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Yep. Was just worrying over the wording. Probably for nothing. And in regards to being able to post on the Forums; anyone with an active Trial Account can apparently post also, so I do still wonder. Stranger things have happened.

Well, the Imps are based on the Rikti Monkey model so unless they scale to the character; it should be doable. At least on one of my absolute minimum size characters when I activate my Vet Reward Domesticated Rikti Monkey they are exactly the same size. Sorta funny.

I didnt really mean in a Team situation; more of in a large outdoors group (not Team), like a Zombie Apocalypse, Rikti Invasion, Ship Raid, etc. Otherwise, you both are correct; the team box is the best method to see someone who needs a hand (Heal, Buff, Rez, etc.). Just an example of where it would be a little harder dealing with a truly tiny toon.

Is there truly a problem with that? IF I see a thread that looks interesting from the Title; I might read it a bit. If I think it is interesting enough; I might read the whole thread. If I find that the topic is something I have knowledge of or a moderately strong opinion on; I will probably post that. If it is (IMHO) blatantly deleterious to the game; I may pull out the portable flamethrower. It is what it is. If someone feels strongly about a suggestion in the positive; chances are that there are as many (or more) who feel as strongly in the negative. Who is to say which one is correct in their opinion? You? Not anymore than me, I am afraid, but the final arbiters are the Mods.

DING! DING! DING! (No; that wasnt to be snarky at all) That is exactly the point. This Forum (Suggestions & Ideas) was indeed placed in the Fun and Games subsection of the Boards for precisely that reason. I would point to the Forum where this was explained by the Moderators, but it does not exist anymore (to my knowledge), and you probably never saw it when it was part of the Boards. There are more things in heaven and earth...

Near impossible to do from the standpoint of Paragon Studios/NCsoft. This is a Corporate controlled Forum. Any policing would have the caveat of the Corporation, and I find it highly doubtful that they would allow customers who they couldnt pick out of a police lineup to have a very high degree of control over their corporate property. Would you let me be Network Admin on your home computer? Hyperbole, but it has some similarities for argument's sake.

We, the customers, do indeed police the Forums, and have been directed as to how to do this by the CR Team. Look at the bottom of each post/thread. You can report anything you find objectionable; which is then checked by the CR Team (Mods) for validity, and then corporate backed action can be taken by trained professionals (who are then disagreed with, and sometimes quite vocally for doing their job).

Again you have hit it directly on the head. The "Experts" are the vetted, trained and paid, corporate Moderators; and their Leader is Niviene (Blessed be Niviene); TheOcho is her Prophet, and Avatea is just plain

BTW it IS a good resource just as it is. Some may not see it that way, but heated discussion is like the blast furnace for gold; it burns off the dross, and leaves a purer product. And to abuse another metaphor; only though putting an idea under pressure can you reveal the gem that it really is. The Devs apparently do keep an eye on this Forum because may of the Suggestions found here have been implemented over the years. The proof of the pudding is in the eating (or playing). Thanks to the great flamed ideas that survived this Forum.

Leave it as is. The CR Team has left this Forum in it's present state as a venting place for the 'flames' that all Forums have, and as it says in the heading; "A place to talk about ideas and suggestions." It's not perfect, but (without getting in any more trouble myself) the only other choice for CR was to remove it completely from the Forums. That is gospel.

And I didnt even use any Latin so as not to incur the wrath of TheOcho.

ARGH! Now, I shall be stiuck in an OCD Rockapella loop for the rest of the day! (BUT it's a good thing; no worries)

Looks at Thread name... Oo

Looks at Lord Nemesis' name in post... oo

Looks at last line of post... oO

Gratz, Shado... ah, heck. I gratz'd ya last night. Good job.

So you ARE going to delete them now, right?

Obtuse. And with the 'full Health and Endurance' let's add access to an 'I Win' button just for kicks, eh?

Just to be nitpicky; reread your rental agreement. Most (if not all) apartment rental agreements are on a pay for the month on the first of the month (ie: the check you wrote on Jan 1 was the rent for January); at least in most cases and jurisdictions. Kudos if you pulled off the use it then pay method. It could happen. The rest of your description (vis a vis a CoX account) is sorta correct. I remember it as Apply the Game Code (from a Box), add a credit card (as proof that you are willing to pay); get the free month (from the Box); then decide if you want to remove the credit card if you dont wish to continue the game beyond the free month. Of course, things could have changed...

To the OP: If you have an EB Games in the local area (mall, etc.); they have had the GvE Edition with the aforementioned JumpJet Power and Pocket D VIP Porter for $9.99. If you cant get it for that, then I would indeed think the MA Box is the fiscally responsible way to go.

2 Inf just for you.

Welcome to Ouroboros.

Sadly, it would appear that it is not the game that needs to be changed so much as your Point of View on the present mechanics of the game that need to be adjusted.

If you turn off the XP you are indeed playing towards a purpose... your own purpose... you want to experience all the content. Simple. Nothing in life or gaming is done in a vacuum (unless you are working in a supercollider, but I digress). You give and you take. I am not saying that your system would be impossible to code, although in the present game it would probably lead to some magnificent bugs and exploits. And as others have stated; it just doesnt seem to gel with what you are looking for in your thesis statement.

As it stands there are so many ways to slow leveling, and power your toon up that what you are suggesting is mostly redundant. You dont like the mechanics, but they work.

I give it a good solid "meh; no thanks." You have to remember also that the game was designed for the casual player to have fun while allowing the StatsHounds to tweak away. Too much complexity and you lose the goodwill of a quite large segment of the playerbase. And there is a limit to what is fiscally reasonable to add to the game without much more hue and cry from the masses, and I doubt you could get much backing for such a system (aside from the small group who would see this system as a plus to their own personal gamestyle) to make it look like a priority for the Devs to further modify the mechanics and add another system to the mechanics specifically asked for by so many for so long (ie: turning off XP, Flashback, Rep adjusting, etc).

Or to sum it all up: you can already do what you want (basically vis a vis Leveling Speed and Power) with the available tools. Just because you think they don't mesh in the exact way you want them to doesnt mean that they do not work well for the majority of games. But that is what a Suggestions Forum is for.

Only thing I remember remotely related to Level 50 Content and Going Rogue was Posi's statement that "any endgame content will happen in Praetoria." Cryptic? Misspoken? I dunno, but I tagged it when I heard it Other than that; I cannot say...

Herein lies the problem, and it's all in one's point of view. 'Character Development' or more precisely 'continued development' really doesn't end at 50. In many people's minds it does, but they are incorrect in this flawed way of thinking. Quit thinking that 50 is a destination; it is not. It is a level which in this game only equates to a character having 'Powers' equaling 27 with 94 Enhancement Slots (27 Fixed, 67 Variable) allocated to them. This, along with the Basic Costume options and combinations (someone estimated this in the neighborhood of a couple million possible combinations), is Character Individuality and Development at its most basic level, but it is not the end of a characters development. Temporary Powers, Accolade Powers, Badges, Veteran's Reward Powers and Costume options add to this development. Booster Packs add a bit more, Backstory adds more.

I could go on, but I would hope that it is clear that the Level cap is not the end of a character's career or development. Sadly, there are mindsets that see the level cap as an end to a character's development or growth. Getting to level 100 wouldnt put an end to character development, and a leveless system would not enhance character development. A character will develop as long as the Player wants to play that character in the way that the Player Character grows in the social environment of the MMO. Remember that it is Player Character which is the Player PLUS the Character. Development can only end when the Player decides that the Character is finished. Some of my 50's are pretty much done, but my Main Character is not, eventhough he has been Level 50 for a couple of years now.

The real problem is that so many people (AE babies, PLers, etc.) feel that they must get to Level 50 and then upon reaching that say; "Now what?" They have no idea how to go past the arbitrary End of Leveling because that has been all that there character has been about: Dinging. There is nothing wrong with Dinging a Level, but it is a finite goal. Other MMOs place the majority of their 'desirable' content after the Levels. CoX places the majority of its desirable content before Leveling ends.

I dont know what to say other than the fault isnt the mechanics of the game, but of the interface twixt chair and computer. The best metaphor I can use is if one were given an Ice Cream and Fixings factory with hundred of flavors of ice cream and hundreds of things to put into/onto the ice cream, and then after putting them together in a few gargantuan creations, and chowing them down, they feel that they have personally 'had enough', and dont want to eat ice cream again. Pick and choose carefully to make each creation unique and flavorful, savor them, and share them with others; and the enjoyment can continue for alot longer.

Pretty existential, but that's the point. The Devs could keep slopping new content onto the game, but as long as one plays it the same old way; it will grow old quickly.

There is something more ideally suited to build a character with a "CoT vengeance" backstory to it: anything. I've got a bunch of different, AT's both Hero and Villain, with that 'kind' of backstory (a little more involved than just CoT, but it's in there). Doesn't even need to be Magic Origin, but you already know that... or do now.

You set em up; I'll knock 'em down.

New Goal for 2010: get Necro out of the sandbox and back in the good ol' US of A so he can play more CoX... and be with his loved ones and all that other trivial stuff.

And properly slotted, played, etc., a Blaster can be as much a Tank as a Scrapper reasonably. Hero AT's are more Team Oriented, but they can solo. Tanks can run a map, but some people cannot Tank very well; should we raise their Damage? Same with Scrappers. They all have their drawbacks. Defenders need help with Damage too, but then we have a reverse Blaster, with not much difference twixt the two.

Blaster secondaries are tweaked already to give them more survivability. Tweak them too much and you get a Tank-Mage. Or we get pretty much every AT working pretty much like any other AT. Vive la Différence!