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It's a cool idea although I'd probably say let's just restrict it to invisible arm/hand/head and neck. This way, it can play out to various concepts, it doesn't upset the pvp'ers and hopefully not impose too much on the artists.

Maybe it could be the 69 month vet reward? ( ' : <

First, I'm all for maintaining Veteran rewards -- I'm in agreement with the numerous reasons already stated.

Here is my compromise solution (and it surprises me that it has not been enacted yet). Unlock veteran rewards based on subscription time purchased (rather than game-time played.) Huh? Don't we do that already? Not exactly. If a new player wants his trench coat, let him buy 3 months worth of sub-time and unlock the reward (although the badge is not unlocked until 3 months elapsed.) If a player has been around 3 months and decides s/he wants angel wings, s/he can plunk down 1 year's worth of subscription time to get them.

+'s
Players can get wings and other rewards
Veterans can't claim that new players "paid" less or are not entitled tot hem.
NCsoft is still getting money, possibly lots of money, up front.

-'s
If rewards are meant to be a hook to keep players in game over time, that hook is removed. Sure, NCsoft has money from those people which fills an immediate need but if all of the rewards could be front-loaded, players aren't nearly as incentivized to stay in game. And if there aren't as many players in game, then other players may be less inclined to stock around.


Honestly, I prefer the existing system over this compromise but figured to put it out there. I think there's tremendous benefit to NCsoft and a sense of satisfaction and excitement for a player when they near a vet-reward anniversary. Angel/Demon wings look far off to a new player but as the anniversaries tick away, the excitement grows, especially after month 15 -- that's priceless.


EDIT: One other thing I'd like to comment on: I don't think the developers can or should alter the system to make the rewards purchaseable. I think certain things have been promised as exclusives and they should remain that way. Unfortunately, the developers have gone back on this twice now: prestige power sprints and arachnos helmets for pre-orders. I can see how the devs painted themselves into a corner with the helmets, given VEATs are arachnos soldiers but, still, that doesn't necessarily engender good faith going back on their word like that. Some might also suggest the hero kits too but, to my knowledge, those were just codes pulled from existing dvd editions and redistributed.

Solo ToTing? maybe. But, assuming you strategize and open doors near a secured building with the transporter drones and near the hospital in general, it isn't all that bad. Frankly, at low-levels, group toting is more efficient to level up than running sewers blue-side or farming the first bank mission red side. It boggled my mind to see people forming sewer teams during the event and I even suggested to some that they shoudl tot instead.

My best low-level toting was on Virtue, villain-side at the first door just outside of the Mercy Isle Base, right across from Burke. Was part of a group of 8 farming for brand new villies -- some didn't appreciate the fact that I would let my brute face-plant so often because of my power choice selections. Considering I could run back from the med transporter in about 20 seconds, putting off that self-heal for an hour's worth of play (until level 10ish) was a fine tradeoff (for me : ' )

Saw that when I mapserved on Freedom (along with a whole bunch of other people) -- Talos was in a ZA at the time.

That's quite unfortunate ) ' :

I'm really surprised that tinkering either with screen scaling or replacing the fonts didn't help. Best of luck.

Steam Hardware survey suggests Win 7 is what most XP gamers are migrating to, totally having skipped over Vista.

My katana/regen scrapper (Slickhawk) would be interested, assuming the scheduling could work -- 9pm is a bit on the early side for me, prefer week nights at 10pm est or later. It's fine to wait list him if others can definitely commit.

Just to throw what I consider to be a few possibly low cost, high yield ideas out there:

1.) Powerset Customization -- Make prestige power slide an alternate animation for superspeed for those of us who bought the dvd/hero kit. It's a bit of a bummer that I have this cool "sprint" animation but it can't be used for actual "travel".

2.) Auras -- Expand the number of places to attach auras to include weapons and shields.

3.) Mission Maps -- Assuming a random map generator is not in the works, perhaps task a small team with the responsibility of creating a handful more maps for mission instances. The single biggest gripe, and it can never be argued, is just running through the same map over and over with it occasionally reversed.

That's about all.

I'd like to go on the waiting list -- Slickhawk -- level 35 katana/regen scrapper

thanks! ( ' :

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So, I have had this EXACT issue before too. It originally popped up a few years back when I changed screen resolutions and screen scaling. My solution at the time was to leave it at 100%.

But, it did start to occur again over the summer after upgrading the nvdia drivers (8800gt ssc) for Champions Online.

My ultimate resolution was to download a copy of TweakCOH and change out the fonts that are used. The next time I login, I'll check to see what I'm using.

Since we're getting an expansion, do you think (or know) if the devs are intending to unlock any (say 2) additional character slots per server? We started with 8 unlocked, then expanded to 12 unlocked with then the option to have up to 36 but it would be nice for the purchase if they threw in a few so we can play new characters.