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Originally Posted by Hit Streak

From NCsoft:



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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

The 'VIP' servers, to my mind, are the escape for all the Elitists and down-their-nose lookers who would just alienate genuine nice players and others and stop them adding to the game.

Good riddance, I say. I'll be waiting on Union to welcome the next batch of RPers.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

You really think an arbitrary number has more to tell you about the worth of what someone has to say than the things they say? Sad.

Originally Posted by Nihilii

A simple search for "server merge" will prove that not to be true. Unless you're easily placated by people putting a disclaimer saying their copypaste wall of text isn't meant to insult you right before it proceeds to insult you for a few thousand words.

Fact is, people who post a lot do so because they haven't anything better to do. A rule of thumb that has never failed me on any internet forums is that anyone with 1,000 posts or above shouldn't be trusted too much to be representative of the community or sensible in his posting, and the more posts the more likely is that person to care way too much about his online persona and to bring his own agenda in every topic.

Just watch the answers this very post should get, that will likely twist my words from "rule of thumb" to "hard rule" ; and, yes, I am aware I have more than a thousand posts myself, and I fully fit into this. No denial here.

Originally Posted by Unimportant

Architect just doesn't cut it for me. NOBODY does actual missions on the Freedom server, they're all powerleveling or farming in Architect. It's stupid and boring.

Is there a server with MINIMAL people in Architect, that doesn't have Freedom's population but still has more than 5 people log on every day?

Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian

y'know what sounds perfect to me for buying character slots? Possibly accountwide? Empyrean Michael (Issue 20(.5): Incarnates Ascend Contact).

Maybe have one global option that maxes at 3(for a total of 8 non-EAT costumes for every character on the account), then 2 more that are character specific only unlockable for a higher amount of empyreans for your current (or a cert for another) level 50, giving a 50 with the max certificates redeemed and personal ones unlocked 10 costume slots.

Feedback?

Originally Posted by Little_Whorn

It's amusingly ironic to me that this same line of reasoning was constantly used to explain why SB and the single target shield buffs remained single target rather than being AoE buffs.

I know that the two cases are distinguishable, but still. The devs, with their newfound focus on AoE buffing and Incarnate nuking, seem to be all about gift-giving without attaching any strings. Normally I'd agree with you. But nowadays.... I dunno. Anything's seeming possible with these devs.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

There is no Forum Cartel. It is not cunningly concealed among the apparently carefree City of Heroes players of the forum, its trolls and lurkers. No one would suggest that its members have a political agenda within and beyond the game. Nor would anyone believe, should it be whispered, that the Forum Cartel collects vast sums of inf and favors in order to further the goals that it doesn’t have. Moreover, an organization that does not exist certainly cannot have the prestige or talent pool to develop its own subtle, social martial arts style.

Conversation Judo does not combine common, everyday movements with potent manipulations of puns and facts in a devastating and nearly invisible manner. It isn’t one of the Forum Cartel’s many sources of secret power. It never sees use in the discussion, arguments and flame wars of the players. People do not die from it, occasionally silently and occasionally screaming, days or weeks after not encountering it.

You mean Golden Ace defining all the new titles?

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Don't forget if they are per character and you can buy more than one at a time will we be able to assign them individually to characters as we see fit.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

but why not let them be an account wide purchase on all characters?
Plus, all purchases thus far have been account wide? Why make this one different. Do you simply not like the idea of having extra costume slots that are not being used?

Originally Posted by Lothic

There's at least one other superhero MMO out there that allows its players to both save/load costumes AND buy additional costume slots as well. There's no fundamental reason why this game couldn't be improved to offer BOTH features as well.



As a player of this game I would obviously love a scheme that would let me get more costumes slots for my characters that would not cost me any additional money. That's pretty much a no-brainer.

But I've personally wanted extra costume slots for some of my characters for so long that paying a bit of real money for them would not bother me in the least. From the point of view of "how much money I already pay for this game versus the amount of time I've played it over the last seven years" an extra charge for some costume slots would be almost insignificant to me.

So would I prefer a version of it like Memphis_Bill or Techbot Alpha suggested? Sure.
But if it came down to having it Forbin_Project's way or not at all I'd very easily go with Forbin_Project's idea.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

Like Bill said, I see a lot more people calling out people with high post counts and claiming they're being bullied by them, than I do people actually get bullied by folks with a ton of posts.

Anyway though this is about titles, less than post counts. I kinda miss the days there were more titles beyond Cartel, and when the community team could give out special titles to contest winners and people who made notable contributions to the community. It not only made something essentially useless a bit more fun, it actually cut down on the animosity since the "ranks" were less cut and dried.

Originally Posted by Nomme

"Nailed it" (no pun intended) I've seriously uttered the words, "Just shoot me now, please, put me out of my misery? I cannot cope with this anymore" during a migraine and meant every word. I'm not suicidal (not saying I haven't EVER had moments where sure it seemed like a good idea, but I am saying it has never been more serious of a contemplation than when coping with a migraine). To those who have never felt the pain of a migraine or worse than a "ordinary headache" - I envy you.

See, I'm not just an occasional sufferer (as the poster above with only 3-12 migraines yearly) - I've had months where I could count the number of migraine free days on one hand with fingers left over. They were a few years ago and it isn't as bad these days, but believe me when I say - I KNOW migraines. Those months - I didn't play CoH, not because CoH was the cause but because opening my eyes to any amount of light was excruciating. That didn't mean life didn't go on - I still had to go to work and do my job or I'd have been living on the streets. But it did mean I took the advice of all those who say "don't take your health in your hands and play anyway", I took the advice of "if it causes a headache or worsens it, don't play".

But if I "didn't do" everything that MIGHT cause me a migraine I would have no choice but to lie in bed for the rest of my life with someone bringing me food and drink that was carefully vetted for possible triggery substances. I know what part of my triggers are these days - and most often, flashy lights and such aren't the issue but at certain frequencies, yeah, it can be a problem. I've played CoH for six and a half years and besides times when I didn't play due to my own reasons (like migraines caused by another source) - I haven't had so many issues with graphics, and now suddenly a number of the new graphics are problematic. I can avoid the little triggers that only trigger minor issues - sonic grenades for example - those I can try to keep my camera averted from them. Barrier though? I can't avoid it because there isn't always a warning someone else is going to hit it - it bothers me whether it is on me or on a teammate or a random player who wanders up to the market. Any level 50 can get barrier with some effort - it isn't merely one powerset on a couple of ATs that I would have to avoid, it is every potential teammate (because I play almost exclusively on my level 50s and have for quite a while now, this isn't a trial fad for me, if it isn't the trials I'll be doing level 50 TFs back to back).

Originally Posted by MondoCool

So why don't you just not use the powers if it gives you headaches?

Originally Posted by JAG-01

DEAR GOD THIS.

This is one of the top reasons I hate Speed Boost with a passion. People keep throwing SB on me in places where being SB'ed does more harm than good, like CoT cave maps. And then they get indignant when I ask them to stop because I KEEP CRASHING INTO WALLS.

I'm about to the point where I'll quit a team the moment a kin responds with my request to stop with "No, I'm doing my job, shut up and be happy." Hey, they asked...

Originally Posted by Megajoule

Speaking as a buffer and a bubbler, I would really not want my team bubbles to be turned into a PBAoE. There's always at least one guy who's out of range when I play my Rad or my Emp, with their long-cooldown buff auras; with FF, I can at least chase down stragglers and bubble them up separately. (Yes, it means that their bubbles are now on a different timer than the rest of the team's, but IMO, keeping track of such things is part of FF and Sonic gameplay.)

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

This, more than anything, seems to be hurting low to mid levels. Logging on, if I do a search, I'll see a ton of 50s (usually "on mission map," with a few stragglers in RWZ/PocketD,) and just a few - sometimes 5 or less - lower levels.