Aura_Familia

Originally Posted by TsumijuZero

kinda disappointed that the EU is once again passed over, however pending the outcome I'd be willing to forgive the Devteam if:

• They Don't do a CO "Sakura Park" Blunder.
• They sort out including EU accounts in future competitions
• The winning story is actually a good story and not an Arc that has just been played 999 times because its on the first page...

Originally Posted by vampyrus_ddg

Thats not quite right, you can't replicate the old 2nd and 4th settings as the lower level spawns would be +1 to the teams size (5 man spawns on a team of 4) and the higher ones would be at the teams size, so solo on 4th difficulty you'd be fighting 2 man +1 spawns and 1 man +2 spawns.

the boss spawn rate has been up for quite a while, not sure if this was changed in i14 or i15 but definitly noticed it when I came back (left late i13, came back late i15), I duo a lot with a friend and some missions there would only be a couple of spawns which weren't 1 boss 1 minion on basic difficulty, others there would be only the boss spawn at the end if the mission called for one...

Don't mind the changes personaly in fact our corruptor duo (fire/rad, ice/cold) needed the extra challenge even at low levels, but I can see this could be an issue for others

Originally Posted by Moderator 08

For the record, I highly recommend using globals instead of broadcast and joining or forming supergroups of like minded individuals with similar play times.

Also population does not equal ease of finding teams. One of my best buddies refers to Victory as his teaming server, even though he is part of strong super groups on Freedom. Victory has an unbelievable amount of TF's being run and they are always looking to bring new people aboard. I've had good luck on most of the servers, but tactics vary from server to server and population is not necessarily what determines how easy it is. Now for PvP I imagine that raw numbers is fairly important.

Originally Posted by hedgehog_NA

no, it is poetic justice. they asked for a tf difficulty nerf, they got it. They want a nerf to the -1 but arent willing to give up anything for it. Talk about a sense of entitlement.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Gamers know crap when they play it.
I'd prefer people's first encounter with 'real content' be something fun and engaging like Faultline, not a queasy stew of street sweeping, warehouse kill-alls and multi-zone fedex's.

Okay, sure that might seem captivating to some pure naif from the deep rainforest who's never seen a computer before. But it is a huge turn-off for anyone with even a passing familiarity with computer games.

The intrigue of character creation & new powers and fun combat could certainly distract them from the fact that what they're running is roughly as fun as pounding on their thumb with a hammer.

That doesn't mean the content is any good, or that they wouldn't be better served avoiding it entirely and picking it back up when it stops being pure unadulterated crap.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Presumably the thinking was that the Test Server (and, by extension, the Test Server forum) is a relatively limited audience and someone felt this deserved wider attention right now, instead of when it hits live.

Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan

There are many differences between the sewers and the AE, but the one that strikes me as most relevant here is that people generally leave the sewers, and go on to do other things in other zones.

Originally Posted by Kurugi

The main difference is the sewers aren't really used for monetary (influence) gain, many farms in MA and PI are, in fact over the course of my time playing MMOs the term "farming" has been more related to the goal of making in-game currency and not so much gaining XP.

It's more accurate to call the sewers a grind than a farm.

Originally Posted by Dispari

Quick question. Is this a temporary fix? Because this prevents us from scaling UP the encounter. I know it's nonsense to have a level 53 enemy spawn at 49, but can't I still make them 54?

I ask because I'm crazy, and recently did a +4 ITF, and am contemplating a +4 LRSF and LGTF. TFs are fun, but not if we have to run them all on easy mode at +0. Hopefully you're looking at a solution to make it so we can pick our difficulties again, but not make them easier? Because TFs on +0 are not challenging and not any fun. I can get way harder, more challenging content just doing newspaper missions, and that's just silly. A task force being defaulted to easy is like... nonsensical. I'll understand if this is temporary, but please don't tell me this is how it's going to be from now on.

And while you're at it, tie merit rewards to difficulty maybe? Please?

Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants

Did the programmer who didn't set a value when it was declared have his shin kicked?

Originally Posted by norty_morty

salvage prices always done that daily thing,
but since i16 there's a major swing...
Downward trend on the very low end,
and peaks (still) higher than i expected.
(please keep in mind, this is all subjective)

on a time span from sleepy morn' hours in america;
wee morning hours, nothing on camera.
Until they (you) wake up all over the land,
to hit up the market with coffee in hand.
Again it does swing, when "ami" prime time stops,
'till most are sleeping, and the other shoe drops.

-common salvage prices; the lowest sink drastically.
High prices too, but not as much, thankfully.
-rare salvage prices are sinking, but much less drastically.
Ticket 'farming' still is (and profits fantastically).

-uncommon salvage prices are all over the place.
Only teh eebil can keep up with the pace!


Simply some simpleton's subjective observations.
-morty

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

characters playing 'normal' missions generate mountains of salvage.
throw in the multiplying factor of letting folk set their own spawn size and a nearly instantaneous & cataclysmic collapse was guaranteed.

The low level stuff will rebound once the wave of power proliferation characters moves up the food chain, but the high level stuff is back to vendor trash status.

Originally Posted by Liquid

Maybe it will become... a 5th Column TF. O_O

Remember that giant 5th (NOT Council!) Mek Man that appeared in the MA on the test server for a short time?

Originally Posted by pohsyb

This was caused by an uninitialized variable, in this case specifically it was a structure declared locally when awarding a drop table.

About four function calls deeper, something was using a member of that structure to determine if you were fighting something grey (no drop). Uninitialized variables can be anything, but often have tendency to be zero, which would not cause a problem (actually any positive value would not matter).

This bug as been in since Issue 9 and was not caused by specifically by anything related to I16 (Whenever code is changed the tendencies of uninitialized variables can change). I suspect the changes made with I16 caused drop rates to be closely scrutinized.

Originally Posted by Chaos Creator

I'd approve of this with stipulations:
1) Auto clear all toons every week, this prevents people from just playing on Test II only.
2) small one time fee to access. $5 maybe?

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

If The Sims sppeals to your love of construction and SL doesn't... you've obviously not looked much at SL SL is an entirely player constructed world. Inside of which, people have created loads of different games (including a variety of combat systems), as well as many other things.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

Both. The first appears to be a US card while the second appears to be a EU card. See Time Card

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

Great post.

I just wonder what people consider to be a "whole lot" though.

It took me 345 hours to get my warshade to 50. Some of that excess time was due to my primary activity during the Luck Charmers' experiment was I had him set at level 9 through Ouroboros hunting Hellions in Perez Park.

I then set about my goal to casually purple him.

I am currently lacking about 15 purples and I have 10 slotted plus my LotGs and other choice tidbits I wanted for my build. I have been playing him 160 hours at 50 so far. It hasn't seemed like a whole lot and truthfully if I was willing to spend the inf I have on hand down to 0 I'd only have 9 purples to go. But in any case I expect it to take me another 100 hours or so of playing (maybe longer with this horrible recipe drop rate going on).

Is 250ish hours of level 50 play to fully purple a warshade really a whole lot?

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Truly, it is a banner week for eeebil!

Welcome to the club, Aura! Your private room is reserved & stocked with ill-gotten treats.

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

Gratz but aren't you selling that CI kind of cheap?