I hate to throw a wet blanket on the party celebrating the return of CoX, but there are still many questions to be answered before we all put on our party hats.
Most important to me is all my Veteran rewards I paid for with my subscriptions (yes, more than one)! These are things I paid NCSoft for, and I still feel it should be included in the sale. Come on NCSoft - show your customers some loyalty by trying to include that information! Will I buy a NCSoft game to get back my account information? YES! Do I feel I should? NO!
Will NCSoft be directly involved with the return or will it be at the discretion of the new Devs? If NCSoft is directly involved, I am probably going to be less involved in paying for CoX.
My characters, their bases, etc., well... that's secondary to me. The bases will be a real pain to restore, but it's do-able. I'm not a real min-maxer, and I sold my purples for INF so I could outfit my characters with good (not great) IOs. I tried playing the market, but it was too boring.
If we don't get our characters back, or - due to fewer servers - we have to import characters from our accounts, there should be an initial limit of creating or importing ONE PER DAY! This will allow everyone a chance to get a few of the great names and not let someone reserve them all by creating lots of characters on the first day. After a month or two, this restriction should be removed, but initially, let it be happen.
I found myself playing characters up to around 30, then going onto another alt. My first level 50 was a Fire/Kin controller (pre-ED) that I used to unlock the Khelds (I found the Khelds too much of a pain to play at low levels - especially when they were new, so I moved on to other characters). The first level 50 that I really enjoyed playing all the way up was my Bots/Dark mastermind shortly after CoV came out. Now I'm really the type of guy that likes to play Heroes, the MM was just too much fun not to play. I was a strong voice for the ability to "switch sides" shortly after CoV came out and they said the game wouldn't support it....
Speaking of bases, I have bases with THOUSANDS of salvage in them. When bases first came out, salvage was "extra garbage" that your character was given, and pretty useless. But the salvage racks in your base would hold 999 of them. I had many full when they changed it to a max of 30. So you had 999 in them, and you could pull salvage out but you couldn't put it back until you got under 30. A friend of mine IRL used to argue with me about our bases. I wanted to get them up and running with portals to every zone. He'd log in and see lots of prestige just sitting there and he'd go in and "decorate" with the prestige I was saving to upgrade something so we could go to more zones. So I would go in and sell off his decorations (and decoration rooms) so I could get that something we really needed. Eventually, he agreed to let me control the base until we had it fully functional, then he could go in afterwards and decorate as he felt necessary. If I recall correctly, it took 15 teleport pads to get to all the zones Blue-side. The hardest zone to get was RWZ - you had that one badge under the shield on the ship. You had to wait until people were doing a raid to get it. What a pain!
Speaking of which, if you can get your characters back to a new server, will you be able to import your base with him/her? Hmmm....
Well, I guess this ends my ranting. Enjoy!
