Memphis_Bill

Why not to?

I prefer a policy of "Hit them first and hard." (And remember, they were nerfed some time back.)

Yeah, that's the thing - you go through and pick your powers. Easy to miss.

But with Mids, or checking out a previous build, etc - you've got a checklist. Even if you don't use those, you have - as you mentioned above - the slotting phase. "OK, I want 3 slots in Emu Chucking... wait, I didn't pick up Emu Chucking??" *back back back back back*

Even if you go through all the power picking, all the slotting, there's that last "Are you SURE you want to do this? If you hit OK, it'll be permanent!"

It's a lot to go through - and the times I've heard of someone missing something, 90% of the time, ten minutes wouldn't help. (Insert "I respecced while drunk and didn't pick up a travel power" story here.) However, while a bit spendy (if you're going with IOs,) you DO have that second (or third) build.

I wouldn't argue, FWIW, with making the "Place powers in tray" phase part of the respec just to force a final check on the player, though. Plus it'd let me NOT have to clear the tray of the rock/brawl/taser dart/flight pack I no longer need/four extra sprints/etc.

No, *you* act like you don't.

Insinuating? No, it very much appears that you don't from your own creation of and attemtped "maintenance" of this very thread. If you had perspective, the reaction would be more of "Hey, I can make a bunch of other character concepts I couldn't before, cool!" and not "Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine doms don't get nothin' waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" (aka, this thread.)

Doms not getting something *this* round does not delete all my other doms.
Doms not getting something *this* round does not invalidate the fact they got a brand new set in I18, not all that long ago.
I still have quite a few doms - and other ATs - to play. And given your list, *so do you.* ATs that *ARE* getting something this round.

"Doms being given the shaft" is not a fact. Doms being "treated as a low priority" is not a fact. It's a self-entitled whine from you.

Oedipus_Tex, unsurprisingly, sums it up nicely:

I'll be in game playing and enjoying all the ATs - including dominators - without whining like a four year old about "waaah, dey got sometin an we dint!" ... when we got a new set in issue 18.

And lol at the "strong" protest. Standing out by your lonesome in the middle of the street holding a homemade sign doesn't make you look like part of a strong (or even weak but serious) protest, it makes you look like a bum begging for money.

Edit: And don't even start with:
... when Khelds end up waiting anywhere from a patch to a few issues to get similar powers brought up to par with the "originals" of the ones they have.

That's what I get for skimming

OK, then - "How soon do you want to turn your dead teammates into bombs, 26 or 35?"

But it *is* gameplay.

And if, in all the time since GR's release, you haven't "corrected" your alignment - why not? You could have multiple times over by now.

The "price" right now isn't a big deal, even if you're only on an hour a day - add a fast tip mission instead of a fast newspaper in. Even someone doing that only on weekends could have swapped several times over by now.

And having the ATs segregated by side was not a bug. They are not telling you to pay for a bug fix. Nobody is. Side switching is shown heavily in gameplay lore now, *including going through the process.* (follow Frostfire.)

That's as much a bug as having to play a TF to get the badge and/or merits for finishing it is.

Bliss, where you are, then?

You may ignore it if you want. If so, you learn nothing. There are reasons the devs say no to things. Sometimes it's a technical (or manpower or financial) reason. Sometimes it's game direction and if the idea matches what they want out of the game or not. Learn why they say no to certain things, and work with it. Just saying "I'm just going to ignore it" is useless.

That is an opinion, not a fact.

Here's how you'd get me to agree to an alignment change token:
- It sends you ONLY to full hero or full villain
- It locks you out of the Alignment/Tip system completely. No more merits. No more tips. No changing your mind. For your entire account.

You want to skip the system, you get to skip the system. Permanently.

No, they haven't. Not by a long shot.

I can decide to go from Hero to Vigilante to Villain to Rogue if I want. I can keep switching as I decide it fits the character - or my desires at that particular time.

The alignment change is not necessary.

This is solely "I want NAO." The mechanisms are in place, and in all the time you've spent complaining about it, you could be up to 20 and on your way on your lowbies. And you could be the alignment you want to be LONG before I21 shows up.

If there's someone you want on a side that's not "native" for that side, you have three choices:

1. Praetoria
2. Wait. Learn some patience.
3. Roll on their native side and play them ANYWAY, doing the switch - which is doable in a *fraction* of the time I21 will take to arrive - when you're able.

Frankly, it smacks more of laziness. You started posting in this 7/19 - three days ago (We'll give it 2 1/2 given time zone for me.) You could have been halfway through with your alignment change - or, if it's a praetorian, out of (or nearly out of) Praetoria and on the side you want to be on.

Have you done so? If not, there's exactly one person to blame.

And all the characters unaffected by it get it why?

And you can already change alignment, a process that - again - the devs have stated they want to be a process.

Only if you choose to ignore the fact there is a cost - just like there's a cost (time) for changing alignment.
Now why don't you try asking yourself WHY they were given out free?
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respecs are given out for free,]/quote]

Again, don't ignore the REASON they're given out.

And again....

You can change alignment in less than 24 hours by running 11 missions, giving you access to ALL COH and COV content. You can go over fully in less than 48.
And what's the impact of a costume change?

And again, you're ignoring the other costs and risks (including failure) of a respec.
Hey Kettle, Pot called. He said you're black.

... except, of course, that they aren't changing the way alignments work.

So, no, the analogy doesn't work.

... IF you paid for a specific pack, and have the INF to do so (or a vet token for a free change.)
INF cost.
Time, potential loss of enhancements if you try to keep more than 10.
Thus the "respec," which still potentially costs you IOs, does cost you time and potentially INF, unless they've issued a freespec because the devs have made a major change to how a power or powers work.
Like "face?" You're listing this separately to fluff up your list. Shall we fluff it further and list:
Color 1, Top
Color 2, Top
Top type
Top pattern
Color 1, Chest emblem
Color 2, Chest Emblem
Chest emblem itself
Gloves
Gloves Color 1
Gloves Color 2
Gloves Pattern...

... we can fluff that up as much as you want. It still doesn't add to your argument.
Costs money
Costs money
Another "fluff the list" item and irrelevant to the discussion
Which may cost the supergroup 15,000 Prestige, and which cuts YOUR access off to anything that SG had.

And none of the above is in the least bit *supportive* of the OP's request. Many of them cost time or money. And alignment changes now? Right in line with that... they cost time. And not a lot of it.

Also... the Rikti aren't evil. One faction of them seems to have gone conquest-crazy, but - well, do, and pay attention to, the RWZ arcs. The Dark Watcher ran across them before everything that kicked off the invasion and found them to be a peaceful race.

Also,
You're welcome.

/this. Or "update" while keeping the buildings looking *like galaxy city.* That doesn't look like Galaxy City at all, any more than me saying "This is manhattan!" with this pic:



If anything, that one pic (not the one above) looks like an updated Steel Canyon, or perhaps Talos.

Or be more thorough - grab DriverSweeper. No longer at guru3d, though.

1. Run the uninstall via add/remove. Make sure you're getting everything, including the catalyst control center.

2. Reboot in safe mode. Run driversweeper. Have it remove all ATI drivers.

3. Reboot normally. Install your new (or, rather, older) drivers.

As for what I'm running:
Core i7-860
8 Gb RAM
Win7 x64 Home Premium
ATI Radeon HD 5770

Yeah, that's the thing with writing more "overall" guides (and longer fic, at times.) It's almost better to - depending on how much you want to do for each set - break it into "chapters" and reserve the space so you post as each section gets done, or just write it up in Notepad over the course of several days (or however long it takes,) verify the stuff you're saying, then post it when it's done.