Free "Title Token" with 24 month Vet. Rewards?
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Posted on: 2006-10-04 21:51 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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What I'm saying is, since we are speaking in the hypothetical, why even suggest or except an inf cost? Why would they feel it needed since they have obviously changed their view on costume changes? They just need to move the Title choices from the trainers to the tailors and be done with it.
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Well for one thing if you want Titles to be more like a costume creator element it would more than likely have a INF cost to it by design. Sure you could go ahead and use one of our now near-infinite costume tokens for it, but it -would- have a cost. All I'm saying is that it is reasonable that such a change would have a cost of some kind.
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All I'm saying is that it is reasonable that such a change would have a cost of some kind.
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Why?
You could make a case for it preventing changing titles every five minutes, but what's the harm if someone wants to do that?
I haven't bothered to set any titles at all, after the first toon through the game. I just don't see it as a big issue either way.
Open the titles up and let people personalize their characters however they want. One of the strengths of this game, why limit it?
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Why?
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Simply put, because it's using your influence to get the word out that you're no longer the "Mysterious" Bob and now the "Amazing Death-Defying" Bob
Same way that you're putting out word on the streets that the weirdo in Green & Red is just Superdude in a new costume.
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All I'm saying is that it is reasonable that such a change would have a cost of some kind.
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Why?
You could make a case for it preventing changing titles every five minutes, but what's the harm if someone wants to do that?
I haven't bothered to set any titles at all, after the first toon through the game. I just don't see it as a big issue either way.
Open the titles up and let people personalize their characters however they want. One of the strengths of this game, why limit it?
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Well the Devs decided, for whatever reason, to make Titles limited to certain levels.
The Devs also decided, for whatever reason, to -not- make them freely changeable from Day One.
I wholehearted agree that there's no -obvious- reason why they shouldn't be freely changeable other than the clear evidence that the Devs wanted them to be limited/semi-permanent.
The whole reason the idea an INF cost for Title changes was even mentioned (and trust me I wasn't the first person to suggest it by a long shot) was that much like costume changes and difficulty level changes it seems reasonable that the only way the Devs would implement this is with some kind of associated INF cost.
I don't like it... You don't like it...
But if the Devs finally gave us this feature after all this time it -would- cost us something.
Of that I have no doubt...
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Why?
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Simply put, because it's using your influence to get the word out that you're no longer the "Mysterious" Bob and now the "Amazing Death-Defying" Bob
Same way that you're putting out word on the streets that the weirdo in Green & Red is just Superdude in a new costume.
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I just don't see going to the image consultant to organize a media blitz to create a public perception of your favorite title...or newpapers using titles at all. Extra verbage is generally avoided in news stories.
The Amazing Spiderman had (nine?) other titles, after all.
I don't know, it's thin. I could buy it if the devs want to go that way, but from a player-satisfaction viewpoint I believe it's the wrong choice.
Earnable titles (like earnable costumes) are the proper rat-at-the-feeder-bar MMO player-motivator response. But once you have them, changing them shouldn't be a big deal.
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Simply put, because it's using your influence to get the word out that you're no longer the "Mysterious" Bob and now the "Amazing Death-Defying" Bob
Same way that you're putting out word on the streets that the weirdo in Green & Red is just Superdude in a new costume.
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The artist formerly known as Prince...
I just don't see going to the image consultant to organize a media blitz to create a public perception of your favorite title...or newpapers using titles at all. Extra verbage is generally avoided in news stories.
The Amazing Spiderman had (nine?) other titles, after all.
I don't know, it's thin. I could buy it if the devs want to go that way, but from a player-satisfaction viewpoint I believe it's the wrong choice.
Earnable titles (like earnable costumes) are the proper rat-at-the-feeder-bar MMO player-motivator response. But once you have them, changing them shouldn't be a big deal.
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Like I said when I wrote it earlier in the thread, "at worst" an influence cost.
Personally I could see it either way. It makes sense for there to be a cost, it makes sense for there not to be as well.
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I don't know, it's thin. I could buy it if the devs want to go that way, but from a player-satisfaction viewpoint I believe it's the wrong choice.
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The Devs' whole concept of INF in this game is that it's not "money" as much as a representation of how much "pull" a character has to be able to change public opinion or "pay" for favors exchanged.
While I admire their attempt to stick to that concept I do agree it can be cumbersome from a purely game mechanic point of view. Based on how everything else works in this game it almost -wouldn't- make sense to have an aspect of a character be changeable that -didn't- involve an INF cost.
I think we are all agreed we'd like a more user-friendly way to change Titles.
Sure it'd be "nice" if this were free and simple to do.
But frankly I'd never expect a way for this to be done that didn't cost a character -something- to accomplish.
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Since this has come up so often, I guess I will leak a feature of Issue 8:
You can change your title at any of the following levels:
15, 25, 35, and 45
At 50 you can change your title at any time.
You need to visit a trainer still to change your title and they "don't stack" (in other words, if you don't use your level 35 change, you don't have two changes when you hit level 45).
There is no Influence or Infamy cost associated with this.
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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Since this has come up so often, I guess I will leak a feature of Issue 8:
You can change your title at any of the following levels:
15, 25, 35, and 45
At 50 you can change your title at any time.
You need to visit a trainer still to change your title and they "don't stack" (in other words, if you don't use your level 35 change, you don't have two changes when you hit level 45).
There is no Influence or Infamy cost associated with this.
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Nice. thanks Positron. You still my 4th favorate hero.
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Since this has come up so often, I guess I will leak a feature of Issue 8:
You can change your title at any of the following levels:
15, 25, 35, and 45
At 50 you can change your title at any time.
You need to visit a trainer still to change your title and they "don't stack" (in other words, if you don't use your level 35 change, you don't have two changes when you hit level 45).
There is no Influence or Infamy cost associated with this.
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Very cool , thanks.
See? The cookies worked! lol
Thanks devs! ^_^
Cool, thanks Positron! 
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Since this has come up so often, I guess I will leak a feature of Issue 8:
You can change your title at any of the following levels:
15, 25, 35, and 45
At 50 you can change your title at any time.
You need to visit a trainer still to change your title and they "don't stack" (in other words, if you don't use your level 35 change, you don't have two changes when you hit level 45).
There is no Influence or Infamy cost associated with this.
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Awesome 
Sounds like alot of tasty things coming in I8 ..cant wait.
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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Heh. I have a level 50 who never chose a title. Now he can be a veritable title-[censored]. And people say there's nothing to do at 50 
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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This is great, but does this mean "You can change your title once at any point while you are level 50" or "level 50's can change their titles an unlimited number of times"?
YAY!
Awesome! Been wanting to do this for like, forever! 
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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Heh. I have a level 50 who never chose a title. Now he can be a veritable title-[censored]. And people say there's nothing to do at 50
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Hehe, ditto. I never picked one for Quest because I was afraid of her being locked into a title that stopped fitting her.
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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Heh. I have a level 50 who never chose a title. Now he can be a veritable title-[censored]. And people say there's nothing to do at 50
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Hehe, ditto. I never picked one for Quest because I was afraid of her being locked into a title that stopped fitting her.
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Yeah, I have many characters I haven't chosen titles for because I didn't want to get locked in to one and end up hating it later.
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Sam Steele
Pluck
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Slagheap
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Saer Maen
Jen Corbae
Illuminance
Venator Arawn
Taiga Dryad
Tarranos
Issue 8 is shaping up to have some many little quality of life fixes that have been asked about since the beginning of time...
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Since this has come up so often, I guess I will leak a feature of Issue 8:
You can change your title at any of the following levels:
15, 25, 35, and 45
At 50 you can change your title at any time.
You need to visit a trainer still to change your title and they "don't stack" (in other words, if you don't use your level 35 change, you don't have two changes when you hit level 45).
There is no Influence or Infamy cost associated with this.
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/cheer!
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At 50 you can change your title at any time.
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Bounces!
Woo-hoo! Thanks Positron!
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QFT
What I'm saying is, since we are speaking in the hypothetical, why even suggest or except an inf cost? Why would they feel it needed since they have obviously changed their view on costume changes? They just need to move the Title choices from the trainers to the tailors and be done with it.