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Antonio Nash is an NPC that interacts with players and as part of the game design can be used as a tool to provide both player information and character information. It's up to the player to have the common sense to differentiate between the two.

No. We get freespecs because the devs are nice. They are under no obligation to give us anything for free. NCSoft has never put anything in writing promising to give us freespecs. They are simply a gesture of good will given out by by the company.

We are lucky that they are generous enough to give one to every character on our accounts when they could just as easily only give them to the characters that had the particular power-sets that were changed.

Get over your entitlement issues and be grateful the devs are as generous as they are.

If I may make an observation, I think it's unfair to use the free month as a comparison between the two products. The people that chose to pre-purchase were told up front that they would be giving up their free month in exchange for early access to Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning. We were able to get access to brand new power-sets up to 6 months before the people that chose to wait until August.

The people that chose to wait got their free month with their purchase of the GR complete edition, and the people that chose to deal with that nightmare company Gamestop got their additional perks as well.

In my experience it's a common problem with players that don't really understand the concept of role-playing. Some people just can't get it thru their heads that their are things the player knows that their character has no way of knowing.

Yes I forgot that. I should have been more thorough in my response.

CoV $50-$60 dollars at launch vs GR Expansion $30.

1-40 levels vs 1-20 levels. Half the levels for half the price. Seems fair to me.

7 new zones vs 4 new zones. Half the zones for half the price again very fair.

1 unique archetype added (Masterminds) vs no new archetype. not a big deal.

4 new MM powersets (Merc, Ninjas, Necro, Bots) vs 4 new powersets (DP, DS, KM, EC)

Missions adjustment - CoV didn't have mission adjustment when it launched.

AE access - CoV didn't have AE access when it launched either.

SG/VG access - Your characters have to leave Praetoria at level 20. SG's are unnecessary at this point.

No paper/radio missions - GR doesn't need them.

No Mayhem/Safeguard missions - CoV didn't have Mayhem missions until Issue 7 was released (7 months after release) and Heroes didn't have Safeguard missions until Issue 8.

(thus no temp powers) - You can buy a temp jetpack travel power from the market for pocket inf. and you can get a temp teleport from the market for 10,000 even.

Clumsy contact mechanics - Translation: impatiently clicking thru the windows without paying attention to what they say can't be done in GR. Sorry but I don't see that as a bad thing.

This.

Well right here is your problem. It's not the devs fault that you didn't buy CoV when it was released. The fact that you waited until the price dropped until it was almost half of what it cost on release is beyond their control. If you wanted to pay a comparable price for Going Rogue you should have waited just like you did with CoV.




When CoV was released the direct download was $50. bucks and the boxed Collector's DVD Edition was $60. bucks. There's no way you paid $35. for it when it was released, and you can't complain about the prices each cost when you get one out of the bargain bin and the other fresh of the shelf the day it comes out.

Do you recall DragonLance? They made a D&D spinoff based on the novels and one of the groups of bad guys were Draconians. They were created by corrupting the eggs of good dragons. Something similar could easily be created by using our own lizard costume pieces.

I deleted a lot of dead weight characters when GR went live. I'm down to 70 characters on my main account and even less on my second account.

One problem. You aren't going to see anything if the devs run the program. They don't post a list of names that became available. All that would accomplish is that you'd see angry posts by people nerdraging/ragequitting and making excuses when they saw a name they wanted was freed and find it was taken again by someone else.

With all due respect I hope you understand that NCSoft's main concern has to be with the people that have active accounts. Reserving names for people indefinitely that aren't paying customers and may never come back is insanity. As a courtesy they have set a reasonable deadline for people that have to let their accounts go inactive.

That deadline is 3 months and characters at level 6 and under because that's where the bulk of the character names are at.

Now when they run that program you don't automatically lose your names. If you come back and no one has requested the name you still have it.


I do agree with you that it isn't hard to come up with cool names. I play mostly on one of the most populated servers and rarely resort to having to think of a second choice for a name. Furthermore during the latest free server transfer week I made over 50 transfers getting my characters in order in new SG's on all the servers and only got 2 character rename tokens. Both on characters I moved to Freedom.

Ok. That I can agree to. Striga is annoying like that.

They aren't protecting the character names for people who may return. They've run the program that frees names at least twice that we know of. Those names are available to the first person that wants to use it. If a player returns and his character name hasn't been claimed by someone else he gets to keep it, otherwise he gets told he has to rename his character and he's given a free rename token.

If the people haven't played since 2005 then the names on their accounts have already been freed up when the devs ran the program the first time and claimed by players with active accounts.

The reason the devs lowered the level from 30 something to 6 was because their datamining showed that very few names were freed up over level 6. When they ran the program the second time all the accounts that went inactive had their names freed up, and again people with active accounts claimed them.

We don't know how often the devs run that program since then. They really have no obligation to tell us. It could easily be something they run every so often as a part of a scheduled maintenance.

Odds are if you can't get a name you want it's because

1. Someone with an active account already has it.
2. You (generic you) insist on playing on one of the heavily populated servers. The higher the population the more likely the names been taken.

Strange I usually have 2 choices to select from a contact unless it's at the end of what it has to offer.

That depends on which "other" game he is referring to. The dailies the "other" game I play are given to characters at or near the level cap. They consist of exploration and/or PvP missions that give you points you can then use to buy "purple" equipment that is "soulbound" to that character. The equipment varies from items for your starship to personal equipment for you and your away team.

Yes. You have to start the whole day over.

Wow. I need to screw up my builds on Villains more often. Hell I need to play villains more often.

Is he new? This is the first I've heard of him.