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Wait - so you are suggesting that one of the big selling points for Dual Pistols - SWAP AMMO - is to be given for free to other powersets? That's your suggestion?

(For free, I mean without the need for a power selection, BTW.)

Seems highly unlikely - and not anything I could support.

I'm pretty sure that Ironblade meant that he wants to stay in his SG because he likes teaming and hanging out with those folks - and there are some advantages to having a large steady group to call on (that is less than an entire global channel). A really tricked-out base with all the amenities is handy to have access to as well.

But - he also would like to have some place he could edit all on his own - to put his personal stamp on and keep his stuff safe.

In large SGs, you give up the storage security and base editing privileges in return for the amenities and comraderie.

In small (1-3 person SGs), you are really, really safe in putting your stuff in the base. You can go nuts decorating. But getting enough Prestige to do what you want might take a long, long time.

If I'm putting words in your mouth, Ironblade, I apologize.

This game has gone to the Americans!

Actually, Snow, I haven't "lost" anything here to my argument.

Your situation was an extremely unique set of circumstances that I'm sure rarely occurs - in fact, I would be very surprised to see that there are more than one or two other players who had that same exact set of circumstances happen to award them the first anniversary badge. And I also don't recall there being a similar possible set of circumstances that could have come up at any other set of dates after that first year.

And I still state that I do not support availability of Anniversary badges if the account was not active at the time the badge was awarded (which in your example was the entire month of May including the free arectivation weekend.) Note that I defined the period of time when the first badge was being awarded pretty loosely (on or about 4/28) because I knew the badge was actually awarded over a longer period than the one day, but could not recall how long it lasted.

Although you didn't pay to subscribe until June 12, you did take an action to be active during the period the badge was awarded (i.e., log on to those 4 characters during the reactivation weekend). Ergo, your account was active, not lapsed or inactive. I never said it had to be a PAID account.

Just as a matter of curiosity, because I've never been sure how it works exactly - on your account, what is the actually "account established" date? Is it February (Valentine's Day), Memorial Day (free reactivation in May) or June 12, 2005, the day you started to pay for it?

1. Yes and no. If you use a common IO recipe often enough (for example a level 15 Accuracy IO), you will memorize it and then no longer need to buy it (you still have to buy salvage and pay creation costs, however). The number of time you need to buy and make a particular recipe varies by type and level (somewhat). The Set IO recipes are always expended when created and cannot be memorized.
   
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   Is there a list somewhere of what the IO sets are and the effects they create? How do IO enhancement bonuses stack up against TO, DO and SO enhancements?

   www.paragonwiki.com
   
   Bookmark this site, you will need it again for other questions as a returning player.
   
   
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   IO don't wear out through levelling, does that mean that higher levelled ones simply give larger enhancement bonuses?

   Percentages are fixed by the level of the enhancement and never change.
   
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   Can you ++ IO enhancements? (So can you combine 3 level 15 enhancements to create a level 17?)

   Nope. IOs never combine under any circumstances.

Seriously, I advise you to check the Wiki. It is very well maintained, up to the latest Issue 17 release. There are also pages which list the changes that came with each release, a good way to catch up fast.

Welcome Back!

Sorry, Daemodand, we were sleeping at the wheel.

Erm, I'm Spartacus? (or maybe I'm Kirk Douglas?)

By going to the NCSoft Account page. Are you currently using time cards to pay to play? You would have to put in a CC # instead.

You have made this statement azbout your video card before in other threads as well.

Just to clarify - you are talking about a graphics card that came out in 2005 (the year after the game came out in 2004)? In other words, a 5-year-old card? Isn't that rather ancient in the world of computer hardware?

I know that even though the specs did not officially change when CoV released, the performance of the game was significantly better when I upgraded my graphics card. I'm not surprised that it might be happening again. The "official specs" on the game as listed really haven't changed since CoH release in 2004, but the graphics have been changed a couple of times. That's why there's also the language on the box about "gaming experience may change over time".

This is my situation as well.

I even have a level 46 Corr, who *was* going to be my next project (getting ehr the rest of the way to 50) before they announced the new unlock at 20. Now I'm just happy that I can play with some other alts instead, and just go back to playing here occasionally when the mood strikes.

Your analogy, not mine.

Speaking as an older sibling, this has always struck as exceedingly "UNFAIR" to the older sibling. Yes, that's what happened in my family, my younger siblings got "privileges" at earlier and earlier ages as we went down the line (to the point that the 2 youngest had almost no curfew at all). I hated it then, and I would hate it now. Defnitely unfair to the older sibling, as it would be to the vet in your requests.

But maybe your example would be a better way to look at Vet Rewards. I have privileges (City Traveller, for example) because I'm older than you, much like I was able to stay out later than my next younger sister because I was older than she was. She will never "catch up" - I will always be her older sister, reaching time-based milestones first (able to drink, getting my driver's license, getting the benefits of joining AARP, etc.)

This ia a good point which bears repeating every time divisive discussions are raised.

But rian has captured my feelings on OP - except I would expand "turning off the game and doing something else" to "turning off the game and doing something else, up to and including visiting the dentist or undergoing a colonoscopy".

They would be as neat to the folks who weren't able to afford flying from wherever they are based to the West Coast or Boston.

There were several epically long threads about the topic, every time a costume code perk was announced for one of the "big" cons y'all went to. Coffee cups and mouse pads and T-shirts being made available in your on-line store could lessen that sting a bit.

Umm, have you ever heard of a small gaming convention called GENCON? In Indianapolis, can't get much more "heartland" than that. They routinely pull 28,000 - 30,000 unique attendees (even in a down economy in 2009). My husband & I went to a GenCon a few years back for the exclusive purpose of seeing Jack Emmert talk (it was pre-Defiance 1.0, that was one of the things he talked about) and to attend a fan gathering for Earth & Beyond (R.I.P). (Of course, the tour of the vendor hall there was epic as well, LOL.)

There's also Origins, held in Columbus, OH, which draws about 15,000 attendees. I can remember going one year and seeing a network set up outside the vendor's hall running CoH. It was immensely popular (to the point that I couldn't get time to play there at con).

Yeah, if you can't send a team to GenCon or Origins, can you at least send some disks?

December 21, 2012, so we should be good to go for April 28!