Emberly

I'm running missions right now on my mercs/ff, using Force Bubble to keep the mobs at range, and the mercs are not closing to melee. They are happy to sit by me and spew lead death. I've got them on defensive/follow and am not issuing any other orders to them at all.

No difference here either. Prot bots still retarded, running into melee when they have no melee attacks, but that's nothing new. Mercs don't seem to charge in unless they lose LoS on their target.

That's kinda my point. There's no evidence that the cap is stopping spam, so there's no reason to think it does. However, I have characters that haven't got the option set to refuse unknown email, and they get daily spam. So, there's evidence that the options work, and none that the cap makes a lick of difference on top of the options.

It's not fallacious for me to assume that something has no effect when there's no way to observe it. I can test the email options and see that it definitely has an effect. The fact that leaving the email option open still gets me spam supports my hypothesis that the cap does nothing to stop spam at all.

edit: just logged into a character with no options set to limit emails. Last spam received: today. The one previous to that: today. From different spam accounts. If the cap has an effect, it's imperceptible.

Paging The_Alt_oholic to this thread!

Wait, what's that smell?

Oh, he's here already. Carry on.

Sip some tea and laugh at the antics of the colonies!*

The EU/NA divide makes me sad; I would totally roll on some EU servers if I could. Are the EU servers fairly well populated? I hear that one of the English-language servers has a lot more players than the other?

*edit: Assuming tea is your thing.

I form teams every single day, for XP, T/SFs, and general farting around badge hunting. I've had the problems your describe maybe. . . four times? Five? And that's since launch. Most people are just happy to join a good team doing things they will enjoy. Seriously, leading a team is simplicity itself. I make a boilerplate message to copy into a tell, and that way anyone I ask is aware of the team's purpose and any shenanigans I might have planned. I assume that no reply means no thanks, and I never blind invite under any circumstances. Avoids a lot of misunderstanding.

I think it's sort of funny that you skip over people who just want a tell from the leader about what the team is going to be doing, and then you complain here about how some people might not want to do some of the things you mention. Sounds to me like the problems you have leading teams is entirely due to your inability or unwillingness to effectively communicate.

Hmm *looks at threat title* Oh yeah! **** server merging. That's the death rattle for MMOs. If I was looking at starting in a different MMO and I heard they just merged servers, I would take that to mean it's dying. Also, as others have said, there's a server out there with the population level you like, so don't try to turn Justice into Freedom, just roll on Freedom.

Adding the option to filter email by SG and friendlist stopped every single piece of spam. I haven't gotten a single unsolicited email since. As far as I am concerned, it's perfect, because I would consider any email from an unknown sender as spam, and report it as such.

I don't see any evidence that the email cap is stopping spam, other than the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy of "Kheldarn discovers email cap, this must explain why there is no spam." I definitely see evidence that the email cap is causing legitimate players problems.

Finally, I don't see Kheldarn or anyone saying they are going to send 150 emails every day. I do see Kheldarn saying that when s/he needs to send more than that, the cap sucks. I can see that being true, especially if it's every 24 hour period and not every calendar day. Why not make it 4500 emails per calendar month, which would allow for the same total number of emails per unit time, but also permit the odd day where someone goes on a crafting frenzy?

Cool, thanks for your hard work. It's really appreciated!

He's talking about spamming himself with emails. How is that harmful? If you're getting email spam, there's tools to fix that in Options.
I've sent over thirty emails today, all to myself. Kheldarn is doing the same, likely for the same reasons.Having a cap in place would make sense if you couldn't already filter out emails not sent by friends or SG mates. So, if you're getting spammed, either turn that option on, or, if it's already on, get better friends and SG mates.

Kheldarn I am with you, I have not hit this cap but there's no reason for it now that people can turn off email from strangers or turn it off entirely. The cap on my inbox is grating enough.

Same; the version at your link says it was updated yesterday and that I need a newer version.

No, I think that's Virtue too, from my experience, which is exactly as valid as yours.

OP, Virtue trades punches with Freedom for top load, which can explain why your experienced lag issues. If it's sever please do go to the tech support forum and ask for help; the folks there are very supportive as long as you are willing to give them the info they need. For me, last night I was mapserver'd twice, which rarely happens, and lost some progress on a badge I was working on, so I am not surprised that you had issues. Hopefully today is better!

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Well spoken.

What new primary are tankers getting? They're getting a new secondary, not a primary. Same with fenders.

There are new powersets for every AT but they're not all primaries.

edit: powerset proliferation could prove me wrong, of course.

You won't lose the IOs; you won't be able to slot them into Caltrops once you respec but they will still be there in your tray.

I'm still using Caltrops in my build because the two damage procs and the Ragnarok KD proc make it a nice power indeed. Your mileage may vary.

You have chosen. . .

wisely.