Crysys

Oh the irony....

Pot, meet kettle.

Maybe if you just ignored AE farms and let people who build them alone, allowing the people who actually control the game to deal with it as they see fit, you won't have these kinds of issues?

Depends on whether or not F2P and Premium accounts can access PVP zones and/or arena. Has that been confirmed?

Even if they can access arena/PVP zones, its already been said that access to Inventions is on a fee basis. Meaning the free accounts may not get IO drops at all.

Now see, this is what I don't understand. I have the same machine you do. I don't know I'm running the same settings as you (is there a way to compare?) but Macs are Macs when comparing the same models....not the diversity of differences you have with Windows. Why is mine so unstable and your's isn't?

You claim yours crashes "once or twice" per night. I play about 2 hours per night on average and will crash 3-4 times per session. More if I'm playing a LAM or anything in Praetoria or the Shadowshard.

Geometry buffers are off, I've followed all the tips here, I've got graphics detail down to basically "fugly" mode, etc. But I get thrown to desktop religiously. I typically play in windowed mode because it gives me better recovery options. If I play in full-screen mode it often locks up my entire Macbook Pro.

My MBP was made in June of 2010, all updates current. i7/8 gigs of Ram.

What are your settings?

Thanks! That worked and I no longer have to prance around in my bra!

I had to delete some salvage while in WW last night, making room for others I needed. I must have had mouse pointer focus on the open recipe window instead and ended up deleting a 150MM Kinetic Combat recipe I had just bought with hero merits instead of the crap salvage I was trying to remove.

Not as bad as some on here but still hurts.

It's perfectly ok. I routinely visit these forums, note all the new AE missions posted, and then go find them in-game and 1-star them without playing them. It's just exercising my opinion over what AE should and shouldn't be. And it's fun, especially with multiple accounts as it's so easy to bump an arc down the page. The ratings are the game within the game!

An emphatic "Yes" to your first question. Nobody knows anything. Other than what is posted in the link I submitted above.

Answer to your second question is based on other F2P games I've played. I suspect that F2P/Premium players will have less ability to use IO's, either through game mechanics (not dropped, or drops from different tables) or via marketplace restrictions (can't purchase, reduction in Inf caps or similar governance models). And the Paragon Points have to be worth SOMETHING or people won't bother to be a VIP player in the first place. Today, that SOMETHING is "phat loot" such as (drumroll please) rare/purp/PVP IO's. I could possibly throw certain costume items into the mix (Vanguard shields, for example) but those are currently rewards for experiencing content. We don't often see the devs giving away easy access to content-earned rewards since that would cheapen their beloved storylines and arcs. As the poster above mentioned, you've also got new market coinage in the form of Emp merits to go along with Paragon Points. And finally, it has to be an expanding pool of stuff that people will WANT to buy with this eCoin they are carrying about, and right now the single largest pool of stuff is IO's.

All in all, I'd say the only thing that I'm sure will get a nerf is Marketeering. They are opening the game to the masses and changing to a Pay-for-Perks model. IO's are the only real perks left in this game other than costume pieces. NCSoft just got themselves into the Marketeering business and since they control it, I can assure the house will own it.

My bet in writing here: F2P players will not be able to use or slot IO's without paying for it. Which no longer makes them F2P players. The game has been balanced around SO's or so they say. SO's that now are considered "useless" suddenly have relevance again to casual players. Maybe Premium characters will have limited access to IO's. But you can already see in the comparison chart that F2P characters can't even utilize SG bases. That leaves the University as their only source of being able to create IO's. And I'm betting entrance to those requires "Tuition" which must be paid to access same. The chart I linked says very clearly that F2P players can "Purchase" Inventions. But it also says they have limited access to the Auction house. Its also possible that they will be limited to purchasing only GENERIC IO's.

Regardless, I still think Marketeering is going to be nerfed by the economic impact of moving to this model. The only true marketeer left is NCSoft come this release.

I have gotten to be a real beyotch about this. I rarely play defenders (just not my thing) but its almost always obvious when you've got a refugee from some other MMO on your team. They call every Defender a "healer" and insist that someone tanks for the team. For whatever reason, its often a blaster who makes that comment...maybe because, to a blaster, healing is about the only thing they value from a buffer.

I'm not sure how your math works there, but since its 1 player at a time in-game per account, I don't think it matters if you have 36 players on a server or only 2. Either way, its still a 1 toon-per-account-per-login limit.

Maybe all the F2P influx will swamp the availability of names, but no other issues that I can think of other than more noobs. And AE has already shown us what that does to a PUG these days. I can't tell you the number of times I've played in PUG's recently with unslotted level 40+ players (one even asked me what the "Enhancements" were for).