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Or to put it another way, if a local pizza place has a deal where if you order $20 or more you get a free two-liter, and I place a $23 order, I'm not out of line to ask the delivery guy "hey, where's my soda?" if I don't get one. Even though it's advertised as "free if you buy this."

I'm jealous over the wolf pet. >

To illustrate, I have two level 50s, and eleventy-jillion alts I only ever log one of those 50s on, and that's just because she's my crafter.

I'd like to see a new mission type: bounties. "Defeat 30 Outcasts", "Defeat 10 Hewers", "Defeat 15 Family Lieutenants", that sort of thing.

I do a lot of mailing... I have a crafting character that supplies IOs to everyone else on my account. I can't be the only person who does this. Doing so, however, exposes a few problems with the mail system.

There's a 15 second delay between mails sent, for prevention of spamming. There's also a limit of items in your inbox (20), and a daily limit of mails sent (150). I propose that we do away with all of these for mail sent to your own global. I'm not going to spam myself. That would be just silly.

Include a new label on the mail window: Self. Mail sent here requires no address, or rather it's already auto-filled in for you. You can send as much as you want*, as often as you want*.

* Amended idea, in case that's too unrestricted. Reduce re-mail time to 5 seconds, increase inbox size to 50, and daily limit to 300, for that section only.

Thoughts?

I have often noticed that the solution to "I don't have enough character slots" is "get a second account". and in many other games, this is a grand idea. But it's not as feasible for CoX. Veteran rewards, while not important individually, drastically alter the game as your account ages.

I'm in over the six year mark, and there's no way I could play the game from scratch again. The game at 0 months and at 75 months is so vastly different as to practically be a different game. So here's the suggestion:

Allow an account to be linked with another account registered to the same person on the same credit card. The linked account would then share the benefits of the main account. Veteran rewards are granted to players, why should it matter that one of the accounts (of two that both belong to me) was created years later? In fact, I'd say it speaks more to my customer loyalty that I have a second account.

This wouldn't give anyone an advantage that they don't already have. People would still have to pay for a second account. Include a $10 "Link charge" to actually link the two accounts. If the main account drops at any time, the secondary account loses all access to rewards gained from the link (but none from time that the account has actually been active). If either account drop at any time, then relinking costs another $10 fee.

Thoughts?

Late to the party, don't care, /signed

I have a power armor character who cycles between five different armors, and she'd have more if I could. What I'd LOVE to see is the ability to have huge female models. I would love to have an oversized power armor with a female voice.

(This isn't MMO specific, although some of these points do obviously correspond to CoX as much as any game.

In general, I've noticed a certain lack of courtesy, and want to address that. NOTE: These are written as "commandments" but are not a) religious in nature, or b) an attempt at "forcing" people to play my way. I just wanted to frame them as the granddaddy of all top ten lists.)


Ten Commandments of MMO Gaming

1) You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me -- there's nothing more annoying than someone in zonewide chat who can't shut up about how XGame is better than YGame (the game you're currently playing). For me, it always leads me to ask myself... why aren't they playing XGame, if it's so amazing?

2) You Shall Not Make (For) Yourself An Idol -- When doing pick-up groups, I find there's usually one guy who can't stop talking about how you're playing your class wrong, and if you'd play it HIS way (the RIGHT way), you'd all be cleaning up and killing the enemy at least 80% faster than you are now.

3) Do Not Take The Name Of The Lord In Vain -- Which could also be renamed... Thou SHall Not Be A Pottymouth. Let's face it, other than big ol' number one up there, nothing will kill a zonewide discussion faster than someone who can't turn on their brain-to-fingers filter. It's an MMO, chances are there are kids playing this thing. Even if not, chances are there IS someone playing who doesn't like to see profanity splayed out like you're doing a gangta rap album. Be courteous, for @#^$ sake.

4) Remember The Sabbath And Keep It Holy -- In some games, there is a very healthy and complicated Endgame. Some of those have raid content that is somewhat rare (some spawns don't spawn except once every X number of days.) They often set up what has become known as a Raid Schedule. Do not "jump" your place on the Schedule. This represents a huge investment of time and planning to execute, and it will not end well for you, ever. There is nothing that can doom a guild faster than their reputation as a guild falling into the sewer. It's the kind of thing that can dog you long after you've left the guild.

5) Honor Your Father And Mother -- Or in this case, your main tank. If the main tank is trying to tell you something, you should really listen, because it's their responsibility to keep the group alive. Similarily, let the tank get aggro, it's their job. (Looking at you, DPS guys. Don't overnuke.)

6) Thou Shall Not KIll -- Some games still have spawns which, if you run, will follow you. And in some of them, these spawns will aggro onto other players if they can't catch you. Do not train these guys onto your fellow players... that is, don't run over other groups just so the spawns will stop following you. In games where it's possible, it's almost always a bannable offense, and even if not, it's a jerk thing to do.

7) Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery -- If you're in a group, and you see an advertisement for another group, give it some thought before you drop your current group like they're DOTed. And especially don't say something classy like "so long losers, these guys probably know how to play better than you." Your fellow gamers have long memories, and they keep lists.

8) Thou Shall Not Steal -- In most games, spawns can be attacked by anyone, even if they're already being attacked. For GMs sake, leave the ones being attacked alone. Every group a player fights represents a time investment. For most players, they weigh every spawn to figure out if it's worth their while. When you kill steal, you are stealing time. More to the point, you are rendering that decision to attack the spawn worthless by changing the variable. If the other player's in trouble, that's one thing, but if there's time to fire off a "need help" tell, DO IT.

9) Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness -- All we have in a game is our reptation. Don't lie about other players to make them look bad just because you got into a disagreement. Usually, you'll be found out, and it's your rep that will suffer.

10) Thou Shall Not Covet -- In some games, loot is somewhat free-for-all. Anyone in the group can loot any item. And often, a group will agree to certain rules (i.e., mage items go to the mage, whereas warrior items go to the warrior). If you're in one of these groups, and you're a mage, and you're rolling on a +12 Sword of Mastery of Hacking... then you're being a colossal jerk. And you'll probably be the one whining the loudest when the ranger wins that Robe Of Pwnery.

I want more characters.

More servers would give me more characters.

So for, uh, the good of the community (yesss... the community), merge the server lists and give us access to the character slots... er, players... on the EU servers.

My problem with using email is threefold:

1) You can't mail stacks. Hope you don't need a lot of any particular thing.
2) 15 second delay between emails. If you need 8 Runebound Armor, that's going to take you two minutes of thumb-up-your-tights sitting around.
3) Hard daily cap on emails. You can only do 150 emails per day.

My solution is simple: Make stacks able to mail and eliminate the email limits *if you are emailing your own account*. (Either a specific character, or your @name)

I have a character who is a star-spangled power armor type. Think Iron Man and Captain America all mixed up, but before there was such a thing as the Iron Patriot. =P

She has five different armor designs, but I want MOAR! Think "Hall of Armor" from Iron Man. I would very much like to be able to swap between ten different armors... mostly, because her armors are kept on an orbital platform that can "hotswap" different armor builds depending on the needs of the mission. ("Needs suit Alpha-4, stat.")

Also, the removing hats and helmets thing? Never thought of that. And now I'm obsessing over the concept just a liiiiittle too much.

If I go to the moon, I can jump further due to the lower gravity. It is completely natural that I can do so. If a Kryptonian comes to Earth, they have standard Kryptonian-type powers. Because it is natural for them to do so.

For me, the Natural origin means simply "this is something that every member of this race can do without exposure to unusual outside stimuli"