Ashen_EU

Many thanks zwill. I will henceforth upgrade my expecations to "nearly none".

Seriously though, nice to see a response and that it's hopefully being taken seriously.

I know the economics behind it, partially understand them too (I'm not going to insult anyone's intelligence by pretending I'm an economic expert). But it still strikes me that unless you have an art department with nothing worthwhile to do then assigning them to something that will probably not add a noticeable length of play-time and is a gamble at improving customer satisfaction is a mistake.

Anyway, I'm off for now. Getting late and I've got work. Been a pleasure having a reasoned discussion on an internet forum, been a while.

Take care of yourself Arilou.

Ashen Out.

Cut out my tongue, sew my mouth shut, cut off my fingers and lobotomise me. Until then my voice as a player is how I choose to talk to the devs and game staff, whether on the forums or through other channels.

I, and I would imagine a lot of people, pay for this game because we love it. We love the freedom involved and the ability to create that exists far above any other game on the market. The fact that I continue to pay for this game has nothing to do with gated gear, especially not gated gear that does NOTHING. I'm not going to raise a huge fuss about this because, frankly, it isn't worth it. I'm also not going out of my way to try and use it. Honestly, bar the immediate surge we will see in what will probably be the first couple of weeks I would be interested to see how many characters will earn and subsequently ignore this armour.

If they want to keep people for any length of time the best way is to make genuinely interesting content, whether story arcs, trials or power sets. Gated, non-functional fluff is fine in a micro-transaction model but for a lot of people not in a monthly payment model.

It's not even as if most posts I've seen are asking for instant access with no work, many would prefer an account wide unlock, hell even the voucher system for the auras would work. For this to actually add ANY real amount of play-time to a persons account it would have to be so expensive to unlock as to shame the Incarnate powers.

But that's just my opinion. Take it or leave it.

Fair point, though it would just be nice to think that the developers listened to the people playing and not just the jangling of their wallets.

Like I said, I don't mind. In fact for me this update has nothing I can physically use bar the aoe buffs. It would be nice to be able to get the auras, but my disappointment lasted all of five minutes.

Generally though this move will probably annoy quite a few players, several of them quite vocal, though I have no real idea what sort of portion of the population that would entail.

The argument could be made that changing pieces of clothing that do nothing for stats, abilities, function or general game mechanics in any way does not classify as "character progression". I don't particularly care either way about the armour (I think it's ugly) but I think that's the main problem people have with the level lock.

The abilities and level shifts? Fine, they're effectively new levels. The ability to wear slightly shinier shoulders that do nothing? Kind of odd to lock it.

Like I said, I don't mind about it at all (well bar the auras, dislike the way they're handled but I'm not gonna raise a fuss) but that was what I was getting from people.

The same way you take advantage of any other day in the game. Do whatever you think is fun.

In terms of levelling fast, I got a 37 in a day and a half once by sticking with one 8 man team each day. Fortunately it was a toon I remade and had fond memories of from the first time. I say fortunately because while the weekends are good for levelling I was all but broke on the character by the end of it and couldn't afford to fully slot him without transferring money across.

Because respeccing/costume changing can take a while and lots of people wind up having friends talking to them or missing tells while in the respec/tailor screen. I've personally missed out on at least one TF because I spent a while on a costume and the team wound up filling before I could reply to the invite tell.

Mainly it's just a little bit of extra convenience for the social aspect of the game. Currently while in those particular screens you may as well be in your own little world.

Edit: Re-reading your post it seems you were asking how it's relevent to have talk about chat in the tailor window in a topic about respeccing. Well I think primarily because the two windows are so similar people find they have some similar issues, ergo some comparison was going to come up eventually. Short of that, it isn't relevant really, but it does save us from having another redundant thread.

Whether or not they nipped into a handy phonebox for a quick costume change.

Villains is pretty much the only side of it I play and I've played it a LOT, and yes I consider most of those, bar maybe Uqua, Hardcase and maybe Buzzsaw pretty standard amoral pantomime types. Yes even the radio. As an example, I liked Seer Marino, she was a nice change of pace story-wise.

So, obviously, I phrased it badly. Replace "Moustache twirling" with "Pointlessly amoral cardboard cutouts". There are a couple that go beyond being a cliche on legs, but not many, I never said there were none.

Edit: Forgot to add dobbs into my little list. Also, posting while fighting = not recommended.

The telling line: He claims that his fight is with Tyrant, whom he once proudly called Emperor Cole, but in truth, the Resistance is just a means to an end for him. Calvin is going to get his wife back--or he's going to burn the world down around him trying.

And the full bio it's from: http://goingrogue.na.cityofheroes.co...scott-bio.html

So yes, it's very much revenge more than anything else for him it seems.

While it isn't really made clear in-game, in his biography rather than wanting power he wants his wife back. So rather than wanting to obtain power for its own sake he just accrues what he needs to kill Mother Mayhem, even seeing the resistance as nothing more than a tool.

But then that's just his bio. They may take him a different way in-game if we ever get more Praetoria-focused story content.

Yes I mean Union (my main, read only, server), which has never been above one dot since after a few months of CoV.

Now, the fact they've been on 2 or more dots for a week is great, but I'm a pessimist and am SURE it'll stop soon enough.

Not trying to scream doom or anything (honestly). Just spreading what I see as the truth.