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Originally Posted by Liz Bathory

Bases like this must be earned.. by hard work and playing. Prestige on a large sg is almost limitless.

I know that I have more prestige then I can ever use and I have a base with so many objects in it. What do I do with 53 mill unused prestige? Pay that small rent?

If you descide on having a small SG, you descide on having a small base. If you want to see fantastic large bases... merge youre smaller SG's into one big one.

Originally Posted by Bronze Knight

I just noticed somthing odd at 2:26 they are at a tailor if you look you can see the "Weapon" tab there to add guns and swords however.....

At 2:30 you can see the toon is mental blast.....


So what weapon is it?

Originally Posted by Roderick

Energy Aura and Electric Armor both got buffed. Both play much better with far less work than they used to need.

Originally Posted by je_saist

PvP has never even had enough players to qualify as a community, much less a sub-community.

I think there is a perception problem though if players in the game separate what they do on the basis of what the event is, and I really think there's a problem with the opening point of view that there are sub-communities centralized around aspects of the game. Badges are a result of playing the game. Mission Architect is another way to play the game that gives badges. PvP is another way to play the game that gives badges.

Some players like to run task forces. Some players like to hunt. Some players like to run story missions. Some players like to hang out. Some players like to run repeatable missions. Some players like to farm. Some players like to do radio missions or newspapers with the safe guard / mayhem.

From a pure player traffic standpoint, the majority of the game plays the game, which is running missions and task forces. From what we know of the traffic numbers from a couple years ago, a very small minority of the game enters the PvP zones. If I recall correctly, the example that was used to paint PvP traffic stated that the Old Hollows, the pre-revamp Hollows, averaged more player traffic each day than all of the PvP zones combined on each server.

Now, as far as I'm aware, there's no official or unofficial number given for the player traffic that utilizes the AE system. Rather, the developers seem reluctant to discuss in any sort of detail just what the player traffic numbers signify. We can extrapolate from the player subscriptions as reported by NCSoft's financial department that the changes made to both the AE systems and the PvP systems had a negligible to non-existant impact on continued subscriber numbers. There was no sharp and continued drop off signaling a mass exodus of players.

This tells us that the visible players raising the points of AE and PvP in the forums, here, are a drastically small minority of the game, and so far have no visible impact on the financial basis of the game.

We also have empirical evidence, as documented by several players, that on the larger servers when a new AE exploit is found, Peregine Island has less instances, and when the AE exploits are closed, Peregine Island gains instances. This indicates that the abusing population of the game is flexible in what they do. Ergo, it's difficult to determine exactly what the traffic numbers are for AE.

We do know that the developers only anticipated maybe 10% to 15% of the player base sustaining AE involvement, which was one of the reasons why the sheer number of AE arcs in the first week of the release blew everybody's mind away. We can probably presume the developers numbers were accurate, and based on the number of new missions and missions being rated today, it's likely a higher number of players works with the AE system than projected.

That of course does mean a 10x to 15x lead over the single digit percentages reported to be involved with PvP play.

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

I keep seeing post after post after post of people using the words "surely," "likely," "probably" and even "definitely" in regards to people getting kicked from teams due to perceived "bad power choices."

Let me give some examples of people who, according to the forums, will get kicked from the team because of their own foolish considerations:

• A Mastermind with no Henchmen
• An Arachnos Soldier or Arachnos Widow without Tactical Training: Maneuvers
• A Kinetics without Fulcrum Shift
• Any Kheldian

Now, I've done my fair share of teaming, and I've never come across those intimidating types who carefully examine your build to see whether or not your power selections satisfy their min/maxing appetites. In fact, very rarely am I ever on a team where any member even checks to see what powers another member has. Everybody just goes with it, and if it works, it works.

Maybe I'm just lucky, or perhaps Triumph is just a better server than the others, but in my experience, you are not going to get booted from a team based on your power selections.

Also: petless Mastermind /plug

Originally Posted by Ravenswing

Essentially, you'd be making Scrappers and Blasters largely obsolete. The balance issues would be horrible. The probability that you'd end up with TankMages too high.

I understand what you want to do, I just don't think it'd function the way you think.

Originally Posted by Spizzie

Rumor has it that i13 is a bug. They jus haven't gotten around to fixing it yet.

Originally Posted by Predatoric

Im a pvper myself, but you still talk outa your rear end. Yes a majority of the PvP community are the ones whining for exploitive farms back so they can level there next PvP toon but that doesnt make it right, it also doesnt count for more than 1% of the population.

Your comment about PvPers running PvE tfs better is laughable too, id like to see an entire team of x/psi or x/energy blasters run a TF better than a regular team, i really would.

Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic

I'd alter this to say Freedom is the most Farming-focused. It has been called Freedumb, Farmdumb, etc. If you want to be on a team that tends to have no tactics, only sees red, and acts like a bull-in-a-china shop while possibly ending up with a group of players that want to run the same mission ad naseum, then Freedom is the server for you. I highly discourage any new player from playing on this server unless you have come from WoW, etc.

Virtue is the unofficial RPG server. It isn't all about RPG, but there are a lot of people hanging out in the Pocket D chatting it up in RPG-like fashion. (I have never run into a situation where anyone called me on my RPG-lite form of play on this or any other server.) This players are often willing to adapt to different styles of play.

Justice is the unofficial Oceanic Server and usually ranks 3 for the most populated server. Lots of new players to this server recently. Pretty helpful community of players. Open to different play dynamics for the most part. I don't have a problem finding a team here even though it is Rank 3 population wise.

Infinity was once known as the unoffical PvP server. I don't know what the status is on that point. It is usually in the 4th or 5th slot. Pretty helpful community of players. Open to different play dynamics for the most part. I don't have a problem finding a team here even though its rank is below 3 population wise.

After that, the servers generally jump around for population status determined by the time of day or day of the week.

Triumph, Pinnacle, and Protector are generally in the 4 lowest population slots.
Triumph used to be one of the higher ranking population servers (while I used to play on it more often). I' not going to be so bold as to say it has dropped down the population list since I haven't been playing there so much, but it still has a pretty good core of players (ran an Reishman's TF there on Friday).
Pinnacle is known as the drunken server (once because it came up slowly after rebooting, now because - well - there are a lot of drinking references at least and probably a lot of drinkers on the sever) and, if you really want to be on the "in" on this server, you have to join the jello shooters or some such global channel. Check the forums it's listed. I don't use globals, so I really don't care. But I still can find teams - sometimes - when I'm the one running a team.
Protector. I don't know what to say. Sometimes I can get a really cool team over there, but most of the time there isn't much going on and not many that are in a level-range that I want to run a team with (due to my characters level) - usually this is because I don't want to invite characters that are above my level.

All NA servers -
There are apparently a lot of players that stay in /ghide.
There tend to be sg's that won't play with anyone that isn't in their sg; I'm not saying that all sg's are like that, but there are definitely some that are like that.

Each server definitely has a different flavor of players. I would check out each one and get a feel for the kind of play on each one before making a decision to stick to just one - heck - I say don't stick with just one anyway and just keep jumping characters/sides/servers, but I'm an alt-oholic after all.

Originally Posted by Predatoric

Go back pre-AE nerf and there was barely a single team below 50 running without AE and if there was, you couldnt get members for it anyway because they all wanted to farm.

What good is having a game with a buttload of content if you gonna give people the option to skip it all by running the same mission over and over again? If the game was released with one mission, it wouldnt have lasted so long so why is it acceptable now?

If your calling people who complain most of the game is now pointless, i think you need to learn the meaning of the word 'retard'.

It is pretty funny though hearing chat on freedumb, its a lost cause now since more than 90% of the community there is just waiting for the next farm. Im so glad I moved servers, if it happens like that on virtue its game over for me.

AE pretty much wiped out the EU servers, its also lost a lot of players in the US, you would have thought people realised by now farming destroys the entire point of an MMORPG game.

Dont get me wrong, im not against farming at high levels, its just the new players coming into this game just see this, it creates a bunch of noobs who know nothing outside the AE building which come out at level 50 into the world, then get into a TF team asking questions like how to get out of Atlas, then get the team killed because they havent got buffbots and get booted, this happens again and again and eventually leave.

Farming is not bad for players who know the game but you cant have it both ways, you either hurt the noobs raising new charecters and make the vets suffer too, or you keep it the same and make the vets suffer and leave because of the influx of idiots at 50 who have no idea what there doing.

Either way, the vets have lived before AE, they can live without it giving exp.

Why keep spending more time and resources in something so obviously flawed and timewasting to developers? A lot of players werent even particularly excited about it when it came in, and since then every update has involved some AE fix. A lot of players also did like it however, and for that reason tickets should stay so level 50s play it and low levels can still earn cash there too with tickets but it does not damage the game later levels.

Look at the game now with the nerf in, did the game die? No. Will it die if exp is removed? No. Were there more players with exp at full? No. Everyone is still there, playing the same game. Just now there actually playing the game, not one farm map and also I havent received one message asking me what the yellow line was or telling me there leaving team because its better exp and cash in AE.

In reality, its the players own greed thats leading to the death of the game, not the lack of marketing or anything else. No new player is going to buy into an MMORPG for long if they can get maximum level in under a week. They might last the first months sub thats it because theres not enough 50 content to keep people occupied as it is.

Originally Posted by joshdex

He could get a lobotomy. Which is what it must take to suggest Castle be fired for doing what he's told to do.

Do you ask the person that serves you fast food be fired because the restaurant doesn't serve big enough portions?