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Well I have a suspicion these problems are closely related. They are both connected to how the game keeps track of your real-time account status. There are plenty of people who haven't gotten a new annual vet badge since October either.

At any rate I figure if they manage to fix one of these issues the other will be effectively fixed as well.

Well you can certainly suggest something like that in the suggestions section.
For what it's worth I've never found a need for what you're suggesting but that may just be me. *shrugs*

Yes I would agree that depending on where you put things like the Enhancement Boosters they can provide you more or less benefit. But it's not really up to the Devs to tell us the "best" way to use them. There's a certain implied responsibility on our part to either figure our how to get the most value out of them on our own or be content to blindly spend money to get things that we don't fully understand. After all no one really said these things have to be idiot proof.

Some players of this game love to tinker with the numbers and min/max their builds as much as possible. Other people could care less about those things. It's arguable that the only people who are even really going to care about getting the most out of Enhancement Boosters are the people who are knowledgeable with the way the system works anyway. Or to say it another way the people who don't worry about min/maxing probably won't worry about "wasting" Enhancement Boosters either.

A person would only have themselves to blame if they bought a bunch Enhancement Boosters and got upset that they somehow didn't get their full bang-for-their-buck out of them.

Well they say even a broken clock is right twice a day...

What do you think gives them their hive-minded super psychic powers in the first place?
Getting all synced up was the -first- step in Mom's plan.

I also agree this would be a very good idea. For instance I rarely ever bother "server transferring" characters so almost any of the other options you suggested would be far more useful to me. Ultimately allowing people to choose the reward that's most desirable to them would make this feature much better for everyone.

Even before things like the latest enhancement boosters it was relatively easy for many builds to bump up against the limits of ED. There's only so much more anything like the boosters can do before they push us up against all of the existing hard limits.

So no there's not really a "glass ceiling" as much as a concept of "diminishing returns" at work here. That was probably the kind of phrase you were looking for.

Again having a cooldown period like this is a good idea when that's the only method of control the Devs have to work with. That's why you have cooldown periods for things like getting Empyrean Merits in the iTrials.

But I'll drive home the point again that the control method in this case is the cost of the Alignment Token itself. It really makes absolutely -no- sense for something which is already controlled by costing 800 Paragon Points to ALSO have a cooldown period.

I suspect the only reason there may be a 20 hour cooldown here is because it's leftover code from the way the morality missions from the Tip system works. At the very least if this is WAI the Devs should have told us about that and made it impossible for people to waste Alignment Change tokens before the cooldown period is done.

It's funny but I almost got the vibe of the classic Wonder Woman bit where the princess "mischievously" entered the big contest to "prove herself as the best warrior" to everyone. Obviously the details between this trailer and Wonder Woman are a bit different, but since you mentioned the idea of this being another rehash of the overused tropes I figured I'd add more to that fire.

Regardless it does look like it'll be a good movie anyway.

Heh... you obviously didn't bother to read my post that came just before yours in this thread.
I can assure you that quite a few costume mods are floating around, or at least used to be some years ago.

One thing I'd stress as very useful is the Incandescence power. Several timely uses of that power managed to be very helpful during my successful run at this.

Good luck to any going for this regardless...

It seems fairly clear that the Devs are introducing them in a sort of "easier first, harder later" order. Your quick list here shows that what you labeled as the "easy" ones were the first ones released. The "hard" ones are the later ones.

Seems pretty likely that any new ones from now on will only continue to get harder. The Devs likely intended for them to be done in the rough order that they've been released but like Blue_Fenix implied there's no strict rule about that either way.

This is what I don't get when people want to "port" things to portable devices. I'll bet somebody could figure out a way to port CoH to a Commodore 64 as well but who would want to put up with how god-awful slow and clunky it'd be?

I'm sure some time in the future there will be portable devices that will be beefy enough hardware-wise to be able to play games as well as I can play them on my fully-loaded desktop. But until that day comes I just don't see the point. *shrugs*

Ironically as much trouble as they were the first time I've started trying for the MoKeyes badges on my second badger.
Maybe your sig line is right - the Devil made those badges to tempt us forever.

I think how .costumes files can be used to save and load costumes back and forth through the costume editor was pretty well covered. This changes what you look like to everyone else in the game.

But to add to what Zombie Man said the thing you are talking about where you can "mod" your costumes so that you see different things locally only on your client is a different thing altogether. Just like you can mod your maps using the Vidiotmaps mod files there are also ways that you can "replace" certain costumes items so that when you wear item X it looks different to you. Because that kind of modification only happens on your client everyone else will see the normal version of that item when they look at you. This is how the "nude" mod works - people have tinkered with certain items so that to you you'll look nude whereas everyone else sees the normal versions of whatever you modified.

I'm not going to mention -how- you accomplish that kind of thing because I believe discussing the details is not strictly allowed here in the forums. But know that just like how the map mods work the way you can mod costumes items has been a built-in feature of this game since the very beginning. Modding costumes used to be a big thing that was popular during the first few years of the game but frankly I don't really hear about people doing it much anymore.

The key point is that costume modding is something different from using the .costume files.
It's not an "Urban Legend" as much as just something you probably won't hear too much about anymore.

The history of this game is certainly a data point to look at when making predictions. But I don't read too much into it because even though there may never have been an Issue launched during the month of March there is no rule or law that says that an Issue can't be launched during that month. It's pretty silly to think just because it hasn't happened yet it never will.

Right I think they already made it clear that Staff and Beast Mastery would come after I22.
But whenever I22 launches it'll at least have the new Dark Control/Assault powersets.

I always love how people see the word "exclusive" and automatically delude themselves into thinking that it means that something will be PERMANENTLY exclusive.

In order for the Devs to have satisfied any implications of the word "exclusive" all they would have had to do is not sold it outside of the Collector's Edition for like a day or so. Sure, that would have tacky and misleading on their part to have sold it separately that quickly, but there was never any promise or guarantee that anything sold in the Collector's Edition was going to remain PERMANENTLY exclusive.

It's been many years since the Collector's Editions were sold frankly that's more than long enough for anything to be kept exclusive in a game like this. I've had the Power Slide on my account for years and I couldn't care less if they chose to finally sell it separately so that others could have it. *shrugs*

Basically people who think that paying extra for Collector's Editions will grant them permanent exclusivity to items like this are woefully naive of their expectations in this matter. At best all that it means is that you'll have access to something for a time before someone else does.

People have been asking for more "asymmetrical" costume options like your one glove idea for years.
Maybe someday we'll get more stuff like that. *shrugs*