Living_Fyre

[QUOTE=Fay;4041192]Alrighty. I figured I'd reply to this since I see it ALL the time from people. None of this is actual knowledge from NCSoft or Paragon Studios, but it is my understanding of their choices.


First let me correct you in that i never said Every issue came with powersets. What I said was those that Did, were free. I also don't recall reading where VIP's would be getting free powersets with CoH Freedom. I really would appreciate it if you know of the link that you post it in a reply, private message is fine if you prefer, so that I can read it for myself.

Have you noticed though; None of the new sets, Time Manipulation aside, have been free. So VIP's are on a 1:3 Ratio to actually buying them. That's fair in your opinion? To be treated as 2nd class to people that will spend even more money than the $15 a month we VIP's continue to pay.

I just can't understand the logic of a VIP being okay with being treated as a Premium or Free player.

Thanks for the well worded reply though. It was appreciated.

First of all let me say that I am a 7 year veteran player of Co* and also well aware that I don't post often to the forums. However when i do it usually has merited thought behind it. So please, I ask that you read the entire post before "flaming" or deleting this post as I have some valid points that many of my fellow VIP's will, I am sure, agree with.
1) Featured Items: While yes this is an excelent way to promote players to spend money, especially the Free Access Users; What are you doing to your content?
a) By putting the Winter Event Items on the Market. You completly make doin the actual Events to Earn the items a mute point. Why should I spend the time in first building up a team and then leading said team against Lady Winter and Snaptooth to Earn the prizes. Santa Hat for 10 candy canes (aka Stocking Cap, confusing btw since there is already an item in the character creation screen with the other Pirate Hats) Santa Gloves-Reward for Completing the Lady Winter event in Pocket D. Santa Boots, awarded the same way. Ear Muffs, awarded via randomness of opening presents during the event. Which, I can only assume is what you want people to do since you spawn them every year. So why make them a Buyable item if you actually Want people to Play your Content? I know you take the time to develop the content so you obviously want people to Play it. This seems very counter productive and highly annoying to those of us that would like to have Something that you can't just Buy.
2)New Power Set: Prior to CoH: Freedom (i.e. when we were All VIP's) New Power Sets were a Free Perk with almost every new Issue and were also very prevelently announced usually with a nice lil preview trailer. (Hell even Walking had it's own trailer!) Immagine my surprise when I log in, decide to make yet another new Brute. (Sooo many char slots lol!) Only to find that some new powerset, Titan Weapon, is there... WTH is titan weapon I ask myself. (Btw I don't have Facebook so if it's there it's a non issue to me because I just don't care for social media forms such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. My daily life isn't that important lol) Not only has some new powerset shown up, but even being a VIP I had No Knowledge it was even coming. Once again. I have to Pay for it via my monthly stipend... NC Soft...Seriously! Why are VIP's being charged for Any new powersets? First it was Beam Rifle, then it was Street Justice (fun powerset btw, I highly recomend it) and now Titan Weapon (also fun, for a Brute, I've heard mixed reviews from my scrapper friends)

This post all boils down to Why are VIPs being charged Extra for things we use to get for Free? Why are you making the Event Content flat out Pointless to play? This seems highly counter-productive to actually Playing your hard worked and finely crafted game? It would seem as if your cutting your nose off just to spite your face and I for one am getting tired of having to save my 400 (plus 150 bonus via Paragon Reward Level) 550 points a month to get a powerset that no less than 6 months ago I would have gotten for Free as part of some kind of well thought out Issue. (Issue 22: Titanic Reign?)

Yes I understand we will be getting new issues faster (course we've all heard that before =) as well as the lovely Soon answer to highly anticipated items) but are you seriously trying to keep your subscribers, or are you, meaning NC SOft, trying to get everyone to just say "To hell with sub'n. I can be a premium and still get the same stuff." It certainly seems that way.

3) Paragon Reward Token: I have read the FAQ and it states that Paragon Reward Tokens are rewarded After the Paid month has actually been Played. What? That doesn't make any sence. If I pay for a month, even if I cancel immediately after paying, I still have that month of time so I therefore have no choice but to play out that month, or just let the 15 I just spent go to waste. Would it be to much to ask that the Paragon Reward Token system be linked to our payment schedual. Yes I understand this would entail the crew at NC Soft, which has been outsourced customer service wise to other countries in case y'all didn't know, to actually have Something to do while they wait on Tickets or other customer service needs/complaints. I mean maybe just a date on my Master Account Page? It lists all of the dates I have recieved my stipend, which isn't even on the same date every month even though my billing date has Never changed. So what gives.

Please NC Soft, I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy this game. All the immitators, Champions Online (formed from former NC Soft members) has failed in comparison. Even the ability to play DC Universe Online for Free hasn't pulled me away from my City of Heroes. I just hope that we havn't had happen what I fear has. That the NC Soft team is now more worried about earning that next $1 rather than making sure it VIPs are Still treated like they are VIPs.
Yes, VIPs have unlimited access to our AH's (Wents for Heroes, Black Market for Villains) My Reward Status gives me that if I were to drop to Premium.
Yes VIPs is currently the only way to access and even participate in Incarnate Trials. However, I don't see us making it through 2012 without even That perk being purchasable on the Paragon Market. Even if it is only a recuring monthly purchase like the Invention System (rental?...best way I know how to put it.)

So I'm asking this again. WHy are you not only making your content, the holiday content at least, redundant to even bother with and why are you treating your VIPs no better than a high access Premium player.

VIP Status gets you... 400 points a month... Cool.
1 Char transfer a Month... Cool somewhat useless but still cool. I wish we could "Cash In" this transfer for it's Point Value but hey, that's just my view on it.
Free access to the Monthly Story Arc... Well you decided to go and ruin the suspence of "Who Will Die" by announcing it's gonna be Statesman. Poor Choice IMO
And a nearly limitless amount of character slots. Great for my altitis lol.

I know this has been a long winded post. Some of you may read it and view it as just another player thinking their Entitled to more. Well considering I've been paying for this game for 7 years and will continue to pay for it. I sorta am. As are the other VIPs out there. We are Entitled to get Free what we Always got free. Nothin more, Nothing less. The extras are great. But... they still make some of us feel as though we aren't as VIP as you have lead us to believe.

Here's where I'll close by saying Thank You NC Soft. For a very well developed game, for a very fun experiance and for continuing to put your best efforts forward concerning new content and new power sets for us all to enjoy.

Loyal Son of Paragon,

Living Fyre - lvl 50 Fire/Fire/Energy Tanker - Pinnacle Server
To many Alts to list lol

Greetings all. I havn't posted in a while and since my return to a game I once enjoyed immencely I've seen and experienced a few new things that have risen some concern in my mind. So here we go...

Lag- What has happened? Everytime I log in here recently it's the same story... 1-2 minutes at the primary entrance loading screen. Then, if I'm lucky, I'm on and good for a while. If I'm not... getting more than 15 minutes of play time is awesome.
"It's your computer..." Nope. Comps runnin at Above Recomended requirments.
"It's your time of day playing..." Maybe, but at 3am central... I doubt it.
My answer to it... Cryptic has just gotten lazy and hasn't bothered increasing the load capacity of their servers. Hence the "Red Out's" and "Black Outs" on the more popular servers. Got servers with minimal population. Low, or maybe even 0 pop... Simple... Drop those servers and give their bandwidth to 1 of the more populated servers.

Now Lag I can deal with. Hell it's MMO life right. Here's my second and more prominent gripe...

Recycled Content- What's the point in Veteran Rewards? Customizable Content (i.e. Mission Architect)? Invention System? To keep players? Not likely. The invention system alone is aggrivating at best. Having to suffer through the lag of ppl who do nothing but log in and out at the "Aution House". The prices are seriously in need of reworks, and there is absolutly NO reason that any... and I mean ANY piece of salvage should be costing in the Millions of Influence/Infamy.

Veteran Rewards has got to be the most nicely thought out but poorly executed system thought up. I mean seriously... 6 of the rewards are the Same Exact Thing! WTF?! I'm wasting 6 months to a year to get the same "Rewards" I was already awarded? I mean understandably the well runs dry from time to time but come on...

Mission Architect- Ok, I like the idea. Conceptualy it's sound. In practice it aint to bad either save 1 massive flaw... You've spent the last 4 years trying to eliminate Power Leveling, Mission Farming, etc. Things you (NcSoft/Cryptic) consider "Game Breaking"... Ummm, you just gave me the ability to remake ANY old mission that was "Nerf'd" with a timer... and Now... I can farm it for as long as I want on any charater I want and never have to do a single solitary mission. What... You didn't like the game content that was designed. Sure players were farming missions before. It was all fine and dandy... but now. Hell you can't find a team for Anything outside of the AE... Forget trying to do SF/TF's. Can't solo em obviously... can't get a team together for em. Everyone's to busy in the AE makin stupid *** farming missions that a lvl 1 could complete in their sleep... Just get tired of makin your programmers do their job?

Inventions- Ok gettin my first big one outta the way... Wings were designed as a Vet Reward ONLY... WTF!! No need to wait the 18 months for em... just farm up whatever type ya want and boom... good to go. No, you can't get the Angel/Demon wings from Invention Recipe's... I know... but every other wing type looks better anyway... so who cares right? What... were HO's not good enough. They do the same thing, and... They were Worth getting. You had to Work for em.. IO's... Pfft... Over Powered...

"Game content was not made harder with the introduction of Invention Origin Enhancements..."

No offence... It should have been! With fully slotted IO's... Nothing... NOTHING is a challendge... Sure my tank can't kill a Giant Monster solo... but it can't kill me either... Can barely hit me... spent 10million Inf just to find out if OP was the right term for IO's... and I was right.

So honestly Cryptic/NCSoft... What gives? Recycle/Reuse... is that the new motto? Or is this MMO going the route of so many others...
"We don't know what to do now. Our mythology behind it has gone to **** cause we've tried to change it so everyone's happy. Umm... ok gimme that mission file... *change boss name... change enemy type... * Guys... I just made a new mission... we can call it New Content"

To anyone that is insulted by this... Sorry. Get thicker skin. It's the internet.. and this is Freedom of Speech...


Fyre

Actually this issue that you've posted about use to be the exact opposite for the heros. Stalkers use to make it inside the SC hospital and wait..and not one...at one time I counted 12 Stalkers sitting in the hospital waiting room chairs. If not for my handy IR goggles and Focused Acc I would never have seen them. Yes I agree there should be some sort of anti-power/anti-TP anti-kill zone, and some type of penalty for doing such things. Hopefully the devs are going to address this issue soon since they did slam PvP down our proverbial throats.

I have a quick question...I consider myself very good with binds...not just for my Heroes but my MM's as well but that's beside the point. I know there is a way to have a power execute and have another que to fire off after completion of power 1..I just cant for the life of my 50 remember the command line....can anyone help.
many thanks :-)

another good way to bind your shap shifting forms for Kheld's and Warshades (yes they are two differnet things) but yeah that's all specifics....anyway
These two binds work very well for me, now I use the NumPad for my powers...and I hate first person view...that and I don't like having my nav bar vanish. So I replace the B and N keys with the binds as follows
/bind n "powexec_name Dark Nova$$goto_tray 2"
/bind b "powexec_name Black Dwarf$$goto_tray 3"
but what about human form...I use the period key for that like so
/bind . "powexec_toggleoff Bright Nova$$powexec_toggleoff Black Dwarf$$goto_tray 1"
yes that bind works from either form, and yes your forms are toggles..lol..but you knew that right ;-)