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It also adds to Anti-Matter's "Mary Sue" status.


Yes, he is using a Tier 4 Omega power.

The entanglements "purpose" is already been taken care of by the obliteration beam. They don't serve the purpose you, or apparently the developers, think it does. People ignore the entanglements entirely. Antimatter is a ranged attacker, which is already a detriment to melee characters.

What Entanglements should have been:

• After fighting through the reactors the players pick up a charge (positive/alpha or negative/beta).
• During the final fight Anti-Matter can control HIS charge to be Alpha or Beta.
  • If he has an Alpha charge those close to him with an Alpha charge are debuffed/damaged while those with a Beta charge are BUFFED/have their Regen increased.
  • If he has an Beta charge those those close to him with a Beta charge are debuffed/damaged while those with an Alpha charge are BUFFED/have their Regen increased.

That would be nearly the same effect you are describing (forcing players to shift) but a far more interesting mechanic.

Some players have been dealing with the hospital door lock for almost a full year at this point (3rd week September 2010).

For BAF the rez point used to be where you zoned in. Except that you were frozen/held for the timer length, and the endless stream of adds jumped the wall to kill helpless players.

It was then changed to a protected zone, but players were still held for the 30 seconds.

Then it was moved to a locked door while players could start toggles and go to the insp vendor.

The problem is that instead of forcing players to assemble together, what it does is prompt players to get out of the hospital as fast as they can so that they aren't stuck for when the league tries to regroup. Only the adds build up so fast that some of those regrouping are killed off and it just cascades. The other issue is that if there are a dozen or more players at the door, you might not be able to click the door fast enough and get caught for another cycle.

Any way you go about it, the hospital doors don't serve the purpose that claim to provide players. On the other hand, it DOES serve the developer's purpose: it prevents a zerg rush of players vs the critters.

In chrome the basic plot is overlapping the menu to "Co" in Control. And the grid doesn't line up.

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Except that Paragon Studios isn't running this contest... Antec is. Complain to them, please.

I'm Canadian and I can't enter this contest either.

I know someone that disagrees with this statement:
As you can see, the BAF is, generally, the shortest of the Incarnate trials.

I have to PUG a lot as well.

Oh, I love the colorful metaphors. I just don't expect you to be posting them.

Thanks for assuming that was my point. My point is that this is an undocumented process that we don't know what rules apply.

Exactly how many of the options -are- working? How many aren't? Does adding an option in the top list decrease the amount in the submenus that work?

Too bad the game makes that difficult. From the timers to the constant pulse damage to the lack of voice chat options.

Those communication tools aren't in the game. I've found that leading the Keyes that most people don't want to read what the leader does have to tell the league.

And I'm leading most or all of those on Triumph.

Except that BAF and Lambda haven't had a period where players haven't run them.

The Issue 9+ Hami raids are no where near the amount of times it was run before Issue 9. Before Issue 9, Hami Raids happened nightly. Even now, on Triumph, hami raids happen 1 or 2 times a month (if that). That also tells me that the "new" hami raid isn't as liked as it was before it was changed.

Then they have their heads in the sand and they must be among the few people that don't understand how much this trial is disliked by the players.

Doubts? Hardly. I posed the question of "What would you do to make Keyes fun?" and got a lot of negative response to the trial itself. If people like Arcanaville are making colorful comments like this:
The developers should be taking a very close look at the design.

Going Rogue Basic didn't include the extra month, only the complete collection did. So that complaint is invalid for the basic Going Rogue.

The Going Rogue: Complete Item Pack is, as others pointed out, $6.99 not $9.99. However it didn't include a free month's play. So your objection that it doesn't include a free month is also invalid.

The GvE listed above is for the Item Pack only. So your complaint is completely invalid for the GvE comparison price.

The ONLY "pack" in that table that includes a free month is the Going Rogue: Complete Collection. However I didn't include the month's subscription in that line. If I did, the point cost of Going Rogue: Complete Collection would be 10,140PP/$126.75, not 8,940PP/$111.75. This would be a savings of $96.76 if you buy the pack today instead of after they remove the expansions from the store.

I think those suggestions (in the original post) would go a long way to getting people to run it though. As it stands, Anti-Matter is a Mary Sue. He is a game master's pet character that breaks a dozen rules only to prove he is better than a dozen players.

I can't find anything wrong with this reasoning.

Yeah, this smacks of the same type of situation in pen and paper RPGs as to what to do with the players if the group splits up.

The developers should really listen to this.

While you might have a point here, when the number of deaths exceeds the amount of time being alive by a large margin, that should be a beacon that could be seen on Mars that the developers have got things wrong.

Yeah, I love the mixed message here. It is also present in the final battle with the entanglement (which for the more part players ignore anyway).

Both beams should give this kind of advanced warning. They should also be staggered so that they don't activate at the same time. The time stop should prevent both from firing, and reset the timers on the beams.

Colorful, but pretty accurate.

Funny, during my last few weeks, I've only seen Keyes run 2 times (and heard one of one more that happened before I logged in) when I didn't lead it (usually on the weekends).

However, I can say that since Issue 20.5 launched that I've run BAF 44 times, Lambda 32 times, and Keyes 26 times. And if it were not for me trying to get the badges, my Keyes trial runs could be counted on one hand. After I get the badges, wild horses wouldn't get me run this disaster of a trial again.

Of all the times I've led the Keyes trial, I've failed twice. And one time was because the GM arrived to move Anti-Matter out of a walkway (Anti-Matter stuck bug) a minute after timer expired. The other time we simply had too many people unfamiliar with the trial.

I don't find it hard to complete either. I do find the gimmicks to be so annoying as to ruin my fun though.

While I can see that some would think I'm asking for the trial to be easier, I think my original post was suggesting how to lessen the frustration of the trial.

Again, I wish the developers gave even a smidgen of thought to this. They didn't. Now people aren't running it as much.

Actually both the beams suffer from this, especially when combined with either each other or with the time stop.

I think the most telling thing about the trial is that it isn't being run as often as the others. That alone should scream to the developers that players are not finding it fun.

This might be a silly question, but why would you buy a booster pack that will be cheaper AFTER issue 21 launches?

Yellow items will be more expensive after Issue 21 launches.

Green items will be cheaper after Issue 21 launches.

Let me put it this way: I doubt 2 Empyrean merits will be enough to convince players to do Keyes on a regular basis, even without trying for the badges.

Simply put: Keyes isn't fun most of the time. The extra Empyrean merit for the first time in a day will not make up for that fact.

I gave the nu BSG till the end of the second season before finally asking myself "Why am I watching this?" I think that it represents my biggest regret for lost time actually watching a series. The single exception to that was watching the "Adama Maneuver" on Youtube. I tried a couple episodes of Caprica. I think that title is missing an "r" as the second letter.

I'm actually glad I didn't watch Lost.

I sort of regret not watching the last season of Heroes.

I had to be dragged to Battlefield Earth (still haven't forgiven some friends for it) and Barbed Wire.

I enjoyed Godzilla Vs Biolante. If only for the fact that I was one of 2 people in the entire theatre. We did an impromptu MST3K session on that one. I like rubber monster flicks.

My guiltiest pleasures? The first 3 "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" films.

That won't be enough to convince player to do Keyes badge runs.

More worrisome is that there are a few "bundles" in the store currently:
Ghost Falcon mentioned a 400PP pack for the "Complete Magic Costume Set (from the Magic Pack)", so either the prices on the store are completely insane or the pack he mentioned isn't in the store.

Current price: 300 points or $3.75.

Rocket Board current price: 600 points or $7.50. Downside for this one is that it disables all powers except "walk" (and that will kick you off the board) and you can't even use inspirations while using it.

For those that want a glance at prices in USD:


Prices in yellow are more expensive than the store, the prices in green are lower.

Edit:
At least one person didn't get the warning properly. Yellow items will increase (in some cases dramatically) after Issue 21. Wedding Pack, Good vs. Evil pack, and the Party Pack will all be cheaper with Issue 21.