Stan The Man

You'll catch me there next time!

You know, I was just thinking about this yesterday. I imagine there would've been quite a good bit of revenue coming in from advertisements like that in-game. I wonder why it never took off.

So, I might be getting on in years, but I don't remember powers still being on when you log back in. I doubt it's a recent change but does anyone know when it was? Probably early Issues... possibly Beta if I'm confusing this with Champions. I seem to recall logging off when flying, for example, and falling when logging back in. Just logged back into one of my fliers and was happy to see her floating and not falling. And noticed Sprint and her Armor still on. Just another little thing I noticed. Missed. Love. And wanted to know when we got if anyone even remembers. Also, sorry if this isn't the right place to post this. I honestly couldn't think where this might belong. Probably in game. Probably in chat.

I wonder if it's related to the neutral con mobs. I've not seen many on blueside and Brickstown is the only zone I know with them.

Or make it so she can't spawn that pet. :D

So, I noticed that some of Crey mobs are conning neutral. That's pretty neat! I don't think that was ever live but I remember a Dev speaking about eventually making Crey mobs con neutral much like some Praetorian Mobs do. I startled one mob while taking a look at it. At first they didn't seem to react to me. There are these mobs with NPC supporters. I've seen these with Council and I think one other villain group. They're handing out pamphlets saying "Oh, these guys aren't that bad" and usually those mobs con as enemies so they react when you get close to them. These Crey mobs also had NPC supporters, a Crey PR Person. Neat! The Crey agents didn't seem to care about me but the Crey Boss, a Voltaic Tank went nuts! He started shooting at me even though I didn't do anything. Not only that, but because all Crey conned yellow, he started attacking the agents when I backed away. Pretty sure this isn't the intended behavior. Anyone else seen this type of behavior?

You might say I find this new PVP Community Rep very appeeling. Sorry, we leave our puns all over the place, so you better watch out for them because they're a bit slippery. Welcome Banana Man!

Ditto!

Any chance we might see an expansion of the Ancillary powers to fit with the themes already present within each archetype? Not necessarily just a proliferation. I understand why tanks and brutes overlap in sets, scrappers and stalkers, etc. but might we see something like Dark Mastery for brutes and tanks in the future? Or numerous other Ancillary power themes of a similar sort that fit with the complementary parameters of the archetypes? And, of course, would anyone want to see this? I can’t imagine no one would but maybe I haven’t considered all the possibilities.

I don't know what would happen if we suddenly had Invention Origin Enhancements but with no Enhancement Diversification and I don't think we should so quickly clamor to undo something that had long term effects to the game that was originally horrible but eventually worked out to a point. So while I was never happy with ED, it doesn't mean I liked it just because I'm in favor of keeping it now. But the game is back. If there are any lingering issues that are due to ED that IOs don't solve, instead of a blanket solution that dismantles Enhancement Diversification, why not address each issue individually, if any?

I got this one, kids. This is the solution when her pets there and you can't talk to her. Draw some 5th Column/Council Members (or any Mob really) to her. Her and her pet should attack them. Every time I've done this, the pet is always a little ways away from her and you should now be able to speak to her. Good luck out there, heroes!

I was just looking for a game to use for background references for a comicbook I was drawing and writing. I did a search for new contemporary games and City of Heroes Beta fell into my lap four days before launch. I signed up. Made a scrapper and that comicbook was never made. No regrets.

I'm mostly visiting with folks this week. So haven't been on as much as I like. Besides, they ask me where I've been the last couple of weeks and saying "Paragon City" just raises too many eyebrows. On the plus side, my day job badges are coming along nicely.

I'm not saying it's a definite possibility. I am just reminding the community that it could change. I'm sorry you might have thought my points weren't needed. I know it's a very sensitive subject but I wouldn't dare belittle someone's opinion even if it's different. Not that you are doing that. I just wanted to make sure the topic discussed was relevant to the points I made. I could see why someone might've considered my post a little snarky. I'll do better in the future. So, thanks for your response!

I like it! But then again, I like a lot of things. Plus it would be nice to test builds on a separate server. Or perhaps have a way to test out a power and trade it back in if you don't like it. Not a complete respec but like a partial one. But that sounds like an awful lot of work. So does a test server. If there isn't anything to test beyond our simple builds.

'Nuff said.

This is actually very nicely said.

I appreciate everyone's opinions but I feel the points of my post were lost. 1. You do not have to even sign into your characters to keep their name. You can rename them once, then instantly rename back to the desired name for the system to flag them as having been logged in. 2. As an alternative to flagging individual toons for the name change, we flag the accounts. 3. A new server using the @global is suppose to be a compromise to the two parties. It wouldn't affect everyone above who is happy with the Name Release Policy at all. I'm glad to see people are enthusiastic to defend the game's current policies but bare in mind the PTB have stated that these are still subject to change and are not set in stone. It is very likely they will change and while criticism is appreciated, lets keep it constructive.

Whether you love it or hate it, this is the current name release policy by the PTB: The problem is that right now, we have the ability to freely make 1000 characters per shard and have infinite times to rename a character. And when you rename a character, the server flags that character as active. So an easy way to bypass this policy is to simply rename once to something else then back to the name you want instead of logging into each character individually. You're very unlikely to lose your name during the rename process as it takes only mere seconds to add a number or letter by the name. Then rename it by deleting the new additional number or letter by the name. Easy. And character is now flagged as being logged in since 0 days. Really when I saw the Announcement Thread, which should have been about the Memorial Day Event (for which I am VERY excited for) but instead, it devolved into the age old argument about whether or not to simply let us keep our names or to tie them to our global names. I have a very simple solution and one not so simple solution. (Well, simple for the players, not for the coding involved.) 1. Flag the account and not the individual characters as inactive This should help those who think the policy is incredibly tedious on casual players or biased against those with altitis. I believe this was how the policy was originally done in the original game. 2. Create a New Server Shard with Global-tied Names On only one server everyone gets to create the name they want or focus more on the game and less on name hoarding. So everyone gets to keep their special names on the current servers and if some people don't get the name they want or are particularly tied to their names, they can go to the new server and get whatever name they want! Admittedly, you could just retroactively make one of the current servers into the Global-tied Name Server, but I think it would be more fair to just make a new shard so that no one potentially loses their names. I'm just not certain the affordability of expanding into a new shard so soon after launch. But if what we're told about global names is true, it may take a while before the PTB can even get something like that working. And in the meanwhile they can figure out if a new server is worth it. --- What do you all think? Also, don't forget, the policy doesn't go into effect for two weeks so they may tweek it to prevent the bypass. (I actually hope they do.)

Sorry to make this post here but I thought people might want to know that there is already an exploit to avoid having to login with each character on their server one at a time. I am in the process of making my old characters and have reserved their names to dud characters with every intention to switch them to non-dud characters. It's a simple little trick. Create a character, reserve the name, login and logout. Then spend my time meticulously designing the character properly with a faux name. Switch the names by adding or subtracting a number at the end and boom. Done! Apologies if this upsets anyone for how I reserve names but even some of the names are a bit on the uppercase I replacing a lowercase L or vice versa. To the point: So if you change the character names, the server counts this as having logged in. Likewise changing the name from Superman to Superman1 now identifies as having logged in in zero days. Simply change the name back to Superman and you're done. There is a chance you might lose the name in the seconds you switch it but that is pretty astronomical. The planets would have to align or something. Or karma was really out to get you that half a minute you changed your character's name. Anyways, you guys might want to figure out a better way for the system to flag us being logged in than just simply going by how we change our names. In the meanwhile, hope this helps anyone who has over 50 characters. Good grief!

Basically "timey wimey" BS. :) I like it!

I'm going to start giving you influence every hour on the hour for the rest of the week.

I remember me and a friend of mine had profiles on the old Crey Threat Assessment website and we wanted one of our characters to have been brainwashed into their Regent? program and so he had a Paragon Protector-like uniform for the longest time. Trouble is that piece isn't available to us players. So yeah, seeing something like more NPCs and mob pieces that could be ported over would be nice.

Sure, why not? No one is stopping you but you.