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Retcon costing money while still in powerhouse after free retcon
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I'm level 11 Sorcery only, and pre-patch I did not purchase any powers at level 8 or level 11 (before I logged off and shelved the character until the powerset was fixed). I logged on tonight, after reading that the sorcery bug was finally fixed, and looked at the powers I could now choose from. After picking a couple of sigil spells with their advantages, and testing them out, I decided to go with something else before leaving the powerhouse. When I go to retcon, it forces me to respec all my powers, so I do. Then I go back, picking first the innate characteristic, then my talent points, then my superstat, and then a few more powers to try out with their advantages. After further testing, I went back to retcon the powers/advantages I didn't want. Unlike other threads about Sorcery and Retcon, I COULD see all the powers including the energy builder, but nothing after that (ie. No innate talent/talents/superstat). What I didn't notice at first, is that each undo costs money, and I managed to retcon all the way back to the level 5 power (sigils of primal storm) without noticing the money loss. I am unsure of how much money I lost. To double check I re-purchased my travel ability, and went to the retcon screen to see if it cost anything. Now to retcon Teleport it costs 38.71, and Sigils is 44.24. I did not want to keep Sigils of Primal Storm... After leaving the powerhouse, and returning, I checked to see if it will charge me for a retcon if I choose a new advantage. Turns out it seems to work fine after re-entering, there was no charge listed for it, but still the same charges on everything else.. I'm disappointed that I am now stuck with a power I do not want, at absolutely no fault to myself. I don't fault the game, it's design, or it's devs. The worst thing about fixing a bug, is the chance it might cause another one. It happens all the time, in all types of games. I just want to bring it to the attention of someone who can fix it. I hope I'm not stuck with what I've got...
[TLDR]
Due to the free retcon, I was charged for subsequent retcons without leaving the powerhouse after buying the upgrades. Leaving the powerhouse and re-entering allowed me to purchase new abilities, and retcon them at no price as usual. I am stuck with a power I do not want, and empty pockets for unwittingly using retcons that cost money.
Sounds like other Sorcery users are experiencing similar problems, because of the free retcon, where they can't even see any upgrades in their retcon window. It's not my job to think for Cryptic, but I think after finding, and squashing these bugs, we should simply be re-allowed free retcons. I'm ok with losing all my money, if it means I don't get permanently stuck with an ability I never wanted in the first place.
[TLDR]
Due to the free retcon, I was charged for subsequent retcons without leaving the powerhouse after buying the upgrades. Leaving the powerhouse and re-entering allowed me to purchase new abilities, and retcon them at no price as usual. I am stuck with a power I do not want, and empty pockets for unwittingly using retcons that cost money.
Sounds like other Sorcery users are experiencing similar problems, because of the free retcon, where they can't even see any upgrades in their retcon window. It's not my job to think for Cryptic, but I think after finding, and squashing these bugs, we should simply be re-allowed free retcons. I'm ok with losing all my money, if it means I don't get permanently stuck with an ability I never wanted in the first place.
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It is a bug with the FULL respec you got. We have a thread going on about it right here: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?t=49157
We're not getting Dev attention so, please, join us and hopefully we can get it fixed for all.
In my case, I got this full respec back in BETA and it's stuck with my char into retail :mad:
I created a seperate thread because our problems are similar, but not the same.
My retcon box is not empty, the free retcon caused my power purchases to cost me money to retcon before I left the powerhouse. I didn't have any problems with the retcon window not showing anything I could retcon.
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I've been playing since the start of OB, and this Sorcery hero was going to be my main character, so I know what you are talking about. I got into the headstart as well, and I haven't got to play this character for more than a couple of hours since late OB, because of all the bugs. I'm in a hurry to get this fixed too, but complaining about it on the BUG forums isn't going to catch the attention of the devs any faster. They have people who's JOB it is to read these posts in the Bugs forum, and they will get to it as soon as they can. I'm simply posting here to report a bug.
PS: I just logged back in after the server came back up from maintenance. They seemed to of significantly lowered the cost of retcon. The respec cost of Teleport and Sigils is now 19.44, and 25.21. Helps me a little, since it won't take nearly as much money to fix what the free retcon broke, but I'm still left without money.
I figured out you might want to jump in
As long as this gets noticed it's all good
<1> The higher level sorcerers users cant see anything on the retcon window as we are trying to undo/test early choices.
<2> The ones that went all the way to spend theirs points are able to see some powers on the retcon window, but not with a free undo option.
As you are level 11 and you used most (or all) your points you are on category number 2.