Garielle

I can't believe they missed "Hatesmen" from Amazonian Earth.

Firefly did get wrapped up with a made-for-TV (or may have been straight to DVD) movie called Serenity.

Sort of like how Farscape was wrapped up with the mini-series, The Peacekeeper Wars.

Still, I think Firefly had a lot of potential for more seasons between the intro and the wrap-up. They spent an entire season developing the characters and then had a single movie to wrap it all up.

If you are interested in seeing how it all ended for them, the movie is currently available on Netflix streaming.

The funny thing about Double XP Weekend is that it is not the double xp that actually makes leveling up so fast. I was talking to someone in game and they were ecstatic that they managed to get a character from 1 to 50 in two days.
Hmm... 2 days under double xp... that would mean that if she were to do the same thing when it was not double xp, it would take her an entire FOUR days.

Except, as I said, it's not the XP that actually provide the majority of the increased leveling speed. Most of the speed increase comes from the fact that there are so many players on at all hours, all eager to team up with anyone and everyone they can get their hands on.

Part of what brings in the players for Double XP weekend is that it only happens twice a year. If it became a regular occurrence, the draw would be much lower. It goes from. "Double XP is next weekend. I better plan to spend a little (or lot) of extra time in game." to "Double XP is next weekend, but I dunno if I will be there or not. I may just wait until it rolls around again next month."

At this point, I have pretty much given up ever seeing anything done to balance the content between the two sides. There doesn't seem to be enough interest on the part of the development team to put the time and effort in. In fact, if anything, I see a tendency to take the few benefits that Redside has and change blue side to give them the same benefits.

Case in point. on the blue side, there are 11 normal zones plus 9 hazard zones for a total of 20 zones. On the red side, there are 7 normal zones, and no hazard zones. This means blue side has nearly three times as many zones. One upon a time, this used to be balanced by the fact that to travel between these zones, you had to make multiple hops. For example. to get from Atlas Park to Talos, you had to take the train to Steel Canyon or Skyway, switch lines, and then take the train to Talos.

A few issues though, they connected together all the lines, so in most cases, you can get to any of the normal zones with a single hop. The only times you need to do more than one hop are if you are going to a hazard zone or to Peregrine Island. This completely removed any semblance of balance between the two sides.

Somehow it just makes sense that travel across a smaller area should be quicker. Somehow this logic seems to escape those who pleaded for the change as well as the developers who implemented it.

This was discussed in another thread recently as well. Vigilantes and Rogues receive a stack of normal reward merits instead. The Hero/Villain merits are essentially a reward for remaining loyal to one side, which Vigilantes and Rogues are not. It is the trade off they make for being able to travel freely between red and blue zones. If they have an evenly comparable reward, there would be little or no reason for anyone to remain a pure hero or pure villain.

We already know that if you are a non-VIP who has neither unlocked Inventions nor purchased a License for them, that recipes will not drop. Since the PvP IOs are some of the most sought after in the game, it would be illogical to assume they said, "Okay. We aren't gonna let you have any salvage or any recipes except these recipes right here which are currently the most desirable."

If they are using Kerberos to authenticate between the forums and the authentication server, it could be something as simple as the clocks on the two systems being too out of sync. It doesn't take much.

Still, once the forum has authenticated you and set up the session, this shouldn't be a factor. Kerberos issues should only show up during the authentication process itself (when you are logging in).

I actually suggested this (again) recently in another thread talking about desirable QoL improvements. I even suggested a possible mechanic for its implementation.

The idea is that if an sg invite was sent to a GLOBAL name instead of a local name, instead of sending the pop-up window, it would generate a Certificate or Voucher to send to the person's email. They could then claim this Certificate or Voucher via the email system.

This has been requested so many times by so many people I find it hard to believe that the folks at Paragon Studios are well aware of the desire. Usually, if there is some technical reason why a feature can't be implemented (or would take considerable time), a red name will come and explain that. Since that hasn't happened (to my knowledge) with this particular feature request, I assume this on the list of things that they have just decided they do not want to do.

A likely reason for this is the difference in the average retention rate of someone who primarily plays alone vs the average retention rate of someone who primarily plays with others. While they don't want to make it impossible for you to have a personal SG and base, they don't want to make it too easy either. Still, it's a much easier task in CoH than it is in some other MMOs. In the MMO I worked with several years ago, if you set up a guild, and the membership fell below a certain point for more than a few days, the guild was automatically disbanded. Each account was allowed 5 characters slots, and the minimum number in a guild was 10 members. These magic numbers meant you needed at least 2 people (or two accounts at least) using all of their character slots in order to keep the guild going.

Still, CoH has made strides to make interaction between your alts a lot easier over the past year. Issue 18 gave us the ability to send our alts inf and items cross server and even cross alignment, so who knows if they may some day remove the final barrier and let us have our offline or mail based SG invites.