Coyote_Seven

I can so feel the love in this community when I see things like this. <3

How about the Nav window? When it isn't showing a waypoint or mission objective, it could show what the current WST is. For level 50 characters that have unlocked the Alpha slot, anyway.

I was seriously rolling my eyes at all that. I mean, seriously! Like the devs are gonna throw demographic data at us, the players, if we're clamoring for a change?

I liked this thread better when I was making suggestions about Rogue and Vigilante content.

Read: "I shall now retreat and declare victory!"

Not very convincing, no.

Well that's good, because I never said that you claimed to be a dev. So... yay?

Why would convincing you have any bearing on whether or not anyone could convince the devs that there's something wrong here? What, do you have secret meetings with them every week or something?

Quite frankly, it boggles my mind that you can't see that there's anything wrong. Especially after I explained earlier why it was imbalanced; you pretty much went out of your way to evade that explanation, after I thwarted your previous attempt to deflect the issue. You preferred to spend your time miring Jophiel in mindless minutia that was, at best, only tangentially related to the problem we all have been trying to talk about.

Funny how now, she's suddenly playing "dev's advocate". And apparently has always been!

Your persistently condescending attitude is legend. Don't think that I haven't noticed it over the years.

Well thank the gods that you're not a dev. I think if you were, I'd have stopped playing this game a long time ago. Thankfully, the devs have much cooler heads and actually listen to what the players actually have to say.

So please stop doing them a favor, and start speaking for yourself. I hear that you're quite good at that.

The reasons why we think it's imbalanced are already in this thread (which you've cleverly derailed, congrats!). I'm not going to waste my time repeating them over and over again just so you can continue to keep your fingers in your ears while screaming very loud.

Dude, if you don't know what the problem is after it's been explained to you time and again just in this thread alone, then that's clear evidence that you're just completely unwilling to even listen in the first place.

I'm sorry we're disturbing your wonderful utopia here, but seeing as both me and Jophiel have been playing this game for nearly as long as you have, I say that should give our observations a little weight.

In the meantime, I've totally stopped taking you seriously. Well, maybe I never did.

The devs have been known to do nothing about a particular imbalance for years, before they finally come around to addressing it.

I'm patient.

I might, if I knew you would actually listen. You've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you would not.

Do please go on with your tyrannical and egocentric rants. They are most entertaining.

She's clearly gone off the deep end. Seriously, I had to stop myself from laughing too hard after her line about us having to defend ourselves, lest the boss realize I'm reading a web board! Hahaha.

Why are we wasting our fingers typing to this person?

I really must get over my 'someone is WRONG on the Internet' syndrome. LOL.

Really, just... no. You might think you're coming off as witty, but it's more like stupidly sarcastic. Please stop acting like such a donkey.

Whether it was imbalanced in another way is completely beside the point (as well, I never participated in the beta, so why should I even care about it now?). Their solution to the problem was simply too much, and caused an imbalance in the other direction. We're talking about this current imbalance, OK? Just so you understand that. Not the old imbalance; please try to forget about that one as it doesn't exist anymore. The new imbalance created by A-Merits. There's no "damning" here, they just need to do something about it.

Wow, you're really being willfully obtuse, aren't you?

There is no balance. The devs might have intended for there to be balance with only giving Heroes and Villains access to A-Merits, but those same A-Merits have so much more purchasing power over normal Reward Merits that it causes an imbalance in favor of the older alignments.

Get it?

LOL! Well played, Jophiel. Well played.

I really don't understand you one bit. Are you for or against A-merits for Rogues and Vigilantes, or what?

And if they did get A-merits, why would you even care if they did? It's not like it would cause you to be able to play less, or whatever.

Yeah, your complaints here just make no sense at all.

Han Solo was a rogue. Proof: He shot first! Later on, he used his roguish talents for the benefit of the Rebel Alliance. A rogue, working for rebels!

I say that depends on the rogue. Remember that the Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #34 is "War is good for business," but Rule of Acquisition #35 is "Peace is good for business."

I don't think a rogue faction would pull off a bank heist on their own. A lone rogue might do it from time to time, but they'd be more interested in doing things a bit more low key. I'd imagine that a lot of them might be bounty hunters and arms dealers.

A vigilante might rob a bank, if they were a "Robin Hood", and they believe the ruling government is corrupt. So you might see bank heist missions for vigilantes in the Rogue Isles, and you get a little blurb about how the money taken was given to the poor citizens.

I don't think Longbow would generally trust any rogue to act as a bodyguard. There would have to be a lot of extenuating circumstances for them to even consider it, such as needing plausible deniability.