Father Xmas

And let's not forget the box/complete edition comes with goodies that in all likelihood will be for sale individually. Then there's the extra month.

You forgot Murder by Death.

Nearly all action films include a romance angle, this includes comic book inspired movies. Whether it's Lois Lane, Vicki Vale or that chick with Howard the Duck, the love interest has to be put in danger to be rescued. Expecting an action/comic book movie not to have it is like expecting the theater to pay you to go see it.

It is to big of a trope NOT to do.

Nice crop of Marvel cameos in the last episode but I didn't recognize who was with Nightcrawler. Also surprised to see ol' Shellhead in a mutant series.

Very much an "anime" ending. The mixture in characterizations in X-men was interesting.

Also stay after the credits for a hint about a sequel. Nice touch.

Next series seems to be Blade. Just what we need, yet another stylish heavy vampire anime series.

See I miss the time when the cops ran around like chickens with their heads cut of. Now they kill steal damn griefers. I would report them but if the GMs boot the server what would we be able to play on?

Let's face it, they had to set aside something to make VIP attractive to the new free player. Extended level 50 content is the one obvious carrot.

Okay, what game is he making fun of this time.

Edit: oh, LoL.

First, did you start your lvl 34 in the Rogue Isles or Praetoria? I believe only a "native" villain over 20 will unlock the VEATs.

It's not like you'll find them gathered near the Donut shop in Faultline every Thursday discussing their evil plans. You find them by doing mission story arcs which for your style of play (radio/AE) isn't something you've chosen to participate in the past.

I don't remember off hand how many of these can be found at Ouroboros. As for which story arcs maybe their entries at ParagonWiki may tell you.

I do remember that Dr. Vahz was pre level 20 and the first one you could get in CoH. Also in the 45-50 range there is the arc with all of the Praetorian counterparts that con as AVs. I don't remember them all but that's why there's a Wiki.

Maybe you should be "Call Me Paranoid". Nobody is going to be happy without a complete list of prices for every thing in the store and every Paragon Reward published yesterday and a complete list of what will never be available when you aren't a VIP subscriber (such as incarnate system).

We already had a day and a half of people fearing they were losing their extra slots on a server beyond 12 because the the comparison chart said 12 per.

The FUD over these last few days has been truly scary. On one hand this is a good indication of how passionate the current players are when it comes to this game, on the other it shows how insecure people are feeling in the current climate of a bad world economy.

I'm going to guess skinning software since fullscreen doesn't have any Windows frame elements to muck with. I think Alienware ships with a version of Windows Blinds preinstalled, by Stardock.

I too believe the is a dry run of a mechanism for the F2P system. Shake the bugs out early as well as test how the players react to it (as in too annoying, too complex, just right) and gives them a chance to tweak it before the flood of players with F2P.

Lifetime subscriptions is a gimmick used to prime the cash flow pump early in a game's life cycle so the development team can finish a game that was released too early or needs more content within the first few months.

I would like to know the names of games where lifetime subscriptions were added several years into it's life. I seriously doubt they are any.

Anyone else think there should be a production studio called New Hobbit Pictures?

Yes, 32-bit Window apps have a 2GB limit (ignoring the magical handwavey stuff you can do with server apps) so in the big scheme of things it doesn't matter if you have 4GB or 16GB of memory in your Windows 64-bit box, the game can only use 2GB max.

There is also the issue of memory pool fragmentation. This is when, over time, due to allocating and freeing memory in the normal course of a program, the memory pool is left "swiss cheesed" and a request for memory can't be OKed because there is simply no free block of memory left big enough to comply with the request. Programs are rarely written to handle being told no by the memory allocator gracefully.

Now there are ways to minimize this with multiple pools and there are 3rd party memory allocation libraries that could be used but don't forget that this game is 7 years old and was probably in development for 2 years before that. I suspect that memory fragmentation wasn't as much of a problem back when the game only needed 256MB to run and ran well with 512MB in XP but after 7 years of increased costume parts and complexity, increased poly counts in the environment, improved effects and shaders, content generation, base generation, etc. that what once worked well for marathon gameplay sessions in 2004 could cause instability now.

I'm not discounting memory leaks or invalid references to already freed memory, that can does happen in released code, especially complex code churning a memory allocator, but I wouldn't discount the allocator pulling a "Sam Beckett" either.

The thing is Going Rogue proper, the box, which was Issue 18, didn't have any incarnate content. It unlocked some powersets, side switching and Praetoria. Incarnate didn't come till Issue 19.

Yes, at one point Incarnate was suppose to be part of it, as was Ultra Mode before it, and the Incarnate stuff is gated with requiring GR but you can rules lawyer that free GR only means the stuff you got with Issue 18 and make the post Level 50 content VIP or purchasable/unlockable with with Paragon Rewards.

What I foresee when Freedom goes live that we will get our 400pts per month starting July and a pile of Paragon Rewards based on the number of months we subscribed (unclear about free months from box set purchases). Those can be used to unlock ATs, Powersets and possibly content for Premium play. So for us long time subscribers, Premium may not be as bad as some of the worse case scenareos I've been seeing in some of the "oh no!" threads.

The only thing I would like to see would be the ability, if alternating between VIP and Premium, the ability to reassign GCS even if it's simply clearing all unlocks and requiring you to unlock them again.

The reason is because of altitis. During a player's VIP time they may have rolled and played an new character and they would rather continue playing them than an older one they had previously unlocked. Maybe they could have the unlock/reassignment as a Paragon Reward for X months of VIP time.

But I do understand the whole point of F2P is to sell services like global slots so I wouldn't be surprised if this idea is dismissed.

The VIP server is simply a new server. You will have to transfer characters to it the same way characters are transferred today, with all the consequences that go with it.

I'm pretty sure that Durakken's mind is set that the movie was a travesty. So it's a waste of time trying to convince him otherwise.

... behind the couch.

I do a slightly different method so I don't get the "Why are you leaving" E-mail. I remove my credit card first, which cancels the subscription without generating that E-mail and then resubscribe.

Well big honking, merged from multiple threads up in the announcements board.

For the current subscriber, as long as you subscribe nothing significant changes plus there are a few more benefits.

Major changes include 400 pts for the pay store and one free transfer per month for subscribers plus access to a subscriber only server.

Other changes include no new vet rewards, instead there is a new mechanism to unlock vet rewards you hadn't gotten yet and possibly other minor goodies. You still keep all your old ones.

No more direct buy for booster packs. Those items will be bought with pts. I expect that you can pick and choose some of those items separately for less pts.

Everything you ever bought before you keep. If your subscription lapse and you go to the free plan then access to bought boosters and GR (now free for new subscribers when Freedom is launched) you keep access to. You get 2 "global" character slots plus any that you purchased that you can use to unlock existing characters for free play. If you resubscribe then all your characters are accessible again.

I'm sad about this, I normally start all my heroes in Galaxy due to Atlas congestion from way back when and AE invites more recently.

People seem to forget our favorite American time traveler, Moon Bloodgood.