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That was because other than enhancements (TO's, DO's, and SO's) costumes, and conversions to prestige there was nothing to spend inf on. And I call shenanigans on the claim that people were giving away 20 million for CC's back in issue 1 and 2. Back then you couldn't even trade more than 50,000 at a time.

And you are wrong in that belief.

Vets giving new players a helping hand has nothing to do with how much currency they have. Nice players will be nice regardless of their personal wealth.

1st and 2nd quarters actually. The pre-purchase was on sale right up to the launch of GR in August.

You see doom, and I see a game that is still profitable after 7 years.

Yep. If he hasn't bought and used all 8 of his slots already he has no grounds for complaining he doesn't have enough slots. I'd say the same thing to someone complaining about not having enough character slots on his favorite server if he hasn't bought and filled all 36 slots.



Edit: Oh and you do great work on the Vidiotmaps stuff.

Epic failure on your part.

1. I never claimed to have talked to nor teamed with tens of thousands of players. What I actually said is

and that 1 or 2 dozen people I did see talking about this idea is over 7 years of playing the game.

2. You are the one that is claiming there are a sizable number of people debating this issue when there is no evidence to support that statement.


Yeah that argument gets used a lot when someone is miffed that people don't agree their idea is the best thing since sliced bread.

We get 3 for free and we can buy 5 more for a total of 8. You said you are on your fourth story arc. You can buy 4 more. Don't see the problem.

Like a MOON HAZARD ZONE!!!!

I'm sorry but I have a problem with your definition of "sizable". At most all I have seen is one or two dozen people talking about this out of tens of thousands of players. A "minute fraction" is a more accurate description of the number of people concerned about how origins work.

Yes we can. If origins was that important to the devs they wouldn't have scrapped it in the first place.

While you are probably right about why there is no hole in the gun barrel in game, I'd just like to comment that in RL gun mounts like that have plugs they put in the end of the barrel to keep things out of them while they aren't in use.

Birds building nests for example.

The build up of crud in a gun barrel can cause the gun to burst when fired and kill the crew.

On my ship we had rubber plugs to put in the barrels of our main guns and tarps that covered the loading mechanisms. On the smaller weapon systems tarps were used to cover the entire weapon.

I can't believe that you have trouble believing that there are people that don't slot their builds the same the way you do.

LOL!

I just had to check out who that was named after (count de Forbin-Gardanne) and found this on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Forbin-Gardanne

Reading it I stumbled across this line

Boy does that sound a lot like me.

That's inevitable. Any kind of reward given to players for keeping their accounts active will be viewed by some as unfair because they don't want to wait until they earn it. There will always be people with entitlement issues that demand instant gratification.

And every single reward "crosses that line" and generates those feelings. People however have different opinions on what they deem a valuable reward. One person may only care about the temp powers, another may treasure the vetspecs, while a third may not care about any of them.

That ship reminds me of the Arleigh Burke class destroyer.

Heh. To be honest I wasn't trying to offend anyone, I was looking at it from the perspective that if the EU and NA servers were to merge into one large comprehensive list that the EU players would be gaining the most. They'd be going from 4 servers to 15, and they'd be gaining 132 character slots. So if that were to happen to me, I'd find the annoyance of possibly having to rename my global/account names a minor irritation that would go away after I chose a new name.

I'm sorry that my opinion that the group that stands to gain the most should be the one to put up with the name changing offended anyone.

I think very few EU players would be very angry about it if they made it clear that tho they may have to choose new global/account names but in return for that minor inconvienence they'll be getting 11 new servers with 12 character slots per server, and access to thousands of new players.

Sure there will always be twits that get pissed off. If the devs gave us solid gold bricks there'd be morons complaining that the devs didn't give them a wheelbarrow to carry them in.

I've seen it mentioned in several threads, and I've made the suggestion in quite a few threads where someone tried starting the old "the servers are dead and should be merged" rant.

Yeah at this time they don't merge accounts.

Merging the NA and EU server lists is a popular idea we've been asking for for several years.

/signed

The devs have told us they will never give us any sort of free level bumps. The only time and place they use level bumps is on the test server when testing new powersets/AT's and high level content.


The idea of free inf isn't broken because only 7+ year vets would get it, It's broken because it can easily be abused solely for inf accumulation. Power leveling a character is already ridiculously easy for players, and it's even easier for RMT sites. This idea would let them destroy our already inf laden economy and send inflation careening to infinity.

We need more effective inf sinks not more horribly abusive inf generators.

You mean like these real life super hero wannabees?

http://news.reallifesuperheroes.org/...articles-2011/

Note: I'm not trying to be mean to them just pointing out that they are nothing more than average local people from all over the country getting media attention.

Thanks for making me laugh. You reminded me of a particular thread made by someone complaining how CoH was too expensive for him because he was on disability and had to live on $900 per month. Then in the same post he listed his "monthly" expenses.

CoH $14.99
another online game $9.99
X-Box $50.
PSU $9.99
another online game $14.99
Groceries/alcohol/restaurants $300.
rent $279.
maid service $40.
porn $20.
car insurance $50.
renters insurance $25.
life insurance $10.
Gas $30.
credit reports $25.

Now this right here put his monthly expenses at $878.96 but that wasn't enough, he had to go even further and say he also had other monthly expenses where he didn't list how much they cost

dental insurance
new furniture and electronics (he never explained how this was a monthly expense)
6 more games he named and admitted to buying/subscribing to more
gambling
movie theatres
video rentals
postage stamps
medical bills for surgery

$1200. for a new computer

and he was considering buying a lifetime subscription to another super hero MMO. (which ran about $200-$300)

And he got mad at everyone that pointed out that if what he said was true he was spending more money than he was earning from disability and the price of CoH was the least of his worries.