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Power change tokens

Aett_Thorn

By Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2012-08-07 17:39 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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Originally Posted by OmniNogard View Post
Only way i ever see they doing that is if they reset your Char back to Level 1, but at least you would keep the badges that you might have gotten over the years.
I might be actually UP for that! LOL

 

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Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
Player response, every thread:

"But I want it!"
My response if I were a dev: "Cool would you be willing to pay $50.00 every time you want to do it?"

Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

 

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
I might be actually UP for that! LOL
Ditto. I'll cheerfully lose all the levels on an existing character as long as I get to keep the badges.

{souvenirs and other historical data too would be nice, but badges are the important thing}

 

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Originally Posted by Quinch View Post
Ditto. I'll cheerfully lose all the levels on an existing character as long as I get to keep the badges.

{souvenirs and other historical data too would be nice, but badges are the important thing}
*evil grin*

How much are you willing to pay for it?

Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

 

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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
*evil grin*

How much are you willing to pay for it?
Shouldn't cost more than an normal respec token honestly.

 

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I had an idea that maybe they could make a full secondary build for the same toon, with different power sets. Just mod the current system for a different build that we currently have to also allow for different levels.

 

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Originally Posted by Demon_Shell View Post
***Snip Brony Crap***
The entire point is probably more that there are badges that you CAN NOT get now.

 

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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
*evil grin*

How much are you willing to pay for it?
I've got a half-eaten candy bar. If that's not enough, make me an offer and we'll haggle.

 

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
Shouldn't cost more than an normal respec token honestly.
Ummmmm.


What?!!

Are you joking? I really can't tell.


 

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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven View Post
Ummmmm.


What?!!

Are you joking? I really can't tell.
You lose, A LOT for this, to bring you down to level 1 all over again.

System wise, once they get it set up, it is totally automated, and is no real problem to them. Honestly the cheaper these things, like server transfers and name changes, are the more money they will get because people will use them more. Having a name change cost as much as it does now, is counter productive to a good business plan.

 

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
Shouldn't cost more than an normal respec token honestly.
And you are wrong. Straight from Posi himself.

"Positron, could you again clarify that "power-set" and "archtype" respecs are not a possibility for the future of the game?"



Posi: "They are not on the schedule. They are a lot, A LOT of work. Some people in the office were asking about them. AT respecs seem impossible, and powerset respecs are easier, but still very very hard. I don't know what we'd have to price them at to make them worth the effort. "

 

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As much as I'd like to see badges made global so no one can lose the ones they can't get anymore it's not likely to happen.



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Dev comment: Technical issue (8/15/2012)

To do so would require the use of an "auth bit" for each badge, and apparently they've got perhaps two left, so it would require a lot of recoding.

 

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
The entire point is probably more that there are badges that you CAN NOT get now.
I'm not trying to downplay anything. I'd certainly get one if they made it and I could afford it.

I'm tired of my main under-preforming and I have no desire to remake him and put all the time and effort it took to build him up in the first place into him again.

Doesn't change anything, though. Still just shouting at the sky.

 

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
I had an idea that maybe they could make a full secondary build for the same toon, with different power sets. Just mod the current system for a different build that we currently have to also allow for different levels.
"Just."





Heh.

 

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Originally Posted by Megajoule View Post
"Simple. Change the gravitational constant of the universe."
-- Q
And we know how well that worked out last time.

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk View Post
Shouldn't cost more than an normal respec token honestly.
With the amount of work the devs said it would require after they've already looked into I'd say this is incorrect.

Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

 

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Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
With the amount of work the devs said it would require after they've already looked into I'd say this is incorrect.
He's just laying the groundwork to complain about the price it would actually cost if the devs ever decided to add this feature.

 

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Nope.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger View Post
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