0zymandous

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Wow, this game is really turning into a "cult of personality". With ALL the stuff that is defective, broken, unexplained, unfixed, and just downright wrong in this game, it's hardly the time for a press op and back-patting.

If you guys think way-way-WAY back - to like....last week, the same group of people who went "Old Yeller" on 70 employees, left us paying customers high and dry, and unable to login, for the better part of a day.

So, before any "unmasking" is done, let's see if we can get some TOUGH questions answered, instead of a bunch of "Larry King" softballs.

Let's see if there's anything worth listening to.

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So, tell me - how is Cuppa responsible for the "defective, broken, unexplained, unfixed, and just downright wrong in this game"?

Like a previous post said - if there are questions you want answered - post them here. If they are good questions, we'll ask her. But if their just going to be agressive scapegoating, then I guess we can just pass on each other.

Cuppa is a huge asset to the community - while she can certainly answer questions about player concerns, martyring her does no one any good. Comparing the immense respect the community as a whole has for Cuppa and all she's done on our behalf to mindless adulation of a leader of a totalitarian regime . . . um, yeah. Get some perspective, man.

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By the same logic that she was derided the last time she gave a radio interview.

Apparently, and I'm still trying to figure it out myself, this is just what I've figured out from others folks posts on the subject, but apparently it is believed that CuppaJo - Community Representitive/Forum Mod and all, a person who has in the past brought our posts to the developers attention, this person has more dev power and responsibility than the actual developers.

I'm not sure if it's because the difference between forum moderator and game developer is so subtle or just a mistaken belief that anyone with a redname is evil incarnate.

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Evil incarnate? Nah, it's just the stupidity of those who can't understand or grasp the idea that a "red name" does not equal someone with senior developer status, or someone who makes all their wishes come true. Even Jack has commented in the past that idea's he'd like in the game haven't been put in for one reason or another, and you can't get much more senior than that.

A "red name" is simply an official company/game rep of some kind, and anyone with half a brain would appreciate their actual feedback, not pardoning them for everything carta blanche', but also not villifying all of them all the time either.

Any official feedback is usually good, IMHO, since it's often the only way to know what's really going on as opposed to rampant speculation on the forums here.

Oh, and yes, most people I do think are lacking in the grey-matter compartment anyway, but that's just my opinion, I'm sure everyone feels differently.

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While it is new content in that a new instance has been created with mission type content and rewards, it has forced PvP content installed along with it.

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That's not how it works at all. There are no mission type rewards - you don't get XP for the mobs, and you only get some at the end.

Also, the whole point of the trial is to enable base raid PvP. That is what it is for. The PvP aspect isn't tacked on or 'forced', it's the trial's raison d'etre.

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It's pretty lame, IMHO, that to get some of the more nifty bits, like some of the nice base enhancements, players are essentially forced to play a way they may or may not want to play, i.e. PvP in the form of "base raids".

This is about as lame as forcing someone with CoH only to have to buy CoV just to get access to the SG bases themselves, even though the base portals are in CoH itself.

So much for allowing players 100% freedom to play how they want and have access to things whether or not they want to PvP or not.

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(Correct me if I am wrong my memory is kinda foggy on this one) Did you know if you saved a citizen from a mob that they used to give you influence?

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They still do as long as the mob you saved them from wasn't greyed out and you got zero xp/inf from planting said mob. Otherwise you still get inf from the street folks you save.