DumpleBerry

Sorry, playing catch up on this thread. So did we decide the best way to handle this? Just tell them to read the petition and ignore the GM? That sounds like trouble.

Welcome back to the land of the living.

Many other defensive powersets will do this as well--for example, fighting against SR or SD-using foes.

That is a pretty damn effective screenshot. Wow.

Adopt-a-Desdemona PM sent!

I read this thread because I've just given up on these arcs, and I don't considering anything inside them to be "spoiled." I play the arcs for the unique maps and experiences, and not for the story, which I've given up on.

For me, the high point of this arc installment will be the removal of SP.

I'm all over this, Fabulous. I saw you start this up last night, but I had to bail for an early morning meeting. I'll catch you next time, I hope!

Considering how many times I've found one standing inside the front door, I'm beginning to think that it's some kind of zone easter egg.

As identified here. "Mint" Desdemona could use a home. Some folks had asked in the past, so here is a post. Park your mouse on titian leather.

I've always loved your raids, I had no idea you had a channel. So...can you disclose where you are going?

I'm honestly saying, "If you see someone violating the TOS/EULA for the game, and/or otherwise ruining the play experience, just /ignore or /ignorespammer and keep walking. Do not engage CS."

You can upgrade the oranges into purples. That's the "two different sets."

Everything is affected by the rule of five. If you upgrade oranges into purples and the set bonus is "Huge Healing Whatsit" and you already have five counts of Huge Healing Whatsit, then yes, it will be affected by the rule of five. Accordingly, some people are getting them and not upgrading them.

It's also worth noting that upgrading them to purple makes them account-bound.

Hey, just saw this thread title scrolling past the AT forums. Empathy/Broadsword? BRB, deleting my eight year old main...

It's the /help channel. I hang out in there from time to time dispensing wisdom, inf. (lots of it!), and generally helping any people I can. There are a lot of other forum regulars in there as well, doing the same thing. The other night, I pretty much walked someone (via /tells) through the entire Incarnate system. I enjoy helping people. I like seeing people enjoy the game as much as I do.

But as we all know, much like Atlas /broadcast, bad things happen. The smart player knows to report these few bad apples, and to /ignore them. Makes the game a better place for everybody. Except that might not be worth doing any more.

The other night, I encountered two individuals characterizing gay people as child predators, molesters, and pedophiles. Crazy talk that is easily dismissed, but not before the old-school /petition and /ignore. /help is seen by everyone, from VIP to F2P. It's important that we keep it as quality as possible for a great first impression. It takes two seconds, and you can get back to enjoying the game.

Within an hour or so, I got, "Hi, this is GM-A, what seems to be the problem?" But there wasn't a problem. I've reported RMT folks, power-leveling companies, exploiters, racists, sexists, bigots, etc. before--but I never had a GM show up. And what did they want? Well, they didn't seem to know. Maybe they had my /petition and they just wanted to hear what happened again--but that was pretty frustrating. /help chat moves pretty fast. I had to scroll back quite a ways to find the offending parties. So yes, I patiently explained and repeated everything all over again. Who were they? What were the globals? What did they say? Where did this happen? Everything I had put into the petition. The GM was polite, but clueless. "May I put them on your ignore list?" Seriously? I included that bit in my /petition as well. I know how it works, and it was clear by now that they hadn't read any of it at all. "You should really put them on your ignore list in the future." Um, okay? "I have placed them on your ignore list, thank you!" Fine, whatever. "Thank you for taking the time to contact the City of Heroes Support Team. We will use the information provided to determine whether a violation of the rules has occurred." Yes, I know. That's how it used to work. I'd just get that e-mail in the morning. When one player complains about another, you just get, "Thanks for the info, we'll look into it, but we can't let you know how it turns out." That's fine. That's fair.

When suddenly, "Hi, this is GM-B, what seems to be the problem?"

Are you kidding me? I had sent a /petition with the relevant data for each offender. I was now dealing with two GMs simultaneously? And again, "...what seems to be the problem?" Head, meet desk. It was a rundown of everything I'd experienced not moments ago. Now I had to scroll back even farther. So yes, I patiently explained and repeated everything all over again. Who were they? What were the globals? What did they say? Where did this happen? Everything I had put into the petition. "Is it okay if I place this player on your /ignore list?" *bonk bonk bonk* "Okay, they are on your ignore list, thank you!" *bonk* So by now, of course, I'm tired of this. I tell them, "Thank you for taking the time to contact the City of Heroes Support Team. We will use the information provided to determine whether a violation of the rules has occurred." Yes, moments later, they responded with the same thing. I deserved that, they're just doing their job.

Later, I checked my e-mail. So as not to quote anything, because they don't like that, the e-mail explicitly states that petitions will now summon a GM to file out, basically, an incident report with you. They want all the information all over again, in the interest of "accuracy."

So if you have nothing to do, help clean up the game by using /petition and get rid of people who ruin it for the rest of us. Wait for your CS rep to show up, because they will.

But if you want to keep playing, hit /ignore and just don't bother. :/

Ivan Turgenev, your scion will be powerless before the might of mine own. *runs off to make villain costume*