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I don't really have much preference on the subject. All I ask is that whatever we get is entertaining to experience.

For example, I rather like the western half of "Eden." It is very inspired.

A minor QoL suggestion I thought up yesterday while flying through Dark Astoria. Because DA is designed such that you can't see anything beyond 20ft, there is NO frame of reference AT ALL to orient to once you're out in the open air. You have the map and a working compass to navigate by, but as far as pitch is concerned, you're flying blind.

Now, consider this; flight is as common in CoH as acne is to teenagers. A lot of zones have trees, buildings, and periods of intense fog that obscures the horizon line. Even when the horizon is NOT obscured, it's still hard to tell how your character is REALLY oriented to the ground. It looks like you're flying level, but in about 30 seconds your poor character's going to be scraping asphalt off Hyperion Way with his chin.

So the suggestion: a lovely invention known to aviators as the "altitude indicator."

While we're proposing touches of realism concerning the helicopters, let's have characters that jump, fly, or fall into the rotors get shredded. Hit fly without looking up? BZZT! Red mist!

Or how about deadening the music and SFX if your character stands under the rotors too long to simulate them going deaf from prolonged exposure to REALLY LOUD helicopter rotors. The long you stick around, the more permanent the change.

And while we're at it, let's have standing on power lines zap a character with electricity for 5,000 points of Energy damage. ZZAPP!

At this rate, we could have a badge:

1,001 Embarrassing Ways to Die - And you somehow blundered into them all. Seriously, how many ways can a superhero eat it in this city?!

One thing I'd like to add.

Since your Scrappers, Tankers, and Brutes are going to be melee characters, you will want them to stay close to their target.

PROBLEM: Mobs don't always stay in melee range. They'll get thrown backwards, or they'll try to run. Forcing you to break off and chase them before they get too far.

SOLUTION: Add the "follow" command to the string you're binding.

/macro find "target_custom_next enemy alive sapper$$target_custom_next enemy alive cyst$$target_custom_next enemy alive void$$target_custom_next enemy alive quantum$$target_custom_next enemy alive cairn$$follow"

Your melee toon will now automatically move into melee range of his target. If the target moves out of that range, your character will run back into range.

Okay, guess it might be just me getting this, then.

It's not that I can't push the thought out of my mind (Arachnoids got to it first, BTW, so that shouldn't be too hard). It's just that I tend to converse with friends via Ventrilo while gaming, and a handful of the regulars are female, have multiple Incarnates, and occasionally discuss Incarnate slots in Vent.

I guess if I do hear a female voice start talking about her "interface slot," I could simply bump the SFX volume up a notch and dive into a mob of Council. The gunfire punctuated by my own character's attacks is usually enough to drown out a Vent conversation, even on lower SFX volumes.

Plus, the best synonym for "interface" I could find on thesaurus.com was "interaction." Which, after comparing semantics versus the way the slot is used ingame, is actually a better fit.

The Interface Slot.

Sounds innocent enough...until a female character (or worse, a female player) starts discussing it. Doesn't help that it's a Physical Incarnate Slot.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to retrieve my mind from the Gutter before the Arachnoids get to it.

A thought occurs to me.

As cool as it is to see Coyote in the tutorial, it seems odd that as much impact as the player had on the community, his memorial is limited to an NPC you talk to once and forget about for the rest of the game. Not even a mention aside from one mission taking place in the same zone. What happened? Is every hero's first day the day Coyote's warranty expires? Does he get sucked into a vortex the moment you choose your first trainer?

It doesn't sound right that the Freedom Phalanx can memorialize fallen heroes with ENORMOUS statues, but don't stop to remember the guy training the heroes backing them up. A moment of reflection to their days as a rookie. A mention of watching him AS a rookie help fellow newbies learn the ropes. Debating whether they should get him anything for his birthday or send him a card. Something to acknowledge that this person that everyone meets on day one actually exists beyond day one.

On that note, I'd also vote for replacing one of the bronze status in City Hall, possibly one of the ones in the corridor leading to the origin contacts, with one of Coyote. As if Coyote's somehow "leading" new heroes in the right direction and "watching" them dash off to met their first days on the job.

I noticed the Barcode number myself, but I had something I've yet to see mention of...

...the retail box for the Going Rogue Complete Collection.

The UPC on the back of the case is 75646-00085.

I wonder what game was stocked two slots to the left of GRCC that earned itself an easter egg reference in CoH?

* The time I busted out laughing upon realizing the great leader of the world's premier villain organization is, in fact, a demigod with a bad spider fetish. While in conference with said demigod and his generals.

* The time I called Statesman a Nazi. Never compare a WWI veteran blessed with the power of Zeus with Adolf Hitler.

* The time I called Reichsman a Jew. Actually, no, that one was totally worth it.

* Watching the "Weeping Angels" episodes back-to-back the night before meeting a VIP. The meeting place was in a poorly-lit cathedral adorned with statues of angels. I'm not sure what blew the meeting; the army of Council ambushing us or my freaking out because NO ONE WAS LOOKING AT THE STATUES.

* Finishing that FREAKING HUGE bean burrito ten minutes before being awarded a medal by Statesman himself. Not sure if it was the gas or from laughing too hard, but for a moment I thought I'd killed Synapse.

You remember Grai Matter? That one piece of Incarnate salvage that required doing a MS Raid to get?

Remember how that was added to the Vanguard vendor's list so you could buy it with V-merits instead?

DO THAT.