Talen Lee

Anyone else able to help me get to the bottom of this? I'm used to Confuse stacking with itself. It seems to work fine on lieutenants and minions right now, but if I try to stack it up on a boss, it doesn't do anything. I've worn this three times now, and I'm wondering if I'm dealing with a fruity type of boss or something.

I don't remember longbow wardens having extra mez protection unless they're the forcefielding kind (which are rare - I only remember seeing something like that out in the wilds of Grandville).

So, any nearby Mind/ doms able to throw a confuse on some boss or other and see if it works or not?

Absolutely - I think there are lots of problems with the 'culture of Venture,' but it's really not meaningful to complain about here. This thread is about people who think the best alternative to mean critics is to provide excessive praise, right?

"We were discussing last words, and all I could think of for myself were 'Who's the world going to revolve around now?'"

Funnily enough, I don't find Malta that bad. They seem only really to break out the 'wtf' power level when you're on a big team, and everyone can watch you die embarassingly.

The real thing that made me like the characters in the arc is that they're distinct. They're simple enough characters - I mean, none of them are designed to be overpowered, two of them don't help you until the mission's effectively over - but they are very much very clear, distinct personalities, separate from one another. They're also not excessively generic.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the grammar before. Maybe I'm overly sensitive to it.

I've found on my common-IO-only, level 25 rad/sonic, purely for example, that I find myself sweeping hazard zones in an inverse way to my tankers and scrappers and blasters did. They sought out big spawns of minions - the defender's seeking out small groups of bosses.

It is a bit weird, but the enhancement system tends to have lots of weirdness in it. Like the cybernetic hearts business.

Because the thread is more than one person. This is a public thread about public reactions to public work. It's not 'his' thread. It's a thread he started.

I disagree with the principle of the thread. I disagree with CaptainMan. I disagree with you. That isn't 'hate and negativity.' You are the one who wields hate and negativity, with your polarising stance that any form of criticism is hateful and that there is no reason to strive for honesty or the creation of good work. You denigrate the opinion of those people who disagree with you not because of the content of their opinion, but simply because you've been hurt by having someone dislike something you produced, and you do it through the concern-troll behaviour of wringing your hands and acting - both of you - like the moral guardians for this forum.

You're not. You're evidently not even relatively moral people - you're just people like the rest of us, and your opinion that a rating system designed to assist people in finding quality arcs deserves to have its content fouled up based purely on some arbitary attitude of treating some authors nicely but not others (note that I and Venture are also authors, but somehow we aren't permitted the same lambkin style approach), because there are other problems with the system. This seems insensible and even childishly justifying misdeeds to me - after all, if someone out there steals a watch, it's okay for me to steal a watch, too, no?

You don't want quality writing. You don't want people to write better. You are both intent on this idea, and rather than provide useful ideas for ways to fix this like, say, turning off the rating system for some arcs or end-users, or finding other ways to incentivize what you see as 'niceness,' or, just off the top of my head, leading by example and providing actual meaningful content that fits in your stated perspective of sacrificing quality for niceness, you demonise and belittle those people who disagree with you.

The irony is not lost here - I know full well my manner in this commentary is scorching, but I'm not making empty, puffed comments about 'niceness' and 'pliability,' and I have actually strived to make sure that the arcs I deal with and the authors I deal with have the tools and the utility to improve their work. The main thing that's discouraged me from doing things is not nawsty critics, but rather bad authors, who ask for my opinion, then wholesale reject the time, effort, and analysis I put into their work.

So, I have to ask you: What useful thing have you done? What actual contribution have you made that had thought behind it beyond 'I think I'd like this person?' Because all told, you are making this forum sick, a place where reasoned criticism is lumped in with trolling, and where the mere idea of using one's mind to consider better ways to do things is considered anethematic in an environment already saturated with such a solid resentment of critical analysis.

Ukranian?

No, I'm afraid nobody really does. Not even the people working on it. They have good guesses, good, solid ballparks and whatnot, but nobody knows.

And forever? C'mon, man. It's been what, three weeks since they announced it? Three weeks is only forever if you're a mayfly.

I massively underestimated just how much I could make, so I underestimated the bleed rate from my stockpile. I stocked up 50 commons, figuring I'd be tided over the weekend, with lots of people doing the same thing, posted at a modest 5% higher than I normally do post them (which is still a reasonable price compared to SOs of the same level).

I was selling them for three and four times their list price, and had emptied my stockpile in the first two hours.

Oh, poor naive Talen, who has not tried crafting on DXP before.

And thus I find myself back where I started when AE was announced.

By what parameters can you prove that?

My point is that the rating system theoretically exists to help people find arcs of substance and quality and you two are explicitly trying to countermand that based on the fact you might be fond of the author.

Wouldn't this be best asked on the Mission Architect forum?