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How is releasing a different aura a compromise?

For what it is worth, I have both auras and I don't have any problem with either being put on the market.

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Also count me in the camp that believes that all the exclusives should have only a LIMITED exclusive period attached before being widely released.

Well you can't run them for the badges before you go full-villain, so don't worry about that.

Mini-Badge Guide and Popmenu: Efficiency Expert ( http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277110 )

If you use the pop-menu, you'll see the names/objectives of the needed missions and if you've done them right.

It is best to solo them, unless you have a minimal attack build. The kidnap mission ignore everything but the holder group, then just go to the exit after you have got the person (don't fight your way out, just head to the exit).

I'm just amazed that people don't know how to use or seem to be unwilling to look up easy info on the internet.

Hmm.
18:30-12:00 = 6:30 pm. Nope, I got it right.

GMT = 5:30 pm, but I also posted GB time.

Logitech G15v1, Logitech MX500 (and I'm annoyed that the drivers aren't Vista/Win 7 compatible for the mouse).

Oh come on. Doing an internet search comes up with more time zone converters than anyone could possibly use.

Here is one.
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzref.tzc

US/Hawaii 07:30:00 25-Jul-2012
US/Pacific 10:30:00 25-Jul-2012
US/Central 12:30:00 25-Jul-2012
US/Eastern 13:30:00 25-Jul-2012
GMT 17:30:00 25-Jul-2012
GB 18:30:00 25-Jul-2012
Paris 19:30:00 25-Jul-2012
Japan 02:30:00 26-Jul-2012

What next? Someone asking for Swatch .BEAT time?

Here's looking forward to a solution that benefits both the company and the players!

1) They don't have a web development department. They out-source.
2) If they made a Twitter program like you describe, that app would be instantly banned from Twitter given Twitter's usage policies (I checked two weeks ago).

Yeah, that is why the web-app I am making doesn't involve anyone else. The community team would post a code/website combo on Twitter, players log into the named website and they'd get an unique code from a code pool to use.

How long of a delay? I use 0.5 second delay (500 ms) and it seems to work.

Only if they applied it to two separate game accounts. I also think the other accounts have to be active when the code is entered.

No, and they can't use any Loyalist/Resistance doors.

If the Praetorian character is good aligned, they can enter any resistance doors.
If the Praetorian character is villain aligned, they can access any of the loyalist doors.

Both Galaxy City and the old Dark Astoria got echoes so you can still visit them and get any badges/plaques.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Echo:_Galaxy_City

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Echo:_Dark_Astoria

The portal to both is by the med porters, at the back of the main building in Ouroboros.

I think I can be hard on them for:

• Closing a support ticket and telling me that I have to submit a new one, despite giving them:
  • 25 serial codes applied to my account
  • my credit card info (last 4 digits)
  • my physical address
  • my birthday
  • my unique plaync account ids.
• Telling me that I had to submit another support ticket, despite having all the information given to them.
• Telling me that someone would be back to me in under an hour, and instead taking almost double that.
• Having a second customer support representative (supposedly an account support specialist) tell me that they can't find my first and last name when I submitted most of the previous information again (they only took 1 serial code and didn't ask for my unique plaync accounts).
  • Despite that they had at least 4 other means of identification, they still didn't reset my security questions.

It has now been 2 hours again, and looking at the support website, I still haven't received a response.

They can't do anything about my IP changing my address. I fully expect that my security questions got erased with the move last week. However, they can control their own actions.

Closing an account support question, despite going through the website "ask a question" support site and being given more than enough identification to properly verify an account, should be completely unacceptable. The first CS person should have escalated the support question if they couldn't deal with it themselves. This despite the fact the original support question was sent through the web form directed at the account services, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten "hey does all this Aion Account help pages solve your problem?".

I don't appreciate being treated in this manner by customer support.

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My original submission was flagged as an account problem, yet I was directed to resubmit to a special "account specialist".

After resubmitting the info via the new form, CS was supposed to get in touch with me inside an hour. They took almost 2 hours. Even though I resubmitted many other pieces of ID (physical address, birthday, last 4 digits of my Credit Card, a serial number from a retail package, my master account name, and my game account name) in the second support ticket, the CS person that responded "couldn't find" the name that created the account. That was 2.5 hours ago, and I still haven't received a response.

I've had enough. I submitted a support question (that thankfully still works, even though the captcha is garbage). I'm just glad that I've kept every single code that I've applied to my account.

Good thing I decided not to participate in today's giveaway, as I can't get into my account anyway.

Bull. Now I can't even access my master account in-game. I was able to last week.

This is crap.

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Support ticket filed, which prompted the "Ask a question" site to give me two pages of Aion crap related to accounts before letting me fully submit my "question".

Support ID #120720-000246

Nope. It was a password authentication failure on the website. This afternoon, without changing anything on my side, I was able to get past that screen and then get blocked by their asinine IP check scheme.

Now I either have to wait till next week for a security question clear, find a way around the settings, or by some miracle remember how I capitalized the answers to the poor choice of security questions because my ISP decided to change my IP address after 10 years.

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And NOW I can't even access my account in-<pancake>-game.

And by doing so, they are making a good portion of the community not being marketed to ticked off. Not really a "win" for the company.

URL Meta redirects are a security concern. I've specifically blocked all meta redirects that I can.

No, I don't care a whit about your point that other MMOs do this. The MMOs that do this have a lot more customer turnover but are either big enough to survive the people leaving or are so new that the MMO can expect people to still see the shiny. City of Heroes doesn't have either. They can't afford to lose customers over these promotions.

Your example clearly illustrates what I just said. More to the point, that big fantasy MMO has 100 times the subscribers. They can afford to tick people off. As to your second example, that space MMO is tanking. Additionally they needed that kind of promotion to get capital fast.

The 2nd example also re-released their lifetime deal for their superhero MMO.

5% of the people post on the forums. Going by the reaction in this thread, a good 95% of the posters in this thread are against this type of promotion. Do the math.

And my point is that players that want the items from the promotions aren't getting access to them with these code grabs. Turning away loyal customers isn't a good business practice.

City of Heroes grew its customer base not by following other MMOs, but by making choices that other MMOs adopted. Is there room for Paragon Studios to learn from other MMOs? Sure! However they need to take the best, not the worst of other games.

Actually what I want is that some people get exclusive access for a time, then let everyone be able to access after that limited time is over. You know, not one or the other, despite your attempts to claim otherwise.

I'll agree that it isn't a wise investment of your time. At the same time there are times where doing nothing is better than doing something.

I hope you got the concern over -permanently exclusive- items. If you said that "oh, we're giving this cool aura for free during the summer, but come winter everyone will be able to buy it on the Paragon Market." You wouldn't have had this reaction. I'm sure you know this, but you have to convince whatever hair-brained person that insists that permanently exclusive items are a "good thing" that they are wrong.

And the "best option" isn't what you are doing. The "best option" is being upfront that these giveaways are exclusive for a limited time and afterward will be widely available. I get that you can't promise that, but you need to get the person that IS responsible to commit to that.

And for now, I'll not participate. Then again, with the website master account fiasco I couldn't even if I wanted to.

Still does zero to address the concerns for players. The codes are gone within seconds. It literally is not worth my time to look at Twitter and try to load any site to enter the code, much less the game to actually access my master account to put the code in. The community team is aware that some players do not have website access to their master accounts.

You mean the Korean website that has zero mention of City of Heroes? That website?

Tell me when I can buy the code. That way at least I'll have a chance at the item. With this method, it has been proven that I stand a better chance to win the USA Powerball lottery as a Canadian than to even hope to get one of these codes.

Again, there is literally no point for a player to do this. All that will result from me even -trying- will be my blood pressure rising and me being pissed off at the community team. There will be absolutely nothing of benefit for either me or Paragon Studios in this if I try to participate.

If a player has Field Medic, Aid Other isn't able to be interrupted. Aid Self and the Resurrect are unchanged.

Also: Flight poses are staying emotes.

Any power that doesn't directly affect others will also likely have a "minimal effects" option.

Wasn't that the exact point of Issue 21? In fact, wasn't that one of the major selling points and the reason for the issue to be called "Freedom"?

Hmm. Let's see what exclusives I have on my account:

• CoH CE
• CoV CE
• Dark Matter Aura
• Coralax Boss Costume
• Seven Years of Super stuff you can't buy access to or get in game.
• Salute to Statesman items.

Am I willing to also buy access to the above for my other account? Yes. Am I against others buying access to the above? Not a chance.

And yet, here you are complaining about less. Good show!

It was never about Paragon giving things away. It was about ticking off customers by telling them that they could not eventually purchase items that don't cost Paragon Studios money to make more.

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And I've been gaming since the mid to late 70s. So I've also have over 30 years of gaming experience. I don't think you are making your point.