TrueGentleman

Why not create forum headers along the lines suggested and have archetype subforums nested appropriately? The playstyles of the ATs are sufficiently different that merging them together will likely cause as much confusion for new players as dealing with Blue vs. Red AT counterparts.

Thank you very much for the improvement on the rules' change from last year ("any videogame (aside from City of Heroes) topics are not allowed.") Here's hoping that we will be able to comment on the video game industry with specific examples without either making dedicated threads/discussions or compare/contrast posts. It's a strange legal fiction here on the forums that CoH is the only video game in existence.

You'd probably have to spend a lot of time explaining that the title of the programme is "Inspector Spacetime" but the character is called "The Inspector".



Oh, and it has its own TV Tropes page now.

I was referring specifically to the accumulated 400-point monthly stipend VIPers earned over the summer, the "free" point total. Anything purchased since Issue 21 Head Start is a separate matter. In previous threads about CoH Freedom, many players discussed whether they would wind up having to pay a lot more money on the Market despite the VIP stipend or if they'd be able to save up enough for regular purchases with their "free" points.

If 600 points for a costume circa CoV 2007 is going to be the baseline, it looks like the former. Hopefully, the devs will learn from player reaction in this thread the way they did with the CoT revamp and make some concessions in the future.

So, overpriced, no image, and misleading description?

At the very least, it should be "Spectral Pirates", not "Pirate villain group", specifically, "Red Terror":



What should have been a fun promotional sale has been marred by sloppiness and cupidity.

That badge's easiness makes sense as far as introducing new players to the defeat variety of badges. It was certainly better than the tedious "Isolator" badge from the obsolete and unmourned Blueside tutorial.

Then by all means, ante up and start providing the details so we can actually have an informed discussion. Otherwise, your argument sounds exactly like those from the OS holy wars.

That's insufficient for this thread, where someone is asking advice about a specific manufacturer. Generalizations, anecdata, and unspecified examples just add noise. Spending more time inveighing against assumptions about an argument is less useful than, you know, backing it up.

In addition to Boot Camp, there are the virtualization programs Parallels and VMware Fusion for OS X. I wouldn't recommend them for running Ultramode CoH, but they're very helpful if you want to run the occasional Windows program but don't need to reboot into Boot Camp.

This was long overdue. While I shed no tears for any (minor) inconvenience to farmers - though personally I'd prefer they stay in their AE missions as long as possible - I can't help but notice that this reduces only one part of the farming equation. Since among the rewards tickets can be redeemed for are recipes - which, coincidentally, are now sold on the official MTX Market - does this mean that Paragon is now trying to cut out the competition?

Indeed. I was lucky enough to get the Rikti costume in a PERC contest, but I couldn't justify 600 PP for it. Perhaps hardcore costume collectors might.

The fact is, Paragon has already established the ceiling for an impulse purchase on its Market: It's 400 points, the amount that's the VIP monthly stipend, i.e. $5 (I believe this is also the minimum amount one can order from the Market, but I have to confirm that). By pricing on sale a costume code that would require even VIP players to spend money in a theoretical case, Paragon is making it clear that they do not believe being a VIP subscriber is enough in itself and that they expect all players, no matter what their status, to spend real money at the Market if they wish to take advantage of specials. What should be a textbook impulse purchase is now something that takes a moment of consideration before clicking the "buy" button.

At this rate, we'll see how quickly longtime VIP subscribers burn through their summer accumulation of Paragon Points. Once that happens, expect a lot more irritable posts about what 600 points gets players.

And that's subliminally the intended appeal in a nutshell. Recluse and Tyrant look just too eccentric and too fantastical to shout "comic book" to the wider audience, so Statesman has to face off against a nameless death's-head-cyber-robot sci-fi baddie with a BFG for an arm, 'cos that's what the kids today go crazy for in comic books.

This choice of imagery is all the more disappointing compared with the dynamic new character studies of the signature heroes in the archetypes screen for the Freedom character creation section. The ones for BABs and Ghost Widow were particularly good.

Your sympathy is appreciated, but it's no more a comfort that Windows players were missing out because of server outage than Mac players having such trouble with their client. Ideally, CoH players would be all in this together. As the situation stands, there's a troubling pattern developing in terms of Paragon delivering. Here's hoping for a smoother VIP head start once the launch is done.