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I'm playing from Shanghai and also use Astrill VPN. I haven't noticed a improvement in latency while using the VPN, and in fact have more often noticed a decrease. If you still want to experiment, I recommend testing the Speed Test option on the Astrill VPN desktop app. USA China Direct, Taiwan Supercharged, and Japan 2 have all worked fine for me. I am currently playing on Excelsior. My ping ranges from about 280 to 500, but is usually in the low 300s. As long as it stays below ~400, the game is surprisingly playable without any hiccups (though I haven't tried PVP). I've done large group content many times without any trouble.

I don't think that would be a good idea. It wouldn't add anything positive to the game. The point of having a simple option for giving likes is just to make it very easy for shy people to share tiny bits of encouragement and appreciation.

See, I read the thing about some players gamifying it and don't think its necessarily bad. Having a bunch of likes for your costume won't actually give you any material benefit, so if someone wants to collect likes for their own personal satisfaction, I think its ok. Its not like having the most liked costume won't get you ad revenue. That said, I don't think many players will be interested in collecting as many likes as possible. In regard to badges, the amount that something like this should offer should be very few (1 to 3 I'd say). Maybe you get a badge for giving one LIKE, a badge for receiving one LIKE, and a badge for receiving 10 LIKES, and that's it. The badges would exist mostly just to introduce the mechanic.

Does it take five seconds to do two mouse clicks?

Yeah you totally got what I was thinking!

What I was imagining is that you could simply right-click on the player, and a LIKE option would be among the lists of options which it already shows.

How often do you see a cool looking costume in game? All the time right? How often do you stop just to tell a player that you like their costume? For most people, not that often. What would be really cool is if we could right click on on a player and give them a LIKE or THUMBS UP for their costume. Each time it happens, you can get a notification, and somewhere in your ID badge or Personal Info, you could see how many likes you've received. You could even give out badges for receiving or giving a certain amount of likes. What do you think?

Is any of it worth doing? Are there any actual story arcs in the non-Ouro stuff? It seems to be a lot of filler and hunt missions. Do you think there's a chance this stuff will be added to Ouro later?

Do you do the old school contacts, or do you skip them entirely? As a completionist, I feel some obligation to do them, but completing them all would be extremely time consuming. Is there any advantage to doing old school contacts instead of relying totally on Flashbacks?

This is a very petty thing, but as a perfectionist it really bugs me. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I accidentally failed one of the Safeguard Missions, and now I permanently have "Tasks Failed = 1" on my kiosk profile. I know these kiosks are old as hell and don't really matter, but why do they have to keep track of your failed missions? I'm not against failing missions, but why do they have to keep a permanent record of it?? In the next update, could you just remove that stupid "Failed Tasks" thing? It would probably take two seconds to edit it out and would be a big relief to lots of OCD people!

When we chat with the contacts, why does the font have to be so small? Could you give the option to increase the font size a little? In most conversations, the words are barely taking up any space in the menu. I like reading all the story stuff, but I have a large monitor and get tired of having to focus on the small letters all the time. I have 20/20 vision, but its still a pain after a while. This option already exists for the chat windows. Why not the contact/NPC conversations?

The P2W Vendor calls it the "Undead Slaying Axe", but in the power menu is it called the "Ghost Slaying Axe".

The Sorcery power pool has an excellent and unique color palette that can't be recreated in the Character Creator. Its a collage of purples and blues. Could you make this palette available to all powers in the Power Customization menu? You could add it as a special option along with Bright, Dark, etc. It would be so awesome to have ALL my powers with this same palette, and not just Sorcery. You could even add the Experimentation and Force of Will palettes as well.

I'm with you on this. I just searched this topic and made a similar suggestion myself!

Maybe I'm being OCD, but I hate having incomplete contacts in my Inactive Contacts list. It would be great for us completionists if there were a way to finish all those old contacts. I know that Ouroboros offers old missions, but the problem is that (as far as I know), Ouroboros only offers missions which award badges and/or souvenirs. Even then, (as far as I know), the updated contact relationship isn't saved on your list. A possible solution would be for Ouroboros to allow us to search by both mission and contact name. I also heard that Thunderspy allows you to unlock old contacts manually when you speak to them. Anyway, thanks for reading this!

Are all contacts available through Ouroboros? From what I understand, Ouroboros only offers missions that award badges and/or souvenirs, and even after that, you don't maintain the contact and relationship. Maybe there is some function I'm missing. I'd love to complete some of the relationships with old and inactive contacts.

West coast location!

I'm being lame by bumping this, but I'm surprised no one is interested in this!

They should bring it back as an option in the power customizations.

Going to cross my fingers and hope that the netcode can be updated in a way that reduces ping at least a little.

Reunion is giving me 250 on a good day, but often hovers around 280 to 330.

Crossing my fingers for Vancouver then...

Considering that a Germany-based EU server (Reunion) already exists, do you think there's any possibility for a west coast USA server? Currently all the North American servers are in Quebec. I work in Asia and get horrendous lag on all servers (consistently 250+) Based on my experience in other games, the lag is manageable for me if the servers are based on the west coast. In that case it will be in the 150-200 range, which is still isn't ideal but is playable. Of course, west coast servers would also be loved by the many people who live in that area!

Right now whenever you wear a hat you can see a short hairstyle hanging out the back! What if you just want to be bald guy with a hat? Or a fully bandaged mummy with a hat? Can we have the option to wear hats that exclude the hair? The hairless assets already exist in the game, they just need to be combined with hats.

That all sounds very plausible, though I hope that the UI limitation isn't real in this case. In regards to original reasons for the title restrictions, I'm guessing its a matter of "it seemed like a good idea at the time". In this image I borrowed from Paragon WIki, we can see a list of titles available to this particular character. We also see a scroll-down function, which implies that the list could be extended. I'm obviously not an authority on the CoH UI, but this gives me some hope that more titles could be added.