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This would make me very, VERY happy.

You see, I want there to be more good word out and about CoH. I'm not worried about new players, but there's some old players that have moved on, and I'd love to see them come back. One in particular, the one that really pulled me into RPing on Virtue, I miss playing with very much. I'm pretty sure he uses Facebook and Twitter, so things out there to remind him of CoH are good.

However, the last time I seriously talked CoH seriously with someone was during the /e facepalm promotion. They asked what I thought of it, and the direction the community was being taken in, and as a friend I had to be honest with them. I don't like being put in a position of telling friends that I miss that they're better off finding a new game to RP in rather than trying to come back to CoH. Lately, I've just avoided talking CoH with people to avoid the subject.

GadgetDon's suggestion is exactly the right way to make everyone happy. Not only does it solve the problem of people wanting these things without the need to work outside of the game to get them, but it also gives you something to give away on the social media sites to build a base there. Also, seeing people with the new stuff in-game works as a good advertisement before it goes on sale. (Remember how people would gather when one of the early Titan Weapons people would show off the set?)

Follow this suggestion, please.

The reasons differ from person to person, but as to why I strongly dislike it?

I greatly value my privacy. I don't deal well with people by and large, and I don't want people knowing about my personal life. I also feel some of the uses people put social media to are, to be blunt, damned stupid. Yet, I often feel pressured to use the various forms of social media, like it or not. It's like they expect me to, and find it odd that I wouldn't want to spill details about my life, or care about their relationship status, or jump to read their latest Tweet about how long they've been praying for the Ex-Lax to kick in.

There's more to it than that, but I'll spare you the rest before it turns into a rant. I hate it, logical or not. That's all there is to it.

Now, can we PLEASE put "/em facepalm" on the market?

/em facepalm

Maybe he can be sealed away, much like Mot and Rularuu. Weakened in some way, then locked down so he can't do anything directly.

And by making the eyes lit LCD screens, they've upped the creepy factor to where you can see the eyes in the dark as it watches you sleep.

Not really. If you're trying to distract and derail someone, you don't go with the normal stuff they should be ready for. You throw them the unexpected.

While I don't agree with it being misogynistic at all, there IS another way to get the badge.

All that's required is that the person running the Grifter does things right. Everyone on the team will earn it, not just that player. I've gotten all 4 Perfect badges on one run before.

Play any of the other roles, and hope that the person playing the Grifter makes the right choices. If they do, you get the badge.

Isn't it up yet? It's been like... five? Is it ... yes! Five minutes! Why isn't it up yet?

Interesting. Thank you for testing this.

Yep, the market is gated. I think email may be too, but I'm not sure on that one.

I'll agree that large inspirations are a way past many problems (and one I'll use myself). But we can't assume that everyone has access to them, the market, or anything else gated behind a certain level of rewards or VIP status.

(Excluding Incarnate content, naturally. If you're playing that, you're VIP and have full access.)

Really? Damn, I could have sworn that getting large inspirations and using the market required either being VIP or a minimum level of Paragon Rewards. A level you may not have reached before being able to buy access to First/Night Wards.

My bad, apparently?

Large ones are much harder to come by, and not all players have access to them these days. "Get large ones" can't really be considered a viable answer to a problem in the game when not everyone can do it.

I've played with Baka plenty of times, and he's hardly a defeatist. But it's frustrating when the game ignores or disables the advantages of your character for no good reason.

How loudly would Controllers and Dominators yell if they started putting in ambushes of foes that simply ignore control effects? Pretty loudly, I bet. Well, having them ignore Stalker's stealth (and therefore negate almost everything that makes the class more than a second rate Scrapper) is much the same, but for some reason some people don't see it that way.

Remember how people complained that Marauder was becoming immune to Slash/Lethal, and his 100% resistance couldn't be lowered? He could still be beaten, with planning and the right characters, but it wasn't FAIR to those doing S/L that wanted the badge for taking him down the hard way. So, they nerfed him.

The game doesn't have to be totally fair to everyone, but it shouldn't be painfully UNFAIR to anyone.

*laughs* Okay, I like that one.

I was tempted to reserve "Puppy Water" on Virtue, then make a wolf person that used normal colors for the water attacks. (And then acts surprised when people expect yellow.)

Instead, I'll be rerolling my toxic dragon, "Poison Love" as a Water/Poison Corr. Turning the water dark green matches well with the poison attacks.

No.

Given what we've seen of the Praetorian version of the Clockwork King, it's clear that he doesn't NEED an organic body to survive. He needs some kind of focus as his "body", but there doesn't need to be any life signs in it.

He's dead. He just doesn't realize it, and his power keeps his awareness intact and going. In a way, he's more like Numina's astral form, only less focused (thus the need for a host form) and FAR more powerful.

There's one way to do that, but not everyone can pull it off.

Call up the repeatable mission contact in Cimerora and get a mission. Set it, then have someone use Team Transporter to get the entire team there in one jump. Abandon mission or not as you see fit once you're there.

And while I can see why they wouldn't have a Tunnel gate in the RWZ, I could easily see one in Pocket D.

And they've taken steps towards making that MUCH easier. Now, a fast hop through the Tunnel system (which can be found in both Mercy and Atlas), and you can grab a single explore badge in Night Ward to unlock it. No fighting, and it can be done as early as level 1.