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  1. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    To be more precise, you must confirm HERO or VILLAIN alignment. Rogues and Vigilantes cannot earn alignment merits -- it's the tradeoff for being able to access both sides of the game. Also, if you have unspent alignment merits and then switch to vigilante or rogue, they will disappear, so be sure to spend them first. (Heroes in Fort Trident off Atlas Park, only heroes may enter, and Villains in The Crucible off Cap Au Diablo, only villains allowed in.)
    And for further precision - Confirming/Reconfirming alignment means running a morality mission and getting a merit reward from it (either Reward merits or an alignment merit).

    Also, All SSA parts share a reward timer - with the exception that the first time you run a episode, you get a "free" pick at the reward table that doesn't care about/count towards the 1/week.

    Note there are four possible rewards, so you can pick 1/week each one for a total of four times after the initial runs.
  2. Rajani Isa
    Yes.
  3. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    Why I love this game...

    ...because the Paragon Wiki has overtaken my soul.
    And of course, being a wiki...

    I edited out the part where you actually minded about the wiki taking over your soul.
  4. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TonyV View Post
    I think the prevailing thought on the matter is that the EULA is unenforceable in the U.S. in that they can't outright take away your intellectual property. However, and this is really important, they do include a lot of extra boilerplate text that boils down to, "if for whatever reason we can't claim this, we do claim as much as possible under the law." So they absolutely can claim the right to use your character for whatever purpose they want.
    This is generally what is gotten out of these kinds of discussions - as far as the rights in the USA are concerned. I seem to recall that transfers of Copyright must be explicit - so no click-throughs - in the US.

    I believe the phrase that is used as to what rights NC ends up with is a "perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license"
  5. Rajani Isa
    Well, what would you prefer?

    Both have Charged Armor, Static Discharge (mu has a little more damage), and a hold (Mu has little more damage, Electric mastery has about 50% longer duration).

    So do you want a T9 Res armor and a second nuke?

    Or aoe immobilize and a pet?

    I'd lean towards Mu for more damage/more AOE myself.

    APP


    PPP
  6. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pauper View Post
    "And Mr. Peace!"

    "Yeah?"

    "Regrettably, I have made boo-boo."

    --
    Pauper
    I'd love a sequel to that movie... but I wouldn't want it forced.
  7. Rajani Isa
    As Deluxe is what was called the Collector's edition here, I'm going to say it should include the VIP badge and the Prestige Power Slide. So it would add (unless the OP did already apply a deluxe code previously) and should be something he can upgrade with.

    Just to make sure, you went and put your ticket in via the support page at NCSoft.com, right?

    And if it's been two days (this being the 3rd) I recommend you "update" the ticket with "still waiting/yet to receive assistance"
  8. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Up to 50% harder from level 1 to 20. The critters have more attacks than City of Heroes or Villains characters, and they acquire mez and debuff far earlier (as in: right from the start).
    Also, for doms, Controllers, and others who's sets have mezin it - some of the critters have actual mez protection powers (Big Dogs do, and I think a few others) - so it becomes tricky to mez some even when the bosses are set to spawn as LTs.

    Another thing that makes it a little harder to find teams (at least, non-repeatable missions teams) is that most of the arcs end in a moral choice mission and are solo only (Such as killing Him, or Her...) which change your "alignment" in Praetoria.
  9. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oliin View Post
    I seem to recall seeing Zwill or someone say it was set to log you out after eight hours of innactivity.
    They have it set up so any of the following will log you out :

    - 8 hours of inactivity. This is the only one they seem to have told Zwill about upfront.

    - Closing the browser window. The cookies are basically set to "8 hours OR end session" - which to me makes them useless. And it's annoying to have the thing reset because you accidentally closed the whole window.

    - Change of IP address. Even if it's only to another IP address you've been using with that account and machine for the past several years. Change of IP address invalidates whatever cookies are on the device.
  10. Rajani Isa
    One thing about using another account to check for availability is the name is held for something like 10 minutes.

    However, each account can only hold one name, so if they check another name right after that, it will free up the other.
  11. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Second Measure View Post
    Thanks, everyone. It has been an honor to be associated with one of my favorite all time games for the last few years, doubly an honor to get to develop that game for this great community, and triply an honor to work with such an amazing team. Fortunately, I get to keep on working at this fantastic studio, and on a project that is very very exciting. It will be some time before we can share anything about our plans, but I can't wait for the day.

    I hope to still make it to the next Player Summit, I have made some good friends in this community and love seeing you all when I can, I'll just have to wear a shirt saying "Don't ask".

    I've had the pleasure of working with Melissa and Matt for a while now, I'm sure they are going to continue to do great things now that I am out of their hair.
    Speaking of Don't Ask, I gotta ask :

    Does NCSoft/Paragon have a tentative month picked out to release more info about your new gig?
  12. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Papaschtroumpf View Post
    - the tanker proc is bugged because it thinks every attack is an AoE
    Technically, every tanker attack is an AoE.

    Gauntlet may show up as it's own power, but it's really just an AoE taunt affect added to every attack.

    And the pop help will always give the value of an attuned enhancement (SBE or ATO) as it is at your current level.
  13. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Madadh View Post
    Well, they could even make it such that you trade in Incarnate Salvage for a Catalyst Token just like what you get from the packs. And the salvage you trade in, could be a Catalyst.

    That would at least allow them to be self trade-able, too, so you could use them on the alts that you wanted too.

    Edit: Dang, someone beat me too it.


    That being said... If Catalysts are dropping in iContent, are ATOs also dropping in iContent? If not, can you do anything else with Catalysts that drop? Seems a bit odd otherwise.
    I'm reminded of buying bags in EQ O.o

    ATOs are obtainable in game via merit purchases only (Currently Reward and Astral, Alignment coming soon).

    And no, nothing else is affected by Catalysts currently.
  14. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Melancton View Post
    Bingo. It takes effect this very month, too.

    Thank you, Spatch. I had a feeling it was something odd like that.
    My points date went form the 8th to the 28th this month. And I'm about to be billed for the 12+2 as well :/
  15. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ideon View Post
    Wait, is that good or bad?
    The brute proc now rants less fury IF in an AOE.

    The Scrapper, Kheldian, and Mastermind ATOs are all globals, the rest are procs.
  16. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by gameboy1234 View Post
    Yeah, the forums are a great irritation at the moment, and for like about the last nine months too.

    The other thing is, even if you log in, the forms don't "remember" what threads you read last. So the "new posts" flag, which bolds forum post titles which have new posts in them, is buggered, and shows incorrectly that some posts have new posts when they don't.

    It also misremembers your "view first unread post," which is very annoying. And for longer periods it seems to forget which posts are new, and flags those as "old," the reverse of the problem in the paragraph above.

    In short, nobody is terribly please with the forum software right now.
    For me, only marks new as read if it logs me out on it's own while I'm using the forums.

    For 100% success rate on having read threads marked read for next time, use the "Mark Forums read" options then manually log out.

    They need to revist their cookies, as they don't work right, and undo their rediculous "Different IP/Same Device = New log in time" - makes it even more annoying to visit the forums on the go.
  17. Rajani Isa
    We'd need to go by the individual SSA episodes.
  18. Rajani Isa
    yep.

    Congrats - hopefully the rest of this is smooth sailing for you
  19. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by RadDidIt View Post
    You know, Sparkly, I have this feeling I'm going to like you.


    .... I apologize ahead of time.
    Sparky - there is a pre-filled Restraining Order form, and support group, at www.repeat-offenders.net for this.
  20. Rajani Isa
    They want you to set up billing (in part as an anti-fraud measure, in part to try to get you to subscribe) but they will not bill you (occasionally there might be something like a $1 "holding charge" which is undone once the card is verified.)

    As for your pre-paid Visa - it should not hurt to try. Like I said - once it goes through, just "Cancel Billing/VIP" on that game account and it should not charge you anything.
  21. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mastermiine View Post
    I dont have a credit card im to young and parents will not leet me doit for a quick second is it doing it becuse the code is invallaid?
    No, that's just how it is set up to work. The fact that it went that far is proof it's valid.

    You could try using the "Upgrade Account" link under Cancel VIP - not sure if it works different (same UI look) but it does have a different UI.

    It will not charge the card - I promise your parents that - until the 30 days VIP from going Rogue is out. And you can cancel the card/billing IMMEDIATELY after it goes through and applies the code.

    Alternatively - do you have a VISA/MasterCard logo debit card? those work as credit cards usually.
  22. Rajani Isa
    Unless your school forces you to use bitcomet, I'd recommend uTorrent. Been good to me in the past.
  23. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    It is, by the way, on the main forum list instead of a post somewhere. English > Development > Character Copy Tool (Live to Training Room).
    It looks like a sub-forum, just as the dev and community digests do.
  24. Rajani Isa
    Where it asks for you to set up billing, go ahead and do so if you can. It will not charge you money right then.

    Then go and remove the card from your account under billing, or even just hit "Cancel VIP" under game account.
  25. Rajani Isa
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect View Post
    But......she wasn't AT Best Buy.....

    O.o



    People's idiocy amazes me sometimes.
    It used to amaze me too.

    Then I took a retail job to the knee.