Gemesis

I believe(And someone can feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) the new faces you found have the new face tech, and it's considered a "preview" for those who purchase the Steampunk pack, and later on(Either I20.5 or I21) will have the new face tech applied to the older faces/we'll be given new faces utilizing that tech.

You want to prevent the prevention of farming?

Yes it is different than spilling coffee. That point was made to reflect the comment made about apologizes being 'empty words' when there's no action taken beyond. It wasn't meant to be a direct comparison saying it's apples to apples.

When you say 'intentionally made some changes' that makes it sound like you're saying they wanted to make people loose their global names. Obviously that wasn't their goal. Their goal was to give the players something that many have been asking for years to happen, which was to merge the server lists. The lose of global names was a side effect of that. And not everyone who lost their global name had that name for several years.

I can't stress enough that yes, it sucks for those that lost their global name, even more so for those that lost them to inactive accounts. I get that, I truly do, and so do the devs I'm sure. But there's only so much that they can do.

So if I spilled my coffee on your shirt and said "I'm sorry" that's not good enough? I have to go and buy you a bagel for you to know I really meant that I was sorry?

Now I get it, sometimes reading some of the rednames posts, it can seem like 'soulless corporate drivel that they say just to say that they said it' BS. But considering that they have to make a blanket apology to more that just a few people, it's not like they can sit down and write a letter to everyone affected and explain in 500+ words how sorry they truly are on a deep and personal level.

And in fact they did give you something. A global rename! So your global could have been Capt Manny, and it got changed to EU_Capt Manny. Would you have preferred to stay EU_Capt Manny, or be able to change it to something a little more personal? And obviously "No, I'd have preferred to stay Capt Manny in the first place" is obviously not an option.


Yes and no... Any time your global name is changed... people can find out pretty easily. Your global friends, they look at their list and see a name that doesn't look familiar and then see the character you're on and they're like "Oh that's who that is with a new global". In global channels, really how hard is it to just hope in there and say "Hey guys and gals, this is my new global name, used to be Capt Manny." The devs gave plenty of notice that this was going to happen, so it's easy to assume people were getting ready to have to reassociate people with their new globals.

Re loosing globals overall, and not in response to any one person/post

Does it suck for some people that it happened? Absolutely, and I understand why. For some, it's part of your identity. It's something you could of had for years, that not only defined you, but could also be something that had meaning to you outside of the game as well. I had a friend years ago that nicknamed me Chavarko. I still use that name and remember that friend fondly even though I haven't seen or spoken to him in years. Were that my Global, and I lost it, sure I'd be upset for a bit. But then I remember, it's a game. Things happen. Emails disappear, costumes get changed when they rename the pieces, and things get bugged.

It's really not -that- bad.

Link and a C&P of the relevant info. Bold added by me to help point out the more relevant parts of the relevant section.

Why remove the reward? They effectively did this by making the merit reward as low as it is. Also... what precedent would this set? Oh the Katie Hannon TF was farmed a lot too back in the day, lets remove the reward for that. The Ernesto Hess TF is also an unlockable contact TF like Katie Hannon, so we can remove the reward for that too.

The level restriction thing is a bug, so yes, lets fix that, but considering that the Titan Os are useless once you get to level 47, the merit reward is pretty much the only viable one. Why take it away and make running the trial that much less desirable?

Dedicated range? Have you not looked at the Blasters secondary power sets?

You're not cute with your sarcasm.

Don't forget costume pieces as well.

Don't knock it until you try it.

Sorry, but you gotta unlock Judgement and Interface first.

The way it works is when you run the BAF or Lambda trials, you earn Incarnate XP(iXP). The BAF gives Psychic iXP(Psychic, like Mother Mayhem) and the Lambda trial gives you Physical iXP(Physical, like Marauder). Psychic iXP unlocks Judgement and Lore. Judgement has to be unlocked first before you can start gaining your Psychic iXP in Lore. Physical iXP unlocks Interface and Destiny, and again, Interface must be unlocked before before you can start unlocking Destiny. Note, that you do not have to slot anything into Judgement or Interface prior to unlocking or slotting Lore or Destiny.
When you're looking at the conversion screen for converting the threads into iXP, you'll see one is for the Physical iXP and one is for Psychic iXP. Keep in mind that BOTH types of iXP will also unlock your Alpha slot if you haven't already unlocked it.

They were able to get the standard weekly maintenance done just fine... why wouldn't they be able to turn on the loyalty rewards once that was finished?

*Pulls around*

I accept your challenge! For our duel I choose rapier swords. Shall this be to the death, or merely till one of us calls for mercy?