Zappalina

Window scenes that are place able that have a Paragon/Rogue Island scenes in them. Much Scaled down but not too small version of the ones in Pocket D - Something like the tech base portal beacon art -

Oddly enough I have requests from time to time to ask if i can put in a pool table.

Bar stools

More variety of plants

More variety of plant sizes something between large potted/tree would be good and a bit bushy.

Pillars that are somewhere between the shorter arcane squat one and the tall skinny ones that adjust to ceiling height.

More of the Arcane decorative Crystals in blue/white/purple/yellow/red/black/green.

Throne chairs that are more elaborate then the wooden arcane chairs.

tea tables

More variety of SG wall art

More decorative items that have a light effects to them.

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Zappalina
Global Contact: @Zappalina
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Magic Tanker
Super Rank & Super Group: Chair Emeritus - The Stockton Group

Welcome

Welcome! & I <3 your in game Character

Base Repricing
[u]1) How will the repricing of bases affect you personally?[u]

From my understanding - Please clarify if wrong on the base repricing - Rent is now based on How many base unit storage items we have priced at 100 prestige each per rent cycle - such as Enhancement, Inspiration and Salvage bins? and not on plot size? We can have a max of 18 storage items in our SGs.

Making rent a max of 1800 per rent cycle.

*Edited after reading this postbase rent explained in this post Base rent is still much more affordable this way, and if I find myself being short on prestige in the smaller SGs I will just limit the number of items I add that would up the base rent price.

End of the mission Prestige reward is around 200-300ish something? I'm sorry can't remember exactly right now.
It would take me around 9 missions or Less to pay for my base rent per cycle if that is correct.

We have a small alt SG and a small Villain SG on the rent free plot size, this would not be a problem upkeeping. For my large main hero SG this would be a huge boon.

As for potential growth of our small SGs I do anywhere from 2-15 missions daily when I log in, which is frequently. Not to mention the Strike forces and Task forces i may do. I do not see a potential problem with growth of our small SG/VG. We also have other players in our SGs/VGs so even if I am just making rent one week, their prestige earnings as they level their characters help with potential SG growth and buying of items.

I see base repricing as a boon. It will affect me directly as I am the main base designer of 3 SGs and 1 VG even though I have co leaders I am the main designer. The ways it will affect me directly is time will be put into redesigning and recooping the base prestige from the room sizes. It will also mean that I will have to play those 9ish missions to upkeep the base rent on those SGs if no one else is playing that rent cycle.


[u]2) Will you dismantle your base to gain the additional prestige from the repricing?[u]
I have partially dismantled our Main Hero sg already, it still has rooms in it due to having enhancement,inspiration and salvage storage bins in it. I will also rework our Main villain SG after i13 hits live. I will keep the smaller Alt SGs as is.

[u]3) How long would this process take you if you were to engage in this practice?[u]
The Main hero SG took a little over an hour to dismantle. The other ones would take a lot less time to rework.

[u]4) What are the positive and negative concerns regarding repricing?[u]

The Positive
A.) increasing size of the SG and adding more items of interest to myself and my SG members, or requested items.
B.)From my understanding base raids will be disabled, however I will still be adding defensive rooms to our main SG which I was unable to really do well because of the old prices, so when base raids are reactivated our SG will be more raid ready.
C.)Base rent reduction
D.)Prestige bank will available for future added or requested items
E.)Players in the main SG will not think that they have to play in SG mode just to help increase the size of the prestige bank due to we should have enough prestige left over to (They do this voluntarily though it isn't required in any of our SGs)
F.)We will be able to help increase the size of our other SGs and VGs more readily now by putting our alts in there so they can grow, many prefer the main one due to it's large size and accessible storage, and teleporters which our smaller ones do not have as much of/as, and we rely on our main base or coalitions for teleporters, autodoc/tree of wonders and other ways to store inspirations/enhancements such as Wentworths/BlackMarket.
G.) More features added to the smaller bases making ease of transporation as in Teleporters available. Also being able to afford the control/energy items earlier to power the base and not grinding for prestige either myself or sg members, if I want to increase the size of the base.

The Negative
A.)I can understand how someone with very limited time 2 hours a week average to play - who has a very small SG but has taken the time to over years make a small SG with a lot of personal storage that does not have a prestige bank due to being a solo player would have a problem paying the new rental system. I'm not sure how many players like this there are out there however but I would guess they exist.

[u]The Neutral[u]
I can see more solo SGs happening with this system, for players who play more often and would like their own SGs and who are willing to spend time in SG mode to get prestige or add their alts to their own SGs which would make them almost like personal 'apartment' Sgs. I do not view this is a positive or negative thing, for some it would be a good thing, for larger SGs who rely on players to grind prestige for them I can see how it might be a detriment just to that kind of SG if it became a popular option to build a smaller one person SG/VG . I don't really foresee that happening.

[u]5) How will this feature affect you long term and short term?[u]

Long Term -
A.)Long term after getting the main Hero Sg that I am part of Huge and with everything I and the other SG members want in it, I would start participating in base raids more, it would be an added feature to our members or to anyone who might want to join a Sg that had access to them and did them. When we did them in the past I had people contact me about joining for that specific reason and it was a feature they hadn't tried out before - They got this information from the coh forums/sg info.
B.)I would also start putting more of my Alts in our other SGs to help their growth.

Short Term -
A.) Investment in time redesigning the base.
B.) Learning the new system

Base Salvage Exchange to Invention Salvage

[u]1) What is the negative effect on your base for this feature implementation?[u]
* I used this feature tonight on test*
A.) The randomness during converting base salvage to exactly what you need on the recipes for base items. You're not guaranteed exactly what you need during converting.
This would possibly not so much be a base issue as a issue for someone crafting the item. however I wasn't sure exactly how it was meant as in the base membership or the base items and the things currently in it as an entirety.
B.) I can see myself as a SG leader that crafts base items getting frustrated and just using the Blackmarket or Wentworths to save time and guaranteeing what I would receive the item I wanted as opposed to a random item through converting.
C.) I can see the possibility of newer or smaller SGs not having the availability of what they need to craft base items due to market shortage, player hoarding or the random conversion of base salvage to invention salvage.

[u]2) What is the positive effect on your base for this feature implementation?[u]
A.)Being able to toss invention salvage in for Alts of my own or other SG members to use for crafting recipes they have.

[u] 3) How long will it take you to adjust to learning this new system?[u]
I've already started adjusting to the changes while using it on test server tonight, I think it's a very learnable system, the only difficulty I found was that I got click happy and took the brainstorm merits and converted them into lesser invention random salvage when I should have been using them for more specific recipe range invention arcane item chances. It was also confusing at first understanding what the brainstorm part was. I right click and did info though after finding those. It would have been nice to have a brainstorm tab. I think I would have looked at it because it would be different and understood faster.

[u]4) What side effects to this system do you currently see from transitioning the old to new system?[u]
A.) It's a bit more difficult this new system the conversion but learnable, I see a learning curve going on and many questions to NC and within channels happening as a side effect, possible more reading of the forums and looking for a detailed guide on how to use this new system as opposed to the old, Also I see the possible side effect of complaints.

[u]5) What security concerns do you have regarding this change?[u]
A.) I do not because we have working base permissions at this time.
B.)I could see how SGs with open permissions who may be saving up to craft an item in the salvage bins that will be available in i13 could possibly suffer if they do not use their option to limit random people taking items from the base storage salvage bins.

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Go craft now with existing base salvage and have it in your base details that you can add at a later time if you want.

Same with a lot of the other base items, craft those spirit signals! make that AES!

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You do know that if you craft an AES now and place it later you will be paying 500,000 prestige more than the new invention made version, right?

Making teleporters now will solve the problem for existing groups, however that does nothing for future groups.

A lot of the happiness over the base salvage removal seems to stem from "well it doesn't affect me, so why isn't everyone happy?" But then I guess that navel gazing is a way of life for those happy about the base salvage removal.

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I did not know that, however thank you! I'll go and have the salvage on my character ready to convert so I can make that AES!

IF and I'm not sure if your remarks were to me about the navel gazing - No where did I mention that I'm happy about the specifics of base salvage, I just don't think it's this big [censored] deal. I said to help people out in my post. I like trying things out before I make a judgment that way I'm not close-minded.

Ok I'm so happy the sg changes are taking place in the costs.
/em,claps and does happy dance

Base rent changes are a blessing - Thank you!

I finally get to have this big old base with all this cool stuff in it.
My sg members are lovely and dedicated and everyone likes the base design i do so not only do i get to be happy about having a new HUGE shiney base they do too! I'm gonna outfit the thing with Defense up the whazoo so when raids are fixed voila! That and in my opinion the arcane and some of the tech defense items just look cool.

As for salvage for crafting items, what's the big broohaha about?

Go craft now with existing base salvage and have it in your base details that you can add at a later time if you want.

Teleporters. Take so little salvage to make currently I'm surprised that ya'll haven't built them already. Even if your base isn't big enough yet, you can still have them in base details on your character and place them later on.

Same with a lot of the other base items, craft those spirit signals! make that AES!

Or just wait and see what drops for salvage later on- I'm an sg leader and have bought components and base salvage for crafting off the market for our base, it's not a big deal do a few missions get influence go and buy them.

Might have to wait a day or two to get everything I need but I'm patient.

And if you're a current SG leader and see a new base builder asking for help in zone sometime or on a base channel - help them out, it doesn't have to be difficult unless people make it that way.

I shall cry no DOOOOMMM before it's time.

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lol so how are the boats gonna make it into the bay safely now? =/

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Strap some lights to the back of the landsharks!

Best wishes Lighthouse

I like it

I am still having the sync bug still on Villains side only Justice Server on my brute character usually in Nerva and St. Martial Inside missions and exiting missions the /sync does work. I can tell i am out of sync when my character now instead of getting to the mission and seeing black doors or running up to something to attack and seeing the 'out of range' I get a few yards/feet and then get rubberbanded (it's almost like invisible teleport) back to where my original starting point had been on exiting a mission or back to the doors on entering one. Which is consistent the server doesn't reset my character but the /sync command does then I ask if I have a team mate for clarification that I'm finally moving.

Congratulations that was really enjoyable

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The only problem with using the /ignore_spammer command I see is the continuous use of nonsensical names used by most spammers, that makes it often impossible to correctly ignore. For the email that has been flooding our accounts specifically could the Dev's please add an in-game email address (per server) that we can forward the emails to (IE Email Petitions; Pinnacle Spammers; Virtue Petitions, etc). The player base can then easily forward the email along to the support team for their review/actions. Or add a button to the current in-game email structure to forward the email as a petition.

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That's a really good idea

Thought this announcement was awesome, thanks for listening to the players :claps:

Powerset Proliferation YAY! Midnight Squad Content Awesome I love new content! Hollows zone makeover (if you remove the gulch I will miss it, that was like one of the best experiences falling into that sucker for the first time hahaha) Roman Style Maps - Yay more feasting for the eyes, The costumes I'm not into but yay anyways! Major Gameplay improvements! Yay and Thankyou

I am not the boss of my house.
I don't know how I lost it. I don't know where I lost it.
I don't think I ever had it.
But I've seen the boss's job, and I don't want it.

I am Legend

I am a rock
I am an Island

I am Inigo Montoya

When I joined CoH
Moshi
Quanta
Pixie Cat
Shanaynay
Red Pyre
most of them play rarely or at all now.

Who I met along the way leveling my first character and teamed a lot and had the most fun with on my tanker Zappalina post level 20. Celadonis, Revelation One, Steeleblade, and Phase 2, Shadowdragon Type 2, .Darc, Vialot, Raven Rock WHS Cat and Myrna

Le Guilletine & Omega-001 have answered so many questions for me and they're just really good guys.

Flamed Warrior, Trem and Count Vampyro <-great people

Q asked if i wanted to be on aggro team for Hami and I was so happy it's one of the things I wanted to try in CoH but I didn't want to be pushy about asking. POK and all the Lovely PA droppers on the PA team for the past hami raids great people.
All the silly broadcaster's in Hami raids. Thank you all so much because you taught me a lot and were patient with all the questions I had.

Nive who's become one of my best buddies in the game and taught me a lot about having a really awesome attitude in PvP either kicking butt or having butt kicked. He's also just awesome because he always has a great attitude that's full of fun. He really strives to make sure his friends are having the best time. Nive's Mistress(she always tells it like it is), Vyze(the perv), Lil Mac and Nate Dawg who are all part of the DROW team and are so fun.

Velara she keeps me laughing and educates me on everything about blasters,nerfing and badges during the longest TF's

Megami the one chick who I really enjoy her personality teaming and/or just chatting about non related CoX stuff.

it's not just one person that's influenced the game for me, it's a bunch. Justice server has just been really great for me there's a ton of patient knowledgeable people on it.

Those were awesome Congratulations to the Winners!

I was so happy after i read about this expansion! yay!

So when I log in today I should have all my stuff back and if i dont' then tough?

Issue 10 will focus on a level range that you guys have been clamoring about for a while

I'll go ahead and squash that one now. Level cap is NOT going up in I10!

My Speculation is: More TF's and Stuff to do for the Level 35-45 range? PvP zone for that range?

or maybe we do a flashback they reset all servers and we start out as -1

thank you

what are the rewards for a completed Statesman's Task Force?

Does it give a Synthetic Hami Origin like the LRSF?
does it have a menu of choices recipe/sho/enhancement?

or is it just a recipe drop at the end?