Aett_Thorn

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I thought trial accounts could reach level 14.

To clarify Von Krieger's post (which may not need it): You can get a "taste" of flying at level 5 with a temporary power which runs out after 2 hours.

The level 14 Fly power is something you can use as long as you want. Fly a hundred yards up in the air, go grab a sandwich in safety, come back, cruise through zones that would otherwise kill you, etc. - and it's a lot faster than the temp power.

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And I thought trial accounts went to level 15. Don't quote me, but I'm about 90% sure they do.

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It's 13.

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Ridiculous. The word is spelled r i d i c u l o u s.

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Who was that directed at?

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well, i just came back after 4 years off. forgot my way around and had to ask in broadcast how to get to peregrine from kings row lol.
if you looked at my profile, i have all kinds of badges and the such......would that upset you?

just wanting to know the level of questions and to what extent as to not upset the general populkation=/

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Not a problem, generally. A lot of people are just getting a little ticked off at the newbie 50s that don't know what they're doing, but that shouldn't be you. While a lot has changed since you've been gone, you've also forgotten some basic stuff.

For me, it would all depend on how you asked the question.

For instance, this:

"How u get frum kr to pi?"

would get a lot different reaction that this:

"Hey, I've been gone for four years, and forgot where I need to go to get to PI from KR. Any help would be appreciated."


It lets us know why you're asking a fairly basic question, and does it in a way that doesn't make you look stupid.

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Well that kinda sucks... but the Ouroboros trick still works, right?

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Yes, it does.

However, for the OP, with the recent prestige changes, I've not had a problem getting a base set up pretty quickly with even minimal people in the SG (read: me and my one friend that was in the SG with me).

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I might be mistaken here, but when i turned off XP last time i got the feeling i was getting the same amount of Inf as i was getting with it on... and not increased like when you are Malled/Exempted.
So there really is no gain here then (except not leveling, but if you're after prestige there is no reason not to lvl).
I could be mistaken though...

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Correct. Turning off XP is not like exemping. You do NOT gain more influence/prestige, just the normal amount. All turning off XP does is turns off your XP gains.

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You don't actually search through that much each time you open the MA. The searchable part of a mission is hardly more than a kb, and I bet that's really well indexed.

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Ahhh...probably true. Okay, knock that one off my potential complaint list.

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1 per 3 months wouldn't be a bad way to do it.

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Really? Because that would give me 23 slots, including the base 3, to potentially fill up. That's a lot of space on the server that I could potentially take up.

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Each arc is a max of 100k.

You could take up to 2.3 meg. (Not exact, but using 1000k = 1M.) Say we had 50,000 people using all the slots, and all at that level. 115,000 meg... or 115Gb.

That's not a lot of space. Even given backups, redundancies and the like - that's *cheap.* I don't buy that as an argument. Sorry, Aett. Besides, I *can* pay for more slots right now - $15-$20, one month, three slots. Admittedly you need to re-pay to update them.

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Well, that's still 115 Gb to search through each time you open the MA window. I'd be willing to bet that slower computers would have the same problems with that as they do at Wentworth's.

I'm not saying that it's a huge problem, but it's 115 Gb on top of everything else they've got on the servers.

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1 per 3 months wouldn't be a bad way to do it.

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Really? Because that would give me 23 slots, including the base 3, to potentially fill up. That's a lot of space on the server that I could potentially take up.

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How about why not

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First off, these first few only apply if there were no restrictions on being able to buy:

1) It would allow people who have lost their three MA arcs due to farming deletions to create more.

2) It would allow even other people to create more farming missions to get different things done in each one.


Now, if there were restrictions on them, like, say, if you've had an MA arc locked due to farming, you could no longer buy them, there would still be the following problems, in my eyes:

3) Each arc takes up space on the server. Unless the cost of the sale was high enough to match the amount of additional space that you'd need to hold all of the new arcs, you'd run out of space, or at least slow down on everything regarding the MA.

4) Each arc takes up space in the listing. Trying to find new arcs to do could become more of a hassle the more arcs are in the listing. 3 per person, at around 100,000 accounts, is still a possibility of 300,000 mission arcs in there. Giving people more based on vet time could quickly increase that to 600,000 or so. That's double the number of potential arcs in there.

5) Would allow people with a bigger wallet, or with more vet time, to accumulate tickets quicker than somebody else. If their missions are played equally, but one player has 6 mission arcs, and the other 3, then the player with 6 arcs could potentially make account-wide tickets faster. That's not too much of a problem in my mind, but it might still be a balancing issue that would need to be overcome.

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I was planning to take Stone Mastery on my Dark Armor tanker to stack stuns and be a bit of a "tanktroller", but looking at it in Mids', Earth Mastery > Stalagmites has only a 10% chance for its mag 3 stun. Is this a Mids' Hero Planner bug, or is it really that worthless?

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That is correct, IIRC. For Tankers, it's more of a damage power than a control power. But, used against a group, it stuns fairly reliably.

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I was looking for dam/res and end/mod DOs for one of my toons last week. There was everything else BUT available. It's very annoying, especially since trying to buy them on a low level toon that's influence poor (or even find them at all in WW) is nearly impossible.

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If you run nothing but MA missions, and are buying enhancements at the store there, you should have AT LEAST enough influence to buy a few of the missing enhancement types.

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Dang, that can get pretty expensive compared to all the possible combinations of alts you can make. I guess ill have to delete some lowbie toons that are just trying to get alcolades

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12 Slots per server, 11 servers = 132 possible characters, without buying a new slot.

If it says that you have two slots available, then they are at no cost. However, you can also buy more slots for 10 bucks a pop, if I recall correctly.

1) A character in-game that is a girl with catlike features

2) A cat with girllike features

3) A farm mission that used things like in 1) as hostages to rescue

Most do, but some don't.

Also, many contacts won't start you on their arc if you're at the last level of their level range; in this case, level 9. Since Dr. Creed (IIRC) has no non-arc missions, he wouldn't give you anything, and therefore bumps himself off your active list.

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just to point out that 3 words can attract a lot.

this is why i suggest a farm Forum 'only (about cash and sex, ask the devs^^ )

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Coming soon to a thread near you, TheOcho answers your questions about relationships and investment.

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Is $15 a month the most money-wise investment, given happiness-time, in this bad economy?

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Absolutely adore the ease of using MA tickets to buy my DO's rather than influence, but for some odd reason the Endurance Modifiers (for Stamina) and the Resist Damage (for resists) seem to be missing from the reward screen. They're present in the Training Origin IO's. but not on any of the five listings of DO's.

I'm villainside on Virtue and in the Cap AE.

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There are a number of holes in the listing. DO Hold enhancements are also not on the list for some reason.

First off, don't come at this game like you might have come at WoW. This game is NOT about the end game, but about the all-game. There is content to enjoy from level 1 to level 50.

That said, at level 50, you can do Hami Raids, high-level Task Forces, PvP, or, through using Ouroborus, go back and do any content that you may have missed on the way up, with few exceptions. You can also use the mission architect system to go through player-created content.

I want a SR/SS Tank.

I want a Dark Blast Blaster

I want a Claws Brute



That's pretty much it.

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Another round of Dueling Answers, Aett?

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I'll play your game, you rogue*.


*use not meant to be ironic for this thread.

Don't know what you mean by a PRO, but if you meant the Devs, they very rarely respond to questions here.

But, Going Rouge means that your characters will all be turned a nice shade of pale blush when the expansion hits.

Going ROGUE, on the other hand, we don't know exactly how it will work. We've been told pretty much what you know, and very few other details have emerged on the how, what, and where that faction crossovers will occur.

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Yeah save your typing with the move to a different low population server, start in Galaxy, and you don't have to do AE knee jerk replies.

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There's a reason for these kinds of responses.

If you're not willing to take steps already available to you to avoid something you don't like, why should the Devs create different code for different servers, creating headaches for themselves, longer development and testing times between issues, and many other problems, just so that you don't have to take the simple steps that you could do?

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1. Make the snake lower body and heads available for MA custom designs, perhaps as pay to unlock content.

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Unlikely to happen. The Snakes as a group have a very limited amount of custom animations, just for them. They do this because of the skeleton that they're on. Making that skeleton work with other animations would require that all of those animations be redone.

For instance, how would the current Snakes look if they were doing attacks from the Martial Arts set?

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2. It would be nice to have at least one long skirt costume option and maybe a couple of untucked shirt options as well.

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I imagine that the Devs are worried about clipping issues here, as well.

You can't. As soon as they come back, kick them off then.

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Well, in all honesty, other forums that allow them have had problems with too much clutter from them. And people posting inappropriate images. Think of it as a preemptive strike against that sort of thing.

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The forums have first-strike capabilities? Dang. That's pretty cool.