Commander

Wait it out. If any of your characters were deleted during the time your account was hijacked (as in recently), they have the ability to restore deleted characters from a backup file they keep. It's not guaranteed they will restore deleted characters, but it's a possibility.

The AV Dr. Aeon is the one from the STF that needs the temp power to kill him. I think he was supposed to have been removed since the only way to get the temp power is to run the STF, quit, then play the arc.

Maybe you can make the Dr. Aeon EB have more ambushes spawn at 3/4th, 1/2, and 1/4th health marks? That, or choose allies that are not as high level as he is, that it make it more of a challenge to kill him.

Sorry, I haven't sifted through the entire thread because I'm too tired at the moment.

But to let the OP know, Dev's Choice can be granted to someone on live even if they already received Dev's Choice on a previous arc. No one is disqualified, from what I was told, from obtaining the DC twice. I asked a Dev if making Dev's Choice would limit the amount of stories that a person could make, so that others have a chance at making DC. I was told, "There will be no limits placed on the amount of Dev's Choice a person can earn. Why would we stop anyone from making the game better?"

That being said, I was also told that only a few arcs were carried over as a starter... so players would be given a range of different things available. Now, I'm far from knowing the criteria, but maybe some of the arcs given Dev's Choice on test were too similar in some way to another arc? Maybe they didn't want people to play the same sort of mission and think "Well, if that's all that's available, what's the point of using the system? I mean, all of these DC arcs are rescues filled with AV after AV, why flood the system with the same mission over and over?"

It could be why, then again, it might not.

Nope. Only actual rewards (enhancements, recipes, etc.) are for Dev's Choice.

The only way that a HoF arc can get real rewards is if it's also a Dev's Choice, which I'm not sure if having both on one arc is still possible.

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Also missing from the patch notes:

The ability to delete empowerment buffs has been removed.



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To quote Andra: "OMG!"

I have been the biggest "fan boy" of CoH for years. But there is WAY TOO MANY CHANGES going through, onto live, WITH NO NOTICE to the players. Even if players didn't use empowerments to craft, there is NO reason for a deletable power to no longer be deletable!

I've been calling Issue 13: Unlucky Thirteen for the past couple of weeks, and it holds especially true since the last patch.

What does it serve to the developers to just pull things left and right? What does it serve the players to get no notice on over 10 (as I count right now) major changes that affect playablility?

To me I don't see a City of Heroes anymore. I see a City of Disorder, and I hope like heck this gets changed!

/rant

How about their fists are clenched because they know what they did was wrong? >.>

Subjective:

The repetition does get annoying with the same Baby New Year grinding as well as the present opening.

I would like to suggest, for the future Winter Events: a Winter Task/Strike Force; open to all heroes and villains (even a level restriction would be okay, as long as there were different versions of the TF/SF that is level specific).

10-15 missions, even throwing in the "Rescue Baby New Year" mission as the first mission, then expanding the story and running the full year via Ouroboros Time Travel. This way you can do different missions revolving around Baby New Year that run "through the year" that ends with choosing the next Baby New Year.

Award Candy Canes in place of Merits (say 140 for TF/SF completion; enough to buy the Winter's Gift IO set) and you've got something that can be nailed with the "WIN" stamp. :P

P.S.: Even add a "Master of the Winter Lord's Task Force" badge for completing with zero deaths and no temp powers

Excellent news!

*runs out to buy a Mac*

Have accounts already been reactivated, or does it start this Friday?

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Arachnos Commander
Global Contact: @Arachnos Commander
Level of Classification: Threat Level 50, Mastermind
Origin: Natural
Super Rank & Super Group: Command Leader, Arachnos Elite


Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Vanguard Commander
Global Contact: @Arachnos Commander
evel of Classification: Threat Level 50, Stalker
Origin: Natural
Super Rank & Super Group: Commander, Vanguard Elite


Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Kerse
Global Contact: @Arachnos Commander
Level of Classification: Security Level 50, Tank
Origin: Magic
Super Rank & Super Group: Command Lead, Code Dread

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I take it,all of the future costume additions will only be available through these micro-transaction "booster" packs,no?
I guess, it's just a matter of time till we they start charging us for new power pools as well.

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Considering that they give us new costume pieces and ways to unlock them each issue, the paid Booster sets are ways to deliver more costume options without having to wait 4-7 months between each issue.

And if they can offer more power pools between issues, I'd fork over another $9.99

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This is exactly the kind of game that City of Heroes has rallied to not be in the past.

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"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - Author Unknown

Tony, if you read Lighthouse's post, the $4.99 is an offset to the cost of the monthly gamecard that offers the item.

If they wanted to "nickle and dime" they would tell anyone that already pre-ordered a year or more that they'd have to pay an extra $14.99 a month which included more gametime, even if they didn't need it.

The Jetpack isn't manditory. No one is twisting your arm, saying that the only way to get temp flight powers is by purchasing it. As pointed out, people can run the storyarchs over and over through Ouroboros to earn a timed one.

I have no problem with paying for a "temp power" that frees up two powers (fly and hover). You may see it as a waste of money but I see it as adding two more damage dealing powers to my tanker.

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You can make a master account from anywhere, you can make a purchase (as far as I can tell) from anywhere, so why the use of a third party?

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A lot of companies, NCsoft included, have IP address blocks on their products for sale if they fall out of their legal selling jurisdiction. So countries like Brazil will get an error message saying that the products are not available to them.

Sophism,

NCsoft, most likely, has their hands tied on this issue. I'm almost certain that them selling through 3rd parties for places like Brazil was the only way they could sell their product due to international laws.

It's not like I could say, "Hmm.. I'd like to sell hamburgers in Brazil" and be able to pack up things, move there, and just sell them.

Some countries are not willing to take foreign companies in since they don't want their market dominated by companies making a profit, physically, off their countries soil.

I assume this case is no different. If NCsoft wanted to sell their items and take in a profit, minus the taxes of Brazil, they would physically have to set up offices there, costing them hundreds of thousands/millions. If the playerbase, internationally, doesn't make up the lost revenue, the chances of them doing anything BUT selling through a 3rd Party is slim to none.

I've never used LevelUp or heard of their service, but they could be the problem too. They might be the ones not willing to go the extra step and allow additional purchases because it might be too much effort and not worth the cost.

Have you written to LevelUp about this? If not, I'd suggest it.

Just because NCsoft supplies the product, 3rd party resellers are under no obligation to sell them. It's like when a CD is released and store like Walmart won't sell them because they object to something about the product.

Yeah, write to levelup and make your voice heard to them as well.

I'm impressed with the Cyborg Booster pack. But, one thing I did not see was an actual "Chest" piece for any of the chest styles except for Chest Detail. Just seems that none of the tops match anything close to the Cyborg Pants.

Did you ask someone at Target? Because I found them in an ODD place at the Targets in my area.

The weren't hung up on any endcap like normal Timecards would be. They were stacked on a shelf with a ton of other types of game cards, between the Music and Video sections.

I like the idea, but I too would like some way to purchase game time via PayPal. Codes for extras are great, but the people that don't have a "credit card" won't have a need to purchase addon's since they can't pay to actually play the game via Paypal.

http://www.arachnoselite.com/media/c...ser_poster.jpg

Uber Congrats! Can't wait to see more from the "This American Hero" series

Exotica - Neener neener neener

Andra - Next time I'll leave ya a bit longer in there. That'll teach ya for dancing on mah tombstones!

SteelDominion - The original color scheme of the base was red tinted, just after a year it got on my nerves. I gradually replaced the red tinting to white light because it was easier on the eyes for everyone. Had to take into consideration those that have difficulty seeing the color red.

Project_M - Autonomous expert system will be added in the next incarnation of the base when I upgrade that room size to hold more stadium seating. Sadly I wasn't thinking of that when I made the room. It's only a decorative room and not a functional one, so that room will slowly be replaced over the next month.

Nice! 12 months to go :/

*sniffles*

Floor torches

I listed this in the "Post Your Sexy Base Pics" thread, but thought that it might be better suited for this forum:

After giving in, I decided to show off the Arachnos Elite's base. After taking screenies of it, I decided that they didn't best capture the base as a whole.

So, may I present to you, in DivX video format.. the Arachnos Elite's base! (Virtue Server, to avoid any confusion.)

http://www.arachnoselite.com/tour/
Video is 6 minutes long. Hope you enjoy.

(DivX codec must be installed on your comp to view it. I chose this format since it best preserves the quality of the original video.)

*Note* In the war room I accidentally mis-typed the amount of seats in the room. It should be listed as 100+, not 1000+.

**For those of you that don't want to download the DivX Codec to view the high quality version of this video, a lower quality version of the video can be found here - http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...7797&hl=en **

While I'm at it, here are pics of my "neutral" group, the Vanguard Elite (also of the Virtue Server.) Although it's small, due to having a smaller roster, i'm rather impressed with how it's turning out. Will be adding more to it soon.

View from the entrance, into the Teleport Bay

View of the Med Bay

View of the Teleport bay, into the Control Room

View of the Meeting Room

View of the Teleport Bay, into the Meeting Room