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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Because they don't know how to find out someone's global name based on their local name?

I'm not going to mention how here, just in case one of them happens to browse the forums.

It really sucks that you have to be careful what you post for fear of spammers finding it I don't want to be responsible for a flood of global name emails, so I'm keeping my mouth shut about it .

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

People keep telling me that, but I have personally never seen any bidders for these inspirations, myself, or indeed seen them sell for much over 5000. Maybe it's bad timing on my part, I don't know.

Originally Posted by HelinCarnate

It was also thought at one time that we would never get to change the colors on our powers too.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Teams of all DS MMs are really rather destructive. I was out Bruted, out Dommed, out everything. Heck, it was hard to get to the mobs sometimes.

And yeah, FotM dies down, every time It can be funny while it lasts though.
Although I am getting a tad sick of the Ember demon roar sound. Its...really a bit too loud, IMO. Cool ,but a bit grating after the umpteenth time ><

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Make a storage alt, and mail them to it.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Short version:
Create a SG management screen that is, for those with the appropriate rights, "one stop shopping" for membership and base management. (Visibility of these sections can change by rank.)

Long version:
I'll say up front this would be a good bit of work. Several things I'm thinking of for this don't exist right now, and I'm not sure if they would be doable or not. But for supergroup management - including some things like base rights, as well as security (logs, mostly,) and membership management, it would be nice to have a unified interface to do this from.

The "Superleader," of course, would always have access to all functions. Specific tabs (and subsets, perhaps) could be made visible or hidden for various ranks, as well.

I'm thinking of a main screen with several tabs to move between - "SG Settings," "Membership," "Base management" and "Logs."

Supergroup settings:

This basically has the settings of the current "registration form," without that interface. Motto, MOTD, colors, symbol, and rank rights are handled here. Probably the simplest tab. What would be nice is a "Pay rent" button, as well.

Membership settings:

I'd like to see the ability to send an email out to all the membership at once here, really. This would also contain the current SG membership list you see in the SG screen, with the addition that you could use it to email someone individually (for instance, "You're coming close to the X day inactivity limit of the SG," if your SG does that. It's a convenience thing.) This is alsow where I'd add offline promotions and demotions, as well as the "kick" we have now.

Base management:

First and foremost, yes, a "Pay rent" button here, as well. (Seriously. Convenience, guys.) This is also not a link to the base editor - which itself needs an overhaul. What this CAN do, however, is set things like default storage permissions (add storage, it takes these automatically instead of the rather too-tight current permissions,) a global reset which (base item change time) affects anything that doesn't have its permissions locked. (Yes, I want to be able to set individual permissions and lock them for storage items.) A quick overview of storage units (#/30, for instance) as well as power and control would be useful here. (Tied in with this, I'd like to be able to rename storage units, giving them specific designations so this functionality would be more useful.)

Logs:

Yeah, fun stuff to read through, but if you want to know who added, removed, changed things, paid rent last, etc, this would give you access to these logs - and split up, so it's not just one giant jumble. (of course, you can see the current style log under "all" if you want that kind of overview.)

It wouldn't be a quick bit of work, and requires (well, would work better with) some overhauls of base items and new functionality, but I think it'd be reasonably convenient to have accessible from anywhere. (You'd get to it from a menu, if you have the rights.)

Originally Posted by Aggelakis

I will never support a "purchase" of anniversary badges. Either via in-game or out-of-game means.

I will ALWAYS support "global" anniversary badges. It's a real-life event (the game lore doesn't care about its launch date), so it should be awarded to the PLAYER (e.g. global), not the character.

Originally Posted by Zatch

I do not know how the guy got the red star, I was never in that SG but i had teamed with a number of it's members. To me the selling of a SG like this is just boggels my mind if i had a SG that i no longer wanted i would never kick everyone out and then put it up for sale. I would ask my SG member who would like to take over, but then that is me. I thank everyone for there repliese i didn't think there was anything that could be done to put a stop to it and returne the SG to those that worked for it.

Originally Posted by Emberly

Are you over level ten on the sending character?

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Initial market, most likely:
Police/SWAT type teams.
Military

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk

Sounds more like you are getting some cheep fun winning the internet.

What would be wrong having a more appropriate transportation power of a natural human? It is even addressed very fondly in the staff of power mission arch.

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk

Wow that is interesting... I will believe it when I see it, but wow it seems really dangerous, a waist of energy, and generally useless in every day life of your modern citizen.

Originally Posted by Steampunkette

This is the best "Changing Enhancements" idea I've ever seen. It works as an Inf-sink, since you can't FIND the recipes and noone makes a buck of marketing them.



This makes it even more awesome as an inf-sink.

-Rachel-

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

My counter suggestion: The "Zero" IO or "Black Hole" IO. (Call it whatever the hell you want).

What is it and how would it work?

1. It is a recipe that can be bought at wents or the stores. And I mean bought like the teleport power at wents. It doesn't drop. The price is frozen and scales as such: (not set in stone)

@ lvl 1-20 it's 400,000 inf
@ lvl 21-30 it's 750,000 inf
@ lvl 31-40 it's 950,000 inf
@ lvl 41-50 it's 1,000,000 inf. Each additional time you buy it at lvl 50 after the first 5 times (at 50) the price gets 500,000 added to it until it hits the permanent price of 3,000,000 to purchase.
@ incarnate level 1, the price is 3,000,000, and stays at that price.

Inf sink possibilities, obviously. Further inf sink possibilities.

How it works is that when the person crafts it, it creates
The salvage required would all be cheap (ANY 6-8 white salvage of ANY level), the crafting cost would scale at 1/3 the price of everything posted above until it hit the final permanent crafting cost of 1/3 of 3,000,000.

As you can't trade it, it's bind on creation. The resulting IO would be stuck in your tray. (They could increase the tray to 20 if necessary, but not required)

What does it do? The IO allows you to zero out or black hole out one slotted IO. The slotted IO would jump to your tray, while the slot it was in was once again open, and the Zero/Black Hole IO would then vanish.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: In it's own thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219336

Originally Posted by Roderick

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

This. Imagine if we used the model WoW and WAR used and merit roll results became Bound on Pick-up and other Recipes Bound on Craft.

*shudder*

The wails from the Marketing forums would be epic though

Originally Posted by Tenzhi

3. He/she spent gratuitous amounts of time/inf/merits/effort on various sets and now wishes to use different sets without all of said t/i/m/e going to waste. Thus, selling them on the market to recoup some losses while rebuilding the self-same character. Which wouldn't be an issue if the IOs weren't ultimately overpriced (or, if said prices are considered fair, the amount recouped for lost enhancements during respec more closely matched that "fair" price). Less likely, but a possibility. And such a person might look into using the alternate build for such experiments in character building if it's not already in use by them.

Originally Posted by Postagulous

There is some confusion between lag and the computer sucks. I've had people say CoH lags when they start approaching a WW. Huh? What are the odds?

I've never had a computer that made it so I couldn't approach WW. But I did quit years ago, before there was WW actually, because I couldn't approach a group of people with capes. My computer sucked. CoH didn't start lagging when I saw capes. It was fine.

If the server only lags when your computer needs to have a better graphics card, hey, that's such a strange coincidence.

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk

Because we don't have jetpacks in working regular reality. So it requires super tech, so it is a tech power.

Originally Posted by Noyjitat

I wouldn't exactly call them gifts since they usually do some sort of power/enhancement nerf or buff nearly every patch whether that nerf or buff hits your character/s or not.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

It's a bummer when you have tested positive for something and cannot give ever again even though you don't have it.