Bill Z Bubba

He's attempting to ignore how much of the game was designed with soloing in mind.

However, the workaround that allows one to get enough players to start a TF/SF, dump all but one, have that one log off and "solo" a said TF/SF isn't by design. It's a side effect.

There should be content in this game that is impossible to solo. There's precedent for such events in comicdom. There should not be, however, arbitrary gates in the way of me attempting to do it anyway.

There is a philosophy held by the devs that they should stop players from making stupid choices.

It's why kheldians are locked out of the flight and teleport pools. It's why there are arbitrary minimum team size requirements on trials, task forces and strike forces. It's why they dumped freeform power selection before the game went live and went with archetypes instead.

I do not agree with that philosophy.

Better is subjective. I also play single player games.

MMO means that you CAN team with other humans. It does not mean that you must.

Some people play this game for the aesthetic value. Some play for the combat system. Some soloists are quite active in the community both here on the forum and in global channels.

Do all of you adamant teamers sit on your thumbs all day until someone else comes along to give your existence meaning?

There's a reason that GG is the ONLY forum user I have on ignore.

Prophecy not comedy.

And even they can be soloed to 50.

EDIT: And, yes, I mean through normal content/story arcs, not AE.

EDIT 2: See change to inherent that grants damage buff that increases as team size decreases.

One can do a lot these days in game for hours on end without even being in the same room as the computer in question.

You're lucky. The demons powering mine demand blood.

For one, I wasn't "laying into" the OP, I was asking what he had done on his end. Far too often people tend to point blame in directions that it shouldn't go. My own brother was recently complaining of a memory leak in the game that went away when he updated his video card driver.

As a programmer, you should know even 4GB of RAM doesn't mean much if you're also slamming your system with ventrillo, itunes and alt-tabbing to furrypr0n.uk.gov. (NO, I am not saying anyone here is doing all of this.)

The point of the post, and it seems the OP understood this, was to ask "have you covered your side of it?"

I understand that this game HAS had issues in the code before, I've helped pinpoint some of them. Considering how sloppy some of the patches has been lately, I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear the they actually had introduced new memory leaks.

This doesn't free us from being diligent with out own system maintenance.

I'd have to recalculate it. Back then I was using 180% damage buff from fury, now I'd drop it to 150%. (I rarely see fury over 75% in normal missions these days.) Gut answer? Brute still wins but it's a closer call than back then.

Helps keep those pesky healers alive so they can rock the aura.

Don't know, but back in the day I soloed the cube in under two minutes regularly. No minimum team requirements there.

I wonder if that depresses game designers.

So now we can farm three trials a night. K. I'd still rather farm stuff solo.

cuz copy/paste is hard.

Spider-Man beat down a freaking Herald of Galactus.

I've personally soloed a LOT of the content that was "designed only for teams!"

The Lambda trial has already been duoed.

The completely ARBITRARY minimum number of players to start a trial has absolutely nothing to do with how "epic" and encounter turns out to be.

Being forced to wait around X amount of time for a trial to start isn't epic.
Being forced to listen to the inane ramblings of other players isn't epic.
Waltzing through a trial without any effort isn't epic.

This is epic:


And that's soloing.

Really? Huh. It's rather common.