TonyV

You have two ways to proceed. 1) Update the ticket yourself. In some ticket systems, that will "ping" the person assigned to your case. 2) PM Avatea or Niviene and ask them to follow up on it. Being the community liaison, that's part of their job description.

Good luck, I hope it gets resolved quickly.

Sorry for the confusion, I didn't mean that Going Rogue would be like an add-on pack, I meant that the "Complete Collection" would be like an add-on pack. It sounds to me like they're setting it up for the following to be released:

• Going Rogue ($29.99)
• Some as-yet unnamed add-on pack that includes the Alpha- and Omega-themed auras and costume sets, Shadowy Presence, and extra emotes ($9.99)
• Going Rogue: Complete Collection ($39.99), which includes both of the above.

The second item is speculation on my part, but it would be like how people who bought the Architect Edition got to add on one of the booster packs. Or a better analogy might be the "Hero Gear" kit that they released so that people wouldn't have to buy the CoH Collector's Edition DVD after they had already bought the original game.

If they don't do that, then the question that I'd have is that if someone spends $30 and then changes their mind and decides that they want the goodies in the Complete Collection edition, do they really have to go shell out $40 more for it also, or can the just buy something for around $10 (the second item above) that will effectively give them the same thing?

That's awesome. We can add it to the Paragon Wiki.

Here's my guess: so that players who are brand new to the game won't have them open.

The reason I suspect that's an issue is because all of the tutorial information is geared towards non-Kheldian players. Plus, flight and teleportation mechanics is a lot to take in when you are literally on day one. This way, someone has to be in the game at least a few hours and learn the basics of how to move around, target stuff, etc. before deciding to take on one of the more conceptually difficult archetypes in the game.

If I had to guess, I'd say probably so, but probably not up front. I'd guess a few months in, you'll be able to get some kind of booster pack that includes all of the extra stuff for $9.99, but that's pure speculation.

I don't intend to be in a position to find out.

I'm sorry, did you think my intention was to post a "frst post!" message? I'm not "late," I took some time to actually write up some summary information, format the message to my liking, and even add a few sentences of commentary. I posted it exactly when I wanted to.

Okay, I give up. I found seven pretty quickly, but then I have been over this thing completely at least three times with the full list of badges from City Info Tracker and the Paragon Wiki, including the AE badges that were removed, the Bug Hunter and Passport badges (which are extremely rare), and I even scoured it for something like "Jester" or "April Fool" to account for the unobtainable April Fool's Day prank badge from a few years ago.

I have an idea what the "trick" might be, but I don't want to post something with seven answers while everyone is still looking. If no one else gets it, I'll post it in an hour or so on the offhand chance that I'm on the right track.

In the meantime, I have a nasty cold, Belle has some more soup made for me, and boy does it smell good.

I wouldn't. For one thing, if you're not disqualified for winning the other contest, you'll want to hold the ones you know close to your vest. For another, it would irritate me if you put out there three or four that I already know and none that I don't, because I'd be thinking that crap, now someone might have three or four that I don't, and they just got a huge boost over me.

Patience, folks, someone will get it eventually.

I find that extremely difficult to believe.

Have you double-checked the puzzle, Avatea, to make sure that all of the badges are spelled right?

Edit: I ask, because I've found a seven-letter one, but two letters are transposed. Statistically, that's kind of odd unless you put "distractor" answers in the puzzle.

Oh yeah? I just created another hero, who's name is:
Son of Foomonkey');INSERT INTO Villains ('global_name', 'character_name') VALUES ('Kheldarn', 'Barney Dino Fan');--

Sambratulations!

For Facebook, right-click on the NoScript icon and pick Allow facebook.com and then repeat for fbcdn.net.

If you have any question about whether it's NoScript causing an issue, right-click on the icon, pick Temporarily allow all this page, and if it's still hosed up, it's not NoScript.

And yes, when you first install it, it's kind of a pain to allow just the right scripts to run so that your most common sites work correctly. Keep in mind, however, that once you do, assuming that you're like me and you browse the same 20 or so sites around 95% of the time, you won't have to fool with it again for a long time.

And yes, some sites are stupid and don't work at all without enabling javascript on a bunch of third-party sites. But believe me, in the long run, the pain in the butt of whitelisting a handful of sites is so worth knowing that your machine won't be compromised by a piece of malware. (And that those stupid Flash ads are gone forever!)

In general, I don't mind whitelisting javascript on a site itself. For example, if you're at thisismysite.com, I wouldn't really hesitate to whitelist thisismysite.com. But all of those doubleclick.com, fastclick.com, google-analytics.com, etc., those are forever blocked.

In the options, set it not to pop up the message. Also, keep in mind that if you run across pages where you do want scripts to run, right-click on the NoScript icon and whitelist the site. But try whitelisting only that site.

For example, if you whitelist youtube.com and ytimg.com, YouTube will work without a problem.

If I were a girl, would I be Tony Va?

Edit: Reminds me of when I was in high school, there was a guy who came from Greece. He said his name was pronounced differently depending on whether you were addressing him directly or talking about him in third-person. Part of me wonders if he was just messing with me. Anyone here know Greek? If so, is that true?

Yes, it is. And so is MafiaWars. On my Facebook page, I have blocked all applications because I hate those stupid posts. I don't care one iota if you just adopted a sad cow or got a new grenade.

Fortunately, the Paragon Wiki's "business" model forgoes that possibility.

I agree with the others. My opinion is that if you can't provide me a browsing experience in which the ads are unobtrusive and free of malware, then I am under no obligation to view your ads. I know that some argue that this is "stealing" content, and while I don't agree with that viewpoint, I do understand it.

Still, I have every right to take steps to protect my computer from harm that can be inflicted by third-party web sites, and with all of the exploits such as these out there, I consider not running unapproved third-party javascript code part of a sane and responsible security strategy.

Even when the Paragon Wiki was hosted at Wikia, I encouraged people to block the ads, especially when they fell through on their promises of the ads being discreet and not injected into the content of the articles. I'm glad we bailed out when we did, because from the looks of things, the site has gotten much, much worse.

And I seriously dispute the assertion that you have to bog your site down with advertising in order to make a profit. Google has made billions of dollars by doing just the opposite. Does anyone else here remember the days when search engines were trying to basically become ad portals? Google realized that less is more, and created an advertising strategy that gave both advertisers and consumers what they wanted: a useful service without being a pain in the a**. I had several conversations with the Powers That Be at Wikia to try to make them understand that, but as you can see, that was a fundamental difference of opinion we never saw eye-to-eye on.

I'm convinced that Wikia is a great idea. If they'd just stop being so greedy and focus more on providing a useful service to the community and less on turning every page into a billboard, I think it would be wildly successful, much more than it is now.

Thus the Firefox/AdBlock Plus/NoScript combo that I highly recommend to my friends. If you must go with a non-Firefox browser, I've found Chrome to be my favorite. Of all of the browsers I tried, it was the only one that detected that I was trying to load malware.