Chaos Creator

Originally Posted by GreenLantern68

What she said. Hope you stay a while, check out the new purty lights.

And by "lights" I mean "OMG look at how busy the servers are with PLAAAAAAAYERS!"

I love it.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

After logging in after the patch, my hair doesn't move.

Originally Posted by Rubberlad

For the most part, I21/Freedom is lovely. Store works great, the new powersets impress and the made-over starter zones for AP and Mercy Island (give or take a few bugs) really makes the game feel new and wonderful. That said, my fellow VIP SG mates and I are starting to discover items we *used* to have that have either changed, had restrictions added, or have vanished completely. I suspect a lot of folks may have similar questions and concerns after having a good look around.

Here's the start to a semi-helpful player FAQ to explain just what happened to everything you used to have - and where you can find it now... Feel free to add/update the list as you discover new changes and/or discrepancies.




So far, I've noticed:


Veteran Reward Powers

- Mission Teleporter is now limited to 5 uses (used to be unlimited).
- Patrol XP is now labeled Experienced - the rate of use has been updated as well. (Note: This should not be confused for the XP Booster Temp Power that's available under the Email button/"Character Items" tab)
- Various Vet Reward powers have been relocated to the Email button and click on Account Items (for some reason, folks are aren't seeing or are overlooking the pop-up message that tells them where to go; might just be the player's error after being hit with so many visual changes upon log in).
- You can now "claim all" rewards rather than having to choose one reward at a time (lovely!).


Auras

- The "Wisp" aura has vanished (this was a reward for downloading the new NCUpdater in advance).
- The following pre-I21 auras that were available for free at one time must now be bought back (two of which I already have on pre-I21 characters): Electricity, Fireflies, Flies, Gaseous, Glow, Glowing Aura, Rocky Crumble, Smoky, Smoldering, Snow, Sparkles, Starburst Glow, Tendrils, Vaporous



Still looking through costumes for all genders trying to see what (if anything) has gone missing or is now marked "buy back" in the store.

Originally Posted by Captiosus

I still say making VIPs pay for a power sets is a slap in the face. .

Originally Posted by Dark One

Only 5 hours for the fricking 2.5gb download. Real cockup there with not having a predownload period.

Originally Posted by Plasma

Servers are "locked" but up, and this has revealed what appears to be a bug:

I can't scroll down the list of servers. (There are 2 at the bottom that don't fit in the list)

When I scroll down, as soon as I release the mouse it pops back up, making (on my screen) Justice and Exalted unclickable.

Originally Posted by Giant2005

I s it still efficient to level a Cebr Farmer beyond 22?
What I really mean to say is: do the bonuses gain from levelling (Purple and PVP Sets) outweigh the buffs offered by the sewers trial? (Boosts in damage, accuracy, recovery and defense).

Originally Posted by Madadh

If Energy Drain is losing the heal component, and getting a +def part... Then which power from the set is going away to make room for Energize?

Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself

The reason why they changds the clickable area, is that someone discovered that they could grief people going on the STF by putting one down over the sub entrance, making it nearly impossible to run the TF's missions. Trying to click on the sub took you to Oro instead. For a while, there were people keeping oro portals above that mission entrance nearly all the time. You could sometimes manage to click around it, but it wasn't easy to do.

Now that doesn't work anymore.

Originally Posted by Ukaserex

This is less a question, and more a plea for help.

This came up on a global channel I belong to, and I thought that perhaps some of you might know a better way.

Some have had the fortune of accruing multiple recipes worthy of crafting. Each one takes a minimum of three salvage, if memory serves. Some take more.

Now, as it stands, if I have two recipes that take Iron, when I select 1 piece of Iron from my storage bin, this changes the coloring of that ingredient in both recipes, even though I only picked up one.

I would scroll down, filling in the other things I need to craft, and invariably, I'm missing a piece of something, so I go to WW to buy it, or maybe AE to trade tickets for it.

Eventually, I find that I got most of what I needed but was missing that one piece of Iron or Steel, or something. Yet, if there was a way to total up all the different pieces of salvage needed for all the recipes, I think this would be a nice time saver.

So - are there any programs or tricks, tips, whatever, aside from just writing things down in notepad (or some other place) that are available for free use?


If not, can we ask the guy who does Mids to possibly integrate this with the already outstanding program? Or someone else?


Thanks for your time.

Originally Posted by TopDoc

Or you could roll up a Claws/Electric Brute (see my CEBR thread in the Brute forums), level it up to 50 on a new server in under 6 hours, and use a private SG there for all of your Salvage storage. That's what I do. I keep the Salvage Storage bases well stocked, and I can use patient bids for all of the Salvage to keep my costs down. In fact I have several Salvage Storage bases, 2 for high level stuff and 1 for mid level. With 18 storage bins holding 30 items each, I can hold 15 of all 36 different Salvage pieces in a level range. Then I store most of my crafted Enhancements in yet another base which is loaded with Enhancement storage bins (an old base with much more Prestige, because those Enhancement Storage bins are expensive). I never email Salvage anymore, I just sell the rare stuff and delete everything else. My process means 2 emails for every Recipe I want to craft and store, but I never even knew about the 150 limit so obviously I've never hit it.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

I will be in the office at 4 AM tomorrow morning...

At some point, I will probably fire up the Ustream...let's call it 5 AM ish? Maybe 6?

We'll post something later on today.