Ssyrie

You get 'Unique Enhancements' not inspirations.

/lol

If I had known that back in high school, I'd have driven my pre-cal teacher even farther up the wall then I already had.

You're crazy. Apricot pie rules them all.

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Actually, if you have Superjump you can hit the speed cap for jumping and get a gold without any outside buffs. Most of my non SJ characters that I wanted to get the badges for used their second build to get SJ, maxed it out and got the badge.

The only tip I have for the second course is to use SJ (or whatever jump power/buff you are using) after the teleporter to get up to speed faster. A short jump will get you back up to speed quickly.

At SDCC2009 I was talking with one of the devs about the vet rewards, and he said that they stopped doing costume pieces because it was putting them to far out of reach of many players, and they wanted costume pieces to be something everyone would eventually be able to get. That would also include new capes and auras.

I did make an interesting suggestion that he did seem to like. That was that instead of giving out exclusive costume pieces as vet rewards, they would add new craftable costume/capes/auras and the vet reward would be getting those pieces unlocked automatically. Yea I know, plenty of people have friends or connections that could get them any invention costume piece for any character they have. But sometimes it's a hassle I'd rather not have to bother with.

Personally all I could use would have been a single free character rename. I know I could use the free transfers to shuffle the character around to do it, but it would mess up her SG status.

Personally, I wish that some players would realize that when playing a long running MMO like CoH, the minimum system requirements need to play may change over time. Since I started playing CoH 5.5 years ago, I've been through 2 different MoBo+Processor setups and 5 different graphic cards (2 AGP, 3 PCIe). A few years ago when the specs for CoV came out I realized that my graphics card wasn't powerful enough. Did I whine and complain in the forums? No. I saved up and bought a better card. A few months ago I noticed I was having frame rate issues when the camera would zoom in on my aura heavy characters. Again, I saved up and spent a whole $70 on a new card that solved the problem (NVidia 220 with 1 GB ram).

Now I understand that some people do have limited incomes, and can't upgrade at the drop of a hat. I can't either. I have to plan ahead and save up to do any upgrade. But at this point and time if you're still using an AGP graphics card, you need to upgrade your system to one that supports PCIe. If you do some shopping around you can find a $300-$500 economy desktop with a PCIe x16 slot that would make a perfectly good gaming rig for CoH with the addition of a $50-$100 dollar graphics card. Some of those economy systems have better specs than my own gaming rig (except for the graphics card).

Any chance we could get a different power icon for walk? Using the same one as sprint seems kinda silly.

I think the problem is that players come up with character concepts that can't be built at level 1 because you have to level up before you can unlock certain costume pieces/weapons. I can understand the frustration, especially with the Talsorian equipment which requires you to be level 35 before you can earn the merits to unlock it. Also the Cimeroran unlockables require being able to get into the Midnighters club which you can't do at level 1 either.

Actually, an arm cannon costume piece would be viable if it was restricted to powersets that would actually have one (i.e. non-weapon blast powers). However there are two problems. First is that many blasts would have to be reanimated to have them shot only come from the end of that particular arm. Second is all the whiner-babies who would start crying that the restriction ruined the character concept they came up with (the one they came up with 2 seconds after they heard about the restriction).

So it is possible to do, but not likely to happen anytime soon.

Does this mean we won't be seeing Super Booster 4 & 5 till after Going Rogue comes out?

I wouldn't worry about CO. I was in the closed beta. The graphics are dated, the gameplay is even more dated. Sure you can choose from more that two colors on a costume piece, but CoX has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more costume pieces to chose from. We're getting the ability to customize our powers colors (or animations for some sets), with more being added in the future (power pools and hopefully MM pets). Plus, in CoX you aren't railroaded down a couple of mission plotlines to get anywhere. CoX gameplay has more in common with open world games like GTA then old fashion MMO's. Want to do missions, fine. Run around the city causing havoc and chaos, great. Team or Solo, your choice. Plus CoH has one thing CO doesn't have, an Atlas Park area where heroes of any level can get together and hang out. And with the new super side kicking, you'll probably see more teams form there as well.

/agreed

And at least CO is in open beta so we can all bash it for being so bad. I really didn't have any fun in the CO closed beta. The game didn't feel super heroic enough, looked horrible, and felt like a generic MMO with travel powers. I had more fun in the Tabula Rasa beta than in CO, and see how long that game lasted. I do hope Aion works out though. I actually did have a lot of fun trying their game out.

It's simple. If BAB was posting instructions to the beta testers, he would have done so in the closed beta forums (which only the beta testers can currently access). If you actually read his entire post you would see that he was just answering a question from Bionic_Flea about things to look out for and /bug once you actually get into the beta. Remember, instructions to the beta testers would not be visible to to people not in the beta.

Actually you're wrong. Bab's post was made BEFORE the closed beta started. His post was just an answer to Bionic_Flea about testing the new features and bugging ANY problems that occur. His post had nothing to do with how the start of the closed beta was going to be handled. If it was, his post would have been in the Closed Beta forum threads that only people in the closed beta currently have access too.