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Don't worry about getting this deleted. Sooner or later it will drop from the front page. You may get some latecomers dropping in with comments but feel free to ignore any negative ones. You know where to post now so any criticism now isn't relevant. See you in the Suggestion forum.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant that I'm paranoid that even if I tested it and it worked with a test name that when I went to do it with the name I want to switch factions with I'd still lose it.

That happened to me with a character name when CoV was released. I deleted a hero to make him a villain and when I went to claim the name I freed up it was grabbed by another player. The search feature confirmed someone really grabbed it.

I considered that but I'm not willing to test it again. I'm afraid even if it does work that when I do disband the one I'd like to get rid of that I'll still lose the name when I try to remake it. It's a cross faction thing on the same server.

To be honest I'm a bit skeptical on that. I know I've seen other people say that was how it works, but the one time I tried to test it a few years ago the name was not available after I disbanded the original SG. I even tried waiting and checked back every so often for 2 days and I couldn't get it again.

Yeah. Each edition can only be added once to an account. For example you can't add the codes for two Architect Editions to your account.

And that's assuming there's any members still in the SG. If the players have all quit the SG or been kicked it's gone forever.

Is your insult supposed to put me engarde? If so you are awfully fuller yourself. I advise you to get a grip because it won't get a riser out of me. Tangs for trying tho.

Warden was making a joke. It was referencing the fact that in England vehicular travel is reversed. They drive on the left side of the road while Americans drive on the right side. The steering wheels are even on opposite sides of the cars.

Sense of humor, get one.

Lisar's rapier wit is hard to foil. She wields it with such grace as she carves you a new one.

That's a useful bind but I'd like to point out that brand new players probably aren't going to know how to make a bind like that, or even that they can make a bind that does that.

So while it is very helpful I still think the best idea would be for the devs to create an automatic response to incoming tells.

Yeah it's a good idea.

Not a very cutting comment to go out on.

Sorry to disagree with you but you didn't check the prices of all the editions being sold at Amazon.

City of Heroes original

$1.44 + $3.99 S&H Total $5.43 - New in original shrink wrap.

$4.95 +$3.99 S&H Total $8.94 - New in factory sealed box.

City of Villains

$.99 + $3.99 S&H Total $4.98 - Three sellers all advertise never used, never opened, and factory originals

$1.99 +$3.99 S&H total $5.98 - Factory seals intact.

Four more copies from $2.89 to $2.99 with S&H totaling $6.98 - all advertised as new with factory seals.

Another nine copies with S&H total no more than $8.99 - all never opened with factory seals

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new

They currently have copies of

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=12767837...0heroes&page=1

Good vs Evil
Architect Edition
Original CoH
Original CoV
CoV Collector's Edition
CoH Collector's Edition
The old CoH/CoV Bundle

On Page two they have 2 new copies of the UK version of the CoH/CoV combined Edition

Page three has another 6 new copies of the original CoV

And 9 new copies of CoH starting at 1 cent to $3.25 with S&H $4.00 to $7.28

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=new



So if you took the time to look at everything that is available you would have found several copies for sale under $5 bucks.

Other games have similar restrictions. Here's WoW's trial restrictions.

The following restrictions are placed on all Classic Trial Accounts:

A level cap of 20.
A maximum of 10 gold.
Trade skills are capped at 100 ranks.
Inability to trade via the auction house, mailbox, or player-to-player.
In-Game public chat channels will be unavailable. (Players will still be able to communicate using say, party, or whispers).
Characters will be unable to create or join existing guilds.
Accounts will no longer be able to whisper other players unless they have been added to those players’ friends lists or have received a whisper from them first.
Characters will not be able to invite players into a party.
Characters will not be able to join parties with other players above level 20.
Voice Chat is disabled on trial accounts.
Realms with login queues will give priority to customers with retail accounts.
Will not be eligible for any Character Transfer service.

LOTR restrictions

Trial accounts cannot access the mail box or the auction house, trade, or send tells to players that do not have the trial user on their friend list.

Eve

Trial account characters can not:

Post on the forums
Use the Contracts system
Use any ingame trade channel
Transfer money to other players
Rename cargo containers in space
Transfer corporation money to other players
Trial account characters can only:

Post a new eve-mail every minute, that is one mail per minute
Send roughly 3 messages in a row through ingame channels, a 7 second delay is then put on the user's next message


Guild Wars

Chat restricted to team, guild, and alliance chat, plus whispers.

No access to shared storage, player trading, dropping items or gold, or picking up things dropped by other players.

Not allowed to create PvP-Only characters or travel to the Battle Isles.

If this access key is added to an existing account, it will provide trial access only to those campaigns that have not had a previous trial.

The access key is for a maximum of 10 hours of game play over a 14-day period from the time the key is activated.

I've made several suggestions that Trial Accounts be given a temporary title that says Trial Account in a bright color over the characters head. That way players can tell at a glance who can respond to tells.

I'd also like to see a nice red warning in the chat box that warns the sender of a Tell that the person they are messaging is on a trial account and can't respond.

If the system can send a similar message to someone who is being ignored they can do it for trials.

After experiencing the forums of other games I think we have been blessed with the greatest group of people out there. Yes we have our share of jerks. Heck I can be one of them from time to time.


Another thing to be aware of. If you become attached to the characters on your trial account and want to keep them make sure you choose to upgrade that account when you apply the new game code.

You'd be surprised how often people mistakenly start a separate account, and I don't think Customer Service can merge the two accounts.

When buying these games from Amazon just take the precaution to only get the ones that say factory sealed. Don't fall for the used ones or if they say they checked the game and it works. Those are the ones where they used the game code and that copy of the game is actually worthless.

Other than that you can get some great bargains for the various editions. Just check from time to time as they become available sporadically. And even $10 bucks is a bargain.


Oh and please be aware that you can only have one (1) of each edition applied to your account. You can't use the codes for two Good vs Evil on one account.

You wouldn't believe the number of times I've seen someone tell a person on a trial account that they should just pick up the game from Big Lots for $5 or $10 bucks, or the Amazon comment I jokingly referred too above.


That being said there are some advantages to buying cheap copies of previous editions that are on sale. And I'm not just referring to the free 30 days you get with each one.

Good Vs Evil comes with three exclusive in-game items: jump pack prestige power; "Pocket D" VIP card teleport power; hero and villain costume pieces.

Mac Edition comes with a Mission Teleporter Power, and the Valkyrie themed costume set (available to both Heroes and Villains from level one)

Architect Edition allows you to choose either the Super Booster I: Cyborg pack or the Super Booster II: Magic pack for free

I like the logic you used to make your decision, but when I think Natural I ask myself if what he is and can do is natural for his species. If he is the only one of his kind I'd consider him a mutation or something other than natural.