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There's lots of religious nonsense going on around now, hence it is now referred to as the atheistic "Holiday Season". Hurray for atheism!

Thanksgiving is different, since it's giving thanks for no longer being British, or something. That's not really celebrated in... anywhere outside of the US of states (yes, there is a rest-of-the-world!) regardless of your religion.

I know there's several real reasons, but hypothetically, I was wondering why pets aren't just perma? I mean... it doesn't seem overpowering from my perspective.

Please enlighten me.

I think this is a terrific idea. I know it's been posted before, but still... fun!

I was thinking about this and I think it's a really big job. I think it's certainly worthwhile, though. On the topic I'd suggest that some new audio be added as defaults for character models and footwear. For example, if you have a huge model and high sliders, then you should get a "big" audio set where there are heavy sounding footsteps, etc. If you multiply this with the number of different sounding footwear (bearfoot, metal or boots are the only ones I can think of) and let's say there's a big, medium and small for each, that's at least nine sets of different audio. Quite some work before we even get started on the regular power customisation (let alone pool powers)! Having acknowledged the amount of work involved, I'd just like to add one last comment: Get on with it!

I like this. Perhaps people could build something akin to it as a chat channel on their server. Undrn3t channels...

Something that bothered me about the Resistance... why would people resist Utopia? I can imagine that only the free thinkers, the artists would wish for less regulation and conformity and they are rarely combative people. They are more likely to be too intelligent to indulge in wilful destruction. My conclusion was that the resistance was the Darwinians. Those who realised that imposing order and stability on a system ensures it's destruction, for the way all living things have survived over the years is by being quick to adapt to change. A sudden accident or destructive asteroid could wipe out the world, but if we were ready to adapt, then the species may survive. Perhaps I thought too much about this?

(examples below use the Hero side market prices)

I like the IO enhancement system. It's clever and really makes a massive difference. But sets drive me up the wall. I am not one to go into minutii and a scientific level of data analysis, so I would like to pose a question for people who do. The availablility of desirable set IOs seems incredibly twisted. It appears that the sets have been created to be all things to all people, but there are many wierd quirks of the system.

The cost of a recipe is often determined by whether or not the recipe has an ingredient which costs ~1m inf (as a rule of thumb) - then the recipe is often worth less on WW than to sell to a merchant.

Recipes which are used by lots of powers within lots of popular classes - e.g. Rech/End of ALL in the resist sets - are useful for every melee class. That's almost if not always several powers on every Scrapper and Tanker. But that's not all. Recharge is almost useless on most resist toggles, so why is it in every resist set?

Players appear to prioritise powers as follows:
In Damage Powers:
Damage, then Accuracy, then End OR Recharge then the other one of End or Recharge. Bearing this in mind, it's not surprising to see that Dam/Acc recipes are usually rare and expensive, whereas End/Rechs of the same set are usually cheaper.

Peculiarly rare powers have recipes of incredible comparative cheapness. Let's compare Sleep with Melee damage:
Fortunata Hypnosis - recipes 2-10~ million infs
Hecatomb - recipes 40-250~ million infs

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems to me that drop rates are not adjusted to take into account the popularity of a power-type, recipe-type or a specific recipe within it's set. Perhaps it should?

Now, I realise that it depends on what type of character you are playing and that, maybe in some twisted way this is a lesson to play a style which you don't enjoy, but that hardly seems the right thing to do, does it?

I'd really appreciate it if anybody would like to crunch some numbers on this, and I would also like to see what you think of it, so I ask once again: "What's wrong with IO sets?"

I want to see Rock n' Roll attack. Guitar Heroes abound!

Wouldn't it be great if electric pets lasted longer than the blinking of an eye? But then, I don't understand why ANY pets unsummon after a period of time.

This is too easy.

Wouldn't it be great if street zones felt more interactive? If you could read a poster and it be up-to-date? If there were street items that you could throw (steal at least this from C.O. - they stole enough from CoH)? Items that GMs could crush and Rikti destroy with their bombs and invasions. Perhaps something to defend from the Zombie invasion when it comes? Maybe make it an item that provides a small faction(red/blue)-based buff, to offer incentive to defend it (a bit like the relics in DAoC)? Perhaps have something like that in the PvP zone so that fighting villains (or heroes) wasn't just about trying to find the invisible needle in a haystack (you know, the one that stabs you in the back)?

Forgive me if I ignore your rather aggressive style of writing. I did not mean to have you frothing at the mouth. I was unaware of your furious passion for this enigma. You come across as a very angry man.

I will bow to the fact that if the professionals are struggling with it - having committed serious manpower to it, then there's probably no easy fix. I'll just mention my opinion as a payer:

Hello Onion, back for the weekend, what's going on?

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I do the LRSF quite often and its a bit of an in joke when ppl get to mission where you get the code and kill Miss Liberty that Valkyrie and Swan and sometimes Miss Liberty are/maybe Lesbians. Is this some how surreptitiously suggested in the lore ? Or said in the lore at all?

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Player questions go here : http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/po...rd=QuestionsUK

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I think PvP was always intended for the game - superheroes vs supervillains is just begging for it - but the devs seem unsure of just how to make it work.

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Fixed it for you.

You have a fan.

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Yep! +1 to all that.

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+2

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On balance, unless the voice-acting is extremely awesome, I'd probably rather the money and development time went elsewhere.

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Yeah, Mission Architect 2, perhaps? Look over there! It's a white elephant!

To expand on Razor_Shultz' comments, I believe that if fully-voiced is the future of MMOs, then CoH has to go fully voiced to compete with them. Otherwise we're talking about a game which will be literally "last-gen".

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No they aren't. Something can be easy to implement, but take ages because you have to write thousands of lines of code.

In another instance, it may be difficult to pull off because of the complexity of formulas for example, but only require a few lines of code.

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No.