Hyperstrike

Okay?

A generally accepted form of MMO billing.

HOW are you paying? And from where? If you're paying $16/month, you're probably buying time cards and having to pay tax on them. Or if you're buying the time cards online, tax AND shipping. There are other, cheaper alternatives for paying for CoX.

No. You've simply not been taking advantage of better billing options. Think of it as a dummy tax.

Is it NCSoft or Paragon Studio's fault you've been paying more than you should when they've made better options available to you in the interim?

Nope.

CRY MOAR PLS!

A blapper is not an AT. It's a description for a playstyle where a blaster is being played to the weak points in his power selections. Against type, as it were.

No "maybe" about it.

Lost them like everyone else. Save for anniversary badges (which would technically be a form of vet reward), no badge in the game should be available to one group of people and un-gettable by anyone else.

How would that make some new hardcore badger type feel if they logged into the game and saw someone with 700+ badges and were told that about 100 of them were completely unavailable to them because the devs didn't want to give them out anymore? I lost badges too, and didn't care for it. I still agree with the thinking behind the removal of badges that weren't available anymore.

More than a few asked for it. And the final result was essentially fair to everyone. It SUCKED to be someone losing all those badges, but it was still equitable.

As with everything, it's a work in progress. In the mean-time, just play the game and stop raging over trivia.

Uhm. Hello? Was or was not MA DELAYED AN ISSUE because the devs were putting in things the players requested?

Additionally, the MA system is huge and fairly complex. Quite simply there's no way Paragon Studios could have tested every possible combination in the game before release and had it out by the end of next decade. Even the beta test pool was fairly small (though larger than the staff at Paragon by an order of magnitude or so). And THEY didn't catch everything (though they caught quite a few nasties that got squashed pre-release). And yes, some problem-children combinations were reported pre-release and made it to release. There's only so much time and developer power. And, at some point, you just have to pull the trigger.

Otherwise, you know what you've got?

Duke Nukem Forever. And I'm sure it's going to be GREAT when it releases too!



They can model how systems like the MA will be utilized in the game for years. The problem is, a few months of actually being in the real game can tell them that their model was crap. That's more or less what happened here. They expected uptake on the MA to happen one way, and it didn't happen that way. Decisively. At all.

As such, they had to make changes to the system post-release.

But, at least they didn't do so on the day of the release...

Remember the adage about "no plan ever survives contact with the enemy".

One request among many. And you're going to rage about it?

There are only so many developers, time, resources, and money.

Again, your sense of entitlement has gotten away from you.

Ah. Having been caught with your foot in your mouth, you attempt to try the "that's not what I really meant" diversion to try and deflect from your bad argument.

Again, updates in this game come in stages, and rarely do we get everything we want, all at once. If you, to paraphrase Queen "Want it all. Want it all. Want it all. WANT IT NAO!", yeah, you're doomed to be disappointed.

Ah. The "7h3 g@ym3 iz di3ying" screed.

It's not happening. Get over it.

Facts huh?

From http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/general.html

From the NCSoft Support Site

And, recently, they've been running deals for $143.40 for 12 months with two months free on top of that. Works out to $10.25/month.

So Let's be complete about this

Monthly: CoX: $14.99, WoW: $14.99
Quarterly: CoX: $13.95, WoW: $13.99
Semi-Annual: CoX: $12.95, WoW: $12.99
Yearly: CoX: $11.95, WoW: Uh. Not available?

So I'm unsure as to where you're getting $10 a month for WoW (links please). Maybe some sort of special deal that isn't available to everyone?

But, as you can see from the quoted sources, the monthly pricing is identical. The quarterly and semi-annual price is slightly lower for CoX (probably because they're not rounding up to the nearest $0.99 just because they can). And the yearly option is cheaper-still.

Here's an update for you. Carriage returns (pressing the enter key between paragraphs). The walls of text make reading your posts something akin to plowing through chest-high snow drifts. A small change like this will make your posts much more readable. Even if people disagree with the content in them.

Well what were you expecting? It's not as if what you're posting is anything new. The basic format and premise of your original post have been done TO DEATH, resurrected, and done to death AGAIN, and again, and again...

You get the picture right?

Just "because"? No amelioration of your stance whatsoever where people corrected your misinformation and the premises that were broken because of them?

Were you not doing the internet equivalent of holding your hands over your ears and yelling "I'm not listening! LALALALALALA", I'd say that was very open-minded of you.

At least some of the people here are trying to help you put your arguments in a more readable (and thus accessible) format. Would you rather people just ignore you because you simply can't be bothered to make your argument readable? Your posts are the equivalent of a month-long debate with John Moschitta.

They're not looking at it as a punishment. They feel that they didn't think through the ramifications of the type of play such badges would engender. Moreover, they feel that the type of play necessary to obtain such badges in what most people would consider a "reasonable" time-frame is an aberrant style of play.

Rather than encourage this sort of aberration, they'd rather remove the poorly thought-out new badges and reduce the requirements on older badges to make them more accessible to players.

Uhm. To try and and make the game more accessible to others who don't take the coookie-cutter-of-the month build. The so-called "race to the BOTM".

One word. BALANCE. If this were the real world, I'd say "yeah". But it's a game. What you're talking about only would lead back to the BOTM problem.

City Of has had SIXTEEN expansions in five-plus years (roughly equivalent to 3 a year). Only one of which required you to pay extra to access some of the content. The rest were FREE. As in gratis. On top of that, there have been several relatively inexpensive booster packs with some neat, but optional things.

Oh yes. And a yearly sub to CoX is $144 for 14 months.

$144/14 = ~$10.25 per month.

Not quite sure what more you want out of them. It just sounds to me like a misplaced sense of entitlement talking.

Ah hell. In for a sheep.

@Hyperstrike1, Flamin' Trolla.

Just get a time and day up.

Yeah. I have the same case. VERY nice case. I've been torturing myself with Antec Sonata cases for the last few years in the quest for quiet computing. I finally got sick of having to squeeze stuff in with shaped directional charges and went for something bigger.

It's louder than my Sonata is, but not by a heck of a lot. And routing cables in it was much cleaner too.

Nope. Because at that point you'd have just submitted to an internet winkie-sizing contest. You've already lost.

Nobody's hammering this guy for not being happy with the downtime in the middle of his play schedule. Yeah, it sucks AND blows. THAT we understand.

But the silly "well they shoulda done it THIS-A-WAY" and the descent into "The game is dying!" /em thumbsuck. was just irritating.

I'd like to be able to treat WW like Wal-Mart too. But I can't.

Nope. Natural side effect of supply and demand, as well as the side-effects of the Merit system. I talked about this quite a bit before the advent of the system and was sort of laughed at. I was told "people will just farm merits and get it all anyhow, even easier".

While I won't say that obtaining merits is HARD, it's non-trivial to assemble enough to spec buy, and sheer hubris to expect one from a random roll.

HUH? Nonononono. That's a "you're doing it wrong" moment. Not trying to be offensive, just trying to impress on you that there's a better way.

Place your bids for exactly what you need as if spec-buying. Over time, if stuff doesn't fill, remove the original bid and enter a new, slightly higher one.

Don't put in for 10 of what you need at "Price X" then 10 more at "Price Y".

No!
Bad!
Duuuumb!


Like Reactive Armors when I put my def cap (at L30) build together. I put in for L33 stuff Exactly as many as I needed (save a few brain-farts that netted me enough for my other build). When I was ready to build, I was still two pieces short. At that point I was sick of waiting and just spec-bought them at the appropriate level for merits.

Build...done.

And what if the crashes weren't a single problem, but multiple ones, of which not all were fixed (or fixable) before the last patch?


Nobody's talking about "commercial" sense here. Only technical. This has escaped you.

Really?

Looks up from the game and around his darkened apartment...

Wow...

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Dang! My butt grafted itself to my chair! Oh well.

*Back to the game*

Obligatory "learn to use the market and you'll never be broke" rant excised.


Spec-buy them with merits. Then you get EXACTLY the recipes you want at EXACTLY the level you want.

It's POSSIBLE, yes, but your chances are fairly small and you could wind up with a lot of stuff you don't want (though you could come up with some valuable stuff.

Again, yes, but random roll means random.

Suggestion: Don't use the market like a store. DO NOT bid 10 mill apiece for them. Place lot (not "a lot of") bids for well under that and BE PATIENT. The bids WILL fill.

In the meantime, work on accumulating merits to spec-buy whatever you're not able to get easily.

You are NOT going to have them NOW, TODAY. Probably not even this week (maybe not even this year...heheh...year end jokes...). But give it a little bit and you WILL pick the stuff up. And for much less than the rectal-plunder prices you're seeing when you step into WW.

Seriously, work at building merits, run your difficulty as high as you can reasonably manage, and sell off every last drop you get (that isn't something you can use for this build). If you do a little creative investment on the market as well, you'll be positively STUNNED as to how fast the inf rolls in.

Oh, and if you're worried about the cost of the rares you'll need for some of the recipes, do some MA content, rack up a bunch of tickets, and spec-buy the expensive rares at 540 tickets a pop. No inf required.

I'd rather have them push downtime (with a schedule) NOW, while not a lot of people are on, than have it CRASH for an indeterminate amount of time in the middle of my gameplay (possibly boning a TF or timed mission).

No. But it's naive to think that they can fix KNOWN SERVER CRASH ISSUES without maintenance downtime.

Then why start a thread whining about it? Seriously!

This is ignorance talking. Sorry if that offends you, but you don't know what you're talking about.

If you have known crash issues in a running product, and you have a fix for it, you don't sit back and wait to apply the fix until it's convenient for you. You patch NOW. The customers will be unhappy that there's downtime right now, but they'll be even MORE ticked off if the product crashes and nobody's at the helm over a holiday.

LESSER
OF
TWO
EVILS

And if that "extended downtime" was a server crash tonight or tomorrow when nobody's here to bring the machines back up? Whoopsie!



Why not just start a thread entitled "0MFG! 73H G@M3Z IZ D131NG!!!1111" and be done with it already?

I got invited to one of these a few weeks back.

Essentially they're NPCs in Samurai armor that are running, I think, Regen/SS, or WP/Regen, so you get mainly S/L damage and they rez and give you the chance to attack them again, multiplying XP/inf earnings.

Well, considering you can't slot Stamina till you're 20, I'd say it goes like this:

1-19: BIG FAT NADA! (Tough choices there, I know... )
20: EndMod
21: Two EndMod, one +End

So on, and so forth.

Wrong. Remember, Invuln is a layered armor set. You need both defense and resistance. Just, with a scrapper, you have to accept that your resists will NOT cap out like a tank's would.

Here's some numbers. A proposed rebuild of my main scrank build.

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|571E01078CE12AB02B5479709FF125A03D447FC8C8114A220 884814F54E0410A8F0|
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Note: The current build actually DOES have all those purples in it. But, if you feel better, alter it to be like my SJ-based build with commons (Acc/Dam-x3/EndRed).

My current SJ-based build is ridiculously tough and gives my granite-ized Stoners a run for the money (without Granite's severe penalties).

If I'm actually able to play tonight, I have a Grav/Kin who should have Hess unlocked.

No. Ten hundreds is a thousand.
A hundred hundreds is ten thousand.

Correct.

You're talking the difference between:

Short Scale: 1,000,000,000

and

Long Scale: 1,000,000,000,000 (Short Scale: One trillion)

Most English-speaking countries, save the UK itself, are using short scale, as does France, from whom the terms were originally derived. Even the UK uses short scale in a haphazard fashion. It's really a shame that these backwards little third world countries can't learn their mathematics properly and conform to the rest of the modern world.



Milliard MY BACKSIDE!

Yay! It's starting! It's starting! It's...uh, what is it?

If you don't like it, change the damn channel.
Translation: Get out of Atlas and stop standing around collecting broadcast spam.

No. Simply because you are annoyed with behavior of people using AE WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE RULES, we shouldn't nerf AE again. It's already giving less in the way of rewards than standard content.

Read my text. I'll try to keep it monosyllabic to ease assimilation.

THE
DEVS
DO
NOT
CARE
IF
YOU
FARM

So please, drop the "T3h d3vz h@73 f@rm0rz" rage.

The devs don't want you utilizing exploits in the MA. This is why Rikti Doll, Mitos, and all the boss/AV farms have gone the way of the dodo. The missions now have a balance of minions, liutenants, and bosses. They also require a fairly broad array of powers (as opposed to similar NPCs in the regular game that usually only spam 2-4 powers).

That and a lot more people see Broadcast than the AE channels, which aren't joined by default.

I already pay to use AE as part of my subscription to the City Of * MMO. If YOU want to pay extra to not use it, that's fine. More power to ya!

Why not just petition to have AE removed. That's what you're really screaming for and you know it. So stop trying to be oblique about it.

Oh wait, you'd come up against even MORE opposition then (especially from the devs..)

Bah. I've had dead DEFENDERS fight back harder than this.