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Quote:Which is my original point. There is a chance that for the few minutes between deleting and remaking the character you could lose the name to somebody else.Originally Posted by Bramphousian
I ran into an issue last night doing this. I checked a name, it was available and reserved for me. When I went to enter Atlas, it said the name was unavailable. A /getglobalname afterwards confirmed this.
So, would be nice to have a "reroll" button.
And I agree about the event badges, that would be awesone. Also agree that any badges that affect the game should not be kept (accolades and such). -
I absolutely understand it can be done that way. I've done that myself. Just seems that what I described above is a simple enough way to avoid the hassel. The character creator already saves names as it is.
Certainly a QoL issue, not an OMG it is broke without it issue. -
I thought it would be nice if you could reroll a character without having to delete and then remake the character.
My thought is that next to the delete button on the character select screen there would be a reroll button.
When you click that button it would use the same protection that delete uses (type the character name).
The system would then delete your character, but keep the name saved while you go through the standard character creation screen.
At the end you would have a level 1 character standing in Galaxy, with the original name.
This would save the 1 in a gajillion chance of somebody taking your name between deleting and trying to remake the character.
I know it isn't much of a chance. But, why have any chance. -
Gah... so frustrating. Had the entire day off, could have been playing. Have a Parent Teacher conference to go to in 30 minutes. ;sigh...
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Mars Assault Rips Through Yellow-line
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Quote:I can't believe we got this far into the thread without someone mentioning Narsil.Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
Narsil and/or Glamdring should be on there.
For some new school flavor, I can't think of a cooler blade than Uther Doul's Probability Sword from China Mieville's The Scar. -
Quote:Yep. I see them everytime I do that mission. They are in a ring around crashed Oro.Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Has anyone ever actually seen Hamidon Tentacles in Ramiel's arc. I realize one of the artist put the tentacles in the concept art, but after 7 trips through that mission I've never seen any tentacles.
Can't attack them though. I have tried, just can't. -
I am following all of this except the Lady Grey he stuff? When was she a he?
I always thought she was the Lady of the Lake, the one that gave Arthur (and then Hero 1) the sword. Though I can't remember what ever made me think that. Being around 7 years some things are a bit foggy.
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Best Male: Hero 1 (He has an iconic look that just says who he is)
2nd place Male: Recluse (He looks like evil incarnate when you see him.)
2nd Place Female: Mirror Spirit (An amazing look that lets you know who she is just from a glance.) -
Ghost Widow most definately. Best thought out look, story, concept in general.
I agree that the Freedom Phalanx and their Praetorian counterparts and kind of meh... -
Quote:This looks good. It is an improvement. Make sure you include the costuem code with this suggestion.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I think one of my minor pet peeves of the game is that a number of NPCs look like they were homeless and/or strung out on drugs, or some such thing. I made her look more professional and kept the color scheme as close as I could with a quickie pass over. We only have three older faces so it's near impossible to go that direction. I at least didn't give her a more youthful haircut. I probably could go back and add in a grey blend into her hair though. The makeover is significant as is, but I did try to keep it within reason.
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How many VIP servers are there going to be? I thought just one. Virtue has always been the unofficial RP server. And as far as I am concerned always will be. I will not be moving.
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Hmm... I work 2 - 9 EST. ;sigh
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Quote:A thousand times yes. I do this all the time.Originally Posted by Vanden
A fairly simple idea: have a button that swaps the primary and secondary colors of the currently selected costume piece/power theme. If your primary is Black and your secondary is White, hit the button and in one click the primary is White and the secondary is Black.
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Quote:Love you Devs. Thank you so much.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Coyote is present in the new tutorial.
Thanks
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I do so hope the Devs find a way to keep him visible in the game some where. I have been around since beta, and this, to me, is a very important part of the game.
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I can't stand FREEM. I guess it wont go away, but I wish it would. It has nothing to do with CoH.
It is politics that made it's way into the game, a place it has no business being.
FREEM started on the Colbert Report.
"Take the do out of Freedom"
Yes, it is a comedy show. But it is a comedy show about politics. I come to CoH to get away from all that, not to be reminded of it.
I so very much wish FREEM would just die. -
I quit weeks ago. I haven't done a BAF or a Lambda in awhile. Just couldn't do it anymore. I have tier 2 of my Judgement, tier 1 of Interface. I'm at 70 something percent on Destiny and 16 percent on Lore.
I know others have done far more. But that was it for me.
Ironically enough I am still kind of grinding. I've been running Tip missions for recipe rolls, and AE missions for tickets to get salvage. Trying to get my first purple set.
Anyway, I guess a long winded way to say I agree with the OP. -
Quote:Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
I'd like it if they snagged the name system from Cryptics game.Quote:Originally Posted by DocArcus
After playing that game all I can say is this... No, no, no and NO. I play a hero not an email address.I can't begin to say how nice it is to log in create a character and get the exact name you want. I never saw two people with the same game in two different games I played that had that system.Quote:Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
You did know you could turn the @global part of the names off right?
At this point I've lost hope of this ever happening here. But I hope CoH2 has this system. I've never really heard a good reason not to.
There isn't anyone out there that cares about your reputation. If somebody attempts to grief there is a /petition service.
And, again. I never saw a problem with this. Never saw two people with the same name. (With one exception where it was intentional that everyone have the same name, which is another nice feature of the system.)
A thousand times this. What I hear from their datamining is few people were affected by the name purge. So why not do it then?Quote:Originally Posted by Jophiel
That's not really a reason not to do it though. "I can flip this switch and feed 1000 hungry people. Oops, turns out only 50 hungry people got fed... let's never flip that switch again."
Really, it says to me that they should cast a wider net when purging names. All trials expired for longer than 90 days would be a good start. Then perhaps a scaling purge of level vs time expired such as "Under level 20, expired for 1+ years", "Under level 25 expired for 2+ years", etc.
Blah, blah... "But I know a guy who knew a guy who was in the Congo saving orphans before going to war in the Middle East and then he had to train nuns in South Asia and he's only coming home next week and talks about playing his level 7 guy named FireGirl every day!" Something that has a few outlier cases shouldn't be a reason to avoid potentially benefiting a number of real, paying customers. I lost names in one of the purges because I wasn't subscribed at the time. You get over it remarkably quickly.
Finally, because someone always brings it up, name purges only "take away" the name if someone else asks for it post-purge. If no one asks for "Purple Debblebopper", then it stays happily with its original owners should they ever return from their Orphan/War/Nun-training journey.
Unused trial accounts should be the first. And then if no one has used a name in years then free that name up.
Exactly.Quote:Originally Posted by ModernMyth
If they haven't been playing for 5+ years, they've probably forgotten they even had those names in the first place, and trial accounts shouldn't be able to hold a name for more than a year if they don't upgrade.
Quote:Originally Posted by Zikar
Once again though, you're assuming all the "good names" are taken by people who would be eligible to release their names.No one is assuming anything. I'm betting there will be a lot of random named gold farm characters that will be a part of the "purge". These wont actually lose their names because who would take a random string of letters?Quote:Originally Posted by Jophiel
And if they're not? No harm, no foul. This isn't a good reason to not run a script.
But, none of us know what names will be included in a purge that gets all trial accounts over a year old. And I bet there are some iconic names in that.
I also don't see a problem with level 20 and under that hasn't been used in years. 2 years? 3? I agree with ModernMyth if they haven't used the name is years they have likely forgotten exactly what the name was anyway.
Oh well. You got me there. I would hate to upset a bunch of idiots. o.OQuote:Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Sure there is.
Every time this is done, it is prefaced by an announcement to all current and prior CoH customers explaining what is being done and when.
No matter how well worded, there will be a good percentage of the population that will misunderstand it and get alarmed by it. A great number of people are irrational idiots, and most of them have internet accounts. They will either post (and repost) incorrect information about it in their rants or they will call and complain.
Managing that takes up CSR time, and that costs the company money.
So, if you have a system that DID NOT meet its stated goals last time but did have a cost of CSR time, why WOULD you do it again?
Do you really have hard data on the cost of CSR service last time they did this? Or are you just supposing that happened?
Again, exactly so.Quote:Originally Posted by Jophiel
If the "risks" are CSR time to shoot out an email, accusations of potential nerd rage and some nebulous "There's always a risk" statements, consider me unimpressed at the supposed "harm".
I'm also unimpressed because the size of the net directly affects the benefits. Including all expired trial accounts past 90 days, for instance, opens a larger pool. Raising the level bar for longer expired accounts opens a larger pool. Having done it before using weak half-measures and not seeing a great response is, again, not a good reason to avoid doing it again.
All that said, someone(s) managed to grab some of my expired names last time. So however small that supposed pool was, you can't claim that no one benefited from it.
Wont happen. Didn't happen. Not while I was playing. I never saw two people with the same name. This is such a weak arguement it amazes me it comes up constantly.Quote:Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison
No. Absolutely not. I am the only Dechs Kaison, the only Soulburn Sands and the only Thompson Ninja out there. No one probably wants my names, and that's fine with me. But what about these "good" names people keep rambling on about?
How good is a name like Cyclops when you team with another Cyclops every other day?
I fully support the idea of releasing names of characters who are no longer in use on inactive accounts. I see absolutely no reason to allow multiple people to have the same name.
However, how many Flashes are there in DC comics? How many flashes have been in the same room at the same time? How do you tell them apart? How many Green Lanterns or Captain Americas are there?
How about something really Iconic like Batman or Superman? With Batman incorperated how many guys in Bat costumes named Batman are in the same place at once? I have an issue that has Bruce and Dick in bat costume on the same roof at the same time. So can't convince me that it isn't a part of the comic genre for it to happen. (Even though it in reality just plain doesn't, not in my experience anyway). -
The point of this encounter is to "touch" her twice. Then you get a badge. Sally is on a 30 minute ish timer. She appears in a number of places around the island in the lake. "touch" her twice and you will get a badge (as said above) called Believer.
She is supposed to be rare. It is like seeing Nessie (hence believer). -
Is there a tutorial or a break down of the recipies / salvage you need to do this?
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I like it a lot. I hate that on TFs and such if you aren't the team leader you have no idea what the story is. Some of the mission text can be found under the mission tab, but not all of it.
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This is fantastic. Works great so far.
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I listen to Pandora. I have quite a number of channels. The one I listen to the most is my Ennio Morricone station.
If I am at a Cape event I too listen to the Cape. -
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