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they won't be able to really start at least the 'tier 2' closed beta testing until November 15th. Considering the holiday season comes soon after that where many workers are going to be out of town for much of it, it would be very tight to get it out before the end of the year. They might not even start any beta testing until after them because of it.

Assuming Going Rogue coincides with issue 17, I'd say 1st or 2nd quarter of 2010, depending on how much beta testing is needed.

They are in the announcement section right before the actual announcement of the issue, as well as spread throughout the beta section:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...00&postcount=1

If both enhancements are already slotted, they are slotted and can't be moved. You can get a third enhancement and combine it with one of the slotted ones, but once any enhancement is slotted, its stuck there until you respec or put another one on top of that.

Change it how? You can change your options on the menu. But the look of it...no...outside of the normal color sliders...and someone out there has a way of changing some of the fonts in the game. Not sure if it applies to that as well.

IIRC, unfortunately power customization didn't make its way into the AE yet. Having customized powers in the mission files made them even more tight for space that you could probably only have a couple custom mobs. Sounds like a good reason to up the size from 100k in my opinion.

Can I make a suggestion to have this message pop up in the GMOTD in-game before the weekend as well for the players that don't go to the forums as regularly or miss the announcement here? Just to prevent any unneeded forum ranting about "I didn't see it in time because I didn't look in the right place so I'm upset that I couldn't use it" posts again?

There's the whole Cimerora zone added. Not too many story arcs, but there are some. Plus some repeatable missions.

I don't think Ouroborus was mentioned. Its a new zone that allows you to access the Flashback system, which allows you to go back and redo, or just do, any arc you may have out-leveled. It does exemplar you down, but chances are there's something that you haven't done yet.

There are new powersets to try including Willpower (defensive set for scrappers, tankers, stalkers, and Brutes), Dual Blades (melee offensive set for scrappers, tankers, stalkers, and brutes), Pain Domination (villain team support set for Corruptors and Masterminds), Villain Epic Archetypes: Soldiers of Arachnos and Arachnos Widows which have a branching power set system in place, plus issue 12, and soon issue 16, brought us powerset proliferation that has brought in one or two existing primary or secondary sets into new archetypes.

Issue 14 was the mission Architect. It gave us player-created content with custom missions and custom enemy groups. A lot of players have created a lot of farms, but if you look through there is some fun new content there.

Issue 16 is revamping the sidekick and difficulty systems as well as bringing in the beginnings of power customization. This may bring you to retry a old character with a new flair.

Dominators (and maybe Stalkers, forget when they got there's...it could have been since you left) have been adjusted a bit lately.

Issue 10 gave us Invasions. Either randomly on some weeks/weekends, or also sometimes triggered by player actions, swarms of Rikti invaders or Zombie invaders will pop into a zone. Some like them, some don't, but they can be fun. They can also be lagfests if its busy and your computer isn't all that great for graphics.

Issue 9 was the invention system. I believe that was mentioned before though.

This is minor, but if you like badges, issue 13 brought in the Day Job system that depending on where you log out you can build up credit for bonuses and badges while you're logged out.

A few other cool things are to look into that you may miss if you don't know about them: Costume Change Emotes, animations that play when changing your costume now. Issue 13 (i think...maybe 12) and Issue 16 brought a lot of quality of life updates like being able to 3 combine inspirations of one size and kind into one of another kind of equal size (like 3 small reds can be combined into a small rez). Some people missed that when it came out but is very useful in a pinch.

I know this was more than just the content updates, but they are nice things to know if you're coming back for a while. Note that issue 16 isn't QUITE out yet. Its expected within a few weeks (before October). Also Going Rogue was an expansion recently announced for the future (no release date yet, probably next year at this point) that will introduce more new powersets and zones and the ability to change from a hero to a villain. There are some cool things coming soon.

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Keep in mind what is garbage to you may be acceptable to others.

On a side note, I don't see what is so great about Champion's graphics. They look like a cartoony vs CoX is trying to be more realistic. Maybe I'm just not far enough along in Champions to see the cooler graphics, but I'm also not of the opinion that CoX's graphics are horrible either. Champions, in my opinion, has bigger game-play problems to worry about in my opinion before the graphics should take focus. Everything always has room for improvements, but the graphics on CoX has never taken away from my enjoyment of the game.

Also, my hat's off to BaBs and his team for the animations in CoX. I didn't realize how good they are until I played Champions. CoX looks like some MOCAP work was done or a lot of attention to detail on getting the movements to look right. I know at least running in Champions looks like it is done with some kind of algorithm and doesn't look quite right compared to CoX. I think it has to do with their torso in Champions seems to be locked static in movement without twisting enough while running even though their arms and legs are moving. I dunno, not an expert in that stuff, just my opinion that something is a bit off.

More accurately, you're getting rewarded all the time. Actually there are times you're playing that you're not getting rewarded at all, like when just standing around looking for a team or traveling to a mission, so you're getting rewarded in some way a higher percentage of the time while not playing than when you are playing.

But I agree that day jobs shouldn't be something that you avoid playing for. Log out appropriately and eventually you'll get em. If you want to play, play. I've got several alts with most of the day job badges at this point from just logging in once a month to move them from one spot to another, which is more than I would be playing them normally without day jobs.

The problem I have with this is the supply/demand relationship isn't between influence/infamy and purple IOs, but between demand for purple IOs and supply of purple IOs. The supply of purple IOs will increase much faster than the demand for for them because there are only so many characters that can use them in so many slots. Influence/infamy is one way of getting them, which may decrease slightly in supply, but I'm not worried about that becoming a problem. Plenty of people will be getting cash. Assuming more people are running regular missions to farm purples, then more will be coming in without changing the number of people who can use them. Only lvl 50s can use them really, and them running purple farms to get them in itself will increase supply and reduce demand because some will get what they want in drops as well as supply influence/infamy.

I could be off on this, but didn't they raise the inf cap at some point to 2 billion. I seem to recall seeing that it used to be much lower when the game started and they bumped it I think around the time the market did come around.

But I don't see any reason why we need to up the inf cap to more than 2 billion. At the moment it does mean that things can't get more expensive than that. I somewhat agree that they maybe it should be lowered to say around 1 billion (no specific reason, just a nice round number) to bring the cost of somethings back down. Most players playing won't ever hit the 2 billion inf mark anyways. If you really need more, make some alts and transfer some inf. You can easily create 36 characters per server if you get enough slots. Thats 72 billion between all of them. You could even go as far to transfer characters to other servers and do that, but that can get expensive in real life. I have no idea what all you could spend that much influence/infamy on in this game or why you would ever need to hold even that much at one time. If it is a technical limitation (32-bit integer) for the 2 billion cap just changing it could be easier said than done depending, and why fix what isn't broken.

Along the same lines, how does your character playing around all day in a virtual reality simulator building affect your influence or infamy at all? If anything I would think that it would lower it because you're in a light beam playing video games all day instead of out saving the real city or causing real havoc.

Since it said epic and not epic and patron pools, my guess is that they are just doing the blue side. Red side to do it right they would have to make a new patron and a patron arc, badges, and modify existing arcs (the one where you select the patron for example) for that to really do it 'right'. Though I do hope that they do expand the red side a bit. My take on it is that the blue side will all get at least one new epic set, and all of the epic and patron sets will be expanded (unless they already have been in previous issues) to have 5 powers total instead of 4.

Theoretically, if they got to the shard, and were on a team that killed enough of the enemies that are required for that badge (I highly doubt that a level 1 could even kill one of the level 40+ critters in there without being on a team, let alone enough for the badge)...forget exactly what they are. Isn't there a shard mission redside that isn't in a level-restricted zone? Theoretically, if so, its possible there now.

According to the wiki page
Where PCs refer to Player Characters, aka yourself in this case.

It sounds like this proc would have no effect if you put it in dark nova because the dark nova power affects only you; the other powers that you get access to while in nova form affect other characters. You CAN put it in there if you're going for the set bonuses (@2 = +1.5% recovery, @3 = +6% regeneration) but if you're without one of the other two in the set, it would be useless there.

Yeah, technically you aren't supposed to, but I would think that most game companies would look past that in the situation of a parent and child, especially if its a younger child and/or the kid was still living at home and in school or something. If you caught a support person on a bad day, they might and could report you within their rules, but I would think that it is one of the rules that internally most of them would just overlook in such a situation. It just leads to bad PR and scaring off a potential second account later on when they start wanting to play together by bringing out the ban hammer on families. Though if you do contact support, I would still be tactful and not mention a second player on the account to avoid the issue and just say the character was deleted and avoid details on HOW the player was deleted or just say you did it accidently.