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Hey Thanks for pointing I pasted #2 twice instead of 1 & 2. Fixing that now.

It's ok if you don't use it but the spammers will make it impossible for legitimate players to use it now that free accounts are coming back. And it's always fun to see an RMTer get his comeuppance.

Which goes right back to what I said. How do you knopw you can trust someone you've never met in real life?

If you are going to invite people to an SG you are going to have to trust them. If you don't you'll soon find yourself in a solo SG.

You thought wrong. The game has never had public bins. We always had the ability to restrict storage access. The problem was that we originally couldn't customize storage permissions per container. That made using the security a PITA to use.

If free members can't join SG's does it matter?

O.o

Sounds like a dictatorship to me.
1. Don't invite strangers - Edit: Accidentally pasted #2 twice.
2. Don't put valuables in the bins

Once again we are back to how you can't know if you can trust someone you have never met until you take a chance and trust them.

As far as I've seen none whatsoever. I have yet to see anyone on a trial account complain. If you have please provide the links to their threads.

The only complaints I've seen were made by people with active accounts proclaiming doom that never happened.

They could even have a nice ominous message from the Ravager (or whoever they get to do it) on the global admin channel announcing the "death" of another RMT spammer.

Unless you know the person in real life everyone in MMO's are strangers. So you are advocating not inviting anyone into SG's

Defeats the whole purpose of having storage bins in the first place. No one wants to store garbage.

Doesn't stop people who are established SG leaders with rank from creating a free account and stealing from the SG then pretending shock that the "new guy" robbed them.

SG's are about trusting the people you invite. Run an SG like a dictatorship that doesn't trust it's members and it will soon be a solo SG.

Common enough that the devs felt it was neccessary to put strict restrictions on trial accounts to put a stop to it.

Yes they did.

RMT chat spam dropped to next to nothing.

Base raiding by trial accounts stopped completely.

RMT Email Spam vanished.

RMTers stopped using Trial accounts to transfer billions of Inf between accounts

RMTers dtopped using trial accounts to farm high level PVP zones, trials, and TF's

RMTers were unable to use trial accounts to abuse AE exploits.

All glowing successes.

Seriously Je Saist? You need to have the difference between a hypthetical lifetime subscription and a premium account explained to you?

Okay here ya go.

Disclaimer: This is not real. It was faked up to show Je Saist the difference between a lifetime sub and a premium account.




See Je Saist? A lifetime sub gets all the benefits of a VIP account without having to pay a sub fee for rest of the time the game remains active.

No they didn't.

A few people said it would never happen.

A few people have been saying the game was going to go F2P every three months for years.

Most people said it may very well happen but not until it the income from subs drops to the point where switching to a F2P business model is more profitable.

But there was never a consensus that going F2P would never happen.

Doesn't change the fact about when the only time post count gets mentioned.

1. Create a free account.
2. Join an SG, check to see if you have the ability to take things from storage. If you can't quit the SG and join another. If you can access the bins . . .
3. Wait until most if not all the SG members are offline then remove everything from storage and transfer it to another account, sell it at a vendor/market.
4. Quit the SG and abandon the free account, create a new free account and raid another SG.

Wrong.

The only time I see post count mentioned is when some snowflake can't stand that people aren't blowing sunshine up his/her backside and telling him/her that their post is the most intelligent thing since sliced bread.



No the inability to join SG's stopped people from using free trials to join SG's and raid them.

The ability to restrict storage access by rank limited the ability of paying players to join SG's and rip them off.

Post counts are meaningless.

Hell no. We put a stop to people using free trials to rob SG's blind. I for one don't want to return to those days.

The same arguments were made when they added the trial account restrictions and it didn't drive people away from the game. Don't see it happening in the future.

Except for how Help will be used.

Darn. I was looking forward to the nerdrage. Oh well. I guess I'll have to settle for the guys raging about the VIP server.

New players are not severely limited under the new business plan, just the people who don't want to spend a dime.

If they simply buy the cheapest item in the Paragon Store they are automatically upgraded to a Premium account and get all the benefits a Premium player gets.

Ya gets what ya pay for, TANSTAAFL.

/This.

No it won't.

Uhm do you realize I was talking about Redrum's post?

Depends on what your definition of "freeform" is. To me a freeform respec is the ability to change a characters powersets. I haven't heard anything that said the devs are allowing that.

To me it just sounds like they are trying to improve our current respec feature.

I think it would be fun to see

Rularuu the Ravager

(or one of the other GM's)



open a portal next to the offending RMT jerk
and GODSMACK them with a Banhammer.

Don't see the problem. Happens in my house all the time. The lasagna gets put in the fridge for the next day and we eat pot roast.