ShadowsBetween

Well, aside from any game mechanics, you have to go Vigilante-->Rogue, so it would presumably take a little while. That said, I'd imagine some people would take time to stock up on things that are cheaper on one side or the other. The big question is, what happens to anything you currently have listed when you switch? Since the markets will remain separate, do Black Market bids just sit there while you're off being a hero, or do they actually delete?

I'm not sure that shuttling things from Red to Blue would necessarily be a bad thing though - increased rarity will drive up the price, and it would move at least some of the massive amount of stockpiled INF from Blue to Red. (Since the sneaky heroes have to actually *buy* something in order to smuggle it out.) A lot will depend on how the side-switching mechanic works. If it's something you could grind out in an afternoon, there might actually be enough "gun running" to help even out some of the weirder market imbalances. If it's on the order of the time needed for earning several hundred merits, I don't think it'll have any effect at all, because it would take too long for most people to really bother with.

I don't have a problem with it. But I've seen people flip out over less. This is the Internets! Someone out there is ready to be offended by anything. Or everything. Heck, I've seen someone start pitching a fit on zone broadcast because "I'm a Christian and it *OFFENDS* me how many demonic characters are running around." And this was in *Mercy Island.* They made a villain, and then decided to be morally outraged that they were surrounded by villainous looking people.

Probably a silly question, but you didn't share your account with anyone? Alternatively, you *did* use a different username and password than on other games, correct? And you didn't actually visit one of those "friendly" sites that offers to give you millions of influence in exchange for real money, did you?

Yes, the Mac Special Edition acts like a booster pack. You can buy it as an upgrade, even if you play on the PC. There is also an actually Mac Booster Pack, which just includes the items and bonus power. The difference is that the special edition also includes 30 days of game time. Since the booster is about $10, and a month of game time is normally about $15, the Special Edition is a slight savings if you choose to get it. ($20 for Booster + time, rather that $25 for getting the booster and paying for a single month separately.)

In any case, once you've purchased the version you want, make *certain* that you apply it as an upgrade to your existing account, rather than creating a new account.

It might work better if you ask people to send you a PM. Some people who might be interested might also *not* want the greater Internet to actually know where they live. That said, is there any particular reason you want to limit it to just that one city? And what about the surrounding area? I just checked, and Spokane is a moderately sized city surrounded by several hundred square miles of not very much. It seems possible that there could be players in the vast rural area around it, or some of the smaller towns within a hundred miles or so. (By Internet standards, 100 miles is still pretty close. Considering that I regularly team up with people from two different continents besides my own.)

I have a plant controller that currently has Carrion Creepers five slotted, and I might up that to six if I use up a freespec. (I don't think the epic Fire Armor *really* needs to be five slotted, not when I don't have anything else to stack it with.) I seem to remember that one of the recent patches fixed the vines so that they could inherit IO proc effects. And I think someone posted a guide that explained which effects the vines could use, but I've been unable to find it. I'm simply trying to decide between 3 recharge, 1 acc and 2 damage, or 3 recharge, 1 acc, and two procs of some kind.

I know that this power is weird, because there's actually something like three different effects involved, including an invisible pseudo pet and the visible vine pets, and that not all of them share the same effects. I'm also pretty sure that a proc will only activate if the pet actually uses a compatible power. (For example, I'm fairly certain that Necromancy Grave Nights will only apply a defense debuff if they use one of their melee attacks.)

I was just checking my main character, and decided that I needed some rare salvage to craft a recipe. Just because I could, I decided to bid on a stack of ten, and sell off the extras later. So, I placed a bid. I had *intended* to place a bid for 800,000. Instead, I had a brainlock moment, and placed a bid for a stack of ten for 8,000,000. Spent about two seconds wondering why there were so many of them available, and then realized what I had done. Spent about thirty seconds running a mental systems check wondering how I could possibly have done something that stupid, then took the one I needed and put the rest back up at just under the apparent selling price.

And it doesn't even count as inf destruction, because it all went somewhere. So, if you just made a totally stupid amount of money... you're welcome. :P (By the way, a digi-cookie to anyone who noticed which rare salvage I did this with.) And as I'm now pretty much broke, I guess I get to start the whole climb over again. Ah well.

Unless you have three different accounts, all the purchased costumes should be available for all characters. However, a few of the costumes are limited to specific body types - mostly from the Magic set, where the Bolero jacket and Witch outfit are Female only, while the Baron outfit is only for Male and Huge. Other than that, it should definitely appear in the appropriate categories for all of your characters.

Oh, one other thing to point out. In WoW, once you out-level a given quest, you can still complete it, but you get almost nothing unless you're at the level cap. A little money, some reputation, and a random piece of gear that would have been junk *before* you were twenty levels too high. If you join a team of lower-level characters, no one gets xp at all, because you can kill stuff just by looking at it.

In this game, you can join a team of lower-level characters and actually adventure with them, because the game will change your character to match their level. (You'll still be potentially far stronger, since you'll have access to extra slots and up to five levels of extra powers - especially usefull for Masterminds, since you can call your Tier 3 pet as low as level 21.) Using an Exemplared, high-level character is a great way to show a new player/friend/character around. If you aren't level 50, you even earn XP while teamed up with a lower level character. If you are level 50, you still get Inf and prestige and whatever recipes or salvage are appropriate.

*Also edited for typos. Bah.*

As some other people have pointed out, just because a character has reached 50 doesn't mean they're dead. You can continue to play different missions. The Imperious Task Force awards costume pieces (Roman armor and weapons) which is either great or totally pointless, depending on your character and/or personal viewpoint. You can save up to "purple out" your character, just to see how insanely powerful you can get. You can issue challenges to yourself, or even use the game to do so. (Running a mission through Ouroboros with various difficulty modifiers, such as no temp powers, no inspirations, a time limit, complete without being defeated.) If you and your girlfriend have a SG base, level 50 characters are good for building up prestige, simply because you can probably handle a mission that throws more critters at you.

Personally, I hate WoW's focus on endgame/raid content. Every time I try to play again, I find it harder and harder to care, about *anything,* because almost all of the "really cool" content is stuff that I'll never see. I'm never going to join one of the massive raiding guilds - even if I didn't totally hate them, it's a game, not a job. I'm not going to be told that I *must* have this build and that I have to be on for six hours on this day every week to be available for raids. I've actually been approached by someone who asked if I needed a guild, and in practically the same breath told me a massive list of required gear and addons and such that I'd *have* to use if I wanted to join.

Honestly, one of the reasons I enjoy CoH is that none of that is ever likely to happen here. I have my own SGs, with bases that I can design and use however I see fit. I've accepted Coalition invitations from friends with much larger, better bases than mine so that I have access to the things that I can't afford yet (like more than three teleporters at a time.) I also really enjoy playing with the character creator, and trying out different powers. WoW seems to be built from the ground up to punish people who like to experiment. The only way WoW is "meant" to be played is with one main character and no others. Or at minimum, one main character who acts as the Sugar Daddy for your useless alts.

*Edited to correct some fairly grievous typos.*