Adeon Hawkwood

That would be an interesting concept. The risk I see is that you end up with the same Reputation Grind problem that WoW has where you end up need to grind out reputation for multiple factions in order to get access to required gear.

I'm not really sure how to avoid that. You want characters to get something concrete for having a high rep but if you start tying tangible benefits to it (like costume parts or badges) then you create a situation where people feel compelled to grind the rep even if it doesn't make sense for their character.

I think that the best option would be a setup where any heroic acts (missions or street sweeping) gets you three reputations: one for the zone you're in, one for the enemy faction you're fighting and one that represents your overall city-wide rep. However the total reputation you gain in each category is inversely weighted by your reputation in the other two categories. So for example as my reputation for fighting the Council grows I get less Zone and City rep when I fight Council but more Council rep (obviously there's need to be some caps on it to prevent someone getting locked out of a rep type).

Next make it so that any rewards (ESPECIALLY badges/costume parts) are granted simply for having a high reputation in one category rather than specific categories. Content can be gated behind specific reputations but any exclusive benefits it awards (such as badges) should be limited and should be available to people without the reputation simply by having a team leader with it run the content. For example maybe you need high City rep to start the STF or high Council rep to start the Hess TF but you can still get the badges by running the content with someone who does have that rep even if you don't.

I guess the general point is to make it so that Heroes can have a specific goal of fighting an enemy group or defending a specific neighborhood but at the same time avoid a situation where players feel forced to grind out multiple reputations or develop a specific reputation that is "required" for their character. Additionally the goal is to try and make it organic. Someone who spends their time fighting lots of enemy types in different zones becomes well known over the entire city and will get lots of varied missions requests but isn't going to be the go-to guy for very specific problems. Conversely someone who has a rep for fighting a specific enemy faction will get called on to help deal with them causing problems but won't be called upon for other factions as much.

Now over time a character who gets played a lot will start maxing out multiple reputation types but doing so isn't essential.

I tend to feel the same way, stiff upper lip and all that.

It's a personal thing. I can barely play without combat jumping.

My view was always the opposite. Eliminating farms would be impossible without a complete restructuring of the AE rewards (i.e. making them give significantly less than regular missions). Adding limited support for farms wouldn't be done to aid farmers, it would be done to aid everyone else. As various people noted above it's always been pretty easy to find farms in AE so adding a farm category allows for non-farmers to more easily filter the farms out.

And I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

Despite what some Texans think Texas is technically part of America. I seem to recall a couple of wars that were fought to establish that fact.

Who knows, it probably depends on what exactly they are "selling" you with the box. The software itself still technically works it's just the servers it connects to that are down.

Abandonware is generally defined as any software that is no longer being legally sold and supported which would be the case. However it's important to note that abandonware is NOT a legal concept. Even if NCSoft shuts down the servers they still legally own City of Heroes and all associated Copyrights (at least in the US, I presume Korean law is similar but IANAL).

In my case I'm going from CoH to Planetside 2. For the Republic!

I'm not sure. Their stock took a hit in the first half of July but it's been climbing pretty steadily back up since then.

The Valkyrie set also has a set of shoulder pads that are just like the ones that Space Marines use.

100% Regen IIRC. Making it superior makes both effects 50% stronger.

It's not easy being green.

I've repeatedly considered rolling up either an Empath/AR Defender or an AR/Pain Corruptor as a Space Marine Apothecary. Needless to say he'd refuse to team with any Magic Origin, Mutant Origin or non-human heroes (or at least he would if I role-played him realistically).