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  1. Texarkana
    Excellent work, Zombie Man. This sets a new standard for how costume set bundles should be presented.
  2. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    I got the same response from customer support this afternoon.

    It currently seems to be based on Sep 28, not the VIP head start, not Issue 21's launch date, but one week after Issue 21 officially launched. I don't know how my account could possibly have lapsed from July 2010 to December 2011 (12+2 deal, +1 Retail package, +1 month from a contest prize, +several "refer a friend" deals) unless they deliberately disabled the reward timers during September.
    Freedom was official on the 27th when Free players got access. (http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/n...pen_to_all.php)
  3. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Yep, I just got the same.


    Given my conversation with customer support this last weekend on this subject, I think I have a blurry picture of what is going on.


    Timeline:
    • Before Sept 13 - Veteran Rewards
    • September 13 - VIP Head Start, Paragon Reward time doesn't start.
    • September 21 - Official Launch Paragon Reward Time not enabled yet.
    • September 28 - Paragon Reward Time started.
    This does not, in any shape or form, match the veteran reward schedule and I would hope that another Senior GM would think twice before quoting that particular lie.
    Freedom officially went live on the 27th -- that's when free players were given access (http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/n...pen_to_all.php)

    This would likely support rewards starting on the 28th....
  4. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
    Murder of Crows costume change was the only thing I needed to see. My god.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Undead_Bubble View Post
    very cool indeed!
    Any way to see it besides hopping on a test server? ( ' :
  5. Texarkana
    Feel free to give Gamma-Knife a go ( ' :

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  6. Texarkana
    Perhaps it is WAI so they can justify Titanic Weapons as merely drops ( ' ;
  7. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tanglefoe View Post
    I got:

    <snip>

    and I would nuke them all from existance for the name Horrorshow.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet_Phantom View Post
    Some of the ones I was pleased to get.

    <snip>

    Horrorshow

    <snip>
    You two need to talk. ( ' :
  8. Texarkana

    Corrupt Pigg

    POST-ACTION

    Just got it, crashing to desktop in AP

    ./piggs/stage2.pigg: Failed memory allocation
    Read failed for file: texture_library/GUI/CREATION/common/Backgrounds/background_skyline_normal.texture
    -1
    The game ran out of memory and must now exit.
  9. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    A couple of things:


    - Keep in mind, the above proposed forum changes are *just that* - Proposed. Nothing is set in stone and is part of the reason I brought this hear to discuss with the Community.

    - When proposing changes, keep two things in mind:

    1. Less is better: The less you have to scroll down the page, the fewer forums there are, the simpler it's going to be for a new user/someone unfamiliar with the forums.

    2. Less clicks is better: Creating more parent/child forums isn't the solution. Things need to be one click away (Web Design 101 IMO).

    3. The purpose of improvement is to grow our forum Community and to make the experience better for everyone, overall.

    Thanks for keeping the discussion on track!

    -Z
    A few things.

    1.) Optimal web design is accessing anything within 3 clicks, not 1. Otherwise, you have a long, seemingly never-ending list of stuff to wade through, relying on message title to identify if it may be relevant.

    2.) Categorization is important and the wealth of knowledge under each AT is immense (a credit to the development team's design and the communities work to assemble it).

    3.) "Inactivity" in knowledge-based forums shouldn't necessarily be the driver for altering their organization and consolidating them. For fun, non-game related things like multi-media, sure. But being able to browse those knowledge-based forums to pick through information is huge, otherwise you create a situation where the same questions get asked again and again because they get lost on pages that get pushed back -- consolidation of some forums will exacerbate this.

    Therefore, the organization of sub-forums for ATs and Servers should not be altered as their contents really are discrete to their topics and self-explanatory as far as finding them. Anything else is fair game.
  10. Texarkana
    Well, we can figure it out working backwards....

    Katana is also safe with hover.
  11. Texarkana
    "Welcome to the best gaming community around, just don't post on the forums if you want it to stay that way" I jest, kinda, sorta....( ' ;

    But seriously, I would say "welcome" and "throw away all of your previous notions about MMOs, because they don't apply here; now go have fun!"
  12. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eric Nelson View Post
    Mostly just because you know how to spell "Voila!" correctly. Way to flaunt it, jerkstore!
    /Kelly_Bundy
    "Viola!"

    ( ' ;
  13. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Roderick View Post
    The right place to look would be under "Search".




    Took me less than 6. :P

    EDIT: Oops! Guess I'm an obnoxious jerk too!
    Only for actually going back to edit in your final comment ( ' ;
  14. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    Srsly? At least, it's been all over their press releases, MMs and Controllers will be pay-for content for Premium. How did you not know it was available?

    Anyway, it's Content -> Archetypes. And I didn't know either until I clicked on a few things in the store just now. This stuff isn't hard.
    First, I do know that they are premium and don't have a problem with it personally, so don't be an ***. I was inquiring on behalf of other people about unlocking pre-existing characters.

    Second, thanks for pointing out where it was. I was looking under system unlocks, which clearly wasn't correct and obviously other people have missed or had to spend some more time looking for it (like yourself).

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    Yes, while I can see the annoyance, paying a one time fee to unlock something you can play ever after for free seems too good of a deal to me. I would have made it a monthly fee, like the $2 per month for the auction house.

    $12.50 for a permanent unlock. That doesn't seem like a lot to play your favorite archetype for free.
    Seeing that, absolutely, it is a great deal. At least now I can push back on people and point to this.
  15. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight View Post
    If you're Tier 5 or higher, you get them unlocked permanently... I really don't see how anyone has any ground to stand on with claims of being 'upset'. You can unlock them for less than a month of subscription if you've not been playing for long enough to already have them unlocked, and you still get free access to the other 8 basic ATs, along with the vast majority of the other game content.

    Preem status still seems like a fairly good deal to me.
    How does someone "unlock them for less than a month of subscription"? I don't see that on the unlocks section of the market.
  16. Texarkana
    That's unfortunate -- it could go a long way to soothing some upset people locked out of those characters.
  17. Texarkana
    Can global slots be used to unlock pre-existing MMs and Controllers? Obviously access to them is a PP reward, but I'm just wondering if that is for the creation of new ones. Has anyone tested this?
  18. Texarkana
    If someone wanted to pay 7 years of sub-time upfront, then I have no qualms with them getting the same rewards access as I do. I (and I'm sure I wasn't alone), proposed this in the various vet reward rage threads. So, no, no rage here ( ' :
  19. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by General_CoH View Post
    It's still $30. $30 gets you all subscriber benefits for two months, including the 800PP (or 1100PP), reward tokens, server transfers, etc. You can't count their costs on top of that, since you don't pay extra for them.

    As for how much they're giving, all they do is provide an incentive to stay VIP and go VIP. It may have less monetary value than before, but it's not necessary less of an incentive than before.

    That they give it only when your friend goes VIP and not for buying points on the market could mean that what some people said before is true: the hope is for Freedom to bring in more subscribers, not that Premium players will bring in the money. This is IMO a mistake for a "free to play" model. On the other hand it could be that this was done simply because it's easier to achieve technically.
    I was just reading in the extra 400pp as potential lost revenue if a non-sub was intending to purchase and spend it, thus the double-dip, but I see your point.
  20. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU View Post
    QR: No, but if gametime was indeed purchasable off the Paragon Market, then if you are subbed, you could get a free month of gametime every 3rd month (remember, you get 400 points every month just for subscribing).

    And if the game time cost more than 1200 points, who would actually buy the game time off the market, as it would be cheaper to subscribe for the 30 day.

    And yes, all refer a friend deals that i am aware of (for all mmo's that i can think of) require your account to be active at the time that your friend activates their account fully. So this means that if you delayed paying for your sub by a day... and your friend activated on that day (or even an hour before you resubbed...) you would miss out on your bonus.
    Duh, I see what you're saying. Totally didn't look at it like that.
  21. Texarkana
    I got that pop-up on my secondary account as well, but nothing was locked out.
  22. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU View Post
    If that happened, then they could *potentially* end up screwing themselves by allowing players to use their stipend every 3 months to buy a months sub (and as a result get 400 points).

    Infact, the only game that i know of that allowed players to buy game time off the "ingame" market only allowed it because it had to have been paid for by another player, and the value of the gametime for ingame currency was set by the players themselves.

    Now saying all of the above, if they didnt include the monthly stipend in the subscription, i could see a month sub being available on the Paragon Market.
    I don't thnk that would be an issue since you (in the past) could not refer a friend unless you yourself were subscribed. In order for someone to pull this off, they would then have to have a second actively subscribed account. And if you're paying for the 2nd account while the first count isn't subbed..... Could friends do this? Potentially. Again, I don't think it would be an issue since paragon points aren't created from an in-game currency, nor can you convert into a currency useful outside of the paragon market.
  23. Texarkana

    Atlas Park Day Job

    POST-ACTION

    I thought you had to log out IN your base to get monitor duty.....
  24. Texarkana
    Slightly off-topic observation, but Going Rogue is no longer on Steam.
  25. Texarkana
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    make this as clear as I can.

    I quit when i18 was released and didn't come back till i19, I had to buy GR to access incarnates even though I don't give 2 ***** about preatoria, it's zones or any content there of. Nor any of the power sets released with.


    I HAD TO BUY GR TO USE INCARNATES, THERE FOR I HAD TO BUY INCARNATES,NOT SUBSCRIBE TO ACCESS THEM, BUY THEM.

    So simple some people just don't get it.
    I'm pretty sure you had to buy going rogue and subscribe to get access to Incarnates. Nothing changes from pre-I21 to post-I21 with that regard, except subscribing now gives you going rogue too. So simple, some people just don't get it. ( ' ;