Egos_Shadow

I've used a full six slots of Performance Shifter at times to help softcap.

Normally it's 3 DO/SO/IOs unless I really need endurance, in which case I 4-slot the +End proc. At high levels it's 2 IOs (a 3rd level 50 IO doesn't really provide significantly more end) and the +End. If I get a Performance Shifter Endurance Mod as a drop or something I'll replace one of the generic IOs with it because hey, free movement buff.

Got down as low as $4, shipping included, around Christmas. Some retailer must have been vomiting them up.

Well, that's always the trick isn't it, when law and good are in opposition. It's incredibly easy for even basically good people to rationalize away evil actions because they prioritize obedience to the law over doing good, or because overthrowing the law would cause significant short-term pain to society.

This is probably an argument for expecting levelling pacts back, actually, sooner rather than later - but as a VIP only feature, since it's something that already exists but can be counted as value-add to induce people to pay for VIP.

Technically there's 3 states that you could be in:

1) Don't own it, must be purchased to use (Holiday pack, extra costume slots, etc)
2) Own it, but only because you're a VIP (Signature Story Arcs, Alignment content)
3) Own it outright because you purchased it on the market/got it from a serial code

Plus there's all the various ways you might have unlocked something...

So while I agree that the market not knowing what you own is kind of amateur hour, I do appreciate why it is probably a pain in the rear to code it, particularly with all the legacy, pre-market unlocking stuff they have to track. It's not "would be nice" though, it's "this feature is not complete until".

If they manage to earn Astral/Emp merits they'd have to spend them through the Incarnate Powers tab. You could still convert them into iSalvage for powers. I'm not sure I would really classify that as useless.

Well, to an extent, you could say that City's existing engine is the game. "Swapping it out" would be like replacing a wood frame house's structure with a steel frame while the house is still standing.

Yeah maybe I'm just (mis?)remembering some civilian chatter about AE overheard in Praetoria.

Don't they also have AE in Praetoria?

You know, a 30-50 set of AE arcs for Praetorians who refuse to go Primal would be an interesting experiment.

Couldn't you also just spend astral merits to mail yourself an unlock token, too?

Hasten makes things so much easier getting to the magic numbers that I can't imagine not using it for perma-dom. You only need to add one more slot to it anyway, with level 50 IOs.

None of the alphas will buff Domination's recharge, so it's pretty much whatever you feel like there.

Well, to be fair, he fills the Superman role for the City universe, and is therefore intensely inconvenient to everyone who prefers stories about characters who are not Superman. In this role he is working as intended. You can't have Superman hanging around and not have it come up fairly often in the story. Which might be partly why they're offing him.

Yeah, I was lucky enough (it wasn't planned) to have my next Praetorian alt after FW's release be /Willpower, so that's what I ran First Ward with.

My favorable impression might have been a lot different if not for /LOLpower.

It does seem like with a real AI revamp you'd have to redo a lot of the maps, or at least the spawn placement. That's something that you'd kind of have to do a pass through the entire content base on, unless you restrict the advanced AI to certain areas.

I have to admit, a lot of my trepidation about CoH 2.0 comes from playing the Certain Other game and hearing about our Distinguised Competition. I'm not sure the ill humors which suffused the development community (particularly console-itis) have fully run their course, and might manifest themselves again in any CoH revamp.

It depends on wether you see "CoH 2.0" as a major effort to revamp the current game engine, or in terms of introducing a new game with some continuity of lore. The former is totally supportable by that logic, sure. The latter is a bigger gamble. I can't imagine that they would run the two games side by side which means they'd have to accept the loss of some current subscribers (I'm saying this as a software developer who has run into this in several situations - you will lose people in that situation simply because being 'forced' to change fills some people with inchoate rage; some people will not migrate versions even when the billing is the same and the new version is objectively superior, much less when either of those factors is different) in exchange for rolling the dice that they can tap a larger market with a new game.

Yeah, that neck seam bugs me sometimes. My favorite part of the recent new costume packs was that it gave us new things to put over the neck seam!

I use the Reaper detail more often than the spiked collar to cover the seam, but that does cut down on your available hair choices.

Really I'd almost like a "neck" costume area seperate from Shoulders so that you can cover the neck seam and still use the other shoulder details.

I don't think you can avoid the immediate payoff thing in this economic environment. "Well, we're going to throw a ton of man-hours at it and see where it goes" is going to be a hard sell.

Yeah, having played a Certain Other game, I agree that City benefitted from accidents of fate and development time. A game where everything was working as originally intended and properly balanced probably wouldn't be as compelling.

Having such a weight of history that you can't just completely follow a Vision(tm) may actually be the greatest feature of all.

Besides if they redo City they'll probably try and PvP-balance everything from the start, or appeal to console gamers or some ridiculousness like that and that's not going to go anywhere good.

I notice this occasionally on walkways, ramps and railings. It's like the model gets its "foot caught" and then just dangles helplessly like a pinata. Extra hilarity if it's a Freak. No Dull Pain for you!

Point; I stand corrected.

Well it's probably okay to stop once you get to Cerulean, which is the point where people really start going "...what".

And this time I'll remember to have Member of Vanguard before coming to the raid.

You could always go for maximum character impact and be a Responsibility Loyalist (at least sufficiently far to have done Mother Mayhem's arc) before going into First Ward.

This was the best part, IMO.

I was really disappointed when "rejoin last event" stopped putting me into random people's missions.

/em is in ur mission, buffing ur doodz