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Most of the strategies offered in this thread seem like a lot of work for SOs.

Why not just grab a bunch of level 10 IOs (folks working on Field Crafter badges have tons of them to get rid of, so they are probably pennies at WW, though I haven't checked recently).

Not your original plan, but it saves you from having to hunt up all those teams for AV hunts.

I can support the idea of names on inactive accounts being stripped after a certain period of time.

I believe the first time the script was run, it stripped inactive accounts of character names under level 35. But we were told that it really didn't free up all that many names. I'm not all that certain that running it for everything up to level 49 would help any more than that run.

But I'm really opposed to the idea that a level 50 character is somehow "sacrosanct" and untouchable, while everything up to level 49.9 has less value than the level 50. If we are going to strip names, strip them all, with the only defining characteristic being amount of time inactive.

Incorrect, Necro.

This is a known issue when a base has been let go for an extended period of time. You can enter it (because rent has been paid up) but there is still no power.

Sometimes the issue has been reported to be fixed by moving stuff around, but that's only hearsay. However, I know for a fact that a GM can quickly fix the issue for you.

Humility - send in a quick /petition to get a GM to turn it back on for you.

That was not clear to me - you may want to re-word it.

I agree with Sam, BTW, that choosing between CoH & CoV and choosing a "Main" was hard to do because I have 60+characters, all beloved. I chose my first level 50, as she is as much of a "main" as I have, for purposes of responding.

Given that this capability exists in the game - and indeed, was relatively recently expanded greatly - this question does not apply in the context in which it was asked and might be better reworded and put in one of the other sections as something that adds to the surveyee's current enjoyment of the game. It is not a "what if it were to happen" thing.

On page 6/8, in the contect of:

One of the choices is "Powersets". The only "customization" of Powersets in CoX is in choosing to take or skup a particular power. I think the answer to this question will often be "N/A" since it cannot truly be done.

You use the phrase "Quest Rewards", but CoX does not have "Quests", it has missions.

On page 7/8 you ask about customizing "Gear" and then define it as weapons. CoX does not have gear per se, although it has a few powersets that use a weapon. Are you asking about customization of the animations of the various powers, including those that do not use weapons? Or is this question really not pertinant to CoX due to the lack of gear?

On the same page, you ask about Character Movement, then use examples of things the player can currently choose how to perform (dancing) mixed with things the player cannot choose how to perform (dying, crafting). Are you asking whether we want more "Emotes" or whether we want to customize actions which are currently not customizable?

Those are the high points of what I found in your survey.

Except that after the one-time outlay of Prestige to place the Empowerment Stations, the rest of the cost of those Empowerment Buffs is in Invention Salvage (gotten thru drops or purchased at the CH for Inf). So most of the cost of those buffs should be measured is terms of Inf (either the purchase price when you bought the salvage or the foregone profit of selling that piece).

This.

Min/maxers will always be with us, and their idea of fun seems to involve squeezing every bit of "power" out of their builds, but nothing matches the sheer fun of Flying. To me thats every bit as important as another "blast".

OK, my bad. I don't really pay much attention to it, so I don't know the particulars, just the outward, visible signs of Rep as they are displayed on under your avatar. The gray beans don't ever change, so I thought all you got privately was the comment.

No problem.

I wasn't scolding you for not seeing the other thread and posting there - but if Mand's solutions didn't work, I wanted you to have another place to try to find the answer - there were some other ideas in the thread.

Welcome Back! Hope you decide to stick around for a while!

I'm not certain your assumption is correct, especially the part I highlighted.

My reading on the addition of purples and PvP IO's is that they were added specifically to have something in-game that was *NOT* in reach of all players without significant investment (either of time playing/"farming" or in engaging in Market transactions or PvPing in the case of PvP IO's). I am in particular recalling BaB's comment about the irony of someone calling themselves a "casual player" yet having a purple'd out WS.

Also, if a player wanted to outfit a character with rares in "less than a year", he/she would be well-advised to start that process well before reaching "end game" at level 50. I don't see most IOs as "end game".

As a base builder, I would indeed like to have a bone thrown my way - but Base Raids most certainly isn't it. I don't give a rat's patootie whether they are ever fixed, and I'm betting the majority of solo or 2-3 player SGs out there are in full agreement.

The bone I would like to have thrown my way is to add some of the items already in-game added to the editor, like real TVs, the wall textures used for offices redside, more lab/medical equipment - stuff like that.

Rgearding the Limbo into which Bugs seem to fall - if their Bug Fix list is so unmanageable, my suggestion would be to refine how bugs are reported, i.e., the /bug interface. Most of the categories are not intuitive. I frequently have trouble selecting which one to place something in and fear that many times my bug won't be addressed because it was sent to the wrong place rather than to someone who is supposed to fix it (let's say all the "text" bugs Westley mentioned, which drive me crazy as well).

Looks like you have Rep disabled, so you won't be getting either green or red rep, no matter what the person taggin you has - you will just get the comment - at least that's my understanding of what happens when you disable your own Rep.

And I think many of the posters in this thread did get what you originally suggested, which was a mix of PvE and PvP rewards to give the temp Gladiator pet, specifically:

So under your suggestion, in order to be able to summon the really kewl Gladiators, you would have to actually engage in PvP - isn't that how you get PvP Rep, or am I missing something?

With Shivans (never got a Nuke, so I'm fuzzy on how they work) - you can get the reward (useful for PvE) just by going into the zone without PvPing (if you're "lucky" and can avoid any PvPers.) No interaction or actual engagement in PvP required at all. Yet even with this limited exposure to PvP (i.e., the chance you will be attacked while in zone) there has been a massive amount of moaning and groaning about the combination of a PvE reward and a PvP zone.

I understand that you are trying to make use of something you see as under-utilized - but forcing PvP to gain Rep in order to be able to summon kewl pets is pretty much going to be unpopular here.

From another thread further down this forum, thanks to Mandu (quoting him/her):

Two possibilities.

First Possibility: You are trying to login to a NA account with a EU version of the game or the other way around. The filenames for the NA versions are cohupdater.exe and citytofheroes.exe. The filenames for the EU versions are cohupdater.eu.exe and cityofheroes.exe.

Second Possibility: You have a password that is longer than 13 characters. When you create or change your password you are allowed to choose one that is longer than 13 characters. However the game client has a limitation of 13 characters so you will get the incorrect password message even if you type it correctly.

It has also been used for specific anniversary celebrations, such as Queen Victoria's 60th year of ruling Great Britain (and India) which was referred to as a Diamond Jubilee.

Jubilee also accurs in some gospel songs, picking up on the Old Testament usage. It rhymes with so many other words and sounds a lot like a celebration (to me, but then I was raised hearing it used in songs all the time). In those songs (which probably influenced Fleeting's recognition of it as meaning a "southern/hick" word for a party) it is always used to speak of celebrating, often celebrating arrival in the Protestant Christian Heaven.

Jubilee is also a chain of supermarkets, BTW.

Well, it does - for sufficiently large values of "2"....

On another note, Grats to Phantom Patriot - the new guy beat the rest of us to be first response!