gec72

Or, just introduce two new servers with Going Rogue: Loyalty and Resistance.

Bibbage?

If that's what you want to spend time working towards, sure, it's worth it. I'd certainly do it if I wanted to play my 50s rather than different characters. Gives you something else to strive for. I could see putting together all the pieces as something like putting together a collection - some satisfaction with each piece acquired. I do this with normal sets on my way to 50, I would see this as the next step - a chance to keep building a character. Do you *need* to? Nah, of course not - you're already at or near 50. You don't need to do anything. But you have that option.

Yeah, the gamma is a little high on that, but otherwise that's not that far off from what CoH looks like on the computer I played on my first three years (it looks considerably better on my newer box).

Don't make them faction-specific, just make them give larger/additional bonuses if you are "pure" on either side.

It's been stated that there will be a perk for those staying Heroic/Villainous, but no further info on it. I'd have to imagine it would be fairly good if that's a decision that precludes a character from experiencing a large chunk of content. Extra slot(s)? Combat bonuses? Enhancements that are only slottable by the two extremes (reminds me of the old MUD days where equipment would zap off of you if you weren't in the range for it)?


The price disparities and shortages...are these more pronounced on things like purples rather than other recipes? I solo on both sides, and I haven't had *that* much more difficulty outfitting my villains than heroes, though I don't deal with the extremes (purples, LoTG, etc). Without any sort of farming or more involved marketeering (I don't play my 50s much, I get there then move to another character), I figure they're largely out of reach anyway (if I don't happen to luck upon one here or there). I tend to carry more money on my villains too, fwiw.


edit: I'd also probably need a semi-compelling story reason personally to want to switch sides or even wind up in the middle. After all, if I wanted to play red or blue content, I'd just do so on a character I already made on that side. If I want, say, a MM blue-side badly enough, I'll just roll one in Praetoria and become a hero.

So Praetoria goes from being the Crime Syndicate of America to the Justice Lords. I can deal with that.

Wasn't it stated in one of the panels that Emperor Cole's country wasn't the only one in Praetoria (possible I misheard this)? The DE couldn't form any sort of country, could it?

My only beef with this ToT season was going around PI solo with my lvl 43 DB/WP, then opening one door and having about a dozen level 52 mobs pop out, with no sign of anyone else around. Unless there was a stealth or SS hero doing a drive-by, I have no idea what happened there.

Ok, I do have one other beef. I was fighting a Vampire Lord boss (I think that's what it was) and had him down on health. He high-tails it down the block and I give chase. Before I can catch him to finish him off, he runs into one of the doors and disappears. Wuss.

Things mentioned that I too have never done, and some maybe that haven't been:

* Done the old Hami raid (tried getting there once and kept getting killed by monsters
* Done the NEW Hami raid
* Been on a Statesman, Recluse, Lady Grey TF
* Done the Sewers Trial
* Completed the Cavern of Transcendence (failed it)
* Done the Striga TFs
* Done the new 5th TFs
* CoP or Calvin Scott
* Defeated the Jade Spider
* Done ANY Strike Forces (for that matter, I've barely ever TEAMED red-side
* Gotten the TF Commander accolade
* Gotten a Warburg rocket
* Gotten a Dom (soon), Defender, Brute, Stalker to 50
* Gotten a Kheld to 50
* Rolled a VEAT
* Attempted any Respec Trial
* Participated in an Arena Event
* Gotten any Ski slope badges (they just end up getting me angry)
* Participated in the cross-faction Valentine arcs
* Unlocked and/or run Veluta Lunata, Doc Buzzsaw, Crimson Revenant, Arbiter Leery, Slot Machine, Number 204, Viridian
* Expanded on the default SG plot (though I may soon)
* Gotten or slotted a LoTG recharge
* Benefited from any purple bonuses (I think I have a total of two slotted, not on the same character)
* Reached 100M inf on any one toon (at least I don't THINK my MM got quite to 100M)
* Attempted a "master of" badge

edit:
* joined a SG/VG of anyone I didn't already know out of game or wasn't me
* crafted or sold a Respec Recipe (do have two though)
* bought a Respec
* bought a server transfer
* bought a name change

I'd never been on the Test Server before I16.

You know who I've never had pop up as a contact? Arbiter Rein (hit 40 on a villain for the third time the other day, no notification). Had the darnedest time trying to find out what to do about the patrons the first time I had to do it (thank goodness for the wiki).

I'll cop to doing this on occasion, though it's usually a case of catching up on a thread, replying to something, then replying to something else later in the thread (maybe a couple of pages later) before anyone else posts anything.

A new set of "Praetorian" starting ATs (with yes, Incarnate epics), including one that provides a customizable sidekick.

New powersets/proliferation for existing ATs.

Got an ambush of snakes yesterday after picking up a "defeat 5" mission from Mongoose. Ambush didn't show up until after I defeated my first snake (that came after a few skulls). When it did come, it was 5-6 of them, with at least one lt. I tried, but it was too much for my Earth/Earth level 7 dom. This was with the starting difficulty unchanged.

At least it wasn't the dozen DE I had ambush my Mind/Kin in Perez one time (ages ago). That was fun, with all the emanators negating half my power effects.

The Serge mission...yeah. I've had 2, but another time I had like 15 (first time I ran it, years ago).

edit: I remember a really crazy one returning to a contact in Steel Canyon - again on the Mind/Kin - in one of the Tsoo arcs. Tsoo just kept coming in waves. Got some support help from a passer-by in that one, but eventually it was just too much.

I noticed this too while exemplared to team with my son. /bugged it.

Joy Buzzer.

My Mind/Kin has a rather bold blue/lime/yellow costume, and I redid his powers in a blue-green (which wasn't far from standard for the kin powers).

I have an Ill/TA where I tinted things red. I ended up scaling things back a little though, as the red was a little much on spectral wounds w/o a little white. I also tweaked Phantom Army, as I liked the dark palette for their costumes, but didn't like it for their powers (didn't know it carried over).

My son made a Grav/FF with purple colors, it looks good. I'll have to go through each of my grav/storm's five costumes (same costume, different colors) to tweak those.

I'm using Earth on a dom too, and really like my blue and orange crystals.