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They way it should work would be the following.
If both are VIP, works as it does today.
If either one or both players aren't VIP, it's deactivated until both are VIP again.
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I don't think anybody actually mentioned the REAL reason but simply danced around it. Up to this point the game was subscription based. They want you to spend as much time as possible leveling a character as well as creating new characters to level up. Respecing power sets short circuits this and thus lowers their revenue. With Freedom such an ability wouldn't encourage purchasing more slots or going VIP for a F2P player.
Now if this was a stand alone or subscriptionless game like Guide Wars then there probably wouldn't be a problem.
Remember the business plan for an MMO is to extract as much money each player can afford in exchange for enjoying the game. Before this week you didn't need to buy boosters or goody packs or box editions beyond the first one you purchased. They had to make them attractive enough while keeping the price in the "what the heck, why not" range.
Now with Freedom that's lowered to "I'll buy that for dollar (or a quarter)". Even for people who are still VIP. -
I would wait for Issue 21/Freedom unless you have loads of freespecs/vetspecs to burn. Freedom is lowering the level you can take your travel power at as well as adding a 5th power to each of the travel power pools.
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I noticed the launcher patched itself when I fired it up (haven't played in a few days so don't know when it really happened).
Now when the launcher patches itself it goes through this boot strap process of launching a copy of itself to do the patch and then that copy launches the newly patched launcher (I have to clear it with ZoneAlarm so I notice these things). -
If they ever allow you to sell IOs that you buy at the Paragon Market at the Consignment House/Black Market, then you would have a way to "buy" inf with real money via Paragon Points.
Not as straightforward as EVE's PLEX but it's something. -
Sounds like you need to fix the tool tips settings in general options - miscellaneous.
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Just watched this the other day. Did any one think the actress looks a bit like Claudia Black at first glance?
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Chad Gulzow-Man put together a spreadsheet of everything that is currently in the Market (thread here).
I'm assuming of course that the OP hasn't tried to load the beta and check it out himself. -
This will be the third SciFi genre MMO published by NCSoft. Currently they are 0 for 2.
Actually what's the percentage of SciFi genre MMOs that make it beyond their 2nd year? -
I believe all the Purple sets are marked as Unique, so you can only slot one of each set in a character.
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Eureka was an interesting way to do back stories. And Wesley was a jerk as a kid too.
Warehouse 13 - Janeway is Pete's mom and now she's the current Warehouse failsafe. We do find out that Warehouse 7 was controlled by the Mongols and Warehouse 11 is in Russia.
Haven't watched Alphas yet. Only thing I'll say seeing who the guest star is this week is who's next from T:SCC will guest. -
Quote:As Ironblade pointed out, it will be better, it simply has to be because of the F2P/Item store model. When they added the current in-game store, it was yet another "special" server tacked on to the current game. One that stood between our credit card info on the account server and the game server.Originally Posted by Giant2005
Actually Freedom makes it much worse.
The store seems to go down a lot and when it goes down, it stays down for an inordinate amount of time.
Currently the only thing it effects is your character slots, when Freedom launches it also ties a whole lot more into that mechanic - you would lose the ability to play your Veats, Eats, Controllers, Masterminds and lose access to everything you have purchased. -
Quote:Except at no point in my most feverish Firefly fantasies I would imagine River to be an anthropomorphic Bunny Girl.Originally Posted by DreamWeaver
As I accidentally started another thread to say...
...anyone thinking Firefly: The Animated Series for this? More than a hint of Capn' Mal and Jayne in the two male leads. And a less-serious space MMO is something I've been hankering after for a while... -
That is the reason.
If the store is down, it seems the game servers have no way of knowing how many slots you have other than the standard 12 per server, unless there is already a character in them. So if number of characters is greater than 12, you have no free slots. If you delete at character and you still have 12 or more, you still have no free slots.
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Quote:Try /em sleep.Originally Posted by Nyx
You want relaxing...Ill give you relaxing.
One of my main is a Mind/Psi (Perma Dom) who is suffering from a sleep disorder where she is 98% of the time asleep.
Her sleep powers are purpled out and on a mega recharge. When things are not sleeping...or held, confused or what ever else she wants to do to them...I use the AFK emote and RP like Im passed out.
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Quote:Well focusing on the new and not revamping the existing is marketing MMO 101. You want people to stay or come back. Adding NEW does this better than prettying up OLD.Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
That kind of disappoints me, the general attitude I mean.
"New shiney, get new shiney, come on new shiney!"
"Erm...could you kind of...you know, take a breath, pause and make some of the legacy powersets up to snuff...I mean Forcefield just provides defense and more defense...which at high levels, especially with IOs and Incarnate buff powers, becomes rather useless..."
"No, don't care, look at the new shiney!"
Tweaking sets like Forcefield to be more relevant is low hanging fruit, not like they're making an entire new powerset.
I'm still on the fence about Freedom and this kind of fudges the deal towards not really liking, the attitude of 'new shiney!' has now really become the focus (it has been for quite some time, examples being the AE (developed, pushed and then given up on completely) and Cimerorea (promised more expansion beyond taskforce and the two contacts never showed up)) instead of tweaking, revamping and such alongside perhaps a slower push of everything shiney in peoples faces all the time to make a buck kind of attitude.
The Atlas park revamp only happened purely to rope in the Free2Play people, that's it. No other reason beyond that, despite complaints of the Atlas park/Galaxy/Mercy intro sucking for years, the only reason it got fixed was to draw in more punters.
From now on that's going to be the ONLY focus, drawing in more punters to pony up for things.
It's weird because I've actually begun playing a Free2Play model game most of the time now and...to be fair...I personally feel that they seem to be doing it a bit better than the CoH team will do.
However the free2play questing in that game is severly neutered compared to the Subscriber game (the number of quests available triples or even quadruples the moment you subscribe) which compared to CoH where all but the signature story arcs and First Ward will be unavailable is quite the contrast.
AE is meant for player generated content. What do you want the devs to add. And it's not like they haven't added additional maps since it was rolled out.
FF is fine for non-incarnates and players who haven't broken out Mid's to soft cap their defenses on every one of their characters.
Adding IO sets? Aren't a good chunk of them laughed at by the IO set Min/Maxers as worthless? As for players who aren't experts with IO sets, the shear number of them are confusing enough as it is. Plus I imagine trying to balance new sets would be challenging.
I too have been straying and flirting with another F2P MMO (but different genre) who also went from subscription to a hybrid F2P model. Of course they have more content, classes (which if you think about it is more power set and less AT) and QoL features locked up behind their Item Store or VIP program, which they will tell you about every chance they get. But they've been at it longer so it's only natural that they have more stuff gated off.
Actually the more I look at the VIP/F2P details of this other game, the more it looks to be the model used for Freedom. -
Quote:Zardoz!!Originally Posted by megajoule
whether this is better or worse than sean connery in a red diaper and harness is a question for the ages.
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I know this should be obvious but as you add recharge to the attacks in your attack chain then your chain will use more endurance per second since you can trigger them faster. They go hand and hand and along with Accuracy and Damage. It doesn't matter if you can do a lot of damage if you can't hit but you also want to do enough damage when you do hit to reduce the number of attacks needed to defeat the critter.
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I enjoy Illusion Control. Well what I actually REALLY enjoy is Deceive. Sure it affects your XP rate a bit but making Embalmed Cadavers and Abominations blow up their own comrades; have Sky Raider Force Field Generators protect you; have a Troll punch out their barrel of explosives; and it gets funnier EVERY TIME I SEE IT [/Beetlejuice].
Slot it with recharge, range and confuse duration and you can get affect lieutenants. I've coupled it with Kinetics so I can milk a critter for healing (Deceive and then use Transfusion). I remember towing around a low level Vahz during the Dr. Vahz mission to use as a healing mule. -
Super volcano eruptions are in the same class as a Torrino Scale 8 or 9 asteroid event, there is really no where to run and hide.
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Well once they jettisoned the temporal war and the Xindi conflict, they could get back to the original races found in TOS.
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Quote:Sean Connery in a giant neon teddy bear suit. Actually I thought that was a very "The Avengers" moment.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Wow, I passed on seeing The Avengers, but now my morbid curiosity is roused...
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Three words. Box of parts. I must of had 30 gears chase me down the elevator and nearly all the way back to the front door before they turned around.
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Quote:Not all of them are in the midwest.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
It's called Tornado Alley for a reason. If they want to play Polish Mine Detector and live on a bullseye I'm not going to feel sorry for them.
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Quote:It's called night. It's called torrential rain. It's called the funnel is so damn huge you don't perceive it to be a funnel cloud at all.Originally Posted by Durakken
How poor is your vision that you can't see a tornado far enough away that you can't get away or to safety?