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I'm constantly getting to the end of the character creator and, right after it's too late, realizing that the origin I chose at the start of the process makes no sense with the character concept I wound up with by the time I had finished the costume. Given how silly origin is, I wish it was the last choice instead of the first.

I hate those content farm things. They're just obnoxious. I agree it's weird to see an image from CoH pop up in such an odd place, but it's not a place I'd ever want to visit.

You just called the most popular game in the history of MMORPGs "crap" and you're wondering about the mindset of people who insult CoH?

I mean on the initial implementation they probably weren't thinking about it. Ever since someone pointed it out, they've ignored it. I'm just saying I don't think War Witch and Positron sat down at a meeting and said, "You know what we need to get rid of? Those gosh-darned multi-claim base item vet rewards. They've got to go!"

I was wondering about this too. Those were the only items that could be claimed multiple times from among the vet rewards, and I guess that feature just didn't make the transition to the new email system. I don't think they took it away on purpose. They just didn't remember to preserve it. Doubt if it will be a high priority for them now, but I agree it's a nuisance.

As I recall, the original implementation (back in I9 days) was that the market would steal everything if you didn't log in for a few months, regardless of whether you paid your subscription or not. After half a dozen issues or so they changed it so that nothing was ever deleted from the market as long as you kept paying. When they did that, I think they stopped clearing things from the market under any circumstances. And then they merged the markets. That was when Going Rogue hit, wasn't it? At that time they jiggled things around a lot, to deal with the change. Stuff bought and sold probably stayed still, but bids and items for sale were canceled and put into storage in the market, if I remember correctly.

What will happen now? No idea. But my best guess would be that everything will stay exactly where you left it in the market, but you won't be able to access it unless you resubscribe or buy the market access thingy.

I may be weird this way, but I don't like to change my characters' costumes. After I spend 20 levels looking at them, I'm used to them. If a character needs a cape to look right, then I don't create that character at all, or at least not that look, because I wouldn't want to go 20 levels looking wrong. Not that 20 levels is as long as it used to be. Still, being able to put on capes and auras at level 1 will make it a lot easier for me to use them at all, and gives me a lot of inspiration for new characters.

Same thing with the second costume slot. Sometimes being able to switch costumes is a fundamental part of the idea of the character, so I'm looking forward to being able to do that from level 1 without all the fuss about Halloween salvage.

Now I just need a bunch more points. October is looking a long ways away, and they'll probably have a new powerset by then anyhow. What do they expect me to do, just buy a bunch of points???

There are a couple of items I hadn't noticed before: aura unlock and cape/back item unlock. Does anyone know if these are character items or account items?

If you want damage, then try scrapper, blaster, or any villain AT. The people I know of who solo AVs use scrappers or illusion controllers. Illusion/kin is it? I forget now. Anything can do ok in an incarnate trial from what I've seen, but support characters are generally more appreciated than scrappers.

"Number of birds killed" is not the only, and perhaps not the most important measure of environmental impact. For example, I've never heard of a wind farm making someone's tap water flammable.

But in the spirit of the OP, here's a fun trick my high school chemistry teacher liked to demonstrate on new teachers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY24F...eature=related

EDIT: I mean, she would demonstrate it on their money, not on the new teachers themselves.

I think all this legalese is rather silly. They all say the same thing. "We can do whatever we want. You can't do anything. Most especially, you can never ever sue us no matter what we do. If you ever blink then that blinking signifies that you have read and agreed to this contract, and to any modifications we ever make to it, whether we tell you about them or not." As far as I can tell, that's what every piece of legalese junk I've ever agreed to has said. My choices seem to be "agree to everything every corporation asks of you, or go live in a cave." /shrug. It's not my favorite aspect of the 21st century, but that's what life has become.

Once upon a time, everyone loved to complain about the price of Luck Charms. They're used in low level accuracy IO's, so everyone just had to have them. Amazingly, this item that everyone just had to have was also expensive: maybe 50k each. Which is *far too much* for low level casual players to ever afford. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

A bunch of us got together and started hoarding Luck Charms. We farmed like crazy. This was before AE, so we mostly went into Dark Astoria and tried to max out our ZPM (zombies per minute). I still have an ice blaster around here somewhere who spent many hours freezing Hellions in Perez Park.

The plan was to pile up so many that we could satisfy every outstanding bid all at once.

Sometimes I'll have one build that's good enough to be playable, but not really perfect, and use the second build for the fancy shiny IO's that I really want in my perfect build. It seemed like a good idea when I didn't have enough of the fancy ones to fully slot a character, but I had too many to conveniently store. Later, when build 2 is complete, I can gut build 1 for anything worth using on another character.

I can't say it's really a good idea, though. I'm usually better off just dropping the fancy IO's into my regular build piecemeal, even if it means I lose set bonuses in the short term.

Right now I think the only 2nd build I use routinely is on my main. The primary build is as purpled out as I have bothered paying for so far, and the secondary build is all SO's. I keep that build for testing or to prove a point. There's no doubt that the IO build is better, but I think most people overestimate the impact of fancy IO's.

Offhand I think the redraw might annoy me. I've never tried it.

On the one hand, having the trainers double as tailors seems silly to me. I expect it's more about encouraging people to spend money on costume parts than anything else.

On the other hand there are some story arcs, like Crimson/Indigo, that drive me nuts with all the travel across zones. One problem I have with that kind of thing is that it's so unrealistic. How many times do you need to risk your life for those two before they hand out a phone number? Like the number of a cheap disposable cell phone is such a big secret? And even then, you still need to travel back and forth all the time because they insist on passing notes to each other and having a superhero be the delivery boy. Maddening.

And running up and down the streets of Outbreak, at the slow speeds of a level 1 character, was such a painful waste of time because it's so unnecessary. There are some things about the new tutorial that I don't like, but I'm happy that I can get from one end to the other so quickly. More width, for exploration and experimenting with powers and so on would be nice, but the length is just fine.

I don't mind some traveling, even across zones, but the original game had a lot more of that than we needed. I don't miss it.

(And yes, I know other games are worse. Ever play A Tale in the Desert? You could set your character running south at night and go to bed. You'd still be in the middle of nowhere when you woke up the next morning. And I actually enjoyed some aspects of that. Different places had different people in them, and different local cultures, because it was too much trouble for players to go far from home.)

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you. What about that Incarnate power with the -Res? Reactive, I think. I think that's different, isn't it?