Snow Globe

Minor quibble, but the the Illusionist badge was set to 200 and counted all Illusionists (not just the decoys) before being changed to just decoys and 500 count. Admittedly now that it is set to its current state it is now far easier to get than before Issue 16.

Not in all cases. The Zookeeper change was a direct result of the capped targets in Issue 5. The Fabricator was much easier with base salvage and MUCH easier when brainstorm conversions counted.

I plead the 5th about the Empath badge though.

I hear there is a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale.

Apparently people are mistaking this comment for wanting an immediate fix. I don't.

This expectation is that the developers are going to tell us what they are going to do to regain player trust in the system, nothing more, nothing less. If they don't regain player trust, then they are shooting themselves in the foot.

The trials I don't type much, I get rares/very rares. The trials I start typing, I get uncommons and commons. Maybe you're a faster typist than I am. Maybe you are experiencing less lag and you are getting your powers off consistently (I'm getting power icons showing that they are recharged when they aren't). I don't know. Frankly, I don't care. I do care that for whatever reason the game is consistently giving me lesser rewards than others for doing the same tasks.

A system that gives unequal rewards for the same participation is a bad system.

The Master of Lambda I did, I healed the team, summoned pets when they recharged (as close to perma as a Ill/Emp can get), and kept the dominator that was psi-meleeing Marauder forted, I got an uncommon. The dominator got a very rare. This is, of course, in addition to the rare component for getting the master badge.

Yes, and randomly a door sitter will get a V. Rare table.

Sadly, I think you might be right, but this time I'm choosing to put out hope the developers will step forward and do the right thing.

Every time I take the time to talk or lead seriously, I drop to a common from uncommon. Sorry, proof enough for me.

The master runs I've been on drop me down to common or uncommon, without fail. Sorry, proof enough for me.

When several people DC and I all of a sudden get a V. Rare table, or my team clears phase 2 of Lambda faster than the other and I get a V. Rare table makes it appear to be a zero-sum.

I'm expecting a road map out of this fiasco. I expect a promise to make the game fair, not only from a mechanical perspective, but an observable perspective.

The game and the players deserve nothing less.

I learned typing in the mid-eighties. On a manual typewriter. I detest the double height carriage return, because some idiot found a new place for the pipe/backslash key: taking up half the former location of the left shift key. One acer laptop that I have to deal with has this layout. I'm constantly messing up passwords and even typing regular correspondence tends to be a labour in cussing the cursed machine.

Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb.

Given that this isn't the first loyalty program that Paragon Studios has done, I expect that tomorrow's extended maintenance will award the hidden account badge that will be activated on the 28th.

Actually that is quite likely multiple keyboard layouts. I personally detest the half sized left shift key/double height enter key layout pictured above.

Edit:
Here is another layout:

Let me say thank you to the whole development team for acting quickly. The Incarnate Trials are fun, but that fun is marred by the hidden judgements on play style.

I'll wait for the post before making further comments about the system.
-Snow Globe.

Edit:
I'll hold off making comments towards the developers about the system. However, when I see a clear misrepresentation of what has got people mad, I'll comment.

I love my "old" G15, though I'm tempted to upgrade to the 510. If anything happens to my G15, I will.

For the most part the same set up for the Logitech G15 should work for the G13. Here are a few guides to help you get started:

Kenja's G15 Master Guide by CuppaKenja [I10]
Multiple Character G15 Macro Setup by Duck LOrange
G15 Ignore Spammer Macro Creation by Snow_Globe

I should note that you can assign your G-Keys to things like Shift+Num0 and then use /bind shift+numpad0 <commands> to personalize for each character.

I know one person that is stocking up Very Rares at the moment and used most of their Empyrean Merits to buy commons thread components, seeing that they can't seem to get the common table. They already have tier 4s in all 5 incarnate slots.

Some of us aren't as "lucky". I've seen exactly 1 very rare table both in and out of beta over 100+ trials.

No, the job isn't done until an unfair system is removed. The participation-based rewards is a complete farce.

Going to Bolded Impact isn't an improvement.

Peace of advice: The harder you make your posts to read, the less likely people are to care about what you say.

• Don't use other fonts for your entire post, as most are hard on the eyes and are hard to read.
• Don't use bold for your entire post, it is hard on the eyes and is hard to read.
• Don't use text colors for your entire post as it is likely hard to read.

Oh, I wouldn't get my hopes up for the "additional methods for getting threads". What that very likely means is that there will be other trials that drop threads. Presumably that means the next two trials will also drop threads.

It also means that while the BAF rewards better as a player can qualify for all 4 badges during one run. A player can earn up to 7 Astral Merits from the BAF instead of 4-5 from Lambda if you get any badge from it (5 if you get both synchronized and Lambda Looter).

In this case the design is bad, about as bad as Empath being set to 1 billion HP healed. The two badges (Antacid, Well-Stocked) should not require the avoidance of the other temp powers.

The highlighted portion for Lambda Looter seems to direct contradict your own explanation.

Your explanation lacks something.

Tell that to my Ice/FF/Ice controller that kept the Lambda league bubbled and was only rewarded with 10 threads, or my empath that consistently gets uncommons that heals and tries to resurrect other players who instead choose to go to the hospital, or to the team leaders that actually communicate instructions without macros that they aren't "participating enough".

Teams within a league are getting disproportionate amount of Incarnate XP or drops. Also a player banished to a team of their own (either by a leader or by the simple process of rejoining a trial after a disconnection/crash) will get even less.

Your explanation doesn't match with observable results.
Well, that is something we seem to be able to agree on. The problem is that it does go out of its way to penalize players needlessly.

That requires actually getting those higher tier rewards in the first place, something that I can tell you doesn't happen often for a lot of players.

Again, tell that to my buffers or any leader that has to "go inactive" to help explain things, or a floating team running down an escaped prisoner so the trial doesn't end prematurely.

Given that the issue of disproportionate rewards was brought up well before release, one would think that the developers would have said and did something before this.

Yes, I've seen the "moving" crate in that room (a couple of times at that location even), just not consistently. Maybe time of day, sunspots, or team mix has something to do with it. All I know is that one cache isn't 100% in the same spot all the time.

And yes, I can see the image this time.