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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Actually I think our GM's will first pull up the chatlogs to see if the team leader acted in a petitionable manner.

For example

Player A: Hey! Why did you kick me from the league?
Team Leader: I'm sorry but this particular league is a scheduled SG event for members only. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

GM then proceeds to close the petition with no action being taken.

Originally Posted by ArcticFahx

And people who want to team with specific people for whatever reasons shouldn't be forced to take on more people. The pendulum swings both ways there.



Bill already addressed this, but how in the heck is it automatically elitism to want to team with specific people? Elitism implies this is due to a feeling of being better, when it's more often a case of "hey, I'm doing this with friends and only friends."

Originally Posted by Emberly

I'm laughing at the idea of someone getting banned or suspended for kicking people from trials.

Originally Posted by ArcticFahx

No, I want to team with specific people because I play this game to play with my girlfriend and with my friends. Yes, I could just hop on the queue, but if the LFG queue broke teams apart and reformed them randomly, and I ended up on a separate league from my gf (when we're planning on doing stuff together), I'd probably drop immediately, because I wanted to do it with someone specific. Taking team control away from the players is always a horrid idea on its face.

Originally Posted by EvilGeko

You guys are so funny.

The devs created a system knowing that most people would feel bad about kicking stragglers. However, they know that for whatever reason, you sometimes need to be able to kick folks from your team. So they left that in.

The OP's story is lamentable, but fully within the rules and fully intended. The only thing that the OP can do is make a note about that league leader.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

There are several reasons, both story and gameplay - and the current development path guarantees us a faster output of Trials, and the full playerbase to recruit from.

Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan

Oh, I'm pretty sure I know the technical reasons; I'm a developer and work with SQL Server constantly. What you say is almost certainly the case, but there's no excuse for not looking at the individual cases as the account owners raise a ticket, and change the inactive accounts on request (assuming it's owned by the person raising the ticket).

There's only ONE reason I can think of why this can't be done, and can only be done as part of a data import; the account name is part of the primary key.

IF that's the case, then whoever designed the database needs to taken out back and summarily shot. You NEVER use a textual descriptive field such as a name, as a primary key. It breaks just about every rule of database design there is!

Originally Posted by IonMatrix

You know!!???!!! I have noticed that over 8 hours a week is tied up in game maintainence. I know that games need to be updated and bugs worked on and such. But for God sake EIGHT hours a WEEK?? I say this because it used to be one day a week for about 2 to 3 hours. That was it. Yes it sounds like a whine but since I am a "PAYING" customer I have the right to beatch a little. I simply wish I knew why it had to go from 2 to 3 to OVER 8 hours a week just to post updates. Think about it, 2-3 to over 8 what the HE##??? OK I feel a little better.

ohh PS guys just for you sticklers!! it has "EVERYTHING" to do with 7 years of COH. USED to be 2-3 NOW 7 freaken years later its 8.

Originally Posted by Neutrino_Siphon

Well, if my two cents is allowed, I PAY for this game, but I can't play when the servers are down? Should I start screaming that I'm not allowed to enjoy something that I've "PAYED" for and have "PAYED" for for the past 7 years?

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Okay, let's just remove death from the game completely, so the game will never be slowed down.

If penalties for dying are such a bad thing, let's remove the penalty of not being able to act while you're dead too.

If you get down to 0 HP, your health and end refill automatically, just as though you'd been rezzed by an empath on the spot. No one ever dies again, and everyone is happy...except for the people who have and use their enemy affecting rez powers.

I know, a pop up that asks you if you WANT to be defeated! That would work great! That way the people who want to use RotP or Soul transfer still get to, and the people that want no penalties to apply don't ever have to die!

And, no, I'm not actually serious about this.

Originally Posted by Olympus_NA

And would have the series been more interesting if more people knew what to do? I was sitting on the edge of my chair the entire two hours when I was reading the book for the first time.

Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim

Okay, there is a disconnect for statements I've seen like that here on the forums for the seventh book. It's necessary but tedious is rather contradictory. For me, that last book's opening starts you out hoping that things might work out okay, and then quite literally throws you in the pit of despair (with no Princess Bride, rasping voiced Albino to make you grin about it... slightly). The three are entirely alone and lonely, and Ron leaving is about ten times worse than the other issues he has occasionally had with Harry in previous books.

That's not tedious, that's as sad and hopeless as life can get... a powerful statement, especially for many kids books and Hollywood stories these days, which have difficulty making things dark in a worthwhile way (other than being "gritty"). Getting to that point is depressing, yes (I was feeling like things were even more hopeless than after Dumbledore died), but something that makes the book work so well. When the Horcrux is destroyed, things feel like they are going up even when a certain important someone dies. The heights and hope that the seventh book has are not possible without those depths of despair we have to go through. Despair is not fun to go through, I know, but it is needed for the story, and not tedious. Tedious =/= not wanting to go through something.

As far as construction and pacing goes, I think the sixth and the seventh books are probably the best of the series. Books four and five were nice, but felt a little bloated and meandering, even if I liked a lot of the details they had. The last two books are quite driven despite having a lot going on in them, and I would say are the best of the lot.

Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero

Not necessarily. Players have bin burning through a lot of inf via incarnate crafting.

Originally Posted by Tyger42

I think for a lot of people, the concern is more about motivating other people than themselves. It can get frustrating ending up on too many teams where the attitude of the whole team is to just barrel on in carelessly and if you die, "Oh well...". Zerg tactics are only entertaining for so long...

Originally Posted by HelinCarnate

I have been on the middle of ship raids with 4 teams and run pretty smooth. Rikti invasions, no problem. BAF with 3 teams however, at points is just plain horrid. The prisoner phase is always terrible, powers take twice as long to recharge and you never know if a power is actually up or if you will click it and get the RECHARGING notice. Before the last patch I would only lag a little at the prisoner phase now the lag is much worse and extends to other parts of the trial.

I even get that same type of power lag (but to a lesser degree) during the final fight. With several level 50 toons that I would like to take thorugh the trials, this is getting very frustrating. It makes me want to stop playing, or at the least say screw the trials.

I would laugh my *** off if it was something to do with the calculations for "particpation" causing the lag. Honestly that is probably not the case and I really don't care what the cause is. From a player sandpoint, the lag makes that trial un-fun and it needs to be fixed.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Wanting to play the game has no bearing on that. My sub is still up, logged in just last night (and planning to do so again today.) And I do that because I do, indeed, want to play the game, and enjoy doing so. Doesn't mean you can't speak up and say what's wrong or you don't like.

Even when people were referring to me (amusingly) as a "fanboy," it wouldn't take long for anyone paying attention to see I'm quite free with criticism. Why criticize and "really speak my mind?" Because I want the game to be better.

The world isn't black and white. I can criticize something I love. Sometimes (admittedly a lot more, recently) harshly.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

You're touching on the key here. It's a huge function of the number of people in a zone.

It's not just the trials, by the way. I went to a Hamidon Raid on Wednesday that had the worst raid lag I've experienced since back when you could have over 100 people in the Hive. I quipped to people at the time that I could have rendered the frames by hand and kept up with my power recharge and ability to move after activating a power.

This broke dramatically with the most recent patch. It was nothing like this on the prior patch level.

Originally Posted by Obscure Blade

Posi can just build her an android body. Just so long as he resists the temptation to fiddle.

Numina: "My breasts are NOT that big!"

Positron: "But-"

Numina: "NO!"

Originally Posted by MayorOfAngrytown

This.

Could also swap Burn for Rains. Seems like an appropriate amount of power in an aura for how incarnates have been billed.

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

Then again, so are the Crusaders.