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Originally Posted by Canine

Let me try my psychic powers....

....I'm getting a vision of a toy....

...An action figure...

...Wearing a brimmed hat and carrying two pistols....

Could it be... A 'Malta Gunslinger Action Figure'?

The ambushes in that mission are ludicrous. I got 12 or 13, with something like 4 second spacing when I did that one. Never again, it gets deleted whenever I get it again.

Originally Posted by GKaiser

Hello. I have a web show called The RPG Fanatic where I review computer rpg games. I decided to make CoH my first MMORPG review and while I had played the game before (in Dec 2004), I recently re-visited it, playing from level 1 to 50. After doing this I concluded that CoH has some innovative game design elements I wish other MMORPG developers would incorporate into their designs, but CoH also lacks a lot of content I expect an MMORPG to have today. I dissect the game in the review.

I will be reviewing the Mission Architect system in an upcoming review, and thought some of you might like to see my review for the game overall and add your comments. I might include and/or respond to some of those comments in my next review for the MA system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waClZLJdIvk

Originally Posted by Lothic

I hate to rain on PayPal's parade (because it's normally pretty good overall) but I feel compelled to let everybody here be aware of a recent problem I had trying to use PayPal and this game. I bring this up mainly because the OP is specifically having trouble paying for this game internationally and that's exactly how PayPal shot me in the proverbial foot.

I live in the United States and have had a confirmed PayPal account and house address with them for years. However a couple of months ago I was on a long business trip in Japan. I decided (foolishly in retrospect) to use my PayPal account to pay for the recent Mutant Super Booster Pack. Despite having a confirmed US address and sending money to a US based company PayPal apparently decided that since I initiated this transaction from Japan that it was a "suspicious" activity. A few days later (when I long thought everything was perfectly fine with it) PayPal unilaterally decided to reverse my payment to NCsoft without any effective warning. NCsoft reacted to that action instantly by banning my CoH account (which up until that time had been active without interruption since April 2004).

The net result is that it took me about 2 weeks of back-n-forth emails across 12 time zones to NCsoft to get a senior support person to unlock my account. Paypal cost me almost 2 weeks of playing (and Vet credit) just because they were "looking out" for my best interests.

Now in the greater scheme of things I guess I should be glad PayPal was being proactive enough that it kept my account safe from even ME using it. Better safe than sorry I guess. But this experience has annoyed me enough that I will refuse to use PayPal to pay anything to NCsoft again, regardless of where I am physically located in the world.

Caveat Emptor, and all that...

Originally Posted by Leandro

When I'm bored, I follow them on an incognito window and give all fake information, such as username "no idiot will fall for this". A couple of times I've had the scammers email me back to say "you think you're clever, but we get thousand of accounts this way". While I won't take a scammer word's for it, I don't doubt that they get a lot of accounts; many people forget to bring their brains with them when they go online.

Originally Posted by Peacemoon

I kind of disagree with this due to the fact you can name them, talk through them and give them personality with the use of emotes.

The only problem is you can't customize them, which you should. And you don't aways summon a person with the same face/hair features if you are playing thugs/mercs, which again you should be able to dictate.

Originally Posted by GeminiProject

It's been a nice six years, and unfortunately it looks like it is going to be cut short for me.

In the last months I kept having problems purchasing boosters, due to the security measures in place in the account management website, and finally since my CC expired, I can no longer update the billing info on my account management page with my new credentials as I seem not to pass the security measures.

Its quite simple really. If you are a Citizen of Country A with Baning in Country A but live in Country B for XYZ reason, the current system will classify you unsecure. Since when you live in a country like country B and are using bank accounts from country A, you must be a dirty criminal.

Last time it took me two weeks to get authorization from NC Soft support staff, after they verified I was really me... by asking obscure questions which did not have actual answers for 90% of them since my account was older than most of their security measures. Finally I was allowed to spend a few bucks to buy an in game booster pack.

Now it seems I have to jump through all these hops again to renew my billing info or even to purchase GR. Since I have, uh had, four accounts that would probably take like a month to actually get done at their speed, so... it seems I will be slowly phased out of the CoH playerbase.

Sorry if this sounded like a rant, not meant to rant but I AM upset since stopping the game was not from my choice. Unfortunately jumping through hoops and answering Call Center draft questions for weeks kind of outbalances the fun I get out of gaming.

I just wanted to post this out there to notify the situation which I thought was quite ironic, and see if maybe anyone on the same boat as me found some other means of continuing to play.

If not, it was fun, and enjoy GR, I know I would have.

Originally Posted by Rowdy

I'm truly interested in knowing who likes to fight them, and why? In my opinion, there are so many other better and less annoying mobs to fight, so why fight these guys? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything like that, I'm just genuinely interested is all.

Originally Posted by NeverDark

Try to situate a television or radio near your PC when working on some of the more tedious defeat badges. Grinding away Marcone bosses in Port Oakes isn't anywhere near as painful if you've got something else to keep your mind on.

Originally Posted by defenestrator

i know how the op feels. I invented the perfect character. He was an invulnerability / super strength tanker, and i was going to take fly for a travel power. He was also going to have the laser eye beams when he got high enough in level. I designed a really cool all blue costume with red boots, trunks and cape and a cool "s" logo.

Imagine my disappointment when the name "wolverine" was taken.