Roderick

Thanks for checking. I had someone insisting that converters worked on ALL Sets, regardless of their source telling me that they did work on SBEs. Since I've never bought any (except ATOs via Super Packs), I had no way of testing, myself.

Individual pieces are not on sale - they are regular price.
EDIT: I misread too, and this is wrong. The individual IOs are on sale, but for a lesser reduction than the full sets.

I have heard - but I have never tested this - that converters work on SBEs. If that is the case, you could buy a full set (at the sale price), and use converters until you have nothing but procs.

However, I must reiterate: The claim that converters work on SBEs is purely hearsay! I strongly recommend that you log into the Test or Beta server to confirm that this actually works before spending cash and finding out it doesn't!
EDIT: If this works, it is still a possible way to get stacks of procs at a cheaper price than individual sales.

It also has Ranged Resistance in the T2 power, which doesn't exist. Unless that was a typo, and was meant to be ranged defense.

You know that, rather than leaving behind the useless double post, you can just click the "Delete" button on the Edit screen, and the extra post will magically vanish?

Where it lists paid time on your master account does NOT include any free time from referrals or boxed sets, but that free time DOES count towards vet rewards.

So if you've never referred a friend, have a boxed set code, and have Going Rogue, that's two free months, which makes your 4 years 10 months actually 5 years.

And regardless, as Agge said, you're spreading misinformation. No matter how much you want to believe it, that is NOT how it works.

I never thought of that, but any of those except the base porter (or Pocket D for redside) would leave you a rather lengthy jog from the next mission, and running out is probably quicker in most cases.

Done!


Excalibur

After completing a Magisterium Trial, you can buy the weapon for 10 Emperyean Merits. Alternatively, you can purchase the recipe off the AH or get it as a drop(It's a Very Rare drop off Pendragon in the Magisterium Trial). Though if you plan to buy it, bring a lot of cash - it's showing 500-750 million for the last five as I type this.

HOW could salvage be unavailable by AE tickets?

If you're looking at commons, I could see some bad rolls getting you the wrong type, but it is literally impossible for AE to run out of salvage.

I have no difficulty imagining Freakshow doing this.

I also have no difficulty imagining the forums exploding, because someone wants headbutt attacks for players.

The goal is NOT to retain subscribers, but to maintain or increase subscriber numbers.

It doesn't matter if the same people remain subscribed, or if everyone quits and the same number starts, the bottom line remains the same.

You realize that nobody has told you to quit playing, leave, or anything else like that?
You keep saying that Premium offers a better value because VIP includes nothing of worth to you except the points, of which you get a greater amount as a Premium. Therefore, people are telling you to unsubscribe, and give Paragon your $15/month as a points purchase insteade of a subscription fee.

If quelling that "slow bleed" of VIPs prevents an equal or greater number of new VIPs from joining, then allowing the slow bleed is NOT doooom.
And the fact that we've got multiple devs in positions that used to be filled by only one, we're getting more content, more powersets, and more bugfixes than ever before is proof that Paragon Studios is making more money than ever before.

The system isn't here to maximize subscribers. It's here to maximize profits. And though you refuse to see it, you're trying to plug the leak by making it bigger.

Think about it: If the average player (all numbers from here on are made up) uses 600 points a month, at the current subscription stipend, VIPs need to buy 2400 points a year and T9 VIPs need to buy 600 points a year to reach that amount. That's $5 to $30 PER SUBSCRIBER extra on top of whatever the subscriptions bring in.
Your ONLY suggestion so far to "improve VIPs" has been to increase the number of points a VIP gets. While some people would continue to buy more points on top of that, many, many others would suddenly see no need to buy additional points.

Suddenly, profits are far lower.

I think you're taking the whole thread too personally. Granted, some of the later replies ARE personally directed at you, but initially, few if any were.

Doesn't the monthly spending limit cap at $200? Or is that per card, so you could still spend the full $900 all at once by cycling multiple CCs?

Those two sentences mean the same thing. Had I omitted the quotes, or had I quoted "answered Soon", then it would mean what you're taking it as.

Try replacing the word in quotes with any other word:
Any questions about release dates will be answered "bologna."

Am I saying that the answer will be "bologna", or that the answer will be given bologna? Hint: only one of those even makes sense.

Pretty much any store-bought buff will persist through death, but "turn off" while you are dead. Time spent dead still counts towards their total duration. This includes, but may not be limited to:
-Mystic Fortune
-Secondary Mutation
-Team and Dual Inspirations, and the Store-Bought versions of standard Inspirations that you can get via Paragon Rewards.
-Amplifiers
-XP Boosters
-Windfall
-Prestige Boosters

Most of these wouldn't do anything relevant while dead anyways. I haven't tested if XP Boosters, Windfall and Prestige Boosters turn off while dead. I would hope that they don't, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

Adeon is correct, as usual. ;D

If you want to know how to tell the difference:
Globals always just state the bonus they provide. They work just like set bonuses.
Procs always either list a percentage chance to trigger or state that they give a certain benefit (usually for 120s) when the power they are slotted in is used. When slotted in a toggle, these require the power to be active for them to do anything.

Procs are pretty much the opposite of Globals for availability when exemplaring - They will function while you are exemplared to any level, regardless of the level of the Proc. However, they cannot be used (obviously) if you exemplar low enough to lose access to the power they are slotted in.

Not exactly. Rarity conversions are odd.

Rarity does NOT go by the rarity of the enhancement - it goes by the rarity of the SET. In the case of sets that have a mix of Rare and Uncommon pieces, it seems to be considered an Uncommon set. The first time I noticed this, I did a rarity conversion on a Rare piece of Gaussian's Synchronized Fire Control (a mixed set), and got an IO from an all-yellow set.

Does Dehydrate accept Accurate Healing sets? If so, you could slot the Touch of the Nictus proc for a chance for +End to yourself. You still won't drain End from foes, but as was already mentioned, draining NPC's End is pointless unless you can also stop their Recovery.

Not strictly voluntary. If you had an Item of Power in your base, the most you could do is limit the times when others could raid your base. However, the availability of IoPs was so limited that the point was damn near moot.

As to the Premium base, Disappearing Girl is right. When my account goes Premium, I retain my SG, access to my base, and my Super Leader status. The only thing I lose is the ability to pay rent.

The base is fully functional for 2 weeks after rent is due, at which point power and control are cut off. Storage items need neither power nor control, so they remain useable until the base is locked 2 weeks after power is cut. That means that you only need to invite a VIP to pay your rent once every 8 weeks.
If you're unable to find a VIP you trust completely, edit the bottom rank so it has NO permissions other than paying Rent. That way, they won't be able to do anything harmful to your base.

Only if you were buying your points $5 at a time (or $15, since the bonus at that level wouldn't be enough to get an extra reward token until your tenth purchase).

The $50 bundle gets you 5 or 6 tokens, depending on how many previous points you had. So by buying a $50 bundle, followed by one or two $5 purchases, you can cut a fair amount off that $80.

EDIT: I totally mathed that wrong. The $50 bundle gets you 3 tokens, with 1000 points towards your next token. two $15 purchases gets you two more bonus tokens and 240 more "banked" points, which gets the 6th with the $80 Adeon said.

If you were to buy the tokens in the $5 or $15 bundles, 7200 would cost $90. I should probably stop trying to do math in my head when tired.

I don't understand.

If you're T9, you get 550 points a month. Save them for 2 months and you have 1100 points. Buy a powerset, and you have 300 points left. Next month, you get 550 more and have 850. Buy another powerset, and you've still got 50 points left
If you AREN'T T9, you get 400 points a month. Save for 2 months, and you get a free powerset.

It's rare that we get more than one powerset per two months, and if you average them out, I'm pretty sure that we get less than 2 powersets per 3 months. So as a T9, you ARE getting your powersets for free with your subscription, unless you're using those points for something else.

As an added bonus, any powerset you buy, you get to keep, even if you lapse to Premium, so that means that the powerset is yours until the servers are shut down.

The only reason I can think of that you "have" to buy extra points is that you erroneously think that your points will expire if unspent. That simply isn't the case - once you get points they remain on your account until you spend them (or the game is shut down). They never expire, and they stack wil no limit (or a ridiculously high one that they don't expect us to reach).

That's the crux of it: DO the devs want to do it? If they really wanted us to have trial versions of powers, they could have had a trial worked into the store when they contranced it. They could unlock the Test Server, in whole or in part, for Premium players. They could create free versions of the powersets that only include the first three powers (Like it and want the full version? Buy the power, delete and reroll!).

Or they could tell you to go play the game, team with people using the new powers, and decide if you like it based on what you see and/or the in-game real numbers.

As Agge said, Power Customization was never impossible. It was "more than we can do with the available manpower, unless you want NOTHING new for over a year while we work on it."

I honestly think this falls into the realm of "Don't Wanna", as opposed to "Too Difficult/Can't Do It."

However, you could always log into Twitch.tv tomorrow for the coffee talk and try to ask during the Q&A at the end, or log into Facebook for Freedom Friday and ask there.

When I started (pretty close to when you did, judging by join dates), there were NO restrictions on trial accounts. The restrictions were added later, but not much. They've been place at least 3 years, probably closer to 4, IIRC.

I don't see anyone saying that it's an absurd idea. I see people saying that the system doesn't work like that. The game doesn't have a way to let you try a purchased set and then have it locked after a certain amount of time if you don't buy it. And since the store is third-party software, altering it to add that functionality CANNOT be done by the devs, and could be anywhere from non-trivial to nearly impossible to implement.

Test server does NOT exist - and never has - for you to test out builds, try new powersets, etc. That has always been an unintended side benefit to it. Test exists to test upcoming builds and patches, to make sure that as many game-breaking bugs as possible can be found before they can actually break the game. Beta exists for a similar reason, but it is intended for material that isn't even close to a release. That's why the Test forums are viewable by all, but the Beta forums are hidden from non-subscribers.