SwellGuy

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Radubadu View Post
    I've noticed that unlike some MMOs there's no real need to have all or most toons on one server so I've been considering moving some of mine for the times that Virtue goes down.

    Quick question on this though, can someone refresh my memory on how much longer we have the free server transfers? I'm thinking it was through the end of January but I don't remember.
    The announcement said through Jan 31.

    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=202527
  2. People also need to keep in mind even if subs are doing fine it does not mean people are logging in and playing. There may be a lot of people waiting for new content, like Going Rogue, and are playing other games while they wait.

    A lot of the doomish posts are because people aren't seeing people playing which could still happen even with twice as many subscribers as the game may actually have.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bitt_Player View Post
    Continuation: What.
    I enjoy Shakespeare in the original Rikti as well.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    GOD BLESS NCSOFT.

    That was pretty awesome of them to not only ask but let them do it. I am more used to being asked in a takeover and not getting to do it.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Did you say it as "whatever", "WHAT-ever" or "what-EVER"?
    how do Rikti say whatever?
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
    umm...

    sometimes supply crashes and people who want it RIGHT NAO pay the gouger's prices?
    I know I will (up to a point).
  7. On the plus side, the coins and City badges are non-fattening. I cannot say the same for my chocolate donuts.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    If they were optional, it'd be ok. I personally wouldn't want to use one (I can lose my room key in a bag with nothing else in it >_<)
    Optional: Understandable
    Forced: Unacceptable
    This for me. I do not want one and would not accept being forced to use one. Multiple accounts would make this a total pain.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Frost View Post
    Assuming you were actually lucky enough to FIND your level 30+ SO store contact guy before they added them to the map.

    Major props to anybody who found Agent Six sitting under that bridge in Founders Falls without somebody telling them where she was.
    You only needed the original Phase Shift and time.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DSorrow View Post
    I guess this is true. I'm planning to get two sets of purples on the elec/SD and those will cost me much more than I like. I could afford buying them outright, but I don't want to. Costs too much. I'll probably just play my Elec/SD some more and hope I get them as drops or my "lowball" bids fill.

    We'll see.

    But my point is, you can make extremely good builds with good use of IOs that don't even cost as much as you're easily able to earn over the course of leveling to 50. What I mean by this are mostly rare sets and some common ones.
    This is true. I've spent over a billion, possibly 1.5, purpling my warshade (casually of course) and I'd estimate he is about 2/3 the way there but he was awesome enough before I put the first purple on him. The purpling is just for fun.

    Meanwhile my scrapper remained on SOs for a long time then slowly began replacing them with common level 50 IOs and then some set IOs. There's no entertainment for me to purple him so he is pretty much done.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
    See, it's that "90 hours" thing that people don't want to put in, I think.
    That and they probably want to have eleventy billion by 50 so they can buy all the purple and PvP recipes they want.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    Oh yes, I remember the days of debt that lapped multiple levels.
    It took the first round of Winter Lords for my blaster to level from 20-25 to get out of his debt. He had a lot of debt accrued by level 19 or so and I thought he would always be in debt until that event.
  13. Re 5. There is no falling damage in the Ski zone. Go fall in a city zone.

    Re 15. Except for PvP and Purple IOs, all others can be acquired via merits and random ticket rolls in AE. Just because they are not in the market doesn't mean the drop rates are wrong. It may simply mean they aren't worth selling for what the market will pay.
  14. SwellGuy

    The Longest Wait

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mirai View Post
    You're telling that to Perfect Pain? Perfect Pain was in the Champions Online beta testing. She received a lifetime subscription to the game as a gift. She left CoH to play Champions. She was quite active in the Champions forums. Then she eventually got tired of Champions and came back to CoH.

    How could you not have noticed all her posts about that??

    (Okay, most of those posts were in another forum area that you probably don't visit.)

    Personally, I can always fall back on The Sims 3 if I get tired of CoH, but since I've been around so long without getting tired yet, I expect to keep playing CoH until the servers shut down.
    I assume Zombie Man was aware of PP's CO posts.
  15. Level 51-53 invention recipes and enhancements.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    Earth is for HUMANS!
    My first thought is feeling bad I lack the skill to write a Rikti-fied comment about humans converting or getting planted in the ground.

    My second thought is remembering my favorite lines from Transformers 2. "Earth? Terrible name for a planet. Might as well call it Dirt. Planet Dirt..."
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by QuarriosSoul View Post
    What!? I'm way too inexperienced to deal with this! How can I fight such a thing?
    Oh anything will work. Fire, ice, energy, darkness, brawl... It's only Rikti.
  18. Rikti? Are they still around? I thought I had pretty well wiped them all out from Earth.

    * sighs *

    I guess I better slap on the boots and cape and go whack some more.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Santorican View Post
    You guys seem to be missing the whole point of PvP enhancements, they were created as a way to bribe people into playing PvP more. Do you really believe that anyone is going to play knowing that the ratio is around 100:1 and that is a lower average number? No, you're fooling yourself thinking that anyone would.

    The way the drops were before they raised them were perfect, prices for the panacea proc and gladiator's armor were hovering around 5-700 million, but once the supply was decreased the prices skyrocketed.

    Unfortunately there isn't enough people acting cohesively in favor of an increased drop rate in order for the developers to even consider lowering the ratio.
    I'm not sure they were a bribe given the change the devs made to make them even more rare of a drop and much harder to farm. As it is now, they aren't worth the trouble to try to get from PvP even at mega billions in payoff.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Partsman View Post
    What contact is this from? I've been looking for arcs that are truly evil, and this sounds like one of them!
    It begins with Peter Themari http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Peter_..._Sweet_Revenge

    and ends with Vernon von Grun http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Vernon...un.27s_Science
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Contrarian View Post
    I'm going to enjoy Villains a lot more when i can take my MMs into Dark Astoria.

    Oh what joy.
    Especially the Demon summoning MMs.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    Which Independence day ?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independance_Day


    Remember, this game is not just played in the US
    Well it certainly won't be independence from Emperor Cole. Perhaps once the terrorist resistance is destroyed we can celebrate independence from their lies?
  23. I enjoy Energy Melee just for the visual effect of smacking the enemy.

    I wish Martial Arts were better because it could have been fun.

    And I derive a great deal of fun with Broadsword bringing out a big blade and whacking and hacking.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot View Post
    Game designers do investigate each other. They borrow from each other. WoW has crafting, now CoX has Inventions(and better for it). CoX has Badges, now WoW has "Achievements"(*cough* badges). It happens all the time.
    Crafting preceeded WoW by many years.
  25. SwellGuy

    So...

    Echoing GibsonMcCoy's comments.
    Red side population < Blue side population and Champ villains is not so highly populated and most of us are in Pocket D until next Tuesday.

    You might want to use your free server transfer and move over to Freedom or Virtue but still most of us are in Pocket D until next Tuesday.

    And even those in Pocket D will only be there for as long as it takes to get into the next Baby New Year mission unless we are skiing.

    Oh and the Pocket D Baby New Year stuff is co-operative so you can join the heroes but you cannot see them in search so you have to use broadcast there.