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Some of the comments I saw in those threads actually kind of scare me. It's scary how some folks can come across as near-zealots for just a game.

Granted, I'm more than a little pro-CoH personally, but the game has its flaws and I'll certainly acknowledge them.

For some reason that first sentence doesn't make sense to me. I was mentioning the City of Villains closed beta from way back when.

The 'loyalty program' folks will be getting in the second 'tier' of beta, that's folks who keep their accounts active from 8-15 to 11-15 (along with a shiny badge). Players who have more than 60 months of time will be in the first 'tier' of closed beta. That's just information from the announcement they made while the forums were down the other week. Over here.

To me that first tier seems like what they did for the CoV beta, where people were getting invited to the closed beta in waves that seemed largely dependant on how long they'd had their accounts open (I think I got in on the first or second one of those things). That was the closed beta that immediately followed the whole 'friends and family' beta.

I would imagine that the subscription length folks will be in much earlier than the second wave before open beta myself.

You didn't get an invite to the CoV closed beta? I know that worked largely like the GR beta will, in that it seemed that people were given closed beta slots for having been long-term subscribers.

Interpol is a real organization that pops up somewhat frequently in movies, books and games (for instance I believe that Chun-li from the Street Fighter games is supposed to be an Interpol officer). Basically it's usually used as a sort of international police force in fiction.

Edit:Beaten to the punch. Curse my slow typing.

Huh. Oddly that's one of the biggest disappointments for me. I like possibilities of all the options they give, but sadly I don't like the look of 90%-95% of the options they've managed to come up with.

To be fair PP, they changed the end builders to be a toggle. It's more like 1 .. wait .. 22 .. wait .. 2 ..wait .. wait .. 3(that's a big attack you see).

Honestly a much better setup really.

I still find Faultline and beyond fun, but I've taken to playing through what low-level content I can find in the MA up until then. Sloooowly working on an arc to help anyone else who might be doing the same too.

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Do you really, honestly think that they could have accomplished color customization easily with the skeleton dev team they had back then? I obviously don't, but that's just me.

Ok, I mostly agree with you as far as I15 goes, and yea the past couple issues have been a bit lightweight but certainly not worthless. I13 gave us two power sets, two story arcs, multiple builds and various sundries. That's more than not much don't you think? Sure it's not issues 1, 2 or 3 but then not much is.

And the MA ... have you actually gone through and played some of that stuff? Sure a huge hunk of it is utter trash or at best just 'ok', but there's a lot out there that's really nice work that's really not far removed from the in-game arcs/TFs/SFs quality wise.

Yup, there is.

My other thought was that people planned ahead some this time and have characters on other server too ... but then I realized that was a silly thought.

Didn't they somewhat go out of their way to say it was for the testing of future issue betas? I could be wrong on that though.


Overall, this'll more than likely be like the CoV closed beta with specific testing days and time windows (which if it's anything like last time, coincide with my evening classes) and be horribly buggy and incomplete until they near that third wave of beta invites.

I'm smack dab in the middle with my 8 points. It kind of seems weird actually.

No, what they need to do is make Time Bomb into a power that's easily usable in a group setting and then port that change over to /devices.

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Not that I um ... have any /devices blasters or anything, certainly not a 50 ....

Apparently if you go to one of the posts where you've been given reputation points and click on the 'add rep' button it will display the comments people have given you as well as show you if the overall opinion was positive or negative.

It's still not a X were positive and X were negative thing, but it's something.

Come now. CO isn't a great game, but I don't know that it's all that bad.

Ok, sure I'm not going to be rushing out to pick it up, but I can certainly see how it would greatly appeal to some folks out there, and with another half year or so of work on it I might be willing to pay for a subscription. I mean they've made a great amount of progress in the past few months so it's possible ya know.

It's under 'edit options'. Right up at the top there's a box called 'Show Your Reputation Level'. It'll tell you how many reputation points you have and there's a check box that turns on and off the reputation display.

Pretty much all I have to complain about too. Or all of any real merit. Everything else is just a minor nit-pick.

Ahh, true. That's something at least.