Chad Gulzow-Man

My advice to you, Mad Briar: don't listen to Beyeaj. Even in a mostly helpful community like this, we still get a few trolls.

My advice to you, Beyeaj: quit posting crap in threads started by new players. Dude has a problem, other people are trying to help him, and you're not. If you're not going to help, keep your mouth shut and your fingers off the keyboard.

I thought Villains couldn't get Passport anyway, since they shut down the US -> EU server transfers before CoV went live?

And hey, at least you've got Bug Hunter. I've been trying to get that for years.

Gratz BT! (and don't forget Passport. )

Gratz Sadys! You now have every Villain badge except the Vet ones, right?

"Aqua Knight" might get genericked, since there is a manga by the same name. (Interestingly enough, it's written by the same artist as Battle Angel Alita, who, if I'm not mistaken, appears to be your avatar.)

Also, there's no "a" in "Sentinel."

All the graphics processing is done on your local machine. The server just tells your computer, "Draw A at X,Y,Z location performing action B."

I'm not saying they shouldn't have told us sooner, I'm just pointing out here that the moderators don't necessarily know all the details of what is and isn't in Going Rogue. I think it's especially likely they haven't seen many of the new costume pieces actually on characters.

Anyway, we can bet they'll take this as a learning experience, and give us the next screenshot with a caption akin to "Sneak peak at Faction X NPC."

You got me, and are completely correct. Plus 1 for Westley.

This is how this phrase reads to others: "I'm not saying you're stupid, but if you pay for nothing but the costume creator, then you're stupid."

Different strokes for different folks, dude. If someone wants to pay their subscription fee just to access the costume creator and make new characters, then that's up to them. You don't get to decide how they spend their money, and you certainly don't get to tell them they're wrong.

To create a unique character to take through the storyline existant in the game. Yes to the first (in the RWZ missions), no to the second. I haven't conquered the world yet. My game must be broken. You mean like access the costume creator, that's the very first thing you see when you create a new character? Yeah, the game sure wasn't designed for that. I won't, because it is silly. But you really ought to tone down the judgements on how other people are playing, because it's making you come across even sillier.

I played Phantasy Star Online as well back on the Dreamcast. It was one of the first games that really let you customize an avatar and was hailed for that design when it began, but that system is quite dated now. It also didn't have much in the way of "roleplaying," other than the fact that it told a story.

City of Heroes, on the other hand, let's people roleplay actively. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that you don't have but maybe one or two characters with a background description filled in. Other people revel in that ability to portray their character to the world by telling their origin stories. But whether you put a background in or not, you character can still "Kill Skuls" as well as any other.

And even though nobody forces you to stand under Atlas and participate in costume contests, the people who choose to are wrong for some reason? Not every character is going to want to do every mission. Some people want to tailor their experience in the game for particular characters. Maybe someone doesn't feel right running Demitri Krylov or Westin Phipps' missions red-side because it involves harming innocent people? Are they not entitled to avoid that content simply because they don't want to experience it?

It doesn't change the fact that he still has at least two costumes at all times: the tights, and the reporter disguise.

I have no idea what TO means. And as for Dragon Age: Origins, you admit that it lets you customize your character at the start, and yet you say it's bad that people want to customize their characters in CoH? (Also, in DA:O, there's no reason to customize a character once you've created them, since appearance changes based on the armor and weapons you equip--a convention that many people are happy to have circumvented in playing CoH.)

Alright, gotta close this puppy out somewhere. Gohan, seriously, you are in the minority when you say things like costumes aren't important. That very system and its robustness is what made City of Heroes a success. If it weren't for the vast levels of customization, I honestly feel we'd be lucky to have 10% of our current subscription rates at this point. If not for customization, CoH would have never evolved beyond a cookie-cutter hack and slash MMO using office buildings and super powers instead of dungeons and mana.

Again, you're entitled to your own opinion, and there is no "wrong."

... Unless, of course, you tell people they're stupid for paying for something they enjoy.

Shouldn't take you more than 10 days (give or take a few) if you farm it AFK. That's what I'm working on right now. Got a level 54 CoT Guide in a radio mission smacking me with his scimitar for a little over 100 damage per second.

If you have a pocket healer on a second account, you could have two or even three of them attacking you to earn the badge much more quickly, but one is about as much as I can handle solo right now.

((Just to be nice, would you mind shrinking that image down some? It's a tad large. ))

Oh, and gratz on finishing the Day Jobs!

Edit: Oh, and in case you haven't AFK farmed before (which would surprise me since you've got Empath already), the slash command "/maxinactivefps 1" is your friend.

Posi has stepped down from head developer to instead head up an internal taskforce with the goal of creating new end-game content and a new "power-up" system for level 50s. No word on whether that's the universal enhancement slots or not... we'll just have to wait and see.

Link.

Not true. Posi stated that, upon hitting level 20 in Praetoria, you get to effectively push the "Be a Hero/Be a Villain" button, regardless of whether you ran as a Loyalist or part of the Resistance up until then.

They've mentioned that the Resistance was the more heroic of the two factions and the Loyalists the more villainous, but everything in Going Rogue is designed to have its own shades of grey.

None of your Heroes, maybe. Mine comes from another dimension altogether, and strives to right wrongs and rescue the downtrodden no matter where he is.

Make no mistake, he's not altogether happy with the way things are going in Paragon all the time, either. (For one thing, why is everybody always breaking right back out of the Zig? Come on, people, let's get some super-powered security guards in there!)