Heartsong

I've crashed about 3 times since i14 went out, and I've never crashed before at all.

In the "In-Game Events" part of the post it says

" From 11am EST on April 28th to 12am EST "

but at the bottom of the announcement it says the 5-year badge will be available

"Beginning at 11am EST on Wednesday, April 29th and continuing until 11:59pm EST on Sunday, May 31st",

so I'm guessing they meant to put the May 31st date in the earlier part of the announcement?

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My 50 was trying to use it on my wife's 37 and the animation would play, she would get the prompt but she wouldn't get a buff.

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If she already had the buff and the 20-minute timer hadn't run out, she wouldn't get it again.

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Can someone assist and point me in the direction of the detailed function for the new Magic Booster Pack ? Reason I ask is I've noticed the new Fortune Temp power does not seem to work if the recipient is below a certain level, or maybe it's a level difference between the two characters. Any ideas ? Example: person giving Lvl 24, person receiving Lvl 15. Power seemed to fail. In reverse, (L15 gives to L24) the animation plays and icon appears in their tray. Tried both SK/LK'd and unSK/LK'd and teamed/un-teamed. Thanks.

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There's no level restriction on the Mystic Fortune power. My lvl 39 was doing it to level 1s and 50s alike last night.

Jill/Ex, I'm going to miss you a lot. Like so many others have said, it's always been a comfort to have your posts here about official goings-on, and I'm going to miss that aspect of your work here.

Your professionalism, intelligence and humor have been a blessing that all of us have enjoyed. I am encouraged, however, that people you've mentored will be following your example, so you've helped make our virtual a world a better place.

I hope your journey onward brings you joy, and I'm glad you'll be able to play CoH for pure fun now.

Blessed Be!

Alan/Heartsong

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Yup... I finally could access my account and saw i had 2 new serial codes for Magic Pack.

I only wanted one. And i expect a complete refund for the other before my cred card charge me interests.

By the way, the NCStore could use some bandwidth or something. Even the most obscure pornsites i ever visited were more reliable

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Had the same issue, and definitely did not double-click anything. Read this forum before getting the pack so I was paying close attention to what I was doing, and got double-billed anyway.

Oh well, refunds are fine, it'll all work out. I'm just happy to have the pack!

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For a game that has gone out of its way to 'deal with farmers', the winter event turns around and requires running the same single mission about 60 times to reap the entire rewards set. That's not 'fun',it's excessive. Ditto for 100/200/whatever present collecting.

Ski slopes are fun.

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I totally agree. The Winter Event feels like "work", not "fun", because it takes so long to get the badges. I finally just stopped trying.

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Cheese!! Yumm

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I'm a big fan of cheese, so I lol'd

This is pretty crazy, I've been trying to connect for 2 hours and I can't connect to the patch server at all. It gets to Connecting #40 and I stop it and try a few minutes later.

Lighthouse, I'm going to miss you. You're a class act, man. Hugs and cookies to ya!

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so far I am loving this event. My mind/emp was able to get all 4 badges in one zombigeddon. it was kind of boring though. However my Kin/elec had a fantastic time. I died a couple times, mainly because a nightmare would spawn in front of me and take exception to my spamming fulcrum shift.

The mass of zombies, and how they spawn really does give that zombiegeddon feel to it. I love how the zombies look and the feel of the whole event.

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That's odd, I just logged my mind/emp in, and fighting 3 zombies I couldn't do any real damage to them at all. She's lvl 20 and only has DOs, but she ought to be able to take down a minion, right?

LOL, ok spill.. who got tipsy at HeroCon and enabled the event ahead of schedule?

(QR) *logging in to all of my alts to park them in the right places*

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You mean people take other travel powers besides Super Jump? Wierd.

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Yes, unfortunately jumping does not necessarily fit concept for everyone. =p

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Superjump looks silly with wings, for example.

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Bought the cyborg pack, blew myself up a few times and enjoyed it immensely.

Then talked to a few friends on the phone about it, and came up with the following scenario:

1. Blow yourself up in the midst of bad guys before they kill you.
2. If any survive, the rad on the team uses Fallout to explode your corpse.
3. The thermal on the team revives you, with that lovely power that explodes you into flames and does more damage.

Would anything other than a giant monster survive that sequence? Could be a fun experiment.

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Yep, you're right. Darn, I guess for that scenario you'd just have to die the old-fashioned way.

Bought the cyborg pack, blew myself up a few times and enjoyed it immensely.

Then talked to a few friends on the phone about it, and came up with the following scenario:

1. Blow yourself up in the midst of bad guys before they kill you.
2. If any survive, the rad on the team uses Fallout to explode your corpse.
3. The thermal on the team revives you, with that lovely power that explodes you into flames and does more damage.

Would anything other than a giant monster survive that sequence? Could be a fun experiment.

Regarding the jetpack - is it good for all characters on the account? If so, is the time limit from the date of purchase, or the date of activation in-game per character?

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What I am just furious about is the secrecy about the future of the game. WHY does it have to be such a secret. You have all these big plans for the game and are working on them already. So why can't we know what they are? We are paying our monthly fee so that the game can be updated for our enjoyment. I think that we deserve the right to know what the plans for the game are. There is no real reason to keep everything a secret for so long.

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Speaking from the point of view of someone who is in software development (but sadly, not gaming), you don't announce future plans to users because if they don't work out (or if something better comes up) the majority of your userbase/customers get very very cranky, and claim that you lied to them. There are fewer people getting upset about what they don't know than there would be if they heard something that never materialized.

At my office, I'm the testing guy, and when something the developer writes doesn't work right or isn't what the architect meant, I'm the one who drops the axe on it and postpones it to a future release, or postpones the release until it can be corrected. This is also why you don't announce firm dates for a release more than 2 weeks in advance... because the release date changes too.

Hope that helps clear it up.

My plant/thermal controller has the best survivability of any of my controller builds to date.

Yay! This will help me correct some serious fashion errors without burning through my vet tokens! Thanks!

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#1: Multiple doors leading to the same place
Okay, so the Club is one of those "extradimensional spaces", like Pocket D. No problem, I can accept that; it's "bigger on the inside". Fine. Then you head back into the labyrinth area, and there are multiple doors. All of them, for no reason I can discern, head back into the library. There's no indication on any of the doors about where they lead. Hell, for all I knew, the big ominous-looking door at the back of the library led directly into Cimerora.

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I wondered about this too, posted about it, and got replies telling me that the door on the left takes you to Steel, the door in the center takes you to Croatoa, and the door on the right takes you Founders (I think, forgot to test that, but the other two are correct).

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#4: Speaking of Cimerora...why?
As per the subtitle. Assuming one heads to Cimerora, there seems to be lacking a reason as to why, precisely, we'd be going there. There's no one in the Midnighter's Club that directs you. Nobody says, hey, we could really use your help with this time-travel thing we've gotten ourselves into. A serious lack of not only motivation, but INFORMATION. Gorramit, TELL THE PLAYERS SOMETHING.

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I wondered about this too, but one of the magic-oriented arcs I did recently about soul crystal and spirit thorns had text about ancient Rome and time travel... never really sent me to the Midnighters or Cimerora, but hinted at the idea of going to ancient Rome.

I'm not *too* worked up about it, but I do think it's a bit confusing. I'm sure they'll work it out in future releases.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

One thing about the Midnight Club, hero-side... if you enter from Steel Canyon, when you go back out the same door, you wind up in Croatoa. For a lvl 10, that's pretty... suicidal

I haven't found a way to get back to Steel from the club other than using my pocket d teleporter, or dying and going to the base and using a teleporter in the base.

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Ok, have a look at this image, entitled The Missing Shoe (when trying to use samurai boots):

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...issingboot.jpg

notice anything??

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I have a similar issue with the new thorn pattern, but if made both my character's boots and chest invisible, though her rings on her shoulders are there as is her chest emblem.

Hopefully that's one of the things this emergency fix is about.

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I guess I'll throw my .02 inf in on this..

Sounds like something i might like to use with my friends in the SG. pug's not so much. no doubt there will be elitist teams out there saying you must have voice to team with them, but heck, I wouldn't have teamed with those people anyway..


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Perfectly put. If they won't team with you because you choose not to use the voice chat, you didn't want to play with them anyway. Reminds me of the first FF defender I played who got kicked for being a defender that couldn't heal, or playing a Kin who got kicked for not being able to rez. I'd just rather not play with dunderheads like that in the first place.

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thats going to be the rub...unless there is a master recording of all channels....how do you prove the 12 year old with the microphone is dropping every F-bomb word combo he can think of over voice chat?

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Why would someone want to "police" voice chat? Treat it the same way you do text - if you don't like what someone's saying, slap them on Ignore.