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Quick question the mothership is dropping regular not vanguard merits?
I know vanguard merits were mostly used for costume pieces that are now unlocked but 300 of them gives you a salvage inventory boost so I need them noooowwwwww.
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
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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
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Best time to go for that plaque is the abandoned sewer trial, that way you know you are in the right sewer
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EDIT: apparently cannot just walk in and visit it in Atlas.
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
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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.
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Hey guys,
I am trying to get this badge, but I am not clear on what the specific name of the mission is that grants this badge or the level requirement to get the mission? Can someone give me some clarity please? 9 years ago I knew this answer, but I can't recall now.
When I go here:
https://cityofheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Shrouded_Badge
It says:
Shrouded is awarded for completing a specific mission given out by Maria Jenkins or Steven Sheridan. It is possibly a bug, but one of Harvey Maylor's missions and Colleen Nelson's mission "Destroy Olanto and his team" also award this badge.
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
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According to Paragonwiki, you may have one or the other (blue or red) version at any time.
If memory serves, when a character switches sides these badges automatically convert.
Oh, well that is convenient. Thanks!
Additionally, I remember there were a few places that you could earn two day job badges at once, but I no longer have a list of them and could not find a guide showing these offhand.
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.
The good news is that it looks like time to earn a day job has been shortened to around 5 days...it used to be 21 days per badge.
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.
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I share some concern with the naming policy, but I also think that SOMETHING is needed. Yes, you can get a name permalocked at 50. Yes, you can get a name solid for a year at 21. Yes, you can easily get to 6/21/50 in very small amount of time, if that's your style.
Yes, it's easy to log in to a character every x days to make sure you don't lose that sought after name- if life doesn't call you away. Life can call you away on more points than just military or chronic illness. Sudden injury/illness, computer asplodes and you can't afford to fix it, familial/vocational commitments, unemployment leading to needing to cancel your internet for a while, etc.
"If the name means that much to you, powerlevel them."
It's not the NAME that means so much, it's the CHARACTER who bears that name.
On live I had a character who was meant to level slowly, and I loved her name- because it was a perfect name for the character. She was the Symbol of Freedom, she never broke level 20, but I clocked quite a lot of time in her doing missions solo and a lot more time roleplaying. I spent more time playing that character than some people spend on their 50s.
As such, I would personally like to see something implemented where you also gain protection for a name based on time playing the character, to offer roleplayers and content runners the same protections offered powergamers at a quicker pace than they might get it otherwise, since as-is the policy rewards powergamers an inordinate amount.
Yes, that would mean someone could just idle while doing other things to get their character's place secured... but is that really any worse than sitting in an AE farm for 5 hours* with dxp on to get your level 50?
*5 hours is just a guess as to how long it takes with the nerfed AE XP. I know it can be done in about 2 with normal AE XP and boosters.
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.
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'Kallisti Wharf is a Co-op zone like the Rikti War Zone, where Praetorians can't go either.'
maybe i am not making myself clear here, of course a praetorian character who has not reach lvl20 and/or gone through the transition yet
perhaps i am misunderstanding based on the language that we are using, ie is a Praetorian any character that starts/originates from praetoria? or is a praetorian only just those characters while they are 1-20, becuz afterwards they obviously either go redside or blueside ; but technically they are still praetorians, just that they now live in paragon city or the rogue isles... O
ie u can start in praetoria, go thru those storyarcs, transition at 20 and then get to any/all hero/villain content, including the rikti war zone, shadow shard, etc
so i just wanted to be clear, becuz if u make a praetorian character you will eventually have the entire game world available to you ; or not?
are we saying that you just cannot access the Kallisti Wharf while you are a 1-20 praetorian b4 u have transistioned, or can a character that starts in praetoria never have access to the Kallisti Wharf ever, even as they later become a hero/villain/rogue/etc just becuz of their origin ; that is/was my original question and confusion basically
thanks in advance
and thanks untold /emholdtorches for the dedication and perseverance that has kept this CoX dream alive for so long =]
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
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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. :)
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Memorial Day is upon us, and that seems like a perfect opportunity for us to host our first large-scale event!
When?
Monday the 27th of May
- 12:00 - 15:00 Pacific
- 15:00 - 18:00 Eastern
- 20:00 - 23:00 UK
- 21:00 - 00:00 EU
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
- 12:00 - 15:00 Pacific
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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 :)
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You're not being forced to grind a character to 50 to keep it, just log in and right back out periodically; the higher the character, the less often you need to do it.
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
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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?
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Here is my pal's CoH youtube channel. They made plenty of vids before shutdown and have added some new ones with the return.
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Revised Rikti War Zone map badge vid
Echo Zones: Atlas/Galaxy/Faultline/Rikti Crash site
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I wonder if NCSoft realizes how much more hate they would incur? I know I am still not buying any NCSoft products till I know for sure I can keep playing.
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
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Thanks for the link, that will hopefully not be necessary, but it's very nice to have.
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.
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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.
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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. :)
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?
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Scarred in Echo: Rikti Crash Site --- loc 3216.4 -137.3 -3198.1
On a broken fragment of road next to a destroyed building. A wrecked car is pointed at it.
Communications Specialist (new badge I think) --- loc 959.6 171.3 -1174.4
Next to a red and white communications tower antenna.
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. :)
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Ace: /loc 1360.0 292.5 -276.9 (On the outstretched hand of the statue of Mustang)
Powerful: /loc 275.7 84.3 -745.5 (Eastern side of the power substation, on the ground)
Assunder: /loc 3954.1 34.0 -3858.8 (On top of the pillbox)
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.
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Ugh. Hey, Skele, sorry I dropped off mid-badge hunt, but my net went out.
I did save this, though:
One plaque is 514 yards north of the Reservoir marker, at the bottom of a chasm, behind a chunk of stone fence and a bunch of CoT.
Loc is -75.6 -610.7 -21.8
And there's a second 393 yrds North of Reservoir next to a large building leaning heavily.
Loc at -19.4 -576.2 356.3
Hey, no problem.
And ya if people want me to track down plaques I can try to do that too I guess lol
Dug Too Deep. 1141.7 -618.3 -16.0
Or like directly south of the dark canyons marker, but, way down in the cracks.
YAY! You found it thank you!
Thank you all for the great work.
Now about the plaques..? Are they needed for any historian badge?
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If people are worried about names that are stuck on alts that people aren't playing, or people preserving names, the PTB could just wipe the server of unused characters to free up names like the Devs use to. Same guidelines. Accounts that have been inactive for X amount of time. (Years, not months or so. If we EVER get to that point.)
There is also the possibility of more shards opening up where the name you want isn't registered.
These are just alternatives in case everyone is a stickler for One Name Per Server rule.
Personally, I don't mind linking the names to the global and allowing people to share similar names. I can't recall ever running into someone with the same name on Champions. Not even the names of my alts. And I have some pretty unoriginal names.
I should mention that the reason why I'm for name sharing is because we have fewer servers than we did when the game was under the rule of NCSoft, so there is a statistical likelihood of people missing their names.
Hopefully that'll change as time goes on.
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 :)
Patch Notes for May 30th, 2019
in Patch Notes Discussion
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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?