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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The 1-50 game moves players on by reducing then totally removing rewards once players become too powerful for the enemies in their level range

Originally Posted by Ogi

Probably the best thing about this winter event wasn't in the game, it was in the store. Sorta bahumbug but being able to unlock halos for every current and future character was a win.

Not "needing" (come on people, just freaking queue) a mega-league for the two new badges is nice now that I've completely given up on the Lord of Winter badge after another 45 minutes in the queue (with a 5 min wait time).

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

love 'em. It took me a long time to learn they are there to be munched when needed - I tended to hoard them and would sometimes die with a full tray

But they are a very cool feature of the game.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

I mostly agree with the proviso that if you absolutely have to follow instructions to succeed, then it's not your attention span that's faulty, it's the game

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The biggest problem with DA being the Trial staging zone is that the street mobs mightn't respawn fast enough to keep up with the frenzied packs of Incanrates thowing out Judgements in the downtime between Trials

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

There are plenty of new players

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Incarnate debt?



If the next 5 slots have different types of IXP that are only available on new Trials, then players will play them - nothing can head that off

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The slower progress rate means that the DA content will be useful as a filler for the downtime between Trials - DA will become the main raid zone, instead of the RWZ and Pocket D, and leagues will be easier and faster to form in DA

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

There are hundreds of Warworks and DF to mow down on the Trials

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

There's a solution to the problem in the second half of your sentence

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

If there were no rewards on the ITF, would it still be run as often as it is now? Or would it become "annoying"?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The problem with that attitude can be seen in the AE - the devs discovered that there is a section of the player base that will zero in on the quickest path to progress, and ignore everything else - it wasn't a majority, but it was big enough and done frequetly enough to get the devs to make so many tweaks to the AE, including aded Marty to try and slow them down.
Because this section of the player base was just door sitting on the same AE farms 1-50, that could be interpreted as the rest of the content "sucking" compared to the AE farms, because they were only doing the "fun" content.

Originally Posted by MisterD

To actually offer MY opinion..I think Trials with 8 or less will be a bad thing, seeing the death of the big leagues. And some people actually ENJOY these. If you can get the same rewards for doing an 8 man incarnate trial, as a 24, who is gonna bother forming the 24? (and yes Sam, please dont point out how I am now talking of the wait times, I already said they happen) Right now we have..solo, small teams, big teams (8 man tfs) and Leagues. 4 quite different and varied options. Giving us 8 man trials will damage leagues and be too similar to single team TFs.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

Yes, provided that smaller trials are just as difficult as current trials are (the definition of difficulty being failure rate), and maintain a lot of the beneficial changes that trials in general have introduced, such as rewarding generalist builds, an emphasis on situational awareness and reaction time, the 64 base tohit of enemies and timed objectives.

Small trials have lots of advantages - less time to launch, less lag and most of all it's much easier to stand out in a small team. In a group of 8, one heavily minmaxed, expertly played build can carry the entire group (trials are large enough that you tend to need a core of 'elite troops' to do the same job, and that makes things trickier). But let's not have what are just plain old TFs with bigger rewards.

Originally Posted by Bosstone

Aside from what GG and Spatch have already said, I just have to point out that this game isn't exactly known for its non-repetitive content. Just how many warehouses and miles of sewer system are there in Paragon, after all?

Originally Posted by Spatch

Hyperbole alert.

If you're going to try and make a point, it's best to ensure your statements are factual. Based on my experience:

1. I have NEVER seen players vetted for the number of purples they have slotted.

2. BAF, Lambda, Keyes, and UG can be done unshifted, and I've never seen players vetted for their shifted status. I'm sure it's happened sometime on some server, to but suggest it happens regularly is a patent exaggeration. MoM and TPN have shifted AVs, and were designed for shifted players. As such it's not unreasonable to vet players to ensure they're going to be able to contribute in a meaningful way (an unshifted 50 will be completely useless against a 54+2 AV).

Originally Posted by Turgenev

1. Would I run them? Sure. Content is content. This applies to your last question too.

2. Would they be run enough to make them worth making - depends on your qualifiers. If you're suggesting to award an Astral or Empyrean merit at the end of it, I think people would go nuts over it, and I think it would be a huge mistake balance-wise.

BTW, what you named above basically translates into a story arc (I won't say task force, since those are typically much longer, with Apex/Tin Mage being exceptions). We have that already to many differing degrees. The "trial" part of it implies a comparative reward, which by your breakdown doesn't apply, I think.

Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare

As an Incarnate Inherent ability (as long as a character has any of their Incarnate Slots equipped); a bonus to Max HP, Max HP cap, Max End and Damage cap (possibly even raising Movement Speed caps)? (Independent of any bonuses that may come from active Incarnate slotting)

The above set at a fixed percentage value (no matter what's slotted) or a percentage-per-equipped slot value?


[PS - Now I'm just being a tad greedy... either a +1 mag rez protection bonus, a small rez +resis percentage bonus or both?]

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

First, the company has to pay for the OTP (one-time-password) service. That can be anywhere from $1000 a year to $1000 a month to $1000 a week depending on just how many keys you need. Then, you can have each key fob custom designed to fit the CoX theme (anywhere from $20 to $30 to $40 per key fob depending on manufacturer and design used) or you could go blank for about $18 a key fob. Then you have to repackage the game with the fobs. This requires new packaging to indicate the new security (mostly in the System Requirements). Then you have to recall all previous versions. THEN you have to ship and stock the new boxed versions. THEN you have to ship new fobs to each player subscribed to your game.

Please note that I didn't include the time, money and manpower it would take to integrate the new security measures into the game's databases and interface (this includes login/store screens, the NCsoft website (another deal to be made since NC owns Paragon), and server-client authentication handshaking). I also didn't include the myriad of customer support issues the current service reps would have to be trained on.

The cost can add up very, very rapidly. Unless you understand the processes and stages involved in making such a 'minor' addition to the game, and unless you've had first hand experience modifying a large-scale MMO, you can't ask for something like this and treat it like a minute issue.

Originally Posted by Tyger

And then the devs wonder why there's more BAFs and Lambdas run....

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

I'm well aware of teams, thanks. Tip missions were were designed with the same team size as DA is being designed for (1 or more players). That doesn't change the fact that tip missions are some of the most boring things to do in the game (my own opinion, ymmv) and I have a feeling after the new factor wears off the DA content will just be the same thing.

As for soloing the DA content, I look at it like this: If there are people on my global that I would run the DA content with, I'd be more likely to form a trial with them instead. The only time I see myself doing DA content is when no one else is on super late at night, which means I'd probably be solo'ing the DA content or at most duoing it occassionally.

Originally Posted by Agent White

Dude, big rule on the forums:

Forum goers *****. A lot. Take what they say with a grain of salt, because they are only the most vocal players, they do not -represent- most players. Big, big difference. And it happens some of them are very very vocal whiners that will interject their point into any thread even tangentially related to the topic, sometimes not even that. So don't let it put you off.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

They've said that Dark Astoria is intended for solo and small team play - that means that most of the content will need to made easy enough for most ATs and builds to solo it.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The devs?