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... Okay, something went badly wrong in the previous post, and I can't get at it to edit it either.

Ravensblood, the devs already tried a system where you could pick any two or three powersets to base your character around without ATs and primary/secondary distinctions, back during the CoH alpha. They eventually reluctantly gave up and developed the system we've got instead.

[QUOTE=ClawsandEffect;3446366]Staffs, yes. Scythes would be a very niche item, and would require it's own animations and powers, so it's unlikely.

Does anyone know if buying the game via Steam automatically defaults to the region you're buying it in? I live in Europe but play on the US servers, and if I wind up buying the european version via steam I've wasted money.

Lifetime subscription plans are a bet on the publisher's part -- a bet that the one-time sum of a LTS will get them more money from you than the monthly subscriptions they expect to be getting from you. The only time it makes sense for them to offer one would be when they don't think the majority of players will still be playing long term and they're in bad need of a quick cash infusion.

Neither of those are the case for CoX, and fortunes permitting won't be the case for a long time.

While the OP is overreacting a bit, I do agree that I prefer content not to be exclusively mission-locked -- or, if it really has to be, that unlocking it once on any character unlocks it for all characters on that side on that account.

I /distinctly/ remember nearly burning out on the game while putting more than half a dozen characters through the Midnight Squad arcs in succession to be able to access Cimerora.

Software, as a rule, does not handle true open-ended number values well. There /are/ ways to implement theoretically unlimited numbers (although at some point the program will run out of memory to store it in when you reach millions of digits) but they're significantly more CPU intensive than a simple "what's the value stored in the X bytes of memory starting at position Y?" which is how you retrieve most regular data types.

So you need a limit, and because computers like powers of two and multiples of sixteen, they figured a 32-bit integer would be plenty (Of course, so did the guys who specced out IPv4, and that's starting to creak at the seams), especially since at the time the engine got designed the market didn't exist and the most expensive thing you could buy cost less than fifty thou (IIRC, changing your costume at the tailor was a feature added in Issue 1).

Katie has the right of it. In the absolute best circumstances, they'd have to change a definition in one header and forcibly alter every database table on every shard to accept a larger data type (and there we're already assuming the database can easily handle numbers larger than two billion in the datatype they've chosen for influence), recompile, bugfix, test every possible scenario where edge cases could occur, test a representative subset of all possible regular cases, make sure every single place where Influence is displayed has the ability to display 2^63-1, make sure every single place where you can /enter/ an amount of inf can handle values in that range...

The longer I think about it, the more possible problems I'm imagining they might very well run into, and I suspect I've barely even scratched the surface.

If you think AE farming is bad as it is now, what on Earth makes you think it won't get fifty times worse if the drops and rewards are equated into regular TF rewards?

This is a terrible idea.

You had a full team, and nobody was on the ball enough to lob a couple of AoEs at the emanators?

Mass emanator drops from DE can be annoying, yes, but nothing a halfway competent team can't deal with.

At a guess, the "problem" when some people want to run rogue tips and other people want to run villain tips and they're in the same team.

And no, you're right, that doesn't make any sense.

The powers you get at the lower levels DO improve over time. Compare the damage you do with your tier-one attack at level 1 to how much you do at level 50.

1 Griefer flags himself for PVP
2 Griefer goes around looking for non-flagged PCs until he finds one that's hunting mobs in the street.
3 Griefer pays attention to attack chain, then jumps into the mob just before the unflagged PC fires an AoE/cone attack.
4 Unflagged PC's attack damages Griefer.
5 Griefer gleefully stomps on the PC, then returns to 2).

/unsigned.

Chances are you're going to get complains whichever option you choose. That said, though, the 'clutter' is /already/ getting out of hand with the dozens and dozens of different pattern options on various items of clothing.

I'd personally go with a modification of option 1 - remove old versions of patters from the tailor options when an updated variant is made, but don't remove them from the database yet. That way, people who sincerely prefer to keep their costumes as is can simply keep that particular costume slot unchanged while new players don't have to suffer the clutter from the legacy junk when trying out new costumes.

... To clarify: Customizing how MM minions LOOK might be in the works.

Customizing what actual POWERS they have almost certainly isn't.

No.

You need to complete ten Tip missions to fill your alignment bar, at which point you get a morality mission that allows you to either reaffirm your dedication to what you already are or shift one step to the other side. (Villain -> Rogue, Rogue -> Hero, Hero -> Vigilante, Vigilante -> Villain)

Any successfully completed tip mission fills up one slot in your Fame bar for 20 hours. If you don't have an empty Fame slot when you complete a tip mission, you do not get credit on your alignment bar.

Allow us to choose the DP animations for the three Thugs Mastermind pistol attacks!

I'm not sure about the timings of the animations, but that's just the three - single shot, dual shot, cone shot. Should be doable, no?


ETA: if Pool Powers are an option, see if it's possible to turn the ;flypose emotes into animations for the Flight power, maybe add the ninja jump animation to combat jumping/superjump if you have the Martial Arts booster, redo the prestige sprints as animations to the sprint power in the same way.

As to teleport, that gets trickier. Maybe the ninja vanish smokebomb and the lightning rod animations. Teleporting is tricky to animate because of the speed.