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Didn't take long for people to start complaining, lol!

I think they're brilliant. And unlike what some other people said, no this wouldn't keep me from pre-ordering other expansions if you all ever did that again!

I'm sure at some point you're going to offer the VIP/Destined One badge and Prestige Power Slide power as a vet reward (which I think would be spiffy, even though I already have those!), and then the same old gang of complainers is going to, well... complain!

Some people aren't happy unless they got something to complain about, I guess!

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And some people aren't happy unless they are complaining about peple who think this is a raw deal.

Brown Nosing Much?

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57 month reward will be choice between all the origin powers! WooHoo!

Seriously, with SOOO many possiblities already in game, why in the world would they do this? Did they seriously not realize that the general player population would be disappointed/disgusted with such a blatant recycling of content? Little things like this show laziness and disregard for the overall quality of the game. There are probably 50-60 options already existing in game that they could have used, from Boxing to Longsword to a Market TP. Re using the existing vet powers is extremely lame.

For thiose that wanna say quit complaining it is free stuff, I say....

1. It isn't free. $15 a month for 54 months is $810. I think we can expect better.

2. If they aren't going to put the effort in, they should have never made Vet rewards in the first place.

3. If I put a pink bow on some dog poo and leave it on your door step, don't complain....it was free and I didn't have to give you anything.

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Very Well Stated. And for those who are satisfied with the Level 51-54 Rewards then SHUT UP already. You have what makes you happy. The rest of us feel Insulted.

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The pictures on the 54 month page of the Blackwand look wrong. They look like the pictures from when the power first came out and it resembled the temp power for killing Ghosts in Croatoa. The Blackwand in-game now is a black trident-looking staff with purple/black swirling.

And in a few months I can have BOTH the Nemesis staff AND the Blackwand on the same character? WOW.

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Yes... you too will have THREE attack powers that MISS more than HALF the time and for which you don't have room on your power tray for anyway!!

You can start celebrating now.

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Id like to finally be able to get the Power Slide !!!!

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IIRC, that's from the collector's edition, and if so, won't happen.

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So... it being from the Collector's Edition makes it off-limits? Then how come the Arachnos Helms can be retread and the Attacks can be re-treads?

What a Let Down.

I actually looked forward to having something different after playing for 51-54 months.

I would have loved to see choices of the following even if they did minimal damage but just for Costume Completeness.

!) Iron Blade
2) Bow and Arrow
3) Crey Cryo Pistol
4) Bean Bag Gun
5) EMP Glove

Even being re-treads at least they would be something that would add to your character's concept.

I would have been over joyed to recieve the following options.

1) Base NPC Butler
2) Base NPC Scientist
3) Base NPC Wizard
4) Base NPC Cleric
5) Base NPC Men in Black
6) Base NPC Ghost

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Hopefully, the helmets will be male and female.

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No.. Only the Widow helm is available for females.

Also, I'm a little disappointed the vet rewards are starting to be recycled. I'm surprised they didn't let you choose one of 2 other temp powers given out - like the holy shotgun or the bow & arrow from Croatoa...

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THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER, IMHO.

I am truely disgusted to learn that the 51 and 54 month Vet Rewards are simply a rehash of what i already have. Are the Devs so totally out of ideas that we have to have rewards that are 2 years old??

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You apparently missed Castle's and Ex's posts, but they are working on bases. Try and keep up ok?

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They are working on COP too.

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Well, Geeze... forgive us for having a life and doing more than crawl these forums and posting insulting remarks. I didnt sign up to this game for 4 years now to spend half my time reading the forum searching for some sign that a Dev is listening. Forgive me for expecting a reply to be on a DEV ORIGIBATED post whose topic is Bases.

Maybe you could try giving some constructive remarks about the Bases and what you know rather than belittling those who put in some effort to give their suggestions??

There sure is alot of negativity coming from the Brown Nosers lately.

When are we going to see some changes to the darn BASES?!

It would be one thing if they weren't buggy as heck in the first place or had enough decorations to build something novel and decent.

How long are the cries for some work on the Bases going to be ignored?

4 Year Veteran but getting tired and fustrated.

I like the Rikti Invasions but there needs to be something different besides the old Bomb Runs and then gather 'round for the Invasion beam-ins. There should be some purpose behind the RIKTI besides just random attacks.

The Rikti need to beam in and march toward an objective - destroying that objective if the marching troops aren't stopped, for instance.

Another Scenario would be a Rikti General trying to set up a base camp and the Heroes trying to fight thru his perimeter to get to him.

Lastly, lets see some consequences of the Rikti Invasion. Destroyed Buildings. Disruption of Traffic. Holes in the Road. Lets see some evidence wether the Heroes are protecting their city or not.

Make it a point of PRIDE wether we can keep beloved Paragon City safe from the Invading Hoards! Make it an event where people Rally 'Round the Flag to defeat the Monsterous Heathen and not just shrug and yawn.

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I guess I still don't get the whole Event Channel thing.

There is a half purple, half translucent Hero Event Channel, that is not the event channel. I added that and got the messages, but often didn't notice it because it is hard to read and doesn't stand out.

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Putting the Alerts in a different tab just makes them that much easier to miss. I EDITED each of my Heroes's Lower Chat Box to include the Event Alerts. The Chat Box they appear by default is the Broadcast channel and that tab has too much traffic - you can easily overlook them there.


I wish they hadnt changed the color of the alerts to purple. I am too used to overlooking Purple NPC dislogue in the heat of battle.

I am a little disappointed in the number of Bombs I am finding during the Invasions. I rush to the zone and wait and wait and wait, scanning the skies for Drop Ships. Once I find where the bombs are landing I rush around trying to get to them before they explode.

Tonight I was able to destroy ONE Bomb before the Rikti started teleporting in.

Also.... there needs to be some changes made/ The same thing over and over and over again just gets boring and tiresome. Give the Rikti some goals. Have them attack certain targets in each zone and have the zone reflect the destruction for a few days. Make the Rikti attacks MEANINGFUL. Everything in too well scripted now. Give the Rikti some objectives and make us GUESS what they are up to.

Still no joy for the Base?! When are we gonna get some of the pronlems addressed with the current Base system and when are we gonna get some new decorations?!

Bases should be an intregal part of the game and yet over and over they are ignored and we are left with a very buggy design with limited options.

Give us the ability to have BASE NPC Butlers and Bartenders! Take away the useless Hologram Pets and give us something we want.

1) I dislike the new Hover animation - too much of the outstretched arms and slow hover.

2) I love the idea of the Event Messages but they need to be a different color than NPC CHAT and they need to be in the Lower Chat Window. Better yet - Alerts need to be in a fixed position at the top of the screen.

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There are SG bases?

[/ QUOTE ] Cute. Truthfully, there are many, many reasons to go to a base like my SG's when you die. 1. Once you appear at 25% health, /bug the rez circle/reclamator. 2. Refill your insps at the bins or at the Autodoc/Tree of Wonders. 3. Go to the Empowerment Station and take a few powers to help you win that battle you just lost.

There are also reasons to use the base besides as a rez point. We have porters to every zone. We have a Pillar of Ice and Flame in the base. (It's a Control item, so look for it there.) We have an Invention Room with 2 worktables and a vault. We have a lot of Halloween salvage to let new toons get their 2nd costume slot immediately. It's a safe place to park your toon when you are going AFK for dinner so you don't auto-log.

I just want it to work the way it's supposed to! (Robo-surgery should attach to the Reclamator, and our SG Logo (and a few others) should appear on the banners, floorplates, podiums, etc.)

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2ND!!! /sighned!!

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1) Number of Storage Containers in the base don't increase from basic base to the next larger one?!

2) Can't set Individual Security levels for Storage? New Members eithr have NO access or TOTAL access.

3) We cant sort the items in storage? Fining what we want thru the hundreds of items is fustrating!

4) Data on who put what in vanishes after a couple weeks?!

5) Alot of the neat items are so large they are just about unusable!!

6) Add plot size needed as well as Prestige needed to a item's details!!

7) Editing the base is HELL... it takes 4 hours to do what should only take 1 hour since some items you can only move and not deleate without losuing the prestige needed to construct them!! ( A Holding area for these items would be a good fix )

8) When you upgrade the size of several of the rooms, the number of devices the rooms can hold do not increase!!

9) We need more and different sized rooms so we aren't stuck with unused space in our designs.

10) Signs or Mouseover details are needed for STORAGE so we can describe who has access and what the items are for. We also need mouseover info for the Veteran Reward Trophies!!

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Ok, Lighthouse, that all sounds cool and I am looking forward to it all. The xp smoothing sounds cool. I'm really looking forward to City Vault so I can show some friends that don't play CoX what my toons look like and such. Maybe get some new players?

My biggest wish for 2008? Publically acknowlege that you have a base system in the game, admit that it is borked as hell, and start seriously fixing it. I know you all mentioned a bit about this, but let's see some timeline and what kinds of things you are planning to do. Sooner is better than later.

Otherwise, keep up the great work.

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Some acknowledgement that Basesd exist and someone, somewhere is working on them would be very nice.

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to many of the folliwing

"soons!"
"coming down the roads"
" being worked on"
"maybe next week"
"not passing q.a"


although this is all great news...not one thing about bases....again!

why can you ctell us whats going on for the year but cant address players about whats going on with bases?.

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Bases! bases! We need some attention paid to BASES!!!

I am VERY disappointed that there was no mention of fixing some of the bugs when dealing with BASES and adding some much needed work to BASES. What do we have to do before anyone pays a little attention to BASES?!

Have you been in Atlas lately? Its alrwady going on. One recruitment Broadcast and Request after another.

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This whole Debt Badge thing disturbs me. I try to avoid getting debt but some yahoos play all the time like debt doesnt matter. Why do you have to encourage this behavior?

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For villains, debt badge #4 is tied to a critical accolade. Some villain players want that extra 10% to their toons' health.

Also if some people like to plow in and get debt, so what? Once your toon is level 50 debt becomes irrelevant anyway.

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As for the prestige Bonus, I appreciate the chance to upgrade our base a bit but I see a period of time where everyone and anyone is going to be hounded to death to join Super Groups and the Channels will be full of people Spamming advertisements for people to join their Super Groups.

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The hounding and spamming has already started in some cases, but then thats what the ignore function is for. If people want to cash in to bulk up their base, let em.

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So it doesnt bother you that you have to do without access to those channels? That you be overloeaded with Spam E-Mail and that you'll have to get rid of your Chat Boxes also to not be interrrupted by all the Tellls you will be getting?

Hmmm... wanna tell me what "Ignore" function you speak of that will do all that? Also, do you really intend to IGNORE players who are being forced to Adverstise their Super Groups if they want to Cash In!!?

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This whole Debt Badge thing disturbs me. I try to avoid getting debt but some yahoos play all the time like debt doesnt matter. Why do you have to encourage this behavior?

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Why does it matter to you if I want to have debt to get a badge?

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Because it rewards Sloth, Stupidity and Poor Tactics. Nuff Said?

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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement:

Announcing the details of the next free expansion coming to City of Heroes, Issue 11: "A Stitch In Time"

Features include:
<ul type="square">[*] Ouroboros System: Gain the ability to "Flashback" and travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City and the rogue Isles.
[*] Weapon Customization: Players will be able to change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts!
[*] Two New Power Sets: The City of… universe expands with two new amazing power sets: Dual Blades and Willpower!
[*] New Inventions: Issue 11 brings with it new invention sets including “Very Rare” Purple sets, as well as brand new invention sets for Taunt, Buff and Debuff powers, among others.[/list]
For all the details, please visit the Issue 11 Feature Page

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Will there be any additions to the Base in Issue 11? We really need some work done on Bases.

This whole Debt Badge thing disturbs me. I try to avoid getting debt but some yahoos play all the time like debt doesnt matter. Why do you have to encourage this behavior?

It makes no sense. You get badges for getting debt but most buffing gets you nada. How lame is that?

As for the prestige Bonus, I appreciate the chance to upgrade our base a bit but I see a period of time where everyone and anyone is going to be hounded to death to join Super Groups and the Channels will be full of people Spamming advertisements for people to join their Super Groups.

There are too many players already who run around bragging about how much debt they have. A Few minutes playing with them and you realize why they have so much debt. A few more minutes playing with them and their utter lack of Tactic or Common Sense get you debt also.

Some of us Players ROLEPLAY our characters and DO NOT get alot of Debt. We are PROUD of the fact that we dont get Debt. Again, we are ignored and slighted. Rewards to the dumbest and most careless players.

Yeah, I'll just keep muttering "Its a reward, be happy."

The only Costumes I saw were ones from the Villain Mobs when I checked it out on test. There were no Big-Name Character costumes but then, I only received about 20 different costumes.

I did not receive any of the EVENT Salvage (Back Ally Brawler Gloves, Statesman's mask, etc) during this time but assumed that was just because it was so rare. I certainly hope they still give this out as a treat!!

I was disappointed already that they didnt hand out any EVENT SALVAGE for the INVASION EVENT.

How about an Accolade for the 200 and 400 Badge mark? I like to get badges but am getting very tired of hearing other players denigrate badges even to the point of being unwilling to participate in a badge mission unless it helps toward their Power Leveling.

Will we get some relief from Leaders not being able to be demoted?

Our SG has elections to determine who is Leader. In the past we have asked the old Leaders to quit after they promoted the new Leaders and then they were re-invited.

Now, with Prestige as a factor, we can not remove anyone from teh SG or all the Prestige they have earned will be lost.

Please Allow a Leader the Ability to pass on Leadership and demote himself.