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I'm not a newbie, but I am a noob when it comes to using purple sets, so I have a couple of questions:
1) The set bonuses are available even when you exemplar down, but is that only until you exemplar down to a level where the power they are slotted in are available, or are they available all the way down to level 1? The wiki wasn't clear on that.
2) Do the the bonuses you gain from the enhancements themselves work any differently that the bonuses from any other IOs when exemplaring? If so, how so? Also didn't see this in the wiki.
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Quote:It wasn't, but they hadn't applied the code yet. Turns out it didn't matter though because both the code I sent them by mistake, and the Harlequin code had "expired," which is weird because those were the only two out of the eight or so spare codes I had that had expired.Originally Posted by Organica
I applied mine immediately, but they were what I was supposed to get. Hope that's true for the person with the Harlequin code as well.
I've PMed a CR to see if I can get those two codes replaced, but no response so far. -
Yeah, I found the same to be true of Breakout, but unless they moved Coyote to another zone like they did BAB, he's still in a sort of limbo.
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Quote:I thought I understood your point - that they disabled the ability to create new pacts because they didn't know how to deal with one of the pacted players going Premium.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
It seems you misunderstood my post and the point I was making as to why they haven't re-enabled the ability to create new pacts.
My point was that there is nothing to stop that from happening with the pacts that already exist, so there has to already be some mechanism in place to deal with it. Therefore, what is stopping them from allowing VIP players to create new leveling pacts?
As someone pointed out, yes, you could potentially PL a character that is off line, but it's going to take twice as long to do it, and the off-line character won't get any drops, so what difference does it make if you allow that, or the person just spends that extra time logged in as the other character?
As everyone knows, no decision the Devs make is going to meet with universal approval, so just make a decision and tweak it as necessary if it is somehow being exploited. -
OK, I have just confirmed - my second account going temporarily Premium when my cc company froze my card for suspicious activity did NOT break the leveling pact between characters on my two accounts.
That said, I didn't log the character in on the second account while it was Premium, so maybe any "pact breakage" never occurred since I reactivated the VIP status of that account. -
Quote:That was my assumption in my first post in this thread. As far as I know, they never moved the train Coyote after they closed down Outbreak, but I could be mistaken.Originally Posted by Ascendant
I'm assuming that the choice of Coyote over, say, a dire wolf or giant otter, is the Devs giving a nod to Kiyotee, a pretty active user during the CoH Beta who passed away shortly after launch.
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Quote:The thing is, level pacts haven't ceased to exist altogether - if you were a VIP player you could still create level pacts during the Freedom Headstart period, and as far as I know those pacts are still in effect, you just can't create any new ones. So the scenario you describe could very possibly have happened already. In fact, I know it has - to me.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
If I remember some of the discussions correctly, part of what they were trying to figure out how to handle was making it apply only to VIP character.
There are a few problems with implementing that solution that are likely holding up their solutions.
Both players are VIP, create new characters and level pact them, one or both of the accounts goes Premium. It's possible that neither player intended to go Premium but simply lapsed for a few hours (or a day) for various reasons.
How do you handle that? If you simply break the pact, that causes a problem if it was just a matter of someone not getting the sub renewed in time. I've seen several times that people have commented that their sub lapsed for a few hours for one reason or another. Sometimes it is not from anything a player did wrong either.
If you break the level pact in that situation you risk losing two subscribers and possibly more when word spreads.
So how long of a grace period do you give if a sub lapses? And what do they do about the pacted XP being gained while that sub is Premium? Even if it's only a few hours, a character can gain quite a few levels while pacted in just a few hours and then it's supposed to be shared with the pact-mate when they log back in.
I'm not sure that they have the tech to just suspend the Premium account from gaining any pacted XP while it is Premium. If they did, they'd likely have implemented it already.
I think they want to find a solution to bring it back, but haven't found a way to do it so that it can only work for VIP accounts and not penalize people for small lapses in subscription time, especially inadvertent lapses or something out of control of the players.
I level pacted a couple of characters on my two VIP accounts on Exhalted when Freedom first launched. In October there was an issue with my credit card that happened to coincide with the billing date on my second account and I was briefly changed to Premium status. I didn't even think about how this would affect my level pacts and sadly I have not revisited those characters to check, but I will tonight and I'll let you know. -
Quote:There was a 30 minute and 10 minute warning on Virtue. There may even have been a 5 minute warning, but I'm not entirely sure of that.Originally Posted by Hopeling
That's odd. On Freedom, I got a red 30-minute warning as usual. I don't know if there was a 10-minute warning, because I'd already logged off by then.
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Margherita - A light pizza with olive oil, garlic, fresh basil, fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and parmesan cheeses. Perfect with a margarita on a hot summer night.
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I made and deleted a couple of characters when I first started playing, but my two "Main" characters (i.e. the ones on which I have logged the most hours) were both created within my first... maybe 2-4 weeks of playing.
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I only had one token to spare and I wanted the phoenix wings most of all, so I just unlocked the third set for now. I wanted to see what the other pieces looked like, but I couldn't find the "arm" pieces. Are they under Robotic Arms or something?
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Quote:I haven't tested it, but it sure as hell better include a temporary hover power that triggers when you run off the edge of a tall building, combined with a running-while-suspended-in-space-before-your-body-falls-away-followed-by-your-head-as-you-wave-goodbye animation or I'll never buy it!Originally Posted by Lothic
It's funny that several people in this thread have implied (in one way or another) that the Coyote travel power is either too fast and/or can jump too high.
Several weeks ago when this power was first introduced on the beta server it ran a good deal slower and jumped much less high. It was -almost- like a real coyote in terms of its abilities. Thing is a bunch of people started whining that it "sucked" that way as a travel power and that they would never buy it because they considered it to be the "worst" travel power like that.
I suppose this is just yet another example of how the Devs will never be able to please everyone.
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Yeah, sorry, I'm kind of careless with my use of terms, I guess. What I meant to say is that for about the past six months to a year, it seems like the servers are taken off-line almost every Tuesday and Thursday morning (morning here anyway).
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There's usually, or at least very often, server maintenance on Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM Eastern Time.
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Again, good points, but when they decided to do this, someone had to decide what animal to use. I'm just wondering, why a coyote instead of say, a wolf, a fox, a panther, a polar bear, a... wolverine?
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To the person I traded the Harlequin code - if you haven't applied it yet, please don't until you confirm with me what the first or last four characters of the code are. I may have sent you the code for a different costume by mistake.
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My pleasure!
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Quote:and,Originally Posted by Lulipop
are the only webcomics I read on a regular basis.Quote:Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
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Quote:I understand that philosophy, but is this something people were clamoring for? Coyotes?Originally Posted by Organica
People will pay money for it.
If they thought enough people would pay money for a rocket-propelled wheelchair travel power, they'd probably build it. -
Rib - One of the ridges in a knitted or woven fabric.
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I still have the following costume codes (one of each) for trade, and I'm lowering my asking value for each to either 1-billion Inf, or an Apocalypse triple, an Armageddon triple, a Hecatomb triple, or a Ragnarok triple:
Carnival of Shadows Harlequin
Freakshow Tank (TRADED)
PPD Hardsuit (TRADED)
Knives of Artemis (TRADED)
Rikti Mentalist (Trade Pending)
Mk-VI Victoria (TRADED)
Let me know. Thanks, again! -
Quote:So you don't know either, huh?Originally Posted by Zombie Man
For great awesomeness.
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Can someone educate me why we are getting a "coyote" travel power? Does it have something to do with the Outbreak starting zone going away? It just seems so random otherwise.
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OK, so I filled my last Tier 9 slot and now I have an extra Reward Token.
Has anyone heard any rumblings of what's next? Will there be a Tier 10?
I know they said Celestial Armor was a limited time only deal, so does that mean at some point they will remove it from the upper tier, clearing those three slots in the process, and offer something new that you need to plug your tokens into? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Chris_Zuercher
I am a hero!
I'm playing as a hero 'til the end of the night.
I've gotta be strong and I've gotta be fast
and I've gotta get the next badge tonight.
I am a hero!
I'm playing as a hero 'til the morning light.
That next badge I'm sure,
I know that it's soon,
I've already got it in my sight.
Just an Arachnos girl on a Saturday night
LookinÂ’ for the fight of her life
In the Grandville heights no one sees her at all
They all say she's crazy
In the dark you hear the beat of her heart
Changing daytime into night
You have stepped into her poisoned web
Where the hunter becomes the prey
She can flay you with her mind
Or eviscerate your spine
All the while you're stuck between
Her will and what will be
She's a Night Widow, Night Widow in the web
And she's fighting like she never fought before
She's a Night Widow, Night Widow in the web
And she's fighting like she never fought before