Roderick

A Premium player can delete a locked character without first unlocking it, and doing so would unlock the name for that player immediately, and for any other player a few minutes later. It seems that the same system that lets you reserve a name on the character creation screen also reserves the name briefly after deletion.

The Proclaimer for [Walk]ing 500 Miles.

I always heard it as "The brothers and the sisters are in the house!"

Right now, Minimal FX is restricted to the "non-elemental" power sets. I feel that all powersets should get this option, for two reasons:

1. Technical Reasons: I'm not the only person playin the game on a low-end system. Mine is actually old enough that I can't play Dark or Fire armors without constant crashing, eeven with the particle count reduced to the minimum value, and the other "elemental" sets drag down my performance a lot. What's even crazier is that several of these powers look nearly the same, if not identical (Ice Armor has how many identical layers of ice cubes?). By letting us select the one aura we like best and turning off the rest, our performance could go way up for some players.

2. Roleplaying Reasons: Bobby Drake isn't covered in gigantic ice cubes, Spawn isn't dripping coalesced darkness from his body, and the Thing doesn't wrap extra layers of rock around his already stony body. Sometimes, a character would look better without all the glows from the powerset. Other times, one of the existing Aura costume pieces would look better for your concept than the default one. And by using costume auras, you can keep your toggles on all the time, but only burst into flame while fighting. And if you're level 1 and haven't unlocked any purchasable auras, you still have the option of turning on one or more of the auras in your powerset until you hit 30 and do the aura mission.

And while you're at it, grab all stealth powers, like from Devices and Illusion, and give them the option of Invisible, Translucent, on No Fade. For team-affecting powers, like Group Invisibility or Shadowfall, this option should only affect the caster.

Of course, just like the existing powersets with "Minimal FX" options, these options should be overridden and reverted to defaults while in a PVP Zone/Arena. But elsewhere, we should be able to control how many gaudy auras we're sheathed in.

The problem isn't the duration between spawns, it's that there's a timer at all.

Right now, when you open the door to the reactor room (or more often, when you recue the last scientist, and one of THEM opens the door), it starts ten timers - the first one 1 minute long, the last one 30 minutes. As mentioned above, they aren't evenly spaced. As each timer runs out, a wave of enemies appears.

Originally, the timers were much shorter. Back in the post-ED, pre-Invention days when respecs were only available by doing the trials or by much rarer freespec grants, people who had crappy builds had trouble completing the mission, and could never get their respecs, so things were changed to the current state. Now that the game has been made progressively easier, the gaps are getting more and more noticeable.

However, if we shorten the gaps so that the well-built and/or IOed-out characters aren't bored, the new free players with their SO-only builds will quickly find themselves overwhelmed again.

The solution is to change the trigger for the waves of ambushes.

Keep the first one at 1 minute after opening the door. Spawn the second 90 seconds after defeating the last enemy in the first wave, so that the team has a chance to recover if need be. Spawn the third group 80 seconds after the defeat of the second. Continue shortening the gap by 10 seconds To give the impression that the enemies are pushing harder with each wave, until the last wave arrive the instant the last foe in the previous wave dies.

This way, no team is ever bored out of their skulls, nor overwhelmed. And if a greater revamp is desired, the last wave can either include or be followed by an AV fight.

I'm a Premium player, so I have no access to Test or Beta. As such, any testing I can do has to be on Live, which makes me less willing to gimp my build just to maximize testing potential. So if anyone can add more numbers, I'd really appreciate it.

I like Knockdown. A lot. Especially in AoE powers. So when I rolled my first Titan Weapons character, the first thing I did was slot my Might of the Empire: Damage/Recharge/Chance for Knockdown in Defensive Sweep. I was surprised at how rarely the proc fired, but chalked it up to a matter or perception and just not noticing it.

However, I started watching for guys falling over (though I admit, I didn't watch my Combat Log), and I only ever saw my primary target knocked over. I never saw anyone knocked down on a Momentum swing, but that might have just been a coincidence.

I have seen the damage procs from my other pre-order enhancements fire in my other attacks, both on my primary target, and the ones hit by the AoE.

I know that the +Def in Defensive Sweep is flagged to only trigger from the primary target, so that you can't Defensive Sweep a large group and saturate the bonus off one attacck. My theory is that procs in DS have accidentally flagged the same way, so that they never trigger on anyone in the AoE.

If someone can tell me what specific channel to watch to see proc rolls, so that I can filter out the unneeded spam, I'll do some more testing. And if anyone else can help me check, I'd appreciate it.

I just bought a character transfer so that I could move a character that's on a server I no longer play on to the server I do play on. However, I have no unlocked slots on that server, and apparently you can't transfer a locked character.

Now, I've either wasted the point value of the transfer, or have to waste more points unlocking a slot on a server I don't play on so that I can transfer the character.

Apparently, as a Premium player, I cannot edit my posts.

The character I was testing this on started with 16/13 auction slots. As I was selling stuff, I got a badge, and the display changed to 14, and I assumed it would allow me to get 17/14 In truth, I'm still limited to 16/14.

NOTE: As far as I can tell, this is only applying to old, pre-Freedom characters. New characters I create are fine.

The storage capacity on some of my characters is being miscalculated. I am a Tier 7 Premium player with no purchased additional storage. At level 50, I should have a base 50 Salvage Slots, +5 for one of the rewards in Tier 7, +2 for completing Tier 2, and +3 for completing each of Tiers 3 through 7, for a total of 69 Salvage slots on a character with no extra storage space from badges, etc. However, My most recent 50 (who has no earned storage increases) has 54 salvage slots. Likewise, I should have 32 Recipe slots, but only have 23.

My Vault Storage should be a base of 50 according to the Leveling Chart plus additional increases for Reward Level. I have room for 47 salvage in my Vault.

Even stranger is my Auction House. In it, I should have room for 16 items, plus 1 for the storage increase reward, plus 4 from Reward Tiers, plus one from badges, for a total of 22. I have room for 17, but the Auction House window says I only have room for 14. It lets me fill it up to a maximum of 17/14.

On other characters, the numbers are different, but are similarly miscalculated. Only on characters created since i21 are all the storage values correct.

... so can I have permission to verify the files?
(Yes) (No)

YES, DAMMIT!

Is there ANY way I can make it so that after downloading a patch, the updater just verifies the files then loads the game, instead of sitting there waiting for permission? It's kinda annoying to wander off and let the patcher do its thing, just to come back and find that... it didn't finish. I mean, if it HAS to verify the files, why is it asking for permission anyways?