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I'm confused as to who you are talking about. American_Angel or myself?

Nope, but I'll give you all a choice:

"There's a sucker born every minute." or "Every crowd has a silver lining."

Basically what I'm seeing of player reaction in this thread is what happened when they changed the thread "tier 2 to tier 3" and "tier 3 to tier 4" conversions from costing billions to "mere" millions. Yes, it is better than the previous rate, but it isn't at all "good".

Not really. A single Notice of the Well (Tier 3 component) is being valued at two Tier 1 components.

I guess P.T. Barnum was right.

This is from the latest patch notes on the test server. If it is the same mission, then it might be fixed with the next live patch:

Or you could go back to the contact and autocomplete the mission.

This is a needlessly punishing conversion rate joining with the Thread Uncommon->Rare and Rare->Very Rare rates, the Shards->Threads rate, any of the component breakdown rates, and the Inf->Prestige conversion rate.

A Notice of the Well should directly convert to a Thread Rare component, not 2 common thread components. Getting a Notice of the Well is real time restricted to a 7 day period already. Getting a Favor of the Well is time restricted to 14 days.

Now, if the Notice of the Well + 60 threads converted to Thread Rare Component, that might be acceptable. Following that logic, a Favor of the Well + 120 threads should convert to a V. Rare component.

Yes, NCsoft's coffer's not Paragon Studios. Just like that competitor's superhero MMO that the development studio is getting sold off. I take it you've never worked for a multi-national company before.

Paragon Studios has its own budget, that budget is dictated to them by NCsoft. So while NCsoft might be able to donate large sums of money, Paragon Studios has to work with a smaller amount of money.

Yes and NCsoft doesn't have anything to do with the daily development of the game.

I experience the same issues. I can say I get the same problem with a different area too.

After 3 hours or around 80 uses of Destiny Total Core Invocation, the game crashes for me. This happens on both my desktop and my laptop. The laptop reports that it has run out of virtual memory when it does.

Except in CaptA's case where he is side switching a hero to get the Marcones.

The north east corner of St. Martial (The Flop area).

It has given me errors for that particular type of bind before.

Filing 4 different petitions on the same problem will NOT speed up the response to your problem. Petitions are handled in the order they get them.
Did you get the automatic response? If not there is something wrong.

If you are giving the GMs as much info as you are giving us, I doubt they can help you. I know that I can't tell what mission you are talking about. Not all the GMs deal only with CoH.

Who is the contact?
What zone?
What is the level range of the mission?
What -exactly- is the problem you are experiencing?

Yeah, I have two binds for my favorite global channel (SG channel, name removed to protect its privacy):

/bind shift+enter beginchat /send "Group Channel"
/bind control+enter beginchat /send "Group Channel" [$name - $level $archetype]

Shift+enter gets far more use than control+enter.

By the way, the way you are using quotes WILL confuse the game. It will read what you did as:
/bind <key> "beginchat /send" <error second string> <error third string>

In other words you gave the bind command too many parameters.

While I sympathize for your situation, the policy was clear before they put it in place. Ideally, they should have checked global names and made sure that duplicate names were not possible from the time the EU servers launched. I don't think that hindsight is going to help you. The best thing to do going forward is to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I also note that GM Lloyd didn't say the account was banned (and wasn't likely to) or only recently inactive (again, they don't give details like that due to privacy concerns).

What you are asking for isn't likely to happen. I'm not saying that it will never happen, just that it is unlikely at this point. It would take a while to design, test, and notify people before such a change could occur. Given everything else going on (work on Issue 21 and beyond), doing that will be difficult.

I think I have to repeat myself: I hear there is a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale.

With the level of trust you are displaying, it will be a great opportunity to own that historical landmark. You might be able to get tolls and set yourself up for life.

To think that a comment on ustream prompted the change shows a level of naïveté that I've not seen on these forums for the 75 months I've been a subscriber to this game. Either that or I weep for the competence of some of the past/present staff at Paragon Studios. Given that I don't really believe that people at Paragon Studios are incompetent, that leaves me with a problem.

Was it on Synapse's desk and just never attended to? Perhaps. If Black Scorpion didn't get told about it, then someone failed to tell him when he took over for Synapse.

Trial accounts should not have conflicted with any EU Global Name.
Unless your global name was Trial-(whatever), you need not fear that a trial account conflicted with you.

I'd agree with and fully support this suggestion.

You do know that it took over a year from it supposedly getting introduced to the live servers to actually work, right?

And if it is being held by an active account that doesn't want to change it? How do you know that they aren't active right now? There are settings to block out any global emails or just to allow people from their friends list to email them. I know that I use those settings to prevent RMTs from bothering me.

How do you know it is dead or inactive? I'm positive that I could set myself up in game to appear to be inactive/offline for a few months (or longer). Unless someone actually stumbled on me I would, for all intents, appear to be gone from the game. Heck I could even hide from everyone on the live servers and be on the test server. Given the lack of people on it most of the time, I could go weeks/months without seeing anyone but still be an active subscriber. You can't go by forum access either, as a lot of players don't come here either.

I've been told in the past around 2 years is the average. Thanks to some past military decisions, that could be up to four years for some people though.

Hold it right there. This change is not about who is "better and more deserving". NCsoft made this choice on financial and technical grounds. I'm 100% positive that if there was a way for NCsoft to have everyone keep their global name, they would have done it. I'm absolutely sure that they think every customer was deserving to keep the global name they chose. That just wasn't possible though.

It likely wasn't financially possible to maintain a separate server list and continue keeping the game open. It is likely that the amount of EU subscribers is a small percentage of the NA subscribers. So they chose this route instead of following Lineage's lead and shutting down the whole continent (Lineage 1's NA servers are shutting down for good next month). So instead of not having the European population at all, some EU players had their names changed.

So while I might feel for those EU players affected by this change, it IS better than the alternative.

Okay, just for a sanity check, what if the player with your EU Global Name IS an active subscriber?

How are you to determine if an account is permanently inactive? I know the developers aren't psychic. There are different levels of banning, so if you tag all banned accounts you risk getting accounts that have gotten a wrist slap (72 hour ban).

And what if even banning those accounts didn't get "your" name back? What then? Continue to whittle it down to who has subscribed longest or who has had the name longest? I'm pretty sure the game doesn't hold the info of when was the last name change.

I seriously doubt this will ever happen. Sorry, but at this stage the only constructive advice I can give is to put the change behind you.

They will not change any full accounts. There is a reason that the last time the name purge happened that it only affected accounts lower than level 6. It was to minimize the amount of accounts affected, just like this change was intended to do.

Simpler method than the above though:
/showbind <key>

Where <key> is your current keybind.

/bind <key> beginchat /send <channel name> <whatever you want for defaults>

If <channel name> has spaces, you need to enclose it in quotes.

The <whatever you want for defaults> can include $name, $level, $archetype, $origin, etc.

With your example:
/bind <key> beginchat /send "Defiant Events EU" ($name:$level)

This is correct, except where it saves the file.

I have only 1 character with the MoLambda. So much for the deterministic way to get the rare component for getting that badge.

To assume that Black Scorpion didn't know of this borders on the realms of credulity. I'm sorry, I just don't buy it.

From may 8, 2009 (two years ago):
There are still badge issues lists from 2007 mentioning the 5th column gladiator.