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Only part of the odds.

They didn't release the odds of what type of pack each pack could be

Common-Common-Common-Uncommon-Rare
Common-Common-Uncommon-Uncommon-Rare
Common-Common-Uncommon-Rare-Rare
Common-Uncommon-Uncommon-Rare-Rare
Common-Common-Uncommon-Rare-Very Rare
Etc...

Except with those same 3 months of stipends, I can get 3 complete costume sets and I know exactly what I'm getting... So problem not solved.

No, they are not.

If they were truly giving us a choice they would commit to offering the costumes and black wolf pet for a straight out purchase. They have said they would look at the possibility, but haven't made a commitment so far.

Actually it is directly because of my former experience with CCGs that I'm so strongly opposed to having them here. They are predatory in nature, and they are pretty much directly selling Inf for real money.

Arcanaville had a breakdown of the 9 or so types of packs

C-C-C-U-R
C-C-U-U-R
C-C-U-R-V
etc.

But that thread disappeared with the I21 beta forums.

*Cough*

I think that is part is a good suggestion. There are plenty of female-only parts that could be ported to the male/huge models.

1 pack = 80 Points/Pack = $1.00 USD/Pack
12 pack = 70 Points/Pack = $0.88 USD/Pack or $10.50 USD for the bundle.
24 pack = 60 Points/Pack = $0.75 USD/Pack or $18.00 USD for the bundle.

Really... Don't strain yourselves.

1 pack = 80 Points/Pack = $1.00 USD/Pack
12 pack = 70 Points/Pack = $0.88 USD/Pack or $10.50 USD for the bundle.
24 pack = 60 Points/Pack = $0.75 USD/Pack or $18.00 USD for the bundle.

Don't strain yourself with the "discounts"...

The packs are still asking players to gamble on what they get from the packs for real money, and while some players will buy many of these packs, they (edit: the packs) are still morally bankrupt. The packs will also cost the game more in terms of player goodwill than the game will get financially.

I already had the Steampunk and Magic Packs, but you have just sold me on getting the Gunslinger Bundle.

You can no longer unlock Villain Epic Archetypes with in game actions since Issue 21. Now you have to pay 1,000 Paragon Points for Widows and/or 1,000 Paragon Points for Soldiers. They are separate purchases.

I agree with this.

In a somewhat hollow victory (but still a victory), I have been told that my points have been added to my account one day before the 2nd GM said it would. Still, it is 5-6 days late.

I'd like to thank GMs Lloyd and Roland for actually looking into the problem, unlike the previous two GMs. [Incident: 120210-000896]

I think I got my yearly Paragon reward token 3-4 day BEFORE my year anniversary, no badge or "extra" character slots as been reported in this thread.

Hopefully the fix that the two later GMs mentioned will be in place before my next Paragon Points/Tokens are due.

And there are plenty of temp powers to get around the LGTF situation, which does allow temp powers.

Not really.

The temp power in Khan requires a single use by anyone on the team, and everyone in the previous mission is granted 10 charges. So no, the comparison isn't valid.

I've given examples about MoM specifically. In this thread, not to mention others.

• Awakens in the Penelope phase.
• Too many auto-hit Psi damage in the Penelope phase.
• Graphic "fuzz" in the Penelope phase makes it hard/next to impossible to see the "safe" zones.
• The storm voids have an issue with being taunted.
• No visual clues as to if you are in with Aurora or not.
• Can't get close enough to use AoE heals on the rifts.
• Some of the Nightmares are overpowered (Rularuu, Avatar of Hamidon) and will cause many team wipes.

There are some other spots, but those are some of the more annoying problems.
And if you can't get enough psi protection for the league, you're screwed. The developers often go overboard when they produce things.

Empathy, Thermal, Cold, Radiation, Sonic, Storm, Kinetics, Traps, and Trick Arrow all lack Psi protection. Dark Miasma, Force Field, and Time all have a tiny bit of Psi protection. And you can't debuff a zone wide auto attack.

Partially, yes. However I'm also looking at not only what I would like, but what could get people to actually run the trial when they would normally avoid the trials in the first place. The people saying that things are working fine, despite being frustrating enough for players to avoid a trial, are only speaking for themselves.

Have you considered that some mechanics might need to be changed for the trials to have wider adoption?

As I've said, I've run the trials before slamming them.

I liked the Underground. I liked it until I witnessed the many ways the trial doesn't work well. Also, the last time I seen it run was back in November.

And I've had players from Union come to Triumph, and find out that what they do on Union doesn't work so well on Triumph. That player, despite feedback, pulled the AVs in BAF to an unfamiliar place expecting people to know where they were talking about.

There are people demanding a level of difficulty that would see around 1% of the players be able to marginally able to complete the trial, there are others that want to see that 99% of all trials succeed.

Personally, I'm somewhere in the middle. However I don't want to see 50%-90% of the trials fail because of 1 or 2 people on the league. UGT, TPN, and MoM all fail at this test.

Actually there are a few posters in this and other threads that don't want any of the trials being easy/medium.

Yet I see the same 5-10 people, including a few that aren't even subscribers, on a consistent basis whining that ANY change is unwelcome.

The zebgames host is the only one affected.

One company, and all their services: Ventrillo, Teamspeak, and Mumble.

This is not true, and this is the reason making new leveling pacts was disabled.

I made a leveling pack between my two accounts during the Freedom head start. My second account has since gone premium. My characters are still in the level pact.

Nearly every character has a mez available to them, and there are numerous temp powers that provide holds.

Your sarcasm isn't helping the discussion.

I had a thread: What would you do to make Keyes fun?

Guess what? Several of the changes suggested in that thread were adopted and more players do Keyes now.

Actually, and people have said this from the pre-beta, this trial is made more difficult due to the fact that there isn't much recourse for the league if a player DCs with one or more temp powers, refuses to use a temp power, doesn't know how to look for a temp power, pulls the AV out of the area, or enters the sabotage phase before the rest of the league is ready (and Positron acknowledged the last point himself).

Underground has a lot of issues with it, and not only because of its length? I started a tread about this trial's issues back in October: What would you do to make Underground better?

To be honest, the TPN has greater issues than just the auto-kill "feature". One thing about that though: the developers invested time and resources to put in a feature into the game to specifically prevent 1-shots from killing players, because of player requests. To back track is a waste of developer time and effort. Not only that, but that isn't the only auto-kill that Maelstrom has at his disposal. He can do upwards of 2,000-3,000 damage with his other attacks.

Oh yeah, it is also repetitive in the extreme.

The MoM trial has far more issues than just the death penalty, it is just the most obvious.

Actually, that isn't so much of a problem. The problem is that the "limited death" clause and the hard to spot graphic effects.

Yes, because they take their own experiences with min-maxed groups or larger servers and try to make it fit all players.

And those showing that there ARE problems are getting instantly shouted down with "well it isn't that bad because i say so" too. Every single time. Even from people that aren't subscribing.

I do that already. I've done it with Keyes and Underground. I'm happy to say that the Keyes thread was actually successful in promoting changes that made the trial being run more frequently.

I wait to do the trials a few times before I make those threads though. However, I continue to get the same people that you see here saying "nothing is wrong". People that are self-blinded to the possibility that a mechanic might be improved resulting in a greater trial acceptance aren't doing themselves or others any favors.

Apparently not.

Late October:
October 31:
November 9:
November 24:
January 13:
And now I'm being fed a BS story from a supposed "senior" GM that I should be getting my Paragon Points on the 14th, despite the fact that the 14th is a week AFTER my billing date.
https://help.ncsoft.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8890
Which flies in the face of two major things:



And Zwillinger's posts in this thread:
I received my paragon points on the following dates:
September 12
October 11
November 8th
December 8th
January 8th
Now Customer Support has the gall to tell me that my paragon points have been pushed back to the 14th?

At this point I just want what this poster is asking for:
My billing date is the 7th. Why are my Paragon Points not being awarded on that day?

Keep in mind my BILLING day is the 7th. I paid for my VIP subscription on December 7th, 2011. I bought the 12+2 month package.

The fact that I'm still having to fight with Customer Support for my monthly Stipend in February indicates that there is STILL something seriously wrong in both the Customer Support department and Billing.

As far as I can tell, this is inaccurate. Still. My Paragon Reward Tokens are arriving 2 weeks AFTER my billing day, despite having an uninterrupted account.

Zwillinger, the customer support team from the front line GMs in game to the "senior" GMs don't know what the heck they are talking about, they don't know what the heck is going on and can't be bothered to check beyond looking at the NCsoft knowledge base, or they are blatantly lying to the customers. At this point I'm not willing to give them much leeway. Paragon Studios and NCsoft needs to get their act together. You don't treat paying customers like crap. I don't feel like a VIP for being a subscriber.

At this point I'm beyond frustrated. I'm beyond upset. I just want this FIXED.

Issue 21/Freedom launch.

The person in question isn't a marketing person, it is the Business Manager: Ghost Falcon.

I refuse to buy the pack until such time as NCsoft Billing fixes my account and actually awards me my monthly stipend.

400 points for the bundled capes, 800 points (80pp x 10 auras) for the auras (and there is no bundle for them).

You basically save 100 points for buying the 5 capes (separately 100pp x 5 capes) as a bundle.