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Originally Posted by Dante

If I see another clone of the game's least interesting character, I will scream. Please, if we are going to have a medieval zone, let it be without the taint of the Statesman story for a change....

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

I'll go out on a limb and say basically every arc the game launched with is unplayable garbage by today's standards, essentially bad MA arcs with (generally) better spelling and fewer bugs.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

You and me both, bud. There's no 'forced teaming' required anyway (once this conversion recipe goes live, that is) so maybe if I bash my head in too I'll be able to understand why 'forced teaming' is even an issue.

I'd agree that a lot of the Incarnate stuff isn't very 'solo friendly', but then again TFs have never been 'solo friendly' so I'm not sure why it would be an issue now but it never was in the past (at least, I never noticed it being one).

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

Actually, what's more likely is someone created a new, throwaway account with some free GR trial time they had and changed the in-game global name to one that would fool people into thinking it was Sexy Jay.

The person in question was later reported by members of the CapeRadio channel to GMs, and the next night that global named was generic'ed (when a global name is changed everyone in the channel is sent a system message) with dozens of witnesses.

These riddles are guesses and falsehoods. Case closed.



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Originally Posted by Vox Populi

That arc just unlocks the Alpha Slot. Content for Incarnate-powered characters should be even tougher. That's the whole point of the system. Once you get to those levels, "solo-friendly" goes out the window.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Sigh.

Yes, you revamped existing content. Good for you. Revamping, pointing out and fixing flaws, is easy. Creating from scratch is not. Especially content the entire game is going to see and at least a majority of players need to approve of. Content that presumably moves the Incarnate storyline forward, because otherwise people would simply gripe about being given a placeholder arc.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Seaman - Deck and Admin
Airman - Aviation
Fireman - Engineering
Hospitalman - Medical/Dental (In 2005 the Dental rating was merged with the medical rating)
Constructionman - Seabees

I hoped you might find it a useless but interesting piece of trivia.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

I've heard a rumor from a fellow player that someone jacked the global name for sexyjay and spread these hints? I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere, but it does concern me.


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Originally Posted by nihilii

heh, seriously. I'd put my average solo hour of playing at about 10-12 shards. It's still a good 8-9 hours of playing (and playing, not "afking during loading times to alttab and browse the internet", which is what i end up doing solo! ) and compared to a half hour for the weekly tf that's still about twenty times slower, which is a bit much imho. There's lots of middle ground in there to decrease the requirements for a solo notice of the well without falling into ridiculous hyperbole to defend that point.

Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU

It was forced teaming for me... There was *no* way I was going to get past Honoree and the other dude solo.

I *had* to team up for that mission.

My other half *had* to ask me for help with Trapdoor, but not for the follow up mission (+0x1 for both of us).

So, what do you make of that?

Are you saying that me and my GF are crap players and didnt deserve it? It was challenging "solo orientated" content, but it was also definately forced teaming for me and my GF.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

I find it interesting how one 'side' of this debate seems to rely on pre-emptively defending their position while at the same time trying to cast aspersions on the 'other side'. It makes it seem like your (general your) reaching for ways to hamstring discussion.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Okay. Expect that in i22, since resources need to be allocated to the project and i20 and i21 are already in the pipeline.

What? You want it ASAP? Well, in order to do that we need to minimize use of resources. We can do a cheapie workaround for you. Will that tide you over until we finish in-progress projects and can start working on this one?

IOW: Just how quickly do you think a very well done and challenging story arc can be completed?

Originally Posted by Vox Populi

My point is, "challenging" and "solo" don't really mix.

If it's a tough challenge, most players are going to need a team, which brings us back to the same "forced teaming" discussion. And the Incarnate content should be a tough challenge.

Incarnate-worthy solo content is easier said than done.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

The only issue seems to be people who won't team up on principle.

Originally Posted by Atomic_Woman

I take exception to the fact that you (general you here, not you personally) will have an option to get these rewards even though you're not participating in the stuff they're normally earned through, but instead of being grateful that it's an option I'm seeing people basically say "No, I want it faster!"

It's not supposed to be fast. It's there as the last resort for people who absolutely refuse to team. If it was faster there would be less incentive to team to get them. And it's been stated outright that all this stuff is designed around getting people to team. The devs want you to team.

Originally Posted by Blood_Beret

VEAT Crab

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

No. It's actually the US Naval enlisted ranks for deck and administrative ratings and has nothing to do with political correctness.

E-1 Seaman Recruit
E-2 Seaman Apprentice
E-3 Seaman

Originally Posted by UberGuy

It's really got not much to do with farming, but it does have something to do with how fast you can defeat stuff, which farmers strive to achieve at very high rates.

Let's say you're on a 8-man team, and the team defeats things such that drops are produced at some average rate X. Every time something drops, someone is chosen to receive it at random. Your average rate of getting something is X/8.

Let's say you go soloing. Alone, you can defeat stuff at a rate that's crates drops at, say, just 20% of what the team could, or X/5. But you get to keep all of those yourself. X/5 is 1.6x as many drops per time as X/8.

Edit: To be clear, the X/5 number in particular is picked out of thin air, and is purely for illustration purposes. If your character is a poor soloist, it's easy to imagine that X/8 is an improvement over what they can manage alone. If they're a strong soloist, it may not be.