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  1. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
    Maybe not with the Alpha alone; however:

    - Getting the Very Rare Alpha with just influence takes 400 million (plus shards, but I'm talking only influence costs here). Multiply that by 10 slots, and that's 4 billion influence per character.
    And exactly why do you think a significant number of people are going to go spend real money to get the inf to craft a notice instead of just hopping on the weekly task force, or join in on the new incarnate trail. If crafting were the only way to get a NotW, I might agree, but it's not.
  2. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
    ... The inf isn't destroyed, (other than the market fee)...
    And even thats not a certainty. I'm almost willing to bet that the going rate would be more the 2B inf and the transactions would be done off the market.

    If this type of Official RMT is going to take place, I'd much rather it be done with something that already has an inf cost, that way we can at least have some idea as to whether or not the Market can handle it. Easiest thing would probably be to make the Respec purchase grant a recipe.
  3. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
    Like it or not, there is a demand for RMT already. This conversation happened not long ago with someone on my SG:
    Didn't say there wasn't, but the RMTs aren't going to "aiming at this game more strongly," as Bill fears, unless there's an increase in demand for their services, which I just can't see NotW doing.
  4. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    And with the craft cost for the NOTW, I've been thinking RMTers would start aiming at this game more strongly again - this would short circuit that a bit.
    Why would adding something that costs a hundred million, a cost that can be circumvented by playing on a team for short time, cause a sudden demand for RMT? Anyone who would go the RMT route over NotW would already be doing so over Purple and PvP IOs.

    As to the Original suggestion, as long as it doesn't end up throwing the market off too much, I"m rather indifferent. I make enough inf that I wouldn't buy the PCRC with real money, but not enough to think I'd be able buy one with Inf.
  5. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    It's 99% likely that it's a reference to the League system, as there's an overall League leader who can shuffle players around the teams grouped up for the League - but the bit about wearing new clothing seems kinda weird, as that doesn't really have anything to do with the League system.
    Its written as a stream of thought so not everything in the sentence has to be hinting at the same thing. It could mean that the raid the entire paragraph seems to be about could require a certain look, or that it unlocks a new costume or simply that there is a new costume and it has nothing to do with the raid.
  6. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by BasilAcid View Post
    "Groups of eight wearing clothing I have never seen with a Master at the helm!"

    Havn't seen this brought up yet, so I thought I'd toss in my 2 cents. Sounds like a hint at the League system used in the new raids... with possibly new costume pieces in I20.
    I agree, and it was mentioned back on post #25
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    Originally Posted by Shadow State View Post
    And the groups of 8 are probably standard teams, maybe the Master at the helm means an actual raid team mechanics.
  7. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Isn't a group of 8 just a normal team?
    Yes but it says groups of 8, note the plural.
  8. Shadow State
    Don't know about anyone else, but I've been using it up because when I ran the Cuda SF this week, my brute didn't seem to get the temp powers for the first run, when he had the dimensional grounding ray, and got them without a problem on my second run, after using the power up.
  9. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    You don't need to target yourself... Let me rephrase that - you CANNOT target yourself, so that's no impediment to using self-resurrect powers. This was one problem BABs mentioned when the power was being added, and which was never addressed.
    Unless I'm mistaken, he was referring to the Vengeance part not the self rez.
  10. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    True, but anyone with even a sliver of patience can get as many as they need for far less than what TO's/DO's cost.
    With enough patience and diligence, one can end up spending nothing, or even making money, using SOs. Buy what you can off the market and burn vet and frespecs to recoup all of the money you spent at the vendor.
  11. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Son In Law View Post
    Some of us literally can't do color coding. I'm severely colorblind and far too many of the enhancements look exactly the same. It's also rendered pretty much every color-based puzzle game unplayable.
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    Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
    Great idea,
    To only fix the graphics for each of them. It sometimes gets to be next to impossible to tell what each of them do by the color/graphic combination.

    /signed
    For those who find DO and SO art problematic, I suggest using the enhancement standardization mod found in my sig, only problem is Def and Res end up having to use the same icon due to art sharing.
  12. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Furio View Post
    Was on the league that dropped them today, a couple of hours ago. Didn't take any particular coordination really. There's an objective window with their health bars and a numerical percentage readout that's visible no mater what you have targeted.
    I don't know if it was the same run but I got to complete the BAF on my first run today. Half the time I had no idea what the heck was going on and I think I somehow became the main tank.
  13. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm View Post
    Why not turn off showing autopowers? That gets rid of at least the 4 Fitness powers right there.
    Don't forget you can also hide toggle powers.

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    add up all the options you want and use that with /optionset Buffsettings command.
    Code:

    1 status window hide auto
    2 status window hide toggles
    4 status window no blinking
    8 status window no stacking
    16 status window numeric stacking
    32 status hide buff numbers
    64 status stop sending buffs
    128 --
    256 group window hide auto
    512 group window hide toggles?
    1024 group window no blinking
    2048 group window no stacking
    4096 group window numeric stacking
    8192 group window hide buff numbers
    16384 group window stop sending buffs
    32768 --
    65536 pet window hide auto
    131072 pet window hide toggles?
    262144 pet window no blink
    524288 pet window no stacking
    1048576 pet window numeric stacking
    2097152 pet window hide buff numbers
    4194304 pet window stop sending buffs
  14. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    Well it depends on whether they convert all Hamidon's to use the turnstile system or keep the existing public raid and have the private Hamidon as another option.
    The Turnstile doesn't seem to lend itself to a private instance, as there's no indication you can' limit access to just those you want.

    Edit: just read Zombie Man's post, so it seems you could set up a private hami using a league and the turnstile, were hami to use the turnstile.
  15. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    Yes but that's the zone cap, Hamidon itself can be done with fewer. Given that I could easily see them making a new "private Hamidon" option where you get your own zone with a cap of 48 (since the team of team tech caps out at 48). People have been asking for it for ages so it makes a lot of sense to do if the new tech allows it.
    With the Turnstyle handling re-entry after disconnect and the new contribution measuring system preventing leechers from getting rewarded, there shoudn't be any need for a "private Hamidon."
  16. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Toony View Post
    My point is if they had designed that cap for hami raids specifically and not for future trials, it'd be 50.
    Since 48 is the closest to 50 you can get and still have it be divisible by 8 I'd say that clearly Hami did factor into the cap. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some of the new content will cap at 48, but that shouldn't be a problem as far as lag goes if the encounter is spread out enough.
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    Originally Posted by Jophiel View Post
    Noble Savage said today that several people have already guessed the next booster and since Steampunk seems to be the common guess (and I haven't really heard anyone guessing "water"), I'd keep the safe money on steampunk.
    And even if it isn't next there's a pretty good chance of there being one.

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    Originally Posted by Noble Savage View Post
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    Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake View Post
    quickly looks that up. hay dave, remember from the all things art thread, we were talking about steam-punk/ Victorian booster costumes? ...keep looking at that comic...
    I remember the request, and I have a copy on my desk right now. *wink*
  18. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    The humour comes from "Oh no, this is WoW!" and the fact that WoW is not like that (anymore).
    Ah, my apologies then, I read your post wrong.
  19. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    The funny thing here, for me, is that the Gorilla has moved largely towards 5- and 10-person content; the 20- and 40-person days are long past.
    Which is hugely different from CoH doing 8 and 12 man raids how? Just because the system allows for 48 players doesn't mean they're going to require that many for all or even a majority of the trails.
  20. Shadow State
    If the unlock isn't dependent on a Praetorian character, and they don't start in Praetoria, and their story has next to nothing to do with Praetoria, how exactly are the Praetorian EAts?
  21. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Ninja Run is an inherent power, so I have no reason to believe Beast Run will be different.
    It on test now, yes it an inherent power.

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    Originally Posted by MiniNukette View Post
    The LFG 'Turnstile' system for trials strikes me as possibly a little open for griefers - join the que, wait til trial starts, quit the trial. Though on the plus side, the CoH community seems to have very few such individuals in my experience so far.

    Will those who que up together on teams go to the same trial instance? Can a team leader add (with maybe a yes/no option appearing for all team members) his team to the que?
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    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    If we are indeed going the WoW raid queue path, then raids will be joinable mid-way, so if anyone leaves, others in the queue can replace them. Think of Trials as servers for your average FPS. You have an event going, and people can join it or leave it real time, taking up and freeing up space as they do.

    This is actually something I would be more willing to engage in, since it feels less like a social activity and a gathering of people and more like... Well, like your average FPS, where you drop in and out as you please with no commitment.

    I wonder if they'll institute raid quit penalty, too?
    Go check out the Sneak Peak Forums, some of the patch notes describe how the Turn style works.
  22. Shadow State
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Angelxman81 View Post
    I remember the contest to create new Ultra mode loading screens...
    We already got to see those in I19 beta and they said they would go live with I20.
  23. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer View Post
    Objective Feedback-Unless this is already in the works, it would be very nice to add the new emotes to the drop-down emote menu.
    They've been in the Quickchat file for some time now, they just need to be moved around to make them visible.
  24. Shadow State
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    Originally Posted by Obscure Blade View Post
    Avatea mentioned that some ideas had been held over for inclusion in a upcoming pack.

    An Undersea Pack or Cold Blooded Pack perhaps?
    Apparently there were some points that got edited out of her post and if you check the discusion thread, you can use the replies to see what type of pack she had actually mentioned.
  25. Shadow State

    At info Idea/hope

    POST-ACTION

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    Originally Posted by Malin0001 View Post
    I thought of this once but came up with 2 problems with it. A. if they did this they would have to re design the lay out so the i-cons don't overlap into the next column and B. they would have to think up and make new icons for each power set since they currently don't have one.
    Any change is going to require a redesign of the layout on some level, and making icons isn't necessarily hard, they can do like mids did and re-use one of the more recognizable power icons.