Biowraith

Just to clarify, because I'm losing track here:

Is Smash_Zone saying that once you get the opportunity of a roll on the reward table, nothing at all will increase your chance of a Very Rare? (that league success only helps you get that opportunity, but does nothing further once you get it)

And similarly, is The_Spad_EU saying that actually once you've got that opportunity your chance of getting a Very Rare (or otherwise good result) from the reward roll can be further depending on how well the league performed, beyond just getting the opportunity in the first place?

In essence, disagreeing on this point? Or have I misread/misunderstood somewhere along the way?

It's just that the wording here seems to matter a great deal (indeed that's where some of the confusion and disagreement from the original dev post regarding opportunity vs chance came from), but I'm not sure if everyone is choosing their words deliberately (including Baryonyx), so I want to be clear on what everyone is intending to say.

(not that I have any big point to make once I have that clarification, just like to know I'm hearing what people wanted to say and not getting tripped up on how they said it)

I'd make each power activation charge you $0.02 or something like that, and then extend the incarnate trials' participation metric to all rewards game-wide.

I'd probably opt for Paralytic myself - my Bots/FF MM already has her bots over the defense softcap, so -tohit doesn't do so much (may still do something in the trials with their +tohit though). So I'd rather layer a bit more -dam onto that. There's enough pet attacks flying around that the 75% chance to proc will still be going off lots.

I think the primary failing of the LFG system is/was that it goes as soon as it finds the minimum number of players, and won't add more players once it has the minimum. That fed into the other main issue which is the system needs a decent number of people using it for it to work.

When the trials first came out a minimum sized league of random archetypes had a low chance of success, so people started preforming to improve their chances, and that meant even fewer people using the LFG system, which meant increased queue times for those still using it... so more people abandoned it to ensure they got onto a league in a reasonable amount of time so even *fewer* people were using it. And so on.

So for my personal experiences, on the first couple days I could queue and saw a wait time of around 5-10 minutes. Most of those leagues ended in failure - we rarely got more than a couple more than the minimum size, nobody was incarnated out yet, and most people were running their scrappers/brutes to start with so not much buff/debuff/mez going on. On the few times I've tried the queue recently, I can easily sit for an hour and not get a hit (when I do it's because I get lucky and get assigned to what I assume is a nearly-full preformed league, but never a league composed entirely of people using the queue solo). That's on Freedom and Virtue, so goodness knows what it's like on low pop servers.

At this point I'm doubtful as to whether it can ever really be salvaged - the devs could go in and fix the problems, soup it up a bunch, make it the system it should have been, but it won't mean much if most people have settled on the manual method and won't go bother to go back to the queue system in the numbers it needs to work.

Silver Mantis - S+M (A Love Song)

Yeah Singy, stop knocking them off my Bonfire

Wait, it's today already??

I'm wondering whether anyone else has been having this problem (and ideally whether they've figured out a fix):

When I log in and click on a server name, there is almost always a delay of anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds before it actually gets me to the character select screen. Then the same again when I select a character before it displays the character ready to actually log on (if this delay takes too long the game thinks I was trying to move the character to another position in the roster). During this pause I'll get the busy mouse cursor and trying to e.g. alt-tab to desktop or a web browser doesn't respond until the pause is over.

Now, it didn't used to be this way - I used to get no more than a couple seconds delay, if any. Problem is I'm not sure exactly when this issue started for me. The two main possibilities are: 1) when we gained the option to quit to character select. I'm thinking that because if I select that option it always freezes up for that 5-30s when the timer reaches 0 before it actually goes back to character select, and usually has a shorter intermediate pause at the login screen (without displaying account name etc) on the way, and it's done that since the option was added (I'm just not 100% sure the other delays started then as well). Or 2) I got a new PC back in November and possibly it's only been since playing on this machine. I *think* it's since 1), but I wouldn't swear to it.

For reference I'm currently running an Intel Core i7 950 @ 3GHz, 6GB RAM, XFi Fatal1ty soundcard, Nvidia 460GTX graphics card, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 operating system, with Microsoft Security Essentials & Comodo Firewall (basic version) running in the background.


It's not a major problem as the rest of the game runs fantastically, it's just a bit annoying given I didn't used to have this problem and used to be at the loading screen within a few seconds of typing my password.