Beef_Cake

Ooops, I didn't look down that far....I was thinking for some reason it was hero TF...lol

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Level 45+
Lady Grey TF
39 merits (+9)

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Still not added to the OP... Also here is another one..

Level 45+
Statesman TF
38 merits (+8)

Level 45+
Lady Grey TF
39 merits (+9)

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I think with a 30 minute timer it would serve its purpose a lot more. And it may entice people to run more of those long so called epic TFs in the Shard.

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You don't think it won't do that anyway? Imagine a full team with it and assemble the team.

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Not to the extent it would be if the cool down timer was shorter. As it is now the 6+ hour TFs you will be able to use it maybe 3 times. Im guessing maybe once. It may save you 2-3 minutes of travel for the team. Big deal, 5 minutes is nothing when you are running a 6+ hour TF.

Again, it would server a better purpose if it had a shorter recharge timer. And would be well worth me spending 40.00 for it for both my accounts. Right now its not worth 9.99 for my account.

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And I would assume quite a few others won't either. The timer needs to be shortened to get me to pay for it.

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Then don't pay for it. Nobody is putting a gun in your head and demanding you do so.

As for the entire costume thing, I got the cyborg pack and didnt use the full set on any one character. I used pieces on many many characters, though. And I already have in mind certain of those pieces for some of my characters too. I'm getting it because for 5 bucks, even if the teleport is 2 hours, its darn only 5 bucks and I also get costume pieces I want. Heck, I'd do it only for the wings!

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I never said anything about forcing people to buy anything, where the hell do you see me suggesting that? Please I want to know.

Again, I'm not a costume junkie, I make one costume and leave it the hell alone, I don't spend time getting unlockable costumes, so I sure as hell am not going to pay for one. I want the power not the costume.

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Organized and Veteran (enough) players may be able to teleport every 25 minutes making the shard TFs actually interesting.

You just got to alternate the teleport to missions and make sure everyone in the team has the vet team teleport power, if not Teleport Friend or Teleport Team. Could drastically cut on completion time of those Shard TFs, and you bet your @#$ you will see optimizing teams running perma teams (groups of people always teaming together) doing this.

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My reference to the Shard has nothing to do with speed runs, that is happening now, I'm doing them now as well. The power is more of a convenience to the player who do not have the desire to team or run the TFs, there are still contacts out there that offer mission. So this power would be nice to have for those who don't have flight or hate using the geysers.

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EvilRyu, Beef_Cake, if it had a 30 minute recharge power...would you describe it as "something nice to have" or a "must have". What do you think would be the reaction to a "must have" power for sale?

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Nothing in this game is a must have, as EvilRyu has already said. A 30 minute timer would have been a much better cool down timer than 2 hours.

I find some mission on average take about 30-40 minutes unless of course you are skipping most of the mobs and doing it for speed.

I think with a 30 minute timer it would serve its purpose a lot more. And it may entice people to run more of those long so called epic TFs in the Shard.

The power only does one thing, gets you to your mission faster, it does not earn you xp, it does not kill the mobs for you, so there is no way you can call it overpowered just because it can get you to your mission faster, otherwise, you may as well say the Ouroboros Portal is overpowered as well. Hell even bases with Telepads could be considered the same thing.

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Would I object if it was reduced to an hour? Nope. But those who are thinking it should have the same recharge as a base teleporter are smoking something. There's already complaints about the game becoming dependent on microtransactions, so any "must-have" purchasable power would cause a lot of problems. That's why the self-destruct power doesn't do the same damage as a blaster nova and why the mission teleporter isn't an every-mission or every-other-mission power.

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Please, this game is a [censored] time sink and thats all it is, this power would not hurt a damn thing if the cool down period was shortened a great deal.

You can post anyway you want when it comes to zoning to other zones to get to missions, this power saves you what a whopping 1 minute by putting you at the mission door.

Yeah, I can see how this can be used to gain a lot of XP. So please increase the timer to 5 hours, we need to slow people down even more.

You know, I was just thinking. If this power's recharge was a lot less than what it is now. We would probably see a lot more people in the Shadow Shard.

Just a thought, cuz I know how the devs like us to play the "content" they make. This power would entice more people to use the zone.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anyone asking for it to recharge in 5 minutes or for every mission.

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Well thats not how it was originally advertised to us. My thinking on this was that it would be a perk that can be used to to tp you to every mission. I was thinking it would have like a 5 minute recharge or something.

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Yeah, it would be nice, but since its not, I don't see me paying out any money for it either.

[/ QUOTE ]*shrug* And that's your option. There are some really nice costume parts that come with the pack too, though, yaknow.

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Providing you are a costume junkie, sure its great. But for those of us who could care less about sporting the same costume around as about 500 other people on the server, I would like ot spend my money on the temp power. And with the way the timer is set now, NCNC will not get any extra money from me.

And I would assume quite a few others won't either. The timer needs to be shortened to get me to pay for it.

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It's not something that's going to get you to every single mission. It's not designed for that.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anyone asking for it to recharge in 5 minutes or for every mission.

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It's designed for the times you have to go from the far corner of Dark Astoria to the far end of IP. Or the times you can't find the mission in the underground tunnels of Faultline/Brickstown.

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And just how often do we find ourselves in this position? I don't know about you but I see this happening quite a bit.

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This isn't to say a lower time wouldn't be nice...but I really don't see it happening.

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Yeah, it would be nice, but since its not, I don't see me paying out any money for it either. This power's recharge should have shared the same recharge timer are the Vet Power Assemble the Team or the Base Teleporter. Not the timer it has now.

2 hour recharge timer on the Mission Porter...sigh

If I were a costume junkie, you would have my money, but considering I'm not I was going to buy it until i seen the timer was set to 2 hours.

No thanks. But nice costumes for those who like costumes.

I'm sorry but I think the entire PvP change is a well lets say I will refrain from saying what I think they are.

You lose almost ever good PvPer in the damn game and then when you realize how much you lost you give free activation weekend and now all of a sudden arena gets a choice on the pvp changes. Looks to me you lost quite a bit of people and now you are desperately trying to get them back.

Well what about the zones, if you are doing this for the arena then the zones should have that option too. I mean what the hell is the point of these changes in the first place if giving a option in the arena.

Seems to me ya'll doing what you can to get these players back. Well sorry to say it but these pvp changes should have never happened.

PvE'ers do what they want to do and that is PvE, PvPers do what they want and that is PvP. Now you are just showing favoritism to the arena players and telling the rest of us who enjoy pvp zones to screw off, use the arena.

You seem to want to slam the PvP system down everyone's throat trying to get more people in the zones, yet all you are doing is hurting the existing players who did not leave the game already due to these changes.

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Awesome, thank you for taking the time to answer these questions Synapse!

Some answers were a little vague, but I get what you are saying

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Base Repricing
1) How will the repricing of bases affect you personally?

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I thin kits great, cheaper is always better for everyone. But in this case, people who have small size bases for storage will now be forced to pay upkeep which they normally didn't. I know its not much, but its the princible of it. They paid nothing for so long and now have to.

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2) Will you dismantle your base to gain the additional prestige from the repricing?

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Of course, who wouldn't. It gives us more prestige to do more things with our bases.

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3) How long would this process take you if you were to engage in this practice?

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For me personally a few weeks, maybe a month.

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4) What are the positive and negative concerns regarding repricing?

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All positive except for people who have small storage bases due to the limits of storage in a base for a entire SG. They are now forced to pay upkeep.

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5) How will this feature affect you long term and short term?

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Well if we choose to take advantage of the cheaper prices, we have to dismantle the base and rebuild, thats about it.

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Base Salvage Exchange to Invention Salvage
1) What is the negative effect on your base for this feature implementation?

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Time consuming, and now, I will have to rely on taking from members personal storage to contribute to the SG. WIth the old base salvage no one used it except for empowerment buffs, the rest was given to the base. Now personal salvage will need to be requested of the entire group. But as a SG, everyone contributes, its just the thought of having to ask for it now.

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2) What is the positive effect on your base for this feature implementation?

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None really, it will be just as the same after I covert everything to invention salvage.

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3) How long will it take you to adjust to learning this new system?

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No time at all, just convert all base salvage to invention and craft away.

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4) What side effects to this system do you currently see from transitioning the old to new system?

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Asking SG member for their personal salvage is the only thing I forsee not liking.

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5) What security concerns do you have regarding this change?


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People taking salvage from the racks for their personal use, when it is needed for the base, other than that nothing.

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I'd say good luck but whoever posted that wasn't Lighthouse.

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I will say good bye as well, and I too do not feel that was LH making that post.

Ive personally been paying the Scrapper version of Shields.

I can say, I feel it is ok, not as good as the other sets, but the only thing I think would be a good start for the set is allow the Team Buff to be applied to the Shield caster as well.

Sort of like Mind Link, it effects you and your team. And now that I think of it, are there any AOE team buffs out there that does not effect its caster? I can't think of one.

As for the endurance, I would always feel more comfortable with a bit more, but for the most part I find it ok, I just find myself resting more with this set than any other.

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Personally I would much rather have a slower ToT rate with Tier 3's than what we have now. I can get Tier 1's anywhere, anytime, Tier 3's were a bonafide treat. The new zombie event is nice and all, but once you've done it and got the badges, the rest of the event is just plain 'meh'. Very disappointing.

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Agreed, I even sold some salvage so I could replace my salvage rack for some Inspiration chests and now my chests are of no use, no T3 Inspirations is the sux!

Hopefully we can work this out for next year, this year was truly a let down.

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consider the possibility that you actually aren't supposed to have every badge in the game on one character.


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That comment is so outdated, and has already been proven to be a false comment by quite a few people.

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i remember seeing some where that the day job badges were linked to costumes

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Day job badges are NOT linked to costumes.

The day job related costumes are free, unlocked at the start, content in Issue 13.

And the 30 days is what we are initially going with. The values may change in beta.

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How long is this beta going to be?

I mean really why would you need to test if we like the 30 day thing or not? Are you testing to see if it works or what?

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Good point, how are we to test the earning of these badges and the accolades if we are testing with the current numbers?

Beta testing normally last about a month maybe a month and a hald max. So we wouldn't even get to test any of the accolades at all. Unless of course you lower the numbers or say beta will last more than 2 months.

I love badges, but to me this is dissapointing to me. 30 days is just a tad bit long to earn a single badge. it was bad enough with the other epic badges. Wereally don't need to go down that road again.

2 Weeks to me seems more or less a better time than 30 days per badge. Which would equal 1 accolade per month.

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The server sections and for fun are more often allowed to develop more of a community culture and less about direct feedback to the development team, that isn't to say it doesn't happen, but that is not the sole purpose of those forums. We do not pull feedback from server forums, those are created for player use.

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It really is a shame that this is not part of this moderation that is being upgraded with the other sections, the server forums is where most of the violations are taking place. More so than other forums.

The first 3 rules of the General Conduct is broken everyday and nothing is done about it.

General Conduct

1. Abuse will not be tolerated.

No flaming, trolling, harassing, profanity, abusive language or abbreviations, personal attacks, racial, religious, ethnic, or sexual slurs.

This applies to both “public” threads and private messages. Do not link out from a post or private message to these types of content.

Flaming is defined as attacking others in harsh, personal terms.

Trolling is defined as deliberately posting derogatory, inflammatory comments/threads in order to bait other users into responding.

Personal attacks include, but are not limited to insulting a poster directly:

EX: “You are stupid, you suck, and you should [censored].”

Directly attacking another poster will result in a warning. If the behavior persists, you will be banned.

2. No character assassination threads

Threads that single out a player for ridicule or to accuse someone of actions in-game will be removed without notice. Repeatedly targeting another person is considered ongoing harassment and is a severe violation of the forum rules. In-game violations need to be reported via the appropriate channels (such as the GM system) or go to http://support.plaync.com and submit your issue to us via the “Ask a Question” tab. If you believe that in-game GMs and the support system have not provided a sufficient or timely response, you may submit an inquiry to members of the forum staff via PM. Public posts of such accusations will be construed as attempts to cause antagonism for its own sake.

No personal attacks against forum moderators or game developers. If you disagree with an action taken by a moderator, you can send your complaint via PM to the moderator or go to http://support.plaync.com and submit your issue to us via the “Ask a Question” tab. Abuse of the devs or moderators (including in PM) is likely to result in an immediate, permanent ban from the message boards, and can result in the suspension of your game account.

3. No spamming or thread bumping.

So until the server forums is regulated with the same manner, why should people even listen to this post? I agree they should be policed, they should be policed each and every day and be corrected immediately, instead of allowing it to go on as it does now.

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You are right, however, Ex has stated with the number of posts everyday they cannot search every single one. Therefore, until they CAN search every post for violations, let's give this a chance - shall we?

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I never said I was not going to give this a chance, I was simply stating how I felt about the rest of the forums being policed.

I have reported many posts and or topics that break the rules I posted in my previous post and they never get taken care of, they always sit there for 2-3 weeks before someone finally does something, and normally this is done after I have to send a pm to one of the rednames here on the forums and I shouldn't have to do that.

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The server sections and for fun are more often allowed to develop more of a community culture and less about direct feedback to the development team, that isn't to say it doesn't happen, but that is not the sole purpose of those forums. We do not pull feedback from server forums, those are created for player use.

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It really is a shame that this is not part of this moderation that is being upgraded with the other sections, the server forums is where most of the violations are taking place. More so than other forums.

The first 3 rules of the General Conduct is broken everyday and nothing is done about it.

General Conduct

1. Abuse will not be tolerated.

No flaming, trolling, harassing, profanity, abusive language or abbreviations, personal attacks, racial, religious, ethnic, or sexual slurs.

This applies to both “public” threads and private messages. Do not link out from a post or private message to these types of content.

Flaming is defined as attacking others in harsh, personal terms.

Trolling is defined as deliberately posting derogatory, inflammatory comments/threads in order to bait other users into responding.

Personal attacks include, but are not limited to insulting a poster directly:

EX: “You are stupid, you suck, and you should [censored].”

Directly attacking another poster will result in a warning. If the behavior persists, you will be banned.

2. No character assassination threads

Threads that single out a player for ridicule or to accuse someone of actions in-game will be removed without notice. Repeatedly targeting another person is considered ongoing harassment and is a severe violation of the forum rules. In-game violations need to be reported via the appropriate channels (such as the GM system) or go to http://support.plaync.com and submit your issue to us via the “Ask a Question” tab. If you believe that in-game GMs and the support system have not provided a sufficient or timely response, you may submit an inquiry to members of the forum staff via PM. Public posts of such accusations will be construed as attempts to cause antagonism for its own sake.

No personal attacks against forum moderators or game developers. If you disagree with an action taken by a moderator, you can send your complaint via PM to the moderator or go to http://support.plaync.com and submit your issue to us via the “Ask a Question” tab. Abuse of the devs or moderators (including in PM) is likely to result in an immediate, permanent ban from the message boards, and can result in the suspension of your game account.

3. No spamming or thread bumping.

So until the server forums is regulated with the same manner, why should people even listen to this post? I agree they should be policed, they should be policed each and every day and be corrected immediately, instead of allowing it to go on as it does now.

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I've been here since day one and I agree that the epics should be lowered and that earning prestige for your SG also counts towards the Influence badges...I had my hero badge character (Energizing Ion) in SG mode all the time until about 2 months ago when I was trying to get all the badges...It doesn't make sense that prestige shouldn't count towards the badges....unless they made new prestige only badges... :P

I would really like for them to lower the epic badges (influence, damage and healing....and the pillbox one in RV )

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Well as much as people say they would like the prestige to count for the Influence badges. I would have to disagree with this, as the prestige is earned for the SG not your personal hero or villain.

As for the prestige badges, I believe this was in the works and was scrapped after further review of the way the system works. So I highly doubt we will see these badges, but I can only hope

As for the others like Healing and Damage taken, I could see these being lowered to make them more realistic, as for the influence badges, I feel these are fine, they are far fetched but they can be earned by normal game play.

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I can say this as I have all the badges,

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Do you ever feel a sense of exhaustion at the thought of more badges coming out each release?

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Absolutely not, I welcome them. That is my fun in the game I enjoy the most and thats the badges. Of course the content is a major part but the most of it comes from the badges and being with friends while earning them.

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Now, don't get me wrong, I love my badges. But has anyone actually gotten the 6th influence badge yet? What is it, 100 Billion?

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Yes, I have all the influence badge now. Yes, they were very hard to get and took loads of missions and TFs for this. Will I try to get this on another hero or villain, Hell no, too much work for a shiny to be honest.

I can say this as I have all the badges, I would not object if the devs were to lower these requirements for others. I have been here since day one and recently obtained all the badges and its been a little over 3 years now, and it is a great achievement, but at the end of everything, all you have is a lot of time in the game with no extra powers or anything other than to say you have them all.

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Just to let you know out of all of these epic badges, there is only one badge that I truly feel has any worth to me and that is the Leader badge for the 2 billion influence.

Next would be the Bug Hunter, but thats a different topic.