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To clarify, this only happens when trying to use "super tailor" NPCs, including the Icon rep in RWZ and Trina in the Tiki lounge. You can visit basic tailor NPCs, which now includes all trainers, and edit your costume just fine.

I've bugged this one a couple of times now, so hopefully it's worked it's way into the QA pipeline. ANY issue which causes a client crash should really be given high priority.

While the initial arc isn't as good as it could be, the overall story that progresses through the teens in does become enjoyable, IMO. Don't just base your opinions completely off the initial arc (in before "first impression"), because things aren't as they appear.

Oh, and it's explained later on why Zephyr wears the Ascension belt. It won't pacify the folks who rage because NPCs are not under the same costume limitations as players are, but at least it's explained in-story.

I know I'm preaching to the choir, but when you see stuff missing that probably shouldn't be missing, please /bug it. Don't just sit there and complain about it.

This has already been reported in the I21 VIP beta bug forum, which the QA team has been reading. It'll be fixed eventually.

The bonus points script will be run later today (Wednesday) during the announced maintenance.

So for like 99% of the playerbase, nothing at all changes.

'Kay.

Oh, hey, I get to try my new thing out!

Here goes ...

I raise a toast to the memory of our forum's human geek news aggregator.

I won't be able to see a Time Manipulation character from here on without being reminded of you.

Also, the community reps try their best to announce scheduled maintenance here on the board. Something like Freedom launching, which will require an extended downtime, will absolutely be announced in advance.

I'm sure this has been beaten into the ground. I'm also sure that there's been a developer response as to why this hasn't happened or why it likely won't happen. But I'd just like to make the humble suggestion that the available choices of SG and VG base teleport beacons be expanded to reflect a post-Going Rogue City of Heroes.

First of all, I'd like to see beacons to the Praetorian zones added. I realize that there are are no Praetorian SGs, but Praimal Earth characters can already freely enter Praetoria via one (and only one) portal, tucked away by some bathrooms inside Pocket D, and even team with Praetorian characters. I see no reason why SGs can't gain additional access to Praetoria by snagging all the exploration badges there.

Also, I'd like to see Paragon City and Rogue Isles beacon use extended so that those SGs ad VGs with Rogues and Vigilantes among their memberships can use their base teleporters to travel abroad if they take the time to go around and earn the SG beacon badges for those zones.

Finally, I'd like to see a beacon to Cimerora added. I realize that story-wise, the Midnighters are supposedly accessing Cimerora without Ouroboros' knowledge, but the fact that we players can have our own crystals of ice and flame kinda goes against Ouroboros lore anyways.

Now, in all my examples, there is one consistent thing which makes giving players access to these beacons difficult: they're all gated in some way or another. Access to the original Praetorian zones depends on owning Going Rogue (or being a VIP once Freedom launches), and access to First Ward will depend on being a VIP or having bought a license for the zone; being able to travel abroad to the Rogue Isles or Paragon City is dependent upon being a Rogue or Vigilante; traveling to Cimerora is dependent upon having gained access to the Midnighter club and being level 35.

Standard Code Rant being in effect, I cannot say with any certainty if it would be possible to connect the required flags to the appropriate beacons, or how much programming time it would take if it were possible. But I think it's worthwhile to just investigate this at some point if nothing else.

/JRanger to pretty much all your ideas, Snow. Keyes is meant to be difficult and require micro-management of the various tasks while having to deal with a constant threat from the antimatter pulse. With the amount of time the trial spent being run in both the I20 pre-beta and the normal I20.5 beta, if the developers hadn't meant for it to be the beast that it is, they would have changed it. They recognize that it's difficult (and thus, less people play it because it's not OMG easy like BAF), so they've appropriately increased the completion reward.

I personally enjoy the Keyes trial because it's trickier than both BAF and Lambda. It's a challenge. Well, not much of one, really, because it's usually won or lost during the last fight. So your point about the antimatter pulse doesn't really hold up. Sure, players are defeated. But you're level 50; debt does not matter at that point. Besides, between defenders and corruptors, self-heals from powersets and pools, Rebirth Incarnate abilities, and good old fashioned green inspirations, mitigating the antimatter damage is not hard to do. It's only difficult if you go running off on your own during the trial and get in over your head, or people foolishly continue to attack Anti-Matter during the reactor phase -- both of which should be nipped in the bud by the trial leader.

While not nearly as high on the scale as other peoples' choices, I'm gonna add Alien: Resurrection to the list. It was full of really good character actors, all stuck playing one-dimensional characters in a mediocre film that could have been better had the original version been made.

Dune.

I've read the book, though. Wasn't exactly over-the-moon, so I figured I shouldn't waste my time with the adaptation.

Also, It's been a long time since I've watched Blade Runner and 2001; I should probably reacquaint myself with hem.