Roderick

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    ...unless they've maxed the number of open character slots on a server.
    You can't have more characters than slots on a server when you're VIP. The only way to end up in that position would be to buy character slots for that server, and the game remembers that you did so, and adds them to your base 12.

    As a VIP, you can always access all the characters you have created.
  2. Tokens from subscription time come at the END of the paid time, just like the old Vet badges did (for the old-timers).

    You should have:
    -One token (for all accounts)
    -One token (for your first point purchase)
    -One token (for 1200 points purchased)
    -One token (for your first month as a VIP player, awarded on Jan 16th per your OP)

    Your next token should be on Feb 16th, at the end of your first paid month.

    Everything is in order.
  3. You CAN'T fill in the Tier 9 rewards, all are repeatable consumables. T9 and T9 VIP are both available to you immediately.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Meat_Wad View Post
    I guess I must be an idiot. But just in case I thought I would ask a similiar question. All but one of my characters on Virtue are locked. The one that is not is a lvl12 troller I started a few months back. Now during my entire time here in COH I have played with a VIP or pay account up through December. I was under the impression if I went back to pay to play, $14.99 per month or so all of my toons would be unlocked since I was paying for them when they were all created. Is this incorrect?
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Yeah, things only get locked when you downgrade an account.
    However, they don't get UNlocked when you upgrade to VIP. Any server you log into while Premium gets all the characters on it locked. Then, when you resubscribe, any characters that you didn't unlock remain locked, but you're given enough unlock tokens to unlock everything on every server. So yes, you can play all your characters as a subscriber.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    The timestamps for your edit show that your second edit (after actually testing it) was made after my post.
    Crap! You're right. Now I must forever bear the shame of my folly!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba View Post
    Even though this is a necrothread, has anyone verified that you have to use a unique email address to create new accounts as someone mentioned upthread? I ask because I've got the same email addy on my two accounts and plan to crank up a couple more.
    I've had two accounts with the same email address since a couple years before this thread started.

    EDIT: After re-reading, I see that I haven't actually answered your question. I don't know for sure if anything's changed. One way to check...

    EDIT2: I just went to my Master Account, clicked the "Create a CoH:Freedom Account Now!" button, entered a username and password, and got an account. No email requested nor given.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheprera View Post
    The sleeves. On my phone, so no pic, but the one that slightly hangs down... can we get patterns, including sleek attached?
    If you're talking about the ones I think you are, then no, we can't, because they've got bare hands. We can only have two colors (not counting pre-tinted parts, like the yellow band on the Praetorian Police Chest Detail): Either Color 1 and Color 2, or Color 1 and Skin. Until the system is changed to allow 3 colors per costume part (which I'm not going to hold my breath for, no matter how much I'd like to see it), it just isn't possible.

    There are a few pieces (like certain jackets) that have three player-selected colors, but the third color is a blend of Color 1 and Color 2, not an actual third color.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    The only personal storage device is one's Vault and that is flagged to hold only invention salvage. It could be flagged, I'm guessing, to also hold enhancements. Maybe.
    But even then, it's still character specific, so it couldn't be used to transfer anything.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shining_Nova View Post
    i wasnt trying to be mean, but the customer service rep has just ignored me since yesterday.
    If you haven't gotten a response, how do you know that they're ignoring you? Maybe they're trying to get an answer for you. They're not going to send a progress report every 20 minutes, nor every time you ask. They have more important things to do - like actually finding your answer.

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    i do my best not to be mean to any one, but when im ignored because its more convenient,
    Did they tell you that that's what they're doing? If not, then how do you know that's what's happening? And you know the old bit about what happens when you "assume", right?

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    At the very least i should have gotten a responce back telling me they would look for an answer or something
    No you shouldn't. See above.

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    but all i get is my ticket closed and the silent treatment from the support team.
    Your ticket isn't closed unless YOU told them to, or three days have passed since they last communicated with you with no response from you. The ticket is specifically left open in those cases so that you can add additional information about the problem if need be.


    However, from the character select screen:

    Quote:
    CHARACTER SLOT REDEMPTION WARNING!

    Please read carefully!

    You are adding a slot to the Victory server. Character slots are specific to your currently selected server and cannot be changed once they have been allocated to this server. The additional slot will appear on your character select screen as soon as your request has been completed and validated. Do you wish to add a slot to the Victory server?
    They didn't exactly spring this on you from nowhere; you WERE warned in advance.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Erhnam View Post
    I think they changed it so they spawn size is set at the initial number of players, so if you start Synapse TF with 6 people and 4 of them leave the team, and the other one logs off, you will still be facing x6 spawns

    I may be mistaken, tho :P
    Originally, it followed normal spawning rules. However, people were bypassing hard missions by having everyone but one person log out, the solo player entering the mission and spawning the whole map (for 1), and then everyone else logging in and storming the map in easy mode.

    The original fix was to make it so that the spawn size never dropped below the minimum for the Task Force. So for example, on a Manticore Task Force, the missions would never spawn for less than 7. However, this brought out the griefers: Groups of 3-4 players would join a Task Force, and then midway through, all quit, forcing the team to struggle through oversized spawns or disband and start over.

    The final change was to make it as I listed above - spawns are sized for the actual team, but it counts everyone, even the people who are logged out. Since we can't kick the people who are logged out, some griefing is still possible, but it's less likely.
  11. Roderick

    CoX Riddles

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MajorDecoy View Post
    Yes, at 1000 meters, it ticks over to 1.00 km. It goes 999.9m to 1000.0 m for a split second, and then goes "Wait, wrong display" and ticks over to 1.00
    We can switch the display to metric? How?
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Super Flu View Post
    Well I posted a new thread and it ended up here as an add on. Unfortunately. And the new replies are based upon the old parts of the thread. Sigh.
    I've seen (and even done) that before. You go to click "New Thread" while still in a thread and click "New Reply" instead, and end up talking about your build in someone's fan art thread. ops:

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    Can you solo TFs using the same old format (start TF and one person has to log vs quit) or is there some different way....post Freedom.
    Yes, you can. You need enough characters of the minimum level (or higher) to meet the TF requirement. Once it's started, any number of players can /leave_team or log off, as long as at least two people remain on the team (they can be online or off, it doesn't matter, the TF will remain active). The enemy spawn sizes will be based on the number of players currently on the TF (including logged out players), so be sure you can handle the additional spawns. Also note that TF mode overrides your Boss and AV settings; they will all be full strength, even if you are set to downgrade one or both when solo (technically, you AREN'T solo, but AVs are still full strength, even if you have less than 6).

    Free and Premium players can join all TFs and Trials (except Apex, Tin Mage and Incarnate Trials, which have Incarnate requirements that non-VIP accounts can't meet), which means that if you have a good enough computer or enough computers to run multiple accounts, you CAN start TFs "solo" by creating a batch of free accounts and leveling characters to the minimum level for the TFs you want to do.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warkupo View Post
    what is Willpower doing then? Ignoring fire through the sheer force of his awesomeness
    Pretty much, yeah. A man who walks through the flames doesn't dodge them, he just ignores them because, much like the famed honey badger, he just doesn't give a ****.
  14. I used to play a couple Facebook games that used this method of eraning free game money.

    Over half of the surveys I did followed the same format:

    Quote:
    Hi, thank you for choosing to do our survey! To start, please enter your email address below!
    (Some make you click a verification link in an email sent to the address, and a few gave you the option of adding your full address and/or mobile number for "demographic tracking")

    Before we start, we need to ask a few questions to see if you are eligible for any of the surveys we're currently offering.

    ... After clicking through 20 minutes of questions that are basically the same thing as every other survey asks ...

    We're sorry, but you don't qualify for any of the surveys we're currently offering. If you had qualified, we would have just asked the same questions you already answered, so we're just going to file away your info and save it for later. Since all you did was sign up and you didn't actually complete a survey, screw you, we're not giving you any points. And thanks for your email address and any other personal information you were dumb enough to volunteer, we'll be sure to sell that information to as many irreputable companies as we can, so that you can be spammed endlessly. Thank you, and have a nice day.
    Sorry, but this is NOT the type of company I want associated with Paragon Studios and City of Heroes.

    /unsigned
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DreadShinobi View Post
    I was pretty sure they fixed that a long time ago.
    You're right, they did fix it a couple years ago. However, the fix never made it Live; it just showed up (undocumented) on the Test server, and vanished just as mysteriously. I can only assume that whatever they did to fix it broke something else, and that whatever it was was considered worse than the problem that they were trying to fix.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by EarthFury View Post
    Thanks guys for the great info. Bummer, going to make it challenging to optimize my sets. Defense bonuses being all over the map I guess the a not infrequent useless set bonus is just a fact of the game.
    It's actually not going to be as tough as you think, because you picked Super Reflexes - the highest defense set in the game.

    Step 1 - Take all the powers from Super Reflexes (Elude is optional)
    Step 2 - Put 3 level 50 Defense Buff common IOs in each of the Defense toggles and auto powers. Remember to add some endurance reduction to the toggles.
    Step 3 - Take Combat Jumping from the Leaping pool. Put a level 50 Defense Buff IO in it.
    Step 4 - Take Boxing or Kick (your choice) from the Fighting pool. Most people never use this power, they just use it to unlock the other powers. Take Tough and Weave. Put three level 50 Defense Buff commons in Weave (and some End Reduction, of course). Put a Steadfast Protection: resist/+3% Defense in tough, in addition to Resistance Buff and Endurance Reduction to taste (I just use the Steadfast, and never even turn on Tough).
    Step 5 - Put all 6 pieces of Gaussian's Synchronized Fire Control in Build Up (or Follow Up, Blinding Feint, Soul Drain, or whatever Build Up equivalent your set has) or in Tactics (from the Leadership pool) or in Focused Accuracy (from Body Mastery, Weapons Mastery or Mace Mastery in the Epic pools).

    If you plan on exemplaring a lot, get the seven IOs I listed above at the lowest levels you can, so you don't lose the bonuses while exemplared.

    With this slotting, you'll have about 45% defense to Melee, Ranged and AoE, and the cost will be relatively low. Remember to use your Alignment and Reward Merits to pick up a few of these IOs if any of the prices seem too high on the market. 45% is a significant number (generally called the "Soft Cap"), because at this point, larger bonuses don't reduce an enemy's chance to hit you any more; it only serves as a buffer against defense debuffs (the above build caps your Defense Debuff Resistance, so that's of little impact to you) and/or To Hit buffs on the enemy (which suck. You'll need to learn who the buffers are and take them out first).

    Of course, you can drop the extra powers and make up the difference in set bonuses, but I find that this combination is the quickest and cheapest way to the soft cap; if you try it and don't like it, the loss is pretty minimal.
  17. Roderick

    CoX Riddles

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post
    How many Scrappers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
    None. They just pop a yellow to boost their perception and keep scrapperlocking.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GPBunny View Post
    Are the drop rates higher on Exalted? the reason i ask is I get a ton more drops on this server than any other. Seems like every other ITF I get one and almost every Warrior farm.

    On Freedom or Virtue I've had months without seeing one. But on Exalted from day one I get 1-4 a week easy; and a few weeks even more. Had 3 ITF's were I got 2 purples.

    Am I or is this server lucky? Is it because its VIP or a smaller population?
    Population has nothing to do with drop rates.

    I suppose it's possible that drop rates are higher on Exalted, but I highly doubt it. The devs have always said that they prefer to keep the same code on all servers.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ukaserex View Post
    This is on topic, possibly - but I notice in my combat attributes, that my stealth level varies while I run about from 30 feet to 90 feet.
    I check for the details, and it shows 3 celerity stealths of 30 feet each.

    This toon doesn't have SS - yet. I plan to respec that in soon. Just wondering about this variation.
    That has to do with zoning. When you zone, the effect reapplies for some reason, and it stacks with itself. That's why I was unsure if you could deliberately stack it in the OP.
  20. Didn't think so, but I was hoping. Thanks.
  21. If I have a Stealth Proc in a quick recharging click power (for example, Celerity in Speed Boost), and I use the power multiple times, will the proc stack?
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warkupo View Post
    But then the game is pay to win, and that's bad. You need to suffer for your power.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    RAAAAGGGGEEEE!!!!
    Jeez, people irritate me when they have no clue about funny jokes.
  23. Luck of the Gambler's are there too.
  24. All of the Praetorians from the various incarnate trials are supposed to count. I understand that the MoM trial is (was?) bugged and wasn't giving credit, but if that hasn't been fixed, it is in the current Test and/or Beta build.

    I imagine that once the Praetorian storyline fully unfolds, we'll be able to get Dimensional Warder without ever doing a single mission from Maria or Tina.