Issue 9 should be soon, and there’s a goodbye party for Cricket on Test tomorrow night.
Can I just rant on pickup teams that believe they need one of each archetype?
“Let’s stand here for twenty minutes waiting for a controller to log on, because - God knows, you can’t have a successful team without a controller.”
“We need a tank. I can’t do this without a tank!!!”
Arrrrgh!
I spent the double XP weekend playing my tank over on Liberty. Got him at 38 now, kinda wanting to ggrind to 50 so I can have Kheld alts…
I hear ya.
I taking a mini-break right now. Blame my wife - she got me the x-box 360 and Oblivion for Chrstmas.
I was only on long enough during that weekend to do two missions. Going from door to door was well neigh impossible with all the lag and the app crashing every few minutes!
Me too. Not for the same reason, though. Been doing the 12+ hour day thing for the past month (nightmare client), and I’m worn out physically and mentally when I finally arrive home. Looking forward to getting back to 9-10 daily.
Maus, let me know if you want to chat about Oblivion.
I’m still playing City of Heroes, though I haven’t ever switched over to Virtue. I’ve got a couple of toons there now, though mostly I’m still on Pinnacle.
Over Double XP Weekend I got my main from 38 to 43, so I’ve finally got the money to pay for my altoholism.
Ask A Dev on War Cry. Up right now is Matt Miller AKA Positron.
http://coh.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=36&id=68479
That is all.
And I have found the Invention system enjoyable. They need to work on the Salvage storage abit, and probably increase the costume drops, but for the most part it is a pretty nice addition to the game. Don’t know about the Stateman TF or the new Hamidon, I was playing a low level character. But the people that were testing them seemed to enjoy them.
What did you find specifically in the Invention system? I’m dying to find out; I have saved a ton of salvage for the occasion.
My invite to any current or new CoX players is open for Victory server- our VG is the Evil Shadow Knights, our SG for heroes is the Circle of Elemental Power.
Step over to a non-crowded server where lag times aren’t as bad.
(Now they have a system for bringing new friends into the game where you get time credit. Anyone want to join up? 
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If that’s pre-I9 salvage, you’re in for disappointment. The Invention system introduced an entirely new set of salvage items just for inventions. Pre-I9 salvage can only be used for what crafting was around before I9.
Well, if nothing else, you can now sell the base salvage at the consignment house or at the regular NPC stores.
Are you not getting many costume drops, Lok? I got one (Piston Boots) within the first two missions, but I haven’t played much beyond that, so it could be a fluke.
I don’t think I’ve played the game in over a month… I need to get back to it.
I’ve been working late a lot recently, and I’ve not been as into the game since my main made level 50. But I try to work with my alts when I can, in hopes that one will hit a magic level where he or she suddenly becomes my new main.
Of course, when I9 hits live, I’ll play Sky Hook a lot again. While it’ll be harder to get salvage and recipes without any contact missions left, getting him all inventioned-out might be a lot of fun.
They did mention a system of converting old salvage into new salvage. I hope this will be true.
Regardless, I’m in position to take advantage of it. Bunch of saved infamy, large workshop with tables, mad scientist character ready to go.
I got in the second part of the closed beta and played a native Test character, a DM/DA scrapper. He was level 10 when I started and I have done all the story arcs, badge missions, and Safeguard missions for each 5 level segment. He is about 4 bubbles from level 25 right now and I have not seen one costume piece. I have had 3 temp powers, and a large number of set IO recipes drop. Just no costumes. And have obviously played a lot of hours. Which is why I haven’t been on Virtue the last 3 weeks. 
Saltire, you can get salvage and recipes from any mob you defeat, as long as you can get influence from it. There are some recipes that only drop at the completion of a mission, but Safeguards and TF missions qualify for that. Some recipes only drop at the completion of TFs and others at the completion of Trials. But no drops are quaranteed. Salvage has been very easy to pick up, the big complaint during testing has been not enough storage space for it. And after the first few weeks, it should be possible to find stuff on the Consignment houses.
The Mad Hermit, Invention salvage can be converted to base salvage, but not the other way around. You can create an Invention worktable for your base, as well as an Invention salvage vault. Each character has a limited amount of Invention Salvage storage space, some carried, some in the vault. No one else can access that characters Invention salvage vault.
There is access to the vault in Pocket D, in the city zones near the Consignment Houses, and in a base if it is created there. But these all access the same space. My level 24 can carry 32 and has 30 available in the vault. (The extra 2 carried are from a badge. There are several badges that increase both salvage storage and recipe storage.)
I found that IOs not expiring made leveling up much easier. Doing the tutorial at level 10 (The level it becomes available.) allows you to start right in with an IO that you don’t have to worry about outleveling in a couple of levels. It doesn’t help as much as a higher level enhancement, but it also doesn’t turn red and become worthless. So there is not as much pressure to redo your enancements every few levels.
Some of the sets are very nice, although it is very frustrating to keep getting recipes for holds and pets when you are running a scrapper. And there is some frustration from having a great recipe you can’t make because the mobs just aren’t dropping the salvage you need and no one is selling it. I think a lot of this will ease on the Live servers with the much larger base feeding both recipes and salvage into the CH system. OTOH, if you don’t want to mess with inventions or salvage, you can sell them easily at the NPC stores for pretty good money.
Some other changes:
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[li]NPC stores in KR[/li][li]Tram stops in Skyway and FF[/li][li]TO and DO drops stop at high levels (SO drops are not increased, so there are less enhancement drops overall.)[/li][li]Villain side Hamidon encounter[/li][li]Statesman Task Force for heroes[/li][/ul]
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They FINALLY fixed this? Holy crap!
Waitaminute – you need storage space for salvage? Where? Please don’t say your super group base, because I hardly ever join sg’s any more.
I am, however, interested in joining yours, The Mad Hermit. I’m currently playing a villain in Victory: Death Wail. My global handle is @Nordic.
Also, my free trial is up for grabs too.
No, there’s public rooms in each zone with a Wentworths or Black Market, marked on the map.
Also, if you put salvage up for sale in Wentworth’s or the BM… but do not put a price at all, it is marked as ‘stored’.