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Likely Agent of Praetoria, which I've mentioned several times above is the Praetorian version of the Going Rogue ownership badge.

Except that Agent of Order/Chaos and Agent of Praetoria are two mutually exclusive badges. Both these badges are for one thing: Owning the Going Rogue expansion. To put it another way: Tiger has earned the Primal Earth version of the badge, and should not keep the duplicate.

It would be like saying a level 50 primal earth character could earn Protector of Innocents, Soldier, and Praetorian Professional on one character. Barring a developer turning on all badges, no character can get both versions.

Avid Reader, providing the developers are working on a way for everyone to earn via flashback, I have zero issue with.

Agent of Praetoria is marked as Praetorian Only. Avid reader, by its nature is Praetorian Only. Agent of Order is an mutually exclusive badge to the Agent of Order/Chaos and one of the two (either Order/Chaos or Praetoria) should be removed from Tiger.

Agent of Praetoria and Agent of Order/Chaos should be mutually exclusive.

Well, I hope it gets corrected (the 2 agent badges), and that everyone gets a chance at avid reader.

No, Comic stated he wanted my address so he can crash a party there. Not a public venue, my address. That invalidates his argument. He didn't say next time you plan a party in a park or restaurant or meeting hall (though if I booked a meeting hall, I could freely have him and his "friend" ejected as long as I followed the rules of the contract).
He is talking about trespassing. Private property, not some park, restaurant, or meeting hall.

If he wants to go to a restaurant, a park, or other public place I'm visiting, then he has to follow the rules of the business or area in question. At a park or some other place, I have only have recourse if he attacks or is stalking me. At my address, I can phone the police and have him arrested and removed for trespassing because I do have an expectation of privacy on my own property.

Asking for my private address does invalidate my expectancy of privacy.

And resorting to ad hominems isn't helping your position.

No, they are not. If the restaurant seats 16 people, and you have a reservation for 10, and 5 people are already there then the people with the reservation can't kick out the 5 people already there. If you have a reservation for 16 people, the management will ask the extras to leave or, in this case, move the 16 people to a new room.

You are confusing a public venue with a private venue. The LFG queue is a public venue.

You can speculate that all you want, I'd disagree with the reaction to be at that level. Will some players unsubscribe? Possibly. Would most players care that much? I doubt it. If the people that are calling for a lock are being honest, then there will be people that would still use the turnstile if it didn't allow players to make a league before entering.

I already do use the turnstile system solo. I've gotten on teams with it. I'm not going to inconvenience groups that will let me do multiple runs with them by quitting and entering the queue solo each time though. Using ad hominems is not a good way to support your argument.

Would I prefer a strong signal that private leagues aren't really private? Of course. I am not going to cut my nose to spite you though. If I make a league and it doesn't fill, then I'll continue to gladly accept people from the queue. Why? It is because I don't consider a less than full league to be private.

I think anyone that thinks taking less than a full league to a trial gives them the right to a private trial is deluding themselves.

I don't know, I'm still planning on creating all 32 alpha tree powers on one character. Then again, I'm sure that people will think doing that is crazy.

<shrug> I'm not wanting to quarrel with you, but I didn't want the developers to think that kind of price gouging was acceptable.

I've used 4 teams of 6 in this way:

• Top 2 players on each team to Ambushes
• Middle 2 players on each team to Siege
• Bottom 2 players on each team to Night Star

It divides the teams equally, and spreads out the rewards to all teams.

It is likely a bug with Herostats, not the game. Herostats doesn't immediately recognise a character switch and can continue to report that a character is on for up to 5 minutes. During that time badges from a new character can be mis-applied.

Edit:
You might want to look at this post on the CIT forums about it:
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.....html#msg37691

Apparently it happens with the quit to character selection (instead of quitting to login).

Yes, and if they did make it 3 Notices per Thread Rare, no one would ever use it, so it is pointless to set it that high. Setting the 3:1 Notice to Rare ratio would be significantly more costly than the Notice->Favor conversion. It would be so costly that I doubt that anyone would use it.

Edit:
A rare thread component is 4 days of trials. A Notice is 1 per 7 days. To use EvilGeko's figures it would take 21 days for a single rare thread component.

A very rare thread component is 15 days of trials. A Favor of the Well takes 2 weeks + 32 shards (about 2.5 weeks). To use EvilGeko's figures, that is 5.5 weeks for a single very rare thread component.

Comic's "point" was inherently flawed.

A private function at -my- residence isn't a public function. On the other hand if I had a party at a restaurant, I couldn't stop anyone from going to said restaurant unless I made previsions with the management to book (fill) the entire restaurant's seating. The management still has the right to let other people in if the reservation is less than the available seating, at -their- discretion, not the people booking a less than full group.

The same thing applies to the LFG queue. A full league books the entire reservation for the trial, a partial league is open to other people joining.

A touch overpriced. I'd say the following sounds "about right":

Rare thread component = 1 (one) Notice of the Well + 16 (sixteen) shards
Very rare thread component = 1 (one) Favor of the Well + 16 (sixteen) shards

This way there would still be a penalty, but not such an excessive one that no one would use it.

Having a Notice break down 1:1 to an uncommon thread component would be acceptable.

The real-time limit on those temp powers is such that they can't be used during the next run.

I agree with Memphis_Bill:

I backed off of Wendy by ignoring her posts. Seeing that even trying to say anything to her sparked another round of venom, I'm literally tuning her out. If she wants to continue, that's fine. I don't have to put up with it though.

I'm not the one putting other players in the league, the game is. Choose your targets better.
I'll agree with the spawn size, but I don't think added FX has anything to do with the crashes. If it is, then they better stay away from ANY of the following:

• Talos Wentworths (any server)
• Atlas Park (any server)
• Pocket D (any server)
• RWZ (any server)
• Rikti Raid event (any server)
• Zombie event (any server)
• Banner event (any server)
• Most of Praetoria
• Virtue Server (any zone)
• Freedom Server (any zone)

As is your right. It is my right to be able to say that I like the system.

In a way I hope that happens, it would send an even clearer signal than already exists that if you want to participate in the trials, it will be an inclusive effort.

And they can't say that their opinion is more right than mine either. The final arbiters of what is right for the game are the developers.

Analogy fail. The extra guests aren't coming from down the block, they are from the same condo, and the terms of the clubhouse state that any owner can use the clubhouse at any time. The rules of this particular clubhouse are being enforced.

You might want to check the forum rules & guidelines:
Asking for that information might be considered trolling.

That means enhancing is out of the question too.

You can't run regular missions while in the queue. I'm not sure if you can access the tailor or respec screens either.

Is Wendy still responding to me? If she is I don't know why she is bothering.

It is because I want to believe the developer promise that a player doesn't have to be a member of a group or know anyone on a server to participate in a trial. Allowing players to isolate their groups from outsiders causes that promise to be broken.

I would accept this, if badges were tweaked.

What if it is and a developer came right out and said it? Would you say the developer didn't have the high ground to tell you that is what they intended?

At this point, I think those that have made their up their mind to think that the developers are wrong or that the LFG system isn't functioning as it is supposed to be will not be appeased even if a developer speaks to the issue.

At the end of the day, a locking feature will break the developer promise of not needing to be in the "right" group to participate in the trials/raids.

I'd suggest that you read this article about MMO raids:
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2010/05/...g-raiding.html

It is focused on the market leading MMO, but the points the article makes are relevant here. People complain about needing a guild/group/whatever to raid in other MMOs, the way the LFG system works in this game eliminates that need.

By crippling the Looking For Group system by allowing groups to disable the system's ability to add players from the queue to the trial is to doom this game's raid system to other game's past mistakes.

Given that I'm seeing even PUG groups trying to lock leagues with the team lock tool, I think I can safely say that most people will lock leagues.

It implies no such thing. All that implies is that people don't want to feel bad about kicking someone from the league.

This is because most people that want a private league would feel bad kicking players who the system teams with them. That is why kicking isn't more rampant. You've said it yourself -- that you'd feel bad kicking someone, but would want a way to prevent them joining in the first place. The system doesn't allow for you prevent people from joining so the person being added has a chance to actually do the trial.

Because I had the audacity to actually moderate a moderated channel.

As to the rest, seeing that you can't seem to prevent yourself from making attacks, welcome to my ignore list.

While I didn't create it, I have tried to keep it to its purpose.

On the whole, I would like to think most people are decent. However there are enough bad apples to see the same attitude, mostly to a lesser degree (there have been a couple posters that brought the exact same unpleasantness in these discussions), in the posters that are asking for a league lock.

The really annoying thing about this, even if I didn't have my opinions lowered by some people, the point stands about most people locking leagues. People I've been doing trials with, some that I know that love to PUG and are completely welcoming to other players, are already trying to lock leagues (mistakenly using the team locks) with every run. These people aren't trying to run SG-only events, yet they are still trying to lock the league. That alone tells me that a league lock will not be used sparingly.

I truly wish I could believe that, but given ample evidence of people willing to PUG trying to lock leagues, I can't.

And the restaurant wouldn't be obliged to serve a customer know to be problematic to the clientèle. In that case the person that insists disrupting seating arrangements can be refused service.

In other words, if you don't like the service as presented, you are free to eat elsewhere.

Not that long ago Triumph had 5 MS Raids in a row, with tiny breaks between a few of the raids.