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OTOH, the old version also allowed you to get Incendiary, Cryo, and Chemical rounds at the same time. Doing so was a huge (constant) damage buff, and turned Suppressive Fire into a one-shot hold for anything except AV/EBs running Purple Triangles, and GMs.

Not that it was intentional, but I'm not sure it was preventable using that system.

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And not only that, but barring a policy change, any character at level 6 or higher keeps their name forever, even if you're inactive

That's the biggest problem with this forum. The bad or debatable ideas get posts out the wazoo as people flame or argue with each other and the OP, while the good ideas get ignored, because there's nothing else to say about them.

People don't usually farm AE for stuff, they farm it for levels. And you can't get purples no matter where you farm when you're level 5.

Didn't Jack leave CO's development for STO a lot earlier than he left CoH's development?


Also, in addition to any flaws the mans has, blame generally lands on the shoulders of the lead developer, simply because they're the face of the development team.

Also also, I believe CoH was the first video game Jack had ever worked on, never mind MMOs.

Most likely, he clicked the wrong door trying to enter the dam.

It's already been reintroduced. The devs can run the name-freeing script during any maintenance period, without notifying us. They are only obligated to give us notification if they make a change to the policy. I don't believe they have run the name-freeing script in some time, but they have the option to. You shouldn't be asking them to reintroduce the policy, but rather to run the script more frequently.

The current cutoff level was also based on the freed names that actually got claimed. The number of freed names in the 5-35 range that were taken by an active player was extremely minimal compared to freed names claimed by an active player in the 1-5 range.

Well, a free name is freed until the character logs in again. If a player reopens the account but doesn't log in to the character, the name remains free.

Hey, I play Exalted. The more cinematic your attacks are in Exalted, the better chance you have of hitting, and of doing more damage

That said, others have pointed out the actual flaws in the suggestion.

That's... no. Just... no.

Even if this change did increase performance (which, by the way, is hardly guaranteed -- it entirely depends on the current implementation of the name check and the implementation of the proposed system), the only way to measure that performance would be with a server performance monitoring tool that only the devs would be able to activate, and which itself would lower performance while the testing is going on. What I'm saying is: any increase in performance would be literally impossible to detect by humans. Compared to the constant stream of data between your computer than the server, a single database query is nothing.

As for the suggestion itself: While I can see why it would appeal to some people, I do not like it. When you've got multiple heroes on the same server with the same name, in order to invite/ignore/trade/etc. with any of them, you either need to click on them/their name, or include their global. In my opinion, this is a clunky interface. If multiple characters with the same name are chatting in the same channel, the only way to differentiate them is by attaching their global to their name in the chat, similar to CO's name@global. I think this is ugly.

Personally, I've never had issues making a name. I've run into "that name is taken!" once or twice in the years I've been playing. I don't find it difficult to come up with a unique name, and I play on Freedom and Virtue, the two servers where a name collision would be most likely. I realize that other people aren't so lucky, but I don't find a personal need for this change, and as I said above, I don't particularly like the implications of it, either.

Edit: While others may feel otherwise, I'd rather CO didn't fail. Not because I like the game, but because I think having a competitor is good for this game. Also, their developer Balseraph is an acquaintance of mine (I'd like to call him "friend", but I'm not sure we were ever really that close), and I'd rather he not need to go looking for a new job

Dammit. Now I want Vernon von Grun's Spiderling Scout cookies

It's a Nemesis horse, spawned in Pocket D by a dev during one of the anniversary events.

IIRC, Positron said there's a badge that will be lost if you cross over. But, considering the number of badges that become available on the other side, I think I could live with that

Emperor scorpions are probably the most harmless of all scorpion species. As they say, with scorpions the smaller they are, the more you have to be careful. Emperor scorpions are so big, they rarely even use their stingers on their prey. They can just crush prey with their claws.

I think there are 4 or 5 different creatures frequently called "daddy long legs", and only one of those can fly
Only one is a spider, but I think two are arachnids.

Combat Jumping would need 24,900% enhancement to match SJ's unslotted speed. This is not possible, barring a bug significant enough to award you the Bug Hunter badge.

Correct. Hurdle will increase your jumping speed (and height), but the others won't.

IIRC, the talsorian (sorry, "vanguard") weapons are supposed to be microfilament blades (possibly microfilaments of impervium), not energy weapons. While the Vanguard Katana lets you play Jedi, I believe the game lore plants them firmly in the "lethal" category.

You realize that the "12 days of Christmas" refers to December 25 through January 5, right? The period is "Christmastide" or "Yuletide" (y'know, those Yuletide Carols?), and is followed by the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6.

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