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Quote:At least he could walk when he used his "power".Originally Posted by Hero_of_Steel
This power is as useful as the guy from Mystery Men, the one who could only go invisible as long as no one looked at him.
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Quote:Assuming the "multiple players in the group doing the same CoP only counts as 1 attempt" clause doesn't actually apply to this badge...Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
this badge isnt that bad since sg badges count for everyone in sg, so if you have 24 poeple in sg participate in a CoP, it would only take about 4 CoP trials to get the badge, win or lose
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My feeling is if they wanted this new stealth power to be "marginally" useful in combat they could have linked it to the code they use for travel suppression. The idea is that while it's on instead of suffering from a few seconds of suppression it would keep you under the full travel suppression effect as long as the power is on. Being forced to only move at a snail's pace seems fair enough to keep this power balanced.
As it is now I only ever plan to "use" this power for RP purposes. *shrugs* -
Quote:Well at least that makes a little more sense.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
After checking notes, you have to be in the mission as the trial ends win or lose and it doesn't have to be your group's CoP raid. Just starting the trial isn't enough.
This'll probably still be the -very- last badge we worry about getting regardless.
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Perhaps a simpler idea than creating an entirely new set of powers related to a "Doppleganger MM" would be to allow MMs the option of using their own appearance to replace the current graphics used on current MM pets. It could be an option in the power customization screen at the tailors'. This would be the developmentally "cheap" way to do it.
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Quote:That was actually one of the bigger "problems" I had with movie. I sort of didn't mind the "ibridge" that was clearly designed by Apple and I sort of didn't mind the steampunk distillery as the engineering room when considered separately. What bugged me was how both of those things were on the SAME ship?!? Talk about a jarring mismatch.Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
JJ: Hey guys, I have an idea. Lets update the original Star Trek and make it look all hip and shiny and ultra-iPod modern, and we'll make the engine room look more primitive than it did in 1966!
You can make fun all you want about the cheesy 1960's styled look of the original series. But at least all the different rooms of that old TV Enterprise looked like they all belonged together on the same ship. JJ Abrams' ship looked like they gathered junk parts from a ship scrapyard and welded it all together piecemeal.
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As I recall the progress bars for some of those were kind of flaky and imprecise back when I was just trying the get them done on my Villains. It's very possible they'll be just as flaky in the post-GR game.
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Quote:Not much. It's certainly at the bottom of my "badges I need to get" list.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
It is a group badge (not a character badge), requires 100 hours (100 CoP starts), and gives a meh base item that cannot be used as the base raiding system is off-line.
What would be the point?
I'm just saying that if all you need to do is "start" a CoP to get credit for it then there will probably be SGs out there that'll be encouraged to go through the motions of starting and dropping them a bunch of times. That's pretty much the very definition of the 'evil' kind of badge farming I thought the Devs were trying to discourage. Go figure. *shrugs* -
Quote:All four alignments have their own unique power for reaffirming their status.Originally Posted by Fantastic_Foe
Quick question, what is the temp power for reaffirming heroic status? Is is the same for villains? Do Rogues and Vigs get temps for reaffirming their alignment?
Thanks in advance
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Quote:No there's no tailor in AP. But it's pretty easy now to go to the Vanguard Base entry portal in AP and get to the tailor that's in the RWZ Vanguard Base. Of course as I was pointing out earlier redside has no real equivalent to that, for what that's worth. *shrugs*Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk
Wait, are you saying there IS a tailor in Atlas Park. I am looking around on the map right now, I don't see it anywhere...
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Well again I don't mind that PayPal thought they were protecting me from something bad. The part that irks me is that their actions caused NCsoft to think I was trying to do something bad to them because they had no idea whether I authorized the reversal directly or not.
PayPal ought to be smart enough to warn you DURING the payment process that it thinks you are a trying to do something fishy (from say an unconfirmed location) so that it doesn't have to go through the motions of fully paying a 3rd party then reversing that payment at a later time. Until I am sure they would be able to deal with that kind of thing I'll never risk using PayPal away from home again. -
Quote:Yeah you have to figure that maybe half of the items in question would never be workable for player characters for all sorts of reasons. But the other half should be on the list for consideration.Originally Posted by Jophiel
There's also stuff that just isn't suitable for player character models for other technical reasons. Such as the Carnival ball gowns or Circle of Thorns full length robes.
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Quote:For my situation PayPal informed me via email of their concern about my transaction probably about a millisecond -before- they reversed the payment regardless of my desires. I guess you could call that a "warning" of their intent, but I'd call it an extreme overreaction. *sigh*Originally Posted by Zikar
This is pretty much standard procedure for banks and I guess PayPal is kinda sorta like a bank. I am very surprised they didn't contact you first however, to make sure everything was actually okay.
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Quote:Actually this same basic scenario just happened to me about a month ago.Originally Posted by Redd35
I don't know how to feel about this, but I bought 2 GR collection packs with my paypal account and shortly afterwards both of my CoX accounts were banned.
Apparently I made the purchase from a loction that was not in my "known purchase loctions" so paypal freaked out and thought it was not legit, somehow told the CoH billing department and both my accounts were banned.
Finally got the issue resolved after 24 hours but still would have liked some notification other than "Your account has been suspended, this can possibly be due to <reasons that didn't help me and made me panic>"
I applaud paypal for taking proactive measures to protect against fraudulent activity, but it's kind of scary that they have a "profile" on me and can tell if a purchase is "not normal"
I also still don't get why CoX banned my accounts until the paypal issue was resolved.
I live in the US and have a confirmed PayPal address here. But I made the "mistake" of trying to use PayPal to buy the new Mutant Super Booster pack while I happened to be on a business trip in Japan. PayPal overreacted by assuming my legitimate purchase was fraudulent (due to the foreign IP I assume) and reversed the payment. NCsoft reacted to that by instantly banning my account (which by the way had been continuously active without interruption since before CoH Headstart). It took me several days to clear the mess up.
Like you I suppose I should be glad PayPal decided to be so "proactive" with protecting my account with them. But the whole situation has turned me against ever trying to use PayPal with NCsoft again for any purchase anywhere.
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I think the distinction in this case should be whether or not a costume item is truly unique to a single special NPC or if it is currently a generic NPC item.
Like Diggis said I would not expect to get something as unique as BAB's gloves. But anything that's currently "randomly generic" to non-named NPCs ought to be strongly considered as things player characters should have access to assuming there would not be major clipping issues or whatnot.
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I'd probably be safe in assuming that far fewer than 50% of the characters in the game make use of that "second build" feature. I'd bet there are a lot of people who don't even realize it exists. Heck even across all my alts I only have second builds on a few of them.
While I'm not technically against the idea of getting two freespecs at a time I suspect the Devs would never see the justification for it for all sorts of reasons. *shrugs* -
Quote:Ultimately I'd like to have purchasable costume slots for characters like Champions Online provides.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
I'm all for adding a tailor to the tuorial and for more costume slots, but not for any sort of limited 'plain clothes' costume slot. Its not needed, if someone wants to have a plain clothes costume, they can use a regular costume slot. No need to try and force that on anyone.
People could use them for any purpose they wanted.
But if for some reason the Devs of this game can't/won't ever do that then as a lesser alternative I would not mind everyone getting a new dedicated "plain clothes" slot. Getting a new albeit limited costume slot would be (at that point) better than nothing. -
Quote:When a character changes alignment away from the alignment of the SG (like if a Hero in a Hero SG becomes a Vigilante) that character is flagged as an "inactive" and loses the Super Leader red star if they had it.Originally Posted by Katie V
What if they are the only member of the group?
If you're the only member in the SG you'd technically lose the red star rank but you'd also be "inactive" so you couldn't really use your base anymore anyway. If you go back to the original alignment you started at you'd be "reactivated" and since you'd become the only eligible active member to be the Super Leader you should get the red star back instantly. -
Quote:So you only have to "attempt" the CoP to work on that badge?Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Actually, as far as I know, the text is wrong. It is only attempts or group starts that count. Note that multiple players in the group doing the same CoP only counts as 1 attempt.Quote:Originally Posted by Zloth
Oh man - if it was "attempted CoP 100 times" I would be set.
I know some badges are easier to farm than others, but a badge with a requirement like that is almost ASKING to be farmed.
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I could see this idea being more doable if they made it a new kind of general Power Pool instead of a Secondary Power set. That way you avoid the problem with "unique" power sets that couldn't be proliferated and you would open it up so that anyone could potentially have a "sidekick" pet if they wanted.
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Quote:I don't think anyone was claiming it was impossible to make tailor changes on brand-new characters.Originally Posted by TameDragon
Redside...tailor hmm i tend to do the following with a new villain at lvl1:
1) Get partner to invite new toon to SG and send me 20k or so inf (we share our inf)
2) Go to GV and buy a jetpack
3) Self Destruct, go back to base nab some Halloween salvage and go to Nerva to turn it in
4) Get myself killed, go back to base and go to Cap
5) activate Jetpack and fly high as a lvl1 and drop in on the Facemakers
Easy once you know how
and yes im aware it requires a fully functioning base but if you do mishes in PO and get the jetpack from the bank its still doable
But I think most people would consider all the "hoops" you just described to be tedious at best.
Having tailors in tutorials and purchasable costume slots would change all that.
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Quote:To quote a famous sci-fi character, "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."Originally Posted by Coin
Any info I put on there, I added, not FB. Any info I made public was done by me, not FB. I have the control on it and if that ever was to change I'd vote with my feet and delete it all
And there's the thing. People talk about their business plan, but given how amazingly successful FB is, it's not in their interests to willingly annoy their users by sneakily adding things like this and making people leave in droves, thus losing all their advertising revenue. Where's the business sense in that?
It's easy, decide who you want on there and what you want on there. Works for me
Maybe guys like Nostradamus had it all wrong.
Maybe the Anti-Christs we need to worry about aren't nasty evil people but nasty evil Internet apps... -
Quote:That's good to know. I guess you just have to keep getting Tips until this mission randomly comes up.Originally Posted by Ms. Mesmer
Oh, and since I didn't see any mention here, you can get Eye of the Storm as a level 50 Hero from the "An Unstable Detonator" tip mission. Maelstrom appears in the Hero choice from that tip, and the way that the Vigilante choice is worded, I assume he's there, too.
I guess that's the same case for the "Resistance is Futile" badge. Is it correct to assume there's some way (like via Tip missions) for prime earthers to get access to Resistance critters for this badge? -
Quote:Since they dropped the level restrictions that's now an option for the bluesiders.Originally Posted by McCharraigin
Oh but there is Blueside. Atlas Park, Vanguard Base. You have both the reg tailor and the plastic surgeon there.
lisa-Goes there quite a bit.
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Quote:I think there should be a least a scene in the next movie where Kirk comes to visit Pike and spends maybe a minute or two asking him for advice. That'd be appropriate. But even though I like Bruce Greenwood as an actor and Pike as a character he really doesn't deserve anymore screen-time than that.Originally Posted by That_Ninja
As long as he is in the wheelchair and talks in beeps.
P.S. Actually it'd be incredibly funny if during that "advice scene" Pike's wheelchair started beeping due to some malfunction and he says something funny to Kirk like, "yeah... this chair keeps doing that".