SquidheadJax

I hope Virtue myself, seeing as I'm one of them steenkin' RPers.

I also approve of any and all uses of Confuse for the same reasons I enjoy knockback.

What server are you making Helpy McHelperson on, Seebs?

I love knockaround powers. Viscerally, they are my favorite thing in any game, period. They just are. I normally restrain myself from making massive use of them in CoX because that seems to be etiquette around here, but I would team with this character in a heartbeat and bring the knocky myself.

My war mace brute (blueside) with hurdle and combat jumping disagrees. Given that she's /shield, hopping around after the scattering mobs and playing whack-a-mole is certainly not optimal play, but it's exciting play. Besides, the mobs would bunch on her anytime they're not being sent flying, and when they're flying, they're not fighting.

Well, I could make a post whining about how all the white salvage I need for badge-grinding seems stuck in high five digits these days and blame flippers, but if I could be arsed to put the orders in advance it wouldn't be an issue. And it seems the thread has trundled on toward the mark anyway.

Ooooh! clever! *reads also above* and slot 9 actually, got it.

Edit: Checked in game, slot 10 does actually refer to farthest right and 9 to the slot to its left.

With numerical issues straigtened out, bind works perfectly.

Did the way that macros work change since this post? This worked with my warshade just fine until she got Black Dwarf, at which point it would only work while in dwarf form.

Ah, tattery cape, yes. I would like to see that too.

I was gonna type something in reply to what Moderator08 said, but I ended up laughing so hard I squirted the thought out my nose.

Thoughts are tingly.

Anyway, on topic, I guess in the proper speak my suggestions would be:

• Don't go (pseudo)f2p.
• If you feel you must go f2p, examine the marketplace of hybrid f2p games and don't come up with a model that looks like an inferior value on its face.
• Also don't actually give inferior value. But do keep being clever like charging $5 a month as an idiot tax for the jetpack. I mean, you probably don't sell a whole lot of those, but that's basically pure profit on something people can get trivially easily in the game anyway (good thing only a fraction of players read the forums, too). Frankly, its presence on the store increases CoH's relative entertainment value for me, knowing there are people silly enough to use it - including a friend of mine who I thusly rib mercilessly (yet he still does).
• Um, stuff. Something something... oh! Assuming any f2p move would involve heavily leaning on an item shop, as they seem to, include an item shop stipend in your subscription model. For various reasons, mostly involving consumers tending to exhibit behaviors that work against themselves, that would seem to have a good chance of increasing your store revenue. Then I can delude myself into thinking I'll be just fine as a savvy consumer.

I feel the need to second this. Especially when the context is basically, "Hey Paragon! See what this game is doing? They're being stupid, please don't do this!" and then y'all can say "Duh, it's stupid, we're not gonna do that" and look like big damn heroes for no effort at all or try for the more challenging "Well, we've been thinking about doing something like that, but would do it differently to try and better accomplish stuff" or just the ever-popular "no comment".

Comparisons and contrasts with competing and/or similar products are feedback, and having to beat around the bush makes it harder to convey that feedback and focus on doing so in a constructive manner.

Obviously, outright advertising other companies' products and services in your house is an entirely reasonable no-no, but this thread has basically been the opposite of that...

Considering how hard the F2P model is being pushed lately I am sure we will see a few epic failures, I expect in a year or so we'll have a counterexample much closer to home.

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Some people want to be able to outright imitate NPCs, but I'd wager that individual bits people are picking out are mostly items that they'd want to have available to mix generally into their visions.

Exactly my point.

The specific design that acts as an identifier makes sense to be an unlock, but for the people who want sashes etc. available as generic costume bits, there should be generic costume bits of that type.

The problem is that if a costume bit is related to someone's vision of a character, it kinda sucks to spend most of that character's lifespan without it until they finally get access to it.

Having more showy versions of existing things as unlockables is good, but anything that is a basic kind of thing like 'toga' should have at least something at base creation.

I generally feel the same way about 'cape', but that unlock is integrated into the cultural mileu of the setting so as an RPer I'm more forgiving of that.

I find b preferable to a.

d, selling things that are not powers, would be my absolute preferred choice. Well, no, b would personally be my preferred choice, but d would probably be a big deal to fewer people.

At least Paragon/NCsoft never said outright "we will not sell anything that has an effect on gameplay" (to my knowledge) and then put the boosters out, unlike Cryptic in STO.

Pretty much. I do appreciate that the boosters so far have all been pretty much niche things or elaboration on stuff that's already there, though Ninja Run as part of the MA booster makes me frown sometimes if I think too hard.

The 'jetpack for an extra $5 a month" would almost be crossing the line for me if the temp powers in the game didn't make it just a tax on extreme laziness, so it's hilarious instead.

my brain!!!

Oooh oooooh ooooooh yeah that's neat as heck.

I wonder if this means the female walk animation for STO won't burn my eyes anymore...

Edit: aww, nevermind, should read more of thread before replying.