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Originally Posted by LISAR

Why would they?

Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA

Mmm

I believe a real problem in these forums is the lack of civility from a few posters, and to an extent a bit of closed mindedness.

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

And through the creation of the Super leader rank, the SG does belong to one person.
Customer service headaches led to it, and they are almost entirely out of intra-Sg actions outside of bugs.

The Super leader can boot everyone if they so chose, and Customer service will not do a thing about it.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

I do not see this as a "gift" in the traditional sense. I actually see it as an insidious attempt to cull certain server numbers and make us smile while it happens. The net result is there will be fewer servers when Going Rogue goes live which will give an artificial sense of population.

Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy

Very true however the SG wouldn't have that prestige and all the nice TOYS it bought without the members staying in SG mode and earning it. I have 50 levels that never left SG mode from level 2 through 50 and earned the group more than 600,000 in prestige. NOW you go to Atlas Park and check the exchange rate for BUYING prestige using influence. It's 1 Million in influence to purchase 2000 prestige over or 500 in influence for every 1 prestige.. so that's like saying I donated over 300 million in influence to my base. Is there anyway I personally can use that prestige? Well aside from using the telporters, med bay, and storage items provided inside NO but 600,000 prestige is enough to have built my OWN little base with all the toys so saying it was never mine to begin with and eluding that I have no right to say NO I don't want the base to move from say Freedom to Infinity I like it here is NOT a good idea.

There are small SGs now with basically 4-5 members with a LOT of Alts in the same SG. If those 4-5 players all agree to move an SG fine but as mentioned above there are SGs out there now that have been around a long time and have more than 100 members. Getting 100 people to agree to one new sever would be a nightmare and it doesn't seem very fair to say well 40 people agreed to Infinity, 25 to Virtue, and 20 want to stay here so we move to Infinity. What that means is 40 people got what they wanted or were talked into it and 45 (?) were slighted? Last time I checked 45 was higher than 40 so a MINORITY got to decide the base was moving to a new sever and to which one? And now 45 members that don't like the move at all either pay to transfer their characters or leave the SG and go look for a new one that HOPEFULLY won't decide to do the same thing. And to top it off whi knows how much of that bases prestige was a direct result of those 45 players playing the game in SG mode to help build the base to begin with.

No I can see this idea causing an uproar in game and on the forums and frankly it won't work. If a base Superleader decides he doesn't like the servers his SG is on he is free to buy a transfer and move to a new one but that base belongs to ALL it's members and they have the right to keep it right where it is. Let him go and start all over again if he wants but tranferring his base with him is not fair and I really don't see NC Soft ever agreeing to it.

Originally Posted by RevBlackwell

First of all I realize that rare recipe drops are going to be expensive. I have a problem with just HOW expensive they get. THis makes it practically impossible for lower level characters to get a hold of them. I am suggesting a 1,000,000 influence / infamy cap on pricing in the consignment house / black market. I believe this is a fair cap as it still garners players large sums and still leaves it reasonably available for lower end characters. I know the gold miners and hoarders are going to complain about this but we need a fairer pricing system that allows rarer recipes to be purchased (when available) by lower level characters.

Originally Posted by Beber

That's a great idea, but to "complete" the character transfer, we still need a way to transfer Prestige. In my case for example, I invested millions and millions of prestige in my base, and restarting my SG on another server, and regaining all the prestige, badges, etc... before being finally able to "Load" my base, would still be something that would prevent me from moving from my home server.

Originally Posted by Eric Nelson

I...think I'm pretty alive...here, lemme check...yup, I bleed and everything. Pretty alive!

Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten

Not a bad idea - assuming we ever get CoH 2.

I'm still really against the whole idea of tangible rewards for MMOs strictly set on time payed. I would much rather have a system where you get tokens ever 3 months or something that can unlock specific items. They could be in-game related or out of game related. You could possibly redeem them for some CoH gear from the store, or maybe a badge. Maybe you could get a certain power or costume. Every three months, you can start a new concept character. With the system they have now, you might have to wait 3 years to start the concept character you would want.


I can see why people want to buy these vet rewards...but they're just going to have to deal with it. Its not going to happen without pissing a lot of people off. In all honesty, it would probably piss off more people than it would please.


Just in case anyone whose keeping score can't tell from my posts (If anyone cares what my take on this issue is), you can throw me in the /no crowd.

Originally Posted by Kierthos

*nod* Give us some tech walkways already. Building everything out of desks is getting old. (And I still want an explanation as to why the copper alembic tank is 5000 prestige, but the steel alembic tank is 100 prestige...)

Originally Posted by Thaumator

Sure it can. It happens every single day, usually in the form of receiving money for doing your job (paying you for your time, and sometimes... your skills)

As a vet of CoX coming up on 5 years, I'm going to make my perspective clear to everyone. If a new player is willing to shell out $14.99 x the number of months in vet rewards that they want, it wouldn't bother me in the least Knock yourself out, kid... you've got more money and less patience than I do.

Originally Posted by Thaumator

Not quite. You've demonstrated your loyalty by paying the company more money over a longer period of time than others. You haven't accomplished anything else but exactly that.

Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten

Its funny to see another one of these threads pop up only to be tore to shreds.

Definitely don't want to allow purchase of vet rewards. They definitely need to stop doing more vet rewards because its starting to get to the point where there are certain ones that people probably won't be able to get - Due to the game being fairly old.

I kinda feel bad for the people who just found the game a couple months ago because they weren't around for the previous doses of marketing. But, at the end of the day, you will get the rewards eventually.

Making vet rewards one of the top reasons you play games is going to really disappoint you if you are just now starting to get into any game that has been established for a while - that's the main reasons I hate vet rewards in general.

Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf

It had to be done. I was compelled by the Boom de Yadda to do it!

Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg

... years later, for completely unrelated reasons. What's your point?

Originally Posted by Moiread

This is the weirdest thing I've seen all morning. Thank you Catwhoorg.

Originally Posted by SunGryphon

I need to +1 this thread before it's gone.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

If they merged the markets, they could eliminate that discrepancy.

Grant you, blue-side will always have more inf. because more people play blue-side. But a merged market would equalize the inf. distribution, as well as the swag distribution.

Originally Posted by Angry_Angel

If you scroll down, they already have a song but it's a bit freaky. Lines like:

"Pie.
PIE!
Our Souls For John's Shplekenfugheimer Pie,
Lest Our Grandmother's Face be Violated"

... Um, I just read the 2nd paragraph of the 'Holiday Icons' section on that page and it all makes sense now. Now I can't look at frosted strudel the same way again.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

I'd hate to be the guy who has to come up with a song for this holiday.
I can't even SAY it, much less sing it.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Really?
I use it for transportation.
I use it for storage.
I use it for crafting.
I use it if I get defeated to pick up inspirations.

I can turn it around and say I don't use Ouro because of my base - which has no level limit to get into, and lets me get to more locations than Ouroboros does. I can start Ouro missions from the crystal inside my base. And for me - it's more true than your "nobody uses bases."

Originally Posted by Ironblade

hm, not a lot. I bought a VG with med bay, storage room, teleport bay with 4 teleporters and about 2 million prestige in the bank. I paid 80 million (40M influence and 40M infamy).

Originally Posted by Psyte

Well, remember that Cryptic is owned by another company (Atari), just as Paragon is owned by NCSoft. The devs don't necessarily have a say in this, which is why this is to marketing, not the devs