__Eh__

On one hand, okay, given the way people sometimes tend to roleplay somewhat, they might have reservations, but the arguments about being a traitor are really non-issues in my (possibly oversimplified) vision. IF a villain has gone through changes that eventually have the effect that it becomes apparent he is not a bad guy (going by the MM principle), who's to say he is a traitor? I'd say he is reformed. Not a bad guy, but a good guy who's seen the error of his ways.

Same thing the other way, but obviously that would mean rejoycing by villains that yet another goody is turned to the dark side. Still the same principle applies though.

You ran the tunnel, somewhere along the way it had a fork, but whichever end you crawl out of, it's the one that was meant for you.

I honestly fail to see why people would, even from a roleplay stance, not allow reformed heroes or villains on their teams. I CAN see those reasons when applied to ITF's though, since even a common goal means you'd essentially side with the wrong ones. No trials laid out, no road travelled, just a different door leading to the zone. Yeah, that would fit better (and has happened to me as well twice over time when on my Brute with 7 heroes shouting in bc 'lf1 more for ITF', ignoring the vills around..)

So... how are those mixed ITF's ran then?
Though I admit sometimes those are built out of who and what's there, I think those who have been in such ITF's won't mind teaming reformed superbeings.

such cruelty

lovely..

I have run several missions set for +1, team of 4 solo (radio) and received a crapload of inspirations (Council are good for something) and some recipes, mostly your garden variety damage, healing and such.

I then ran another council mission on the same setting, but having logged in two of my other characters as well. It dramatically changed the droprate, where my main character now received some actual valuable recipes, but a lot LESS inspirations. It seemed as though the inspirations have some other mystical way of telling how many people are actually in the mish than recipes. But the fact remains that the drop of recipes went up in that mission, or at least the quality of the drops, while inspirations were spread equally among characters on the map.

I can't say if this holds true, I have not ran this extensively, it's this observation for now for me.

What?
Because something inherently belonging to the male species was implied?
You can be one, just the entire context of the word then switches..

Of course, if you are just referring to the fact that a rude comment makes people replying rude.. yeah, pretty much true, seemed off alright

Very true, it is indeed natural. If you look at games like Anarchy Online, which are still around after this many years, the number of subscribers has gone both up and down. Every expansion there meant an influx of players, eventually making the basic game free for all made sure that they had a steady supply of subscribers, because after all, eventually people will want to venture further, level further and so on.

There is perhaps a possibility that at one point the base game of CoX could become free, with boosters applied meaning little money spent for added content. Adding GR in then though meaning that you would have to subscribe. Adding in other possible major updates in for monthly payment too (some Back to the Future FOR REAL stuff anyone? I want to fight dinosaurs! Or Neanderthals that aren't green!).
It would not be a strange move to be honest, not with the micro payments option in place already. It could be expanded on. Pay for Play, when you want to up your game...

PMSL!

you just won. I dunno what, but you did

That sums it up.

I personally think I16 meant they did more. They did an excellent job!

My son and I team, where he is by now probably on his 87th character (altoholic much?) so he never really gets into higher levels. He can now team with me and be alted 49 everywhere in zone. We can run his contacts without trouble, the team just resets to his level then.

Devs deserve a holiday. After GR though

I squirted espresso through my nose over that one LMAO!!!

And eh.. trust me.. you're not alone.. *cough*

You my good sir are a pain in the *freem!* to read

The tool was faulty alright, no doubt about it, they just should have pulled something else in the meantime though instead of leave it open. They should have cut off the SSK in there, dropped tickets altogether, or best of all perhaps, drop inf gain entirely until it was as it is now. But it was left as is.

As for the rapid experience, if the character went from naught to fifty in six hours, yeah. That's pretty fast. Unless we're talking about cars.
But those people that actually stood there for hours on end trying to get into a team, they spent more than 6 hours... in a way... and slipped through the holes in the net. Still, while hobbled, they did get that XP in about 6 hours. They just took longer to use those 6 hours..

If I came across as combative, that was not at all the intention, so my apologies for that.
And while I agree that there is a fine line between farming and exploiting, many people will not enjoy seeing their efforts grouped in the same filing cabinet as E for Exploit.

I myself will occasionally go out of my way to a badge, but I do so to unlock things, like weapons, or obtain an accolade. Spending an evening taking out overseers in Firebase Zulu doesn't sound like exploiting to me. So it shouldn't be held close to it either. But that's an opinion.

I do think we're on the same page, I just wanted to make sure that you weren't calling the two the same thing, that's all. And you didn't judging from your explanation.

Okay, in all fairness.. there was no exploiting in levelling this fast. The tool released gave the tools to make missions that people could then use to level insanely fast. So... to a degree I agree with Nethergoat. There was no exploiting. Not in that respect. And no, you can not call an MA n00b an exploiter, they're basically overpowered level 1 characters. Sadly enough..

Like I said, in that respect there was no exploiting. There was in another way however and I think that may be why some people get so worked up every time the PL's in MA get mentioned.
I feel that those people that would start a team on their 50's and pull in a bunch of people ONLY to get 8-person spawns so THEY could grab a lot of cash and tickets were exploiting.
Not on the game. As I said, that's now history and was just a tool that allowed insane missions to be created.
The exploiting here was the exploiting of new players, making them into AE n00bz, MA neWbz or whatever name you wish to give.

The saddest thing though is that someone who is new to the game already has more knowledge than the others with at least one 50 (judging from the 40 WS).

wait.. did you just say rainbow FLATULATING Pony of DooM O_o

I really do hope you are not implying that farming equals exploiting.
While I am not in the habit of speaking for farming, when it comes to badges... Seriously, 1000 Rikti monkeys, run around one certain mission in Ouro for a while or visit the island and you can get that one done in no time at all. That would constitute farming them.

Exploiting is maliciously abusing a flaw in the game without reporting said flaw.

There is a difference. Do not mix those words, especially when it comes to badges. People put a LOT of effort in to obtain badges, so (unintentionally) calling them exploiters seems awkward at best..

You meant 'Saving Ryan's privates' there right?
Oh and that does pass the filter by the way

Mr No Pants talking about choking cox..

Is it me or does this seem utterly wrong? O_o

My sincere apologies!
I should have realized that the abundance of information might be a tad much for most to comprehend.
I shall try to be a wee more precise in the reasoning behind my (obviously well thought out) nickname in the forums we are currently inhabiting.

Once, when I was a young lad, I bought a marvellous machine for the time for an amount of money that would now seem insane. In fact it was an insane amount of money back then already. It was also the very first machine that I used to go out and visit BBS's with. Ah, the days where you would take hours to download zipped images of DOOM disks, only to find you had to redownload disk 3 again after two hours...
I had a handle then that I honestly don't recall, it was silly though.

Then came better machines, better internetconnections (that by the way still cut you off from the rest of the world unless you had two phonelines in the house or ISDN) and I became more aware of the world around us. Internet Explorer in it's earliest form was awesome, opening a page and waiting three minutes for 256 color images to show, life was grand. But I was not alone out there. The first realization that my imagination was somewhat lacking started to show on opening forums (which in its proper form should be called fora, but that's besides the point) where I would want to post a reply. Names were taken, and not being able to think of proper original names, I was at a loss. I did however keep the strength to not turn to drugs!

At one point internet became a constant. Cable internet and ADSL opened the world to all and insane speeds came about. I entered the world of MMO's with Anarchy Online, a brand new experience for tall me and I adopted the name Oldscotch in there. A name that was not in use and was derived from the presence of a bottle of the stuff sitting next to me on the table. Eventually tired of people calling me old (even though I do realize that time does not halt, even for me) I left that name behind and became something different. It became Pinkfreak. I shall not explain the reasoning behind that one, having thought it up being intoxicated by the live version of my old nickname. Having had a lot comments on that name and being hit on occasionally by people thinking the pink meant I'd be a girl (mhehehe) it became time for something new. A new game came by and suddenly my global was formed after after my first ever 50 villain. Yes, the game was City of Villains and in it, I was a mad woman mastermind commanding the dead. Obviously with the pink in the back of my mind, I didn't want to go there again.

So there I was. Sitting. Staring at a screen, hands hovering over a keyboard as I tried to think of a fitting forumhandle.
I drew a blank. The few enlightened moments I encountered apparently came about because the person that was in the light had stepped away, along with the name that hovered there.
Time passed by. Cobwebs started forming between fingers, making me look like a big fish type figure. But that was taken already. All that swarmed through my mind, by now at wee hours in the night, was an echoing 'Eh' and even that was impossible.
In a stroke of genius or cafein induced moment of wisdom I realized that underscores were characters. And lo and behold, it worked!

So there.. not much of a story I'll admit, but that's more or less the short version of my previous post about my handle..

Don't forget the 'Pilon tag party'

You are in luck though Blue, apparently there are no american blue rabbits

Have to say though, EU would have been okay to have.
NA reminds me too much of the abbreviation of the building I work in

I'm just afraid of what will happen with everyone being able to make pic-sigs now..

I ehr.. yah.. I'm.. sorta lost now..
Buuuut it's nice to have the fora back. Now, how am I to hold this map.. North is up right?

Man, lush yet confuzzling place this..