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Not to mention some of us are trying to build a new boat to ride. No idea if its going to work. Hope it does. If not at least we can say we tried.

I think someone had said on twitter that the location was south of boomtown and north of steel canyon. On the maps that went out with the game, there is the river that leads to IP there, which would make sense why there's a hole in the war walls, so boats can get through.

Red caps, or maybe one of the demon rigs from demon summoning.

I get that it takes time to run the script, which is why I said maybe only do it when they are already taking down the servers, like for patch updates, maintenance, or issue updates. If they get the script written correctly (which I know will also take time) they could just run it each time that happens with little extra work.

Standard code rant applies, since I'm not completely familiar with how their system works of course. Just saying if they have the tech it one player at a time when a player does something in game, then they likely can just do it during the maintenance sessions without additional player interaction, which would be preferable to me.


Not so much complaining to take 5-10 minutes once a year. That honestly wouldn't bother me if I really cared about the badges. The point I was trying to make is that I question why Null still exists with the same options at this point.

Maybe I misunderstood when it was first announced and discussed, but I thought Null was a stop-gap/quick and dirty fix for them to get the options in the game quickly, without the menu UI work, and within the next issue or two they were going to get actual options in the player's option menu UI for them, or something else was going to be done.

Maybe I was wrong, but at this point, I would rather have some of the player power effect options be moved to a more consistent place, like the options menu, and maybe move anything they can't to someplace like maybe the hero corp/fateweavers interface rather than only having one contact in a kinda out of the way location.

These are all better ideas than the code grab from by who can get to the picture fastest, has a faster connection, and can type a random 16 character alphanumeric number faster. A, trying to type the code is annoying. Its easily the least favorite part about using any software. B, you're having hundreds/thousands of people trying to do something they despise at the same time, only to have the majority disappointed each time, only to waste several minutes of their valuable time to get nothing.

Another option someone suggested...link the forum account to the twitter account name. Do the retweet for 2-3 minutes. Get the twitter names. Match to the twitter names on the forum accounts. Either just go ahead and apply the code to the accounts for them or send them a message on the forums. There shouldn't be a limit to that since you guys have control over the messaging system there.

I prefer the retweet method, even if it is only limited to 250 people a day. Its quick, only a quick press of a button, much less time wasted. Or wait to run the contests until some better tech comes along to make it so you aren't running a contest that completely frustrates and infuriates the player base you're trying to please.

I think the "You can't change the color because of lore" thing is basically a temporary way of explaining it until they can get the tech and time lined up for it. The biggest roadblock for Epics is the same we already have for Granite...customizing shape shifting powers.

There isn't any reason they can't do most of the powers for HEATs or VEATs, besides time constraints. But would you really want to customize the appearance of all the normal powers on the HEATs without being able to change your squid from purple/white to whatever color you want to match? And if they did VEATs but not HEATs, the "OMG DEVS HATE HEROES" crying will start. My guess is the delay on HEATs and VEATs come down to getting time to do it and getting the shapeshifting customization up and running. And Pools and Epic powers got higher priority because they would affect every player out there vs just the percentage of players using those 4 specific ATs.

I'm sure they are coming. And then MM and Pet customization after that. Just give it time.

A recent update to the Twitter app on iOS enabled push notifications of people you're following. Update to the latest, and when you look at the person's profile on there, near the bottom of the main box will be a button. Click it and there will be an option to turn on notifications. You turn that on and whenever that person tweets something new it'll pop up on your phone. Seems to be pretty quick from what I've seen.

EDIT: Here's a how to article: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-...r-ios-android/

MUCH better and fair than just a few codes going out and everyone scrambling to get it. I approve

I'm all for contests and rewarding people through social mediums. Its great to get more participation in the game and get people excited. My issue is with the exclusivity of these items. Many of these context will occur while many of us are at work and/or otherwise occupied, when we really shouldn't or can't spend our time watching for on various social networking sites to be the first to get the various codes.

They really should be available to purchase on the market for those that can't get to the social medium during the times. Give them away also if you wish, or just give the equivalent paragon points away instead for winners to use on what they wish, but for those of us that would like the items and are willing to pay for it, its really unfair to say sorry you can NEVER have some piece that completes your concept unless you put your job in jeopardy and scour twitter, the forums, facebook, google, etc during work hours for the chance that you might get lucky.

City of Heroes has always been about great character creation options and your appearance being limited by only the options in the costume creator. Now we have some items locked for a certain level (accention pieces, which is fine since its a one time thing to unlock for all characters), a few weapons locked behind some fairly easy tasks (roman weapons, again fine to me), luck on winning the super packs for the pieces (with the exception of the wolf and skiff, they are easy enough to get them all so its not too bad, plus you get other stuff while at it, but still not a huge fan). This is a step too far IMHO to have costume pieces locked behind being able to be on twitter at just the right time on the right day and hoping the internet doesn't give out on you.

YAY...basically a big cleanup the QOL and little annoying things in game before jumping into the new big story arc after Praetoria

Also to consider, with the two Performance Shifter IOs in there, you get a bit of a movement speed boost as well from the set bonuses. Not a huge thing, but can make a difference for some slower characters at times, like maybe for Stone Tanks or Brutes.

Personally, if I have the slots to spare, I 3 slot it, but one common IO and the end mod PS and the PS proc in there. Gets you the faster steady recovery, plus the random bump of 10 end about every minute or so, plus the set bonus.

If only 2 slotting, it really depends on what you think will be more helpful for your character...a faster, steady, constant recovery at all times, or a slower steady recovery with the occational jump up 10 pts. If you're facing a lot of sapper-like enemies, it could be helpful to have the bonus 10 points show up if you luck out and it hits at the right time instead of having to wait the recovery to make up the difference.