Zombie Man

That's only because your credit card is on file.

Badges are all about 'trying it all', even things you don't like to do, whether it be PvP or teaming. So, it is unlikely that the argument to not tie badges to events will get no traction.

The problem was the small-window, one-time, likely-to-miss nature of this badge.

Expect them to throw in *A LOT* of AVs and Giant Monsters, especially, the WarWalkers of the Incarnate TFs.

But it is a dev-run event. Not a programmed zone invasion like Rikti or Zombies.

My guess for why a stress test is this: I've been seeing that Freedom is not 'in the red' as often as Virtue anymore, which makes me think they added more computer power to Freedom. And now they want to see what the breaking point is. That tells them what to set the server queue at. It may also give them info about how to handle a one-server environment that was talked about a really long time ago (but there is *no* evidence that a one-server system is even still be considered).

But we did hear from Dev chat that cross-server teaming is on the to-do list. This may mean it's still over a year away, but at least they have resources allocated to attempting it (and the attempt may fail). And this stress test may be part of the data needed for that, too.

Will this bring some player's computers to their knees? Oh, yes. But for some, a Mothership Raid already does that. That is completely irrelevant. The Server is being tested, not players' computers.

Of course, that some players who attempt to experience this won't be able to is another obvious reason that using a badge as enticement was a Really Big Bad Idea. "I couldn't get on! I got on but rubberbanded and couldn't get to the event" ... and so on. A great way to give Customer Support more work to do: "/petition "I was at the event and couldn't get on to get the badge!""

That annoys me to no end: The Trial can be done with less than a full complement. Is it really worth, over the course of a hundred trials to wait around literally for hours and hours and hours just to ensure that you don't get that one in a hundred jerk who gets tagged onto your league who clicks the towers when you told everyone not to? Just one-star the jerk and kick them if they wind up in your league again.

The iTrials can be completed with the minimum number of players -- it scales. Let's all agree to stop waiting 20 minutes for one more person.

Yeah, very poorly thought out.

I also added to the thread removed how having a badge works against what they want to do: The badgers all agree that as soon as they get their badge, they log out to let others on (and for their alts). Thus, making the event a no-show and the stress test less stressed.

They were incentivizing people *not* sticking around!

It seems they got the message.

Spoke too soon!

Welcome to the forums.

Red face, yes. Red name, no.

No, but that's not what's being posited.

What's being posited is: "I expect every pay-for power to work in all instances, game mechanics and balance be damned."

*That* is pure entitlement.


All that is besides the other point that some of those powers are supposed to be working but are not as a result of a bug, not because of any sort of cheating by the Devs.

You mean something that very clearly crosses the line like this?...


And after taking your swipe, you say:

Riiiight. You can make your comment, but others shouldn't.

Those tactics normally work if the map/door is randomized among a set of possible map/door. Most Praetorian missions are not like that. The Devs specifically picked a specific map/door for the mission, which means, no chance for a different map for that mission.

This was all part of their stated goal that doors would 'make sense'. So, e.g., if you had a mission in the Yin Corp building, you would always go to the Yin Corp building.

Except, of course, that they shut it off. And that an attempt to make it work with a new base designer didn't work. And that it's not on the development to-do list for now, thus, any expectation that it should work is based on not really listening to what the devs have said, and thus chiding them for saying nothing is facepalm worthy all its own.

The for set up?

The fort set up?

The form set up?

The forum set up? Yes! That must be it!

But it was a well-written sentence!

OK, they advertised limitations for that power. But how about the GvE Pack. I can use the VIP TPer whenever I want, right? No cooldown? Not interruptible? Are there any official warnings for that pack that would make me think twice that this cool power isn't always available at all times?