Lothic

This for me too.

I reserved a few names on Exalted for characters I plan to make in the near future using the upcoming Street Justice and Titan Weapon powersets. I'm pretty sure they didn't "belong" to anyone I'd recognize here on the forums.

As for this idea of people squatting famous forum names I think it's pretty silly and sad. I have far better things to do with my time than to ruin another person's day over something like that. Good luck to those who are dealing with this kind of thing.

I would not be a bit surprised to see that someone's already made a fan-edit of this.

I agree that if they sold these extra costume slots on a per character basis that the cost for them would likely be much less.

But even if they were like $0.50 a slot like Sapphic_Neko suggested I'd question it from the point of view of "what happens when I want to delete that character?" If I had a character with 5 slots like that then deleting the character would mean I'd permanently lose $2.50 I spent on it. I highly doubt they'd let you "recycle" those slots to another character.

Simply put the "buying costume slots globally" method is far simpler to deal with for everyone Dev and player alike.

FYI the slots -are- being sold individually. People here are just throwing around the "5 for $50" phrase because they want them all at once.

I actually believe they have a perfect grasp for how this MICROtransaction concept works.

Clearly these introductory prices are set high at first to get the people who are willing to pay "too much" for things to buy first. Then when the sales do drop off (and trust me they will) only then will they lower the prices to get the holdouts to buy. The net effect, over the long haul, will end up being MORE money for Paragon, not less.

It's brilliant, at least for their corporate profits that is.

It's actually fairly obvious that Paragon has set their prices (for these costume slots in particular) to be just about as high as anyone could reasonably tolerate and I think it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll come down at "some" point. Will that point be tomorrow or six months from now is anyone's guess.

But even if they do lower these to like half the current price or less at some point I won't really be all that upset about it. As of this very second I'm enjoying having characters with 10 costumes and if someone else gets to do that in a few months for half the price I did then more power to them!

I've enjoyed playing this game pretty much constantly for 7.5 years now. I can't imagine a better bargain for my entertainment dollar than this game has been. If I effectively just gave the Devs a $25 "tip" for a job well done then I think I can live with that.

Oh I won't deny the fact that the amount of effort the Devs spent to implement these five extra costume slots was probably relatively trivial when compared to the other items in the Booster Packs that have come out. But to me the overall "value" of these slots matters far more than the amount of Dev effort I'm paying for.

I've literally waited for years to get more costume slots on my characters. This was far from an "impulse buy" for me. I played this game for several years even before they gave us the costume save/load feature so switching costumes before that was an absolute chore. Basically I look at how much time I've spent switching costumes in and out over the years and the potential for playing this game for a few more years at least. To me the $50 was justifiable on several levels.

But all joking aside if you want to worry about this from the point of view of how much "Dev blood, sweat and tears" your money is paying for then I would never put much stock in these costume slots. If that's your only metric for deciding to buy these things then I would hardly think they were worth 25 cents much less 25 dollars.

I actually bought a bunch of those "cheap" costume slots for the few months I played the game you're talking about. But I'll stress the point that I basically completely stopped playing that game about a month later and haven't bothered with it since.

I won't argue that this game's price point per costume slot is probably a bit too high, but then again I'll probably get far more value for my dollar here than I did there.

I think it bears repeating what Aneko said about it: LOW LEVEL characters don't usually have too many toggles to begin with.

I think it's pretty clear that the Rocket Board wasn't really intended for a level 50 Tank with like 6 or 7 toggles. It was intended for the lowbie-types as a "travel power filler" the same way Brawl is an "attack power filler" when you don't have a full attack chain yet.

Well first you have to remember that the code for the original GC is probably still in the game. It was probably far easier to just "plug up" all the entrances and exits to GC than it would have been to cut all the references to it out of the code.

So in your case I imagine they put a little bit of code into the zone loading functions that basically says "If zoning to GC (via any method) then auto zone to AP." That'll probably catch anyone who "accidentally" manages to find a way to zone into the old GC, like via the old tutorial.

I have a sneaking suspicion that for every person who refuses to buy the Rocket Board (for whatever reason) there'll be MORE than that one person who will. These virtual items represent almost 100% pure profit for the company anyway - they can probably stand to have some people not buy them.

If you can't understand why the Devs decided to give the Rocket Board a built-in detoggle disadvantage (like Walk has) then you're probably better off without it anyway...

Yeah I do agree not being able to customize it does suck.

But like I said before I'll probably use it mostly for "out-of-character" safe travel of low level alts. I've got a couple ideas about dedicating a few costume slots of existing characters towards having a "Rocket Boarding outfit" while I'm using it, but I doubt I'll actually make any significant build changes that revolve around using the Rocket Board as a "real" travel power.

It's a fun toy to play with, not a "travel power killer" that'll replace every other power in the game.

Yes I might agree that when you just say "5 costume slots for $50" it does sound a little expensive. But I think you have to legitimately factor in how many total extra slots you're going to be able to use across an entire account.

For instance prior to Issue 21 I had saved up well over 30 costumes ready to go as soon as I got the extra slots for my main characters. When I bought the "five slots" yesterday I loaded all those costumes on all those multiple characters. So my effective "cost per extra costume slot" is now well under $2 at this point and it'll only get less as time goes on.

When you factor in the potential benefit for ALL of your characters, not just the "five slots", the cost was much more justifiable to me. YMMV of course.

Yeah I had to update mine too. Oh well...

Technically speaking for good security this game ought to be FORCING us to change our passwords every 2 or 3 months anyway. Maybe this "bug" is just a tricky way to get a bunch of us to update our old bad passwords.

The irony of people saying they'd "pay hundreds of dollars to get the Celestial set today" is that IMHO the Celestial set is not really all that super-cool to begin with. Sure it's relatively nice and it does have the only "energy wings" in the game so far. But after playing around with it for the last several weeks on Beta I've decided there are a number of costume sets I still like better. The Ascension Armor for instance is much nicer and more epic looking.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's probably not such a bad thing that we can't "pay-forward" for it after all. I have a feeling a lot of people who might have done that would have been majorly disappointed. *shrugs*

Actually if the Devs decide that "the passage of real-world time" is more important for a player to qualify for these top-tier rewards than just a sum of money then it doesn't really matter how much money you're willing to spend. Rules are rules.

Yeah it won't just start up instantly when you do that. You have to let the Launcher "repair" the client so that the rest of the files (that aren't the .pigg files) get updated properly. Besides as has been pointed out it doesn't sound like the live servers are officially back up yet anyway - who knows what you're likely to see like that.

As for it working or not I just did it when they loaded Issue 21 on the Test server last week and it worked fine. There should be no difference with doing it for the live client.

The server status screen is always a bit "inaccurate" for a little while after a major update/maintenance like this. The live server hardware itself might be up and running (reflected on the server status screen) but there are other login/account servers involved with getting you fully connected to the game. Those support elements are probably not quite ready yet.

As long as he plays a guitar and meets us "hippies" half-way I'd be fine with it.

It's like another Matrix inside the Matrix...