Ironblade

You mean aside from telling us when they disabled it and explaining the reason, right?

Have you considered that you talk to and socialize with certain people precisely because they share many of your opinions? We don't usually hang around people who we think are always wrong. I point this out because my experiences, and those of the people I talk to, do not match your position at all.


And your point is what? It seemed like you were making observations about the game population IN GENERAL. If you're going to go on about PVP IO's now, then forget the whole thing. The overwhelming majority of players care NOTHING about PVP IO's. If this is a concern to you, clearly you're not a typical player and I wonder if you have any idea what the "average player" thinks about the game in general and the market in particular.


The market is fine. It's based on supply and demand and is inherently self-correcting. We can discuss whether the PVP IO drop rate is reasonable, but the MARKET is just fine.

I've never missed warning of Marauder's attack, but I HAVE had occasions where I got no Sequester warning. The only time I saw this happen was when my character had his back against a wall. Having your back to a wall may do something related to the camera position and cause the warning to not display. I have never fought Marauder up against a wall so I can't say if the same situation would apply. Did you recall if you had a wall or other obstacle close behind you?

I would disagree on that, due to the time bonuses handed out for getting one of each item. I'm frequently on leagues that end up with more than 5 minutes remaining at the end of that phase.

I would think the same thing could be said about the doomsayers. I've seen people go from thread to thread to expound in detail about how bad things are and how much they hate the game.

But it often looks the same to an observer.

This is the internet, where every person out there is an overweight mouth-breather living in their mothers basement who thinks they're smarter than you.

Also, it's a forum for an MMO, so every action by the devs or other players that is not 100% in accordance with your wishes is a SLAP IN THE FACE!

I remember times when I had to respec so I could sell back the enhancements at full price in order to afford a set of new ones.
Mostly on redside - my big earner was a hero and had no way to send money to a villain.

This. I don't like hunting greys either. When they introduced Coralax to the Hollows, I used Ouro to exemp to level 9 to hunt them.

For everyone but the OP, you seem to run into Maelstrom or Desdemona every 2nd or 3rd mission.

If you go Vigilante from WHERE? If you go from Hero to Vigilante, you lose NONE of those things. For almost every purpose (the exception being Fort Trident) Vigilantes are treated exactly like Heroes. Going from Hero to Vigilante has zero effect on your SG or use of Ouroboros.

Similarly, for all purposes except The Crucible, Rogues are treated as Villains.

Now, if you go to an OPPOSING alignment, you lose access to your base. You will be demoted if you are the superleader. You will not earn prestige (but you do NOT lose your total). You go to the version of Ouroboros appropriate to your new faction.

This is the only part of your thread to which I take exception.
It's not bad design and many people are fine with it. What you mean is that YOU don't like. Oh, and perhaps also the "the 3 or 4 people that i have been playing with for years".

Not everyone is going to like every feature.

Overall, though, I think your suggestion is a bad idea. It's still way too easy to exploit AE. I was in Atlas Park on Freedom over the weekend and it's non-stop advertising for farms with some people charging 10 million per run (I don't know if he had any takers).

This is seeming very inconsistent.

The Constant and Lucky - Did not receive any sort of notice - not even in the system messages.

Day Jobs - These are still appearing in the system messages when I log in. No onscreen notice.

Incarnate - Got the first tier 4 on a character the other night and received both the system message notice and onscreen notice.

Actually, the 400 million isn't the onerous part of that exchange. It's needing 4 rares to convert. As far as I can tell, rares don't drop 4x as often as very rares.

There is no "accumulated Prestige". The system does not track it when you are not in an SG.

When a NON-Praetorian joins an SG, *IF* the SG has 14 members or less, there is a 'signing bonus' of 20,000 prestige. This is to help new SG's get started.

When a PRAETORIAN character joins an SG, there is a bonus of 100,000 prestige to compensate for the fact they could not join before level 20. It does not matter how many characters are in the SG. This bonus goes to the FIRST SG they join. If they then quit to go to another SG, that 100,000 does not follow them.

Actually, I think the wording from Baryonyx in this post was pretty clear:
Once you qualify for a component, it is determined randomly.
Now, the system certainly might be BROKEN, but the intent was stated very plainly.

Your level of participation has to reach a certain point to get you past the '10 thread consolation reward table'. Once you have participated enough to avoid that trash table, it is COMPLETELY RANDOM which salvage reward table you get. Your participation/damage/kills/etc have NO IMPACT on whether you get a Common or a Rare.

By SOME people. Definitely not by everyone who runs it.

The limiting factor is how many trials you run. The amount of damage you do, or the number of enemies you hit, has ZERO impact on which category of salvage you get. You were just lucky. You could have been playing a tank or defender and gotten the same drops.