Twilightdusk

It does, but if that one month costs more than $15 (the cost of one VIP month if I recall), then it's not cost-effective if your goal is tokens.

The first time you make a purchase, you get a token (so even the smallest purchase will get you to reward rank 2)

independent of that, every 1200 points earned will get you 1 reward token, and every month of VIP will get you 1 reward token.

so 11 tokens will require 13200 paragon points purchased (counting bonus points from bulk purchases)

That really isn't a valid answer...VIP is supposed to get priority on the petitions yes but it's not supposed to mean "Only VIP subscribers will get answers to petitions"

Make the user select a look for each weapon available for the set, then for each power you could select one weapon or the other? (would lead to redraw issues swapping between the two weapons but I think most people would want to stick with one weapon or the other anyway).

I think it boils down to a few facts

1) There are going to be conflicts, so we need to figure out a way to deal with it.

2) It's easiest from a technical point of view to change either the EU name every time there's a conflict or the NA name every time there's a conflict, harder to make it alternate or randomly determine, so we need to pick one or the other.

3b) People will be upset either way, there are more customers in the US than in EU, would we rather have US customers angry with us, or EU customers? (hint: the answer here is EU)

3a) Since there are fewer people on the EU servers, so it will be quicker to check all the EU names for conflicts than to check all the NA names for conflicts (as this process involves "take name N on list A and see if there's a match on list B. Making the shorter of the two lists A means fewer names to check and if the program checking it can sort intelligently rather than just go through every name on list B each time, then time is saved overall)

Conclusion) If there's a conflict, the EU name will be changed.

To clarify 3b (and justify the "affect the lowest number of people" reasoning), people upset about the name change are likely going to complain about it to their friends and to anyone who'll listen. The US playerbase has more people who might listen and might draw a negative view of the game as a result (which could lead to a potential player not joining, or even an existing player leaving). So, making the EU names change instead of US means that a lower number of people will hear, and thus be affected by, the complaints (working off the assumption that, back when the servers were split between EU and US, US players generally spoke with US players and EU with EU. I wasn't around back then so I don't know if there was a lot of EU to US talking and friending).

Perhaps then...a whole new Trick Gun powerset?

Well yes, just sitting on the points for the sake of the reward tokens would be foolish, which is why the OP wants to know what items he'd get the most money's worth out of. But the point I was making is that purchasing a copy of Going Rogue will get you some stuff for free, but it won't count toward reward tokens (other than the free month of VIP, since you get a "free" token for each month of VIP).

Well, AFAIK, you'd get the 1 reward token for the month of VIP, but I don't think you'd get tokens for the purchase itself, as it's buying the Paragon Points that gets you tokens (you could just buy 8000 PP and do nothing with them and you'd get the tokens)

Even if you can't tell us about the correspondence itself, you should be able to tell us about the issue you're having right?

*reads* Huh, umm, don't go into what the GM said then.

Odd, I could have sworn I saw a thread discussing character names getting generic'd recently and that also seems to go against that rule

Seriously dude, it would be easier to side with you if you'd tell us what the issue was and (paraphrasing of course) what the GM said in response.

Unless of course you know that we wouldn't side with you on the issue in which case you should probably stop wasting our and that GM's time.

Global as in, global name? How could that get changed without your notice? And more to the point, how could you know that it's going to change (you're using the future tense so I'm assume it's something that hasn't happened) without knowing the reason?

Got something against male cheerleaders?

that said, /signed

I think that's partly due to most of those MMOs having you level up crafting skills (so you often get people who powerlevel to the highest levels, and then would rather drop large sums of money to get basic crafting material to level up with than hunt them down in starting areas), which wouldn't ever apply to CoH.

Still though, I guess I see your point. I just think it might be easier to understand if it was called something other than a recipe *shrug*

This....this is a thing? Like, the devs thought this was a good idea? It sounds like one of those hoaxes people make up in old school video games, like getting a water breathing materia to level 99 and then pressing a button combination in this one church where you can see Aerith's ghost.

Take out an electric guitar, strum a note dramatically and FLASH costume change