Snow Globe

Edit:
A few of the details are off with some of the zone changes (ie go to the echo of Galaxy City now).

Read this guide:
It discusses what needs to be modified to add test to the NClauncher.

I have just checked my game account: It has 7 years, 1 month of paid time. I have 4 retail codes applied to my account, making 7 years, 5 months. I still don't have the 7 year badge, the "extra" paragon reward token, or an "extra" character slot for the year.

Though it probably should be 7 years at/on Feb 12th.

What I get when going to that link:

Who knows? Maybe the villain version of the final SSA will be the villains helping to save the world, then when they are all patting themselves on the back, you as the villain just "off" Darin Wade (thus needing a replacement for him too).

What? History plaque 4 is clearly marked on that map, so is the explore #5, and the inset is very clear.

Next time, go to vidiotmaps, download and install the map patch and you'll have the day job locations marked on your in-game map.

However, I feel like being charitable, so I'll even mark the locations for you:



If you can't see the locations now, you might need to get your eyes checked for color-blindness.

"Death is Nature's way of saying your table is ready." -- Robin Williams.

Lego Online

Known issue. If you leave a base unattended for a length of time and the group owes zero rent (ie. doesn't have anything that triggers rent), the base can be locked.

The only way to resolve this is to use petition command.

/petition <description of the problem>

It is a simple fix for the GMs, and is usually fixed the same day.

Suddenly Max heard a cry for help and dashed off to investigate.

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

Max hoped the strange man would play some "toss", but the strange man only pounded the drums slowly.

If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

Why even run UG or MoM when the failure rates on those two trials means that I get a 50/50 chance of a reward (UGT) or zero rewards (MoM) for doing it?

I have a 49% success rate for doing UGTs (and a 100% failure rates for PUG UGT). I have a 100% failure rate for MoM Trials.

Do you honestly think that I could care if either of those gave me enough Empyrean Merits for a PVPIO recipe for success?

Increasing the reward, with a high/extreme chance of failure for the trial itself is not going to be the answer to get players doing the trials. All this suggestion would do is to get those that do run a trial to abuse it more. A increase in potential rewards does not match an increase in ACTUAL rewards.

Edit:
And it has been sort of tried by the developers. They doubled the empyrean merit reward for Keyes, they've increased the odds to get rares/very rares, and they've increased the rewards for Underground. Keyes participation is up, but only after they reduced the difficulty. Undergrounds aren't up.

I'm glad that I was wrong about Freedom and Exalted. On the other hand that account must be a subscriber account, so there is nothing stopping you from visiting the other servers as well.

So, have you caught the many "Triumph is dead" comments the last few months on Triumph Watch 2.0? Or the lack of some trials being formed on that server?

Heh, I've received tells asking me if I was Castle or a part of the development team. I've had to tell them that I wouldn't be as outspoken as I am if that were the case.

I'm glad you can still get in some playtime, even when dealing with players like myself.

Yeah, but he presents such a tempting target. I digress. I agree the truly evil one is Ghost Falcon.

At any rate, at the end of the day, I continue to hope to make positive changes to this game.

It is incredibly frustrating:

• To give feedback.
• Watch said feedback come to pass.
• Then see the same problem two or three (or more) major patches later.
• Finally have the development team say that they don't understand why something isn't being received as they had hoped when the feedback told them why before it happened.

I'm also a controlled item that can't be taken through security checkpoints at airports in the USA:

I'm pretty sure that is working as intended.

Sorry, I thought I seen a comment to that said/implied that. Probably a player post, not a developer statement.

On the other hand, during this ustream Second Measure, while saying he didn't know why Baryonyx set the difficulty, said that there was a progression to the Incarnate Trials and that the trial is an extension of the progression.

It is a reasonable deduction, based on the fact that several of the development team's "home" server is Virtue. They would also be asking on Freedom due to the larger population. They also spend a lot of time on Exalted.

As to the stalking... There is approximately 1,000 miles between me and Paragon Studios, strictly geographically speaking. Then again, that might cover the philosophical difference too.

That isn't what I said. To use a current example, the DD trial on beta. After promising to look into a solo/small team Incarnate path, they stick a 54+3 Incarnate Trial for 8-16 players in the middle of a level 50+1 arc. A level 50 doing said zone content will be level 50+1 by that point.

Does that, in any shape or form, strike you as reasonable?

At best, that character is going to be facing +5 (for a few critters), and +6 critters for the majority of the trial. Even proponents of having difficult trials are giving feedback that the level shifts should be taken out of the trial so that it can be another introductory trial. Instead, the developers have (edit: given the impression) that they are sticking with the trial at +3 (edit: because increasing the difficulty implies "progression").

Sticking to Exalted, Freedom, and Virtue while not going to other servers doesn't count. Neither does showing up with their developer/community team accounts.

No, I want to believe that problems pointed out months, even years, ago are being addressed. Instead I see, over a series of major updates, the exact opposite happening.

Zwillinger, as much as I love this game and as much as I respect the development team and the moderation staff, I don't know how to say how much this game is diminished by some of the developer choices.

A question: have you, the moderation team, or the developers gone to various servers on unofficial accounts and looked at how the players are receiving some of the content? Has the development team taken a step back and looked at their work from the perspective "why aren't people doing this?" rather than "what can we do to make sure players are doing this?"

I thank development team and the moderation team for these changes. I'm still unlikely to buy them, but they are welcome. Last night on beta I spent 70+ converter tokens (and tested out 50 more packs) to get one ATO I needed to complete a set. I can tell you right now, that I won't be doing that on live. As much as I'm impressed by some of the costume pieces, I'm still not going to gamble on the set.

I also used about 3 dozen of the inspirations (both individual and team), 3 windfalls and 3 xp boosters, and my opinion of them remains unchanged.

Would it be too hard to respond to some issues being brought up that something isn't possible at the moment, but is being looked at? Or telling us who is the intended target for some content? Because from this side of the screen, what the developers and players see as a target are two (sometimes vastly) different things.

It doesn't feel like a compromise when told that if the development team doesn't see players doing X action more, that the development team will introduce some kind of stick to make sure that action is started. Again, has the development team looked at why players are avoiding that action?

I thank you for that and I respect you for that.

As you've said, it can be shown that some suggestions heeded and some ignored. Some days it seems better, other days worse.

No, I brought up the Shards in chat.

They have yet to prove that they do care about feedback. All I see is towing the party line and no changes, despite getting smacked in their heads with datamines showing what players gave feedback on months before.

I'd say Boomtown because the only reason to go there is a mission sending you there. There are no contacts in the zone, Babbage is easier to get with a Synapse TF, the zone itself isn't visually appealing, and the only reason for anyone to go to the zone is to get a couple of badges or being sent there on a mission. It's been like that since I started in Issue 3, back in February 2005.

Well, the good news is that either 1 month of subscription time or $15 spent on the store will get you the 5th Paragon Reward Token and lifetime access to global channels on that account.

Edit:
Check out this guide:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=271724

Guide: Premium Accounts and Paragon Rewards.

I'm guessing they are stress-testing the forums.

Shouldn't, but a vigilante (or hero) will not have a progress bar for it.

Sharkhead Isle: 762, 32, -373
St. Martial: 456, 33, 1230
Warburg: -1038, 100, -816
Grandville: 2764, -340, 794
Grandville: 1724, -459, 1514