Silver_Streak_NA

Except that it's not four FULL days. Now, if it went from 9am thursday to 9am monday, then you'd be getting a full 96 hours, and then, sure, they could market it as running four days. But, as it is, it's scheduled to run only 87 hours. Sure, it'll probably actually run until server maintenance monday morning, so we'll likely get an extra 4 hours before it's turned off - but even so, that'll still come in 5 hours shy of 4 days.

I think the marketing team is playing it smart, and not promising MORE than they would technically be delivering. I could see many more people complaining about being told "four days," and demanding they be given the full 96 hours.

I emailed him for a pizza roll, and still havn't gotten it!

Right. Duh! Good point - I kinda forgot they settled, and was thinking more like the case was simply dismissed.

Interestingly, Cryptic seems to have a more relaxed attitude about it, nowadays. For example, in my short time playing CO, I saw a character named Tony Shark - his costume looked just like Iron Man (and I mean, JUST like Iron Man - their costume creator has even more elements that look exactly like their comic-book inspirations), with the exeption that he had a shark's head. The number of characters like that running around CO was pretty crazy - I didn't notice any actual Iron Men or Incredible Hulks, mind you, just very obvious parodies.

Of course, CoH was like that, too, around the time of launch - but NCSoft made it clear that was not kosher, even though parody is protected by law. I mean, yes, by all means, protect the game by getting rid of ACTUAL copyright violation - but, I've never understood why NCSoft takes it further than that, and genericizes characters that are NOT in violation of copyright law?

I suppose, since they actually got sued by Marvel, they do it as a goodwill gesture toward them and other copyright holders, hoping to avoid further lawsuits. Whereas, perhaps Cryptic, having actually been working with Marvel for awhile, has a better understanding of exactly where the line is drawn?

Since the OP hasn't replied yet - let's see if I understand him. I believe he's asking for each costume slot to also have a build associated with it. So, instead of just Dual-builds, we'd have up to 5 builds.

I have no opinion on this - if a lot of people want it, hey, more power to 'em! But, regardless, it's not something I personally would take advantage of. I havn't even done anything with dual-builds yet, because of the cost of fully IO'ing them out - I shudder at the thought of how much it would cost to IO out 5 builds per toon!

Heh - I first suggested this to my SG, to get their feedback, with a 30 minute recharge. The consensus there was, "Inspirations drop like candy in this game anyway, so that'd be pretty pointless. It should be like 10 minutes to be useful at all."

So, I'm sure opinions will vary on exactly how long the recharge should be, and all kinds of other particulars (some will probably say you ought to be able to drop tier 3's, for example) - none of that really matters to me, tell ya the truth. I'm sure the devs could work out what the proper power level should be - and, for that matter, what the best means to unlock the Accolade would be (I'm not married to the idea of it being a Vet reward - just seemed like a good combo, with Hero of the City, for the concept of an Inspiring hero).

Just for the record - this isn't even something (in the form I suggested) that my main hero would be able to use. Silver Streak is parked at 49 - I've never trained him to 50, for RP reasons (Statesman doesn't like him, and refuses to issue the Hero of the City badge to him ). So, I'm not just trying to get something I can exploit, or anything like that - I just think it would be appropriate and make CoH characters able to resemble comic-book characters just a little bit more.

In other words, it seems something that would be appropriate for characters like Superman, Batman, Captain America, Dr. Doom, etc (veteran/legendary characters in their own universes).

Heh - I didn't know we were only supposed to say "yea" or "nay." I thought these threads were useful to discuss a suggestion, maybe offer variants, constructive criticism, etc. Otherwise we might end up with 20 different threads about very nearly the same thing, but with slight variations.

Actually, the level cap was raised in Issue 1 - just two months after CoH launched. So, the pool of names that havn't logged on for 5 years would include plenty of characters all the way up to level 50, and is probably quite large.

Maybe the GAME doesn't have enough events for it to matter - but players sure do. I don't know about your SG, but mine does several things a week, and we're pretty casual. I'm sure there are SG's out there that are doing things almost every day, who would find a SG-edited calendar very useful.

Heh - yea, those early days were wierd. I played a /SR scrapper from launch, and my roommate a /Regen. His main, of course, always was and still is uber, and in the days of perma-Elude, so was mine - it felt really odd in those days to always still be standing, even after any tanks we might be teamed with had face-planted.

I'm glad things got changed, so that Tanks are actually tanks!

Searching came up with the following 2 threads (I only looked at the first page of search results - there may be more):
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...mutant+booster
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...mutant+booster

If you want to start your own, the Suggestions and Ideas sub-forum, in the For Fun! forums, is the place to go.

Yea - talking about the Hami raid from back in the days of Hami Buds - ugh! As someone whose only 50 back then was a scrapper, I was DEFINATELY pleased when the Buds were removed.

As for the difference between pre- and post-i9 raiding, I'm one of those people whose never done a Hami raid post-i9, so I can't really identify a preference. However, I WAS one of the people who always felt a revision of the Hami experience would be desirable - the old experience was a little too autopilot for my tastes.

So, why have I never participated in raids post-i9? Well, I keep meaning to, just to try out the experience, but there's no real compelling reason to do it anymore! Tangential changes to the game have, I think, had a much bigger impact on Hami raids, than changes to the raids themselves! Back in the day, stocking characters with Hami-O's was the way to tweak their efficiency - post-i9, IO's generally offer much more. Most builds these days need, at most, a few Hami-O's to be at peak efficiency, and you can just buy the few you need, or get Synthetics.

As much as I felt that a revision was needed, therefore, I DO kinda miss Hami raids being a compelling end-game thing to do. I'd like to see something change (not necessarily to the raid experience, mind you - since I have yet to experience it ) to make running Hami raids more important, or more rewarding. Perhaps they could be the ONE thing in the game that offers both merits AND a drop? Obviously, the number of merits rewarded would have to be lowered if that were implemented - just spitballing, here.