Liquid

Someone teleported us in! I guess they'll try to teleport anyone in RWZ2 into RWZ1, so come on in!

Yeah. I thought that was poetic.

I don't think Starsman is talking about anyone here. I think he's talking about everyone else in the world, like the people in the gaming press that all (wrongly) assumed that it was shut down because it wasn't bringing in profit anymore.

Edit: Hell, he said it in the sentence before the one you quoted. He's talking about the general market.

There are a few reasons I'd have liked to see a full AT/Powerset respec:

First, some characters were made in concept and then kind of shoved into what CoH allowed at that moment. I knew someone with a character that was just supposed to be "tough", but Invulnerability was the only thing that approximated that. Then Willpower came out. She had to delete and recreate the character, losing all her badges (including irreplaceable ones like anniversary badges, SG join dates, and prestige totals). Another long-time player that I knew of, wanted to be a water blaster, and made due with Energy Blast the entire time. I don't even think that player was still around by the time Water Blast came out, but if they were, they'd have had to remake the character, losing 8 years of history to be how they were intended to be in the beginning. I had an Inv/SS Tanker and an SS/Inv Brute that should have been the opposite (the former being more reckless and stronger, the latter being more methodical and tougher), but that wasn't possible until Going Rogue. Once Going Rogue came, I couldn't just rename them and have them switch sides, either, because they didn't share the same origin type. So, it would have been nice to have that option to "fix" characters instead of remaking them and losing everything they had (I still haven't finished getting all the accolades that I had on the remade former Tanker, now Hero Brute).

Second, if you did it using alternate builds, it would have allowed people to make character concepts that were more versatile than CoH allowed, with no balance impact (since you can only swap at trainers). I knew one player that had a character that was supposed to be a weaponmaster, and she had 3 or 4 different versions of him with a slight name misspelling to represent it. That being said, I'd have preferred this version require you to actually level up that alternate build without losing the original build's level, not instantly have a level 50 whatever/whatever, as I think that would reduce their total play time and allow them to burn their interest out much faster. I don't think I, personally, would have used that, as my concepts are usually pretty narrow, and the Primary/Secondary/Pool/Epic format provided everything I needed.

Third, some people just don't care about alts, and only want one character. When those people hit the maximum power level, with no more progression, it can be just a matter of time before they lose interest in the game. Being able to take that one character and use it to progress in another build would create a lot of replay value for them. It's not something I'd do, as I'm concept driven, and am not the type to make a "Liquid" character and just give him whatever powers I feel like having at the moment, but I think there's a significant portion of the population that would do that.

Anyway, it's cool that you even considered it. Thanks for the response!

Yeah. **** Dragons, indeed.

Glad I could help. It's hard not to be positive after how much my life has changed.

Whoa! No. No, we do not.

Hmm, perhaps that was what Positron was thinking when he gave the reaction he did to her dressing up like my character, though.

(We got a really good laugh from your post, by the way. )

Cool! Sorry we didn't win that, but we had lots of fun, right? Thanks for joining our PUG.

Aww, I think that's a great picture!