Chad Gulzow-Man

Steele misspoke. The repeatable consumables are Tier 9.

The unlockable, cycling costume sets are Tier 9 VIP, the top tier of the tree.

You have to fill all the way up through Tier 8 in order to get any of the Tier 9 or Tier 9 VIP stuff, sorry. There's no repeatable stuff below that.

Cryptic hasn't had anything to do with this game for 4 years now. It's Paragon Studios.

If you actually paid attention to the article, you'd see that they mention a Cryptic game that did not publish the odds of earning items in their grab bags, which is against the law in some countries.

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The short of it is, as long as Paragon continues to post the possible contents of each Super Pack, the odds of receiving each, and offers an alternative way to earn any items that directly enhance powers or gameplay, they're probably not going to run into any trouble whether the "online baseball card pack" is officially labelled as gambling or not.

It makes sense, though, for better or worse. There's enough market stuff being tested on beta currently to push us through until late July, though most of looks to be additional enhancements. And nearly everything will need a run on beta before being launched in the store, so consider any new market releases on beta from this point to be at least 4-6 weeks out from being released on live.

Also, go ahead and prepare yourselves for Retro Sci-Fi being released a few weeks after i23 hits, not with it. (If I'm wrong, you can consider it a nice surprise.)

I know that... I was both trying to remind them that they said they'd give more notice prior to the launch, and fishing for a possible release date.

Community reps have been popping on to the servers randomly (as Lord Nemesis) to chat with people during invasions. That's about it. :/

Think that's covered by this bit:

Tap the F8 key repeatedly while the system is booting and it'll give you a prompt.

I highly doubt it's an issue with your sound device. Most CoH crashes I've experienced cause sound loops like what you're describing, and for my part, the vast majority of those crashes were related to video driver/hardware issues.

You're quoting Nethergoat out of context... the post in question was meant to be sarcastic.

The point of having to log into the market to claim the item is--as has been mentioned several times previously in the thread--to get players who NEVER use the market to open it up and check it out. This allows them to become comfortable with the market's interface and increases the chances that they'll see something else that interests them in the market while they're there, meaning more potential income for Paragon Studios.

If you choose not to claim the free item, they're not going to lose any sleep over it. Especially since it seems you're not one to shy away from the market to begin with.

No, they never came out and said May (that I saw, anyway), but it was widely speculated that it would go live last Tuesday to compete with the release of Diablo III.

Since they fixed the showstopping trial bug last week, the only real noticeable bug I know about is that the Hybrid slot powers are having some weird effects for Tankers, improperly treating their single target attacks as if they were AoEs (due to their Gauntlet inherent ability).

I'm not sure if that's something they'd hold back the release for, though, or if they plan to just fix it in the next patch. If they released i23 tomorrow and patched it on Thursday, for example, the number of Tankers using problematic Hybrid powers in the first 2 days would be tiny bordering on insignificant in terms of the total population.

... But they've also said they'd give us some more advance warning about the removal of the Celestial gear from the Paragon Rewards Table, which I haven't seen them even mention in about two weeks now...
So until they tell us that, the release isn't imminent.

You just made my ignore list with this comment. I have never once heard someone making a solid argument that included calling opponents "sheeple," even if I agreed with their point to begin with.

Not that I agree with you in the least. You're nuts.

It runs from 00:00 to 23:59 on Friday in the UK, chief.

Whether it will remain that way once the "beta version" is over remains to be seen, but it is nice to see them schedule something with the UK players in mind first and foremost.

If it weren't already part of the basic client, that would be awesome. Heck, do it anyway--that would be an absolutely perfect way to slap people in the face for complaining about being slapped in the face when they weren't, in fact, being slapped in the face.

There's a 24 hour window to grab the free item. It'd been up since 4PM on Thursday.

If nothing else, just start planning to log in Thursday night for a minute or two before bed to grab the freebie. If you can't or won't be bothered to do that, then you still don't lose anything--you just don't gain a freebie.

If that's the case, then I should probably go ahead and say that even though I claimed the dual insp, it will almost certainly never get used. If it does, it'll likely be more due to me trying to clear out clutter from my character items list than out of actual need.

I'm not going to complain about getting something for free, but I'll be honest... I found myself thinking that it almost wasn't worth clicking to claim it.

Y'know, now that you mention it, I wouldn't be opposed to a drink or two this evening...

One night, several years ago, I left late night Comedy Central on while I was playing CoH. Suddenly, a commercial for a ridiculous Girls Gone Wild ripoff DVD started playing, using the Blyde Square neighborhood music from Steel Canyon.

After a good laugh about it, I PMed one of the community members (I think probably Avatea) and included a link to the site, which happened to also have the commercial streaming on their front page.

I don't necessarily know that any legal action came of it, but I do know that the site has been gone for a while.