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Quote:I had to go check this one myself, because it's not even believable they would do that. But they did.Originally Posted by Mokalus
The 12th so-called "costume piece" is indeed the pattern, since it shows up in the store separately, but as far as I can tell it can't be used on anything other than the CoT chest/legs, which doesn't sound right at all. If it can be bought separately, it should be usable separately.
I was going to compliment them on a step up from last week, but even though it is still better, they don't deserve a complement. You don't reward a dog for crapping on the hardwood instead of the carpet. -
Just got my response back from support. The answer is we got our Sept supply early, and will not start getting the next points until October. Specifically, they said -
Quote:and then...Thanks for your patience while we researched this issue. Upon further investigation, we found that with the launch of City of Heroes Freedom, game accounts will receive 400 Paragon Points for each month the game account has VIP status. As an existing subscriber, when the Freedom Head Start began, your game account automatically received credit for being active in September, as your first month of having VIP status. For this month you received these bonuses earlier than you usually would have done. You received your September rewards when Head Start began, instead of on your monthly subscription date.
Going forward from October, you will receive your Paragon Points on your game accounts billing date as long as you maintain the VIP status of your game account.
Quote:The Paragon Rewards Program officially starts after Freedom has launched. The earliest you will begin receiving these monthly rewards is in October.
The part about the tokens is strange, though, as it contains no mention of the plan to reward when bulk months are paid for -
So, you get points AFTER the month, and that is adjusted up and down by what exactly? I'm guessing free time from the old "invite a player back" feature, or something like that?Quote:The monthly Paragon Reward Tokens are awarded differently. They follow the same schedule as the old Veteran Reward program. This means you may not receive them on the same date that you receive your monthly VIP Paragon Points. Veteran rewards were calculated based on the time your game account was playable with active paid game time, and not just based on your bill date. Just as a temporary block changed your Veteran Reward dates, these types of changes to your game account will also change the date you receive your monthly VIP Paragon Reward Tokens. You also have to play out the month of game time before receiving the tokens. You may pay for time in advance, but you have to play out the time before you receive your next reward.
You would think they would at least mention that this isn't what is supposed to happen, even if it is technically what is happening right now. Maybe calculating this mysterious "temporary block" is what is causing problems for pre-rewarding multi-month subs. -
Quote:Juncture doesn't affect attack rate. It's slow, but not -recharge.Originally Posted by Rodion
Four defenders running that would floor the mobs' attack rate
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At that level, pretty much all a tm/ has is a heal and the -to hit aura. If they're not standing near the enemies, then they clearly don't know how their powers work. The same would have been true of them without you or if they were soloing.
Drop a team like that - fast. -
Quote:********.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
For as long as I've played this game, I've known that there are two kinds of teams. The first kind are teams where everyone is working together as a team: every member seems to intuitively know what the team needs, and does it. Very little "instruction" seems to happen. The other kind are teams where eight soloers happen to be in the same instance, and if the other seven people disconnected or phased out of the instance it would hardly matter.
No one knows what to do on Keyes "intuitively". No choice is made in that trial based on an understanding of the mechanics of the game coupled with a desired outcome. First off, this is because so much of the trial ignores the core mechanics of the game, and secondly, because nothing about the trial makes the desired outcome clear. Those are the required starting points for "intuitively" working together, and both are missing in Keyes. -
Quote:Better than terrible is not the same thing as good.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
That's why I'm so astounded by folks who complain about the trials so much. This is significantly better than what's come before.
And during the time period when that was the main method of playing and slotting characters, I did not give them money to allow me to play the game. I would like the game to be more than one step above "not worth my time and money". -
Quote:It seems a bit off to think of them as two separate problems, when you just don't get anything on the day you renew.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Reward tokens aren't awarded the same way as the paragon points and there have been issues reported by people not getting the right amount and it's being looked into.
People need to report any reward token discrepancys. -
Quote:But we are also not getting reward tokens, and for the launch we did not get any extras of those.Originally Posted by gameboy1234
I think the most likely answer though is "all vips got 400 extra points to cover their next billing already" which would explain the extra 400 points we all saw.
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You can change the launcher to allow multiple copies to run.
Goto File>Settings
Goto Advanced tab
Click checkbox "Allow multiple instances of a game to be launched"
Then it will give you a window whenever you click the play now button asking if you want to open a new one. -
Quote:What aspects are you talking about?Originally Posted by Gunbunny
I am dissapointed.
The benefits of Tier 9 VIP is way beyond the normal benefits we could have gained from being a Veteran. In the past these were nice to have but they were not unbalancing that much (though sands of MU etc came close) I had been expecting to see a VIP treatment to ALL paying players, not just to those who have been here 7 years.
T9 has exclusive costume pieces, but vets have always gotten exclusive costume pieces. Plus, those can't be unbalancing.
Other than that, T9 gets some recipe slots and some limited use powers. T8 had much better bonuses than T9. Inner Inspiration and the self rez are incredible, but I'm sitting on 2 tokens and not a damn thing in T9 that seems worth it. If you've got some big secret, then please share. -
Quote:People are complaining that it exempts you to level 20. That's different than what you said.Originally Posted by Arilou
... People are complaining that this is TOO HARD?
I soloed it with my defender. -
Quote:Does he really not understand that by creating another incarnate currency, he just makes it true that we're forced to grind content. It completely negates any validity behind the idea of "just wait until there are more trials". If new trials = new currency, then there are two grindy bottlenecks instead of one. The could release a hundred more trials, but if they don't share the same currency with the one we have now, it's meaningless.Originally Posted by Jazual
No. No. No!
If anything, use the same damn salvage, but increase quantities required. -
Modding just one of the 2 gives you 91.8, so depending on how stingy you want to be with points, you might be able to get by with that.
50,50,50 = 99%
50+5,50+5 = 95.9%
50+5,50 = 91.8%
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Quote:No one knows - including the support people.Originally Posted by Xanatos
Is account renewal date & point allocation date the same? I thought we just got 400 free points on the 14th of every month.
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Looks like that "we are currently investigating" email is what they are sending out for this complaint. I got one of those on Thursday, and nothing since.
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Quote:Note, it's not "game breaking" in the "too powerful" sense, it was game breaking in the sense that it broke the game. I think one of the things happening was slotted enhancements being eaten randomly - and not just from those three slots.Originally Posted by Atomic_Toy_Guy
What made three extra enhancement slots "game-breaking"?
I'm not trying to say that they didn't but I would be curious as to what was found..
I would love to see this code, there is some strange stuff going on in there. -
Quote:Controller.Originally Posted by Brillig
Name even one, please.
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Quote:Plus 20 million - and that still only works if you are hero or villain, so 50 merits on a rogue or vigilante can't even be converted to the more valuable hero/villain merits.Originally Posted by Ironblade
Except is isn't really, since you can create a Hero Merit from 50 Alignment Merits.
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Quote:1 hero merit = 5 random rollsOriginally Posted by Ukaserex
Umm...a hero/villain merit is equal to 50 reward merits, not 100+.
20 merits = 1 random roll
20X5 = 100
Or you can straight out buy a recipe worth 125 or 150 or 175 using a single hero merit. The 50 merit recipes you can't even buy with hero merits, as they are too cheap.
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The selling point of piercing is the -res. If you plan on running mostly with an alternate animation and therefore losing the -res, it's still up in the air which to take.
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Quote:I'm down one leg.Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
Server downtime is temporary.
No legs is not.
The point you are trying to make is not valid. -
Doesn't this not work on pet powers. I thought the HO would need to be theoretically slotable in power the pet is using. I mean, you can slot a damage/whatever HO in a pet, but since the pet resist power doesn't take the damage or any other element of the hami, it doesn't have an effect.
I can, though, imagine the opposite happening - the resist/end HO affecting damage, because the damage power will take the end portion of the HO, so it winds up with the whole thing.
Personally, I just stuck in 3 acc/dam HOs, 2 common IO resists and 1 common end red. Screw the heal. But if you really want to boost heal, you could try a heal/end HO, but I don't think 33% end red would be enough.
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For mako's, the best one to enhance is the acc/end/rech (and maybe the 4-way), because all of those are at 66% without enhancement. Using them on any of the IOs that enhance damage is going to be mostly a waste.
It's basically a question of whether you think you need more accuracy, endurance reduction, or recharge on that power. -
Quote:What?Originally Posted by nytflyr
which means if I want to build a new character based off of a name, I have to delete a character on a full server... that sucks
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Quote:Did you actually get the message that you had hit max? I ask because it looks like they stopped self rezzing enemies from dropping tickets after they return. So even running the same farm map, you will end up with significantly fewer tickets.Originally Posted by Flower
Got same "You have triggered the Metric Activated Reward Throttle."
I used my lunch hour to play an single mission AE and the tickets maxed out at around 750 rather then 1,500. Not sure if tickets were due to the Throttle or if they have been nerfed?