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Quote:Sorry about your customer service experience.Originally Posted by bluevindy
We have 2 accts we pay for on a monthly basis and we set up another acct (3 total) for our daughter to play with us that is a Premium acct. She bought the candycanes and I got an e-mail saying that Customer Service will not help her resolve this issue. I had to get on and get downright nasty and angry to get a response. How do you expect people who are trying the game out for free or a low lvl premium acct upgrade to a VIP status if they don't get the help they are seeking? I know me personally, if I had this issue and that was the response I would've gotten, I would've taken the game off my computer and pass the word around that I can't get support when I had a minor issue. They already took a minute to respond to me but couldn't resolve it? I suggest that you make a system or something that takes care of the Premium/Freebie players. I'm not saying take away from the VIP players because they are paying for it. I have all 3 accts to email to me. This issue really has me upset, annoyed and frustrated that I had to get angry. I had to calm down my daughter because she worked hard to get those candycanes on her own by opening presents and arresting the mobs she got.
Totally tangential to what you're talking about, but I couldn't help wonder what you're talking about in re the candy canes?"She bought the candycanes and I got an e-mail saying that Customer Service will not help her resolve this issue."
What gives? What was the issue with the candy canes? I can't get it from your account.
"I had to calm down my daughter because she worked hard to get those candycanes on her own by opening presents and arresting the mobs she got." -
If you have access to the Auction House, they're for sale there.
Also the Winter Missions will award cc upon completion iirc. -
Quote:I've never really dug it too much either.Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
(I do not farm. I have no idea how other people can stand to do so.)
SFs ARE something I digQuote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
And since, last I checked, the only ways to get those are through the STF, LRSF, actually taking on Hami itself...
The market is fun enough, but it's not that big of a thrill anymore. I mean the market is the same, I just am not as amused by it as before.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
...or buying them from the market.
Too bad. The market is simple enough. It took me a bit to get momentum in the market, but once you get it...everything is affordable if you want it to be.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
There are not options I can really exploit.
Perhaps.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
Without those, to get the kind of +Resist or +Defense & Endurance reduction I need, requires 4-5 slots.
The difference between (2 lvl50 def/end IOs + 1 lvl 40 def/end IOs) and (2 lvl50 def/end IOs + 2 lvl 40 def/end IOs) is < 1 percentage point of defense and <= .02 of a point of end per sec.
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I am playing a kin/son def with only a few IO set bonuses.
I highly suspect that it would do well with only SOs.
It provides it's own +rech and it's own +dam as well as -dam for enemies. Additionally, it brings well appreciated buffs and debuffs to teams--even teams which are already monsters. -
It's helpful to have binds that combine inspos for you if you want to run @ 32.5.
Combining inspos doesn't count against your actions, so you can do it while other powers are activating or are queued.
And, yeah, it depends on your toon and its power sets and ho you have built the rest of it, and what and how much it benefits from other things like rech, heal, etc -
Quote:Yeah, and sometimes I like to put the kismet in there--depending on the build and powersets. If i use a kismet, I try to get it into the build at the lowest level power possible.Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
I usually just use the base slot on CJ, unless I'm dealing with a set without KB protection.
I get by with just a LotG 7.5 and an enzyme in Weave and Maneuvers. The loss in def is fraction of a percentage point.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
Tough and Weave need at least 4 slots, like all armor toggles. Preferably 5 slots because of their added endurance cost. Maneuvers would need 4-5 as well, for the same reasons.
(3.61 w/ 3 lvl50 IOs vs 3.37 w/ an enzyme and a lvl50 LotG 7.5) & (5.94% vs 5.56%)
Tough would be fine with just a couple/three of ribosomes. But usually I want the +def set bonus which comes with the fourth slot. If I have room I go ahead and use a fifth slot.
I at least leave hasten on auto. That alone made a big difference in my toon's ability. For some of the toons I have it such that activating various attacks swaps out what power I have on auto--rotating through all of the +recharge powers for example.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
Hasten should have 3 slots... but it's my personal "Oh wait, I have this power, don't I?" at the moment. I generally only remember I have it if I'm running out of things to do in combat... which doesn't happen often. As such, I find it's easy to sacrifice those 2 slots to something else.
I usually only choose 5-6 from the primary. And I only 5 slot attacks by default. I save the sixth slot for a proc in the fastest activating power I use and then maybe another sixth slot in the hardest hitting attack if it needs it--extra, -end, or +acc, or +rech.Quote:Originally Posted by OneWhoBinds
Finally, how many attacks I take kinda depends on the power set, but generally I only skip the first power, and maybe taunt (if I can't fit it in.) Attacks usually get 5-6 slots, with 6 being preferred for single target attacks, and 5 for PBAoEs. Taunt just gets the base slot, and any Build Up variation generally gets 3 slots for recharge. -
Quote:I'm not as likely to comment in these threads as they seem worthless. The feedback seems to be, "Yeah stuff isn't right, but there's no other option as people will still keep giving their money to the game despite w/e issues, so the company doesn't give a hoot. and, oh yeah all other games have the same standards."Originally Posted by FourSpeed
A: Determine if I'm the only one that feels this way. From many of the responses
here, I see that several others feel that way too (hopefully, not a "vanishingly
small" number).
So eff it. I stopped filing bug reports earlier. I'm now less likely to participate in these threads.
From what I have read here and in other similar threads, unless they think the income from the game will drop from the impact of a bug or the sheer number of bugs, they're not willing to bother.Quote:Originally Posted by FourSpeed
C: Make a statement to the devs that as a paying customer, I'd like them to be
aware of mine, and other's perceptions, and possibly investigate and/or take
some steps to improve things a bit from a quality perspective.
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Quote:Exactly. That's why I'd like some other options.Originally Posted by BigBlackAfrica
That's the thing though. It doesn't seem like "multiple solutions" so much as many factors to one solution.
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Quote:lolOriginally Posted by Kioshi
To be honest I wasn't even surprised or mad. Yeah that sucks a lot, but it actually did not surprise me one bit to the point that I just thought 'meh I have to put all my powers back'. Not that I don't see a reason to get angry, it's just how my expectations are these days
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Quote:One of my favorite things about build puzzles is when I have to make a choice between more than one solution. It seems that brute builds have become more of a solved puzzle than an ongoing one.Originally Posted by BigBlackAfrica
I will admit thought that the boost to survivability that comes with capped defense (or at least 32.5) at the expense of other pool powers sometimes makes me sad.
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Quote:cj -- one or maybe two slotsOriginally Posted by OneWhoBinds
...Where do you get the slots to make running all those worthwile?
I mean, sure, CJ, Tough, Weave... yeah, I can work those is. Usually Hasten, although I've left it with only the base slot more often than I care for.
And super speed is personal flavor... I usually go for Super Jump or (now that it doesn't need a prerequisite) Flight.
But I've never had a Brute or Scrapper build where I think I could squeeze the 3/4 slots out of other places to make Maneuvers worth taking.
tough -- 3 to 5 slots depending on how badly I need the set bonus
weave -- 2 slots
maneuvers -- 2 slots
hasten -- 3 slots
super speed -- one slot
So that's only 6 to 9 allocatable slots total.
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Wouldn't it be cool if it were harder to choose?
If maybe there was another + res power somewhere?
Or perhaps some other power that was as useful to a brute as the ones above? -
Quote:I do too. Sadly I pretty much take the same pool powers on all my brutesOriginally Posted by Dz131
I take both
cj
tough weave
maneuvers
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Quote:AFAICT, there's a large collection of spelling error reports at the inbox of wherever the bug reports go.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
On the other hand, if someone were to collate a large number of them together, with enough information to rapidly and conclusively find them, and put that in a single submission to the devs, that might be something that rose to the level of being worth addressing, because it may be more efficient to address dozens of them or even hundreds of them at once. Their bug system might not collate them automatically like that. A big bunch of them might be something they could hand off to an intern or something and have them go through and do all at once.
I don't know if anyone is actually interested in collating spelling errors, but it might make them likely to be fixed if someone was. -
combat jumping has a better def/end ratio
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Quote:Tbh, I really don't get that part at all.Originally Posted by Dark_Impact
While not addressed to me, this comment makes me ask once again; what about all the text bugs/typos that have been in the game for years that I have personally reported via in-game ticket. Sometimes it's the minor details that color our opinions on something.
Surely there're enough resources to go in to very specific parts and edit text. Maybe I am wrong, but that doesn't sound like a resource intensive thing.
It seems like it's just "We don't give hoot."
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Quote:I get the feeling that as long as the company thinks they haven't pushed too many of us past the brink of quitting, that they're all good. Which may be true in some sense. But it's disappointing.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
This is exactly how a business loses good will with its customer base. Paragon needs to address this officially now, even if they don't have a fix ready. Given what we were promised initially when red names like Positron and Avatea announced the details of CoH Freedom, we deserve more than radio silence about this clusterflock.
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Quote:Be quiet or the game will die!!Originally Posted by Pyro_Beetle
....can.
DOOOMM!!! from bug fix requests!!
Or it could be that w/e game you're talking about was so buggy that people stopped paying for it. I doubt they shut down a profitable enterprise because of some complaints. -
Quote:Well, couldn't they at least fix the typos and mis-spellings?Originally Posted by Arcanaville
While its always a good thing to advocate for better quality, step back a bit from claiming the people you're asking it from are either extraordinary in their lack of it, or equally that you obviously know how to remedy such an institutional problem. Lots of people try, virtually all fail, and claiming to be different in that regard is an extraordinary claim. It is, and yet is not, a simple problem to solve. Its easy to express: virtually impossible to enact.
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Quote:That's new-fangled hogwash someone just made up recently. Winter is December, January, and February. March is spring and November is fall.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
To be accurate, the months of winter are the latter portion of December (winter starts on Dec 21) through the latter portion of March (spring starts on March 20).
Just because there's some astronomical significance for those dates doesn't mean there's any call to go changing things to nonsensical with what we're experiencing.
Is it true summer in Ireland starts May 1?
There is a widespread misconception in this country--which extends, I might note, to the makers of most calendars, dictionaries, and encyclopedias--that summer "officially" starts on the day of the summer solstice, June 21 or 22, which is the longest day of the year. Americans also believe (1) that there is some valid scientific reason for doing it that way, and (2) that everybody in the Northern Hemisphere does it that way, and always has.
None of these things is true. So far as I have been able to discover, no scientific or governmental body has ever formally declared that summer starts on the solstice.
"It isn't really clear how the astronomical definition [i.e., summer starts on the solstice] got started," says Kevin Trenberth, a climate researcher at the University of Illinois in Urbana. "Although the sun-earth geometry is clearly the origin of the seasons on earth, it has nothing directly to do with temperature or weather."
He notes that meteorologists define summer simply as June, July, and August. "For practical purposes, the meteorological definition is the best one, being very closely to the [weather] statistics," he says.
In fact, it appears that June 1 was accepted as the beginning of summer in the United States until relatively recently. According to many older reference books, ranging from The American Cyclopedia (1883) to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966), summer in the U.S. comprises the months of June, July, and August. Seasons in Britain, for no particularly good reason, start a month earlier. -
Quote:LOLOriginally Posted by Law
I noticed that the link which previously showed the gradual sync up schedule now just has a paragraph stating that whenever you received your points in November is when you'll receive them going forward.
Based on what you posted above, I am guessing that they have given up. [Or stopped pretending that they were going to start trying. w/e]Quote:Originally Posted by Law
At this point, all I want to know is: are they actually attempting to fix this so that it all applies at once...
de facto it seemsQuote:Originally Posted by Law
...or have the declared that it's all now working as intended and we should all just learn the new system? -
Sure could be. It depends on the values of the "3 IO's that contain damage".
If they're lvl 10 quads and triples and the SO is a lvl 25, then probably not.
But for most real world applications, yes.
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Level 49 Magic Brute
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Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
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I'd guess tomorrow or a week from tomorrow.
Here on Earth's surface, in the northern hemisphere, months of winter are December, January and February -
Having all of these different dates doesn't benefit us at all.
W/e problems they're having with their coding could be sorted out in the back ground while they use a spreadsheet (or its equivalent) in the meantime to track what hey have awarded to whom. And then, once they get their side sorted, they could make the adjustments to the talllies.
But somewhere the decision was made to inconvenience us instead of them. And so, we have what we have.
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bless him