Red_Raccoon

I'm pretty sure NcSoft is still making money off of people playing their game. If they're not, they made a really bad business design decision somewhere.

Generally, I make characters based on my own imagination, not based on what parts are available in the character creator. Sometimes it can be very challenging to craft a look that matches what I have in mind.

If you really want to have fun duplicating copyrighted characters with the character creator, there's nothing stopping you from doing that. You can even safe the costumes on your hard drive and admire them whenever you want. You just can't use those costumes in game (without risking being genericized, that is).

I don't have much use for transfers either, so I just ignore them. Not so sure I could just as easilly ignore a flaming bag of poo on my porch.

Don't forget the limited characters slots for premium players. Not an issue for those with few alts, but if I went premium, I'd have to pay serious cash for character slots or lose access to a ton of characters that I play regularly. That's what's keeping me paying $15 a month for VP.

Yes, and I've also noticed that the Eye of Horus is also floating in the waters off of Port Oakes.

IT ALL ADDS UP, MAN!

They said it would take a few months for the point allocation date to align with our subscription dates. It wasn't clear to me if the allocation date will remain on the 11th until fixed, or if it will slowly move closer to the correct date each month. Either way, not a big concern for me.

I guess I'm one of the dumber MMO players, because I don't see it.

If they wanted to make us spend extra money rather than using our free points, why even bother giving out those free points in the first place? The delay doesn't mean much to anyone with a little patience (or who actually saved some of their intial 1600 points). Not a very well played scam if it is one.

If you mean that subscribers will no longer get free goodies with each issue and we'll have to buy all that stuff with points instead, I have yet to see any evidence to support that conclusion. Issue 21 came with plenty of freebies for subscribers and Paragon has promised to continue this trend. Looks to me like the Market really just replaced the old expansion packs they used to offer. Except there's more stuff offered, I can buy items piecemeal if I want,
and I get $5 to spend each month before even usuing any of my own money. Sound pretty good to me. I'm certainly not complaining just because I get those points a little late for a little while.

Looks like I'm an affected subscriber. My subscription date is the 4th, so for the next few months I'll have to wait an extra week until the 11th to get my monthly allotment of bonus points.

Considering that they're giving me 400 extra points per month, and also that I received 1600 points at the launch of Freedom when I only expected 1200, it's going to take a lot more than this for Paragon Studios to lose my good will.

I'm still trying to figure out if the OP is being completely serious.

Far from it. While Redside has never been as popular as Blueside, there are plenty of players who enjoy playing Redside 1-50. There are some really great story arcs there. In fact, I'm playing more villains now that I can take Scrappers and Blasters Redside.

Another good reason for alternating between characters, other than saving up Patrol XP, is that you don't get bored playing the same character over and over again, which seems to be part of the OP's problem. I usually alternate between characters with different ATs and powersets so that I can experience a sense of variety. Also alternating between heroes/villains and different level ranges helps ensure a more varied experience.

For me, a big motivation to invest time in the game is leveling characters with powersets I've never played before so I can unlock new powers. Imagine if you could unlock an entire new powerset just by respeccing a level 50 character. Until now the game has mostly made most its money off of subscriptions (may change with Freedom), so it should be no surprise that you wouldn't see a major shortcut like this.

Minor point: sidekicks actually are set to one level below the level of the mission holder.

Me neither, and I know I've done Lorenz Ansaldo's Seawitch mission (one of the two missions that the Wiki says have these things)

They should appear in more missions.

Not really much of an exploit, as you can pretty easilly clear the map without using it. I almost always defeat the spawn in the lobby first and allow the timer to start, and yet I usually clear the map and exit with time to spare.

I think bypassing the timer just reduces to pressure to hurry. And that way, if you need to pause or take a break in the middle of the mission, you can.

As others have said, you don't have to kill the looters in the lobby first. However, should you still choose to do so, you generally should be able to take them out before the villain and his/her hencemen get back from the vault. Probably the reason you are having problems is that you're using a Defender. With a lower-damage character, popping a red inspiration or two should speed up your killing enough. The other possiblity is that you're taking too long getting into the bank. Once you see the message "the bank is being robbed!" you need to get into the bank pronto, because the villain will be heading to the vault soon. (although if you get there too fast, you may want to wait a few seconds because the villain may still be near the spawn in the lobby)

The mission shouldn't fail until the villain or one of the looters (easy to spot, they'll be carrying money bags leaking bills) gets to the getaway van. If the mission failed without one of them escaping, something was bugged (did happen to me once).

Well, call me stupid, because on occasion I've accepted random SG invites.

If I'm playing an alt on a server where neither I nor my friends have formed a supergroup yet, I will usually accept the first SG invite that gets thrown my way. This is in the hopes that I will luck into gaining access to a base with the basics--transporters, workshop with a vault door. Most of the time, this works out--even if said SG doesn't have a decent base, I often find that they're coalitioned with one or more SGs that do. That's really all I care about when it comes to an SG, everything else is gravy.

I've never had a bad experience from joining a random SG. My biggest and best villain group was a random SG that I inheireted after the guy who randomly invited me left. One of the few SGs I joined that didn't have much to offer was a young group with some really nice members and I enjoiyed helping them earn prestige and get their base up and running.

About the worst thing that's ever happened is that couple of SGs have eventually kicked me for inactivity (If I don't have my own SG on a serever, it's probably one I don't play on too often) But that's no big deal, as I just join the next one that offers. I've never voluntarily quit a SG, though I can do so with the push of a button.

I would never send blind invites for my own SGs, but I don't have anything against anyone who wants to blind invite me. I can always decline or even block the invites. Or I can take a chance and see what they got--I really don't have much to lose.

Yeah, Cold Demons are rare on Thron Isle, and depsite what the badge text imiplies, it's not necessary to make the kills in that location. For this badge, I always go to the south west corner of Sharkhead and run up and down the beach below the graveyard. Almost always run into a Hellfrost or two or three each pass. Hordelings in Cap also count.

Wait, so you're saying ZombCare isn't a real company?

It's been that way for me as long as I've been using enchancement storage. Be nice if it was fixed.

I'm sure the testing is over, but everyone has not been switched to the new one. I know because I'm still using the old one and it works just fine (I've actually been meaning to switch, just keep forgetting/procrastinating). Can't comment on whether the aura is supposed to still be rewarded, but I'll check if I get it when I do finally switch (soon, I promise).

Edit: I just upgraded to the new updater and started using it last night. When I checked the costume creator, the Wisps Aura was available, so apparently it is still being rewarded even at this late date. If you didn't get it, definitely bug it.

This is one of the two I don't have. From what I've seen, the costume parts do look pretty cool, but until I get it and see everything I can't really compare it to my favorite packs. Also, interesting as they are, the Mutant costume parts I've seen don't look like they'd work with many of the character concepts I have, but of course that's just me.