BeornAgain

I am unable to access my old accounts either.

I said what I had to say, Zwill responded the best way he could, folks took exception to the "impact" on the premium and free players (which is to say, none, since they don't pay for things), and others griped about the griping...

I'm done with this thread.

See y'all in another thread!

(I'll still lurk here in case someone says something awesome bad or awesome good)

Sooooo, I dig what you're saying and everything. And I really and truly appreciate it.

But, and I'm just being a devil's advocate here...

You think that MAYBE, we, the VIP players, could get a bit of love? This work is scheduled so that, when the free folks arrive, their experience won't be impacted.

But, it is okay to impact the players who pay?

Just askin'...

Only the VIP account on mine is active, the other 2 I no longer pay for are still unable to access the game. That may very well be a bug.

WHAT?!?!!?!

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This is simply unacceptable for the EU players... What in the name of God's Green Corn are you guys NOT doing? Or doing? Or thinking about doing? Or trying to do, failing, and resetting and still not doing? You can find time to nerf AE rez-mobs, write code for MARTy, and GAIN time by simply flicking the switch on level-pacts for VIPs (since F2Ps and Premiums CAN'T play yet, and YOU said you'd wait...).

And to think I JUST reupped my sub through next year... damn.

Crab Spider Beorn
Huntsman Beorn
Husky Eraser Widow
PvP Pixie Widow
Carcinoscorpius
Black Widow Hexie
The Platinum Widower

I gots bunches... 'cept I've never made a fortunata...

Don't feed the trolls

I've had a ticket for this for a few days.

As of this evening here are the last 2 tickets from the NCSoft gurus of computery goodness:

I am done with this pancake waffle crepe flapjack nonsense.

NONE of the trolls can adequately explain their venom, hatred or the bile they spew on EITHER side of this debate.

I like the content, the FIRST 10 times... However, there are more than 10 different AT primary/secondary combos available... Even to F2P players!

So, if I want to get that grav/ice hero dominator to 50 and I already have a grav/ice hero controller at 50, who the PANCAKE are you to tell me I can't get it done as expeditiously as possible? Do you pay my subscription? Do you donate time to my play? Do you do ANYTHING other than grief about WAFFLE that means less than nothing?

I want tickets and/or experience and/or prestige and/or influenceamyation™, and I will have them, as much as I can as often as I require. If the game prevents me from acquiring said consumables (admittedly intangible and unreal they may be), and subsequently does it often enough with other topics I care about/enjoy/desire, then I will go away.

Yes, many won't give a flying rat pancake of my passing, but my very tangible and real currency that goes toward the continued existence of the game will evaporate as my subscription expires. And, with me may come 1 or 5 or 10 more. With them more still, and then the only folks left on the deck will be GG and the band playing while she goes down, iceberg in her wake.

This game is the apex predator of Superhero MMOs. Nothing else comes close... It has easily bested the attempts made by everything from also-rans to giants in the industry. However, when you tick off the geeks, even the die hards can, and will, transfer their love, and funds, elsewhere.

I have run damn near every TF in this game... The ones I haven't (like the Shadow Shard ones) aren't due to adamant resistance, but finding enough people to set aside so many hours of their life... My master account says I've been playing and paying, on and off, since April 2004... I started to use the AE as a farm for leveling, inf, tickets, and leveling others about 7 years later...

You don't know me, or my motives, so how can anyone truly know the motives of others? There are some pretty easy slam-dunk intentions that even a precocious child can decipher, but only that person knows their own intentions.

A rose is a rose, and this stinks too.

Wake me when Street Justice comes out...

Nerfing a rezzing mob to not give additional exp = click of a mouse.
Nerfing ambushes to not give exp = rewriting code.
Removing ambushes from AEs capability = rewriting code.

Which of the above is easier?

Well now, you see... HERE is the crux of the issue...

Long time players: "Just made 50... We're bored."
Devs: "We'll make more stuff."
{time passes}
Long time players: "Did it again, on a different AT. We're bored again."
Devs: "Ah HAH, but now you can be a villain!"
{time passes}
Long time players: "Made all the villains to 50. BO-ringggggg!"
Devs: "But as a... CRABSPIDER?"
{time passes}
Long time players: "Made every AT, EAT, and VEAT to 50... <sniff> Now what?"
Devs: "Ah HAH! Have you made each of them an INCARNATE?!?!"
{time passes}
Long time players: "Got everything at Tier 4, when you gonna unlock the last 5 incarnate powers?"
Devs: "Wait a minute, have you seen the NEW POWERSETS?"
{NO time passes}
Long time players: "How is leveling a grav/time 'troller all that different from a grav/ice 'troller? Nah, I wanna do Mids IN REAL TIME. So, I'm going to level a toon to 50, and then spend the next few weeks getting all the nifty IOs and incarnate powers and then camp them in RWZ (Virtue) or Pocket D (all servers but Virtue) and work on getting 9999 incarnate threads to prepare myself for when the last incarnate powers come out. After all, you DID say this was all about the END GAME."
Devs: "Um, well... We simply WON'T go past level 50... Um, erm... NO! You CAN'T speed through all of the new stuff we just wrote. It's LOADS better than our old story arcs! WE WILL NOT LET YOU BREEZE THROUGH THE PRECIOUS!!!"

In short (too late), farming = evil players trying to cheat the Precious from her due.

Why the hate? I simply don't get it... This isn't an exploit. It's not a cheat. And, they ONLY did it for AE missions...

So, someone who likes 80 tickets for an alchemical gold instead of paying up to 350 thousand inf on the market... our money we pay for this game isn't as good as you farm haters?

Horse... Hockey...


This is an attempt to stop people from using certain mobs for farming, period.


I love tickets. I use 540 of them rather than spend the 1-2 million inf for an empowered sigil or a positronic matrix. And, 80 for an alchemical gold instead of paying up to 350,000 inf? Bingo...


For those of us who have our little solo SuperGroups with storage and all that jazz, 18 storage fills up fast. You don't always have a Living Tattoo on you or an ensorcelled weapon. It makes perfect sense to make a quick side trip to an AE mission and get your 1500 tickets, pick up 2 rares, an uncommon, and have a little left over in case you forgot another uncommon salvage piece.


Why the PANCAKE do you hate farmers so damn much? I didn't even farm at all until this past May, and now, I think about the inf I spent that could have gone to other things...


Tickets = good stuff. Self-rezzing mobs USED TO = more tickets. Now, just more wasted time.


Of course, for Freaks or other mob groups who rez in content, this is not an issue... I hope (I KNOW it says for AE, but... well I just don't trust 'em).

At 50, you can do this arc 8 times and get each of the rewards twice, but the counter for each set of 2 repeat rewards resets and you cannot receive the rewards again for 7 days.

So, again, at 50, the options you have are 1) a Hero/Villain merit; 2) 4 times the USUAL reward for this mission (5 merits), or 20 merits; 3) an Astral merit or 4) incarnate threads.


So, this is just to let you know that the devs do NOT want you to farm or grind...

Yep... that was the one.