Roderick

No he/she wasn't. The Cottage Rule doesn't care about any other powers. It cares about changing the core functionality of the power. Changing a Taunt to a Placate violates the Cottage Rule. There is no arguing the fact, provided that the Cottage Rule is properly understood.

Changing a Taunt to a Placate does indeed change the core functionality of the power. It is a breaking of the Cottage Rule.

However, I think that in this case, it is warranted, and will break very few, if any, builds.

Yes, but previously, the first two powers of Presence were a single target Taunt, and an AoE Taunt. Is there ever going to be a time when the Single Target Taunt is tactically superior? And does anyone ever actually TAKE that ST Taunt?

[Whirlwind] doesn't take damage enhancements, so it can't take Overwhelming Force.

Correct. And the change only applies to these two powers. All other powers will continue to function as they currently do.

He also seemed uncertain, but said something about T3 and 4 powers only needing 1 prerequisite, and T5 needing 2 - so it'll be similar to, but not the same as the existing 5-power pools (ie, travel)

Specifically, he said that Khelds do NOT get the change to their crashing nukes currently, but that's the next logical step.

To be specific, it will change from a 100% chance for KB every 2s to a 40% chance for KD/60% chance for nothing* every 2s.

*Written this way because the last time I said "40% chance for KD", it was assumed to mean 40% KD/60% KB.

I know, but there were no replies in this thread when I started typing.

This is correct. Names are Trademarked, not copyrighted.

I agree with you 100%. There's so much old stuff that could be vastly improved, and with less work than adding new stuff. But you can't sell fixes to old stuff. You can sell new stuff.

I know it's not very likely, but I have this crazy theory about the devs that keep getting shifted from CoH to "the secret new project": Those devs are still with Paragon Studios. Paragon Studios is for City of Heroes only; other NCSoft titles are produced by other studios. The shifted devs are being moved to City of Heroes 2.0. Not CoH 2 (a sequel), but CoH v2.0 (an updated program with everything rewritten from the ground up to remake CoH as a current-gen MMO, while still keeping the game we've all spent so much time with).

I know it's not likely, but it's possible, and until that project is revealed, it's what I choose to believe is coming.

It'll never happen. Those enemies give full XP based on the base enemy type, but can't attack because they're locked in their bucket-feet animations. The devs are (rightly) against handing out risk-free rewards.

And there would have to be a reason to actually have a mission full of these guys. And no, "It would be funny, and I want free expeez" isn't a good enough reason.

Finally, what do you mean by "get the crowds in"? If you mean getting people into AE, they're already there, and they don't need some new farm to get them using it. If you mean getting new players to play the game, that's not the way. That's the way to get new players to get bored and uninstall the game 5 minutes after logging in.

... and in MMOs it's more common for new stuff to be added than old stuff be revamped. The devs have even said a few times that they're more likely to do new stuff than do major reworks on old stuff - even when asked about sets that are in drastic need of reworking. Therefore:

But with four different sword sets already (Broadsword, Katana/Ninja Blade, Dual Blades and Titan Weapons), I can't see ANOTHER sword being high priority.

Nope. In the redname discussions about MARTy, they said that you'd get notification in your rewards window if you were triggering MARTy. They also said that it would be impossible to trigger MARTy through normal gameplay (and implied that that included farming). MARTy is only there to block exploits, like the old Bullbe and Meow farms in AE.

Because ERP is the ONLY possible reason someone might want some better sports-themed costume pieces.

As a subscriber, you receive 1 Token per $15 spent, with an option to get them cheaper by buying in bulk (multi-month subscriptions).

As a Premium, you get one token per $15 spent, with an option to get extra tokens when you buy in bulk (which essentially translates to a per-token discount).

How is this unfair? You're paying the same price per token either way. And by buying points, you get your tokens up front, instead of having to wait.

There's no such thing. Hasten always crashes 2 minutes after it's activated, no matter how short its recharge is.

[Rage] is the only power that you can avoid the crash on by making it recharge fast enough, and that only offsets the -Defense, not the -Damage or Endurance Crashes.

I used to be that way too. Then I got a mouse with a thumb button.

/bind button4 powexecname build up changed my game.

The EULA prohibits identifying yourself in-game by your real name. So your example would be gerericable too.

Edit: This prohibition used to be explicitly stated, but it isn't any more. However, from the EULA, Section 11, Paragraph (iii):