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Sorry. I meant no disrespect. Your post appeared more like a suggestion rather than a bug report to me.

How is that any different than the lazy bums who hang out in AE all day paying millions and millions of inf to enter and let a farmer do all the work from 1-50? At least with bank missions they wouldn't have to pay another player to do all the work and they would actually have to do the work themselves.

Then again, considering how really lazy some people are, I don't think bank missions would be farmed that much. Some idiots want to stand around doing nothing for maximum gain.

"Looking for free farm"
"Can somebody please farm me?"
"Please! I need a free farm I have to gain a few levels"
"Paying 300 mill per run from level 1-50"

Catch my drift?

Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_Media_Booster
Not much info there. And no list of games that use it.

Yes if you think about it, it costs $15 to buy 1200 points for a single reward token that gets you 5 free super packs. The single price in the shop is 80 points. So you can spend $5 for 400 paragon points to get the same amount of super packs you can with a reward token.

What ticks me off mainly is the lack of logical reason, or even mention, as to why this was moved to the VIP only tier 9, and the lack of comments on the forums even mentioning it seems to indicate that nobody at all even cares.

As a somewhat big supporter of this game as a Premium player, I DO see this as a slap in the face. As if to say the more money I spend the less of a reward I am going to get. No matter what they will NOT coerce me or force me to become a subscriber, which I believe is becoming more and more their intention. If I were to ever subscribe it would be only for a month and to spend my reward tokens on the Mecha Armor costume pieces and nothing more. I was planning on it possibly in July, but now seriously reconsidering it.

To be honest, I just never understood the logic that for $15 a month as a subscriber I would be treated like royalty and have all kinds of free and exclusive stuff thrown my way, but when I usually spend $100+ almost every month on paragon points to support the game, they are saying "thanks for the moolah, but since you're not in our exclusive special club, you can go jump off a cliff if you want anything from us.". And of course VIP are getting a raw deal anyway, having the need to purchase extra points so they can get certain power sets and costume sets. Some VIP I believe can only rely on their 400 free points a month and have no extra income to spend anymore than that on the game. Those players just can't keep up with the game in that aspect. By the time they have enough points saved up for that super awesome new power set or costume bundle, something new they have to spend points on has been, or is going to be, released.

What is the point of going VIP when I have all but the incarnate content, and certain story arcs, only to have to spend even more money on the game if I want some of the new stuff added to the shop? At least this way I have access to IOs, merits, auction, all power sets and costumes to date, and I can just tell them to take a hike and not spend any more money on the game in protest and just keep playing for free. I wouldn't lose anything, just the ability to gain anything newly released. I have currently 27 characters out of 30 character slots. Only 3 of them are level 50, so I have more than enough to keep me busy not having to spend anymore money at all on this game.

Edited for typo. The E and Y are different hands on ma keyboard

I got the whole costume set from buying super packs in the shop the first or second day when they were released (March 6, 2012). Then on the day they added super packs to the NON VIP tier 9 rewards I used 30 reward tokens I had saved up from buying paragon points to get 150 free packs and still didn't get the stupid wolf. Then I bought another 12 or 24 pack (don't remember which) from the shop and after opening the 8th super pack I got the wolf. Total super packs to get the wolf = about 176.

What really ticked me off was when they moved the super packs in paragon rewards from the non VIP tier 9 to the VIP ONLY tier 9 with the release of issue 23 on May 31, 2012. Currently I have 8 reward tokens from buying points this month that I have no intention to spend on the other repeatable crap. I thought it was a nice reward for supporting the game in my own way.

At first I thought it was 'added' to VIP tier 9 and thought it was strange the amount of super packs you get for 1 token was the same as the non VIP tier 9 (VIP getting 10 for 1 token compared to premiums getting 5 would have made sense to me) and also that it showed I had a token in a VIP only tier when I've never subscribed (turned out it was because I had placed a token in the slot prior to it being moved). Then I looked again and realized it wasn't added, it was MOVED.

I have never seen any reason for this change at all anywhere on the forums. The May 31 patch notes only states "Super Packs are now available in the Tier 9 VIP section.". It made no mention of it being removed from the non VIP tier 9. I just looked at the comments on the May 31 patch notes in News, Events & Discussions, and it seems not a single comment on the super packs at all.

Does anybody know what reason they had to slap me in the face and take away a reward that I was able to get for almost 2 months? (super packs were added to the non VIP tier 9 reward March 6, 2012, and moved to VIP tier 9 May 31st. I looked up the patch notes.)

Please spare me the "maybe you should go VIP instead of buying points" crap. I don't have any desire for incarnate content and I love supporting the game. The future is always uncertain and everything I have purchased I never have to worry about losing if I had a subscription that lapsed or I'm not able to buy more points for whatever reason. And the only thing I would have to worry about if I can't buy points is not being able to get new costumes/power sets, which is no big deal since they are generally a permanent fixture in the market and I can always get them later.

How many of you can say you have this many reward tokens? Would have been nice to continue to receive a small reward for my support of the game.



Note: I've never subscribed to the game and I've been playing since Sept. 29, 2011, a couple days after the game went F2P I believe. First paragon point purchase was October 11.

Edited for typo.

Guild Wars doesn't use it and as stated by others, neither does City of Heroes. Do you happen to have Aion installed? I've heard people say that game uses it. If not, then it must be some other online game you have installed on your computer.

Hmm.........tried doing Google searches to find a list of NC Soft games, or any list of games at all that use Pando Media Booster. I got nothing at all that came up. However, I came across an article from Massively dated April 17, 2012 that said Aion is no longer using Pando but it was edited later that they got a response from NC Soft that the removal of Pando for Aion was only temporary. http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04...ster-the-boot/

Seems the biggest complaint is that Pando hogs system resources and continues to run even when the compatible game is not downloading any updates.

Edit: The Pando website doesn't seem to have a list of games that use their software. It would be nice if people could find such a list so they can avoid games that use it if that is their desire.

After running it a few times on different characters (1 toon I had to do a few runs on for the ninja monkey badge. 1 time we needed just 1 more monkey for it lol) and haven't seen the TP bug occur at all. So I would say it's been fixed with the patch and I was surprised they fixed it so quickly, 2 days after the event started. So I am very pleased with this.

Edit: So the TP bug happens when in the middle of fighting mobs in the rooms and you think that may be preventing us from being teleported to the hideout? Good possibility. For myself, I have actually been fighting those mobs but never seen the bug happen then. I get TPed to the hideout and I'm always disappointed I didn't get to finish beating them up for the xp and inf lol.

Agreed it's a good possibility. Although the bugs are known and they are working on a fix.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...86&postcount=6
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...34&postcount=9

That is correct.

Edit: I'll start a new thread for other info since it was a bit off topic.

No. Aside from First Ward and Night Ward, the only other place you can go outside Praetoria is Pocket D. You can not go anywhere else until you do 1 of the 2 missions in Praetoria that lets you choose hero or villain side. There is no option or way to automatically change alignment to hero/villain without doing the mission.

And I had the same exact problem in First Ward. Got my Resistance character to level 26 when I finished all story arcs (excluding the VIP only story arc since I'm not VIP). I put my character on hold for now because it is very boring. All I have are 3 contacts that offer repeatable missions.

I did do the Fireball and Trilogy story arcs in Night Ward on another character though. All of the missions were too short and the Trilogy missions usually had 1 or 2 NPC allies that did more damage than me. I didn't really have to do anything. Just sit back and let the over-powered NPCs do all the work. It left much to be desired. No wonder they decided to allow all players, including free-to-play, to have access to those contacts. Just felt like there was little effort put into Night Ward and I was surprised they created a whole new zone for that instead of just adding the contacts and story arcs to First Ward.

That is not something we can answer. You will have to file a petition and ask support about a possible refund.

I'd say yes. It's best to put that in an auto power or toggle because it continues to roll for a chance to go off (in a toggle: as long as you have to toggle on). In a click power the chance to go off is based on when you click the power. If you don't click the power often it will go off even less. It seems to be a really common thing to place that into stamina judging by builds posted on the AT forums, as well as I have some characters with it in stamina and plan to have it there on all my characters. So I would say yes it is worth it.

I did all the First Ward story arcs on my Resistance character about a week ago, minus the VIP only arcs. I noticed that too. Another thing I noticed was that all or most of the ambush spawns, spawned near Blind Makwa and went straight for him when he was standing at his altar. He never attacked or anything. Just stood there like an idiot. I was afraid that if he died I would fail the mission, so I stood there until all the ambushes were defeated. Then took the next NPC to their altar thing and had to go back to keep Makwa from dying because the ambushes kept spawning outside the fence near him.

Thankfully I was on my Beam Rifle/Dark Miasma corruptor and had Twilight Grasp. Problem is it can only be used on a enemy target and NPCs have to be close to you and they often times run into melee range of enemies and I prefer to stay at range.

I didn't misunderstand you at all. I knew EXACTLY what you were talking about and I was simply clarifying what you were referring to.

Although, I've never use that vidotmaps program before. I usually look up exploration badges at http://www.badge-hunter.com/index.php?/page/maps.php
and if I'm having trouble there because the in-game location on my map is wrong (that little green arrow), then I just check the paragon wiki. The wiki usually has decent descriptions on where the badge is in the zone, like on a building or so far in distance from a map marker, etc., as well as screen shots.