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I think those are really the extremes but in all honesty, it doesn't really matter. As has been said earlier: a bad player is a bad player and either will mess up RP given half a chance. Just because someone has no 'superpowers' e.g. Batman, it doesn't mean they're immune from god-modding. Bruce Wayne for example has such monetary power, he could make a few phonecalls and make sure that you never eat baked beans again.

And two people playing their version of Ultimate Natural Detective Man will be just as bad as two demi-gods in trying to prove their power over one another. I often find though that those kind of contests tend to occur on the higher end of the power scale.

To some degree, the stick is always there before us. When we start out our careers, we are fighting purse snatchers and auto theives. By level 50, we're expected to take on dimension devouring gods. It's only natural to want to get more powerful so that we can be on their level too. And although we continue to make our characters more powerful outside of the game mechanics, it can be done without god-modding if done carefully, I've seen too many times when it isn't done well and it always makes my hairs stand on end, ready to be smited by them. (The demi-god player, not my hairs. That would be weird.)

I've always preferred the experiences of the average joe, handed his powers by fate and trying to reconcile them to his/her life but that's just me. In the end, we should play the characters we want to play but make sure that in doing so, we're not raining on others' parades. And I think that's really what a lot of the sentiments here come down to.

EDIT: Posted same time as Shadowe so sorry if it's repeating stuff.

No. You're really not. I have never been a fan of cosmic scale characters, either in playing them or having to try and squeeze them into plots as anything other than an NPC villain. I think it's all a bit symptomatic of wanting to keep advancing a character beyond the limits of the game. Which is ok within some ways but when you can fling Statesman through the sun just by blowing your nose, I think it's probably gone too far. And never mind the ******* contest that it can turn into if you get two in the same room...

I was going to mention this too but hey, you beat me to it.

Some love for those of us outside of the US would be really nice.

No. People are giving their reasons for why they haven't jumped to the US. Many of these are positive reasons for staying with their friends in the EU.

This, this, a thousand times this.

I've tried three times to start up an account on the US servers and it's been a mixed experience. The significantly higher number of players made teaming more fun and regular but I missed my old friends and I found the RP community impenetrable.

If my SG collapsed and my friends moved on maybe, maybe I might consider jumping ship. But to be honest, I think that this is what NCSoft is counting on: people getting tired of the EU servers and moving to the NA of their own accord or quitting entirely. When the EU servers have so few people on them that it becomes uneconomically viable to maintain them, then maybe we might see some form of list/server merge. However, the same argument for shutting down the EU servers would also apply to investing any sort of time or money for transferring EU players to the US. And then we're into the 'Korea Syndrome' again.

Sorry, not in the most positive of moods today.

Horrible is an understatement. Remember us by Tea instead. That's far more pleasant.

I remember before he left, Ghostraptor saying something along the lines of "It would be horrible to do, forget it." But I don't like being defeatist.

This would be my number one wish for the game above all the extra shinys... just being able to be one community.

But I too would love to know the precise technical reasons too. Just to know whether they're really insurmountable or just too much work for such a small part of the community.

Probably because it was first posted on the EU boards.

Precisely this. I regularly create AE arcs for The Militia and not once have I had someone complain that they weren't getting enough rewards. Occasionally there will be a request to turn the difficulty up (my lot have a tendency to just blow through whatever I throw at them ) but nothing more than that. It's an RP arc, game mechanics come secondary.

Damn, I knew there was something I was forgetting to mention too. Most definitely this. I know three people who at least tried the game through watching her videos. That passion and talent deserves reward and recognition. Just eat the humble pie and hire her already.