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All 2511.1MB of it.
Best start now
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Patch is downloading now, by the way. Worth doing, it's 2511 MB
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Quote:....What?Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Why? It takes 5 hours or so to get to 50, *without* exploits. The min/maxers would be *all over* this.
Five HOURS?
Just...what? I don't even -
Will be having a shower, doing laundry, possibly some art work, and if nothing else then it'll be messing around being awesome on Oblivion
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Quote:As someone who still doesn't even know HOW to power level in CoH, outside of tagging with friends crushing RWZ repeatables, I can atest to never ever having the cash for SO slotting at level 22 just on one character with no support.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Actually there is truth to what he says, especially for the powerlevelers. They would level faster than they could earn inf to afford enhancements. But that was the trade off for that style of gameplay. Players that ran regular content didn't find themselves out of funds as often as people like Badger.
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Quote:Eh, maybe it'll give me an excuse for the slowness of the damn War...Originally Posted by Nitro
Either way, I foresee King wandering around punching Longbow in the spine.
"Was out, making Longbow deaded. Will wage next week. Toodles; King"
*Gets stabbed and shot in his own mind for even typing like that*
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Om nom nom Mids....need mah fix naow
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Quote:Good to know. I, for one, would be happy to just pay for the damn stuff straight up, day one.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
You will be able to obtain the Tier 9 awards after they've been cycled out. More on the specifics for that later, but rest assured they will not be one time availability.
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Quote:Yes, because aiming for something to happen and then having the tech team say its not working right is them lying to us...Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
This is my big issue here as well, except that I already paid for another year of sub time based on this misinformation (I'm being generous here by not calling it a lie, point blank).
And refunds? Yeah right. The only refund I've ever gotten for an MMO subscription was from a game that got permanently shut down, and even that took a lot of work. It's a pipe dream to think anyone will get their $140 back because of this, sad as that may be.
Wait, no it's not.
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Quote:You missed the part where they said thats how they intended and WANTED it to work, before Technical Problems shot it down.Originally Posted by Dromio
Read the Announcement. Z says straight out in there:
This is poor. If Paragon didn't KNOW that was the way it was going to work, then they shouldn't have been "sharing" it as a certainty with players. This is real money stuff here, not virtual currencies, and anything dealing with subscribers' wallets should be treated cautiously. I hope anyone that changed their sub to get those tokens can still change back, or get refunded.
This is me as well. I'll stick with my current subscription.
They still intend to make it happen...it just won't be ready when Freedom launches. Yes, it still blows, but it's not a NemesisDev Plot. -
Quote:IDF does not have semi-Medieval armourOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Having seen the Celestial set, I really don't think you're missing much. I'd hold out for IDF, if I were you. Even without the overbig gloves, it's still most polished set to come out of Freedom, and it goes well with a variety of themes.
IDF also does not have the ONLY (extra emphasis on ONLY) Energy Wings piece in the entire game.
Just saying
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Quote:Will hopefully have been fixed, if not that sounds like a Support issue t'meOriginally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
I'm mostly worried about not getting the right amount of points.
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Tempted to do some fiction for Vix (Vanguard and general medical), and possibly a con-glom of other characters reactions. Might be fun *ponder*
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Quote:Aha, excelllent. So Tier 8 + 3 slots then...Originally Posted by Snow Globe
No, you can skip the Tier 9 consumables for the Tier 9 VIP options.
Agreed. VERY agreed.Quote:Originally Posted by Sermon
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I know my Heroes would respect the law, or decide of their own accord it was too dangerous.
Villains would either see nothing standing and thus nothing worth looting, or couldn't give a damn.
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Quote:Hell, I'd just be happy if they put the full Celestial kit into one pack that could be bought for points. Make it a limited offer...or not?Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Here's a great solution!!
Make all current VIPs transfer over with enough Tokens to reach Tier 9!
Happiness abound!
What? You don't want me to be happy? Fine! Have a nice day!
I honestly do not approve of such cool kit being limited solely by time. I'm a Veteran, sure...but I'd like *everyone* to have a shot at the cool equipment. This is City of Heroes and Villains, not WoW; looking good and having great characters is what we are best at and should *remain* best at.
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Quote:That was the joint purpose of this thread, make sure people were awareOriginally Posted by rsclark
Glad I read this post before tomorrow. 12-months was going to be my first purchase, but that's changed now.
I feel for your disappointment, but thanks for the heads up.
The Devs wanted and still want to give us Reward Points up front.Quote:Originally Posted by Lucky666
So we give you all are money for paragon points up front you give us all are tokens, but if we give you all are money up front and it's for a sub we have to wait for are tokens, huh?
What happened to VIP number 1 priority?
You know I was really really excited for Freedom but honestly everything I've been reading and everything you guys have been saying and everything I've seen first hand it's leaving an awfully sour taste in my mouth. This is from someone who plays multiple free to play, sub hybrid games and thinks they are the next gen for online gaming.
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Quote:£82-£91 then. I can't really afford that much in one lump sum, certainly not for points rather than game-time.Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
so if you were right about where you were starting tier 8, then you would need about 10 tokens or so which is around $130-145 just to buy it outright
Edit: Just to add, this is not annoyance at the Reward-rate/system itself. This is a dislike of *specifically* the Celestial stuff being gated in such a way, a way that I have not approved of since the day it was announced. Especially not for a set that has unique stuff like energy wings in, which players have been begging for for YEARS.
Also; nothing aimed at Zwill. He's cool, yo
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Quote:I understand that technical problems are just that, and often pretty horrible.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Firstly,
I am sorry to have been the one to disappoint you Techbot. I know that you've been looking forward to this particular aspect, as have many players. When I got the news on Friday, my heart sank a little bit
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Silver lining: The costume parts will be available for a decent amount of time before they rotate out. We will be certain to give heads up before we rotate Tier 9 VIP Rewards out for new ones so that players have the opportunity to make any appropriate purchases to reach tier 9, if they so choose to.
-Z
That said, I still find the teams decisions to say 'Hey, we made energy wings!'...and THEN lock them away behind a distant VIP only Veterans rewards (a choice, might I add, that was said would never happen, as the team *supposedly* didn't want to put meaningful stuff behind hard to achieve Vet rewards. The ONLY set of energy wings in the game might not be meaningful to a Min/maxer, but it's damn meaningful to those who care more about characters and costumes) to be somewhat...well..bad, frankly.
I'll have to see how much it'll take/cost to get me to the VIP tier 9.
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I'm at the end/near end of tier 7.
So, that's an entire tier and then 3 more for all the Celestial stuff. I don't know how much that would work out to...
Fingers crossed it won't be too much. Because I'll be damned if I let that shiny armour get away from me
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Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Have fun storming the castle!
Do not come between Fezzik and his Issue 21 -
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...84#post3869484
Right. So, there goes any reasonable hope in hell I have of getting the three Celestial rewards before they 'rotate' out.
I get that there are technical problems. Nothing can be done about that, and I'm not stupid/immature enough to rant about stuff that is out of the Devs hands.
HOWEVER;
Celestial being locked away behind Tier 9 AND a time limit is just...well, the words I would pick would be censored anyway.
So, we can be about 99.9% sure those parts won't be available on the Market. Why?
I've seen them trumpeted about and even commented on in the Art threads (sorry David) as 'Hey, we do have energy wings!' 'Hey, we do have some cool looking glowy/medieval armour!'
All I have to do is buy the pack-
Owait.
How's about I get to CHOOSE (the whole damn tagline of Freedom) that stuff? Heck, I'll even give back the damn Greek letters I never, ever use or the Prestige Sprints which I've never claimed after the one time I did and realised what a total bloody mess it made of my mains powers window/enhancement window.
I was gonna be willing to pay for that stuff, and now I can't even have the humorous 'Shut up and take my damn money' image. Because I can't get that stuff. It's even worse than the damn 'Oh, you can't have that until 50, because it would be a disservice to the art team' Ascension armour and it's stupid merits costs, because that's just time and boredom gated. It won't go POOF! in some arbitrary length of time, like the Celestial stuff will!
Feh...that DID end up a rant. Oh well.
Colour me very damn annoyed. Not a feeling one usually associates with not-giving other people money...
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Give it to meeeeee!
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I agree with Nitro on this one.
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Quote:Why? Accolades either work at level 1, or they don't. There are a number that don't activate till level 21, 40, and anything in between. Any Hero can have the Atlas medallion without leaving level 1 if they so wish, they just need help running the missions. It still WORKS at level 1.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You really don't need such an elaborate explanation when what you're suggesting is a form of reroll which allows you to keep your bragging rights staus but lose everything practical like loot, levels, cash and so forth.
I've always been a fan of these ideas, myself. As long as the player has to re-earn everything that makes the character strong, then I have no problem with people keeping their badges, titles, SG standing and whatnot. The one caveat I make, however, is accolade badges. If you do this, you have to either lose ALL accolade prerequisite badges, or have them renamed and the originals taken away. Point is, if you want to reroll but keep your badges, you'd still lose your accolades. Nothing functional can cross over with you. Only cosmetics and no-effect collectables.
Just saying.