Astroburn

Course.. nothing ruins a TF faster then people who act like we're planning an assault in real life and it's the most important thing in the world..

I look at it this way.. a Hero goes out.. earns all these awards, badges accolades, whatever.. then goes Rogue and becomes a Villian.. does he suddenly no longer have these awards? No.. it makes him all the more evil by having all these hero accolades.. Same with Villians..

Since MOST badges are just representations of what your character HAS done.. I don't see why you should lose them..

Accolade Powers are the only thing I would say you'd lose.. as each side has it's own version of said powers.. or you could keep your previous version.. and just not GET a power when you earn the new accolade..

I'd just e happy to be able to earn those Hunt badges that require so much farming to earn..

I've been working on two interlacing Arcs, one villian one hero. In the Villian arc, you do typical villian things for the contact.. and the hero arc you do typically hero things.. like try to stop what's happening in the Villian arc.

The Villian Contact is the main bad guy of the hero arc.. and the Hero contact will be a boss in the Villian arc.. which is the point where the hero arc picks up..

And.. the contacts are my characters.. the stories don't glorify them as the greatest characters ever.. just characters I happen to like writing plots about..

My third arc will be about ninja fruit versus pirate robots..

Hey.. even if I managed to rush right home at 5.. I got a baby at home now.. and he doesn't make gaming particularly easy..

well.. remember.. to get Badges for defeating AVs/GMs your team has to deal at LEAST 10% of the damage to said beastie..

And stuck at work.. bummer..

I'm just waiting for all the players who think they're oh so creative to have thewir dreams crushed.. and judging by what passes for creativity in places like Pocket D and Under Atlas.. there will be many a wet pillow as they cry themselves to sleep..

While I'm a little disappointed that MA missions won't count towards Defeat badges(Thus removing the need to farm the same mission over and over for some of them).. I'll probably give it a try once I see everything we have at our disposal..

We really are a spoiled playerbase. It's either a sign of a good Dev team.. or of entitled players.

The idea that every decision made by the Devs has to please everyone is pure foolishness. Just as the idea that the Devs don't care is also pure foolishness.

The fact that a change to a game causes this much animosity is either amusing or troubeling.

In the end, the ONLY response that will really get the Devs attention is to cancle your subscription. If you're still paying them $15 a month while [censored] up a storm, why should they bother?

It's always the same thing. Someone has something someone else doesn't.. so complain and cry.

You've only played for 24 months.. well I've been playing for FIVE DAMN YEARS. I was here in CoH BETA. I have stuck around, kept my account active and PAID a hell of a lot longer then you. So I get to fly at lvl six with my new toons... so what?

Frankly.. I earned it for having to play pre-I3.

And 50% off at the tailor may not be useful to my older toons with dozens of tailor tokens.. but every new toon I make will benefit from it from now on.

any chance those of us with PCs will be able to get those nice perks one day?

aye... Blue side is probably twice the size content wise as Red side.. and MOST of the new red side content has been shared content..

But anything that breaks up the routine is good on both sides..

oh.. I know.. the next Vet reward should be a gaint easy button right.. click it and boom.. ALL your characters are automatically level 50 with full IO sets in all powers and every badge right?

Get over yourselves.. they don't have to give us anything.. they're PERKS.. not privliages..

Really.. you'd think Dr. Fate would hook him up with SOMETHING..

Oh.. also.. original Green Lantern was magic powered..

Man.. that makes me want a hybrid powerset with Gravity Control and Illusion "Constructs"..

Hmm.. 12 slots to start.. 2 free.. 4 for playing since CoH Beta.. so 18.. means I gotta buy 18 more slots on Virtue.. so.. $70

gah..

but soooooooo awesome. I'm glad they're giving some away for free, even though one of my Brustes is still going to vanish into the digital ether..

I wants my Ice/Ice Brute back...

That beign said.. just the thought that is being thought about and worked on is enough to make me happy for now.

All the new options are awesome and I'm going to have lots of fun playing with some of my long time Wanted builds.. Though I'm still waiting on Super Strength for Scrappers..

Well thereya go.. I'm all for new content for both sides..

rock on..

I wish they would consolodate some of the current CoH content so it isn't the same 5 missions spread over 20 contacts. might require some new missions to be made.. but that's fine.. that way you can follow along with contacts based on your origin and not have multiple contacts giving you the same missions..

Maybe the "Familiar Threat" wil lbe Requiem and the 5th Council... along with some crazy Nictus fun thrown in..

the way I read the blurb is that the 10-15 content will be heroes only.. the high level stuff won't.. and may work like the Ourboros stuff, with each faction getting access to the new maps for their respective missions.

Perhaps the Midnight Club will be like a small version of the "O" zone (snickers) where heroes and villians get missions back in Rome to do.. or it'll be like Pocket D anthey'll mingle.. who knows..

I'll wait til the content is unveiled before crying foul..

I doubt the changes to the Hollows, beyond the new Contact giving out generic "radio" style missions, will be anything that effects the actual content. Reading thw rite up seems the biggest change will be no longer having to run through level 10-12 mobs to get to a lvl 6 mission door.. though it will make WS's less popular now without the need for the early TP..

I think the hollows got a revamp because it was a series of relatively small tweeks.. Boomtown will probably get the full Faultline treatment when it's time comes..

Well.. since comic book Magic has a habit of involving both Heroes and Villians.. it is quite possible the Midnight Squad will be recruiting from both factions in their war against the Rikti and to save time.

After all, most villians don't want to destroy the world.. just rule it..

Can I have your stuff when you leave?

The sense of entitlement some players have never ceases to amaze me.

The Devs have bent over backwards and given us a hell of a lot over the years. Power Customization may be a "hot button" for some people, but for most of us it's a "cool, I'll enjoy that if it ever comes out". Am I going to threaten to run to Champions over it.. no. Am I willing to give up my 3 Issues a year plus events so my Energy Blast can be green instead of Blue.. no.. We'll get it, if and when the Devs can figure out how to do it that doesn't cost an arm and a leg..

I bought it cause I wanted to.. pure and simple. And ya know what.. if they want to make $10 packs for future events.. I'll probably buy them too..

Quiet simply, don't like it, don't buy it. Don't rant about it and insult people who do.

Not everything the Devs put out will be fore everyone. I find PvP boring and tedious and detest the fact there are half a dozen badges directly tied TO PvPing.. but you'll never hear me demanding the community rise up en masse to demand the removal of PvP.

Climb down off your soap boxes and relax.. it's a game. If I want to plunk down $10 of my own money to increase MY enjoyment of the game.. that's my business, not yours.

MMMMAAAAANNNNNTTTTIIIIICCCCOOOORRREEEEE!!! *shakes fist at the heavens*