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Quote:I didn't use the air brush tool I used brushes and smudge and Fejian was the first thing I ever computer colored and was done some months ago. the other two are my 2nd and third and are more recent, but thanks for the suggestions and at least responding to my workOriginally Posted by BattleWraith
Some suggestions:
1. Establish from what direction your lightsource is coming. The shadows and highlights should be consistent.
2. Stay away from the airbrush tool. Learn to use brushes in combination with the smudge tool to create gradients and textures. It will make your objects look solid and less puffy.
3. Use color to relay more information about the subject and enhance the linework. For example, the thing is covered with craggy, jutting rocks. There would be lots of shadows and highlights and gradiations in value based on their angle in space. You have his whole body covered in one flat application of orange. The burning edge of the cigar is almost the same shade of orange with no glow. Fenian's rock has all kinds of layers and cracks indicated by the linework, but again you've got a flat color over the whole thing with two puffy, oddly place shadows on the sides. -
Quote:I am a VIP and can't redistribute my mine, and I don't want to go down to premium to make that happen, same as i don't want to rely on some trick that worked in the past as it may not work now or there may have been some other reason for it, I am looking for repeatable way for it to be done like an in store thing that can be boughtOriginally Posted by Profit
Just to offer up,
I'm currently premium. I came back with Freedom, I was premium for a few months and then subbed for a month (which I'll be reupping my sub again for a few months soonish), when my VIP ran out, all my slots were set back like they were when I came back for Freedom and I was able to reassign them to any characters I wanted. So we do have a redristribution method, and it costs $15. -
Quote:yea a feature that says "You own it" over the buy button or a color system White text if you don't own it yellow if you own pieces (in the case of costume sets) and red if you own it. On the upside if you try to buy something you already own it won't let ya buy it un less its a consumable.Originally Posted by Phewmite
Market access outside of the game. I know this has been requested many times since Freedom went live and we've received responses of "yeah, we want to do that." and "We're looking into it." I'm just wondering if there has been any progress towards this or if it is just totally out of scope.
If market access is not available, I was wondering if it would be possible to have some sort of "player manifest" that we could access to see what all we have purchased/unlocked from the market. This would be especially useful when considering the bundles that have recently found their way to the market. For instance, the Nature Affinity bundle which included the Leaves Aura, Powerset, and Travel Path Aura. I was about to purchase the bundle since it was a great deal, but then I couldn't remember if I had the auras already or not.This lead me to having to get into game, go to character creator and search out the auras only to find I already had 1 aura which made the bundle no longer a good deal. Having a listing (tied to the forums, or NCSoft account site, etc.) of what all I've already got would have made this process much easier. -
Quote:sure and at the time that was fine a good number of these slots where locked when most servers hit yellow if not red on daily basis, but as I have explained at least 3 times in this thread I changed servers to play with friendsOriginally Posted by Texas Justice
When you allocated those slots to the server you put them on, what was the message that popped up on the screen?
Wasn't it saying that the slots would be locked to that server and couldn't be changed?
Would it be nice to be able to do this one time? Sure.
Do I think it will be implemented? Not at all.
and another thing I will point out is things change, yes they are locked to w/e sever they are on I am asking for a way to unlock them as stated in the post you quoted and the post I made before that, and before that and before that
The freebie would be a one time thing and we have already discussed why that might not be so hot and I have already said I'd be willing to cough up some pp to be able to reallocate my global slots and that I am just shooting for a freebie cause I might as well.
and as I already stated and you failed to address I am willing to toss 800pp points (maybe a bit more) at reallocation, I am not willing (nor able) to drop $40 for the amount of PP I would need to buy new slots.
Not when they give me a transfer token each month (worth 800pp), so really allowing us to move our unused global slots for a nominal fee each time isn't asking much unless there is some technical reason it can;t be done coding wise. -
Quote:sure, but I already bought them I shouldn't have to buy more of them cause I changed what server i operate on to continue playing with my friendsOriginally Posted by BrandX
Okay. And when you bought those extra slots, did you think they were worth the cost?
there is no reason i can't spend say 800pp ($10) to move my 7 or so currently unfilled global character slots (of the 10 I have.) and later if I feel the need to move them again pay another 800pp
How ever I shouldn't have to pay out ANOTHER 3360pp (approximately $40) to have 7 more on the server I play on currently.
Maybe, you have have an extra $40 to shell out at will, but I sure as sh word that rhymes with pit don't.
and I don't think asking for a one time freebie of said function is completely unreasonable nor would denial of said request... that is the thing with requests. You can either make them no matter how remote a chance it might be granted is and you still have a better chance then if you don't. -
Quote:ummm 800pp is $10 400PP is $5 and yes a one time fee for unlimited access to move them around would be way more then acceptable (weather $5 or $10), but i don't see that happening. Simply put I think it would diminish the sales of extra character slots more then a per transfer price.Originally Posted by Demon_Shell
If instead of free you had to pay 800pp for it (5 bucks), but it would be accessible to everyone whenever they wanted it (instead of one time), would you be willing to accept that instead of free?
Free is a very hard thing to crusade for.
and yes Free is a hard crusade, but If ya don't ask then you know you won't get it. Honestly If any thing comes out of this, even a store item of some sort I'd be elated. Though I do understand that this may not be a money issue at all but rather a programing, physical or logistical issue.
the problem i was trying to solve with all of this was this:
So many power sets so few slots on the server I play on.
i know some people would just say "then buy more slots" and thing is I don't typically have the money to both buy the newest power set and a new slot I tend to save up my point stipends for new power sets and new costume packs and have little money to buy extra points, and yes I realize it is my choice to buy the new power set instead of a new character slot, but I don't need the new slot if I don't have the power set and costume pieces to make the character i want to make :P -
Quote:well there are stronger versions then Luck, I guess i have never been so hopelessly mezzed that one of those babys doesn't get me out of mez lock long enough to kick ***.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
Oh, really? So lucks are going to single handedly break mez and buff tohit and defense out of the red? There's already strong support on the forums for mez/debuff suppression because the stacking effects are excessive. This isn't just my opinion, so I haven't been focusing this thread on it. I've been making a separate point for active means of EARNING mez/debuff removal outside of just "chug all yer potionz lol."
you are right on all those points except going back to SOs, some leagues to fail due to poor mob management or pulling the AV to early, you learn not to do these things and I am sure even if we did as you propose there would still be some fail trials, but if we did as you propose some genius out there would figure out a handful of perfect tank builds that would allow them to stand there and get beat on by marauder all day with out flinching.Quote:How do you figure? I've seen Lambda leagues fail due to overwhelming Add's. I've seen Tanks die during BAF just trying to PULL the AV's. User error and conventional damage can still defeat player characters more than you seem to be willing to admit. Those tanks and brutes who can sit there and Tank the hell out of things indiscriminately will be the ones who earned it by building high end Tanks and Brutes. If people who utilize the IO system intelligently and invest heavily in the best stuff aren't rewarded through gameplay, what is the point in even having a build metagame at all? We might as well all go back to SO's.
I know this cause I have seen people do similar things in this game and in other games in the past. Not sure if you where around for super speed fire tanks who could agro whole maps take nearly no damage, but its kind of akin to that. Also,thing is changing how an AT works upsets people quite often (stalker assassin buff being the exception) people get used to playing thier character a certain way learn what powers to take and not take how to slot them to make them work in a manner that suits them then they get redone and poof they are broken, I know lots of people who stopped playing characters they worked very hard to build due to AT changes (some I agreed with some I didn't)
in all honesty i can see why you made the suggestions you did, in the end i just think they will either do more harm then good or just aren't necessary.
In the end we can agree to disagree, at least i am not one of those people who simply says no with out giving you reasons. -
Quote:yea the powers at NC and Paragon are funny like that some times they give us something even though its not profit wise and some times they will deny us stuff to spite the ability to make profits (the CoV DVD pack stuff comes to mind along with the power slide)Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
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okay so I will respond to a few things I have read here:
Brand X: so what you are saying basically "just buy another slot its not there fault you wanted to play with your friends when they changed servers if you wanted to keep all those extra slots you just need to make a whole new group of friends and find a whole new SG and start from the bottom all over again" ... nice.
Fact is while a one time free reallocation of unused global slots would be cool I don't expect it but some sort of option that at a per slot level cost less (so even if you have to buy in bulk like 3 slots moves at a time but over all comes to say 100pts less a slot) would make paragon money cause some of us don't only look at over all cost some of us also look at value "how much am i getting for my points?" and giving us options on ways to accomplish what we want can really only make them money.
then of course there was my idea for VIPs getting an option each month free server transfer or new character slot. Now I know again you'd rather just see me pay for a character slot then get a choice. Thing is a Transfer token on the store costs nearly twice as much as a character slot so by granting VIP players a choice to choose an extra character slot or transfer token they have the potential (at least based on point cost and dollar value assigned to those points) to come out ahead if I (and others) choose that option.
Thing is unless its a technical reason why we can't move around our global slots there is no reason to NOT offer the option of either free or lower cost global slot moves (or offering the choice to VIPs). Cause I and a lot of other people would rather spend the majority of there points on stuff like costumes and new power sets and I for one have no issue taking that FREE monthly server transfer and moving a character off my current one to another server for a month or two and would rather do that then buy a global slot atm.
Sever mergers/ repopulating: this doesn't work cause the only servers that would be merged would be the lower population ones and I play on Virtue (one with a rather high population), so merging servers would only help some people not all. I am looking for a solution that will at least help all current players with Global slots trapped on a different server and an organized effort for large SGs on freedom and Virtue to help repopulate other servers isn't a good solution either, the problem would still exist. Each person would be primarily playing on one server run out of slots and want to have more slots. -
Quote:hmm yea if there is some reason (paid or not) to not be able to move your global slots once allocated I'd like to know why and of course if its not I have a different solution, rather then automatically giving us a character transfer let us choose character transfer or new global slot.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I certainly wouldn't mind this as a feature, but I wonder if it's possible. It would be nice if the devs would explain one way or another.
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1. No, because then they hit level 20 and are in for a rude awakening when they no longer can hold end (and honestly I Don't start having end problems till post 20)
2. No, because there is such a thing as making the game TOO EASY, and unless i am mistaken there is a slight recoupe to your end when you miss already. and they made the run jump end healthregen auto powers you get instead of having to select them
3. No, this is what the little purple inspirations are for. (the ones with out the shield)
4. No, simply cause then you'd have tanks brutes and scrappers who could go toe to toe with the likes of Maurader, Night star and Tyrant in the itrials W/o ever taking a lick of damage. and a good number of indefensible attacks can be run from, its called timing. You back away on your second warning , you back away when you are warned that you are about to be killed when marked for death. EVERY MMO has boss mobs that have attacks you can't defend against heck a few have such nasty ones that if you don't down the boss in x time you all die or if you are in the range of the cone or wave or aoe you instantly die there is no it does damage X and you have X life you just die.
Thing is this game isn't that hard, I am fairly casual player, I play maybe 20 hrs a week if that and i can still get a character from 1-50 in 2-3 weeks and even itrials aren't that hard as long as half the people listen -
Quote:fair enough, i am glad to see my idea wasn't totally dismissed this time and rather discussing a better way to go about itOriginally Posted by Hopeling
I have no argument against a long-term way to move slots, for a cost or even for free (in fact, I think that would be nice, since I have a few slots tied up uselessly on a server I never play on anymore). But I think a one-time reallocation of slots would doubly undermine any attempt to sell it: because the players that want it now would get it for free, and because any players wanting it in the future would strongly consider toughing it out until/in case they give slots back for free like they did last time.
and i have to admit I do totally see your point.
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Quote:which is why I stated a one time kick back of the slots then followed by a store item, that yes i would assume would cost less then buying a whole new slot. I am totally aware that if they do it this one time that later some one will beg for it again, but cross that bridge when we come to it.Originally Posted by Hopeling
Verily, this fine fellow is a soothsayer, in both the new and the old sense of the word.
Maybe not for Xenophage personally, necessarily, but certainly if in November 2012 all global slots are un-distributed, somebody will join the game in December 2012 and be asking again to redistribute their slots in January 2013. If the problem is that global slots can end up totally wasted, the money/points lost and useless forever, refunding global slots once doesn't fix that problem. A slot mover that allows you to move character slots but costs less than buying additional character slots, or a system in which slots aren't assigned to servers at all, or something else that actually addresses the problem would be a fix, but a one-time refund is not, that just kicks the can down the road.
Edit: I'm using the word "refund" here to mean that the slots are de-allocated and can be placed again, not that the slots are taken away and their point value returned.
If I am completely honest I don't expect we'd get a free kick back of our unfilled global slots, but I think a store item is reasonable. That said if I am gonna aim for something I am gonna aim high, and ask for a one time freebie. (I know better then to ask for indefinite freebies) It can't hurt the worst they can say in no. -
Quote:I said there might be people who don't like any of the tier 9 VIP costume sets... I am not one of them I infact have the full mecha and full celestial set (wasn't super keen on elemental stuff but have 2 of three of those any way no real plans to get the 3rd atm) and I like other perks as well I wouldn't pay $15 a month just for the VIP costume stuff :POriginally Posted by Grouchybeast
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If you're broke, and you really don't want anything else that a sub gives you other than access to the VIP costumes, then you should probably unsub to get the best value for you. You'll be able to buy far more PPs than you would get in VIP bonuses, sub for a month a couple of times a year to pick up the costumes, and still spend less money to do it.
I just figured I'd argue this any way I can, but sadly I am obviously beat on this one. Cause when it come right down to it I will get another 550pts (assuming I can afford my sub when its up) when my sub renews and i can get the natures affinity power then... i just hate waiting ~shrug~ -
Quote:huh?Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
Nay; verily, this doth speak truly o' that which would yet ag'n be requested, soon a' thy whim changed o'ce moor.
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So I fully expect people to just tell me this idea will never happen and /or its a horrible Idea... but here it goes.
What I propose is this...
one time and one time only for free all unused Global slots (the ones we have earned or bought) are given back to us to redistribute on w/e serves we like. My reasoning behind this is over the years I have changed what server I primarily play on for various reasons, some of those being friends changing servers, I foolishly did the exalted server for a while etc.
While I realize this was my choice and it was also my choice to place the extra slots where I did I am now running out of slots on Virtue and wish I could have some of my global slots back especially the vacant ones on exalted.
So, this is what I am thinking... as stated above all vacant global slots are returned to each player for free this ONE time:
What this would mean
-only unoccupied global slots would be returned leaving the standard amount of slots per sever in tact (which I think is 12)
-for example if you have 10 global slots in total and you spent 5 of them on Freedom 3 on virtue and 2 exalted but on freedom you have gone 2 over the standard amount of character slots and used all 3 on virtue and 1 over on exalted that would mean 4 slots would be returned to you.
fairly simple no?
then I figure after that they can charge us a points fee for each time we want to reclaim unused globals or per reclaim
I already know some one is going to say "why would they do it for free at all when they make money off you buying extra slots?" so I will answer that by saying Paragon has excelled at doing things that some times are more in the interest of making the players happy then making money and it would be a one time thing.
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Quote:your original premise in this thread was you wanted changed cause she was some how dressed too scantly for girl who's father you use to rescue, as I stated there are plenty of people who think it needs changing, from what i can tell you where the only one who felt like it was a "oh wait she can't be dressed like that I sued to rescue her daddy quick cover her up"Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
How about we start with 'ugly'?
if the REAL reason is the costume is kind ugly then I am totally with you cause if sexy was the mark they where trying to hit with the new Yin costume they missed it completely.
but honestly it doesn't need a total over haul. Remove the cheek and eyebrow pieces, remove the shoulder pad thingies and the vertical straps connecting the top to the bottom and it would be okay... not awesome but okay
but I will also try and make a point I tried to make in a more gentle way earlier which is, if you think it sucks so bad why not redesign the costume your self? i understand not every one can draw (hell I don't draw nearly well enough to do it), but you CAN use the costume creator .
Here is my Example below (though I am sure some people won't like it):
the only thing i don't care for on it is the gold accents but there is no way for us to do the imperial top with skin and have the accent color we choose -
hmm I am surprised this isn't more popular... maybe it would have helped if I listed it as a contest..then again the thread where I have posted all the color jobs I have done has gotten 0 response so maybe adding color just isn't a respected talent. ~shrug~ this contest will run indefinitely till I decide to color a second piece so its cool.
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Quote:the Tier 9 VIP are not consumables at any time it consists of 6 costume packs 3 that make up one set 3 that make up a second set (ATM this is Mecha and fire/ice) and one repeatable reward in the form of the hero/villian tarot game in which the cards yield costume pieces , some consumables and enhancements which can be unslotted assuming any of your rolls grant you one or one drops in game. So while the Tarot game is a "consumable" its self a good number of the rewards from it are not.Originally Posted by Hopeling
I think it's very intentional that the t9 repeatables are all consumables, not points. It lets them give us long-term subscribers extra stuff, without undermining their own sales of stuff like powersets and costumes.
The issue I see here is as such, If the reason you are maintaining VIP is for the T9 VIP costumes, but either you have them all currently or are disinterested in the current ones and like me could give less two flying farts about the regular tier 9 repeatable stuff you really have no motivation to maintain a PAID VIP account, but if you can trade in a token (or maybe 3 tokens) once every 3 months of PAID time for an extra 300pp you might be more willing to keep it as it would make affording the powers and costumes you do want a bit easier. Meaning that instead of making about $15 ever 2 - 3 months when they release a new costume set and/or power set they get $15 a month.
I am not saying my idea is perfect. In fact the implementation to make sure it could be done with out a huge loss to profits and avoid exploitation would be convoluted at best (then again so are a lot of things they have done for us.) and I even admitted at the beginning of this thread my original motivations for this Idea are self serving in that I am broke and just shy of the points I need for the new nature affinity power set :P
Honestly, what I think is irritating me the most atm is that when ever some one comes up with an Idea regardless of how good or bad it is (and I am not claiming that this one is necessarily good) you almost never see any one say "yea that is a great idea" or "here is how this Idea could work" or "Nice concept but it might work better if"... its always a bunch of people saying "oh that could never happen."
and we have a lot of things now that "could never happen" at one time... and I am not exempt from telling a person that something probably won't happen, but that said ubnless i disagree with the idea (IE some one suggesting we go back to fire tanks with SS being able to agro a whole map to the front ) I try to come up with a solution how it might work IF it did happen. (IE the guy who wants to change penelope's costume) -
Quote:I agree with the "not particularly sexy" statement but the argument that she is a young lady is EXACTLY why she is scantily clad if she is as stated above about 23 she is prime age to dress rather scantily.Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
There's a place for sexy heroines and shirtless heroes. I a) don't think Penny is a particularly good target for that, given how we were introduced to her b) don't find her costume sexy anyway (although as it's drawn in the splash art it's certainly objectifying -- the concept art is tamer and the in-game costume is kind of flat), and c) as has been pointed out, she's a young lady; we don't even need to recton this, she can just change it and say it was a bad idea.
I respect the work Noble Savage did, but the final presentation has slowly grated on me. I don't really have the opportunity to do it now but sometime in the next couple days I think I'll put up a few in-game costume generator ideas. My freehand skills are sadly lacking. ;p
Also as stated before there are a million other things the Devs need to work on that are way more important, like story line, new costume pieces more power sets etc.
I am sorry you find the new yin disturbing, but you seem to be alone in that feeling and even the others who agree it should be changed for w/e other reasons they have have pointed out it is such a low priority.
but lets argue for a moment the Devs do get a moment to change her costume just to please what is clearly a minority I actually have a solution to this Dilemma and that would be a penelope yin costume contest the winners design to be voted upon by the forum goers or on facebook or w/e.
Like I said though I am sure it is super low on the priority list if at all.
as far as the comments about how sexist or revealing or w/e her costume or Sis P.'s is/was I will point out a few inescapable facts:
1) there are ALOT and I do mean ALOT of costume pieces we are given that allow for much more revealing costumes then Yin's or Sisters and I have seen people using them
2) While there a good number of modestly dressed super heroins in comic books there are also alot of them that are quite scantly dressed, but both in game and in comics its nothing the average 13 year old hasn't seen if they have ever seen the WWE, an issue of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, FHM, Lowrider Magazine, a PC gamer etc etc ... you get the point.
If we are going to start fixing NPC costumes based on how "Kinky" or "titillating" they are we'd have to kind of start with Mother mayhem and silver mantis. -
Quote:okay fair enough, that still doesn't solve the time paradoxOriginally Posted by Grouchybeast
Apparently, she was always supposed to be 18 in the Faultline arcs, and is 23 'now' - i.e. when she replaces Sister Psyche in the Phalanx. That boggled me a little, but when I went back ad read the Faultline arcs there wasn't anything specifically that contradicted it. I guess she's just a slightly immature 18.
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Quote:so that knocks out the one month idea what about the once every 3 months? I dunno about you but I don't have enough friends to refer a frien every moth indefinately, I am not upset the idea is being discounted. It just feels like it took more then one post for you to read my suggestion. I don't see any reason why for every 3 months of VIP you can't trade in a token for some points, not to say the points you make aren't valid but I don't see many people being about to get even 1 person a month for 3 months trait to join as a VIP for a month. And if some one is spending enough money to get enough point for token to use to get more points then hell I see that as a good thing its motivation for people to buy gobs of points.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
REFER A FRIEND CODES GIVES TIER 9 PREMIUM ACCOUNTS FREE VIP STATUS FOR 1 MONTH!
REFER A FRIEND CODES GIVES TIER 9 PREMIUM ACCOUNTS FREE VIP STATUS FOR 1 MONTH!
For someone that's played this game as long as you have you seem terribly unaware of just how large this games tier 9 community is.
There were thousands of tier 9 players in this game when Freedom launched and many more players have joined our ranks since then because buying Paragon Points in bulk made it so much easier to climb the Paragon Reward tree.
And of those tier 9 players many have dropped to Premium because they don't give a damn about Incarnate content, and only sub when it suits themn't sub because they have everything they currently want. They only sub when it suits them. Like when they can use referral codes to get free VIP time.
You also seem to be forgetting that a large portion of our playerbase has multiple accounts and that once Tier 9 has been reached on one account players with multiple accounts simply switched which accounts they've been keeping active so they can get their other accounts up to tier 9.
I understand your upset that you overlooked an obvious exploit but this isn't the first time this idea has been suggested and discussed.
Honestly i think the people can and use such exploits are in the minority
not to mention they could just add a stipulation the slot for the token for points only opens for every 3 PAID months, which would mean no matter how many free months you got from inviting friends or point you bought for extra tokens you'd still only be able to use a token in that slot once every three months for paying so you could have 6 months of free time and sorry charly you can't use your tokens in that slot till you pay for three months -
Quote:Tire 9 VIP ONLY! TIER 9 VIP ONLY, I have stated that. so you would have to Be some one at TIER 9 and be VIP subscriber... please if you are gonna make arguments against my idea at least read it!Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
What you don't think their are tier 9 Premium players that could easily use this for free by sending themselves "Refer a Friend" codes?
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Quote:Well she is asianOriginally Posted by Lothic
Yeah I'm not an extreme fan of Penny's new outfit, but don't think it's really worth anyone's effort to change it. There are far too many other things I'd rather have the Devs work on right now.
After thinking about it for a minute I wonder if Penny's new outfit was inspired by any artwork leftover from the Korean "City of Hero" game. It does sort of look more like the kind of outfit you'd see in an Asian inspired MMO. *shrugs*
I don't think we need to change her costume, I am with alot of people when I say its rather Meh, but I don't feel that sense of the willies the OP does, its JUST A GAME!
The thing I don't get is why is she still basically a kid/ young teen (I assume 10-13 since DOES have boobs) in fault line and clearly much older ine every other part of the game? Some one tried to tell me it was cause you are basically playing out years of time from her arch till her TF which is really rather silly since the levels for each respectively isn't that far off. So really if any thing they need to change that contact to the older her, or to a new contact or something and relegate the original version to the Oro portal cause right now for that reason Fault line feels like it is trapped in a time paradox. -
Quote:this would only be available at the tier 9 VIP spot so you would HAVE to thave moved up the tree. which was stated in the original premiseOriginally Posted by Forbin_Project
Well for VIP's that aren't worried about moving further up the reward tree for whatever reason will have less motivation to buy points if they can get more from trading in reward tokens.
For other players every 1200 points purchased you get 1 Paragon Reward which could then be traded in for more points.
Never hurts to make a suggestion, and while I don't see this particular idea getting added, it's possible the devs might consider way of earning extra points for in game activities.
Might.
They'd have to take care to keep it from being easily abused by farming/grinding.
Another option is they might follow the example of other games and hook up with one of those online survey companies and give points to people that qualify and complete surveys.