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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    That's why I said "dating"
    Dating can be focused just on fun, not romance - there are plenty of people who are fun to be with, but who don't cause you to have any deeper feelings of love for them.
    Which is why I'm questioning the naming of the pack... Valentine's Day is most associated with romance, not dating.

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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I did consider that when posting but I chose to stick with what in my opinion is most thematic with the holiday in question.

    The flower burst is a good idea that would also work as an Aura.
    It would have fit with the help/hinder nature of the Valentine's Tip missions.

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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Thanks. I was too lazy to look that up when I was posting.
    No problem.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Well, clubbing and dating kinda go together
    Clubbing doesn't exactly go with "romance" however. If clubbing does equal romance to you, then I feel sorry for you.
  3. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I'm not the one that made that decision. If I had a say in the matter a Valentines Pack would have consisted of:

    Toga
    Sandals
    that head piece thingy
    a Belt with Hearts on it
    Cupid's Bow
    a Give Flowers Emote
    a Give Heart shaped box of Chocolates Emote
    a White Doves costume change (as opposed to the black ravens we got during Halloween)
    a Cupid non combat pet that shoots arrows at other players/NPC's which cause an Aura of Red Hearts to appear on them for 1 minute.
    a Red/Pink Hearts Aura (no other colors allowed)
    See... that makes sense... Which is why it wasn't done.

    Also, I'd think that changing the Hearts Aura to allow all colors would be better... After all there are Black Hearts and Blue hearts as well. A "flower burst" costume change emote would work too.

    Finally, "that head piece thingy" is called the victory laurel.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    And then the tickets seem to go for sale on Ebay
    With a good portion of those being fake.
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    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    that pack for sure should be available all year. Real holiday event packs, like the Winter one, I can understand. But this one is just stupid.
    100% agreed. This was either a Marketing or Business Management failure. Either way, they need to drop the "Valentine" from the name and have it available all year round.

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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    No they actually called it the Pocket D Valentines Pack. Here's Beastyles Announcement
    Calling it a "Valentine's Pack" doesn't make it, in any shape or form, associated with Valentines.
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    Originally Posted by StarGeek View Post
    There's an option under the /Infoself window, alignment tab to display alignment info if someone does an /info on you. But it has to be purposely set to show it.
    Yeah, I find that the fact that you have to set the option (and that it resets itself) per character to be incredibly stupid.
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    Well, I was sort of hoping to head to PAX Prime this year, but the 3 day passes sold out within a day and the individual day passes were gone by the next.

    Yes, I should have bought tickets but had other priorities to deal with.

    Anyways, I hope that anyone actually attending will have a good time & not get sick.
  8. Snow Globe
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    Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
    The 800pp prices are WAY the heck too high in Snow Globes' suggestion. For what you get, they are not worth a powerset. Not in a million years.
    Then you don't understand the reasoning behind it. It is supposed to be high. They are prestige items and should be treated as such. When in the retail stores, the difference between the regular and DVD editions were $20. Now you got the physical items and the digital items for that $20 difference, so I cut the price in half. Even the difference between the other in-game packs (Good vs Evil, AE, Mac/Valkyrie Pack, and GR bonus) the prices were $8-$10 for the in-game items only.

    I seriously doubt that they would not sell for 800 pp, given the constant complaints that these items are not available otherwise for less than $10 (often as high as $100 or more).

    Short reply: Tough.
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    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    I could go with 400 for the CoV stuff.
    The reason I said 800 for the CE is simple: the retail packages were $20 more in store, but these wouldn't include the physical items.

    The GvE costumes, while they could be merged to 400, I thought it would be close to the price of an expansion pack. However, I forgot about the GvE Jumpjet & Pocket D VIP pass. I'm not that bound to saying the Justice & Sinister costumes should be sold separately.

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    Originally Posted by peterpeter View Post
    There was a time when the prestige slide was sold as a separate item pack. If they've done it before, I don't see why they can't do it again. I think part of the discussion the last time I remember this coming up was something about whether physical items were included or just the digital goodies.
    They were sold as a physical and virtual item combination, there wasn't an item pack like the GvE set. My suggested prices were based on "no physical goods".
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    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    Of course, I know this means they'd have to get rid of Positron and WarWitch at the very least and possibly some others (Crosscheck? Giant Monster? TheDarkWatcher? Ghost Falcon? Maybe others?).
    Well, we can look at the "Freem Fifteen" (the fifteen developers that were left working on CoH/V after Cryptic reduced the team by ~75% in 2006.) *:
    1. Positron (Lead Designer)
    2. BAB (Animations & FX artist)
    3. Castle (Powers)
    4. Ghost Widow (Programmer)
    5. War Witch (Zone creation)
    6. Constellation replaced by Hero 1 (Story bible)
    7. JLove (Costumes)
    8. Ken Morse (Art Lead)
    9. Nick replaced by Don Pham (Environmental/3D artist)
    10. Brett replaced by Graham
    11. Blue Steel (Design support)
    12. Serdar replaced by Mynx (Producer)
    13. Richard Higbee (AP/Build Engineer)
    14. Aaron Brady (Lead programmer)
    15. Garth Gillespie (who moved over to Core Tech before the acquisition)
    * Note: This apparently doesn't include all of the Producers, the Production Staff (as Jesse Caceres has been around since 2004), or the Marketing Staff.

    Of those, the following are pretty much known to not be with the company still, or not involved with the choice as they were replacements:
    1. BAB
    2. Castle
    3. Constellation replaced by Hero 1
    4. Ken Morse
    5. Nick replaced by Don Pham
    6. Brett replaced by Graham
    7. Serdar replaced by Mynx

    That leaves the following:
    1. Positron
    2. Ghost Widow
    3. War Witch
    4. Blue Steel
    5. Richard Higbee
    6. Aaron Brady
    7. Garth Gillespie
    My personal bet is that it is someone in Production, Business Management, or Marketing, not the actual development team.

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    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    I don't think the idea of getting rid of those people so they can change plans would go over very well.
    Yeah, I'd have to agree.
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    Originally Posted by Laevateinn View Post
    I didn't even know there was a camera shake feature.
    Menu->Options->Controls, near the bottom of the list:

    Enable Camera Shake - Enabled/Disabled

    Enabled - allow certain effects to "shake" the camera (simulates ground shaking)
    Disabled - never "shake" the camera

    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Options#Mouse_Options
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    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    So, hey, if they show up in the store, I (owner of both COH and COV CEs) am *perfectly* fine with it (and am surprised it took this long.)
    As the owner of both collector editions, I would have zero problems with the following:

    CoH Collector's Pack - 800 Paragon Points:
    • Prestige Power Slide Sprint power
    • Cape of the Four Winds
    • VIP/Destined One/Praetoria's Son/Praetoria's Daughter Badge

    CoV Collector's Pack - 800 Paragon Points:
    • Arachnos Cape
    • Arachnos Chest Symbol

    Edit:
    Also missing from the Paragon Market are the Good vs Evil Edition costumes, so the following bundle could be added:
    • Justice Costume Set - 400 Paragon Points
    • Sinister Costume Set - 400 Paragon Points
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    Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg View Post
    I'll give this a yes vote. I used to look for O-portals in WW to get my own badge and portal. Now I actually have to ask someone to lay one down for me.
    Ask a friend, on a global channel, or do any one of the missions or tasks that would normally get the trusted with the secret badge. If you've PL'd to 40+ go into the usually dead Recluse's Victory to get an explore badge.

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    Originally Posted by Suspicious_Pkg View Post
    There's also something about a bustling marketplace that makes people spend more on my stuff.
    Yes, it is called getting away from people that want to leave their toggles on or spam heals. Thank you for additional ammunition against this suggestion though.
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    Just because...
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Grim Saint View Post
    -A rare contact drop that gives access to a hidden story arc, as well as a badge for that arc's completion. I think players would salivate over this - more so than the black wolf pet - especially badge hunters. It's also gray enough to circumvent complaints of "paying for badges." Perhaps only the team leader would be eligible for the badge to prevent people from simply teaming with recipients in order to receive it.
    /Unsigned as it directly is selling badges. No matter how much you think you are avoiding it, it is selling a badge.

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    Originally Posted by Grim Saint View Post
    New costume set
    I think this might be a given, but I would still like the option to buy them separately from the packs after they are live for 6-9 months.
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    Originally Posted by srmalloy View Post
    Rather than having a new background, I'd rather have the "Remember me" checkbox actually be a "Remember Me" checkbox, and not a "Remember me until I close the browser window, at which point you forget I ever existed" checkbox.
    It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of their products by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
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    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
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    Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian View Post
    It's also nice to see a powerset on sale again(especially a non-free-for-VIP one. Those sales make me as a VIP go "wow what a waste of a sale slot for the week"), and according to my market info this sale is lower than the last time it was put on sale .
    No, they have two modes for power sets: full price (800 PP) or 25% off (aka 600 PP). I've yet to see a not free for VIP power set go for anything but 800 or 600 paragon points.
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    Originally Posted by Winterminal View Post
    I think he was saying that it is nice to see a purchase-only power set on sale again
    I was addressing his last point:
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    Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian View Post
    according to my market info this sale is lower than the last time it was put on sale .
    If I remember correctly, Street Justice hasn't been on sale before. No other VIP-bought power set has been lower than 600 points either to my knowledge.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    With Issue 23: Where Shadows Lie, we'll be rolling out a new look for the City of Heroes website and forums. I figured that since so many of us spend hours looking at the forums, why not let the Community have a say in what the skin of the forums will look like?

    Take a look at the options below and be sure to cast your vote above!


    Sorry, that is the politest way of saying it. It is obvious that someone is completely enamored by Yin, but I don't like her. I don't like her background, I don't like how she is portrayed since her "upgrade" from a generic Faultline contact, and I don't like her in-game. She ranks down there with Fusionette, Lady Jane, and a host of instantly forgettable NPCs in this game.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Psychic Guardian View Post
    according to my market info this sale is lower than the last time it was put on sale .
    No, they have two modes for power sets: full price (800 PP) or 25% off (aka 600 PP). I've yet to see a not free for VIP power set go for anything but 800 or 600 paragon points.
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    8-year vet badge?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Plasma View Post
    Anyone have one? I don't, but I should.
    No one has got a new Vet-Year badge since September. It doesn't matter if it is a 1 year badge or, now, the 8 year badge.

    For the record, I should have got the 7 year badge in Feb.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Remaugen View Post
    I keep seeing the repeated suggestion that we need an influence sink in game. After watching much of the Pummit it occured to me that there might be a way to kill two birds with one stone.

    How about selling the Super Packs (both pack I and the soon coming pack II) through a vendor at Pocket D? The vendor could have a booth like a legit biz or could be some shady character standing in a shadowed corner. Whatever, as long as one is there!

    I am unsure of pricing so this number will need adjusting, but perhaps something like 100,000,000 or so would buy a five pack Super Packs. (25 cards total).

    This would remove some (Or even much!) of the inflation causing excess Inf from the game and it would allow some of our more cash poor players a shot at some of the Super Pack rewards. . .
    I would agree, providing the following restrictions:
    • Put only the costume parts and vanity pet for sale in this manner. Still account wide, or if per character, at a severe discount (1-10 million inf per item).
    • Release these sets in this manner only when the next pack comes out so that the people buying the packs get an exclusive period of use.

    Edit:
    How about selling untradable Dual/Team Insps for 100,000 - 500,000 per inspiration?
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    Event
    • Rhapsodic
      • How to get - Log in during May 2012
      • Hint text - none
      • Completion text - You have helped celebrate the 8th anniversary of City of Heroes/Villains. (This badge was issued to every character who logged in during the month of May, 2012)
    • A Nemesis Plot
      • How to get - Defeat the Nemesis GM during the Nemesis Invasion Event.
      • Hint text - none
      • Completion text - You've tangled with Nemesis himself (at least, you think so...) during the Nemesis Plot event.
  23. Snow Globe
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    I was looking at that the other night but didn't pick it up as the store text doesn't make clear that it unlocks at creation- the wording left me unsure if I'd still have to wait for level 20 or whatever.

    If it unlocks as 1, that's the deal of the century!
    The Cape & Auras unlocks (160 PP each) are from character creation on, account wide.

    Some special items do have to wait until you get into the game, namely the incarnate purchased auras.
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    Player's Summit

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
    Took it already. Gave it to some Vogons. They promised to make some firelighters with the results.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Texas Justice View Post
    I didn't see it mentioned in the Newsletter this time but may have overlooked it.
    http://newsletters.ncsoft.com/emp/co...-04-23/na.html

    Quote:
    May 1 to May 7:
    Terra Volta, 34-33, from Captain James Harlan in Founders' Falls; Tree of Thorns, 34-33, from Trepsarciel in the Nerva Archipelago