LiquidX

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Valentine's pack too expensive? It's but a drop in me money bin to get a coat this fancy. Aye, a good decision.

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Congratulations Sir, you win +10 cool points for referencing Scrooge McDuck in conversation.

Also, just a thought...

At 10 bucks, what if the Valentines Day Costume Pack also included a free costume change for each of your characters?

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SWEET! There's an added bonus to the VD pack: you get a free bug!

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That's exactly why I stopped sleeping with women who hang out on street corners.

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Seriously, even the greedy SOE has never thought about charging for just a few costume parts and emotes.

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However, Bethesda did charge for useless Horse Armor.

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I get the feeling this is an experiment for future little packs...

Sorry, but I gotta hope it fails. Which it probably will. Well, except for the James Bond character concepts...

Sorry, but no. I don't like where this is going. I already pay my monthly fee for a reason.

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Except that this is exactly what people have been asking for for ages now:

The ability to buy "packs" with special stuff.

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I think they meant "buy the stuff that originally came with the now-defunct boxes", like the DVD or pre-order items. Like what they did with the in-game GvE items.

This? It's kind of twisting our words IMHO. We want to buy in-game stuff that has already been made available through standard retail, not pay for every future costume set, emote, special power, etc.

Admittedly, this is like selling a box without the box. Except this doesn't have enough content to feel like a "box pack".

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Yes, people have been wanting them to sell the CoH DVD items/CoV CE stuff. (Which I have staunchly opposed).

However, I can't count the number of times I've seen threads popping up, or people saying stuff like "I would totally pay <Insert monetary figure here> for extra costume parts/temp powers/ect."

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Seriously though, I think you guys should open the VIP badge/pack as an add on for $5 or $10. Far better that everyone should get a fair shot at it than it should occasionally spring up on Ebay for $60.

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Like this?

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Like that, but for the City of Heroes VIP pack that they had back in the day. It has a badge attached to it and you can't get it now.

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It was the Heroes Gear Kit. It included all the extras from the City of Heroes DVD Edition (Statesman Heroclix, VIP Badge, Cape of the Four Winds, PVP mini-comic, and all that), and ran about $20 bucks I believe.

And for the comment in a previous post:

Everyone already had a fair shot at it. If they didn't get it then, then too bad.

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Costumes from live

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No veil?

And you gotta love the "sweet spot" heart codpiece!

--NT

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Am I the only one who thinks the first costume in that picture looks like something from a Victorias Secret catalog?

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I have no idea why I expected a serious post to come from this.

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Seriously, whats up with that? One would think you would have learned better by now. Maybe next time you should stay at a Holdiay Inn.

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I get the feeling this is an experiment for future little packs...

Sorry, but I gotta hope it fails. Which it probably will. Well, except for the James Bond character concepts...

Sorry, but no. I don't like where this is going. I already pay my monthly fee for a reason.

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Except that this is exactly what people have been asking for for ages now:

The ability to buy "packs" with special stuff.

With the announcement of the Wedding Event, and the fact that only 100 people will be allowed in each "instance" of it, it is quite obvious that I will be unable to attend.

This is unnaceptable, as I pay 15 bucks a month, which entitles me to attend anything that I want, regardless of your so called "Technical capabilities" and "Common Sense". Since you recently upgraded the servers, it is quite obvious that the problems are all your fault, and not mine, because I pay 15 bucks a month and am therefore perfect and know much more about programming and hardware then you. Especially since I just stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, and recently switched my car insurance to Geico.

Therefore, I demand that you compensate me for this discriminatory slap in the face. What follows are my demands for suitable compensation in light of your obvious failings and social awkwardness:

1) An Ouroborous mission of the wedding, complete with "TEH MAD XP AND BLING.".

2) All badges made available to me from the very start, even ones not in the game yet, in order to show how much better I am then everyone else.

3) A Big Red Ball

4) Merge all the servers into one big server, because there are not enough people playing on this dying game. Then kick everyone else off because it will be too crowded. And I pay 15 bucks a month, and am therefore better then them.

5) FIIIIIIIIIIIVE GOL-DEN RIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGS!

6) Advance notices on any unplanned outages, server locks, or anything that will inconvenience me. Just because you all are too lazy and not geniuses like me, doesen't mean I should have to suffer for your poor planning and lack of hygeine.

7) an apology for not being as awesome and cool as I am. I know it's technically not your fault, so I'll also require an apology from your parents too.

8) A Pony, named Princess Marcian Tobay the Third Esquire Jr. I shall than hug her, and squeeze her, and call her George.

9) More Catgirls. There are not enough Catgirls in the game.

That is all of my demands. I shall expect swift payment, otherwise it is proof that you all are meanies who hate your players, and want to completly ruin a game that's not fun anyways and that I hate because I keep complaining. Also, you have cooties.

Sincerely,
Liquid Horatio X

(P.S. - SexyJay is exempt from the following demands. He is Sexy, and therefore awesome. But the rest of you are big dumb stupidheads)

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*blinks in surprise at the City Scoop*

What the-

Wow... I had no idea that 'how to make a video' rant of mine was actually going into the Scoop! I'd have gone for something a bit more... I don't know... professional? Lucid? Something!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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If they wanted professional and lucid, do you really think they'd let me write for them?

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Ask Athy has been a long time absent because our readers have not been sending Athy questions. Please everyone, try to submit questions to both Athy and LiquidX!

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Dunno why I should. I already skim over these sections when they're there.

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Don't worry. I skim over your City Scoop articles too.

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Custom outfits? But how will I know what that character can do?

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Interestingly enough, Everquest 2 is breaking from the mold in that respect with "Apperance Slots". At level 20, you gain these slots which allow you to put anything you can wear in them (Without gaining any benefits from them), and will override the appearance of whatever you have equipped normally. This way you can look cool AND make use of the latest gear.

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Mhumm... Agree to ost of this... actualy all of it. And i have to say i want to give NC Soft a big tumb up just because of the fact that they are willing to give odd ideas a shot, CoH worked great Auto Assault not so mutch but still they had the balls to give these companies a try.

and for that they deserve praise in my book.

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Not to mention that NCSoft has taken a big gamble with Dungeon Runners, which seems to be paying off. And that is good, because Dungeon Runners is hillarious.

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What happened to the classified section?

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MIS_KITTAH WUZ N R CLASAFEYEDS, UZIN THA LITERBOX.

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Flight: Right before I started City of Heroes, I remember watching a friend of mine cross the entire length of The Hollows ... with Hover. She was inordinately grateful to have that option at level 6; it was worth the interminable delay to her to not have to fight level 12 Igneous in Grendel's Gulch. And, like everybody else back then, she was designing her character around the assumption that she was going to take Flight or Super Jump at level 14. Nowadays, of course, all of the smarter players have Raptor Packs no later than level 8. In your game, no later than level 14, players who don't want to street sweep their way all the way to the mission door, going from enemy group to enemy group for a mile, against enemy groups that increase in difficulty to far above their level, can simply fly or jump up to the rooftop level and above and fly directly to the mission door. (A trick I used to also use in Anarchy Online starting at, if memory serves, level 20.) When mission doors are hidden in areas where the trees are grown together above them, making us thread ground-level mazes full of mobs, like in Perez Park or Primeva, some players, myself included, complain bitterly.

Only recently did I get it hammered into my head that almost every other MMO in the history of the genre considers the street sweeping your way a half a mile to a mile across the map, being forced to fight every spawn between point A and point B, to be the most important content in the game, to be an essential part of the MMO formula. That, I'm finally given to understand, and not the technical obstacles in 3D travel, is why other games are so resistant to flight. And I cannot thank you enough for having the courage to bet that you could continue to raise the development budget to replace all those endless hours of street sweeping with enough instanced missions to keep us playing for the same number of hours. No, really, no amount of thanks I could give you would be enough. Thanks!

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Even better is when you take into account that if you want faster movement speeds in most other MMO's, you either need to:

Use a power to let you sprint for a limited amount of time, and sucks up all your endurance/spirit/mana/ect in fifteen seconds flat,

or

Wait till level 40 and spend an ungodly amount of money to buy a mount in order to move faster. (Or be one of the few classes that can quest for one).

And even *better* is that unlike those other games, CoH/V doesen't make you traipse all over the [censored] wilderness just to find a connecting flight path the be able to travel to it. Want to quick travel to another zone here? Hit the tram/ferry and be able to go to any zone it's connected to!

Also, and most importantly... NO [censored] GIANT RATS. I swear to [insert diety here] that if I have to spend five more minutes grinding wolves/snakes/stupid STUPID rat creatures! just to get their heads which may or may not drop, I'm gonna jab something sharp into my brainpan.

And thus the day was saved, thanks to...

THE POWERP... er, I mean... LIGHTHOUSE!

Y'know, if you gave her bunny ears, you could call her "Ski-Bunny"

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There's no way to absolutely prove that the devs didn't intend Empath to require the level of effort it does, short of them actually saying so.

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They did. Specifically, as I said in an earlier post, Positron said he estimated it would take five years to earn Empath.

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And until the requirements are lowered to match that estimation, the badge is broken.

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And how do you know it doesen't already match that estimation?

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So, when do WE get OURS

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When we spend the billions of dollars needed to invent an Enema arrow to threaten SexyJay with.

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Would that also lead to more "Pain Pads"-type costume pieces?

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Actually, those came about due to feedback from his wife about the state of feminine hygeine products.

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^^Good answer.

*goes to invention table in SG base...*

Aww! Says it needs 3 Hamidon Goo's and 17 Luck Charms!
Dagnabbit!

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Now you must farm Lucky the Leprechaun to get his boxes of Lucky Charms. Just be carefull though, as he's already being camped by those kids.

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So, when do WE get OURS

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When we spend the billions of dollars needed to invent an Enema arrow to threaten SexyJay with.

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And I assume again that the idea behind the scoop is to try and make it some form of a "true" newspaper? Then why not spend the extra 2 minutes and put in 2 sentences of instructions? Not sure what's so hard about that. However, if there is some sort of coding or programming difficulty surrounding that, then i'll back off. Wouldn't know anything about that, so i'd concede to the folks that do.

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We are a newspaper for Supers. If you don't have psychic puzzle figuring-outing powers, you should at least have some kind of wombat-computer to run it through.

Hell, I hear Manticore spent billions of dollars just to develop an arrow that would solve the daily crossword for him.

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He *is* adorable. Even if there were enough arrows in the world to fight a giant baby (which clearly there aren't) I don't think I could fire on him...too cute!

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Wait wait wait...

You spend billions of dollars to invent an Enema Arrow, and yet you can't spend Five Bucks and some spare change to buy a rattle and tie it to a shaft?

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I've been looking for a new arrow maker Liquid, hows your inventing?

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Well, I don't want to brag, but just last night I combined Sliced Apples, Dough, and Cinnamon to invent Pie.

Now all we need to do is tie one of these Moistest Fruit Pies to an arrow shaft, and you have a distracting treat that no villain could resist!

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That will leave a sticky mess in your quiver.

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So many ways to interpret that sentence...so little time...

Grats to the Diaper Decimator! Make sure he gets his vitamin XP every night.

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Ex Libris and Lighthouse are both standing behind me with the ban sticks right now, just waiting for me to say something.

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He *is* adorable. Even if there were enough arrows in the world to fight a giant baby (which clearly there aren't) I don't think I could fire on him...too cute!

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Wait wait wait...

You spend billions of dollars to invent an Enema Arrow, and yet you can't spend Five Bucks and some spare change to buy a rattle and tie it to a shaft?

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I've been looking for a new arrow maker Liquid, hows your inventing?

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Well, I don't want to brag, but just last night I combined Sliced Apples, Dough, and Cinnamon to invent Pie.

Now all we need to do is tie one of these Moistest Fruit Pies to an arrow shaft, and you have a distracting treat that no villain could resist!