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Quote:Originally Posted by idea123
I can only assume that the reason why the devs didn't just make 20 special slots in the vault available to everyone in the global is because they support xxxxxxxxx.com or whatever their irritating name is. At least you don't have to give your account info to them to buy infl any more. The devs must be getting a cut in the real-money profits.
Also, the fact that you still cannot invite your offline alts into your own SG (along with the non-vault option above) shows they don't care about the loner who doesn't involve himself in the community.
First off posting the name of an RMT site anywhere on here is a violation of the forum rules. And deliberately mispelling the name does not mean you aren't still breaking the rules.
9. You may not post advertisements.
Advertising on these forums is prohibited, specifically posts that advertise a transaction for real money or any posts that discuss an action prohibited by the User Agreement (North American and European).
Secondly, by adding this feature the devs have virtually eliminated every players need to ever use an RMT service. Every player can easily make millions with only the slightest effort and now can easily transfer those funds to any character they have on any server that's on the same faction.
Furthermore with dual builds as soon as GR comes out players can shuttle expensive enhancements between factions and use a respec to pull them off and sell them on the otherside. -
Quote:Uhm, you do realize that Scourge 23 isn't a global name right? For it to be a global name you have to type @Scourge 23. Without the @ it's just a character name.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
When I try to e-mail myself influence I keep getting the mesasage that the global e-mail does not exist. Only it does. Scourge 23. If any of you want to mail me cash as a test lol. No, but seriously, I am just trying to test the thing with 1 infl. No luck, like 4 times.
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Quote:I don't see that as a problem. I've run across a couple of SG's on the NA servers whose members speak Spanish. My inability to speak more than one language hasn't interfered with their enjoyment of the game and I know it didn't interfere with mine. A simple no habla espanol and we parted on civil terms.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
The only problem with a server list merge I see, is it would only give most of us TWO more servers to play on, not four.
Unless of course you happen to speak fluent German and French, in which case you do get four.
The Europeans would benefit a lot more from it. Which is fine by me.
So if I can peacefully coexist with our South American brethren the I have no reason to fear the occasional angry frog or sauerkraut I might encounter on the French and German servers.
Hell it might even be fun to start new multi-server SG called "Gone to the Americans".
Who am I kidding. That's too funny to not have been done already. -
Quote:I chose 10 because it's a nice round number, and a nice milestone to achieve for both game and players.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Psst. Take a look at your game account page... The page is showing me when I should expect to get my rewards until Feb 2013: 96 Months. Looks like a good spot to end it. Though 96 months would be 8 years, not 10.
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Why doesn't he just go into options and turn off his name/title? I do it all the time when I want to take a screenshot. He knows his own characters name and turning it off so he doesn't see it won't prevent other players from seeing it.
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Quote:Oh hell yeah, and the same goes for the ones that get butt hurt over having to wait for their perks to unlock just like everyone before them waited.Originally Posted by MunkiLord
People that get butt hurt over a change like that are nothing but tools and we would all be better off if they would just go away.
Now I wouldn't object if the devs picked an end date for the vet reward program. That way new players would see that there would eventually come a time when they had just as many rewards as older players.
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Quote:Yeah but you used many words and facts that make some peoples heads hurt with their common sense and logic.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I believe that was my point.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Snow Globe
What? Okay so you're still focused on the travel power reward huh? The following shows that there are options besides vet rewards or taking dedicated powers:
Real money options:
- Mini-booster: Temporary 30 Day Jetpack $5, 30 real days unlimited flight power on all characters on the account.
- Super Booster IV: Martial Arts grants Ninja Run, level 4 onward on all characters.
- Good Vs Evil in-game pack (or if the account doesn't have it, the full GvE edition): Pocket D Teleport and Jump Jet (though that is only 30 seconds at a time.)
- Christmas Event (for candy canes) or Holiday cheer (random): 30 real days Jingle Jet unlimited flight power.
- Siren's Call: you can buy Flight, Teleport, or Super Leap from the Siren's Call mercenaries if your faction is winning the zone.
- Level 1 onward, park your character in either Firebase Zulu (or other Shadow Shard) or Grandville for a max 30 minute (renewable) Jetpack. Get the Commuter or Pilot day job badges to refuel at any train station or Arachnos flier as well.
- Level 1 onward go to Firebase Zulu or Grandville and purchase a Jetpack for 10,000 Inf.
- Level 5-9 (50-50 chance at level 10), or with help do the Atlas Park Safeguard or Mayhem mission: Reward is a 2 hour Jetpack. (Can get once per character.)
- Level 11-14 (50-50 chance at level 10 or 15), or with help do the Kings Row Safeguard or Mayhem mission: Reward is a 2 hour Jump Jet. (Can get once per character.)
- Level 15-19 Villains - Steal a Goldbricker's Rocket Pack: 90 minutes of flight.
- Level 20-24 Villains - Sky Raider Flight Pack 60 minutes of flight. (You can flash back to get this multiple times.)
- Level 25 onward for both sides: Ouroborus Portal
- The second of the new Positron's TFs has a Jet Pack as well.
As for other temp powers, see this list:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Temp_Powers
The options are there, you just have to see them.
Class dismissed unless you can show how the vet rewards City Traveller out-powers the above available alternatives. I promise to repost this list every time I see you make the silly statement above until you come up with an answer.
I think the argument is that the City Traveller vet reward frees up a power selection. Sadly the people making that argument are ignoring the fact that the various temporary travel powers we have available free up two power choices.
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Quote:You're the expert on whining about people whining. You make that accusation whenever anyone tells you that you have to wait for vet rewards to unlock just like everyone else.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
I think whining about people whining has to take the cake, honestly.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
But I'll be perfectly honest here - there are way more vets that whine/would whine about losing vet rewards than there are newbies that would whine/whine about getting them sooner (at starting?), so it's never going to happen.
The devs have never once said that they were considering removing vet rewards from the game so there has never been anyone whining about "losing" vet rewards. -
Quote:Originally Posted by MrNoj
In an effort to speed the building of my SGs first Teleporter room, I traded roughly 30mil inf for prestige. Afterwards I built a TP room and ended with very little prestige in the positve (1000 or something). I logged in today and found that I have -7416 prestige.
How is that even possible?
Edit: That was after selling the AP beacon I had so I could put in a Brickstown one.
There's an old bug that does that. Usually it's fixed by logging off and then logging back in. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
Not quite sure how having veteran rewards as token detracts from the very fact they are veterans rewards...
A longer serving vet is STILL going to have more veteran rewards than a newbie. So that Newbie gets to pick wings at 3 months instead of 15, meh big deal or they get the Nemesis Staff/Blackwand instead of the Sands of Mu/Ghost slaying axe...again don't see a problem with that.
heck I've been here over 3 years now EU side (and almost 15 months US side) so I'm not exactly a newbie and I wouldn't care if people got stuff earlier than I did.
Plus most vet players see it as annoying whinning...I see it as the fact the player has got to sit there for 3 years and 3 months just to get a costume reward of boxing gloves and boxing shorts.
Ok, I'll repeat my earlier post. Allowing players to use tokens to buy their favorite vet rewards as soon as possible will only lead those same players to start whining and crying that the remaining vet rewards all suck after they cherry picked the ones they wanted. -
I'm not sure what's more pathetic. Watching people whine when their AE exploit gets nerfed or watching people whine about about the "unfairness" of having to wait like everyone else for their vet rewards.
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Quote:Originally Posted by je_saist
... I'm getting tired of saying this.
WHAT PART OF NO DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND? THE N? OR THE O?
Maybe the Op is one of those people that thinks NO means if they make pest of themselves long enough the person they are annoying will change their mind. -
Quote:The Pennsylvania Dutch call that Shoofly pie.Originally Posted by Cinder_Flux
OMG.....I love you. piecakes ftw
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Quote:He does. That way he could buy everything he wants for 1 inf, yet sell his stuff for hundreds of millions.Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
Who decides what is "fair"?
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Quote:I'm glad to see that your posts are now easier to read. If you'd like an example of how quickly attitudes can change in regards to how a person presents his posts, I'd like to refer you to some of Power_NA's posts. In the beginning he'd make suggestion posts that were hard to read, and people made fun of them. Once he started making his posts easy to read people started complimenting him and taking his ideas more seriously even when they disagreed with him.Originally Posted by ryancowboy6
Players helping players even if the comments sting a little....Thats what its all about. I ll still pass u a wakie once u get ripped in half by an Elite Boss and then strike him down with my fully slotted Lightning Rod!!!just cuz I ruined 1 50 dom doesnt mean I dont have a couple more 50's waiting in the shadows of Paragon!!! Muuuhaaaaa!!! Muuhhaa!! -" Fire the Laser "
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When I make a raised floor/dropped ceiling to conceal a room I go to great lengths to make sure they blend in with the level of the base doorways. The thing that makes hidden doors next to impossible to hide tho is the fact that we have nothing that blends in with the wall/ceiling/floor patterns.
As soon as you see a floor or ceiling that isn't one of the standard textures you know there's a hidden level in that room, and it's just a matter of time before you find the entrance.
This is why I desperately wish the devs would take some time and reskin the white floor tile next to the safe in the base architect. Give it a top and bottom that matches the floor and ceilings. It would also be great if they'd give us some smaller floor tiles with similar skins so we can make floors easier than using hundreds of desks/stone blocks/tables etc.
Oh and for the record, I am no where near the top of talented base builders in this game. I'm the moss under the pedastal those guys stand on. -
Quote:No. We wouldn't insult people who are differently abled by making that accusation. You have shown that you are capable of communicating in an intelligent fashion if you try, but you don't care about the impression you make on others. When you lack self respect and respect for others no one is going to show you any respect in return. They are going to talk down to you, and be condescending.Originally Posted by ryancowboy6
and that I am possibly wetarded!!!
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Quote:Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Because they value their lazy convience over the needs of those who would then be inconvienced by it.
This, and there are also those sunny individuals that manage to alienate themselves from everyone on the low pop servers. When a person acts like a jackhole it's much easier for them to run out of people willing to team with them. -
Quote:Originally Posted by ryancowboy6
Im telling u that I had a bunch of really expensive sets.. orange lettered special sets. that were mixed up and slotted like sorrocco ( of course wrong spelling). all the Mako bite stuff. Orange handcuff looking enhancements. every thing i had was some type of special enhancement.. Did u ever see the purple enhancement that u can only use as 1 slot. I think its for a pet. check the black market. some of things cost 50 million a pop. this was one of my early toons that i used and didnt know what half the stuff meant was just trying to get bigger overall bonuses.. 168 million at least i should of gotten back... go to the black market recipes for enhancements are very very expensive. 50 SO's are for rookies...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
You actually think you're gonna get player driven market prices for your enhancements?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Furio
Even if OP thought they were gonna get this windfall, they'd be doing it at the loss of all their enhancements...which would then need to be replaced, costing more than the windfall, so what's the point?
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Quote:I didn't see the original post until after it was edited. I just sawOriginally Posted by MrNoj
That was me... I was not mistaken about the AI. I've played this game a lot and know how it works, it just reminded me strongly of a few PUGs I've been on and their behavior. It was a joke that surprisingly few people caught.
Had I seen the names I would have got the joke. And now realizing that someone told you not to post player names makes your post even funnier.Quote:About halfway through it, we're joined by these two morons; <Vampire Guy> and Col. <Military Man>.
My bad for reading your post too late to get the original joke.
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Ok. Here we go. This first pic is the entrance room of one of my bases.
Here I used Plants and Stone blocks to craft the illusion of a garden along the wall and in the corner the leaves cover the entrance into the lower level.
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This is the traditional "fireplace" entrance where you step inside and drop to the next level down.
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Another fireplace going in the opposite direction.
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Here is an example of using base lighting to conceal a secret room built right above the base entrance teleport.
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This door is another example of using lighting and to conceal a hidden entrance.
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In this pic the door is concealed behind the entertainment center where the plant leaves hide the drop down entrance.
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In this pic two entrances are hidden. One going up using base lighting and the other is behind the glowing doohickey (heh I can't think of it's name).
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Here I'm using the tree and lighting to hide the door in the corner of the ceiling.
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Lastly this is another example of optical illusion. Here I built the door with the wall on the right side of the stairs being farther back than the left side. The gap is the door behind the stairs.
I hope this gives people ideas.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Impish Kat
Forbin_Project is the master of secret rooms.
I literally got motion sick (very rare!) looking into all the nooks & crannies of his base.
Thanks Kat.
I'll get started on some pics of my hidden doors and post them, but I've got to admit most of my secret doors conceal entrances going up or down. I use tricks like fireplaces, plants, showers, etc to distract the observers eyes from doorway.