Lady Arete

I agree Scarlet
I agree. Things are way way way TOO easy.
Personally I hated the "smoothing" xp curve. It meant far to much xp and being someone who wanted to get temp powers and contacts at earlier lvl that meant: GO SOLO! Fortunatly with the NO XP Feature i can now play slow... as I want it.
The Smoothing made certain we always had xp... debt is tough to get. Thats not all.
Sure the Event channel makes things easier to get people to do GM hunts (and with merits it is actually worthwhile... more then before). However now everyone (im all for that) can get badges etc... so easy.
The challange to get certain badges where gone.
The DayJob patrol xp.. is even another step. Even more xp... when it was already easy.

Please Devs... stop dumbing the game down. Without challanges this game will be just like many other EASY games out there. Let us feel "Wow.. that was an experience" not "another 50.. yawn.. what to do now?"

Im not an avid PvP'er but my impression from a few i encountered (do correct me if im wrong), is that the pvp has been so much level playfield. That the years of experience they have racked up means nothing.

Im all for giving more people the chance of doing certain things they did not do before... but atleast give us a challange, a sense of accomplishment for doing things. (And im not talking about increasing the amount of times you have to do things).
Players ARE and will ALWAYS have a REWARD compensates the RISK. Now there is little to no risk.

There are fewer times now that I will soar though the hollows on my emp, ready to buff the lowbies who tries to outrun the wildlife. Why... cause its not needed. Before the changes you learned how to pull, how to move, how to fight... as there was risk involved. If you died and there was no one to help you... it was back to Atlas or Skyway and run back. That was a motivator to keep on your toes.

Union here.
I badgehunt, roleplay and have done so since I joined. With the "add slots".. even more on Union.

(Then you like the server MajorPain )

I'd like to see more base items. (We have many already ingame items that are not in the base editor.) and proper Water in the game (that you can swim/dive in) like a certain cimerorian mission).

I'd like to see (as mentioned) Water based powerset. Since we do not have any waterbased hero/villain. (we got the three other elements.. )

I'd like to see alternate ways of travelling to another zone. (we can fly darnit... why do we always have to use a train?) Activate "Supersonic flight" wooosssssh (zoning image)... then an animation where you land somewhere in the zone which you picked.

I'd like to see a zone where what we do... actually make a change/difference. Portal corp have discovered a new dimension, its rich, it has natural life (allies/enemies), yes they might be at war with each other (fair enough). In come Heroes on one side... and villains on the other.
They do missions that help build the zone, choose the eventual look of what a building will look like. Perhaps even the build order itself.
Slowly, gradually the zone gets occupied... Welcome dimensional war of dominance...

New Travel power... Driving a bike. Nuff said.

Also... since seeing the big Mechman of the Council, I do wonder what it would be like... FIGHTING it!

... and yes.. more costume outfits. Let us wear more hats and have hair showing please. (specially on the winter event cap and the Witch hat.. *shudder*) A nice back item: Rocketpack as costume part.

(and one of my longed looked out features)...
Serge and every member of Icon and their respective's others on the Isles, can change your apperance, your mass and your clothes.
BUT
They cannot change your Hight. There is no possibility doing this (even with the new save/load costume) [or am i wrong?] So... I would very much like to see the possibility of changing a characters hight.

More emotes (sing, lie down, more dance emotes. Emote animators please, go nuts and use your geniouses and make more). (please with sugar on top)

Workaround on this is.. Make certain you have taken the mission yourself, from father time. Be in team with others and when mission is complete, simply say yes to autocomplete. It should give you the 5 candy canes.

However the sidekick issue still stand out. I was sidekicked, i had my own mission, but we where doing another ones mission and I did get 0 candy canes. Thus i would advice at the end stay unsidekicked. (its a hassle i know)

I would like it to remain. Sure it does not drop any more, sure it has no value... but it can be used as "inspiration" for roleplay... or used during roleplay.
And for me.. Lady Arete (sorceress and magic user) without a Codex... even a copy of a demonologica... well umm NO.
Dont auto-convert it.
<-- collector? What gave it away

The course is differcult yes... and if you are going for gold (advanced course) it is plain impossible with sprint only... or no travelpower or boost.
To all who do the new ski slope here are the advices:
I would advice run through the course several times so you get familiar with it.

If you have superspeed great... get a Kin to give you IR (or use superjump or similar) for control.
If you do not have superspeed or superjump... ask a friendly kin for SB and IR. If you want gold... you will mostlikely need two SB's and an extra IR will help but is not neccessary.
Also... pilot day job givs extra speed, also the Good vs Evil Jump pack (will not last the entire course).
Now that your buffs are in order and you've gotten IR buff LAST.. start the course.
At the first intersection choose the left (portal), if you choose the right you loose alot of seconds and if you have buffs you have a chance of hitting the rocks on your way up.

Then its skiing down.. soon you will have another choice.. jump over a gap & bridge or go under the bridge. I usually head under.. by reducing speed just before the ridge then move under it. As IR will reduce the speed of the jump over...
Next continue, until you are at the crossing with the big snowman... choose left or right. Left will make you do a jump, the right will be a little longer then the left. Your choice. Wwith the buffs i usually continue with the right slope.
Then is the final curves until you are at the end... dont do any fancy things and make certain you enter the final marker in the middle as much as possible. (Personal experience: get to close to the far right or far left.. and it will not register... even if you where a Speeder candidate.)

Thats whats needed to become a "Speeder"
Now go out and enjoy the slopes.. with or without buffs/travelpowers

Yes.. all she needs.. is.. a belt you know?..
oh well you have seamstresses... and "Seamstresses"... (had to make that remark).
But yes... please put a belt on her

Pity it did not work out. Next time, i would recommend that its planned in advance (a week before or more)... and start earlier then you intended. (one or two hours).

My only Hamidon raid (successful) was the first I-9 (which chanced the old hami to the nasty piece of work it is now) we started early and it took in the end 7 hours. (i dont regret it)

Also here is a LINK (to refresh ones mind) on how the US took down Hamidon. I would recommend a leader read it, then post the details on the forum for all participating members to see.
Hamidon needs planning, dedicated players (preferably with a que outside the zone just waiting to enter when needed incase of dc etc) and tactics.

Until Union get a working method for a weekly or so Hamidon raid, then plan to atleast use 5-6 hours from start to finish. Until the strategy works out and everyone knows just what to do.

Thats my two cents/(or assorted currency).
Kudos to everyone who makes a Hamidon Raid though

Edit: included the link to the US forum

Well im not going to try loading a costume from a different char (yet) .. with different hight, to another char who is smaller or taller in size. Did not work on test... so since there have been no update on the matter... Will not try yet. (and waste millions or a costume token)

Had it happening multiple times on the Red side (union). We where in mission came to one place.. Mapserver.. then out. And cant log in again, until log-in server achnowledged us. Then we came back, teamed up again, ran through mission... and again mapserver...
It became abit silly... so we decided to quit for the night.
What was weird though, in the last mission we where 3 people, two of us mapservered the third remained.
Also... doing nothing in D... mapserver (but got back again).

Same. Union Server. Had plenty of mapservers. And at times the Log-in server would be "gone" for us. Not everyone had it though. We where in a 3 man team and two of us mapservered and the third remained.

Would I? Big NO!
As said, getting to lvl 50 is easy enough and made easier all the time by the devs. (everything is really)

For me it is the journey towards 50. Getting contacts and temp powers, seeing new content.
If I got a char PL'ed.. that char would have 0 contacts and I would have no idea how to play that AT's powerset Properly. Waste of a char slot really.

Phew... Finally back on Firefox.
Thanks LeighB. It was the data getting stuck in Firefox's cache.
Simple solution, letting ccleaner take care of it

No, no changes at all. I may be still "logged in" on another computer (firefox), and logged in via explorer here.
But my firefox version at my CoX computer will not let me log in...
Yes I use Firefox to, for same reason you gave GrinningSpade. And throughout the entire CoX life (almost 2 years).. i've had no such problems with Firefox...

Have a little problem logging into the forums.
I use Mozilla Firefox and have not had this problem before.
Problem in question is I am sort of logged in, cause when i press the option to login i come to "My Home" page. I cannot edit anything, nor can i post anything and when i press "log-in" all i get is "My Home" page.

Reason why I can post things is that i've logged in via Explorer. So... the problem must lie with FireFox.
Anyone have any solution or ideas I could use to fix the problem?

Also.. RV (predator) inside hero base (final teleporter before entering the fight area) Monitor (supergroup badge)
Only one that was given was Monitor.

Did have the same issue Tsumiju.. Same mission.
Workaround, Click the portal first, then the artifacts...
That worked for me (after 3-4 mapservers)

Have gotten quite a few of them [Tell] Ice or any kind of short message. Quite a few weird ones. Have not sent a tell at the moment. Was more activly using powers...
*shrug*

Did a little hotfix, now that I-13 is launched.
Removed a few bugs (overview CoX), where not all badges got registrated.
Some cosmetical changes (moving a badge up or down on the list)
Added a new little feature. Since I still use (for the ease of it) Achivements as the main folder. I've added a little sum total line. That way one can more easily see "now which category is WRONG".
Since I already use a code for Invention, InventionProgress has such a sum at the bottom of the page too.
For the new update. Just go to first page and download the "Badgesheet1_3"

Heh.. so thats what are chars are doing when we're not looking.... hmmm.

Yea.. nice video

Have had purple drop from +48 mobs. Cant remember which purple.. but it was purple

Welcome to the game Zenkolt.
If you have some questions or feel you need some advice do give me a little tell @Lady arete
Wishing you a fun journey on your hero(s) /villain(s) /superpowered being(s)

I like.. "option" Turn off XP
Yesssssssssssss... no more that silly getting more xp thingy and out level your contacts, not getting temp powers. Now i can Team ... TEAM TEAM!!! (without the fear of outlevelling said contacts).. muhaha
Seriously, i do like that option.

Pain Domination (villains "empathy")..
Made my little preatorean version of my goodie hero Cyrene

New Badges
.. comments says it all.

Base changes:
Bases will look even more fun now. Although lets see if the limit to around 6000 items in base (or alittle above) still exists, before the base go boom)

What I do not like:
You have to be offline a lot to get them badges (i pay to play my chars.. and im a badgewho... affordable friend).

Bugs... (we all dont like that. I just get the feeling that the Devs copied/pasted what was from test version... which they did, even though it was still buggy).

I can understand poor Sal...
In comparison to Sal, well im just a lowlie badgewh... badge affordable friend with my 575 badges. (addicted too)
Only badges that i got left heroside... are those which one have to "farm", "veteran badges" and now "Day Job" badges.
I was in glee when Ouroboros came out (soo many new badges.. yeay). Cause it gave me the chance of being alot of active on this char.

Day Jobs, well they are there as a reward for the not-so-hard core badgers or players. For those of us who are badgewh.. affordable friends, its a bitter taste.
Im just glad they put the timer down to 21 days (from 30), although even with this.. it feels too long.

Getting more defeat badges etc in addition would have been abit more fun.... (I hope for .. defeat 5'th column and get your 5'th colum glad )
Oh well.. i'll have fun levelling my little sonic/pain corr abit (Devs intent.. go.. make .. alts!)

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i remember that someone had said that timers were turned on

I left one of mine at mercy island starting fort place, then moved him to the black line helicopter after 30 days

and now he has half on Pilot job and a tiny bit on Patrol one

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same issue i had on a char.. 30 days in university.. then teleport into D.. only progress was for D *shrug*

oh well