Almost makes me want to renew my subscription, but I imagine I’d still get bored, plus, the lack of a job means funds are tight.
So far I’ve only entered PvP zones to pick up exploration badges and a few temp powers. I don’t know that I can withstand the lure of “gigantic killer robots”, though. 
I dig Giant Robots!
Balanced digs Giant Robots!
Chicks dig Giant Robots!
A roll of duct tape and a $2 gift certificate for the junkyard to Maus for the first Megas reference. 
but I7 is on test!
Yeah, and they still haven’t figured out why people don’t like the exorbitant prices of Superbase stuff. A box to put Enhancements in is gonna cost me 750,000 Prestige?
Oh, sure, the box itself isn’t that much: but I need a working base with power and control units so I can open the box and take an Enhancement out. Yippee skip, another blow struck for the massively large Supergroups against the evil oppressing casual players.
Question- I know one of the I7 changes is that exploration badges now give XP. Please, please PLEASE tell me that’s retroactive. I have a character who has all of them outside Eden and the Rikti site, and I’d really like the xp without having to go over ALL OF THEM AGAIN.
I would hope so. Since they already track when you got the badges, they shouldn’t have to do serious datamining.
Perhaps some one on Test could verify?
If nobody does it before I get a chance, I’ll check it out when I get home.
I didn’t get any debt paid off when I logged into Test with a copy of my main, who has all of the exploration badges. I suspect that means it’s not retroactive. I could copy my L1 explorer character over tonight–it would be really obvious on him, as he has 0 xp and about 40 exploration badges.
Update: I copies Agoraphobic Man over. When I logged in on him, he still had 0 xp, so it’s not retroactive. Nor do you get xp for returning to the site where you got the badge; it’s apparently tied to the actual badge award event.
Reports on the official boards is that exploration badge XP is so low it won’t matter anyway. 0 for a level 1, 5 for a 2…up to 500 for a 50.
I7 is LIVE, people! =^^=
Excellent. Now I can try it out before letting my subscription lapse.
Free. Primaguide. What doesn’t suck. With all the numbers. For all the powers. And the badge /loc locations.
And it tells you what badges you need to do things.
coh.primagames.com/games/downloads/guides/76155350.pdf
Interestingly, that Rikti in Grandville is unlockable, you need Native.
All cancelled CoX accounts–including old trial accounts–have been reactivated until 11:59 PM Eastern (8:59 Pacific), Sunday, June 11[sup]th[/sup].
Critical note: CoH has a memory leak at the moment. Run it windowed, and minimize it every so often, that’ll free the memory back up.
I hate to have to ask this, but cite please? I’m definitely interested if this is the case, but my account still reads as inactive, and I haven’t been able to find anything regarding this on the official site or the fansites I used to frequent. I don’t doubt it, but I’m curious what has to be done to access this. Thanks!
We got an email this week. It was the CoH newsletter telling us our account has been reactivated. I logged in and have been playing for approximately 2 hours this morning (after seven hours patching last night). It’s for reals.
http://uk.cityofheroes.com/news/article/1386/
You probably don’t have “recieve emails” checked.