Doxis

I'd like to keep my account active and play it every now and then but im finding im playing a lot LESS then I used to, and issue 14 holds nothing of interest for me...

I'd like to pay on an hourly charge as apposed to a flat rate...

$0.25 per hour I think is a fair price. Would allow for people that play less then 2 hours per day or less to save some money and not want to cancle the account...

The video is good DONT GET ME WRONG... but it's not TV worthy. It would need actual dialog not just music in the background. It's my only critique. Beyond that great video!

I'm unbelievably surprised that people are willing to pay... for nothingness. yeah ok fine... costume pieces... that do nothing, but maybe make you look a little different. But ultimately it is of no real benefit. Although...... now that I think about it, if it helps you win costume contests... some of those have a pretty good pot... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. But beyond that I just dont get it. Why pay for this stuff?

I am not calling anyone down at all for doing this! I am genuinely curious, what are you motivations to paying money for this?

Even the little "power" you get, has a chance to DEBUFF??? NO THANKS! *puts $10 firmly in wallet*

Meh, it'll be a vet reward in 6 months, why pay $10 for it now.

it says to contact support to settle problems...

My main villain had gone mostly inactive and my VG mostly disbanded, but our base has... everything. We were quite a powerful VG when we were active. However, while I was inactive it "auto-demoted" me and the last remaining somewhat active person in the SG has been in the "leadership" spot ever since. I NEVER see him online when I'm online, it seems he logs in once a day to maintain his leadership status, but doesn't do anything with the group. No recruiting, no events, he doesn't even change the "Message of the day". The base is basically his personal suit and there's nothing I can do about it. I have sent him multiple emails requesting I be re-promoted back to the "leader" position now that I have time to invest in the VG but I never get a reply, and I dont want to start a new VG because I worked SO HARD on the base and VG that currently exists. My join date and prestige earned in the VG far exceeds his, and I am the rightful leader of the VG. I dont have his global name so I can't messege him that way. I dont think he would be opposed to granting me "leadership status" again, nor have an issue with me being the "super leader" (I dont think). More then anything it's just a matter of us NEVER being online at the same time, and it has been this way for months.

Is this the kind of thing I would contact support on?

I called a friend over to help me eat the crazy pizza. When he got there he was wearing a pink tu-tu! And then...

it's kinda odd to see "church" and hear his voice as a real person. I'm just waiting for donut to show up and get backhanded.

The video was lame and unfunny. I can see how some people might find that kind of humor funny. I like the mac adds, because well... machinima work with this kind of humor. Live action (in my opinion) does not. To the video I say "boo" to i14 I say "yawn". I hope i15 is close behind with something worth playing.

being a 51 month vet, i wouldn't care if people baught the rewards, the only ones worth having are...

sands of mu / ghost slaying axe
blackwand / nam staff
Port team
base teleport
and the respec rewards

as for the...

costume peices,
free tailor tokens,
base items,
vet pets,
discount tailor card
opening teir 3 at level 6
5 merits?
prestige sprints

garbage filler junk that is mostly pointless

the only power I could see people skipping out of and going "stright" for a tier 3 power would be for the NON combat power pools.

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personally to me it just sounds like they are running out of ideas. 50% off? pointless. 5 merits? again pointless. and even if you can get fly, ss, tp, or SUPERJUMP(superleap?) at lvl 6, thats pretty pointless. and also damaging to their own greed machine, the new time cards w the flight pack. yep all sounds lazy to me. heck in i14 we have to design our own missions. cool concept, but reading between the lines it sounds highly like "we have no more ideas so let the players think we are doing something good for them when in reality we are asking them to do our jobs for us."

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agree with all

Dark_Respite your vids rock too, I LOOOOOVE your rikti raid video.

I would like the developers to research how much it would cost to get air time for these CoX commercials on Spike TV. Then setup a donations web site on pay-pal, or create a special costume peace for sale or something where all monies made from the sale go toward paying for air time commercials for these ads. They are THAT good, I'd put in $10 bucks for it. I'll go buy my copy of mac add on stuff later this week.

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So, 2 questions..

When do we get Moving mouths for our characters..

And Which one was Mac, and which one was PC? lol

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We will never get moving mouths for our characters.

The mac is clearly the Villain for the following reasons.

Villains side is more intelegently designed easier to navigate, faster and more innovative is much more pretty and yet it is grossly under populated.

The hero is very much the PC, his voice could be modified as it's not proprietary, and is quick to point out how the villain is just like every other villain out there no customization with their laughs etc.

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So has anyone confirmed if the mission teleporter is affected by +recharge (SB, AM, etc...)?


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still waiting on anyone to answer this question

yes fantastic your idea of winning the game is " x " mine is " y " someone elses is " z ". That's not the point, at least not the one I'm trying to make.

My point - IF you are goal driven for whatever goal people want to obtain, this is a lose/lose situation. If you just log in, play for a bit chat for a bit, then yeah the devs could throw in a chicken farm badge and you would be just dandy happy for it.

For those that play with a goal in mind (not necisarily "to win") but badgers badge, XPers power level, PvPers PvP, and build their characters as such.

Lose / Lose for...
Badgers, 1 year is to long to wait for "all" the badges (per character) if i have 12 characters on a server... that's 12 years of offline play collectively GRANTED you CAN do all 12 characters at one time BUT - then you wouldn't ever be playing the game just paying for "these" badges... - argument against this point is... badgers must accept that they will never have "all" the badges. Which I am personally OK with, because I'm not a badger so dont care. But... it DOES upset other people.

XPers, I'm sure they love the offline bonus XP, I'm not sure of the ratio of how long you need to be offline to get the 10 bars of 2x xp. whatever it is, rest assured I will be cycling through my alts on that rotation.


you know what, i have this whole rant played out in my head and a WHOLE BUNCH of stuff to say about why I DO like this system but i'd perfer to see it implimented a bit different... i dont have the energy to sit here and type it all out so I'm just goign to say this...

I think it's fair to literally "HALF" the time of the badge requirment goals and power recharges. For those of us who dont have 27 alts on 3 different servers. That like to play a main character to 50 before really working on the next.

but if it can't (or wont) be done that way, it's just another peace of "content" that has been added to the game that doesn't ADD anything to the game for ME PERSONALLY.


*sigh*

to sum up the most important part of my oppinion, the idea of rewarding people for being offline just sucks and I dont like it. Unless it's a quick and dirty reward that is 1 of two things.
1. Good enough to be usefull and you keep it forever once obtained. (like the vet attack powers)
2. Crappy enough that it doesn't matter if you have it or not. (like vet pets)

if anyone ever has a "reason" to log out or keep a character they personally find more fun to play or just in the mood to play but they are farming a job... well then that's exactly what they are...

City of Farmers...
They farm online and offline

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Did you guys ever hear of the game called "Eath and Beyond" probably not, and that's exactly my point! They had an "offline reward system" they lasted less then a year (i think) maybe less then two for sure!


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Ever hear of the game "World of Warcraft"? They have an offline reward system, and seem to be doing fine

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with 8 million subs, yeah it's not going anywhere... but PlayNC isn't Blizzard and City of Heroes isn't Warcraft

apples to oranges, which I guess i did the same thing too but where at least in my scenario - i didn't compare a game with 8 million players to one that had less then 200,000

let me break down the simple math, in a game with 8 million subs, if even 75% of people were offline, you still have 2 million people playing... which is ten times MORE then if every single CoH player was online. So yeah genius, they can afford to have an offline reward system.

Another thing.... just keep all your toons logged off for 3 days... call your contact or whatever, drop your missoin and get double xp! lol

I said it before and I'll say it again, rewarding players for being offline brings with it all kinds of SUCK. Especially when you need to beoffline for like a year in total PER CHARACTER.

To quoat SYNDROME! from "The Incredables"

lame Lame LaMe LaME LAME LAME!

Did you guys ever hear of the game called "Eath and Beyond" probably not, and that's exactly my point! They had an "offline reward system" they lasted less then a year (i think) maybe less then two for sure!

Anyway, I guess *more* is always "better" but I can't help but COMPLAIN at the fact that this "new system" probably took them hundreds if not thousands of colective working hours to accomplish, and yet they still have yet to finish working on the Items of Power "content" they promised ON THE GAME BOX OF CoV OVER 2 YEARS AGO!

How about rikti raids on SG/VG bases?

*sigh* who cares. getting bored of rikti invasions... could they at least get a new weapon or something... maybe send a giant monster after us?

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I'm amazed that some SGs are allowed to still hold on to the IoP they obtained during that one week window ages ago.

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they took them away a long time ago, i dont think any sg's / vg's still have them. it would be super awsome if they DID and people had to raid to get them for their own sg/vg. let them keep it and once every 3 or 6 months bring the trial back

Bring IoP's that dont just buff then SG/VG, but do other cool effects like...

Teleport to any (x, y) location of any zone
Grant Yellow or Orange tag lines like how the devs sometimes grant during events
Grant "chance for Negative/energy/phyonic/lethal dammage" much like IO's do.
Grant status protection is still good
Increase prestige metric
Increase infamy metric
Increase XP metric
Grant Stamina

There are LOTS of things IoP's could do that would make having an awsome VG/SG would benefit from.

So, any chance IoP's make it in to issue 12?

I will also be getting 5 or 6 slots up i12 live.... and am absolutly exstatic about this.. truly and totally wonderfully happy! I am especially excited for issue 12. Honestly truly happy.

The reson im so friggen happy? Is because I was slightly dissapointed with the past 3 releases... All we need is IoP's back and a good structured ladder system for base raids, and I'll be as happy as kitten!

if it's true, i hope there's a way to disable it
if it's an april fools joke then LOL!