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Quote:They choose to reward player who dropped over $1000 in the game, through hard time, long gaps between issues, when the game was understaffed, those players who stuck with this game with a reward if they ever choose to drop their subscription. They could have just as easily gated the whole Invention system for non subscribers behind the $2 monthly license as well as the auction house and MA. None of those were in the original basic game which is all the non-subscription access promises (with the obvious AT caveats but limiting available classes is SOP with F2P/Hybrid/Subscription MMOs). But the devs choose to reward those who had subscribed in the past and introduced the whole tiered concept.Originally Posted by TClauss
Only because they made it that way for freedom! It should not be period. If anyone wants my honest opinion...Anyone that subbed for ANY length of time (before freedom), or used a retail code should have perma access to inventions.
Because we the players have shown some interest in the game and helped bring the game to its current state in some form or another. All this before it became a free game (excuse me a hybrid free to play / perma trial). Let the new players that never had that kind of glory deal with the restrictions of the invention system, as they will not miss it (you cant miss what you never had). So to them it's not like it's making the game feel negative or less of a game. To them it's free!
Kids nowadays, no appreciation for the classics.Quote:I'm not really sure what you are trying to say there!?Quote:(sound of bicycle with a clacker in the spokes "I want my two dollars ... two dollars")
Last I look $2<<$15 while $2 is only a little bit more than free (7 cents a day). True that VIP is a lot better value but we aren't talking what's the best value, we are talking about players who want a major feature free and you can't run a business by giving away something for free if that means a significant amount of your customers can be satisfied while no longer paying anything. It may seem "unfair" that you can't play the character you buffed up, talking lots of time and inf to do so, for free since you decided NOT to resubscribe or buy a license or whip together an SO build in your alternate build but "sorry Charlie" (that's an old Starkist Tuna reference) but show me a subscription MMO where you get to play your pimped out character when you drop your subscription.Quote:Totally cant justify the reason of spending $2 for just 30 days of the Invention system, when you can spend just a little more to get VIP, and get points, etc. Which I do when I have it. I don't even have the little $2 even if I did, I think I would rather eat then play a game. Speaking of which, I need to scrap something together, other then yesterdays 2 slices of BREAD that wasn't very filling!
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Quote:It's five of the same named bonus, doesn't need to be the same set.Originally Posted by Katura
ahh i think i understand a little about what your saying maybe, If i have sets that give 6.25 recharge it will only use a certain amount of the sets with the 6.25 enhance recharge?
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Quote:Because the Invention System is a really big carrot. It's also a really big reward for long time subscribers (> 5 years). And unlike EATs and Incarnate system you can buy it monthly "cheap". I still don't get the disconnect with the auction house unlocking permanently at only Tier 4 which is only 8 tokens Vs 27 for the Invention System. Without inventions there simply isn't a lot of items you can buy or sell. Does someone without access to inventions even get recipe and I-salvage drops?Originally Posted by TClauss
I'm not so sure I can agree with the way they chose to set the bar so high for invention access. I'm talking about the paragon rewards. In total I'm currently up to 18 months, that puts me one meter above half on the scale. I'm an old time player playing since the open beta with a brother who plays far more often then I. He's been more financially stable, so he stayed subbed longer. I say this only to explain why I haven't subbed longer. But being that I payed for the client, (was given CoV so I will not bring that one up), and GR.
Let me add all this up:
City of Heroes (with month of time) $34.95
Going Rouge (with month of time) Not factored it was on sale like $9.99 or something.
City of villains (with month of time) A Gift Not factored
15 months of gameplay (most of them cards which had cost more) $224.85 @$14.99 per month
Others (Perks) Not Factored
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$259.80 - I just don't understand how that doesn't give me the right to earn an invention license in game.
The fact is that I was a player back then, I do feel cheated out on some content on which is now a CORE (In my opinion, because of how I play the game, and on which character I spent the majority of my time playing) component. When the switch happened.
I guess I could always talk him into letting me play on his account. NVM this discussion! Peace!
Since it takes longer to attain the next tier, much like how XP ramps up so you level quickly at the beginning and then slow down, each tier's bonus has to be better than the one before. Tier 2 (+1) gives you e-mail, MA play but no tickets and tells; Tier 3 (+3) gives you all chat; Tier 4 (+3) gives you lifetime Auction House, MA play with tickets, medium Inspiration drops and all the ancillary merit rewards; Tier 5 (+5) gives you Controllers and Masterminds; Tier 6 (+7) gives you full MA access; Tier 7 (+7) is of course Inventions and Tier 8 (+7) gives you big Inspiration drops (whoopee!) but an extra 150PP stipend if you are VIP.
Could they have made the invention system more like what they did with MA, have levels of unlocks? Probably but not as easy as they could with MA since there are already code in MA to limit what a player can do there. The Invention system is everything so they could either block it or not unless they add additional checks to enable/disable access to what types of enhancements that could be made and equipped. Initially everyone gets access to the temp powers and costume parts. Then you step up to common IOs; everything but purples and then total unlock.
But that still doesn't fix the problem of greyed out IOs. Again, very easy to simply turn off, much more complicated to "convert" them to basic enhancements. Killing set bonuses is easy, unFrankenslotting 5 SOs worth of enhancements into 4 slots, not so much.
Still this boils down to players who don't want to subscribe but don't want to pay two dollars (sound of bicycle with a clacker in the spokes "I want my two dollars ... two dollars"). Unlike you there are players who have a whole lot more time invested in it and still don't have enough tokens to unlock IOs. I feel more sorry those who payed for four or five years versus someone who only played less than two. -
The people at Paragon did a reasonable job in picking and choosing what's VIP only, what Freebies get and what's available for free for premium players who were once long time subscribers. Even the old vet rewards are attainable in a reasonable amount of time for relatively new subscribers.
The problem is for those who only subscribed for the short term, who only played the game after IOs became THE way to turn your character into a tiny God soloing with the difficulty set to +3/x8. They are the ones returning and finding their characters stuck with builds full of greyed out enhancements which probably cost them a pretty penny and loads of time. Even if they have an available 2nd build it's tough to enjoy only mere mortal/minor demigod status after never having to worry about any mob you come across. I think a lot of returning players find themselves in this group and are upset that all their "hard work" tweaking their characters got gutted and their choice is $2 or $15. They've never played with SOs, they've never slotted just SOs and they've never played through the content with such "weak" characters. "Weak" meaning they can't mindlessly steamroll over all the content in the game.
Also it's my opinion that Controllers got gated simply because they had to gate one hero AT due to the reasonable removal of Masterminds from the free game. Controller pets are relatively stupid compared to the control Masterminds have on their minions and there's been enough jokes about how devs hate villains. -
That's the point JayboH, there isn't a guaranteed way to prove it will work 100% of the time. It's like saying write bug free code. Hence the holding of the breath. You just need a drive to time out or a function fail without an error code or one you didn't expect. If the DB was offline I would have a bit more confidence but nobody is going to want to pay for a rename today if it's going to take affect during Thursday downtime.
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Not if packet loss is happening upstream from you. If you look at your trace you can see a lot of packet loss within the various comcast hops (hops 3 -7).
For me, most of time I don't have problems but on occasions, not often, my netgraph gets spiky for no apparent reason. It's usually only for a few minutes but if it isn't I simply chalk it up to the universe telling me to go do something else. -
Well sometimes the engine gliches and you get doors that don't trigger the animation but now that the server thinks they opened you (or critters) can pass. The other examples are likely example of dropped or retransmitted packets and the dashing about is the client simply trying to animate the sudden change of the enemies position.
Your trace shows a bit of lost packets so try turning on the netgraph (/netgraph 1) and see if you are getting yellow/red spikes or a strip of a thick green bar with over 1000ms ping rates when the animations act up. -
Reminds me of Doc Oct in Spider-Man 2, unintentionally evil. It was a side effect, he was just trying to do good, he had noble goals.
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As much as people claimed otherwise, a Furby doesn't mimic what it hears. It "learns" English simply by shifting it's prerecorded vocabulary from Furbish to English solely based on the amount of time it's "hears" while "awake" since it's last reboot.
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S&S&M is written by a different author than who wrote AL:VH and P&P&Z.
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ParagonWiki: Enhancements - everything you need to know about enhancements or links to pages that discuss the more complicated nuances.
ParagonWiki: Enhancement Diversification - the rule of thumb is no more than the value of three SOs of the same type but it's actually a bit more complicated. -
Oh I remember them. Can't for the life of me think of what they're called so I could search for them.
You know this is going to drive me nuts now.
Edit: YES those are the ones I'm remembering. Thanks, nut driving now off the schedule. -
Quote:Much like most conversations of Liberal Arts majors ... or Baristas (same thing really).Originally Posted by Tenzhi
That article seemed to me to blither on at great lengths without actually saying much.
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RIP
Don't forget Dom in "Airwolf".
Hollywood doesn't cast "not pretty" people anymore. You got to say he had a memorable mug. -
Cool.
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Hit the search button again. It's been doing that to me as well.
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When she has both good dialog and direction, as in Easy A, I think she can be brilliant. She wasn't bad in Crazy, Stupid, Love either. I think she works best as a snarky character ... and a red head (sorry).
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By making the eyes non-mechanical should improve the profit margin.
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I'm expecting DKR to be the wine and cheese crowd favorite superhero film of the summer while Avengers will be portrayed as the superhero film for the uncultured masses while AS-M is characterized as popular with teens.
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Yes, you need to PM a community guys like Zwillinger or Hit Streak with the name you want to switch to, please check the members list first to see if it's available.
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The whole game is now free however subscribing does unlock certain content that isn't available in the real money store (Paragon Market where you can buy content with Paragon Points).
The basic F2P gives you two character slots, access to 8 of the 14 "classes" (called archetypes here) and the vast majority of power sets and costume items. There are limits on chat and how much "money" (called Influence/Infamy here) a F2P can have.
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I think it was a forgone conclusion that fans of the first two movies will like the third.
I aspect film critics will do much the same due to the power of the brothers Nolan and their trusty sidekick Bale for they can do no wrong.
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Quote:Clever.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
You gotta say "YOU! SHALL NOT! PASS!" and then *BAM!* you have the power of white.
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Well that's up to your ISP there and if UAE has a firewall that'll prevent it. I don't think game's servers care where you are.
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Well the general rule I live by is always try a reboot if the machine is acting up. And if that doesn't work actually power it down for a few minutes. Not hibernate it, not sleep it, shut the puppy down for a minute. Sometimes an honest to God power on reset is needed to clear whatever "funny" state the hardware gets into after hours/days/weeks of use.
Now 99 times out of 100 I need to reset/restart my machine after Microsoft patch Tuesday so once a month is my usual norm.