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Aren't there some countries out there who require their ISPs to enforce bandwidth/download limits from international sites? I vaguely remember reading about some Australian players who were worried about that kind of thing. I have absolutely no idea how things might work from Kenya as far as that goes. Good luck regardless.

Yeah I might entertain this "badge access" idea if the Devs did -not- already have plans to allow Prime Earthers into Praetoria at some point. But based on everything that happened during the Going Rogue beta it seems very likely that we'll be able to travel more freely to and from Praetoria as soon as Issue 19.

Think of it this way: After the launch of both CoH and CoV it took the Devs an extra Issue to finish up the higher level content. Remember that Peregrine Island didn't open up until Issue 1 and Grandville didn't open until Issue 7. So it seems reasonable to expect that higher level Praetorian/Incarnate content (open to all players) will arrive in Issue 19.

Be patient - good things come to those that wait.

I wouldn't mind a general revamping of some of the oldest Paragon City zones, especially since we've seen a steady improvement in zone appearance as the game has evolved through CoV and now GR. But as far as the War Walls specifically go I've never had much problem with them, at least not as much problem as other people apparently have had.

To be honest I prefer the obvious zone boundaries the War Walls provide to the alternative "wall-less" concept which ultimately let you hit artificial invisible boundaries. CoV manages to avoid that weirdness with being based mostly on islands, but in any other case it's just strange to be able to bump up against invisible boundaries. If the game world can't be a literal spherical world where you can keep flying in one direction long enough to make it back to where you started then having obvious visible walls is not really so bad.

The pic Bandaider used to describe what someone "in game" was wearing is a bit misleading.

Turns out that's a pic of a special NPC in a mission. While the costume top and bottom are available to players (via the Wedding Pack) the belt and boots are currently not available to players. I say "currently" because that belt and those boots are probably among the top suggested items that players want the Devs to give to us players to use. The Devs have hinted that they are looking at providing more costume items in future Booster Packs so the hope is that these things will become available to us in the future.

I'd agree that now that we play in a post Going Rogue/Crossover game it's unfortunate that AT names like Corruptor, Defender and Peacebringer don't really fit when you have a heroic Corruptor or a villainous Defender/Peacebringer. Since the Devs have been considering allowing Crossovers for years (even well before CoV was finished) you'd think that they would've thought about that and named all ATs in this game using more alignment-neutral names from the start.

But now that the proverbial damage is done I -don't- think these ATs should be renamed. It'd be weird for only a few names to change (for any reason) so late in the game and it'd really only open the door for people to whine about the other names for even less reasonable reasons.

I would chalk this idea up to "It'd be nice on some level, but ultimately isn't really justified" all things considered.

I still find it unfortunate the Devs decided to go with the "SGs must be alignment oriented" concept in the first place.

I realize it probably made their GR development easier, but players should be allowed to have active members of ANY alignment they want in their SGs. SGs should be alignment-neutral as far as the game system goes, especially since the whole idea of PvP base raiding has effectively been shelved. Forcing the Super Leader of a SG to lose the Red Star because of an alignment shift is at best a sloppy kludge. Hopefully the Devs will rethink the artificial limitations they have imposed on us with this.

This idea has been suggested pretty much since SG bases were introduced.
As I recall it became a hotly debated topic at the time.

The argument basically came down to whether or not badges could count for something you don't technically own. Some people concluded that since an individual doesn't technically own their own Prestige (since it's a communal SG resource) that gaining personal badges for it didn't make sense. Also they argued that if you quit your SG what would be the basis for the badges staying on your character. Finally people made the point that since it's been so long since I6 that people would have effectively lost all the progress they might have made on these badges since then - the chances that they would make new Prestige badges retroactive would be pretty small.

To me I see absolutely no reason why Prestige badges could not work exactly the same way the INF badges do. The key thing to realize is that the INF badges don't care whether you end up "owning" the INF personally or not. All they are doing is COUNTING the INF you gain from defeating enemies. They are merely count badges. Thus if INF badges are just count badges why couldn't personal Prestige badges be count badges? It wouldn't matter if you didn't personally own the Prestige or which SG you earned the Prestige for. All these badges would do is count the number of Prestige points your actions generated. Obviously the requirements to earn Prestige badges would be a lot lower than the corresponding INF badges, but beyond that they would effectively be identical.

Frankly I think they should have added personal Prestige badges back at the beginning of I6. Adding them now would be a little weird to say the least. But beyond that weirdness I have no conceptual problem with them whatsoever.

Eh, I'm kind of mixed on the idea of sequels to this movie. I did enjoy it and it was obvious they set it up to do sequels but somehow part of what made it work was the unique "charm" of it. Now that all the characters are established the novelty of their "origin story" is over.

I'm not suggesting a sequel to this movie will automatically suck. But just as importantly I don't think there's any guarantee a sequel to this movie -wouldn't- suck. This can quite literally go either way at this point because there's no obvious direction which way the story should lead.