Chad Gulzow-Man

THIS is the only "urgent, must see" thing so far in this thread.

If you haven't already seen (or aren't planning in the VERY near future to see) The Avengers, then you're a terrible person and you should feel bad about yourself and the choices you've made in life.

*shrug* It works just fine for me.

But again, that's just me. I am not the alpha and the omega of the CoH customer base.

Meh. Tier 9 VIP players have exclusive access to these new costume sets at least 6 months (probably more like 9-12 months) before they make them available outside of the Paragon Rewards program.

VIPs have the option of spending Reward Tokens on them, for which there are far fewer alternatives than if one were to buy a costume set with Paragon Points. There are literally over 1000 items in the store right now vying for your points, versus 6 T9VIP one-shots and 6 T9 repeatables.

It really boils down to what each individual player wants to do. I think the entitlement issues will dissipate rather quickly once they tell us exactly how one will be able to access the Celestial Armor set outside of T9VIP. Those that hate that they had to spend tokens that could have otherwise been spent will stop doing so with the knowledge that they can get those same costume parts in the future through an alternate path. Those that can't afford to bump up their account to T9VIP will get the shiny costume set that they want, but only after waiting and seeing all the VIPs playing with it first.

And the players who want these things to remain Tier 9 VIP forever and ever with no alternate method of access? They can go spin on it, because that's not what's best for the game or the community as a whole.

That should be obvious... ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK!

It's like watching one of those drinking bird toys... @_@

The email address is: cohforums@ncsoft.com

Just shoot them an email from the account your CoH account is tied to, let them know your current chat handle and give them three ranked options for what you'd like them to change it to.

No, they're not going to raise the level cap beyond 50. Ever.

Hence the Incarnate system--level shifts that raise your effective combat ranking during certain content. Outside of that content, you have access to nifty new abilities, but you're still considered level 50 (or 50+1 at the most) for the purposes of all gear collection and combat in regular missions.



Also: this isn't really a lore question, it's a game mechanics question.

It scales with the size of your team (or rather, the group surrounding you), just like the Halloween zombie attacks. We didn't get bosses until we added our 4th or 5th person to the team.

As far as I can remember, Level Pacts lowered each person's XP gain by 50%. This raises both people's XP gain by 50%. It's an ANTI-Level Pact!

That, and your XP gain isn't tied together in any way shape or form.

The individual Mission Transport Power that's on sale for 450 PP has a two hour cool down. (It's the one that was originally packaged with the Mac/Valkyrie Pack back before Freedom launched.)

The new Team Transport Power that was added today has a 30 minute cool down.

I did too, I really did. Problem is, I liked it too much and stayed up until 4 or 5:00 AM Eastern updating my spreadsheet.

There's a not-insignificant part of the playerbase for whom this change sucks, but honestly as much as I truly liked the 3:00 AM surprise, it's really better for me this way. AND it's better for poor Black Pebble, who's the first one in every morning yet (I assume) had to be there at midnight for the updates.

... *eye twitch*

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Especially since "animated hair" wasn't an option, amirite?

Like I said, it was mostly the fear-mongering and spreading of incomplete information as if it were already set in stone. Because the first part is ridiculous and the second part is foolish.

But now that I've had a crappy day and a few drinks in me (which, if you know me at all, you'll know is highly irregular bordering on sign-of-the-apocalypse), I can say with pancakish confidence: it sounds like procs needed a PVP nerf for a while. If they're being heavily used specifically to get around damage caps the way you guys are saying, then it sounds like the exploit of a loophole in the system and you're just begging to be grandfathered in because they're only now trying to untangle that loop.

But rest assured, I've said my peace and am no longer visiting this thread, so you can all roll your eyes at this post and ignore it. I'm too out of alcohol to give any more damn.

The thread is in the Developer's Corner, not the Beta forums, and is therefore accessible to anyone whether subscribed or not, and at 23K+ views I'd hardly call that a thread with barely anyone reading it.

The reason I posted here to begin with is that you're spreading incomplete information outside of the thread specifically meant to discuss it. Again, the changes in the thread aren't being tested yet and likely won't be until at least June, and Synapse has shown dozens of times already that he's willing to listen to players, whereas Castle was more of a "let's do things my way and then we'll tweak it from there" kind of developer.

It's perfectly fine that Sentry came and posted pertinent information here, but it's turned into a discussion thread when it should have been a "Hey guys, come to this official thread and let your voices be heard" message.

The thread is also titled specifically to fear-monger. It is NOT a global damage nerf. Players that don't use Procs aren't going to see any difference in their damage output, and Synapse has already said that some of the lower activation rate (10-15%) procs are going to be brought up in line with existing procs and that he foresees procs across the board firing off more often after he's done than they do currently... even if that means that high-end builds might not get as much benefit from the change as a lower-end build might.

Got one on Saturday night. I am the 1428.


Oh...

Amplifiers are a new thing being tested in beta currently that act similarly to dual inspirations, but are long-term buffs (1, 4 and 8 hours respectively). Think of the microtransaction "potions" from other F2P games.



If they manage to keep the sales cost down and focus instead on high sales volume, I think Amplifiers will basically let them print their own money.

... Yes please.

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I really dislike the idea of selling base items in the market unless it's just a one-time fee to access things indefinitely.

Otherwise you're going to end up with ownership disputes... Who owns the snazzy 40PP arcade machine that Jim Bob the base architect added to the base, Jim Bob or the group's Super Leader?

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I did not, but now I wish I did. That's a damn good suggestion.

At least we know a global Midnighter Club unlock has already been talked about, and that at least its being made easier to achieve on a per-character basis in Issue 23.

Nobody needs anything here. This is a video game after all.

But it would be nice to know at least a few days in advance. Some people have limited play time and need to set up advance schedules to do these things.

(Not that I'm personally one of them... I've probably put in nearly 200 hours of Staff Fighting badassness over the last two weeks. )