Ad Astra

Most of the time I'm solo, but if and when I group, it's with a PuG unless I have joined a player-organized event team, such at a regular Saturday afternoon TF. Those teams are about half PuG (since anyone who signs up can join) and half known qualtity (since many of the "usual suspects" routinely show up)

My SGs are 2-person goups formed with my sister. When we are both playing, we might be duoing or we might be soloing. On a few extremely rare occasions, we pick up someone else braidcasting, but we rarely do that because it doesn't seem fair to the added team member that she & I are in the same room and can easily talk, while the other team member has to type (and we have to type in response).

Since what I feel needs to be done is attack stuff and use buffs/debuffs in a semi-coherent manner.

If it's some knowledge about mission objectives or where to find something, then I inform them of what I know that they may not.

But hinestly, unless we teamwipe each and every spawn, it's all good.

I used to do this, but it never seemed to pay off for me. I'm bouncing across servers too often for me to team with any particular other player too often. Friends lists are useless to me for that reason. Global friends lists are something that I currently really only use to check if someone is online from time-to-time.

I have never had a global friend invite me to team, except for those who are also on the global channel - the invite usually comes from the channel, not the friends list.

I personally I would not miss either friends list if they disappeared tomorrow.

This term needs defining for me, especially in light of OP's own answer to it -

I don't run into people I consider "jerks" all that often, so I wonder if our definitions are radically different. Is a jerk someone who isn't using their powers in the "one and only true BEST way" instead of being a bit unfocussed? Is it someone who is abusive in chat to others on the team? is it someone who never says anything at all? Is it someone who wants to take breaks to hit the market or vendors rather than steamroll thru the next 12 missions?

I haven't read thru the entire Rude Tells thread because it's so massive, so I don't know OP's reported experiences. But my own experience in the game is that if you don't set unreasonably high expectations of your teammates (which seems wise since we have a lot of people playing for only a few hours a week, and therefore not well-versed in each and every intricacy of the game's mechanics and how each mission runs) then you don't see jerks in every PuG out there. If you are seeing that many jerks, maybe you should step back at examine your own behavior to see what has caused you to perceive "jerkism" in the behavior of others.

Ultimo_

You conveniently skipped over the part of Panzer's post where he spoke of his team that included 2 new players - where the whole team was pre-Stamina - and wasn't noticing any Endurance problems. That tends to not support your opinion.

Other posts in this thread also tend to not support your opinion - there have been many who state that managing Endurance might not be "fun" to all players, but that either find the task of managing it to be challenging (best case) or at the very least, not tedious to the point of making the whole game "UNFUN". Even some of those who somewhat agreed with you in your count of support were not strongly supporting you.

For the record, I do not find managing Endurance to be unfun, neither do I find it to be all that much of a challenge - my own playstyle is to run solo most of the time, not racing through mission after mssion, so the negligile amount of time is takes for Endurance to recover does not really affect the speed I am playing at. If I want a session of just zerging through spawn after spawn, I join a team. I do like to think that this style is not uncommon amongst the playerbase as a whole.

That being said - Ultimo_ has now stated more than once that his post is based on "OPINION". And although several have tried to convince him otherwise (not sure why y'all thought that would work this time when it hasn't on the eleventy-bajillion other discussions that started out with his opinion) you aren't going to change his mind this time either. Give it up as a lost cause.

But I do really, really wonder why he still pays for a subscription to a tedious, unfun game. If I truly found a game unfun, lI would stop playing it - in fact, I have stopped several games in my time for that very reason. And most of those tedious games are the free ones on FB or MSN Games - I certainly wouldn't have paid for them.

So you are dismissing my observations and Forbin's as "not constructive" feedback? Both of us expressed dismay over your choice of "plum" colored text.

In a medium based on text, good communication should be made easier when using fonts/colors, etc., not more irritating. You concede that it "doesn't agree with the villains scheme", but still appear to be obstinate in continuing to use it. Why offer to others ways to derail your thread?


[QUOTE]My points been made. The entire point of a booster pack is to get costume pieces in the first place, not just a temp power. Why comment on a post about booster packs that are going to be added anyway (when the devs release them) simply stating you dont agree with them?
Goes back to my above point about making unconstructive pointless comments for the sake of it.{/QUOTE]

I offered my problem with the vast majority of your suggested booster packs - I don't like costumes being the focus of the packs. I like costumes added to the game in free expansions. How is that not offering relevant comments? How is it "unconstructive"? I only wrote one sentence on it because long posts that merely repeat and rehash are not good communication, just long for the sake of being long.

Your suggestions about what may or may not be included in booster packs is speculation and suggestion. I don't like the direction of your speculation and said so. You are correct that the Devs will release booster packs as they choose - but I don't entirely agree that the purpose of the boosters offered so far was to focus on new costume pieces.

All of them except the Wedding pack included a temp power that I see in use frequently in game. Depending upon the player, the temp power might be the more dominant or even exclusive reason to purchase the pack at all. I have especially seen this in comments on Ninja Run from the Natural Booster, although I am rarely on a TF/SF where the team doesn't buff up with Mystic Fortune before starting a new map. On the other hand, some of the costume pieces from the packs seem much more rare (the Wedding Veil, many of the Warrior pieces from Natural, the Witch Hats from Magic, etc.)



I don't have anything much to add to this outside of what I already responded to in Forbin's post - please see that post for my observations.

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As for the teleport, I realised that after I made the post but forgot to edit perhaps a power that reduces selling fee to 0 in auction for a set amount of time?

Is that suggestion something that would come in connection with a WW/BM interface in the SG base? I want to assume it must, since having it as a standalone would be rather random. I don't have a strong feeling either way on it - mainly because I haven't been experiencing the massive lag others keep reporting when at WW/BM. Would having the interface be nice to have? Sure it would, but for me it probably would not be heavily used since it's not a big deal to get to the market to transact business.

Over in the Base Construction forum, there are multiple threads suggesting stuff to be added to bases, your WW/BM interface being one of them. Lots of discussion over there as well. You might want to see what others have already said to this idea as you seek "constructive posts" on the topic.

This is my last comment on your communication choices because it is derailing the main topic. But is also likely my last comment in the thread because I think I have offered you feedback and had a nice little discussion with Forbin on the topic, so I have finished with it.

Also - Pro Tip - If you think someone's posts are somehow not in keeping with the rules of this forum - repot the post to a Mod. But my previous posts were not out of line (IMHO) and you do not get to dictate who gets to post or what they post. You can certainly show your disdain by making it uncomfortable for them to read your posts, though.

To some extent they are organized alphabetically - except for the problem that sometimes, the enhancement is Damage Resistance and other times it is Resist Damage; there's also a problem that some enhancements are out of order in an apparently random manner (End Mod should be listed before End Red, right? But it isn't, and End Mod is way down the list). And then there's the problem of some of the status effects being called different names - is it "disorient" or is it "stun"?

So it would be nice if someone went thru the various lists and re-ordered them - after deciding what the "rule" is going to be.

I would say it's a really low priority project, but maybe it's something to give to the new hire to help bring them up to speed on systems.

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to step on that butterfly...

(Sorry, literary and Sci Fi geek reference - but it had to be said)

Fulmens is the Frankenslotting guru. It's in his sig.

I second this! (Disclosure, Origins is literally down the street from my house, ). I would be so psyched to see this happen!

Alternatively, how about Gen Con Indy? Also MidWest, lots of folks (26,000+ at least) there already. I know CoH was part of GenCon several years back because my husband & I went to hear Jack talk (just before Defiance 1.0, called Desperation at the time, was rolled out). Not too far from Chicagoland, either.