Bramphousian

Tier 6

Edit: Whoops, didn't see the "At all".

Tier two allows you to play without rewards. Tier four allows you to play it and gain rewards. Tier six unlocks AE completely

I can confirm this. I just logged into my premium account which had a level 32 character on it prior to Freedom. MM's/Controllers are locked out, but I have retained access to H/V EATs.

You never could "stack" gametime from the same edition, to my knowledge.

Bring up you map (press "M"). You can resize it by hovering around the edge, and the resize cursor comes up. Click and drag.

You can move it as well. Looking at the example posted, on the lower section of the map, left side, there is that dark circle. I believe by default, it is filled in, making it static to the nav-bar. If you click uncheck it (as in the example), and you can click and drag to the desired location.

Though I know WWD 5 is next week, I decided to run to the contact to see if it happens to be happy-surprise-bonus-early release.

Sadly, it is not :(

I'm not certain what the situation is. Myself, I don't travel often, but I've never encountered it either.

Recently, my wife got an email from Facebook saying something to the effect of there being a login attempt that did not match her browsing habits or location (attempt from Indonesia). It advised the attempt failed, but as a safeguard, they disabled her account and I believe told her to log in at a familiar location and change her password, or reply to the email confirming she is in Indonesia.

As well, she received a similar email when she was visiting her mom in Pennsylvania. It said something about being logged in, in Ontario and her logging in in PA was unusual, so they did the same.

That doesn't justify it. Company X uses slave labour to make its toasters, and Company Y uses sweatshops make its T-Shirts doesn't mean we should support Company Z using these practices to create Influence! Your following paragraph makes it clear that human rights laws should be observed, so why even post the above?

The problem with that is that it requires investigation and cooperation. I can't say that all, or even most, of the companies utilize forced labour. I don't know that, nor do I assume that. There have been many tales of people's identities being stolen, accounts compromised, etc. from such services, and that's enough for me, for many gamers to steer away from them. As such, allegations of users identities being stolen should be enough for NC to not want to allow them to advertise their services.

Of course, NC could terminate or revise any aspect of their agreement. But you mentioned a "fix" in your previous post, allowing them to select "Yes, I am a Gold-Trading Site" on account creation, giving them access to an advertising channel. This allows other players to close that channel down and ignore it completely.

So, no one is reading these messages. Why would the companies select "yes" on account creation? What is in place to prevent them from selecting "no", and continuing to spam broadcast/local/help? We are back to square one.

So, they've heard that a company engages in criminal behaviour. No one is prosecuted, because, really, try to get a foreign government to comply with American law. What do they do now? Ban an account? A new one is created. Ban an IP? Use a proxy.

I just can't see there being any honest, hard-working powerleveling/gold-farming companies out there. I don't know if the practice is, in fact illegal (I would doubt it), but opening the game up to allow such behaviour would be a bad thing.

All users, could in theory, register a website and offer their services. Paypal me $15 and a billion inf could be yours! I'll even throw in 3 Hamidon Goo and a Mu Vestment. I could spam Brampy-Sells-Gold.com and you could be TwigmansGoldMine.net, and we could have Arcanavillegoldfarminginc.com and FulmensFarms.ca, and instead of 1-2 companies spamming 1-2 messages, we could have a thousand people spamming a thousand companies.

These are not humble, small business owners. These are, in several cases, companies that steal users' personal information. There was an article some time ago about how they employ slave-labour for their gold-farming.

I don't think that Paragon Studios and NC want to promote forced-labour, identity theft and other such criminal acts.


No, you can't. From the Rules of Conduct:

• 8. You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the City of Heroes, City of Villains, or Going Rogue game or on the official City of Heroes website.
• 10. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying, selling, trading, sharing, or transferring access to any City of Heroes, City of Villains, or Going Rogue account.
• 11. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying or selling items for cash or trading items from one server to another.

From the User Agreement:

Section 2:
(iv) sell, sub-license, rent, lease, grant a security interest in, borrow, lend, loan, network or engage in any activity that could in any way transfer or provide others access to any Service, Content, Software, or parts thereof, including but not limited to any serial code number, access key or the like.

If I am understanding this correctly, this would ban ANY message containing ".com" or "dot com" automatically. Any website posted would ban a user.

This could be problematic.

Almost every time I am in game, I will see a message containing a website. If a player is asking for information, quite often another player will copy/paste the URL to a Paragon Wiki article, or a forum post. Looking at the channels I am a member of right now, five of the MOTDs contain URLs.

You mentioned banning a F2P account for it, but as evidenced by some people, even Exalted is seeing these messages, albeit fewer.

One of the Global Channels I am in uses a URL shortener.... so it is goo.gl/whatever. RMT sites would just start using these services as well.

You said that the command would notice and take into account spacing, so for instance, "www.website. com" would be caught. Would the following?: "Hi Bramphousian. Come to Cimerora" ? It isn't an ad, it is conversation that happens to have a letter sequence that would get caught by the proposed filter.

In theory, a filter system is a good idea, but as you have proposed it, too many innocent and helpful items could get caught in it inadvertently.

THIS.

The Jingle Jet is one of my favourite things in this game.

You could post in the "Suggestions and Ideas" forum, or if you wanted to contact someone directly, I would imagine you could PM one of the community reps (Zwillinger, 7deCoeur, uh... Beastyle?)

Agreed.

A couple of my nieces are really into the Hunger Games books. They had it on their Christmas lists. One of the staffers at a local book store tells me they're really popular with teen girls at the moment. No idea what the content is, nor do I care, so long as it keeps kids reading.

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