SwellGuy
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I didn't try to slot them on my two Premium accounts but I was able to move them in and out of the base bins and email them between my Premium and VIP accounts.
I cannot imagine how they could lock them out of use since anyone can buy the packs. -
To my mind there are only 2 things the packs have that make them a bad idea because there is no determinative nor alternative means for people to get them.
The costumes and the wolf pet.
I do not care about either of them and won't be chasing them. I sympathize with the people who want either of them being felt forced to get packs and chase after them. Sure, it's their choice but it still seems unfair/unkind to do this to them.
I can get an ATO with merits or from the auction house.
I will eventually be able to get the enhancement catalysts as drops.
I can buy enhancement boosters and unslotters and inspirations and I think all the powers from the Paragon Market if I want them.
But for the people who really want the wolf? I would hate to be them.
People who want the costume? Not as bad but still who knows how many packs they are going to have to buy to get the full set.
If I were NC I'd make a way for them to just buy them in the market or earn them in game. -
What is the difference between the XP Booster and the Experienced Power?
And what do Restore and Revive powers do?
I'd check in game if I were able to but my boss hates me playing City at work. -
Quote:I wish I were. (in the Star Trek holodeck or a not crazy robot version of Westworld)Originally Posted by Vyver
Because boys are cowboys
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Thanks, Dink!
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Quote:I believe his expectation is due to Murphy's Law as neither of those accounts are really ones he plays on. (Note that he called them "buffbots")Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I really wouldn't.
so the worst thing for a buffbot account to get are costume pieces and other non-transferables like the pet. -
Quote:This is not any kind of disagreement with you. I was not interested in the costume pieces and I opened 5 packs this morning and got 6 of the 11 pieces. I am sure if I wanted them I would have gotten fewer of them. Murphy's Law, how I hate it.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
The thing is, I have no objection whatsoever to paying for that set. I would instantly, INSTANTLY pony up the points for the Elemental Order Bundle. As soon as it went live.
But I refuse, on principle, to buy any of these packs where there is only a chance to get what I am actually after. Yes, I get other stuff. Other stuff I have little to no interest in.
I fail to see why it's so hard to put the Elemental Order set up as a paid for bundle. After all, if the Packs stand up on their own merits, surely they'll still make income, yes?
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Quote:I opened around 250 packs on beta and no wolf for me there.Originally Posted by Lothic
Yeah well my quip about 10,000 points was just that - a comment on the sheer randomness of this. I talked to a guy on beta a few weeks ago who claimed he got the Black Wolf after only 37 packs. While it's true he may have gotten extremely lucky with that there's no real point in automatically assuming anything about it.
Still, it is annoying to have no real certainty about it regardless. -
Quote:I think an ATO costs 400 reward merits at a merit vendor. So if you got merits in the packs that is a way to get them guaranteed.Originally Posted by Zyphoid
Good luck, I dropped right at 6k points for 94 packs and didn't get the black wolf. And only got one full set of scrapper ATIOs.
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Quote:You don't know Sam at all and I can tell you that you couldn't possibly be more wrong of your assessment about him.Originally Posted by KnightofKhonsu
I am sorry, but this is a straw man argument. The truth of the matter is you do not want to suffer any ill effects that will cause your character to be less efficient and you lose any control. Everything you stated is window dressing, your last sentence reveals the truth.
In the same vein, based on what you stated, you would not play the mission arch involving the Vahzilok Wasting Disease, which your character become afflicted by it and it causes -Regeneration, -Recovery, -Hit Points, -Endurance. This lasts until the cure is produced, which is for a number of missions.
Alternatively, you would not want to play Janet Kellum mission where you are afflicted by the Crey narcotic that causes -Recovery, -Speed, - recharge at the beginning of the mission and suffer through it until it wears off or you go to the contact.
You want to play where you have complete control, then say so. Do not try blowing smoke to hide the real reason you will never play missions that will cause you to lose control.
Sam hasn't invested into inventions yet because he has not felt the need to be max efficient (like I do).
Your comparisons are ridiculously oversimplistic. The Vahz wasting disease and the Crey example last until you complete the mission and call the contact as you wrote. They do not last 20 hours. -
So if the bad side is this debuff, what do you get if you don't mess it up?
I can't evaluate the risk/reward without knowing the reward part of the equation. -
Posi posted in the offical discussion for the event that it is a known issue and they are going to post a work around or some such thing.
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A fall won't kill you, but if you land among NPCs who attack you they can finish you off.
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Quote:Well then the heck with that. I am so sick of doing those to unlock Snaptooth I am not going to turn around and do that nonsense all over again for all of my characters who I have done it already over the years.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Yes, you have to do then again
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Quote:True but I sure got a lot of Rock when I was Trick or Treating.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
That sticking your tongue out is more efficient, since you can run out of rocks?
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I really want a Robby the Robot to go with it.
I am also okay with the piecemeal voting since most often I use pieces on costumes not the entire set. -
Quote:I love that one.Originally Posted by Organica
Yeah, I've done the Croatoa one a few times and THAT one is pretty epic. Blow up a town? Sure!
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Quote:I've switched sides and you get the same reward table you would get if you hadn't switched sides. So the devs thought of that trick.Originally Posted by Organica
You would lose any stored, unused alignment merits when you switch to vigilante or to rogue.
Personally for the time involved switching to villain and back to hero and then reconfirming your hero status again... not sure switching just to grab a few extra merits from the other side's SSA is really worth the trouble. But to each his/her own. -
Quote:I don't think converters will drop from super packs.Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Optimized? I mean the fact that you can take a crap recipe and spin it into a golden one is all I was pointing out. It does cost more converters to do it that way for sure, but remember these are people that are into the entire random roll deal having gotten the converters from Super Packs mainly in the first place. We shall see.
You can only buy those on the market on Beta and I've opened over 100 packs and never gotten one. Catalysts and boosters are in the super packs though.
Both purchases are free on the VIP beta server for those who want to check it out. -
I think she got an appearance update shortly before that wallpaper was made but I could be wrong.
If you haven't run on the Praetorian side she is one of the more amusing/entertaining/insane Loyalist contacts there. -
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Quote:This is how I feel but I am going to give Timeshadow's Peacebringers Suck! guide a run to see if it helps me.Originally Posted by MrLiberty
Personally, I like my WS better. I *want* to like my PB again. Thats pretty much all this is.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=254549
But there is no reason why anyone should like to play all ATs or even all powersets within an AT so we may prefer a WS over PB and that is no different from preferring a fire/fire controller over a grav/rad controller.
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Quote:That is correct for the beta server. I don't have a public test server setup so I don't know what it does.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
I think the way things work on the test servers now is anything that is going to be sold in the store has to be "bought" first, and anything that is going to be given to everyone as part of an issue will be available immediately.
But that's just a guess. -
Quote:Not yet. But Dr. Hannibal Lecter has scheduled dinner with you.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
What am I? Chopped liver?
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Quote:Agreed.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
/Signed.
