ZacKing

Your point can be made without resorting to name calling. You've lost any credibility with this. Yeah, we all know the game is free. The folks running it have also said they want to continue to work on it and improve it. people offering suggestions is helpful to them.

I don't think this is a good idea. you'd be splitting an already dwindling population even further.

Zero reason to use this as an excuse for a vendetta against others who play differently. You can get to 50 easily outside of AE with free XP boosts and just running TFs.

There's over 170,000 words in the Oxford dictionary that can be combined into countless combinations. the game isn't going to be around long enough for you to run out of names. the existing policy is fine so long as it goes by account inactivity, not character inactivity. again, if an account is active, someone wanting a name can get in touch with the owner to negotiate a release.

they can tell whether a character was PL'ed in AE just like they did on live to discourage farming. No reason to include 50s in the "free for all" list that have been played a lot that have all kinds of badges and stuff.

This. No reason for asinine formulas to try and determine who is more worthy to wield a name.

Correction - NCSoft owns the game code, not Homecoming. Let's be honest about ownership here.

No, it's first come, first serve or possession is 9/10ths of the law. When you're offline, can I take your character name and use it? You're not using it so you should lose it.

This is exactly what it is. Those crying about names being held on active accounts can't answer why they're more entitled to a name than the owner of the active account. if an account is still active, they can contact the owner and ask for the name to be released and the owner has every right to say no if they want.

Name one "serial squatter" account.

"here's 2 (and more) powers you don't really want instead of the one power you asked for that does what you want it to do". I get it man, I know what they alldo and what they cost and what has to be juggled to use them. Thanks, but I don't want a giant box that LRTP fills up on my screen just to use the ebfp from anywhere. No choice but to live with what we've been "blessed with" unfortunately. Yeah I know what it means to me, and that's not having to juggle all of these "improvements" instead of just one power. Your opinion differs and that's ok.

I don't think anyone was expecting instant cast, no cooldown zero cost as a replacement. what some have been trying to tell you all is that there's too many options and the costs and cooldowns on them are a bit too much. that's all. honestly, I don't expect any future changes to this. stuff, you've all made up your minds. you all could've copy/pasted the Oro portal code, put it into the P2W for 5 mil and given it a 5 minute recharge and been done with it. I think most everyone would've accepted that as the compromise because that's what the initial discussions suggested in earlier threads. instead we have numerous options to juggle now some with limited charges if we want to get a 5 minute or less cooldown. that's not fun for some. I do have a bit of feedback for you, please make the animation for LRTP customizable. My natural based characters don't teleport by magic. it would be nice to have options to use something like the radio in from Mercs MMs or the police band to call in and get beamed up. thank you.

It's a hassle to do on multiple alts. it may not seem like a lot to you and that's fine, but not everyone plays like you do or wants to do what you do. We know, some people set up bases to actually get used as hubs. You've just handed people more of a reason to use them less because they can completely bypass using them so thanks for that? Sorry for this, you're right that I included recharge time in that. that's on me. I had meant just the inf costs were the same for two powers that don't do the same thing. P2W base portal should be cheaper IMO. Sorry for the confusion there. my mistake. Right back at you. You all asked for testing and feedback, which people gave. pretty clear now you all are only interested in hearing positive things about your changes, so its pointless to engage with any of you any further.

I can keep up fine, but what're you talking about? I never suggested they'd put an exploit into the store at all. That's just stupid and if I posted that exact wording, please share it. what I questioned was your comment of "I don’t believe that they would have ever given us the new Travel Update that the Homecoming team has put in place. " I said if the original devs felt they could make money off of adding fast travel stuff in the store, absolutely they would have. no question about it. how you got that means adding in the base exploits into the store I don't know. you're not reading right. here's your post for reference.

So the majority of characters below 50 will not get this automatically. That's what was suspected. As far as now getting direct access to every zone, thanks but that isn't what some people asked for. Some of us actually like visiting bases and didn't need a way to bypass them completely. you keep pushing the LRTP thing but again, thanks it wasn't what some of us asked for. You're ignoring the community that was built around simple access to them. and Supergroup Portal = 10 million inf. TT = 10 million inf. Where is the inf price difference again? One should cost more than the other because it's a direct drop to the mission door for an entire team. The other isn't. you're pricing a Toyota the same as a Ferrari. I realize I'm talking to a brick wall here, just hoping that next time you all consider actually engaging the community a little more to help flesh out ideas before making sweeping changes.

no account unlocks are a relic from when the game was first launched man. Vet rewards were working in the direction of account unlocks because other games were doing it. most modern MMOs all have account unlocks. accolades and such should be work, yeah. traveling around the game more efficiently, not so much. but you go right on jumping all over everyone who thinks the new system is too complicated.

What are you talking about? You said the live devs never would've put anything like the fast travel stuff into the game, now you're saying they would. pick one. I never said anything about putting LRTP into the P2W store. no idea where you've getting that from

no one is suggesting to keep it the way it was. everyone knows it was an exploit. it's been beaten to death over the past year. no one objected to it getting replaced and anyone who might have suggested just to keep it the way it was was being totally unreasonable. it doesn't need to be repeated. everyone gets it.

It doesn't make you more pious to not have used the command. Its great you made a personal choice, just like everyone else did. you could've formed teams with people who play the same way and never have worried about it.

If it was something they could put into the P2W store for cash, without a doubt they would've.

How many under level 50s will get it? I don't think you understood the feedback there. unlocking all zones on all alts regardless of level and getting it set up with all zones is a lot of hoop jumping in a game that already has too much hoop jumping for accolades, incarnates and such. now you're adding a big time sink and inf sink for people with a lot of alts. this kind of stuff was needed for a live, pay to play game, not so much here. TT SHOULD cost 10 mil and have the recharge it does because it's a direct port for the entire team right to the mission door. Making the base portal P2W the same price and recharge doesn't make sense at all. it doesn't operate the same way. You have to load screen to a base, then load screen to a zone and then travel normally to the mission door. You're pricing two different things the same even though they don't work the same. Appreciate you listening to feedback. just wanted to say there was feedback in the beta on this that said it's too confusing and convoluted now with all the new options but that largely got ignored. Hopefully you'll all come up with something to fix that.

yup could not agree more

Amen brother. This cannot be emphasized or repeated enough and its 100% true. people who expressed disappointment in the changes were shouted down, attacked and cancelled for having a different idea. the behavior is endemic on these forums and it's driving people away. to be honest, I won't bother with beta testing anymore and most people I know who did will do the same. allowing this shit to go on isn't helping anyone or the game in general.

and sometimes a point needs to be repeatedly before its understood properly. anyway, agree to disagree. best not to clutter up the thread anymore.

this is why you have people making multiple posts. back and forth is part of normal discussion. nice try though.