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PLEASE add some or all of the great new options that Villains are receiving to Heroes' costume creator, at least for those players who own both CoV and CoH.

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Noted. We'll see what we can do...

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Awesome.

Even if its not at once, just eventually, ya know?

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I once again vote against it. Costume diversity for the win.

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Then they better be consistant about it.

Right now you can make "evil" guys in COH and "heroes" in COV. If they wanna try and push a load like diversity then they're already failing at it.

I say what I always say.

Costume creator should have every possible option. There shouldn't be any restrictions save for faction specific logos (no hero should have the Council black flame, no villian should have the Freedom/Hero Corps logo) and costume pieces that just would be overly difficult to apply for every class (like, say the freak slicer giant scythe-arm)

The costume creator is one of the greatest creators in any MMORPG to date, anymore freedom adds to it.

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With Enhancement Diversification comes a benefit for ALL City of Heroes powers.

Every power, across the board, is getting a 13.33% reduction in its Endurance cost.

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What really needs a fix is powers with 600-1000 second long recharges.

These powers have such high recharges to prevent perma-ing that was once possible with:

50% HOs and
Perma-hasten

Being HOs are down to 33% and Perma hasten is not possible anymore, these powers need their recharge reduced to reflect this.

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It's all so confusing!! Anyone else happen to notice that in Issue 3 of the Top Cow comic, Recluse says "My sister sends her regards" but how the heck would he know?

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Maybe she turned evil, died and became Ghost Widow?

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Nope.

Ghost Widow's origin is explained in a level 15 arc in CoV.

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Ghost Widow was posting how much she hated her life on her Liverjournal one night and the computer got struck by lightning and gave her superpowers.

However, she was so depressed about it she killed herself and the electirc enegry in her body from the lightning brought her back as the current Ghost Widow.

Good luck in the future, Gil! You'll be missed.

I'll always remember that Paragon City Blimp operates outside of national airspace system

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All we do know is that it is a new Epic Archetype that is coming soon (coming soon translation = between 1 year and 20 years from now, hehe)

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20 years? Well well, look at Mr Optimist over here....bet you think the SSOCS is coming out someday too.

Fool! It's all LIES!!!!

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I think we will see arena's and some new costume options!

I cant wait!

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I predict the arenas will be EMPTY because nobody likes PVP!!

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No. We have NOT been recording SG mode since ANY issue. I will also confirm that NO datamining will be happening (for exactly the reasons given above).

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Well reports out of Gencon indicate that Lord Recluse himself may have said otherwise as detailed in this thread.

So did the fan get the info wrong or did Lord Recluse hand out bad information? Just asking ...

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Well, Recluse is evil....

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Shhh! They're coming!

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No we're not. ...I mean...umm yeah! Keep looking for u...them! Them!!

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I would like to point out something I strongly believe.

IMO, they will not datamine and award pestige for being in SG mode before CoV.

I believe as the badges were too much of an undertaking for this staff, this would be also.

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It's already been confirmed that they have been actively recording SG mode usage and prestige aquisitions, since probably Issue 4.

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No. We have NOT been recording SG mode since ANY issue. I will also confirm that NO datamining will be happening (for exactly the reasons given above).

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Will SGs be able to take already earned inf and turn it into Prestige?

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Yep, but within a SG, if members are busily earning Prestige instead of Inf, the reserves of Inf from the high level members could well get drained quicker than we are expecting.

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That's untrue.

My SG took an initiative and made a "bank" (before we knew about this Prestige stuff, obviously). We had long since broke 1 billion influence, and over 100 million of it was donated by a single person. I personally donated 20 million, and then made back half in a week.

Now this isn't QUITE the same, but if you replace the donated influence with prestige (being, it's theoretically the same, just it's Inf I made but cannot use vs gaining prestige instead of inf) it sorta shows that once you get a certain level you are so inf rich that you can stand to lose all of it (or, just have no net income) and probably make it back very quickly.

Especially post Issue 5, the influence bonuses for bosses and AVs are incredible.

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Because the fad is Outrage posts now, necro-rising might be cool again!

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Rage was responsible for some necro-rising in a movie I once saw...

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Those zombies were weak! They died eventually!!

Because the fad is Outrage posts now, necro-rising might be cool again!

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OH PLEASE NOT THIS< NOT THIS AT ALL!!!!

due to reasons that are beyond me as i was purchasing a new game for my xbox, i desided to find out when the pvp action woud statr on the server with the releace of cov, much to my dismay i was told that the releace date of cov is now somthing like SEPTEMBER 9. tell me how you feel, im still shocked for the fact that the last date i had heard was a jan/feb release.

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Sept 9th? Beta is gonna be short.

Defiance, as many have stated before me, is pointless after level 10.

It needs to be rethought or scrapped altogehter for something else. I applaud the effort but doing more damage doesn't mean more survivablity at all.

Blasters never had a problem with damage, especially after level 22 when the SOs come into play.

Please don't believe Defiance fixes anything. All it has done for me is make defenders start thinking twice before healing me, and now I die more.

On a side note, all blasters getting a self rez power might be an alternative solution. I'll tell you what, getting Rise of the Phoenix at level 47 was one of the greatest days in my Blaster's life.

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Cal here is 100% accurate that he's right.

In Bizaro World.


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But in Bizzaro World, wouldn't he be trying to make people say he's wrong?

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke settled upon Roanoke Island of the Outer Banks of NORTH CAROLINA!!! NOT VIRGINIA!!!

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I thought North and South Carolina were just a series of rest stops along I95.

*The More You Know! ~comet~*

Aww....now what am i gonna do with all this post apocolyspe canned meat?!

Thanks States.

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It's not going to happen at this point, though.

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Oh why the hell not?

I am tired of the "We are to far in the game" crap. If they are going to ruin the quality of life for our characters to "fix" a bad system I say drastic steps should be taken to put in a new one.

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Quoting zzMDude:

"They won't waste time doing more good than they have to. But messing the game up is always on the plate."

Horribly cynical...but lately I'm starting to agree with him.

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Yeah this seriously goes against the whole "No Loot!" concept this game had for awhile.

Hell, its a huge backlash, moreso cause theres no player economy to suppliment the drops.

So, you know what's going to happen?

Anyone with a high level is simply going to find the contact they can buy the right level enhancements from and mule them to their lowbie. I sure as hell will. I don't care how tedious it is, it's still better then running higher level missions with DOs and trainings cause you can't get the right SOs.

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Forgot, combine this stuff with the cost for building and renting a base...

Maybe I should start exemping my upper level characters to hit a billion influence before things get crazy. I know I can buy all origins of enhancements in all level ranges on my main, after all.

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All I was really getting at was, this is again, another blow to the casual gamer while mearly an annoyance to the "powergamer" (i use that term loosly, cause its really anyone with a lot of inf.).

Powergamers will find away around it and continue to fund and pamper their alts (nothing wrong with that, please don't take it that way!) while the casual will be scrounging for drops and scrapping together inf at the inflated contact prices.

It hurts nobody but the casual player...as usual.

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Thanks for the Notes Butler! Some interesting stuff there, but like many of the other posters, I don't understand the hate towards the NPC shops. They serve a purpose and they work pretty well to me.

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<shrug>

Sounds vaguely like other comments States has made, most recently at GenCon -- where he's alluded to his belief that higher-end enhancements (read: SOs) are substantially more widely available than originally intended.

What really are the alternatives for players?

1) Increased dependence on drops
2) Increased trading -- anyone remember early Request?
3) Greater reliance on Contacts for enhancements, consistent with general trends towards encouraging storyarc- and mission-oriented play.

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4) More reliance on loot, less bothering with the game for me.

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Yeah this seriously goes against the whole "No Loot!" concept this game had for awhile.

Hell, its a huge backlash, moreso cause theres no player economy to suppliment the drops.

So, you know what's going to happen?

Anyone with a high level is simply going to find the contact they can buy the right level enhancements from and mule them to their lowbie. I sure as hell will. I don't care how tedious it is, it's still better then running higher level missions with DOs and trainings cause you can't get the right SOs.

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I'm sure there's a middleground between "breezing through missions on Invincible" and "how come my blood is all outside of me?"!


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When has this dev team ever found a middle ground with anything? Status Effects? No. -Regen? No. Boss upgrades? No. Endurance Useage? No. Kryptonite type Enemies? No. PvP? No.

Just saying.....

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Saved me the trouble. Making the game more annoying in an attempt to slow you down is not a challenge, it's just...well annoying.

Aww, I didn't guess right.

...double or nothing on the Tech Origin guy next time!

Being last weeks article was on the City Rep....what's the next one going to be?

Hmm...gonna throw money on Officer Wincott in the Hollows.