I was running through Galaxy City, and I saw this:


Hmmmmmm.... wait, isn't that, THIS?!?

Yeah, I thought so...  now even our fantasy world escapes are venues for real world advertising! 

*sigh* 

Edit: And no, I don't spend time on the dev boards and don't read every announcement... this is a game for me, not a lifestyle, so this is just me being "not in the know". I'll go shut it off in my options. Thanks to the early responders whom made me aware of this.

Current Mood: annoyed

Wow, what a flap. As just posted to the official boards:

"I stand corrected.

I checked with our Engineering team to make sure that this is accurate. I didn't want to state something and then have to correct myself again.

1) If a player logs in during the two free character slot "gift" window, then those slots are placed in player's character slot inventories. Character Slots within your inventories can never be removed, even after the gift window closes.

2) If a player NEVER logs in during the character slot "gift" window, the window closes, then any new or re-activated player will never get the two free slots.

Please note that the free two slots are only being given to "active" accounts that Log into the game during this gift window. If your account is active, but you've never logged in, you're not getting your two free slots when the window closes.

3) Once a character slot (via Veteran Reward, free gift or purchased slot) is placed within a Player's Inventory, then the order in which they redeemed is irrelevant.

When we decide to end the two free character slot window, we will give advance notice." -- Ghost Falcon

EDIT: Nevermind! Ghost Falcon was wrong, and said so. Archmage posted about it here.

From the dev tracker feed, originally posted here

Player 1: To those complaining that they can't claim slots, remember that the free ones could only be claimed for a short amount of times while veteran and purchased slots have no limit.

Player 2: Completely incorrect. I have friends who are still sitting on (all of) their freebies, meaning the i12 slots plus whatever vet slots they have. You were only AWARDED THEM temporarily, but you will have ACCESS to them FOREVER. They function just like purchased or vet reward slots. In two years, if CoX is still here and if you hadn't added a slot anywhere, you would still have your i12 freebies.

Ghost Falcon: Actually, the two free slots that were launched with the Character Slot service / Issue 12 *will* end at some point in the future. If you have not claimed or assigned those slots to a server, then after the window closes, you won't get those two free slots. This was noted in the Issue 12 Release Notes. We have not yet announced when the window for claiming the two free character slots will end, but we will give advance notice prior to ending it.

Since, yanno, many of us were confused as to what they meant by "These are only available for a limited time".

Has anyone done the mish in Cimeora that has the underwater room? Is it cool? Any screenies? I'm *very* curious :)

I found a little mention of it at Massively but have yet to run into anyone who's actually been there. Apparently you can get to it from one of the repeatable missions.

An underwater zone would be the Best. Thing. Ever. My poor squid is feeling quite dehydrated.

Current Mood: curious

I dropped CoX for a while now, sporadically playing every now and then with my husband and leveling up low toons... Now we're interested in our mains again (Me being a 40 emp/rad def and him a 41 fire/fire blaster), and feel completely lost!

So, I heard that I12 is released, but there was a rollback due to issues... What has been implimented so far: The Midnight Squad? Cimerora? I keep seeing people running around with the Roman styled garb, and I'd like to unlock it myself. Yet, my husband and I cannot find any trace of it


I'm sorry if the questions are terribly n00bish of me. Like I said, I haven't played in months, almost a year, and haven't paid attention to any new content in a while.

The bugged buff icons are getting really annoying.  I can't be the only one who relied on that stuff next to the team window while playing my controllers and defenders to know when it's time to refresh force field bubbles or reapply things like clear mind.  Last night I was playing my grav/ff with an awesome team of LJers, and I was still beyond frustrated that no icons were showing up at all for either of my force field buffs.  There's no way in hell I'd dare run in a PuG with this thing broken.  It's like driving a car with a busted fuel gauge.  I don't know how I12 could get rolled out with something this obvious broken, or why it's taking so long to get a patch done to fix it.   Maybe I just don't understand how code works, but if it was working before... what's so hard about getting it working again?

/rant

Seen in team chat, during a TF… (I've left the text the way it came out of the chatlog since I'm too lazy to go through and clip it out, but the links won't go anywhere since they're for the game commands.)

( May not be entirely work safe. )

Current Mood: amused

Someone want to clue me in on how you keep your character page in any semblance of order? Ever since I12, I've felt like I've been playing some sadistic mini game called "Guess where your character is?" that they didn't include in the patch notes.

Yes, remember my login name is checked.

Last night around 9:30 pm EST, a friend asked me if I wanted in on the ITF on Guardian, so I quickly switched over from my MM to Jezebella, my Level 50 Claws/SR scrapper.  By 10:00, we finally got started.  Everyone was Level 50 except for one of the two villains on the team, a Level 44 stalker who SK'ed to my friend's blaster.  We had one other villain, a dominator, and the rest of the team was heroes, ATs consisting of two controllers, an empathy defender, and a stone tanker.

Between buffs, holds, and "domination", we tore through the first mission like the Roman soldiers were made of tissue paper.  The tanker was herding, the defender was buffing like mad, and the rest of us were handing out damage like candy on Halloween.  As we headed to the next mission, it was only 10:30 and I thought for sure we'd be done in another 90 minutes.  Then the fun started.

So I'm a little confused--

I have not yet gotten a hero to 50, but I have a villain at 50, and it supposedly unlocked an Epic Archetype for me. I made one (widow), but I went to make another and the epics are grayed out. Are we only limited to 1 epic per server?

If I get a hero to 50, will I only be allowed to make one epic hero?

Is it just me, or does other people have issues as well?

I crash every time I want to switch to another toon and I rarely have game crashes. This happens on different servers.
I also wanted to transfer a toon from Triumph to Virtue and I selected the toon, but if I say "buy transfer" the tool want to transfer a different one.

I´ll petition this now; I´m just curious if other people have the same problems.

( Patch Notes for May 28, 2008 )

During my most recent run through on the Imperious Task Force (one of the BEST I've ever seen, BTW, we STEAMROLLED it with two /kin controllers, one of which was mine. Tanks and brutes LOVE us!) , we were slogging our way through the endless hordes of the mountain pass from the coast (and the endless LAG...) when someone made the comment:

"Oh COME ON!! There is NO WAY this peninsula has THIS MANY Roman soldiers on it!"

I couldn't let a PERFECT straight line like that pass, now could I? I quickly typed out -

"A little Peninsula Envy, there? ^_^"

So I'm trying out the new Midnight Squad missions, and...

( Cut for a photo and very few spoilers, not to mention juvenile humor )

During the regularly schedule maintenance on the morning of Friday, May 30th (starting at 6 AM Pacific and lasting for 2 hours) we will be running the following grants on the live servers:

* Free Respec
This will grant a respec to characters that does not stack with any previous free respecs a character may have. Given this non-stacking nature, if you have a free respec currently, you may want to use it before the grant is run.

* Free Tailor Token
This will apply free tailor or facemaker session tokens for each costume slot a character has.

* Global Chat Handle reset
All accounts initially start with the ability to change their global chat handle one time. This grant will reset that and allow accounts who had previously changed their global chat handle to do so again. This is a one time chat handle change, so please use it wisely.

Curing the Lost is fun.

Watching them change races and gender when cured is even more fun.

Seeing the cured citizen run around the corner and headlong into a big group of Vahz is priceless.  Out
of the frying pan...

Anybody else having issues with door missions d/cing them with lost connection to server errors on every door mission and real bag lag. Can't even move most of the time. I'm dealing with the tech department right now but I was wondering if anybody else was having the same problem as me. I was playing fine on the Monday before issue 12 went live. I play on the protector server if anybody was wondering about that.

Main Character: Ash Hellsbane - lvl 50 claws/regen scrapper
Alts:
Sparks Tum Tum - lvl 25 ma/regen scrapper
Summer Soldier - lvl 24 assault rifle/devices blaster
Beowulf Strahd - lvl 21 katana/regen scrapper
Demonbait - lvl 21 db/invul. tanker
Granite Father lvl 18 stone/stone tanker

X-Posted from city of villains

Hope to see you there!

( Not a bad bio, but it made me chuckle... )

Oh silly me, I just got it. Issue 12, the midnight hour ... of course, because 12 is midnight. I totally didn't associate the issue number with the title. Sigh, sorry, I am slowly catching up. :P

But I do have a prediction! ( Cut for i12 spoilers! )