City Of Heroes Freedom Friday: 1/20/12 - I Want ALL The Things For FREE!

Gilbert Beaudry: why do my IO's not work on my level 50 toon even though I'm premium? I find that since being on hiatus for a little over a year that the game has changed significantly and being free to play as a level 50 is a redundancy.

City of Heroes: As a Premium player, depending on your Paragon Rewards Tier status, you may not have full access to the Invention system. The Invention system is unlocked at the Tier 7 bonus. You may also purchase a 30-day Invention system license in the Paragon Market™. VIPs have full access to the Invention system included in their subscription.

Gilbert Beaudry: I still find it "unfair" and I really don't like using that word, that I have to be in tier 8 premium to be able to use the IO's I spent tons of influence on at level 50. A game being free-to-play should not restrict the highest level in the game and make me buy a monthly license to use enhancements that i spend in game currency on. I'm un-installing as we speak, and i only re-installed a few days ago Back to SWTOR for me. I'm really disappointed with CoH/Paragon... have fun everyone. Was fun while it lasted.

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Colin Crebs: Were the big changes coming for Dominators just the new Darkness sets, are is there more still in the works? Illusion Control? Eh? Eh?

City of Heroes: Dark Control and Dark Assault are the Dominator updates that we've announced at this time.

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Zerroth Soulbreaker: Will Staff Fighting have options to use spears, halberds, glaives, and other polearms in addition to quarterstaves? My interest in the set hinges on it.

City of Heroes: There will be multiple staff options.

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Victor Zirkelbach: How about moderating the help channel? All I see on it is trash talking and PL begging.

City of Heroes: If you see 'trash talking' that is offensive or negatively affects the enjoyment of the game for others, please report it to the GMs.

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Chance Killion: will you guys create a rularuu weapon for the Titan Weapons power set?

City of Heroes: We've heard player requests for a Rularuu Titan Weapon. (Some players have even made some cool mock-ups!) There isn't one at this time, but the Purgatory Sword makes for a good stand in!

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Lucas Anthony: any ideas of making the casino in St. Martial interactive. or maybe in pocket D. some kinda internal games.

City of Heroes: While something like that would be a lot of fun, building those types of minigames into the game--if technically feasible--would take resources that might be better spent on content that a wider audience would enjoy.

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Athene Erickson: So. Any word on the idea of Praetorian Epic ATs?

City of Heroes: No word yet, sorry!

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Martin Dotson: whats the use of buying a TEMPORARY license to the IO system, just to have it taken away after 30 days? you are stuck with SO's AGAIN. Just make the IO's free for premium players with at least say 3 to 6months of veteran rewards. these folks are the ones who paid 15 bucks a month JUST TO PLAY... not to mention the time and INF spent on IO's that (as of now) are unavailable to them.

My 50's were IO'd out and PVP/PVE BEASTS... now, with SO's... they are just another toon doing DFB's to pass the time.

City of Heroes: The Invention system is a perk of being a VIP player, or having been a longtime veteran of City of Heroes. For those Premium players who do not have the Tier 7 unlock, the 30-day Invention license is available.

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Kevin Conk: When are you going to sell game cards that let us buy paragon market points? I'd be much more willing to buy content that way... for myself and friends as gifts.

City of Heroes: This is definitely an avenue that's been discussed. I unfortunately don't have any further news on it at the moment, but it is something that we've considered, and that we've heard player requests for.

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Joe Curreri: Speaking of Rularuu, can I just say how cool it was to see them utilized in main feature content like SSA #5? They're such great critters to fight - any chance we'll see more of them in future updates?

City of Heroes: I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the Rularuu.

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Dave Van Domelen: Can we have a Carnival of Light mace reskinned as a Vanguard Mace? The bladey bits would fit in with Vanguard's talsorian tech.

City of Heroes: I'll ask around about it!

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Christopher Erik Burgess: I would like the ability to make my base into somewhat of a night club similar to Pocket D. Would it be possible to get light effects, music, and a few random npc's into the base creation system?

City of Heroes: I'm not sure if it'd be possible (whether technically, or just due to server resources) to allow NPCs in bases. I'll ask around about it. I have seen a few nightclub bases created by players; if you make one, please be sure to let us know! We'd love to see it.

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Andy Cullnean: Are there any plans or basic alpha ideas for new epic archetypes, don't need to say what they are only if they exist in some form?

City of Heroes: There are always ideas floating around.

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Unity Rains: If you have already chosen you Patron power and you switch sides, do you lose those powers? i.e. Can a hero (that has used the tip missions to change from a villain) still have Mu Mastery?

Erik Ottosen: Unity: Patron sets, once unlocked, are permanent - so yes, you can keep Mu Mastery and make Scirocco jealous!

City of Heroes: As Erik Ottosen said, Patron sets are permanent.

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Erik Ottosen: Are there plans for new Mastermind minion sets in the next set of issues? I will admit, if I didn't know it was waaaay to niche to be worth developing, I'd love to have sheep minions. (If you wonder why sheep, look up the Worms series.)

City of Heroes: There was something...a cat that got let out of the bag by accident on the VIP Beta server. Maybe it would be better to say, "a lion that got out of its cage."

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Robert Chinnis: Do you think it could be possible to turn off Temp Power recipe drops in the Options at some point?

City of Heroes: There are no plans to allow that at this time.

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Andy Cullnean: Is there gonna be anything to tempt us to start in praetoria, gold side is dead,

City of Heroes: There may still be a few stories to tell in Praetoria. And the current Praetorian content can be fun to revisit with new characters (and new Power Sets!).

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Christopher Erik Burgess: Is there a rating system to tell who the top SG/VG would be? Perhaps a way to make being in a SG/VG more competetive.

City of Heroes: Many SGs rate themselves by how much prestige they have.

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Kheprera von Drakan: Will some issues with costume pieces, such as clipping in the stomach area of the gunslinger corset, clipping on the backs of the Steampunk thigh high boots, or underarm skin bleedthrough on all corset pieces ever be addressed?

City of Heroes: We endeavor to address any major issues with costume pieces, both during testing and post-release.

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Christopher Erik Burgess: What about a throwing weapons power set. Such as throwing daggers, hatchets, needles, and the like.

City of Heroes: There are some Temp Powers that allow you to throw small weapons. A full Power Set with thrown weapons? It's an interesting suggestion.

Andy Cullnean: Only if I can throw small mammals

Kheprera von Drakan: I second thrown weapons! Knives! Pinballs! Roses! Carp!

City of Heroes: Thrown mammals work about as well as shoulder cannon-launched ones, and carp's too slippery to throw.

Kheprera von Drakan: Not if battered and deep fried! >.>

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Tim Lehnerer: When you buy a multiple-piece costume pack like the Gunslinger one or the Fire & Ice ones, is there someplace you can look up the various pieces you've acquired and what zones they occupy (the Fire & Ice has a right arm option only available as a Robot Arm, for example, which I couldn't find forever because I didn't think of lava or ice as robotic).

City of Heroes: There isn't at this time, and due to current text length limitations in the Paragon Market we are currently unable to list where every single costume piece is located. However, for circumstances like the "robotic arm" pieces in Fire and Ice, in the future we'll endeavor to let players know in announcements or forum posts where these pieces are located.

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Alex Pritchard: Now that we all spend so much time hanging out in Pocket D (which is awesome), any chance we can get some upgraded music going in the D? Maybe something approximating a radio or DJ.

City of Heroes: DJ Zero is really fond of that song.

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Daniel Smith: Mister Beast! When can we expect some more back options?

City of Heroes: Soon™. If you caught the recent Ustream with David Nakayama (click on the "Ustream Live" tab on the left, and select the 1/11/2012 recording), back options are discussed.

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James Yoon: So Statesman died in the newest SSA. Does that mean Paragon Studio plans to retire/remove him as the face for City of Heroes and replace him with someone else?

Daniel Smith: Check out Positrons last dev blog, It lists the details of his removal. And the short answer is yes.

City of Heroes: Statesman is iconic not only in the lore of City of Heroes, but also as the most recognizable character in the game. Statesman will continue to be seen in marketing material for the game, however in-game he will start to be phased out in certain areas.

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Tom Gormley: The Umbra Beast (Tier 9) for the new Darkness control set looks like its a giant Wolf. Will there be more options for this other than a wolf? It seem like with the upcoming Beast Master set, wolves are redundant.

City of Heroes: There's no customization option for the Umbra Beast at this time.

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Robert Ballin: Are brutes ever gonna get martial arts? Or ice melee? Or maybe make a new set with telekinesis?

City of Heroes: One of our goals is to proliferate every set that makes sense for an archetype, mechanically and thematically. Will Brutes ever get Martial Arts? It's a possibility. Will they ever get a telekinesis power? It doesn't seem to fit with the idea of what a Brute does.

Editor's Note: During the I21 Beta, Powerset Proliferation was discussed to the point where Synapse made a post, asking us to list what sets we'd like to see Proliferated, with a limit of 1 Primary and 1 Secondary per AT. Myself, and a few others, said Martial Arts for Brutes, and Synapse's reply was, to paraphrase, "*forehead slap* Why didn't I think of that?".

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Todd Hoefler: I know I've beat this to death but a four arm power set for Tankers,Brutes,Scrappers,and Stalkers would be great. A nunchuck fighting power set would be great also.

City of Heroes: A four-arm Power Set would require entirely new models for male/female/huge. It'd take a lot of time and resources as not only would the model have to be created, but new animations as well, since the new arms would present challenges. Nunchaku would be a much more feasible set. (Though take that with a grain of salt from me, as I'm not an modeler/animator!)

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Kheprera von Drakan: When is Spring Fling scheduled to run?

City of Heroes: We'll be announcing it imminently™.

Editor's Note: Based on the uStream asking when I22 Beta would start, and Zwill's reply of, "Imminently™", followed by the Beta starting about 36-ish hours later, I'm gonna guess that Spring Fling will start Monday.

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Scott Adams: Will the El Super Mexicano restaurants in paragon city still continue to carry the Statesmenchilada on their menu, or will it be available by special request only?

City of Heroes: Statesmenchilada is their most popular menu item and will continue being served in his memory.

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William Hughes: Would it be possible to set the team-up teleporter to set up PvP trials such as a bank robbery mission with player villains robbing the bank and player heroes coming to stop them?

City of Heroes: Not at this time. Sorry!

Ben Kent: For the record - the idea of PvP bank heists and other super-crimes what what I joined the game expecting - a group of villains try to do villainy, while a group of heros try to stop them.

City of Heroes: It's an idea we've heard from the community.

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Jericho J Fallen: Can you allow players to chage the color of the pool powers and the positions of how like fly,superjump,or super speed is used insted of the usual flying runing or jumping positions

City of Heroes: We've heard player request on Power Pool customization.

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Rob Frazier: Do you know if the fix for some of us not being able to log into Beta with new characters will go in today? Would be great to try out some Dark Control over the weekend!

City of Heroes: We are aware of the issue and are working towards a fix. Thank you for your patience.

Editor's Note: I believe that Tex said it would be in the next patch to hit Beta. Sadly, that wasn't today.

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Andrew Richard Barber: So, the new ATO (Archetype Origin Enhancements) - any plans to have them released outside of micro-transactions? Perhaps in a mini AT-specific content arc of their own? (I can dream!)

City of Heroes: ATOs will be available from the Merit Reward Vendor, and from Astral Christy.

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Steven TheSwank Tiberi: How bout a rad melee and rad shield powerset for melee ATs??

City of Heroes: You mean rad as in "cool," or rad as in "radiation?"

Steven TheSwank Tiberi: Radiation my good man

City of Heroes: No plans for one at this time, but you might want to suggest it on the forums!

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Justin Young: Asked this in the post before, but, any talk of a ranged-tank type of archetype that you can speak of? Would love to be able to complete my main character concept (Pistols/Regen ?)

City of Heroes: Nothing to report about that at this time.

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Andrea Vanness: Any chance for VEATS to get customizable weapon option? access all of Assault Rifle and all Claws models?

City of Heroes: It's a player request we've heard.

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David Maciaszek: Will there be an option in the Paragon Market™ which allows us players to see what we already own and have access too? This is a big QoL issue.
Also will weather ever be added to the game? Rain, sleet, snow, fog, etc. (wouldn't be awesome to see a fog bank roll in on IP then the giant monster appear!)

City of Heroes: This is something that we would like to implement in the future. The Paragon Market has a lot of moving parts involved. As for weather, there's rain in the new Signature Story Arc, "Who Will Die?" part 5. As for weather in the wider world, it's something we've looked at but we currently don't have any plans for it at this time.

Editor's Note: [REDACTED]

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Nathan Hoffman: Are you guys planing to add voices to the heroes.villains in all the missions? It would be cool.

City of Heroes: There's always the possibility of more spoken dialogue in the future, however it's not something that we're actively doing at this time.

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Wolf Havoc: I've got one of those crazy fun questions that either promote creativeness or kill brain cells. It's a toss-up really. Anyway, if you could take any feature from any other game in the past or present, magically without hassles (like taking time to develop or QA test), what game and feature would you choose?

City of Heroes: Tough question! I'm honestly trying to think. I'll try and get back to you on it.

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Tim Lehnerer: What's the next big costume bundle going to be? Is it likely to be Valentine's Day themed?

City of Heroes: The Pocket D Valentine's set is coming, with a selection of clubwear/casualwear. There's also the Roman set, and Imperial Dynasty, an ancient Chinese-themed costume pack, is another upcoming big one.

Tim Lehnerer: Holy cow, thanks for the update! Those all sound amazing.

City of Heroes: I should also mention, it's still in the design stages at this time, but there's also our community collaboration set, Retro Sci-Fi, that will be coming out later down the road.

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Peter Chase Duggar: Dear CoH, would there be any way you could alphabetize all of the costume options in every menu? I would really appreciate continuity throughout the menus. It can be quite frustrating with some menus that seem to make zero discernible sense in the way they are "organized.

City of Heroes: I'll ask around about it. Certain pieces are organized by type or theme within their subsections that wouldn't make sense to alphabetize; example, certain head details like all eyewear is grouped together, all horns, etc.

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Michael Balzer: A. Who is Black Heart? Must be very important to the history of Rouge Isles (shame to those who don't get the reference)

B. Any plans for the island southwest of Port Oakes?

c. Are there going to be a full set of zones in Praetoria? We can now get to 30, will we be able to get outside the Sonic Walls to fight new Devouring Earth?

City of Heroes: A. Whoever Black Heart is, they were important enough to have some hospitals named for him/her.

B. No plans to mention about the island near PO

c. or further Praetorian zones.

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Jeff Smith: I want to ski! Its winter for 8 more weeks, open the ski chalet for a winter retreat! The 3 weeks in December just aren't enough.

City of Heroes: Pocket D's an interesting place, y'know. Seasons don't always work the same there. The Ski Chalet sometimes opens up mysteriously throughout the year...

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Taylor Guy: I think we should be able to customize our MasterMind pets, instead of all of them looking the same..

City of Heroes: Mastermind pet customization is something players have heavily requested, but there are a lot of moving parts involved with it.

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Bryan Mereness: When will the a.t. I.o sets be coming out?

City of Heroes: We'll be announcing it soon.

Editor's Note: For those who haven't spent any time with them on Beta, or following the feedback: There seem to be quite a few issues with ATOs, so they're not quite ready to be not quite ready for prime time release.

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Dan Sodano: Will non-subscribers ever be able to pay for multiple months of systems like invention or auction house at once, instead of having to wait until it expires every month and repay for it?

City of Heroes: I'll be sure to ask about that. It's a good suggestion.

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Evan Billsborough: Are there plans for alternative ways to achieve tier 9 costume rewards? I have been a paying customer of the game for well over 2 years, meaning I have payed well over $360 for subscription alone, not counting the cost of the game, the booster packs, or even Going Rogue. I am an avid player of the game. Yet I still have to pay to be VIP for another 14 months to even reach tier 9. Why is it you such awesome costumes like the fire, ice, and celestial sets so hard to achieve? Only players who have payed a crazy amount of money for subscription time can achieve them. I see this new content, and I have to wait over a year to get them. How do the new players feel? The current way to access these pieces is just plain ridiculous and unfair.

City of Heroes: At this time, there are no plans to offer the Tier 9 VIP Rewards via alternative means. Please note that these rewards will always cycle back through rotation, so although you might not be Tier 9 at this time, by the time you reach it you'll always get another chance at these rewards. Also note that players can acquire bonus Paragon Rewards Tokens with every 1200 Paragon Points purchased in the Paragon Market.

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Asim Farooq Hassan: So, you did greek/roman, steampunk, asian and furries. How about some middle-eastern stuff? Like shemaghs, didashas, belly dancing attire, a shamshir for katana and tw, lamellar armor and turbans to name a few? I may be biased though...

City of Heroes: Always a possibility.

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Simon McCoy: If it's technically not feasible to allow us to customize rocketboard and the flying carpet, has there been any thought to offering them in alternative colors for those of us who might like that?

City of Heroes: It's something we've heard, and we've looked at options.

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Emma Stapleton: As you're removing Statesman from the game, will there still be an 'alternative reality' one in Recluse's Victory to enable people to get the Oppressor badge by defeating him?

City of Heroes: We'll let players know if there are any changes to RV.

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Thomas Boggs: Are there any plans to update the textures on older costume pieces?

City of Heroes: It's something we'd like to do, but it'd take a lot of resources that might be better used creating newer costume pieces. Not everyone would appreciate updates to legacy pieces, as well.

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Erik Ottosen: Will pre-Wadeified STF/LRSF/other arcs where Statesman appears be added to Ouroboros? (That'd mark the first time an arc was added to it TWICE, since Statesman appears in both versions of the Praetoria into arc, IIRC?)

City of Heroes: That's also something we'll let players know if there's a change.

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Doug Tricarico: Space station/moonbase - how soon?

City of Heroes: *Shrug*

Doug Tricarico: A hot spacebabe in a silver spacesuit Dual Wielding rayguns and wearing a fishbowl hat. So awesome that it must happen. Heck, even without space. Just the outfit.

City of Heroes: I believe that a fishbowl helmet was one of the things concepted for the Retro Sci-Fi pack during the 2011 City of Heroes Freedom Player Summit.

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Jeremy Zharkov: Are there any plans for a server merge, or some sort of cross-server teaming?

While the populations weren't bad when I started playing when the game first went free, it's pretty barren these days. On Champion last night there were less than 10 villains on and less than 50 heroes (going by the /seach function anyway, I realize some are hidden, but still, that's not many people and Champion is not the most deserted server I play on...Defiant is usually much worse)

City of Heroes: There are no plans for a server merge at this time. Cross-server teaming is a highly requested feature and something we'd like to do. We'll continue to investigate whether it's possible.

Editor's Note: Server Merge is a nightmare. Just look at DCUO.

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Eyal Teler: CoH, can you give more details about what will be removed from the game regarding Statesman, and whether old arcs will be available via Ourborous? Will the Who Will Die arc even make sense once the Statesman references are gone? Will it even be possible to play it? (I haven't played it yet, but I want to at some point.)

City of Heroes: So far we have revealed that, during the timeframe of Issue 23, Statesman will no longer be handing out his Task Force. There may be other areas he will no longer be present in as well. We'll announce all the details as that time nears. And yes, the arc will still make sense.

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Curtis Trousdale: What will the hotel for the Spring Player Summit be? Inquiring minds want to know (so they can book a room early).

City of Heroes: We will try to have all of that information for attendees soon!

Curtis Trousdale: Bah! Soon™ is not soon enough™

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Daniel Salter: Any plans to start making the monthly story arc have even more of a player impact.... For example. Everyone playing the arc gets the option during the story to branch of in different directions. What ever the players choose (% wise), the next arc follows the majority rule.

City of Heroes: It's an interesting idea, however with "majority rule" you tend to run the risk of some players feeling left out as the subsequent arc will not follow the personal choice they made. In addition, we also have a creative vision for the arcs that is taken into account. Not ruling out the possibility completely, but at this time it's not something we're looking at.

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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
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