Nericus

The change to merits in MSR was no surprise as I felt the 10 to 1 conversion ratio was a bit much. As to DFB , people will still run it, and join other farms as well. Plus despite the XP adjustment we have the XP boosters to compensate. Farming and PL'ing will still happen in other parts of the game like it always did, despite these changes. Thank you again for bringing CoH back By the way, any chance that energy melee's Energy Transfer power can be reverted to pre issue 13 version or else have that version added to power customization?

It only gives vanguard merits if you have joined th vanguard. Vanguard costume pieces no longer need merits but vanguard temp powers like their giant robot require vanguard merits to purchase. Otherwise go to a merit vendor and convert vanguard merits to reward merit at a ten to one ratio

I would point out that if they just deleted excess rwz badges that some people would complain about them being gone was they want to reclaim all badges and that some of the deleted map badges may have been used by some people as their badge title. So now instead they are in an echo zone instead

Best time to go for that plaque is the abandoned sewer trial, that way you know you are in the right sewer

You can, just not through the same door as the mission. And right you are, badge dinged. So for blueside it's walk into the door in Atlas The Cape Mission and Khan TF

I suspect that it is Visit it in atlas The cape mission I have yet to do the above two, but i saw badge progress on this after clicking the plaque in the memorial during a run of the KHAN TF. EDIT: apparently cannot just walk in and visit it in Atlas. However the Cape Mission is confirmed as I ran it earlier. So it's Cape mission and Khan TF so far.

Seems like multiple contacts for this badge mission but it doesn't specifically give me the name of this mission. (Or various names since its various contacts, with the exception of Colleen Nelson's mission listed in the quote above) What is the level requirement to unlock this? Contact Maria Jenkins Blakcshroud dimension Disrupt nightstar's ritual The badge should award after being in the map for a time, or imm diately after you leave the map. It may not flaws badge awarded, check your recent badges or exploration badges to see it

Oh, well that is convenient. Thanks! Ohh that would make things a lot easier, maybe in places like the Vanguard base? I'll see what I can dig up. If I find one or make one I'll post it in my first comment. Yes thank goodness for that! it would make getting badges like those extremely difficult. Day job badges convert between red and blue alignment, there might be a few you have to get in praetoria 100 hours,. Four days plus four hours, so much better now.

Also experienced players who know the game can just PL to 50 then use ouroborus to level down and run the low content. So they really aren't out leveling anything. Or just run DFB for an hour or two with boosters to get to 21.

Unless there was a paradigm shift that I missed once a praetorian hits 20 and chooses their side the whole world is open to them

Forgot to mention that even if you don't spend an hour or two with dxp booster to run dfb to get to level 21, you still only have to log in either once a month or three months depending on your level range. So whether it is a month, three months or once a year, you can log into the alt, park it at a day job spot and then leave it. Day jobs only take 100 hours, or four days plus four hours now. So by the time you bring the alt to active status it could benefit from fully charged day jobs and their accolades. Plus travel powers available at low levels so you can fly safely to zones that may be too high for you like the shadow shards and storm chantry and park for the duration. Just making some lemonade from what some think is a lemon. :)

Its a shame that it'll be on Monday. Some of us, especially Oceania/Asia pretty much will miss out on this. Regardless of the day there will be some that will miss this

Well I just spun some alts through death from below with exp boosters running, about 90minutes per alt, they are L21 and now could sit for a year if needed. Any info or salvage from them is emailed to my global for my main. So about 90 minutes of playing to save an alt for a year if desired then back to the main alt with extra info or salvage to claim via email. Not seeing a huge problem, except for the monotony of running DFB ad nauseum :)

No, but I am being forced to level one character at a time to 50 because maintaining the number of alts I usually play is untenable. For me I normally play one character one weekend, next weekend I'm jonesing to play a different powerset (for example, before this announcement I was wanting to start a mastermind this weekend), next weekend I'll play something else. That's how I ended up having 128 characters and I cycled through them for the months out of the year I'd actively play. I'm completely in favor of taking measures for dealing with people just grabbing names while the grabbing is good, but, these rules go further than that and I can't see my playstyle being viable. Given the amount of AE powerleveling going on earlier in the server, I'd put cash money down that I have more time on my level 20 than many 50's have on them. But, its their sandbox, so I'm in the process of deleting all but a handful of alts I've created so far because, thanks to the kindness of those who got the game working again, I have options. I can alt solo on my own personal server and play the handful I can maintain here when I feel like teaming until I get a 50 I can replace with a new alt. That's what makes both this place and the game itself far better than when it was a business is having options. With about 90 minutes of grinding death from below yo u should get to level 21 and thus your name is set for a year. Use an xp booster to hasten the process Then use email to send money and salvage toyourself for your main alt to claim

So to be clear on the multiboxing, its okay for my family and i to all be on at once at any time on multiple systems from our home, but running multiple log ons from same PC is bad unless it is during low population times, correct?

Here is my pal's CoH youtube channel. They made plenty of vids before shutdown and have added some new ones with the return. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHL_AkCCEwR06oIBxnux8pw

Revised Rikti War Zone map badge vid https://youtu.be/t3B3qkoPgOk Echo Zones: Atlas/Galaxy/Faultline/Rikti Crash site https://youtu.be/Wzo6lkNmtVI

Giv n the crummy way they handled shut down, were dishonest with Richard garriot, and how subsequent games of theirs stink I have no desire to give them my money even if they bring CoH back themselves

Download the code anyway even if you don't setup your own server and keep it safe, for if this place goes so too may any download source Setting up a private lan server may look a bit daunting but it isn't that hard the real trick is downloading the rather large code package Most home computers these days be they windows 7 or 10 can handle the server task and run the client at the same time.

Well the good news is that I sent my badge seeker thru all the zones. RWZ being changed plus echo Atlas, faultline and crashsite are the ones that we would need maps for. The other zones are unchanged. A pal of mine is uploading to their YouTube channel vid files of the echo zones to show where the map badges are.

These badges aren't triggering for me. I follow the instructions but nothing happens. Any screenshots? Coordinates are frustrating. Are you in Ritki War Zone or the Echo Rikti Crash Site zone?

Scarred 168 yards southwest of Sunken Road marker 3216.0 -137.4 -3199.4 Communications Specialist 205 yards north/northwest of The Bulge map marker 959.2 171.0 -1175.2 it is next to the comm tower and a group of L43+ Rikti :) Eyewitness: -- loc 1820.3 471.3 -4605.7 532 yards northeast of Sunken Road marker atop the northwest corner of the tall but demolished building Per GotMidevil: Shielded: -- loc 2934.4 -10.3 -6249.4 around 11:57 on the clock if the ship is the clock face, right up against the shield or per Nericus about 877 yards due North of Sunken Road map marker on the ground against the shield. Same coordinates and clock description but I added in the marker location/distance to help out. :)

A little hint for Asunder, approx 161 yards south east of Point Du Hoc Marker, atop the pillbox. Which come to think of it, the locations for Ace, Powerful and Asunder are pretty close if not exactly where they were in RWZ.

Hey, no problem. And ya if people want me to track down plaques I can try to do that too I guess lol YAY! You found it thank you! Thank you all for the great work. Now about the plaques..? Are they needed for any historian badge?

Well it is true I am attached to a few character names and yes I have reclaimed them but I also have a long list of names and archetype lower setups I never got to use, And of course attempts at name griefing/stealing are inevitable but I think people can use their imagination and come up with a name for them to use. Also....have the admins given an official ruling on trademarked names being used? I have seen Spider-Man, wolverine, captain marvel, captain mar-vell, banner hulk, hulk, and so on. I get it, we all want to be our favorite character, but you can be without using a trademarked name, on an emulation server of a game that was "creatively obtained" from it's owner :)