ScottyB

Out of curiosity, do your quotes around the word buy dispute that one can buy a subscription, or does it merely indicate that buying a subscription is not the kind of purchase desired in this situation?

They (IOs and restricted ATs) are grayed out, waiting for you to buy the appropriate licenses or to subscribe again. In fact, that's probably the most powerful thing about them, you can look at your gray IOs as they taunt you (especially the Taunt IOs). "I'm still here! Waiting for you to spend a little more money!"

(Similarly, you won't be able to unlock character slots occupied by restricted ATs. But you'll see them there. Waiting.)

Some things will always be available regardless of whether you're Premium or VIP, like costume pieces.

When it's happening nearly every other post or even preview of a post it might as well be like not being able to post at all, until the log-out issue settles down and gives you a few hours peace.

There's more than one way to skin a cat. There has to be a solution to the log-out issue that doesn't involve losing the ability to post.

Am I think only one who somehow reads FPARN as "pon farr" for no good reason at all?

Can you point me to a redname post or one of Von Krieger's UStream transcripts in which it was said free/premium would get Paragon Rewards tokens? (Or, have the free second beta accounts been around for 30 days and thus evidence of how it works?) I thought that's how it worked, but when I went looking for evidence (I like to provide citations) all I found was, on the website, "Paragon Rewards gives you credit for every single month you are a VIP player".

Although the website still calls Reward Level "tiers" (which IIRC was changed to the aforementioned Reward Level) so it might not be up-to-date/accurate.

If I had things my way there'd be a separator between your last-visited server (labeled as such, too) and the list, and the list would have a Load heading and a Name heading. Clicking either would toggle ascending/descending sort based on that column. Default sort would be descending load. Maybe it could even remember the last way you sorted the list.

Not like it's important. Just the way I think it should work.

No, this is.

Re: making characters on other servers... I've been exclusive to Justice. It's home. I mean, I've tried starting characters on other servers, but even though the maps look the same, they feel different. Like, "When I was here, I could tell you the speed we were travelling by the feel of the deckplates." Maybe there are latency quirks to Justice or something that I'm just used to. Or maybe I'm being silly and sentimental.

On that note, it would be scary if anyone could tell what server they were on just by, for example, looking at a netgraph. Anyone..?

I've been on Defiant for the past hour. Playing CEBR (with, of course, a Claws/Elec Brute), things slowly got more and more unstable. When I completed the AE arc I was unable to start up another AE mission. (Other global services like mail and chat were working, though.) I was able to log out and back in, too.

My netgraph on Defiant was intermittently spiked with red blocks. Doing a ping -t on my ISP revealed no packet loss and an average ping below 30ms.

If you want to blame me for pushing the server too hard, I would understand.

There's a forum that indexes all community rep posts (and a separate one for the devs themselves) in case you ever want to check recent redname posts.

This thread under Announcements has been updated over the past 5 hours. It mostly reads, "servers down... still down... still down... some of them are up... now they're all up!... some of them are down again..." To make it less painful I recommend reading that in your favorite Personality Sphere voice. (I like the Space Sphere.)

Holy pancakes, what about my username!?

(Also, does this mean we're not allowed to be fans of the Facebook page?)

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An item is not a badge - although even in CoH one can transfer enhancements, salvage and recipes between characters via global name. Badges are like Xbox achievements or Playstation trophies, they record what a player has done in the game. Now that I think about it, it would be better (though unlikely given the need for new development) if all badges were account-wide, and an account's badge info included a list of characters that fulfilled the requirements for the badge. Only those characters could set the title. (And for Accolade Powers, only those characters could make use of the power.) Their name could also persist on the badge info, even after deletion, as proof that a player at one time did in fact accomplish some task.
The only time a reward should be exclusive to a system is if that reward is only useful in the context of that system. Accolade Powers are useful outside the context of badging. I think it is poor game design for them to be exlusive to the badge system.
There are different ways to get to 50. One doesn't have to do TFs, but can still reach 50. One doesn't have to participate in Mothership Raids, but can still reach 50. At certain levels, collecting/completing sets of badges earns decent XP. Heck, you don't even have to do normal missions or street-sweeping: I know others stigmatize it, but I don't care if you go 1 to 49 in an AE building.

Further, a badger gets Reward Merits and XP for collecting badges, which can get the same rewards I get for doing other content. Why isn't the reverse true?

I think there should be two options: the current salvage-based option, and the ability to just outright create the IO using a certain amount of Inf or Reward Merits. People who like collecting salvage and researching the most cost-efficient recipes to craft (either for resell, or for themselves) have their complex system, while those who just want to make the blasted thing have a single value to shoot for. Best of both worlds, IMO.

I think the real question is: did you have issues before and no longer have them with 11.8?

I've played for several hours with the graphics slider all the way to the right in both beta and live, through trials and raids. No issues for me, but this computer never had issues to begin with so I didn't think it was worth reporting unless I did run into problems.

FWIW, the cape and aura missions have nothing to do with Icon or Facemaker and those mission arcs never send you to an Icon or Facemaker store.
(Hero: "Earn a cape" / Villain: "Steal a cape")

Icon and Facemaker are still needed for the tailor day job, costume slot missions, and the Super Tailor. Yes, you can buy costume slots, but you can only buy 5 out of 10 slots. If you want them all (or don't want to pay real money for slots) then you need to do missions for the tailors.

The "public trains being used by heroes" situation is silly. Something better would be Hero Corps helicopters, as an analog to the Arachnos Black Helicopters. An additional advantage of helicopter lines for Paragon would be the ability to go to Peregrine from any city zone (and vice-versa) without first having to go through Talos, the RWZ, or Ouroboros. You can either handwave paying Hero Corps (after all, we don't pay Field Analysts for their services - anymore) or acknowledge somewhere that they have a contract with the city to provide hero transportation. The only reason I didn't say "Longbow" is that I like blue more than red, but either group would be fine, and Hero Corps is the one that's a business; Longbow should be out fighting, not flying. Adding or moving helicopters should also be much easier than making sure a rail line is running somewhere, because that rail has to snake through a whole zone. I won't pretend to know the odds of this ever happening, though.

But trainers aren't really immersive in the first place. What's the problem with the addition of a non-immersive feature when it's located amongst other non-immersive features?