more enthusiastic). If you would like me to scare up my lasagna, turkey saltimbocca or chicken picatta recipes for you to wow her with, let me know. IIRC, there are a ton of Heroes on this site who appreciate and make good food. If you ask, you could probably have a hundred great and easy recipes in your in box by tomorrow afternoon (for example, my lasagna is time intensive, but the chicken picatta and turkey saltimbocca recipes are quick and easy).

Bon apetit

Yes, just going into the tailor with that costume will shift the options to the nearest legal option. You might be able to circumvent this at a plastic surgeon, since the default menu is the body type menu, rather than the costume menu, but I would be surprised if it worked.

However, if you just wish to preserve the glowing eyes, they are still there. Face option - Supernatural 13 (on males, IIRC, the glowing eyes that you can't recolor). At the very bottom of the second Face menu, you should see Supernatural 13. Select this, and you can alter the hue of your glowing eyes.

While there isn't a way to stop it at this point, there is a way to minimize the risk. Don't put anything you are going to click often in the number one slot. Put a toggle there. In my case, I put Build Up / Aim / Snipe on tray one, a toggle on tray two, and self destruct on tray three. I almost neveer flip trays unintentionally.

All of them with Jay Garrick's blessing. According to the Life Story of the Flash, Barry offered to stop using the name after meeting his childhood hero, the Flash, because he claimed the name without asking. Wally West went through a similar process when Jay Garrick returned to active duty with the JSA. Jay, impressed with Bart's growth from Impulse as Kid Flash, gave his blessing before Bart asked. All of the Flashes, with the exception or Gardner Fox (who was the Flash for, what, six issues), have sought, and met with, Jay Garrick's approval.

Unproven. I think it bears investigation. Personally, I dislike the notion because it would break immersion for me, and because of possible confusion. If I can't run into another "me," then I can still be the star of my own comic book. If no one else can be "me," then "my" friends don't have to wonder why "I" am hiding from them and ignoring their tells if they run into "me" in game.

I've had to fight for quite a few names. It hasn't killed the enjoyment of the game for me. Maybe just a few concepts as a new name sometimes requires a new costume and backstory.

Mainly aesthetics for me.

Our globals are attached to our accounts. Our names are attached to our accounts. We don't know that our globals are attached to our names, as it has never come up. That is a question for the Devs.

While I don't disagree that a rewards analysis is warranted, I believe that the added XP / Inf was thought to be a fair trade for lower drops. The extra influence could go towards buying the Enhancements you didn't get, and the fact that everyone was leveling faster meant that the whole team would need to use the extra influence to replace their outdated enhancements more often. The XP / Inf bonus was conceived before the Invention system, and I don't think it was revisited for Salvage and Recipe drops.

I'm not sure how the tech would work though, as each item can still only drop once. Maybe an increased chance to drop per team member. This will still get (un)lucky streaks where one player could get the lion's share of the drops, but would still result in a higher chance to get drops for the whole team.

It certainly bears consideration.

First. There did appear to be issues with the drop rates throughout the Issue 16 beta. Synapse came forward and told us that they did not change the drop rates, so he would do some datamining, and if the datamining supported it, he would see if there was a bug in the system.

The same drop rates seemed to go live, but with the full playerbase, even over a couple of days, Synapse may have gotten plenty enough data. Word on the street is that yesterday's (Thursday 9/17) patch fixed this. People are testing today to verify this.

However, you should be aware that for every mob you defeat, there is only one roll for each possible drop, and then a random roll to see which team member gets that drop. If you want drops, it is best to farm solo. If you want XP / INF / Prestige, it is best to join teams.

On a team of seven, it could look like this:

Type of drop / Yes or No / Recipient

Inspiration / Yes / Player 3

Enhancement / No / None

Salvage / Yes / Player 5

Recipe / Yes / Player 2

Even though the mob dropped 3 of 4 possible loot, four players didn't get anything.

Welcome to the random number generator. You had a bad streak, but not totally unexpected on a team of 7. Getting the same results on a team of two or three, or solo, would have been noteworthy.

You can thank me for that if it was on Virtue. I rerolled him into U S Archer because I wanted a patriotic hero.