SwellGuy

That's all 3 of mine (12+2).

Why should they merge servers? To satisfy the few who want off-season Freedom numbers? Then those people should transfer to Freedom now and live with the queues during this peak season.

I see no reason for them to do the cost and effort of server mergers and alienate those who don't want it just to satisfy people who cannot be bothered to transfer when it is free but want to complain in the forums when it drops off.

Which is why my level locked guys at 32, 33, and 35 will take the 5 rares for 1 a-merit roll while my 50s will just take a direct buy of ones I want.

BTW I forgot to check, did they ever get the Steadfast Protection recipes added to the a-merit vendors? In beta only Res/End was there.

So what are our problems? People don't play without new content? If so, doesn't yesterday prove merging isn't a solution to the population problem but that adding content is?

There are the bars: hero, vigilante, villain, rogue
There are the 5 bubbles for fame.

No more than 2 bars can show at a time because you can only work on your current alignment or the next one. So a vigilante in Paragon can work on Hero or Vigilante. A vigilante in Rogue Isles can work on villain.

Each bar has 10 points to it. Doing a tip mission of that type advances the bar of the type and adds a fame bubble. Whether your hero does 5 vigilante tips or 3 vigilante and 2 hero tips (or any other combination) you will fill up your 5 fame bubbles.

Each fame bubble has a 20 hour timer. Once you fill up all 5 you cannot advance your bars at all.

Logic is a field of flowers that all smell bad. - Spock

Comic books are serious business, yo.

Mostly.

I want to clarify the fame points expire, not vigilante points. There are 3 things to watch on the Tips' contacts.

There is a bar for 2 alignments (your current one and the only other one you can switch)*. Ten tips of that alignment fill that bar and create the possibility of a tip drop for an alignment switching mission. I would consider these to be more accurately your vigilante and hero points.

Then there are the 5 slots for fame points. In theory you could run 2 Vigilante and 3 hero to fill up the 5 fame spots. Each of the fame points has its own 20 hours expiration timer to clear out.

*You will find when you are a vigilante you can either be in Paragon and work on Vigilante (more) or (back to) Hero. These are lost if you go to the Rogue Isles but there you would have the ability to work on going to a Villain.

The tips and their missions do not expire. Completing the tip mission creates a "fame" point in the tips' contact area. There are only 5 of those slots. Each expires in 20 hours so once you do 5 you cannot do any more until one of them expires. You will also not get a tip to drop that would put you beyond the 5 (at least as far as all my beta testing could determine).

You have to buy the ingame items pack. Pre-purchase was not the complete collection.

Ditto.

I feel your pain. I was going to make 4 on my primary server with my 4 of my extra slots. I am hoping tonight I can.

That's it! I am cancelling my subscriptions!

Make those pink and we have a winner.

I believe you mean get all the bugs put in (or something like that I seem to recall people post).

Stop drinking you drunk squirrel!

Protip: When the NC Store is down (which stinks) we cannot access any of our open character slots above the basic 12. So if you delete a character the slot goes unavailable until the store is back (which stinks). Characters in the over-12 slots are available even when the store is down.

Goatee Swellguy approves Venture's message. (Not that he needs it, I just wanted to mention my Praetorian, Goatee Swellguy.)

Or you can combine the two activities by using AE. You earn a lot of tickets and turn them into stuff to sell on the market.

Will inf jump into people's pockets? Only if they do something that can make it happen. The most ridiculous example would be if someone complained they aren't getting rich RPing but there are other things you can do in the game to minimize your ability to make inf just as there are things you can do to maximize it.

That said, my dominator is just under 1 billion from "just playing the game" for a year. He sold his drops and none were ever worth more than 20-30 million or so.. He checked to see if a recipe crafted sold for enough to justify crafting or simply listed the recipe, etc. He random rolled his merits when he'd get 80-100 of them from his contacts, etc.

And they'd be complaining the loudest if they had merged servers and they couldn't get onto "their" servers last night.