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Here we go!

Welcome to Freedom Friday, where we answer your City of Heroes Freedom™ questions!

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Bryan Mereness: did you let the archtype i.o sets able to be purshable from hero merits yet?

City of Heroes: ATOs will be purchasable with Reward Merits and Inf, or Astral Merits and Inf.

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Jared Sterzer: When will the super packs go live?

City of Heroes: Soon™. Super Packs on are VIP Beta now, if you'd like to check them out!

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Asim Farooq Hassan: Staff fighting. Will there be a trident? The Atlanteans would appreciate it!

City of Heroes: There will be many different staff models.

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Jim Hart: How about some alternates to DBF that you could solo? ( or a way to test-drive a new toon just once at a higher level just to see if you like it before you invest a bunch of time in leveling it up... )

City of Heroes: There are no plans for any "test driving" of high-level characters.

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Dennis M. Tolbert: Hoverboards, flying carpets...a motorcycle with customizable colors would be really sweet! Any more travel powers in the plans?

City of Heroes: There are always ideas.

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Tom C. Granger: Any more base love?....can yu please turn base raids on...I wanna use my base arena.

City of Heroes: We definitely want to give bases more love when we can!

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Sean Lamphere: What's the deal with your new photo @City of Heroes?

City of Heroes: The new profile picture alludes to the Signature Story Arc, "Who Will Die." In part 5, which comes out January 17, Statesman will die.

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Robert Boone: Has a power list been released for Darkness Control yet?

City of Heroes: There is! You can see the list of powers here: http://bit.ly/rBFk5s We haven't revealed Tier 9 yet...we want to save that for later!

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Tish Morgna: Please allow our characters to choose their own "flyposes".

City of Heroes: There are different poses you can activate while flying. Use the command /e flypose<number 1-4> to switch. For example, /e flypose1, /e flypose2, etc.

Tish Morgna: There is only one default flypose, is there a way of changing it to another?

Dave Van Domelen: Tish: You might want to bind a key for the flypose (i.e. "/bind k e flypose3") so that once you've hit r to start flying you just have to hit a single key to go into the pose. Sadly, you can't alter your default flying pose.

City of Heroes: You would have to use the /e flypose command while flying.

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Ivan Turgenev: Request: Can you please start a quarterly contest for players where the winner gets a sketch of their main character by WHOEVER IS DOING THESE AWESOME WALLPAPERS?

City of Heroes: Hmm, that's an neat prize idea. I had personally thought of something along similar lines, but that's also an interesting one.

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Kurt Charbonnier: Has there been any progress in getting Paragon Points cards in retail locations?

City of Heroes: Nothing to report at this time. Sorry!

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Tim Lehnerer: Now that Masterminds can be heroes, are there any plans for a Paragon Police or Longbow summoning set? I can see robots being used for either good or evil but not, say, zombies.

City of Heroes: Hero Mastermind pets are something that's been often requested by the community. I don't have anything to report on that at this time, sorry. I will say though, I'm sure Heroes could find a heroic way to put zombies to use...

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James Stinedurf: i'm wondering why travel powers like ninja and beast run don't turn off your powers but the hover board and flying carpet do

City of Heroes: Ninja Run and Beast Run are like Sprint, where you can use toggles and powers. With the Flying Carpet and Rocket Board, it's more like Walk.

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Duane Wilson: any plans for a shape shifting power set? i would imagine it would be similar to Keldians in execution. different animals for different powers and such?

City of Heroes: There's a Coyote Travel Power that's on VIP Beta right now that allows players to become a Coyote. Shape Shifting as a Power Set, though? Nothing to report on that one.

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Michael Wright: Magic carpet is nice, however is anyone in design thinking of adding a witch broom flying power...someday. I for one would love it, but I'm not sure of the demand. Am I the odd man out on this request?

City of Heroes: You're definitely not the odd man out, as I've heard quite a few people ask for a broom.

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Duane Wilson: different power animations for different sets? something like different energy blast animations for the same power? i would imagine it would be something to purchase and i know if it was done well i would pay for it.

City of Heroes: We have offered different animation options for certain Powers/Power Sets. While we would love to do more, there's always the issue of time and resources--could time be better spent updating old animations, or creating animations for a brand new Power Set? That's not to say we might never offer more options for older sets, but there would be a lot of time involved in updating older powers animations.

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Rick Mares: Any chance of the paragon market showing what items we already have unlocked on our accounts? Example buying a bundle shows that you own in the individual pieces, or if you had things unlocked from the paragon rewards, or from a collectors set)

City of Heroes: This is something a lot of our players have been requesting, and we'd love to offer this type of functionality within the Paragon Market™. There's a lot of moving parts behind it, however.

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Duane Wilson: i use to play during Good Vs Evil and well into the second rikti invasion. after running out of money i had to let my account sit for quite a while and the log in info was either lost of my account was deleted having come back on CoX as a freeb i was wondering if there was any way to get that information back? i paid for the game ages ago and my attempts at finding my old log in and password have failed. i had some good builds and i paid for the cyborg costume set when it first came out it would be a shame for all the time and money to go to waste. so i guess my question is how would i go about finding out if my account was deleted or if i am just not remembering my info correctly?

City of Heroes: Your account likely wasn't deleted. You can e-mail support at https://support.cityofheroes.com/; they should be able to help.

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Dennis M. Tolbert: I was excited about the german sheperd pet until, I realized it was just a vanity pet. Any chance of having a dog that actually helps you fight. Maybe if it gets defeated then there's like a 15 or 20 minute cooldown so it won't cause any balance issues. Would this be something you would all would consider?

City of Heroes: Nothing to report on attack dogs at this time. Sorry!

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Bud Bowen: Dont know if it has been posted or talked about, but I would like to have a personal space, an apartment / lair that I could call my own with some more personal items and touches instead of a room in the SG Base. Not sure if anyone is / was... familiar with Google Lively, but you could furnish your home as well as place personal photos on the walls of your place and also run Video from Youtube in there. I was thinking something similar from COH would get alot of folks more in depth creating and such, even to the point of having some create bits and pieces for sale. Another great way to generate revenue and offer to Elite Accounts, so subscribers would go up. My wife and I love this game and have been on it for a long time now, we love the continual improvements. Keep up the Great Work.

City of Heroes: Personal player housing is not something that we have plans of implementing at this time, due to the amount of in-game resources it would use. Player housing would operate the same as having an SG base per player; this equates to a lot of server resources being used.

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Chris Fenwick: A wall mountable frame that could accept screen shots via an uploader would be a super cool feature for bases!

City of Heroes: It's a neat idea, although I'm not sure how feasible it would be.

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Thiago Flaulhabe Xavier Gomes: How i can use other costumes?

Chris Fenwick: first ya gotta open up the slots

City of Heroes: You can acquire costume slots in-game, or purchase more from the Paragon Market. These costume slots will allow you to visit a tailor and create a new costume that you can switch to. You can have up to 10 costumes for a single character!

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Thiago Flaulhabe Xavier Gomes: For refer a friend i need be a VIP?

City of Heroes: Yes, you would need to be a VIP to refer a friend.

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Antoine Mason: Will Praetoria Ever Go To Level 50? Will There At Least Be A Level 30-40 Zone In Praetoria?

City of Heroes: Nothing to say about higher-level zones in Praetoria at this time. Sorry!

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Dave Van Domelen: Internal walls (folding screens, cubicle-style walls, curtains) for bases would be nice. Right now, if you want to wall off a section of a room, there's not many ways to do it (shelves and the glass supergroup things are about it). Now that raids don't drive design, the ability to make more internal divisions easily would be helpful.

City of Heroes: Noted.

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Thiago Flaulhabe Xavier Gomes: I need be a VIP to access all zones of the game?

City of Heroes: You can access many of the zones as a Free or Premium player, but you will need to be a VIP to access all of the content.

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Brannon Sherry: Will Darkness Incarnate be our chance to fight the actual gods of the Banished Pantheon?

City of Heroes: Issue 22: Death Incarnate will pit you against the dark god Mot, and the Banished Pantheon.

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Antoine Mason: What Is The Status On Staff Fighting? Will There Be Barbarian Titan Weapons And Barbarian Staffs? Will There Ever Be An Ancient Egyptian Costume Bundle?

City of Heroes: While there is no new zone for Issue 22, Dark Astoria is getting heavily revamped and will be made a co-op zone.

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Tim Lloyd: hey. Any plans for supergroup advances / changes to the way SG's are setup and organised etc? maybe even some perks for staying in an SG for longer periods of time?

City of Heroes: No plans for the way SGs are organized at this time. We'll be sure to let players know of any changes to Supergroups!

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Unity Rains: What about Illusion Control for Dominators?

City of Heroes: Not in the current round of Power Proliferation, but it's a possibility!

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Steven Forrest: Still waiting to hear: How can a level 50 control his own badging destiny when he has to rely on others to get missed safeguard and mayhem missions? Could there be some way to get those missions in Ouroboros?

City of Heroes: It's something we've heard players ask for, however it would take a lot of time and resources to implement.

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Kurt Charbonnier: Any progress in adding Power Customization to a Epic Pools?

City of Heroes: No updates at this time.

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Robert Thomas: not a question more like a comment. The flying carpet is worthless. as i said in some of your other post keep the slopes open they were open for such a short period of time or how about you change the even area according to the holidays like Valentines day, Easter,4th of July. Why does the area only open for winter why not make the most of it. If not that maybe the VIP lounge could be where you make all that happen. just a thought and suggestion.

City of Heroes: The Ski Chalet is open for the Winter Holiday, as appropriate for the season. That being said, Pocket D is an extra dimensional space where time and seasons don't necessarily apply... there have been times when the Ski Chalet is open during other seasons.

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Unity Rains: Have we seen the last of VIP included powersets? Will all of them from now on ahve to be purchased in the Marketplace?

Robert Boone: Unity: Darkness Control is going to be free for VIP!

City of Heroes: Definitely not! As Robert Boone mentioned, Darkness Control will be the next free-for-VIP Power Set.

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Mikey Peterson: Where is my Omega slot, and where is my solo incarnate trial?

Robert Boone: Your solo Incarnate content comes out with issue 22.

City of Heroes: A solo Incarnate path will be coming in Issue 22: Death Incarnate! You'll face off against the dark god Mot in the revamped Dark Astoria, climbing your way up the Incarnate tree!

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Tyron Samaroo: As a premium player any way you getting keep the incarnates power???

City of Heroes: Incarnate content is VIP only

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Rutager Jones: Any chance of expanding the random crimes on city streets ? Like say instead of the muggings etc.... something on the order of say a gang fight or a shoot out with the police or maybe even a bank robbery in progress/ something to got into random buildings for. Maybe an extension of the Steel Canyon fire alarms like going into burning buildings and leading people out ??? Just to make daily street travel more interesting/exciting.

Also on the street level how about Hero parades occasionally ? You know bands, heroes on floats waving, giant Manticore and Positron balloons :] ?
Maybe ends in an zone attack sometimes ?

Also again , with the movie theater in Atlas how about being able to go inside and see some small movies like the kind from the game trailers ??

Just some thoughts.

City of Heroes: There are some things like that, where you might catch different groups fighting. As for larger events, like a bank robbery in progress or rescuing civilians from a burning building, that'd take a lot more resources. I can ask around about the idea, but it might be something difficult to implement.

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Unity Rains: Thanks for putting up with all of my questions! Are older powersets going to be revamped to reflect the new combo system, such as SJ?

City of Heroes: No, the Street Justice combo system is unique to Street Justice. We like to keep sets visually and gameplay-unique.

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Evan McMichael: How is that Staff weapon set coming along?? Been foaming at he mouth for it...

City of Heroes: It's coming along quite well. You won't have to froth at the mouth too much longer; expect it on VIP Beta later this year!

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Evan McMichael: Will we be seeing anymore weapon packs for TW soon? or at least unlockable Titan weapsons as with the other weapon sets?

City of Heroes: There's a lot of options and ideas for Titan Weapons.

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Robert Boone: Did you just say sash? if there is a Kheldian-esque sash and my Warshade can't wear it, he will go on the record as being "disgruntled."

City of Heroes: No Kheldian sashes at the moment. We do know this has been a huge request from the community.

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David Fiacre III: why is the carnival of light pack female only costume pieces? i see no reason any of the pieces cant be male/huge also. especially sicne it contains some pieces requested for years to be given to all characters - the sash-belt.

City of Heroes: Most of the male parts are already easily reproduceable in game with different costume sets. There are some dev-only pieces which were unable to be ported over, for various reasons, however what you're getting ported to female is almost exclusively what we could port from NPC to Player Character. This, unfortunately, means almost exclusively female pieces (with the exception of weapons).

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Mikey Peterson: is there an eta on i22?

City of Heroes: Soon™.

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Evan McMichael: will Kheldians ever get an upgrade like the Praetorians, and Clockwork?

City of Heroes: We'll let you know if they do!

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Tim Lehnerer: Dare I hope for a chainsaw broadsword option? Or dual blades?

City of Heroes: Dual chainsaws seems somehow impractical...

Dave Van Domelen: Dual Chainsaws are impractical, and yet rocket-powered megahammers are practical?

Tom Gormley: Dual chainsaws impractical? Sort of like having a railroad crossing sign strapped to your back?

City of Heroes: They seems somewhat less dangerous than swinging around two chainsaws. 1,000 Cuts with chainsaws sounds pretty frightening, for you AND your foes.

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Robert Boone: COH I just found some screens of the Carnival of Light sash piece and it is verrry similar to a Kheldian sash. Is there any chance of porting it to males before i22 is released?

City of Heroes: We have communicated about players wanting the sash to be ported to Male/Huge. At this time, however, it is not possible to port the piece over at this timeframe. We may revisit it in the future.

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Roman Jocktapus Valdez: Can free accounts ever unlock kheldians without paying a cent

City of Heroes: No, sorry. Epic Archetypes are purchasable for Premium players in the Paragon Market™, and are available to VIPs as part of their subscription.

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Morgan Campbell: Any idea when the MM pets can be customized? Even if it's a swap to something like standard Robot to something a little more Nemesis-ish or Thugs to Family model swapping.

City of Heroes: Nothing yet, sorry!

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Laura Ipsum: Pleeeeeease can you find a way to promote /demote sg or vg members when they aren't online?

City of Heroes: There's currently no way to do that, but we are aware players have asked for it.

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Eric Horvath: oh i see. misread the clock. let's see... Would it be possible to add a spirit/ghost costume option?

City of Heroes: In the Costume Sets dropdown menu? Or do you mean ghost-like costume pieces?

Eric Horvath: I mean costume pieces

City of Heroes: There are a lot of variations of ghosts; you can create ghost-like characters through current costume options and certain powers. If you're talking traditional ghosts, some of those types of options would not be possible, such as the classic "bedsheet" style ghost.

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Grant L. Thompson: Have any more pics of darkness control been released? Is there an ETA? I have been foaming at the mouth for this set since I started playing however many years ago...

City of Heroes: Darkness Control will be released with Issue 22: Death Incarnate! There haven't been any more shots for it released. You'll definitely see some as the set enters VIP Beta.

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Richard Landis: Is Carp Melee still on hold until after the next issue? You had it up on the VIP Beta Server briefly, but not long enough to test the real problems with it.

City of Heroes: Carp Melee's been thrown back into the water for the time being.

Chris Fenwick: Carp melee? Really that silly thing is still floating about?

City of Heroes: More like floundering.

Chris Fenwick: 'More like floundering.' Is this Beastyle again?

City of Heroes: I see my terrible animal puns precede me.

Richard Landis: I think you are just having trouble figuring out the hook for the powerset. I'll bait you into a real answer someday!

City of Heroes: It's hard catching support for the set. So far there's only a few soles that've asked for it.

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Dave Van Domelen: Could the clawlike animations for Spine/Thorn melee attacks be made available as Claws weapon options?

City of Heroes: It's something I can ask about.

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Chris Fenwick: Did yall give Avatea a grandiose goodby party?

City of Heroes: We did. It was both a sad and happy party, and we wish her all the best.

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Simon McCoy: Oh-- and are there any new Backpack options coming sooner than Soon (tm)?

City of Heroes: Soon™ is soon. Not as soon as Imminently™, but soon. We definitely want to get more backpacks onto the backs of players.

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Joe Curreri: Any chance of an ancient egypt zone? Or something with that flavor? I'd love to buy some mummy wrap costume pieces too!

City of Heroes: New zones are created as content dictates. Would there be a reason to visit Egypt, ancient or otherwise, further down the road? Possibly. There'd have to be story content designed for it first.

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Martin Dotson: IO's and LIVE tech support for NON Vip's

City of Heroes: Sorry, live support is a VIP perk. Access to the Invention system can be purchased as a 30-day license in the Paragon Market, or can be unlocked as a Paragon Reward at Tier 7.

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Bryan Ellis: I'll echo someone else's question: Any plans to add an Ouroboros Police contact, so we can do the Paper/Police Band missions and unlock the Mayhem missions?

City of Heroes: Ouroboros Safeguard/Mayhem missions are something we'd like to do, however it'd require a lot of time and resources.

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Adam Burtze: any plan on letting free player join sg's? you would figure since you really want them to buy time or other perks you would let them in a least an sg community so they can see what they are missing

City of Heroes: Players can join Supergroups at Paragon Rewards Tier 2, which takes two Paragon Rewards Tokens; Free players start with one. You can get an additional Paragon Rewards Token with your first purchase of any amount of Paragon Points in the Paragon Market, and one token for every 1200 Paragon Points thereafter.

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Martin Dotson: ok then, how about this... I ahve gone through ALL os the possible avenues, so lets see of you have an answer to this one... i am a premium player, i have 2 server slots and 2 GLOBAL slots for a vet reward i suppose... the GUI shows this is true. BUT i have THREE slots used, it shows FOUR used...

i only use ONE server (Champion) so there is no possible way that i would have my last toon on another server... Tech support gives NO help other than looking at knowledge base... nothing in knowledge base works or even pertains to the issue because its not a CLIENT issue, its a SERVER one... What should I DO?

City of Heroes: I would suggest contacting Customer Support with another ticket; if you're referred to the Knowledge Base again, you can ask to have the ticket escalated.

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Martin Dotson: and another thing... if i WERE to get VIP status for a month, when i go back to a FREE player, do i get to choose which three (or hopefully four) toons i want to play with again?

City of Heroes: If you become a VIP, then choose to go Premium, you'll be able to select again.

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Bryan Ellis: Any chance of being able to "Sell Back" certain things to the market, such as the Server Transfers?

City of Heroes: Not at this time.

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Richard FromDelta Villarreal: Can we expect to hear any news this year about when the rest of the incarnate abilities will be unlocked?

City of Heroes: You'll hear if there is.

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Joe DeRouen: Will there ever be an option to breakdown incarnate powers we chose early on but later decided we didn't like? (or a new one came out that we liked better) I would dearly love to be able to break down Nerve Core Paragon on my scrapper!

City of Heroes: There are no plans to allow for Incarnate Abilities respecs.

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Adam Burtze: any word on patron/epic powerset being able to have custom coloring?

City of Heroes: Nothing to report on Epic/Patron Power Pool customization at this time.

It depends on the version of SetPoint you have running.

I'm using 6.30.41, so I can set keys for CoH by going to the Advanced Settings tab on the left, and clicking on Configure. From there, I can click the Add... button and browse to cityofheroes.exe and then assign the buttons to do things while the game is running.

In older versions, that option is availble on the Button Settings tab, and shows up under the picture of your mouse when you click on buttons that can have special assignments. IIRC, it's any button except Left Click and Right Click.

I was wondering when I'd see a post about these. I've known of their existance for months now.

Anyway, they have said that they don't want to introduce more currencies to the game, so I doubt those will ever see the light of day.

When you put your new nVidia card in, do NOT get the latest drivers (285.62). There's something wrong with them, and they'll make your card overheat, causing your PC to shut off.

Instead, get the 275.33 drivers. Trust me. I found out the hard way a couple of days after Christmas. >.<

You can get them from this page. Make sure you get the ones marked WHQL and not Beta.

Congratulations, Voodoo Girl!

I'm not surprised my Sonic joke didn't win.

Hooray for it working right!

Booo for others mucking things up! :P

Zwill, I hope you bought a LEGOs VIP card. Every time you buy LEGOs, you get points that you can then redeem to buy other LEGO sets.

The Child™ got two LEGO sets for Christmas with the points we've earned, so they were essentially free.

The most recent drivers for that card and OS are listed as GeForce 285.62 Drivers. Is that what you have installed?

Those are the same ones I got for my GeForce GTX560, and they had problems, causing my card to overheat. You might want to try installing the GeForce 275.33 Drivers. Once I installed those, the card worked like a charm. Like you, CoH was the only place I was having this problem.

I suggest trying those, and see if they help.

Also, you shouldn't need to worry about DriverSweeper anymore. When you install the Drivers, it gives you an option to do a Clean Install, removing everything from your last install.

Rocket Board on sale, eh? I may just go ahead and buy it, just 'cuz...

Allo, and welcome to PYF GIF!

In this thread, you Post Your Favorite GIF, for others to enjoy!

Das Roolz!
* Know Thy Limits: I'm placing a limit of 5 GIFs per post. With the default of 40 Posts Per Page, that's 200 GIFs per page. Most modern computers should be able to handle that fine.

* Size Matters: Some images are really large. Most of them aren't GIFs, but sometimes they are. If a GIF you want to post is rather large, and stretches the tables, you should link to it instead: Large & Funny GIF of a kitteh! (That's not a real link...)

* Keep It Clean: There are rules in place for making posts on the forums, and they apply here, as well: No nudity, no swearing, no death, no extreme violence, no gross-outs. If you're not sure, just don't post it.

* Tag It!: If you do post a link to an image with nudity, make sure you tag it as not safe for work: NSFW http://example.com/link/ NSFW.

* Be A Good Guest: A lot of websites have no problems with others linking to images they post, and in fact, they take that into account. Still, some don't like it, and your image will be replaced with an image saying not to hotlink. If you find one of the images you wish to post does this, you should rehost the image somewhere.

* Look Before You Leap: To help you find those images that can't be hotlinked, use the Preview Post button before you sumbit your post. Any images that are protected from being hotlinked should show as such.

Need An Image Host?
As I mentioned in Das Roolz, sometimes, a website will have disabled hotlinking of images. If you need a place to rehost the image, I suggest using imgur. It's free, you don't have to sign up (though you can if you like), and you can easily upload an image from your computer, or a web address.

Photobucket is another option, though it seems to me that they keep lowering the bandwith free accounts have...

Please, though, don't use yFrog. The links you get from them create a small thumbnail, and when clicked, takes you to a small version of the image, making you click it to get a slightly larger version. I suppose that's good for large images...

OK, enough with the yammering! Let's PYF GIFs!

I should be able to make this one...

Gah! Missed it again! >.<

*sigh*

I really wanna do this again. Honest!

Yup. I hate underwater, ice, and space zones, and hope we never get them.

This has been there since they placed them in-game. I think there were even /bugs filed, and threads made. You see how well it worked... o.o

The good news is: You don't have to go/have access to Praetoria to see it. The bad new is: Nobody goes to Faultline. Like the revamp done to The Hollows, it didn't really do anything.

/vault is a handy command. Sadly, it's only a one-way thing. You can't use the command to close the window.

Here we go!

Welcome to Freedom Friday, where we answer your City of Heroes Freedom™ questions!

Magnus Löfstrand: Any chance of adding a permanent version of the "instant snowstorm" temp power to the store? The permanent snowball is nice, but the snowstorm would suit my cold dominiation/ice blast defender better :-)

City of Heroes: No plans at this time, however it's an interesting idea!

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Joe Blowski: Hello

So the character unlocks to play ? It says I have 2 for the server and 2 global unlocks. Does that mean I can unlock 4 of my characters on one server if I want to or 2 on a server and the other 2 have tom be on different servers ? Also if I unlock someone can I lock them again and unlock a different character or once unlocked are they unlocked for good ?

Thanks

Jen 'Ael' Davies: Unlocked for good. You only get 2 toons total as a free player, but any slots that have been unlocked/purchased beforehand will still be available to keep once free.

City of Heroes: Yes, if you have two character slots on one server, plus two Global Character Slot Tokens, you can unlock up to four characters on one server, or two on one server and spread the global unlocks across other servers. Once you unlock a character, they will remain unlocked and you cannot lock them again unless you become VIP, then switch back to Premium. This will allow you to rechoose your characters.

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Patrick Toman: Are we getting close to a patch that will fix the power tray emptying bug?

City of Heroes: We are working on a fix for the issue. Thank you for your patience.

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Lynn Owens: Whats the point of having a free account if you cant do anything on a free account all my toons are useless till i re-u... just saying lol

City of Heroes: Free players have access to much of the 7 years of content, can play to level 50, have access to teams, and much more! Not all content is unlocked for Free players, however, and there are some advantages to being a Premium or VIP player.

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Russ Petersen: Are there any plans to revamp the other 5 Signature Character Task forces? Positron is extremely well done and fun now that it's been redone and broken into 2 parts. The other TFs are... not.

City of Heroes: We'll be sure to update players on any changes made to TFs!

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Adam Wilkie: why does my toon have the inventor badge but i cant invent anything without a liscense/

Eric Sutton: The inventor badge just means you have went through the invention tutorial, nothing more.

City of Heroes: As Eric Sutton said, the Inventor badge is granted for completing the Invention System tutorial. The Invention System is available as a 30-day license in the Paragon Market™, as a Tier 7 bonus on the Paragon Rewards Tree, or automatically granted to VIPs.

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Janus Søndergaard Hjorth: Regarding the VIP loyalty program "Salute to Statesman", I have a question: I recently finished active subscription, which means that I stopped auto-paying to the game and then today bought 6´1 months of game time. DURING THIS WHOLE PERIOD I HAVE NOT STOPPED BEING A VIP, so my question is if I still have a chance at the Loyalty program?

Savannah Smith: The Loyalty stuff is granted to those who maintain a paid subscription for the specified time period. So yes, remain a VIP, and you get the items.

City of Heroes: I apologize, I might've missed your question earlier. That is correct; VIPs who maintain their subscription, unbroken, from December 1, 2011 through March 31, 2012 will receive the Salute to Statesman Loyalty items.

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Eric Horvath: well we ever get a Mu EAT, or at least an option to the electric powersets to have that Mu style lightning?

City of Heroes: We know it's something that's been requested. Nothing to report on that at this time.

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Eric Horvath: also will the female widow's male costume slots ever get fixed? im not buying a supertailor JUST to fix it.

City of Heroes: Regarding the female Widows, I'll pass it along.

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Tim Lehnerer: With the coming death of Statesman, are we likely to see a vengeance-crazed Lord Recluse try to kill his killer (for depriving him of the chance to take Statesman out himself)?

City of Heroes: You'll have to wait and see.

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Savannah Smith: When are you going to proliferate this to Twitter and Google+? I know a number of folks who don't have FB accounts, and would like to ask questions.

City of Heroes: We have been considering doing something along these lines for our Twitter account. We will also be promoting our Google+ page in the new year, so if you have Google+, stay tuned!

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Nezz Constantine: Do you have any new Melee Armor sets planned in the near future? Seems like we have been getting a lot of attacks with titan weapons, Kinetic Melee, Street justice and such but no new armor set to pair them with.

Savannah Smith: Nezz, I wouldn't expect it. They said they've spent quite a bit of time with Melee, and it's time to move to other stuff, like range or control. They'll come back to Melee eventually, but the others need love, too.

City of Heroes: Nothing to say about defensive sets just yet.

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Alan Thixton: Are there any more power sets coming out soon? Also as a VIP, I have never used the free to play option. But I have a child with autism and he likes it, should I try it with him? It or will we be unequal?

Savannah Smith: Staff Meele, Darkness Control and (I think it's named) Darkness Assault are coming with I22.

City of Heroes: Darkness Control will be the upcoming free Power Set for VIPs, coming with Issue 22. Staff Melee will be released during the timeframe of Issue 22.

City of Heroes: Savannah Smith, Staff Melee will not be released with Issue 22, but during the timeframe of Issue 22. Apologies for any confusion from previous Freedom Friday answers. Also, Darkness Assault is Power Proliferation.

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Jeff Smith: I22 coming in feb or march? Also, when are next incarnate slots open for business? And can you all please nerf the sewers?

Savannah Smith: Current plans are to start I22 Beta in mid- to late January.

City of Heroes: No plans at this time for changes to Death From Below. Issue 22 VIP Beta will be early next year; no release date for I22 just yet. Please look forward to the Beta!

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Brian Getzmeyer: Any chance we might see a revamp of some older powers set. I mean why would people choose Katana when there is all these new mechanics for Dual Blades and Titan weapons.

City of Heroes: Existing Power Sets may receive tweaks, however you will not likely see complete revamps of a Power Set's mechanics. Each Power Set offers different strengths and unique play.

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Chuck Ganoe: With the changes coming to Dark Astoria, what is planned for Adamaster, will he be moved to somewhere else for a chance at his defeat badge or will he only be in the echo version of the zone?

Savannah Smith: Adamastor will still be there, but he won't be the focus anymore. Instead, Mot will be.

City of Heroes: I don't believe we've announced what will become of Adamaster, but we will definitely let players know where to find him post-revamp.

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David Mason: Permanent snowball is nice, but what I really want is permanent Jingle Jet!

City of Heroes: That's one request for permanent Instant Snowstorm, and one request for permanent Jingle Jet today. Seems like players would like holiday powers year-round...

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Nezz Constantine: Will you ever consider increasing the the base item cap from 20,000 to something higher like 60,000? Given the seriousness of base building among a large crowd of players and the massive base plots allotted to us, there is no way to possible even moderately decorate an entire maximum base plot nicely without hitting the item cap 1/4th of the way decorating the maximum plot.

City of Heroes: I'll ask about it. I'm not sure how much of a resource increase that would create per base, however; more items requires more server resources. That being said, I have seen some wonderful bases created within the cap; check out some of our Base Spotlights on the website for examples!

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Derron EJ Burns: Why couldnt I buy the vip pack it said something about we cant and i really want it....

City of Heroes: Which VIP pack? The VIP Starter Kit from the NCsoft Store?

Derron EJ Burns: Yeah it wouldnt let me...

City of Heroes: You should be able to purchase the VIP Starter Kit. Please note that the Starter Kit can only be used to activate NEW accounts, and cannot be used with an existing Premium or VIP account.

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Paul Pacheco: Wondering...what is ( if any) the purpose of those blue volcano things in the WINTER EVENT? I know they fling youinto the air...but am I missing anyhting???

City of Heroes: The vents allow you to reach areas above you. That's all. If you fall off the slopes, for example, or just reach the bottom after your run, you can use them to propel yourself back up to the top.

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Savannah Smith: When will we get: Big Red Ball, Carp Melee/Carp Armor, and Dual Archery?

City of Heroes: I don't know about the Big Red Ball and Carp Melee/Armor, but I think Dual Archery is out of the cards at this point. I thought I heard someone just before break talking about Quad Archery...(just kidding, just kidding)

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Savannah Smith: Also: Claws and Katana/Ninja Blade - When will they get some love, and have more weapon choices?

City of Heroes: Nothing to report on weapon options for Claws, Katana, or Ninja Blade at this time.

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Eric Horvath: Will there ever be an incarnate license? Hardly worth paying the VIP just for that system alone. Unless it is exclusive, which would be a bummer.

Savannah Smith: AFAIK, Incarnte stuff is VIP Exclusive.

City of Heroes: Incarnate content is VIP only. There are no plans for an Incarnate License.

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Yves Marquez: Is there a way for new player to Join a supergroup even though they are not vip? And will there be patch for fixing the bug for mastermind pets ?

City of Heroes: Premium players who unlock Tier 2 of the Paragon Rewards Tree are able to join Supergroups. Free players start with one Paragon Rewards Token; your first purchase of Paragon Points (any amount) will grant you a second Paragon Rewards Token and make you a Premium player, allowing you to join Supergroups. (Subsequent purchases of 1200 Paragon Points grant 1 bonus Paragon Rewards Token per)

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Stephen Manning: Have you given any thoughts to adding additional rewards the tier 9 VIP rewards other then just the exclusive costume sets.. things like powersets (non exclusive obviously), enhancement storage slots, character slots, invention salvage slots, costume slots, system unlocks (like cape/aura unlocks) and other things of that nature.

City of Heroes: Thus far, we have announced costume sets for the Tier 9 VIP Rewards. As rewards get closer to cycling out, we'll announce what's coming up next.

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Savannah Smith: Are there any plans to have a handy dandy web interface for the Paragon Market, like a certain other super hero MMO developed by Cryptic has?

City of Heroes: An out-of-game store? It's definitely been one of the biggest requests we've heard. There's a lot of moving parts behind something like that, however. We are always looking to make the Paragon Market™ interface more accessible, but at this time I don't have anything to report on a web store.

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Alan Thixton: I would like to be able to buy cards for VIP time and store points at wallyworld (WalMart) and gamestop or spot or whatever....i can never find them there or they are out of stock. I need to spread the C O H peeps!

City of Heroes: If you can find NCsoft timecards, they will be honored.

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Simon McCoy: So will my Tier 1 Zombies ever get pants? The poor things freeze in the winter ...

City of Heroes: Zombies don't feel the cold. Which is probably lucky for them in this weather...aside from having to be a zombie.

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Eliseo Chavez: Are we going to be able to test all of I22 on the upcoming ViP Beta Update?

Savannah Smith: AFAIK, they always have the entire issue available for testing in Beta. It might come in parts and pieces, but eventually, it's all there.

City of Heroes: We haven't announced which parts of Issue 22 Beta we'll be rolling out when, but VIP players will be able to test all of Issue 22 before it goes Live.

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Kaitlyn Montenegro: Here i am again...
With the mandatory question:
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Hmmmm...
Drank too much beer... I will revert to my previous mandatory question...
Can we Vips get a movement power that lets us transform free players into ponies and ride then?

City of Heroes: We were working on something like that, but someone fired a shoulder-mounted hamster into the box containing that code. It's all lost now. So, no, no transforming Free players into ponies and riding them around Paragon City.

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Tim Lehnerer: Will there ever be any moonbase / space station / spaceship content? I'd love to get into orbit and pummel fascists.

City of Heroes: Well you see, the truth about the moonbase is [REDACTED]

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Nezz Constantine: Here is a super serious issue I have, I hope to get some insight.

Does NCSoft have any plans on changing their password policy for game log in to be able to include special characters and a greater password length than 13 characters? As a... CNS graduate, I find it very unsettling that the password policy is not very strong. Especially for some one like me who has had a lot invested in time and items in the game. I iz scurred to be hacked in other words.

City of Heroes: NCsoft and Paragon Studios takes our users' account security EXTREMELY seriously; we have several security measures in place to help prevent unauthorized access of customer data. While I am not aware of any changes to password length or special characters upcoming, please rest assured that NCsoft keeps password data very secure.

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Brian Getzmeyer: Is construction in Steel Canyon ever gonna finish? I mean, only took a day for Atlas to be revamped. What the heck are they building that take this long for construction.

City of Heroes: Construction workers gotta keep busy!

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Savannah Smith: I've seen some confusion, in-game, about how to obtain Maelstrom's Pistol. Specifically, the ability to purchase it in Ouroboros.

My thought is that in order to see the recipe for sale, you have to A) Be on a character that uses Dual Pistols (Dual Pistols Blaster, Defender, or Corruptor, or a Thugs Mastermind), and B) Have the badge awarded for running the TPN Trial.

Is this correct?

City of Heroes: You should be on a Dual Pistols character when you visit Empyrean Michael.

Savannah Smith: Ah, no need to comlpete TPN? Nice! I shall report back to those who were wondering! Thanks again!

City of Heroes: You do have to complete TPN for it, WITH that Dual Pistols character. Sorry for any confusion. Also please be aware that the purchase from Empyrean Michael is not account wide.

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J Brandon Miller: While NCsoft Timecards would be honored on the rare chance you can find them in your area, they only count towards subscription time. I feel that there is a large portion of the playerbase that would take advantage of buying Paragon Points ...if we could find them at our local Walmart in card form at current price scale or better.

Personally, I wouldn't mind dropping a hundred or so dollars per account if I could do it all at once with Paragon Point Cards from a local retailer, and not be confined to the interface we have now.

Savannah Smith: There's a thread on the forums about Point Cards. They know we want them. They know we want them bad.

City of Heroes: The idea of Paragon Points cards is something that I know has come up, however unfortunately I don't have any further information.

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Jay BoH: Any hints if we will be able to purchase an account-wide midnighter's badge to get into Cimerora? I think I speak for a lot of people - we are tired of running that arc for every single character.

City of Heroes: We have definitely heard player request on that.

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Alan Thixton: Any plans to bring coh to consoles?

City of Heroes: There are no plans for a console version of City of Heroes Freedom.

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Rutager Jones: I'm sure this horse is long dead from serious beatings but when will bases get some love again ? .................................................. ..........................
fingers crossed for the shooting range and targets from the Rikti Warzone base and user made NPCs to walk around their bases or man control consoles :]

City of Heroes: We recently showed bases some love with the vertical placement of items, something that had been a big request from players. We definitely want to show bases and base builders more love in the future.

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Savannah Smith: We have the Ski Chalet for Winter. Any plans for a Party Pool for Summer? And maybe something for Spring and Fall, as well? And speaking of Base Love: I'd LOVE to have an option to have displays of SG member costumes, like you can find in the Batcave in Batman comics.

City of Heroes: The 'costumes' idea for bases is interesting. I am not sure how feasible it is, however. As for a "Summer" area in Pocket D, it's something that we have heard the request for; it came up at the Player Summit. It'd definitely beat running to Faultline to have a pool party, wouldn't it?

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Jay BoH: Any idea when more info will come out regarding the tier 9 power for Dark Control?

City of Heroes: As we get closer towards I22 Beta. The tier 9 power is very cool, and we're definitely excited to show you all!

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Magnus Löfstrand: The Winter Holiday pack doesn't contain any of the special event badges, right? I ended up collecting lots of candy canes and bought the majority of event costume pieces because I wanted the special badges attached to them. Just need to know that I didn't waste my time :-P

Savannah Smith: Correct. No badges are to be sold on the market, except Knowledgeable.

Magnus Löfstrand: Thanks. At least now I know that I didn't waste my time gathering enough candy canes to get the 4 new characters I've made since last year the full set of event badges from the candy keeper (and running around killing frostlings and opening gifts for those badges).

City of Heroes: To add to what Savannah Smith said, when we were working on the model for City of Heroes Freedom, we had a lot of talks about what would and would not go into the Paragon Market. We made the decision early on to never put badges (outside of Knowledgeable, which is free) on the Paragon Market. Gating badges with Paragon Points is something that we will not do.

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Ron Cameron: Will the LFG function ever be improved? I mean will there ever be a possibility to enter missions while waiting in queue? Other *unnamed* games have this as an option.

Savannah Smith: They said at the Player Summit that being able to enter missions while in LFG is something they're working on. They really want us to have that option.

City of Heroes: As Savannah Smith said, we would like for players to have that option.

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Tim Lehnerer: I've tried using the Character Copy Tool multiple times to get characters on the beta server and it hasn't worked. Is there anything I can do to get it running for me?

Savannah Smith: Ah yeah. Reports on the forums are that the Copy Tool is looking to die again...

City of Heroes: We are currently looking into the Character Copy Tool. I do apologize for any inconvenience; it is something we are aware of and working on.

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Jay BoH: Do sales numbers determine the frequency of availability for items such as attuned enhancements?

City of Heroes: In a way, yes. Frequency of items also has to do with giving value to our customers; if we see that players would like more of a specific type of item in the Paragon Market, based off requests and sales, we do look at that.

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Ron Cameron: As a suggestion, How about a 'chains' weapon option for melee characters, in the future?

City of Heroes: Chain melee would be similar to whip melee. (In fact, a chain could be a substitute whip model) The problem with whip melee is that the animations for it are difficult. We actually tried to before; it unfortunately did not lo...ok very good modeling and animating a physical whip that would lash out on attack, then coil up. It was a bit easier with the fire whip that Demon Summoning Masterminds use, because it doesn't need to coil up afterwards; it just dissipates. A chain would present the same problems as a physical whip.

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Tim Lehnerer: And lastly, who put the bomp in the bomp ba bomp ba bomp? Who put the rama in the rama lama ding dong? Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? Is it possibly the same person for all three?

City of Heroes: I have no idea, but I'd like to shake his hand.

J Brandon Miller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usgKxVkvjiw

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And sadly, AVG has gone from a good virus scanner to a memory hogging pile of bloat. I used to use it, and told everyone I knew to use it, but I finally had to leave it this past summer.

I now use avast! free for my AV program of choice.