MisterD

I have seen a few different comments about this..is our VIP status frozen, as is, or will it lapse, when the billing date comes?
My date is the 15th I think, and just started playing around on Beta. If it does make me non vip on the 15th..will I be unable to access beta?

Ok..I am in. Weee. Is there a way to move a character to the Beta server, in the same way we do for test? And..can we still get bio armour? I cant fnd it

Kitsune..another question. If it install to the NC folder, then do I even need to bother with what that link was saying, about making a coxbets folder, etc etc?

Ahh thanks Kitsune

I didn't actually hate NC till this..

Loading the NC launcher to install Beta and I see..
'City of Heroes Freedom, play free FOREVER!'

********. I think that advert is missing a few key bits of information.

Ok..says its 779mb to download. But doesnt have a directory or anything..it wont just download and apply that right to my cox folder right..?

Cheers!

Is it still up?
Im not sure..is it the same thing?
And if so...can anyone link me to instructions for getting on? I thought I'd go give Bio a spin since we wont be getting it Live

Just some screenies of a few zones and my toons...the game looks so pretty with everything maxed

http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x151/sch511/

In the sub albums obviously.

Posted this in my own thread, then found this..

It was a few months after we got the alignment system.
My latest toon, a dp/mm blaster, had just become a Rogue, and I was doing lvl arcs in GV with him.

I was working on Pithers arc, and I finished his mission in the shard map, wherre you free Olivia Darque. I finished, getting the 5 merits for the arc.Then the mission has a 'find mission exit' so I used oro to get out. I think then I got invited to do something else and switched toons.

A few days later, I logged him in again, and Flashback TP'd (where you start a flashback arc, just to get to the zone the contact is in) to RWZ for a raid and then went blueside for a tf.

Then I went to call teh contact, to turn the arc in (in was the LAST mission in the arc) and found..it had reset THAT mission. So I went back in, seeing what would happen if I finished it again. Another 5 merits!

So being the devious person I am..I tried it again. Finish mission, oro out, head to rwz, zone to blue, back to oro..redo mission. Another 5 merits! Exploit found!

Ah ha! I hear you say..only 5 merits? Well..yes. Till I got a toon who was 80% through Unais utterly long and stupid boring arc. For those who dont know..this is like 25 missions, and gives 41 merits. 41!

So, I got to the last mission, killing Requiem. Then I would do the following.

Enter, kill Requiem as an EB, usually netting a shard, rare recipes, or purples (I got a few)

Then Id die, on purpose, in order to base TP

Using base Oro, I'd tp to the rwz and Laeventra, then zoning to Cap, to 'switch' sides.

Once in cap, Oro back to blueside, and TP back to Unai via flashback tp.

Then, reselect his now Reset mission.

In summary..41 merits in under FIVE minutes.

I made about..oh..30k? merits in 2 weeks. Till they fixed it. As far as I know, I NEVER saw any hint of others using, finding this particular exploit. WHich, I did not tell anyone about.
After having a capped merit toon..reward merits lost any real value to me.

Ahh...good times.

Ohh cheers guys. I'll repost it there

Glad you did. It actually got boring for me..I could have made a lot more. lol.

I saw it as pay back for the crap I got about posting the Khled merits exploit on here and being yelled at.

It was a few months after we got the alignment system.
My latest toon, a dp/mm blaster, had just become a Rogue, and I was doing lvl arcs in GV with him.

I was working on Pithers arc, and I finished his mission in the shard map, wherre you free Olivia Darque. I finished, getting the 5 merits for the arc.Then the mission has a 'find mission exit' so I used oro to get out. I think then I got invited to do something else and switched toons.

A few days later, I logged him in again, and Flashback TP'd (where you start a flashback arc, just to get to the zone the contact is in) to RWZ for a raid and then went blueside for a tf.

Then I went to call teh contact, to turn the arc in (in was the LAST mission in the arc) and found..it had reset THAT mission. So I went back in, seeing what would happen if I finished it again. Another 5 merits!

So being the devious person I am..I tried it again. Finish mission, oro out, head to rwz, zone to blue, back to oro..redo mission. Another 5 merits! Exploit found!

Ah ha! I hear you say..only 5 merits? Well..yes. Till I got a toon who was 80% through Unais utterly long and stupid boring arc. For those who dont know..this is like 25 missions, and gives 41 merits. 41!

So, I got to the last mission, killing Requiem. Then I would do the following.

Enter, kill Requiem as an EB, usually netting a shard, rare recipes, or purples (I got a few)

Then Id die, on purpose, in order to base TP

Using base Oro, I'd tp to the rwz and Laeventra, then zoning to Cap, to 'switch' sides.

Once in cap, Oro back to blueside, and TP back to Unai via flashback tp.

Then, reselect his now Reset mission.

In summary..41 merits in under FIVE minutes.

I made about..oh..30k? merits in 2 weeks. Till they fixed it. As far as I know, I NEVER saw any hint of others using, finding this particular exploit. WHich, I did not tell anyone about.
After having a capped merit toon..reward merits lost any real value to me.

Ahh...good times.

I know this is against the forum rules..and Zwill DID ask us to behave...but..

This particular exploit that I found about a year ago, and has been fixed for a looong time..I am quite proud of it.

Can I share?

Thanks TonyV

I have no idea if it is possible, or realistic...but..if you guys could come up with an Exporter to actually load the characters..to see them in 3d or something..

Keep up the good work.

Would love to hear this too. Even if it was a simple one life description for ideas you guys had. Any info really..any at all. The stories and history was one of my fav things in this game, and any extra info would be a bonus.

Aww
Poor AM. He always seemed the coolest and least prickish of the prea AVs.

WTF? That sounds super cool. Now I am even sadder I didn't get to play it Thats for the summary JB.
Did you also do the other i24 arcs? I think there was one about what happens to Neuron?

Hardly matters now but I was really enjoying SSA2. CAn anyone give a brief summary of what happened in the end? I think part 5 was out on Test?

Drive people away? As opposed to..you know..closing the game and everyone being..driven away?
I am sure it isnt easy to do, if they were listening. It still would 'work'.

No..it wont. You can't take it with you. Virtual money.
Be serious..do you really want to spend the last month at the AQ, being excited at alll the not really worth anything cash your making? Or out playing te game with friends? Tough choice..
And good on Deacon for selling everything at rock bottom.

Exactly.
HOW much of the server interaction data do we actually need to play?
Look at the GTA games..they are huge, with just as detailed cities and NPCs, if not more. Take away unused zones..the shard, pvp zones, crap like boomtown etc, make the system ONLY add npcs to the zone your currently in..boom, done. I am sure more PCs could handle one zone..especially if going into a mission 'stopped' all the zone action.

Well how hard can it be? All the game data is on 'our' hard drives right? All the data sent between is for the combat data, weather data, npcs in zones? Take out the server connection, and its just you.
I'm just saying..wouldn't it make sense, to get the LAST bit of money from players? And give them something to take away.