Hellguard

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When a tanker pops Unstoppable, would you say he's using his "Tier 9" ?

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No. It's the 9th power, not the 9th tier and I would refer to it as such.



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I'm afraid, given that we now have a definition of the word as the Devs see it, that it is, indeed, the 9th Tier.

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I am positive that I have seen travel powers referred to as tier 2, because that is what they are. Maybe over time the devs just started emulating the players in their ignorance of the meaning of the word tier. A tier is a level at which something becomes available, not just a counting system for telling what number a power is on a list.

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Says who? Is there a hard and fast definition of "tier" as used in gaming or something?

When a tanker pops Unstoppable, would you say he's using his "Tier 9" ?

Also, the in-game badge text for the City Traveler badge refers to the travel powers as "Tier 3" as well.

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The devs call the travel powers tier 2 powers

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No, they don't. See my post above.

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... can pick up to the second tier in one of the four travel power pools at level 6 with no prerequisite.

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The travel power is the second tier. The first two powers are both first tier.

Note: You still must have two powers from the pool in order to pick the third tier power (Acrobatics, Vengeance, etc.).



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The Devs call the travel power the THIRD tier of the pool. (See here and here.)

Are you talking about the 5 reward merits? Or being able to access a travel power at level 6?

There *should* be a claim button for the merits. For the travel power, there's no button; it's just that any character you make can pick up to the third tier in one of the four travel power pools at level 6 with no prerequisite.

I might tweak some stuff here or there. I'm definitely waiting until Issue 15 before starting any new arcs, though.

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And how exactly are the farms impeding you getting enjoyment out of MA? You might find more enjoyment if you ignored them and quit reporting them. Sounds like it is stressing you out too much.

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The problems of farms clogging the MA system are well documented and discussed elsewhere. The pro-farm crowd won't/can't/doesn't want to understand these problems, so repeating them here would be futile anyway.

The anouncement about Dev's Choice and HoF going away was very welcome news indeed. That right there removes most of what was stressing me out. Thank you for your concern.

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You're just referring to the BADGES for DC and HoF going away, correct? Because there's no indication so far that they intend on removing the classifications themselves.

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I feel that in the end they are going to have to unlink the tickets from the ratings. I'm not sure how they can go about doing that, but because they are directly linked that is why we have such issues with the ratings.

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I disagree. The griefers would do what they do just for the sake of seeing an arc down-voted. Sure, the idea that they're keeping someone else from getting tickets (or badges, but that's about to not be an issue it looks like) is a bonus for them, but it's probably not the main reason they're doing it.

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You need to 'charge' it by logging out. You don't get the power immediately upon receiving the badge.

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I thought I'd read that the accolade *is* bugged, though. If it's not, then the above is the correct way to "charge" it, but I'm sure I'd read that it wasn't working properly.

EDIT: Yep, ParagonWiki notes the bug with the Vitalize power: "Charges are not currently accumulating on this power. You can unlock the power but not use it "

You can only have 5 IO set bonuses of the SAME NAME (i.e., Large Improved Recharge Time Bonus). It doesn't matter if they're from the same set or different sets.

You're trying to use six Large Improved Recharge Time Bonuses, but you can only use five (which is 31.25%), so the sixth one doesn't apply.

I will agree that this needs to be documented better in-game and perhaps on the website. It is documented on ParagonWiki, here.

That rocket pack isn't from the Architect Edition. You get it from using a Game Card to pay for a month of subscription time or by buying the Mini Booster: Jetpack online.

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If the character was deleted by a GM after being genericed and you want them back (for badges, level 50 of those powersets, whatever) then go over their head. They had already resolved the copyright issue by genericing your character, and were out of line deleting it unless you went through the trouble of duplicating the costume and bio that they just erased.

And to people like TonyV, just because they have the right to do anything to your character per the EULA doesn't mean that they should, and if the character was still generic hero xxxx when deleted the GM doesn't deserve any support whatsoever for completely overreacting.

Without knowing what happened in between, I can't say for certain, but if the story is as presented the GM should frankly be fired.

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The OP doesn't say that the character in question was deleted by a GM. The story is that a GM is demanding that the player delete the character, which is ridiculous for two reasons: 1) that doesn't happen and 2)if the GM felt the character *did* need deleted they would just do it themselves and not "demand" that the player does.

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As it is the character was erased last night after I went offline.

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Highlighted the important part.

Yes, it's not in the OP, but it's from the person who says they owned the character - and the one that my reply was directed to.

That shouldn't have happened.

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Sorry, I missed that post. Yeah, that definitely shouldn't have happened. Unless there's just more to the story than we're being told, and even then it probably shouldn't have happened.

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If the character was deleted by a GM after being genericed and you want them back (for badges, level 50 of those powersets, whatever) then go over their head. They had already resolved the copyright issue by genericing your character, and were out of line deleting it unless you went through the trouble of duplicating the costume and bio that they just erased.

And to people like TonyV, just because they have the right to do anything to your character per the EULA doesn't mean that they should, and if the character was still generic hero xxxx when deleted the GM doesn't deserve any support whatsoever for completely overreacting.

Without knowing what happened in between, I can't say for certain, but if the story is as presented the GM should frankly be fired.

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The OP doesn't say that the character in question was deleted by a GM. The story is that a GM is demanding that the player delete the character, which is ridiculous for two reasons: 1) that doesn't happen and 2)if the GM felt the character *did* need deleted they would just do it themselves and not "demand" that the player does.

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I would kinda like to see this character, but the OP's attempt to place an image doesn't work and the later link leads to a site that my security software won't let me see.

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Try this one .

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I'm suprised to see maintenance today, and being a veteran, it ticks me off. I guess the devs don't see this as an actual holiday.

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It's Memorial Day, not Veterans Day. Now, if you were an undead Vet, I can see you getting worked up over this.

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Well, I lol'd.

There is server maintenance on Mondays and Fridays, including today. That's why you can't login right now.

Also, that purple text is *really* hard to read.

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Enh, maybe it's automatic, built into the game, and they didn't take the holliday into account? FEH.

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It's not "built into the game." As noted earlier in this thread, they changed maintenance for the last holiday or two so they didn't do it on the holiday itself.

Now, this time they didn't announce that they'd be moving maintenance to accommodate the holiday, so we really had no reason to expect it.

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re: "I didn't realize until later that whenever I completed an arc and failed to rate it, the individual was getting a 0 star rating."
-> Really? I didn't know this either and it shocked me. I have played a lot of arcs and quite liked some of them but would only go to the effort of rating it if it had probs or was exceptionally good.

I think giving a default of zero if the arc gets an 'ignore' is a bad mistake. I suspect many simply don't realise this. It might not be intentional bad reviews.

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Like I said, this isn't how it works. The poster to whom you're replying is mistaken.

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Some people finish an arc and don't want to rate it. Maybe they're just "playing through" or what have you. I'm one of those. I didn't realize until later that whenever I completed an arc and failed to rate it, the individual was getting a 0 star rating.

Personally, I think the interface is counter intuitive. Most ratings are 1-5 stars, with 0 stars indicating "not rated." Unfortunately, the Devs decided on a 0-5 rating scale, and failed to put it in bold print.


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Actually, I don't think what you're describing is the way it works. The way I've seen it explained is that you get a zero star rating by clicking 1 star, and then that 1 star again. Simply not rating an arc doesn't "zero-star" the arc.

EDIT: Can't find a Dev quote on the above (although I'm sure there was one), but ParagonWiki describes how to 'zero-star" an arc here .

Cool, thanks.

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Woot badge whores will cry but others will sigh lol

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I can't help but feel that at least some of the badges being taken away are due in part to said badge [censored] and their crying.

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Woot badge whores will cry but others will sigh lol

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actually it seems that most badgers do not really care all that much and are more relived...

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Your jealousy of my Chosen One badge knows no limits, does it?

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I just played this arc and I LOVED it! One of the best works of art I've seen on the MA! Loved the "FREEM!" "/jranger" and "Rick-Roll" jokes!
Honestly, I just have one problem with it...

WHY ISN'T IT ON DEVELOPER'S CHOICE OR HALL OF FAME! THAT IS NOT JUSTICE!

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Wow, thanks for the high praise; it's really appreciated.