Ashlocke

Yes, that's what I've been suggesting all along.
The vanguard pack isn't removing the items from the list of purchasable goods.

What I'm asking for seems to me to be a very reasonable fix.
Not everything is removed from the vanguard list of purchasable items, it would be nice if it continued to work as it has on live, once you have an item, it no longer shows up as purchasable, also, it's not just the costume pieces, I also noticed the issue for the costume change emote as well.


No mountain, no molehill, just a simple request for a QoL fix.
Also, what you claim doesn't actually work that way, I just checked at the time of this post to be certain of my memory, and items that I purchased on my main character, as far as costume pieces, and costume change emotes, and the backpack, etc, do not show up at all, I cannot even try to purchase them as the option no longer exists.

And that is all I am asking for, that it continues to work that way for items unlocked via the Vanguard pack.


Edit:
I just confirmed that it does indeed eat your vanguard merits when you attempt to purchase an item that shows up in the vanguard crafting table that is part of the vanguard pack. It took 50 merits, and removed the chest detail from the list after the purchase, even though it is part of the vanguard pack. So yes, I can see folks accidentally clicking on items that they already have by accident because of this.

Because I (like many folks) have over two dozen alts, I would really like to not accidentally spend vanguard merits for something I cant reasonably keep track of for that many alts.

Especially when the game already does this for me, except for this vanguard pack for some reason.

If I had only a single character, then what you say makes much more practical sense. Also, if you tend to take long breaks from the game, I wouldn't expect people to remember every little thing their character has gotten over the years.

I hope this clarifies the perspective I'm coming at this problem from.


Edited: for grammar and spelling boo boos.

It's almost like a self perpetuating problem. Kheldians have issues so folks don't want to play them, Devs don't fix them because not enough folks play them.

Duh! Winning!

To start with, let me say that I'm no programmer and I'm just making educated guesses at best.

When playing my Dual Pistol Hero I click on one of the special ammo Icons and they do in fact continue to use whatever enhancers are in each attack power (accuracy, damage, endurance, recharge, etc), so I'm just guessing that for shields, they would do the same, only "override" duration and endurance cost depending on which Icon you selected (x2, x3, or x4).

If it turns out that it can't work this way, oh well, I gave it my best shot (pun intended) at coming up with the most reasonable and least intrusive way to fix this problem that I could.

A while back when I ran one of my new Praetorian characters through the Praetoria content there was an ally NPC that had Kheldian Powers, thus he must have been a native Kheldian because after reading his info it didn't indicate that he wasn't a native.

Up until that point, I assumed there was some as yet undisclosed story reason why they didn't allow new character's in Praetoria to start out as Kheldians. How sad it was that the reason turns out to "seemingly" be "just cuz".

Not that I'm saying that it would suddenly be fine if there was a story reason for the Kheldian ban, as I massively dislike my triangle shaped character concepts being herded into square holes.

The above snippet is what I say, with all due respect, is untrue.
You are in fact not able to use all of your primary, secondary and pool powers if they revolve around a character's death, whether it's a team buff, or a self rez, or an AoE attack requiring a team mate's corpse, etc, there are many powers that are simply not available to players that are perfectly valid for their play style.

In other games, death is seen as failure.
Here, it can and is a viable tactic for various play styles and their associated powers.
Barring selective folks from using powers that revolve around player deaths is what I am referring to.

In City of Heros, there are many viable tactics revolving around character death, everything from running into a spawn and using a tier 9 "nuke" as a blaster which *for me* results in a glorious death usually followed by a self rez which leads to mopping up any survivors.

Plus there are team powers that require someone to die in order to use them.

Etc. There are many more examples, these two should be enough of a springboard to get the gist.

All of the MoTFs prior to the two new ones require you to not be able to use all of the powers related to the above examples from Primaries, Secondaries and Pools.

Some characters get a self rez, some don't, do you think it's fair that character A gets to use all of his available powers while character B is prevented from using all of his? I don't.

I don't mind "difficult" challenges, what I do mind is arbitrarily putting unequal constraints on characters.
To reiterate, I don't mind temp and vet powers etc from not functioning, that is fine, my focus is on a character's core powers, that being, primary, secondary, and I feel pool powers fall into the category of core powers, although I can be flexible on pool powers falling into the restricted powers list.

Again, I am not here to change anyone's opinion on MoTFs, I am here expressing why *I* don't like them.


Edited for spelling and other boo boos.

The funny thing is, that I have no idea what you are refering to. I have yet to run the two newer TFs (Tin Mage and Apex) and am aware that they have different Mo qualifications. The brunt of my post was directed at the bulk of MoTFs that already existed.

To Clarify, the qualifications for those MoTFs that I am refering to is that you are not allowed to use certain powers from your primary, secondary, and pool sets. This is a super hero game, immersion is paramount *for me*. Every hero has a shtick, and arbitrarily saying that guy's shtick is fine, but this guy over here isn't is not ok *to me*.

I'm fine with locking out temp powers, but the core powers from any Hero should never be locked out especially because they aren't applied uniformly.

A final clarification, I am not trying to change anyone's opinion on whether they like or not like the way MoTFs work, I was simply giving *my* reason for why *I* dislike the bulk of them, take it for whatever it's worth, and with a grain of salt, yadda yadda. And in return, I won't change how I feel about them either unless they are changed in some meaningful way.

The point of the auction house is not it's location, but rather the service that it provides, which it will continue to provide in light of this vet reward.

While in theory you have a point, in practical terms, not so much.
Each successive change to the AE causes more and more arcs to become invalid, inactive accounts are not fixing their arcs to make them playable again, thus over time they add to the massive list we need to sift through without being actually PLAYABLE.

So yes, lets toss out the old bathwater.

Like anything else, the AE needs periodic maintenance. This is but one type.

Basically it has no quality control.
I find it tiresome to have to sift through THOUSANDS of horrible arcs in order to find one that is of high enough quality to match the Dev created content that already exists.

And before someone suggests for me to peruse third party web sites that list "good" arcs, keep in mind that more often than not I dislike movies that critics adore.

What that means is simply, It's just yet another list that I have to sift through in order to find something I actually like with the added annoyance of not being able to do so in game and having to browse outside of the game for said content.



Lets start with something simple like:
Removal of arcs from AE that belong to inactive accounts. This should clear up the listings by the largest factor, and not require some weird special filter coding. And to be fair, lets give it a one week timer before being removed from the date it goes inactive, you know, to give folks who play using time cards a chance to re-activate so that their arcs remain intact.

I will stop here so as not to fill up this post with meticulous points of annoyance, I have more, but these points should suffice for now.

I was about to try to elaborate upon a reason for opening up names, then I read the above statement in a post.

The fact that this person thinks these were choice names for an "Iconic Super Hero" character made me realize that anything I could say would be a waste of my time.

Ask yourself this simple question when creating a new character: If I were in a comic shop and saw a new comic titled (insert your character name here) would it perk your interest to buy it?

I can say for certain that "The Amazing Deep Friar" would not get my hard earned pennies and implying that a new player should be happy to be able to score such a choice name is preposterously funny.

As for presenting solid evidence that folks seem to be saying doesn't exist, as I stated in my previous post, I already play CO and none of the problems they claim will happen, actually happen. I have two names there which would be considered "common" type names, the rest are obscure. Of those two, I've run into a grand total of ONE other person with one of those names that ran past me once in the year I've played there.

And do you know that the amount of names using the insert numbers trick is obscenely low. I see perhaps one a month run past me with a name like that, unlike the many I see daily here in CoH.

I'm not bashing CoH, not by a long shot, and I like it overall best of the two super hero games that I both enjoy. I am only here saying that most of the problems that people are saying will happen. Don't.

Both sides of the argument actually get what they want, the one side can name their character exactly the name they had planned for, and the other side can run around and likely never encounter their "evil twin" thus preserving the "feeling" of their uniqueness during their play session.

And I only have one final point to make about all of this. One person's chance of seeing a name run past them once in a blue moon does not trump another person being forced to always see a name they are not completely happy with every time they log onto a character that couldn't be named to their liking.

In other words, I have to look at my character every time I log on and the entire time I'm playing. You on the other hand, will almost certainly never run into me while playing, and if you happen to do so, I will be gone seconds later as I run past you.

PS. If simply KNOWING that another person exists on a server with a similar name troubles you, then that is an altogether different problem, one that should be handled by trained professionals and not the peanut gallery that is this forum. That is not meant as an insult, but rather just good advice that I would give to any relative and close personal friend.

"Peace, and hug your mother at least once a week."

If the Flash saw this, he would freak out and call up the Flash, who in turn would be sad and then call up the Flash and tell him to make sure that the old Flash knows what's happening the next time he does a crossover issue with Captain Marvel while fighting The Green Lantern and Captain Marvel unless they are rescued by Green Lantern and Green Lantern and Green Lantern oh and that other Green Lantern.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I've been here with CoH since it came out years ago.

And I too sometimes have a hard time finding a name that I like and can live with for whatever new character I make.

I also play Champions. I like both games, and intend to continue to do so.

When I first tried Champions, I was leery about how the naming system would work because I am into immersive play.

It reminds me of when I first switched to a wide screen monitor, I was hesitant and thought I would not like it for some reason. Today, you would have to pry it from my dead hands, I will never go back.

I feel the same about the naming system. Being able to create a character and KNOW that I will be able to name it the exact name that I intended for him or her is priceless to me. I do not want to have to do "research" for hours on the web just to name a character.

So yeah, I am going to throw my hat in with the "I want the name I want" crowd.

And for whatever it's worth, I almost never see duplicate names over in Champions. It is such a rare sight. Plus, what I almost never see are names using numbers or any of the other naming tricks mentioned throughout this thread. Which really helps me keep my immersion going.

"Peace, and hug your mother at least once a week"