Fleeting Whisper

A few years ago, I had "The Oncoming Storm" FF/Rad Defender with a David Tennant and a Tom Baker costume. The character didn't get high enough to get a third costume before I got bored of the powersets and deleted him.

Dies Horribly?

Open-source client. Yes, I said it

Take customization of the game to a whole new level. Of course, release a 'vanilla' client that anyone can use and works perfectly fine. But one-up the competition's "customizable interface" with customizing everything.

Designing the API would be a pain, esp. when considering protecting users (login couldn't be customizable, to protect from keyloggers), protecting fairness (don't want the customized client to see invisible people for you in PvP, for example), and preventing botting. But it would certainly be an original innovation.

Another option:
- Add EVERYTHING to your wishlist
- Purchase from your wishlist instead of the normal store browsing

This also works for keeping track of just a subset of store items (like, 'which Salvage storage increases have I gotten?').

Since you've paid money, you shouldn't be a free player, you should end up a Premium player. As far as Controllers goes, though, I think you'll be able to keep playing a Controller if you've made one, but you'll have to buy Controllers to make new ones.

As far as I can tell, Afterburner doesn't give you a direct boost to FlySpeed. It gives you a boost to Fly, which is used along with FlySpeed to calculate how fast you can move when flying. (It also gives you a good amount of Defense, and it raises the cap on your flight speed.)

Considering Hover already has higher than normal Fly magnitude, Afterburner may not do much to combo with Hover. I'm not entirely sure, though. Have you tried looking at the Combat Attributes window to see what your final flight speed is?

I was given a trial disk (City of Heroes: Bootleg Edition) around I8. I tried it out, an made a character (my namesake) based on the Exalted RPG. I stopped when the trial ended, because I didn't want to become addicted like I had seen friends become to WoW. A couple months later, a friend suggested an Exalted-themed supergroup, and I realized I already had an Exalted character, and he was already over level 10, so I could create it.

I re-subbed and made the SG, but the whole plan for it fell through. By that time, I was truly hooked, and didn't let my sub expire. In fact, I've been going by a 12mo subscription since. Of course, it was only after creating the SG ("Exalted") that I discovered the epic debt badge "Exalted". And now we've got a server named "Exalted", which I moved my namesake to yesterday.

Getting to the TOP tier in almost any facet of life requires something akin to 'farming'. Getting promoted, getting the company you founded to be a household name, getting famous (for something besides being famous)... usually, those things require putting in a lot of time and effort. On rare occasions, they don't. Similarly, tricking out a character build requires a lot of farming, either for Incarnate components or for purples or simply for inf to buy stuff on the market. On rare occasions, you get exactly what you need on the first go, and you don't need to farm any more.

Farming is not what the casual player does, though. Even so, a casual player can still join in on end-game fun. All you really need is a little determination (and if you want to run the two Incarnate TFs rather than the Incarnate Trials, you'll also need the first Alpha power -- the first power in a tree is actually really easy to get).

The reason you see so many hardcore builds on the forums is because relatively few casual players even bother with planning out builds, relatively few casual players bother to post on the forums, and few casual players do both. It's the hardcore players who go though the effort to research the archetypes and powersets, who need to plan the build so that they can get the power they want out of it. So it's the hardcore builds you see posted on the forums.

I don't consider badges to be "endgame content", since you can get almost every badge long before you're 50. Admittedly, it's rather unlikely for some (Empath), and requires help from a higher-level character for others (Multidimensional), but there are few badges where you must be high level to earn.

Guild Wars has a level cap of 20. Runescape doesn't even have a hard level cap; your level is simply calculated based on a number of your other stats, which AFAIK don't have caps, just exponential experience requirements (at the time I last played, the effective cap was around 113, but a dedicated player could push beyond that).

What CoH does have, though, is the Incarnate trials (the rewards of which can be used to increase your effective level), a couple task forces limited to the upper levels, and a couple raids. Rewards from Incarnate trials at the moment can give you +1 to normal content, and up to +3 during the Incarnate trials, but the whole Incarnate system is not fully released yet.

Yes please!

/didn't even bother reading the post, just the title