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As I understand it the game's word filter is based on the filters used from NCSoft's more Korean oriented titles so that probably explains why seemingly mild words are censored for weird reasons there.

As to why words like that are censored in the forums who knows...

I'm one of those types of people who wish there was no censorship of words like this at all. It's not that I would spout off all sorts of profanities if I could, it's just the principle of the thing. I fundamentally hate arbitrary limitations.

I know people would counter that with things like, "But we've got to keep children safe from naughty words" or whatever. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

While the idea of a new set of badges is cool I also think that having the option to make missions become "Defeat All" types might be problematic, not to mention very tedious. There are probably missions out there that would technically become broken if you forced them to be a "Defeat All".

But the idea of using Merit Awards as an enticement to keep people from rushing through things seems like a more flexible solution to the problem. Maybe TF/SFs could award a base number of merits for simple completions but then award a bonus number of merits for overall percentage of critters killed. That way people could choose to play TF/SFs either fast or slow depending on what they wanted to do.

Actually when I first learned of the "Master of" badges for the LRSF and STF I kind of assumed that eventually they would add Master badges for the other SF/TFs. I know that would bug the heck out of some people.

But when you think about it the LRSF and STF are so much harder than most other SF/TFs that getting "Master" versions of the others would almost be trivial in comparison. In some ways there really wouldn't be any point to them.

Basically I'm not really for or against the idea of more Master badges.
If they were added to the game I'd likely have them all in fairly short order.
But I could live without them just as well. *shrugs*

This game doesn't even have a "newspaper reporter" Day Job for probable fear of being too close a reference to Superman. With that kind of safe-playing conservatism is there really any surprise that they would not touch a religious oriented Day Job (or any real life religious anything) with a ten foot pole?

The Ouroboros folks are kind of already a pseudo-religious group who kinda-sorta worship their time travel "higher purpose". Their main building in their zone is even cathedral-like. Maybe Chronologist is the religious badge rian_frostdrake is seeking.

I've been using these pets for about a year and haven't really noticed them attracting an inordinate amount of aggro. Their fragileness comes from them only having 10 HPs and like a -75% resistance penalty. Basically they can die if you look at them funny.

On the other hand I've had them survive fairly well even while I'm playing melee type characters if they have plenty of buffs on them. And I can go entire missions without losing them if I'm playing ranged-oriented characters. Basically they are hard to work with and I don't cast them all the time myself but they aren't really broken... at least not anymore.

What's funny is that they originally were supposed to have a Brawl-like attack power. That power was removed before they went live but their original aggressive AI was still in place. The upshot was that for about a month after they were introduced not only were they very fragile but they actively -charged- towards enemies like they were trying to attack them. It was dumb enough to laugh at how silly that was.

It might be cool from a "realism" point of view if things like the slot machines in this game actually worked. But I agree with the others in the idea that it would far too problematic and legal headache inducing for that bit of realism to ever be worthwhile in a MMO like this one. *shrugs*

Besides if there are people out there who like online gambling and CoX then they can have both right now. There's no real need to have one mixed into the other. I don't need anyone wasting my CoX network bandwidth gambling when they could be wasting their own outside of this game.

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First off; costume (top,bottom) is cool; if we don't have it then we need it .

(Foreshadow is the Trainer in the Hollows)

Secondly, his 'off set'/one-sided pieces on both his shoulder and glove...

This is something that I would like to be able to do with my toons; have separate Right Glove/Left Glove, Right Shoulder/Left Shoulder (maybe even Right Boot/Left Boot) selection in the Character Creator.

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The challenge is that there's just one slot identifier for "boots" and to have left/right boot, for example, you'd need to use two slot identifiers. You also have a finite number of item identifiers within each slot, so you couldn't realistically just put TONS of combos into one slot (like "pegleg+rubberboot," "pegleg+monstrous" etc)

The devs have noted in the past that there's a hard-coded number of slots possible (due to how it's encoded with all the other data for swift and accurate communication) and at the moment, IIRC, we're down to 1 more "unused" slot and they want to make it count.

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Having only one more hardwired data field "slot" for costume data sounds like a typical software Dev "hand-wave" excuse to me. I should know - I've been a software engineer for almost 20 years now. Think of it this way: Somehow our Devs found the space to transmit all the new custom color info for the I16 power customization adequately enough.

I'm not trying to suggest adding the capability to have separate left and right costumes items would be trivial to do or even that it's guaranteed to happen. But I -am- suggesting that if it ever became a big enough priority that the Devs would be capable of finding a way to make it work even if that meant changing other more far reaching things like general network message formats.

Well first off the Devs always tell us that unique NPC costume items will likely always remain unique because that's what supposedly makes them "special" or somesuch. I understand the concept but I also find myself wishing that wasn't the case.

But as to your idea of having separate left and right shoulders, gloves and boots I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen here eventually. As I understand it that "other" superhero MMO coming out in a month is going to allow for that so it would seem reasonable that this game would want to support it too.

A suggestion to "remove" the concept of leveling from the Going Rogue expansion content?
Well I must admit that pretty much came out of left field.

The irony of a suggestion like this is that there's probably a lot of people out there who are wrongfully assuming that (like other games) this Going Rogue expansion is going to ADD maybe 10 more levels to the level cap. It's not going to do that, but the point is most everyone is at least expecting -new- ways to be able to level up with this content. I would imagine the idea of not being able to level up at all is probably just about the furthest thing from most people's minds.

Your forum name certainly lives up to the unconventional concept behind this suggestion of yours...

EDIT: Upon re-reading your further explanations it looks like you're really asking for some kind of auto-sidekicking thing, or some such. I'm guessing whatever it is you're exactly suggesting is probably far too radical a change to the fundamental power balancing system. It's hard to see how it would be a "trivial" change when I'm not even sure what your goal is with this. Can't being "manually" sidekicked suffice?

I understand it's kind of "neat" to be able to trick the game into letting you keep up to 9 of those 'X times the Victor' badges. There's nothing really wrong with it if that's what you want to do.

On the other hand none of the major badge tracking websites recognize having those badges in terms of verification or total badge counts. Because they are at best considered temporary badges on the way to Ten Times the Victor no one really "counts" them as official badges. www.Badge-Hunter.com doesn't even list the 1-9 badges in their lists.

For what it's worth as far as I know there's no way to have all ten of them at the same time as Mateo_06 suggested. This is another reason why no one seems to take keeping any of the 1-9 badges all that seriously.

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I just hope they announce any new day job badges before I decide to get them all. I'd hate to go through all the effort to earn them all in one day, only to find out there are some more to earn.

Love the DJ badges. Hoping I can pull off the earn them all in one day feat...

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I've got an alt working on that just for the sake of a "fun experiment" but I'm not worrying about that for my main badgers. Basically I didn't want to gamble on the idea that the Devs 'may or may not' ever add new ones. For open ended badges like these there's always the chance new ones could be added up until pretty much the last day the servers are still on.

I'm mostly neutral on the whole Day Job badge thing. I don't overly love them or hate them and I wouldn't really mind if more were added or not. At this point though it seems entirely possible that the Going Rogue expansion could add more to the game (like Architect). I suppose we'll all find out eventually.