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Originally Posted by GMan3

I actually was not trying to win the argument. I know that unreasonable people can not be reasoned with. I am willing to admit that the action she is so upset about was horrible, but demanding the name of a badge be changed will not change that and is silly. The name is very appropriate to the INTENT of the book it was supposedly named after AND to the action being taken in the game.

Or if you want to talk about the silliness of not killing someone trying to use a laser blaster/machine gun/super powers/etc against you . . . Well, I would not be trying to arrest anyone in that situation. That would needlessly create a greater risk to my own life. I would take them out permanently and I am pretty sure a lot of people, probably most people agree with me.

Overall though, I was not trying to win, I just wanted people to see what I believe to be the foolishness of her arguments.

Originally Posted by Ironik

I agree. Give out more merits for them and change the encounter so that if you do a single attack you get not just the badge but also a merit. The team who does the most damage gets more merits, 5 or 10 perhaps, depending on the GM's difficulty and rarity. If they only spawned every 6 weeks with increased rewards, there'd be a lot more interest in fighting them.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

Ergo nothing, because anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.

In the past two months I've seen 2 spontaneous invasions on Pinnacle and both were well attended. I even managed to finish off the accolade on my BD scrapper. Other people on my team expressed frustration or disappointment that they still had more work to do to get their's, since they didn't catch invasions happening that often.

By your logic, does anecdote trump anecdote or do you just want to accept that the zero interest you saw may have had to do with bad timing or at least isn't a general case.

Originally Posted by Ironik

That, right there, is the key.

I think Rikti invasions and zombie attacks should be exceedingly rare. Once every 3 months, maybe even once every 4.

Monsters like Lusca, Jack in Irons, the Ghost Ship, Adamastor... all those should be once a month events at best. 6 weeks would be better. That would generate more interest when they do happen. Also, add some new badges and change the way people get the badge. Instead of your team doing the most damage in order to get the badge, just make it so that anyone who attacks the thing gets it.

Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer

I say that the Deadly Apocalypses should be related to the Halloween Event. The Zombie Apocalypse, however is too awesome to have be so rare. Basically, the Banners can be only for Halloween. The Zombies for Halloween OR turning in Halloween salvage.

Originally Posted by Donna_

Yea that's true, probably more so solo tho... A Kin no matter the level will speed up any team that you are in so if you really wanted a Fire/Kin at 50 you will be best to team, probably hit 20 go vigilante and do every TF and SF there is at the appropriate level and you will more or less be done.

Originally Posted by PennyPA

Can't agree with the suggestion either. If anything, slots are powers, so this isn't even a "power pool".

But for the slots we have now, we have to make choices. There are some powersets that would benefit with a few extra slots, there are others that are literally overflowing in slots (as examples, my widow was starving for slots in powers, whereas my grav/ff controller was throwing away slots in stuff I thought I would never slot but had to use them to level up).

Add in on top we will get incarnates, so the future may bring changes.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Here's my take on this: The game runs out of build choices at level 30, at least the way I play. Up until then, I always have at least a primary or secondary power to take, but by level 30, I can take all available primary and secondary powers and the two powers needed to get a travel one. From that point on, my only choice is what opens up.

At 32, my only choice is my final primary power. At level 35, my only choice is my penultimate secondary power. At level 38, my only choice is my final secondary power. Yes, I realise I could be taking pool powers. What if I don't want to? Most pool powers suck, and even the ones that don't aren't always needed. And we all know Fitness won't be an issue pretty soon.

I have always been a fan of opening Epic pools earlier. It presents us with more options without the abovementioned drought of choice, and it prevents build options from being no-brainers. It also allows us to branch out earlier, which is always a nice touch.

While I will admit I find a certain level of comfort in having my build decided for me by a game which gives me single-option "choices," I've always thought that our "own" powers should actually be at least twice as many as we can actually take. There's an idea of alternate power picks floating around S&I which talks about each power giving you a choice of two, mutually exclusive picks, and that's something along the lines of what I'm suggesting.

In simpler terms, I find the Kheldian approach to be the better way to do it. Yes, you have many, many powers, but trying to take them all is a fool's errand, so you HAVE to choose. Does your Peacebringer focus on melee, on range, or forms or, hell, even on self-protection? It's a meaningful choice, and one I had a really hard time with (before I gave up on Kheldians thanks to Voids and lack of status protection). My builds for all of my non-Kheldian characters, on the other hand, usually consist of all 18 primaries, four of the five Epics and two "travel power picks."

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Well if the devs are going to leave the current PvP zones where they are then there's no reason for them to create a PvP dedicated server. PvP players have no motivation to throw away everything they've accomplished with their current characters just to start over from scratch on a PvP only server. Instead they'll stay where they are and continue to use the current zones.

Another thing you seem to have overlooked is that PvP is gated to a minimum level of 15 in this game. The devs aren't going to let people auto level to level 15.

If you are suggesting a new server where all the zones are open to PvP then you are seriously overestimating the size of the PvP population in this game. In it's heyday the PvP population was only a tiny fraction of the playerbase and they have a hard enough time finding opponents in the 4 current zones so you are delusional if you think it will be easier for PvPers to find opponents if they have to search 50+ zones. Especially when there will be a significant portion of them that will refuse to leave their home servers where they can do both PvP and PvE.

Originally Posted by Vel_Overload

Get farming out of Atlas. Some people may enjoy farming, others don't Either way it's not really cool to encourage the new people to go straight to the AE and live there without seeing the rest of the city.

notice the word: encourage... not force, so don't play word games.

Originally Posted by NorvellDevelopment

This is a notion that I think is very relevant. If the devs need a reason to stop and look at the reward system again, inherent fitness is a darn good one. Even beyond the low level activities, it's going to change how things work for every character -- ones that didn't use it will now be benefitting from Health and Stamina, and ones that did use it are going to have extra powers once the slots open up. That's a big change.

Originally Posted by Silver Gale

Everyone who wants Ferraris needs to do at least one of those things, yes.

Or one of the many other things that produces lots of Inf, like running Hero Tips until you have two Hero Merits, and turning them into a high-value recipe (like Luck of the Gambler +7.5% Global Recharge or Numina's Convalescence Regen/Recovery Unique) and selling that on the market. Six days of running 5 missions per day (and the Morality mission every second day), you get over a hundred million inf easily.

Really, it's much more fair than in real life, where unless you are born into a wealthy family or you get exceptionally lucky, you are unlikely to ever become rich.

Originally Posted by OPTICAL_ILLUSION

whoa lots of my fan club here! hi guys and catgirls! miss me?


well i think they should isolate the sewers to DA cause those dirty sludge runners have been stinking up AP long enough.

Originally Posted by JayboH

Every player has the right to give comments on this pack.

Those who are yelling at people to stop any critical comments are stifling feedback that the devs need. The devs are not going to give you a cookie for jumping to their defense.

Originally Posted by theOcho

I can indeed confirm that these pieces are not tied to your character's origin. The name and design of the pack is thematic around the origins, but not hard coded into your choices.

Originally Posted by Chyll

hhmmm, I had just assumed they were...

Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal

... And here I am thinking that they're just tainting the Tron universe with marvel zombie fodder. :/

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

I would too. But you know that the whiner brigade would be whining about those instead of the boosters. I have found there is no end to their ability to find something to complain about even if they have to make up things that have not happened but might.

When I played EQ I bought each expansion and enjoyed it. Just as I will do here for boosters that have something I want. All the handwringing in the world by the tremblers won't affect my decisions in the slightest.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

that's interesting, I didn't realize anyone had actually done it.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

Nope. But the others tended to sell expansions on a regular basis with prices relative to the time frames between them.

They're going to get their money one way or another.