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Heh. Don't feel bad. I'm a 60 something month vet, and I still don't know where it is. I've never gotten a villain that high. I'm not sure where that Cyrus statue was last week either. Somewhere in Kings Row, maybe? I have a feeling this is not the contest for me.

Only once every hour? Why waste the other 59 minutes??? Nothing else you are doing can possibly be more important!!!!!!

My two cents: As much as I hate the marketing people, they aren't doing a bad job. Giving us more info is a waste of time. Within one hour of giving us more info, three things will happen.

1. People will complain that this new info proves that GR will suck.
2. People will misinterpret the new info and claim that GR will contain features that it won't actually contain, and then when GR does come out they will say it sucks and the devs lied to us.
3. People will ask for more info.

The real problem here is that we don't want information about GR. What we want is to actually have GR. No amount of information will satisfy us.

Marketing will release info when it will have some impact. Star Trek Online is supposed to go live at the beginning of February. I think we'll probably get something right before or after that.

No matter what they tell us or when they tell it, there are a few things we can count on.

1. Whether you pay your subscription fee or not, you still get to read the same information about the game.
2. Going Rogue will come out eventually.
3. Nothing marketing does can speed up or slow down the actual development of the expansion.

I think I must be misunderstanding what you're saying here. The regen/recov values of the health uniques are fixed amounts. Their values are not affected by the other slots in the same power, or even by which power you put them in.

Yes, you're right. That's what I was thinking of. I remember the unused "kill the healer" variable.

I suspect that he knows perfectly well that the rating system could use some work, but he also knows that marketing will beat him with a rubber hose if he admits anything is less than perfect while talking to the media.

In all fairness, people *can't* buy it. It's not for sale yet. I'm sure we'll see an advertising push sometime between now and when it does go on sale. How much of a push we'll have to wait and see. I too am disappointed that with all of the big superhero stuff going on in popular culture (Heroes on tv, Superman, Batman, Iron Man movies, that "Who Wants to be a Superhero" tv show, etc) CoH doesn't try for any mainstream advertising. I'm sure it would be expensive, but it might be worthwhile.

Yup, that's true. Regens have a lot of buttons to push when they want to stay alive. I was never in any real danger, but I wasn't dishing it out very well either. And I think they were even con. I certainly wasn't up for the scrapper RWZ challenge. Still, it was playable without a single enhancement.

I can remember when it was hard to buy SO's until you were in your thirties. Looking at that list now of how much inf is needed at each level, it all just seems so tiny. I have a level 4 character with 6,000,000 inf. He has that much because I couldn't resist a little vendoring while waiting for the rest of the team to get together next week, and he made it to level 4 because I couldn't resist punching frostlings as I ran back and forth between the market and the vendor. Now I have enough for all my enhancements until I get well into the thirties. And if I somehow manage to earn any influence in those thirty levels, then I'm set for life. Crazy.

Kids today don't know how good they got it. It's like if your grandfather complained about how, when he was a teenager, he worked 18 hours a day for three cents a week, and they had to save up for almost a month to buy a ten cent candy bar. Now you earn hundreds of dollars a week... but it's like candy bars still cost ten cents, and cars still cost a hundred dollars, and a house cost a thousand dollars. Income went through the roof and prices didn't budge. How awesome is that?

Of course, no one appreciates it because almost everyone shops on the player controlled market, where prices go up when income goes up, so you never really get ahead.

Sorry, I've wandered pretty far off topic. I did try the challenge again by flipping stuff for half an hour, but bids fill too slowly when you're in a hurry. Flipping is really only effective if you wait 24 hours between buying and selling.

I don't think that's what the nefarious Rikti mod just stated. I suspect the nefarious Rikti mod just stated that they're turning the Rikti invasion event back on next week.

That's just what I was thinking. I have no desire to invest the sort of time and money necessary to be good at PvP, or to develop that sort of mindset. I find the current PvP recipe prices very tempting. I'd be willing to go in there and give it my best shot if I had a decent chance of getting a super-valuable drop as a reward. As it stands, I have virtually no chance of ever receiving any reward from PvP. Given that actually having fun isn't even on the table, there's just no incentive at all. Of course from what I hear even the people who do PvP regularly don't seem to have a decent chance of getting pvp recipe drops.