Zombie Man

One of the 'rules' of what you get on the Premium plan is that whatever you bought is unlocked, whether you buy it with real money (e.g., Booster, Character Slot unlock, Going Rogue) or with Paragon Points once the Paragon Store is open.

So, if you bought Going Rogue, then, as a Premium member, you have access to Going Rogue.

Now, Going Rogue is supposed to unlock the Incarnate System for you. If you have purchased GR, you've unlocked Incarnates. Or, to put it another way, if you want to purchase the Incarnate System, you do so by purchasing Going Rogue.

So, it was asked on Ustream if purchasing Going Rogue will unlock Incarnates for Premium members.

And the answer from Clockwork O1 was: Premium members do not have access to Incarnates, only VIPs do.

What?!

If Incarnates was purchased through GR, then why is there no access *at all* to it? That violates the first rule stated above.

Of course, this is completely contradicted by the Issue 21 Feature update that says that The Underground Incarnate Trial was purchasable for Premium members. It's Incarnate Content, but, purchasable, which contradicts what Clockwork O1 said.

So, what's the real story?

In a previous Ustream, they said they were working on more proliferation but they didn't know if it could be done in time for I21. So, it's still a *possibility* for I21. But, obviously, they can't announce it until it's done and they know they can get it out the door for I21.

On the bright side, even if it's not ready for I21, the new CoH:F model is that as soon as it's done, it gets released and no waiting for I22.

Any suggestions about what to give Freeks that makes it so they have no reason to ever step up to being Preems or Veeps is a DOA suggestion.

As has been said, Freeks get access to about 80% of the game. Whittling the restrictions away to 99% of the game ain't gonna happen.

Also, some of those restrictions has nothing to do with purposely setting aside part of the game to make them want to pay for it. Many of the restrictions are to prevent Griefers from bothering the Paying Customers. And many of the restrictions are to prevent RMTers from bothering the Paying Customers or preying on the Freeks. If the Freeks want to step up and get more stuff, they should be paying NCSoft and not RMTers. The restrictions in place ensure that.

I'd like to suggest a SG Base clone feature. Sure, we'd have to pay for it, but some would find it worthwhile.

It would especially be handy for the Beta and Test Servers after a wipe.

You shoot time at people. With your eyes.

Gated

If you look at the church in the graveyard, it seems Praetorian Jesus died on a pike.

All the folk you knew who had to give up the game because of the cost of the subscription can now come back... with all their stuff.

They also mentioned another aspect of the difficulty of 'sprucing up' the old: Feature creep.

If you re-do Atlas Park Town Hall in hi-rez ultra modality how are you going to just stop there and not update the surrounding buildings... and their surrounding buildings?

They mentioned how with Faultline, the original plan was just a few neighborhoods, and yet, they couldn't help themselves and did a full makeover... which would have been the same amount of time as starting from scratch.

So, the problem is compatibility and comprehensiveness.

And before someone pipes up and says "I can live with them updating only Neighborhood X" you *know* there will be loud wailing from players about how Neighborhood X looks so out of place and the Devs *must* update everything else. It's just not the Devs who are stricken with feature creep.

I just hope that the 'low level zones' update is with the contact chain and implementing my oft made suggestion to model the arcs like the zone-arcs of Praetoria: One contact per arc; move all the doors to one zone (and one adjacent hazard zone); move all the one-off missions to a perpetual mission giver... or the police band radio; and pare down the arcs with multiple street sweeps or fedexes.

The environmental artists hate Praetorians!

It is literally the wall of a skateboard park and there is an art design festival taking place in the city.

There should be an investigation if it *wasn't* painted up.

It's a villain logo... check for lead paint.

Updated the Guide to Guides today from the posts in this thread and combing through what has been posted in Player Guides since Issue 16.