Aquila_NA

Originally Posted by Winterminal

1 Range IO in Disintegration and one Interrupt Redux in Penetrating Ray, and I bet this combo can succeed 9/10 times. I am loving Beam Rifle so far, probably because I am typically a ST oriented blaster.

Those that aren't big fans of Beam Rifle are most likely used to AoE heavy blaster builds, and Beam Rifle is not made for that. Using the above combo you can get some decent mass damage out of it, but the set is built for taking down single targets FAST.

Originally Posted by forbin_project

want another good laugh? There's a thread up in player questions where the op is angry that the devs are adding stuff to the store faster than he can earn free points to buy it with his subscription. it's so unfair he can't get everything for free as soon as it's released.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Video games aren't the real world. You should not be more powerful in someone else in a video game simply because you have more disposable income than them.

You want Incarnate powers? Earn them like everyone else.

Originally Posted by Aquila_NA

Yes

Also, as to the ELE that killed the Dinos: They somehow (because their probe couldn't be located?) decided that the rift actually went to a parallel time-line. So no "step on a bug, kill your mother" shenanigans were possible.

Originally Posted by Photonstorm

There's also the mystery of the hieroglyphs/symbols thing. Certainly not the Dinosaurs who carved them in the rocks, hehe.

Will give the show a chance and watch more episodes to see how it develops. Special FXs are indeed pretty good.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

From what I heard, which may be bunk now since they've supposedly reworked the show, the time bridge to 85 million years ago was an accidental discovery and with the world's ecosystem failing, a life raft in shark infested waters is still better than no life raft at all.

As for space, the advantage, of course, is being dropped into a totally compatible ecosystem. From the point of view of air, water, compatible biochemistry, etc.

Originally Posted by Ultraamann

Interesting concept, but given Fox's track record, I don't see this series having a long life.

Without having seen the series, I do have one fundamental issue with it. Other than wanting to have dinosaurs on the show, and steal all the Jurassic Park-y vibe that they can, why on earth would you jump back 85 million years to "restart" human society? Did they completely forget that if the dinosaurs are still there, then that means that the extinction level event that wiped them out hasn't occured yet. Which of course means that any new society they do manage to create will be wiped out as well, completely negating the entire point of their return to the past. Plus, the world would change so much physically in 85 million years even without any such event, that it would render their jump back through time moot.

Why would they not instead jump back say 10-15 thousand years, or at least something a HELL of a lot closer to the "dawn" of human civilization, where the world pretty much resembles the world they already know, and try to pick things up from there?

Anyway, thats just my pre-show nitpick. They may explain it completely when the show airs, but it just seemed kind of silly to me.

Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade

Being FOX, I'd say slim to none. Those guys will cancel anything that the execs don't really understand. If it's just successful enough to keep going for a few seasons, they'll probably juggle its time slot around to force the ratings to tank and justify cancellation.

Originally Posted by St_Angelius

Isn't this whole thread just one long nit-pick at the end of the day?

Originally Posted by TerraDraconis

Are you sure the mice didn't steal your thoughts and run away with them? That is what happens with me.

Originally Posted by St_Angelius

Or being a Rogue, but yes.

Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy

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While that sounds good it realy doesn't help. I have been in favor of contacts that allow players to solo or make small teams for a while. These missions would drop threads and components at a slower rate than the trials , of course, but would allow players to gather what they need to open and enhance powers.

Just dropping a few threads here and there would take ages! Let's look at what is involved in opening and slotting a single power..

To open Judgement without doing trials and getting IXP you need to purchase the xp. It requires 30 threads and 30 million in influence.

To slot with a tier one requires three common components at a cost of 20 threads each .. total 60 threads

To slot to tier two requires two common (40 threads) and one uncommon (60 threads) component... Total cost 100 threads

To slot to tier 3 requires two more commons(40 threads) and a rare component. To craft a rare you need all four uncommon components (total cost 240 threads).

Now the same holds true for opening Interface but to open Destiny or Lore requires an additional 15 threads .. 45 total to buy the required IXP.

So just to open and slot one power to tier three requires a total of 470 threads and that is just the lower level powers NOT the ones that actually grant level shifts during trials. I have completed BAFs and had a total of 5 more threads than when i began. The drop rate for a 24 man league is NOT as fast as many think. What allows a player to slot faster is the Astral and Empyrean merit drops. On a standard BAF where we pull the AVs to the north wall and use chokes to contain prisoners .. I can leave with 6 astrals (5 if a prisoner escapes) and 1 Empyrean. That equals 44 threads.. 4 for each astral and 20 for the emp. On a basic Lambda I can leave with 3 or 4 astrals (depends on if we sync up once while gathering glowies) and an additional empyrean for another 36. Running two trials that took a total of perhaps 1 hour to complete.. I earned 80 threads by cashing in merits.. I may have earned an added 8 or 10 during the actual battle.

Now try to relate that to someone soloing and getting NO astral or empyrean merits and their drop rate is 1/24th of what I was getting doing trials. You can see it simply isn't a good option.. It could take a players months just to earn enough threads to open one power and then even longer just to slot it to tier one.

I think we may be seeing a solution with the new VIP signature arcs. When I completed one the other day I had as possible rewards the option to take an astral merit or 10 threads. Now knowing the values I took the threads.. an astral converts to 4 threads so why take 4 when i can get 10. LOL What they need to do is add more contacts with arcs and allow a random component drop as a reward for completing a mission and an astral or even an emp for completing the arc. Then players that don't enjoy the trials have a way to gain the powers of the incarnate.

Originally Posted by CactusBrawler

That would be true Sam, except the devs still arbitrarily decide what comes out based on what they feel is best for us.

"You can get it in any colour, as long as it's black" still applies if the art team for example decides to only release it in black. You could just not get it, but that has always been the option.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Why didn't you think of this several pages ago and save us a lot of silly bickering?

Originally Posted by Obsidius

They'd rather use the dev cycles to make stuff to sell you on the Market, rather than making stuff they'd have to give out without charging you for it

My thread on this subject.