Techbot Alpha

Originally Posted by Kryhavoc

So, I was playing a level 10 toon in Ae Building in Cap and received a reverse team tell. I figured why not. The player was level 10 in Mercy. I asked him to come to Cap. When he finally got to Cap via Port Oakes (new player, he didn't know about the helicopter service), he said, "You got all the way there, wow!"

I got a mite suspiscious and asked, "You do have your Raptor Pack for flying, right?"

New Player, "No, what's that?"

Me, "Stop, head back to Port Oakes, I will meet you there."

I then took him through the 3 radio missions, giving bits of advice, and just as we got the bank mission (for Atlas Park, yay), he said he had to log off. I was sad to see him go because we were at the point I was trying to get him his Raptor Pack and I gave a couple of pieces of information.

Me, "Ok, when you do the bank mission, destroy everything that is not purple on the way and stop when you see a Longbow say, "Freeze."

I am hoping he was ok, but that was a bit of fun, teaching someone about the game.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Vet badges, like forum post count, are meaningless predictors.
plenty of vets are dumb, rude and annoying, plenty of newbs are smart, friendly and fun to team with.

Judging someone by vet badges is as stupid as judging them by skin color or gender.

Originally Posted by __Eh__

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..

Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants

MY negative rep never has comments...so unloved...

Originally Posted by __Eh__

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).

Originally Posted by Tyrantula

I recently rolled a Arch/TA Corruptor, and am now in the process of PL'ing myself with my second account to get him to 22 and SO range.

I'm sick of the lowbie red-side content..

Does this make me evil?

/shrug

Originally Posted by Panikaze

I love my granite tanker...
I made her completely based on the concept of being a little girl who turns into a massive armor.

Now if the character isn't massive and keep tiny and just with overlay of rocks, it would be far enough if the character can jump... and then they will add more penalities or reduce the bonuses, and then stone wouldn't be like it was now.

Bleh.. I am attached to my granite >.<

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

I've noticed that too Since i16 has hit live, there seems to be waves of blind sg/team invites again! Now whether this is good or bad i'll leave to you!

On a similar note, i had my search comment a few days ago saying "not lft sorry". This is what happened [obviously not exact words]

Player A: Hi there want to join us? Doing radio missions in kings.
Me: No thanks im semi-afk so wouldnt be much use but ty anyway.
Player A: Ah sorry just noticed your search comment, sorry for the PM.


When a player actually says sorry for a slight mistake like that, they instantly get some form of positive rep in my eyes.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Exploiter is an insult. Applied to a stranger in the context of an MA Baby whine the meaning isn't hard to grasp.

If you meant it in a happy funtime casual friends jokey way, that part got lost somewhere between your brain and the keyboard.


You aren't a mindreader, sorry. You don't know how that guy got his kheldian.
It isn't like level 50 is some tremendous grind any more. "regular" PL'ers can do it in short order with no 'exploits' required.

It is funny how you claim you didn't insult anyone, then in the next paragraph heatedly defend your insult.

*thumbsup*

Originally Posted by Celestial_Lad

Wowzers. I never expected to get -rep for welcoming a new player to the game. With a comment of '/snort' no less. Of course it was annonymous.

C'est la vie.

Originally Posted by MalKontemp

I don't want to take away your fire bomb, and I happen to like my assault bots incendiary missiles of death, but they don't do so well in groups is all. If we could have it without the scatter effect, that would be nice, but I don't see how. They could gives us MM's more control over when our pets use their powers, but that would be very difficult i'm betting. Like let us tell them when exactly to use which power..

Also, I would say that act of standing in one place no matter what goes on around them does a very good job of distinguishing them from other players

Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent

Hint: I don't put Vengeance on auto just because I'm crazy. Rez on auto should work similarly.

Originally Posted by MrQuizzles

Easy mode that Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers already have. You can't forget that part.