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Oh is that show still on the air?
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Quote:Fix'd that for ya Adeon.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
My counter-argument is:
I don't care about how the devs want the features to work. I wants what I wants.
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Quote:It's far more likely that the devs would simply remove AE tickets altogether before they'd allow people to trade in tickets for merits.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
I fail to see what point you're trying to make here. In fact I would say the fact that a person prefers random rolls would generally make them indifferent to the OPs idea since it wouldn't change how they personally interacted with either merits or tickets. Unless the devs had a complete loss of sanity and set the Ticket to merit ratio low enough that you could get more random rolls by converting tickets to merits than you can using tickets directly adding a ticket to merit exchange doesn't change random rolls at all.
If people could trade in tickets for merits only someone totally unfamiliar to the game would waste tickets on random rolls hoping to get a lucky score, when he could swap them for merits and choose the items selling for the highest price on the market each and every time. -
Quote:And you'll notice they haven't rallied round and come here posting their support for the OP's idea.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The general consensus amongst people who follow the market is that random rolls produce more inf over time than direct buys.
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Quote:<.<Originally Posted by Traska
I want more characters.
More servers would give me more characters.
So for, uh, the good of the community (yesss... the community), merge the server lists and give us access to the character slots... er, players... on the EU servers.
>.>
Uhh . . . Yeah! For the good of the community. No selfish motivations here.
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Quote:Why would anyone bother with making random rolls with AE tickets if they can trade them in for merits and buy exactly what they want. Having to make random rolls is the consequence of running AE missions. Changing that defeats the purpose of making the rolls random in the first place.Originally Posted by BenRGamer
Very nice reasoning you have there.
AE Tickets shouldn't be able to buy Merit Rewards because AE Tickets shouldn't be able to buy Merit Rewards.
If we want the ability to pick and choose our rewards then we have to do the regular content. Just like if we want to pull every enhancement from a build we have to use multiple respecs.
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Quote:Touche'Originally Posted by Flarstux
I'm almost certain they told Cryptic.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Disappearing Girl
A Rant? You call one sentence a rant? You know, just because someone disagrees with you, doesnt make it a rant. Though really I think you call it a rant as that makes it easy for you to avoid facts
But as your post agrees, the facts are
1) NCSoft said "Nor are there any benefits for preording"
2) NCSoft offered incentives for preordering. (the special IOs plus gamer bling)
I think I can see where the deception is.
I have no idea why you would put screen shots of FAQs for after NCSoft changed the incentives excepts its smoke and mirrors to avoid facing the facts - much like calling my post a rant.
Thats just rubbish, and an example of people who would rather insult in passive/aggressive manner than discuss.
Wanting Paragon to describe the purchasing options and not change than months after people spend thier money is so not the same as your fantasy of having them come to house to explain.
Clearly you have no facts to support your case, or you wouldnt need to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_ridicule
They annoucend what you could get with your type of order for the game. Months later they changed that. Really I dont get how people dont understand that. Or post that that wasn't true.
Not the benefits of costumes and aura, that was upfront as I wish it all the purchase options were. But getting special IO procs was not mentioned until months afterwards.
Those options were not laid out side by side. How can you say that they were with a straight face?
I'm amazed that you had those options of preordering to gain special IOs plus bling when you were making your purchasing choice. It wasn't there when I was making my desicon.Did you time travel or just pretend you had the facts from the start?
Sooooo dont agree with me, must be slow in the head.
Still its not like you actually had a point or fact to offer. Insults are easier than demostarting if you are right, especially when the facts show you are not.
Again with insults over facts.
So, you really can say that on the day it came out people were debating whether to prepurchase to get early access to ATs or to wait and preorder and get the special IO's.
No wait - your options didnt even include all the options that anyone who can read simple English understands. Does that mean you dont understand simple English?
You clearly laid out options missed that choice 3, that there would be incentives for preordering. The Special IO's. No surprise you miss out the information.
More rubbish. A straw horse, that confirms to me you are more interested in belittling people than understanding what they are saying.
I also never said it was confusing - it must be easier to 'win points' when you put words into my mouth.
I'm not complaining about the free month or auras and what not. And never have complained about that. The difference between the complete edition and the prepurchase was clear.
Its not buyers remorse - lol - it's not having all the information presented.
Anyhow, if one sentence got me dogplied this much I'm dreading the follow up. I think I'll just ignore the posts with fingers in thier ears shouting "me so right - you so silly head' from now. So if I dont bother to reply to you, dont take it as how wonderful your debating skills were, and how well yor insults shut me up, but rather, you're not worth the time to reply to.
Afterall, this has been bounced around in the discussion thread for it months ago.
In short, the fact that the phrase Nor are there any incentives for preording it means no incentives for preordering.
This got changed.
This, most people in my experience would call deceptive.
Its not brain science, and it seems all people who claim otherwise can only present do is use insults and call fact rants, or post in total disacoiation to reallty claiming all the information was there from day one!
I dont understand how people within one post can say 'it was all clearly laid out' and in the same post then talk about how the gamestop was annoucned afterwards.
And there's the rant as predicted.
I wonder if she's also mad that the people who chose not to buy the Cyborg and Magic Boosters when they came out were able to get one for free when they bought the Mission Architect Edition. Cuz y'know NCSoft didn't tell anyone they were going to offer that when the Boosters were first released.
Oh and NCSoft also didn't tell anyone who bought CoV when it was released that they'd be combining the two games. They didn't even tell anyone they were going to buy the game from Cryptic. -
Quote:Just for clarification. Slow fields can be put in any room that allows defensive items, not just the defensive rooms. I have a couple slow fields in my Teleportation Room in one base.Originally Posted by Genetic Freak
Hi,
It's called a Slow Field. I just put one in my base too.
You need a Defensive Room, and an Advanced Work table. IT's a defence item that you craft. -
I hope hubby is as generous when our B-days come around. j/k
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Quote:I've been having this problem for several weeks. I assumed it was my internet provider because of other problems I'm having unrelated to the forums.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Also, the past few days it's started rejecting my password and not letting me log back in for a variable length of time
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Quote:Actually I find myself disagreeing with your conclusion.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
The options were clear. People were debating the choices the day it came out.
choice 1 (pre-purchase): No free month, early access to dual pistols and demon summoning, no extras
choice 2: Free month, wait for it and get it all.
Even day one people were wondering how we would get the extras if we pre-purchased.
So any statements that the choice was confusing can only be made by people who couldn't read simple English.
I think the people who complain that the choice was confusing can't admit that they didn't even bother to read what they were buying. When they bought the pre-purchase in order to get access to DP and DS they assumed they'd be getting they'd be getting the extras and free month when GR went live. All they saw was early access and didn't bother to read any further.
And when the Gamestop preorder was announced they realized what they actually bought and had buyers remorse. Suddenly access to two new powersets 5 months early wasn't what they wanted but since it was a pre-purchase and not a pre-order they couldn't cancel it.
What it boils down to is that some people can't accept that if a mistake was made, they were the ones that made it, not NCSoft. -
/unsigned for reasons stated above.
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Quote:How do you know they CAN'T?Originally Posted by Shadow State
If they can't make the backpack flag turn off when you switch builds what makes you think they could do it with a no back slot item flag?
Just because they haven't done it yet doesn't mean it's not possible. There are literally dozens if not hundreds of little things the devs have put into the game after a long time that simply weren't a high enough priority to work on. Other features and issues were more important and took precedence.
If you can show us where the devs have told us this particular feature will never happen because of "fill in the blank" I would appreciate it. I've never seen it said, but if I'm wrong I'd like to know. -
Quote:How exactly does one mine for Chili?Originally Posted by Silverado
Went to a Halloween Party last night, I'm the Chilean Miner (on the right)
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Quote:It seems logical to me that if they design it so the crab pack disappears when you switch to a Bane build the reverse would be true for the cape when you switch from a Bane build to a Crab build.Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid
Just start off, not upset in least. Just expressing my concerns about what was said.
And the reason I assumed that is because the way I read Next_Player's post led me to believe that was what he was proposing. With the toggle power to attach the backpack, a Crab not being able to use wings or a cape makes sense. If it is possible to not have that block when switching to a bane build, then that's fine, but consider costume changes. If I'm on my Bane build with a cape on, and I switch to my Crab build, then what happens to the cape? Does it just disappear? And then switching back to the Bane Build does it come right back, or would I have to run to the tailor and attach it again? To me, that just seems like a recipe for bugs.. but then I'm not a programmer in the least, and don't know how possible or impossible it would be. Just guess I'm pessimistic that way.
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Quote:Why do you assume they would add a block to the Bane build to prevent you from using capes and wings? Seems your getting upset about a problem that doesn't exist.Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid
The point is, what about people who choose Crab with one build, and Bane with the second. The way you're putting it, is that when I choose the second build to be a bane, I'm not allowed to have a cape or wings, simply because when I choose my other build I've got a backpack I have to wear?
That's just as bad as when I'm on my Bane build currently I have to wear the backpack. I'm either forced to wear the backpack when I can't use it, or I'm forced to not wear a cape when I can't wear the backpack and I'm not using it. -
Quote:Same logic applies to any toggle. Players can ask ,"Why should any AT have to toggle any power to use it when the game clearly has powers that are always on!"Originally Posted by Lurker Hunter
Seems needlessly complicated. Imagine new crab spiders saying "why do I have to toggle this pack to use my powers? I don't have to for anything else!"
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Quote:Your asking for the ability to make extremely unbalanced gimped characters because they either sacrificed slots and have a build consisting of too many underslotted powers, or they sacrificed essential powers for extra slots which leaves them vulnerable to balanced NPC's that can exploit those weaknesses.Originally Posted by Slazenger
I can have everything I want 6 slotted 6 slotted now, not asking for everything to be 6 slotted was asking if i could have the choice between having less slots more powers or less powers more slots which would be implemented each time I lvl.
Read 1st post again
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We already have an example of what happens when players can do this in the super hero genre of games and they have been forced to go F2P because they can't keep people interested in playing. -
Quote:As far as the free aspect goes I agree with this. Free accounts are nothing more than trials without an expiration date.Originally Posted by RoleplayerX
The other MMOs that I've seen go to "F2P" are really just giving an extended trial. Those games are still a subscription service, but they have made their free trial unlimited. Those free accounts, like CoX's current trial accounts, are extremely limited. The only difference is that they do not expire and they can purchase game features piecemeal if they choose.
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Quote:I have and I petitioned them for doing it.Originally Posted by gameboy1234
I have never, ever seen anyone shouted down in the help channel for asking a relevant question.
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Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
if, for some reason, the player somehow enters a code that only unlocks a single faction / side, Customer Service was activating the other faction / side of the game manually.
The system is supposed to be setup so that buying City of Heroes or City of Villains or entering a code unlocks both games. Doesn't mean it always works.
Thanks for the info.
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Quote:Then how do you explain people buying original copies of both CoH and CoV from places like Amazon and getting full access to both sides? Maybe it's something that only works for US accounts.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I'm pretty sure that's still the case, actually. They merged accounts of existing players, but future accounts can still have just one game or just the other. It's just that no-one in their right mind would buy just one when both together cost the same amount.
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Quote:That's what I mean by merged. When they were first released if you bought one you didn't have access to the other faction until you bought the other game.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Actually, City of Heroes and City of Villains are not "merged." PlayNC simply tagged all existing accounts to be applicable for both versions of the game, but the separate versions of the game still exist on the Play NC Store, and I remember stories of people buying just one and wondering what happened.
No arguments there. It was a very smart move.Quote:And, by the way, the "merger" of City of Heroes and City of Villains was a gesture of good will / clever publicity stunt on the part of PlayNC when they bought the game over from Cryptic, to show us that they weren't buying it to scrap for parts and stop us from panic-mongering. For what it's worth, I appreciated it, and it seemed to go over very smoothly. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Ironblade
As far as I can tell, the design intent is that some missions absolutely must not be auto-completeable since they give significant rewards. This seems reasonable to me.
I may be wrong but I seem to recall one of the rednames saying that very thing shortly after the put the feature in the game. They popped into spmeones thread and answered the question but I think that thread has long been lost.