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Then why in heck didn't the devs post it in the patch notes? There is NO mention as to which contacts are free for everybody and which contacts require a VIP membership. I was sitting here waiting to purchase a Night Ward Zone Pack from the paragon market only to find out after asking that only SOME of the contacts are available to everybody and nobody seems to have a clue about being able to purchase a zone pack from the market.

Note: I didn't see this thread before posing in the ask a question section and someone there posted a link to this thread here so I could see that a "red name" stated it's "working as intended".
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=291110

Could you PLEASE tell us WHICH contacts are VIP only and which contacts us freemiums have access to?

Well that is what I was trying to say. The wiki was updated by somebody since there is no Night Ward Zone Pack in the Paragon Market.

The wiki is confusing as is your post. It says for regular contacts "Requires VIP subscription". But it is not specific as to WHICH contacts require VIP. And you did not mention which of the 2 contacts are repeatable (the contacts on the wiki under "Task Pools", or the contacts above that?)

I click on each contact listed http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Night_Ward
and not a single one of their individual pages says it requires a VIP subscription. So, aside from Fireball and Trilogy, which of the other contacts are available to everybody? Are the 2 others you refer to those type of contacts that give you a choice between 2 missions with a limit on how many different missions they have and they never stop giving missions (like newspaper/radio missions)? Are Fireball and Trilogy task force type contacts that require a team to do their story arcs? They are on the wiki page I posted here under "Task Pool Contacts".

It is very confusing. Fireball and Trilogy are listed on the wiki as level 35-50 but all other contacts on the page are 30-35.

The contacts under "Task Pool Contacts" are not introduced by other contacts or introduces any others after completing their arcs.

In order to do Ward and the others it seems you have to start with Montague Castanella. He introduces Ward who introduces Sir Bedwyr who introduces The Magician.

If anybody can update the wiki page to show WHICH contacts are VIP only please do so. I have never edited a wiki page before and wouldn't want to get in trouble if I enter the wrong info.

Yes I agree. The code for the game could somehow fall into the wrong hands and be used to hack the game and it would create a whole mess of things, possibly player's accounts being stolen, so on and so on.

To the OP: I agree that the respec interface could be improved. Sometimes when I respec I place a slot on the wrong power and when I click the back button, the last 'set' of slots are removed, not just the single slot I misplaced. When this happens I lose my place and have to click the back button and start completely over.

MY suggestion would be: instead of removing the whole set of slots and previous set of slots when you misplace one (example: if you do not place all of the current 'set' of slots, it will remove the slots of that set as well as the whole previous set) and click the back button, clicking back would remove only a single slot in order from last to first slot placed. Although If you realized you misplaced a few slots you would need to hit the back button a lot more. But in the end it wouldn't confuse players like me where we go "great! all those other slots were moved and I can't remember which power and what order I placed them so I gotta start all over!".

Edit: Forgot to mention a CANCEL button. For the love of god a CANCEL button! Nothing more annoying than respecing a level 50 only to get as far as placing the level 48 slots and realize I took the wrong power at level 8 . Then I have to click the back button god knows how many times so I can exit the UI and start over. A cancel button that makes you exit the interface so you can start all over would be very nice.

And which option would that be? I checked by selecting to edit a chat tab and saw no option at all for cutscene dialogue. If you are referring to NPC dialogue, that doesn't work. I have a chat tab solely for NPC dialogue and when I go through a cutscene in Praetoria, or other parts of the game, the dialogue does not appear in the tab.

I think I saw a comment or two not too long ago on the forums that mentioned the fact that the chat bubbles in cutscenes were too fast and at least one comment asked to have the dialogue added to the window and someone asked to have the dialogue slowed down so people could read it. So I'm assuming there is no way to add it, unless you can be more specific and tell us WHICH option it is to add to a chat tab. I would like to know myself. Thank you for your time.

Have you ever used a Windfall temp power? No, it never acted like a toggle nor can you deactivate it. It functions similar to the XP Booster and lasts for 1 hour of in-game time period. Before you could claim a few on a character and place the temp power on a power tray and use it when you wanted. Recently, sometime between the release of Issue 23 and the time of my original post, it was changed to activate, without a choice, upon claiming it from email, like they did with the XP Booster +25% xp a while back.

As for others who say "there may have been a high demand from players for this change", I never once saw anybody in game, or on the forums mention this at all. In fact, I remember when the XP Booster was changed to auto activated upon claiming players were rather upset about it. I saw complaints in the help channel and maybe on the forums.

The thing that disturbs me is that, just like the XP Booster temp power, the change how Windfall is activated was a 'stealth' change. Never announced and never added to the patch notes, much less no reason given for why the change happened.

After doing some searching I found what I'm talking about: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=286359&page=2

This is when players noticed the change to XP Boosters being auto activated upon claiming. Players seem to not have liked the change. Further down the page:

Quote: Zwillinger "This change is indeed intended and was an inadvertently missed note. We'll correct it ASAP.

For those concerned, there should be a confirmation window that notifies you that claiming this from your mail will activate the booster. I do understand concerns about changing the way this works, however the fact that you had to search through your mail, claim it, then search through your powers list and drag it to your bar, AND THEN activate it was determined to be a suboptimal user experience.

If you previously claimed boosters, they will still be in your powers and able to be activated in the legacy manner.

Thanks!

-Z"

NO indication that the change was even asked for. From the sounds of it the devs decided it was too inconvenient to claim the powers and then have to find it in your temp power list. So I'm assuming this was a change that the devs decided to force upon us without even asking.

Edit: Further on that page someone quoted Zwillinger and didn't agree with the change: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...4&postcount=36

I don't think it's his ram. Probably his graphics and/or processor power. My laptop has the same graphics and it shows up as 64MB dedicated with a total of over 1,700MB and can't run some games without bad graphics lag. My laptop has 4GB of ram also. My desktop had 4GB of ram when I started playing CoH and never had a problem with it. My uncle upgraded his ram and gave me his old ram so I currently have 9GB and my comp can take up to 16GB max. Then again my desktop has a AMD Phenom II 3.5GB dual-core processor and a nVidia GeForce GT240 512GB graphics card. My laptop has a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5GB dual-core processor.

It could be the ram also on the OP's laptop. From my understanding, Intel graphics on laptops are not very good for gaming.

When I click "report" on myself this is what appears under the box for the reason why: "Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts."

I appreciate the suggestion but asking to have a thread title changed because I goofed when creating it does not appear to fall in those categories.

From what I read on it, you need to have enough tokens UNspent on your account. And as others have said, it may take a couple days or so for it to happen.

Wait for it.......I actually saw "TAUNTED" in big bold red letters flash upon the screen when this happened by way of the PPD. As for the ghouls, I wasn't aware of that. In fact I never noticed it before. (Thank you for pointing that out )

Also.........take a good close look at the bottom right corner of the screen shot again. You can clearly see the word "TAUNTED" above my buff tray.

Note: The ghouls in the screen shot are part of the mission. The big guy is the Alpha Ghoul and they accompany you throughout the mission. It's the mission where, if you started your character as a loyalist, you can call Provost Marchand before you enter the mission to change the story in favor of the Loyalists. When you enter the mission after calling Marchand you can click on the Alpha Ghoul to talk to it and you have an option to blow him and the other ghouls accompanying you to kingdom-come. Also, all enemies in this mission were PPD. The only ghouls there were the Alpha Ghoul and other 3 accompanying me.

The info box shown for "Marked for Death" is what popped up when I right clicked the taunt on my buff/debuff tray and selected info. Now, since there was not a single ghoul enemy in this mission, how do you explain this? ALL enemies were PPD. (Look at the navigation window in the top right corner of the screen shot. It reads: "Eliminate all PPD".)