SSA6 and Alignment Change Tokens
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Posted on: 2012-02-21 01:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Semi spoiler I suppose but...
I don't think Yin's pet is supposed to be a member of the Freedom Phalanx before she joins officially.
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*Minor Spoiler from 1st Mish*
Oh, not fair, Penelope Yin has psionic weapons. I want those. 
And some other cool psychic attacks I've never seen and a really cool looking pet.
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Waiting for the nerdrage posts that the Alignment Change tokens are too expensive.
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what about the nerdrage post about how spending money on anything you can do so easily in game is silly.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Waiting for the nerdrage posts that the Alignment Change tokens are too expensive.
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I hate doing tip missions (especially the ones that arent hero>hero) more than almost anything else in this game and I still wouldn't spend even 100 pts to switch alignments when I can do it so easily in game.
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Rage? Nah. But now that you mention it, it does seem a little excessive. I assume it's for the same reason the devs gave when renames/transfers were first made available -- that the $10 wasn't so much to make money as it was to make sure you're really, truly serious about it and keep people from using them on a whim. So if that's the case, I can kind of see where they're coming from with it. Still, those were things you couldn't accomplish yourself just by doing missions, so the price didn't seem so steep to me.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Waiting for the nerdrage posts that the Alignment Change tokens are too expensive.
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Either way, I don't think they'd be of any use to me at any price, so... eh. This week I'll save my points, I guess.
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Rage? As far as I see it, it's a quality of life feature. Can either trade in-game time or real money to swap sides. I'll most likely never spend real money to swap sides, but it doesn't offend me that it's there or that others might spend money to do so.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
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Seems a little pricey though, but then again, that seems like much of the Paragon Market items intangibles/consumables, so nothing new there.
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On it's own, this chapter was alright for story development. But the thing that bugged me was this came right after one of the biggest moments in CoH history. Statesman had died. But it just felt like it almost completely ignored that. Aside from Nemesis attacking Portal Corp, which was kinda out of left field, no real mention was made of it. At least villain side, that is. You'd think your street cred would've soared considering your villain was at the scene when it happened, and I doubt Darrin's come forth to claim responsibility.
As for the story itself, all I gotta say is I'm more interested in "Who Won't Die" than "Who Will Die."
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Yeah, I want that pet for my psi/magic characters and her assorted psi powers are pretty impressive.
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Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
*Minor Spoiler from 1st Mish*
Oh, not fair, Penelope Yin has psionic weapons. I want those. And some other cool psychic attacks I've never seen and a really cool looking pet. |
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Or change the name of the story to "how MANY will die?"
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
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On it's own, this chapter was alright for story development. But the thing that bugged me was this came right after one of the biggest moments in CoH history. Statesman had died. But it just felt like it almost completely ignored that. Aside from Nemesis attacking Portal Corp, which was kinda out of left field, no real mention was made of it. At least villain side, that is. You'd think your street cred would've soared considering your villain was at the scene when it happened, and I doubt Darrin's come forth to claim responsibility. As for the story itself, all I gotta say is I'm more interested in "Who Won't Die" than "Who Will Die." |
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Slight bug at the end of Mission one, Penelope seemed to want to keep bouncing back and forth between the final elevators instead of just helping me.
Otherwise, not bad. Bit predictable at the end, Wade had already said at the end of 5 this would happen (Not how, but it was a pretty big tip off) So when you take off instead of facing the 'assassin' right there it just became paint by numbers. Could've played it out slightly differently but eh. Kinda sad, at least it wasn't spoiled in the friggin press release before it even came out.
Now I'm just wondering if Penelope's powers are meant as a sneak preview or if they're 'signature powers'. The psychic blades looked -pretty- neat. And isn't her pet one of the Void Storms from the Minds of Mayhem trial?
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Hm. Question regarding Alignment Change Tokens, do they affirm your status as a hero/villain, or do you have to go through the rigamaroll of doing the tips again even after using the token in order to be able to get A-Merits?
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What if I think they're too cheap? >.>
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
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Originally Posted by Tyger42
What if I think they're too cheap? >.>
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My instant assumption is that no, they probably would -not- affirm your status as a hero/villain for the purposes of getting A-Merits. Look at it this way: for all the game knows you may have a character use these tokens that has never actually done Tips before - why would they both switch your alignment and affirm your status at the same time?|
Originally Posted by BenRGamer
Hm. Question regarding Alignment Change Tokens, do they affirm your status as a hero/villain, or do you have to go through the rigamaroll of doing the tips again even after using the token in order to be able to get A-Merits?
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Obviously someone could simply experiment with this to prove it one way or another. I'm just saying I would not automatically assume they do both without proof.
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The only real reason the Devs originally gave us the "10 Tips to change alignments" system in the first place was to limit our ability to flip-flop between being a hero and villain every 5 minutes anyway. |
Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO
Rage? As far as I see it, it's a quality of life feature. Can either trade in-game time or real money to swap sides. I'll most likely never spend real money to swap sides, but it doesn't offend me that it's there or that others might spend money to do so.
Seems a little pricey though, but then again, that seems like much of the Paragon Market items intangibles/consumables, so nothing new there. |
As Doctor Roswell said the "priceiness" of these alignment change tokens is simply another method to keep people from switching too often. The Devs don't mind us switching - they just don't want us to be able to exploit some kind of game system that quick flipping might allow.
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Does this mean my villain can become a hero in the middle of a mission and destroy the cauldron herself?
I'm guessing: no.
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Yeah I have to assume they made it so that you can't be in a mission or a PvP zone while using one of these Tokens. You probably can't be in Ouroboros or a SG base either. But like I said before it might be worth experimenting regardless - I'm sure someone will try all these things soon enough. |
Originally Posted by mousedroid
Does this mean my villain can become a hero in the middle of a mission and destroy the cauldron herself?
I'm guessing: no. |
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just hit the market.
The tokens cost 800 points.
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