Agomotto

Is it possible you or your friend were on trial accounts that you never paid for? That's the only reason I can think of that they would delete characters.

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4. Auto adjust the TF participants levels using PvP code.

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This one in particular is my favorite. It would make it far easier to form a team without having to worry about sk's or exemps. Just form the team and adjust difficulty level to suit. The TF could keep it's level requirements with this as well.

From Lighthouse in the other thread:

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So if you reactivate all the dormant accounts, doesn't this utterly defeat the name reclaim policy just announced? Or will they actually have to log in for their account to get flagged as active?



They'll have to log in and subscribe.


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Well, the powers that be have given their reasoning behind their decision. We are going to have to live with level 6 until such time as they determine it is necessary to change it.

You can rest assured that these arguments have been seen before in our suggestion threads, and I am pretty sure that all of these points were considered when they came to their decision. They also have the advantage of actual data to support their decisions.

Ultimately this is a business decision, and they have to weigh both sides to come to an equitable solution. Making extreme suggestions (I'm looking at you crazies suggesting active customers be affected) at this point is fruitless. Let's look at some of the alternate suggestions so far.

The scaling inactivity with level suggestion. Right now I suspect they are working with a code that only checks time inactive and level. I doubt that field can be varied as it is. It would require that the code for this be rewritten. It may sound good that the longer they are inactive the higher the level that will be affected, but that may not be as easy to do.

I don't recall any other suggestions where people were being entirely reasonable other than raise the level. That gets into the gray area. I don't think there are many people that would be upset with less than 6. Start raising it, and the tune could change. Personally I'd say 10. But they said that won't free up very many names....so....why change it then?

What I'd like to see, and I don't find it entirely unreasonable is for there to be a name reservation fee. If you cancel your account, you can pay a small fee to reserve your character names for your eventual return. This isn't so much to generate revenue as it is to give hard data on who actually intends to return. I think with such a fee available, the level could be raised without fear of upsetting potential return customers as those who plan on returning most likely would opt to reserve their names.

I also never got an answer on those trial accounts. Ex said they can wipe those names, but WILL they?

I respond in kind. You have nothing of value to offer. Go away troll.

That was just an example.

Sorry you hate people. Can't fix that for you.

And your post only serves to prove my point.

To all of those that are worried that level 6 is too low. When I first started reading through the forums shortly after I4 launched, name camping was a very common topic. It was common practice for people to make "placeholder" toons on all of the servers reserving names that they might want to use in the future. Many of these people have left, and I am pretty sure they didn't go through and delete those reserve toons.

I have no doubt that there are many names sitting in the 1-5 level range on inactive accounts. I believe it when they say they have datamined this. That past name camping has been one of the major factors in my pursuit of reinstating this policy.

To those who keep throwing out "unimaginative" and "uncreative". Those are not valid arguments. They are akin to trolling. It is entirely possible to come up with a concept, googlesearch, read a thesaurus, and search the wikipedia to come up with a name and have it still not be available. I did this a couple of months ago with one concept. After about twenty different tries, I compromised and took a name I didn't care for. I didn't get that character past level 3. The name is the most important part of any concept. Don't dismiss so readily somebody's desire to have the right one.

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Level 5 and below is affected because it is the least intrusive to our player base but nets the greatest number of names.

Trial accounts are in a different pool altogether. We can free up names from trial accounts whenever we want without recourse because they were never paid for accounts.

These are only accounts that have been or are presently subscribed to City of Heroes/City of Villains and we realize that people come and go to our population. So we wanted to present a service without affecting our player base who for one reason or another is not currently subscribed.

The number of names that will be freed up will be substantial, if we need to adjust this policy we can do so as long as we grant 30 days notice. So if it is deemed at a later date that more names need to be made available we can do that.


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Thank You Ex. I believe I am happy with the reinstatement of this policy being one of the ones pushing for it. It has always been my contention that only NCSoft could determine what the level parameter should be. I thank you for explaining the reasoning behind the decisions made.

I trust that there will be datamining conducted to see if the policy parameters need to be raised.

I would like to ask clarification on the trial accounts. When you say that you can free up those names at any time, does that mean that you will be freeing up those names?

I would also like to suggest that as long as this policy doesn't place an undue burden on the staff that it be maintained permanently.

I heard an NPC talking about seismic activity on the moon last night. I think they subtly bumped this thread to let us know that now is the time to put in all our suggestions for the Moon Zone.

Community rep necros thread about moon zone........that confirms that the next new zone is a moon zone! Let the specualtion begin!

Nope.....mobs get a nice shiny badge for killing 500 blasters. Got to work hard on it.

It's called blaster taunt. You aggroed them simply by entering the building. Then rumor spread that there was a blaster in the building. Soon, every mob in the building is on the lookout for "the blaster". These guys may have simply been running away from the crazy scrapper and saw "the blaster".

Some people think blaster taunt is only a myth....like unicorns. But it is reality. We are only now seeing it in greater effect since guantlet is broken. Blasters just scale higher than any AT on the aggro scale.

Take a team with every AT on it. Run them into a mob spawn with no toggles on, and make no attacks. Most of the mob will spot the blaster and rush in to take him/her down.

Nerf blaster taunt!

It's amazing how easy it was for 1 person to shake up the status quo.

You are so well loved and will truly be missed. We could think of no more fitting tribute than to create a gajillion pages of posts for you to read.

I've actually stepped out of lurkerdom on this momentous occasion. I doubt any other news could have done it. Quite a savvy business move by NCSoft...ensuring that legions of Cuppa's adoring fans will migrate to Tabula Rasa.

Fare the well oh Queen of the Java! *raises coffee cup in remembrance*

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And I think Drizz was the only person to laugh at my jokes.

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You finally found someone to do that?

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Spy's Nether's boyfriend? Does she know that "he" is a she?

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AHHHHHHHHH *thinks if it would be nice* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I am a he.
She is a she.
We are BFF. Not BF. Right?

BFF = Best Friends Forever
BF = Boyfriend


And Netherflare, I can put you in as a large part if you like. Same for anyone else. Chapter IV will come soon...it's a bit of a longer one...will get more intense by the chapter.

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Somebody is so busted!
*gives hand signal.....FBI agents begin moving in*

Excellent, keep up the good work. This thread is one of the bright spots in the Champion Forums.

I don't believe I've had the fortune of teaming with anyone in Showtime, but then again......I haven't teamed with many of the forum goers either. I need to rectify that. Guess I nee to make more effort on the forum chat channel. I've teamed with some but not all. I teamed with Bippy last night on a Synapse TF. She post here?

We need Rikti Monkeys! Lots and lots of monkeys.

Who are we missing? I know there are more people in here than this. C'mon you lurkers. Come into the light.

I was digging around and realized I have never posted in this thread.
Well let's see I'm a 33 yr old divorced father of 2. Currently living in Dallas, TX. I work as a field technician and so I get to drive around all day. Yay! No desk for me. Consequently, I can't read and post all day. I enjoy all nerdly activities. Right now still looking for a replacement for the ex, but no hurries there. No pics to post right now. Ex-Navy also. Just think, at one time you depended on me to defend your country. That'll keep you lying awake at night.

Good one. Gave me a chuckle.

Oh yeah. See, this is exactly why I should be writing this stuff down.

She has a strong back Bert. And those aren't her eyes.

I've been teaming with a lot of people lately, what with my initiation into Safe Harbor and all. Let's see, I won't mention individual toons (terrible with names, hope I don't miss anyone) there's Ranma, Bert, Crazy Kaze, Umbral Faith, Purrlina. I'd better start writing these down, my memory has gone to heck. I blame it all on the Anthrax shots.

Finally teamed with Dinah on her alt Lifesign. Got her to tag along on Spelunker mish with my alt Emerald Maiden. It was short but sweet. Maybe I can try again on a longer mish.