Ironblade

<snort> Yeah, we already know that. The point was that yelling and threatening a ragequit isn't productive in getting things changed. It just makes people more likely to ignore the shouter.


But it's going to "harm" the same number of people whether the adjustment is made on the EU or NA accounts. If doing it one way is much easier, from a time and expense standpoint, then that way wins. This is a business. And people are going to ragequit NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO. Someone ragequits over every single thing that happens in the game. This is inevitable with a large population.


I would expect the people who own the game (the devs aren't running this show) to pick the method that they estimate will put (keep) the most money in their pockets. Obviously, keeping as many of your players as happy as possible, is the way to do this, balanced against the expense. If they could calculate exact costs and numbers of players who would leave, this would be a simple equation. If it's going to cost us $1,000 each to retain X number of players, say good-bye. If it's going to cost us $50 each to retain X number of players, that's the way to go.

It always amazes me how many people come out of the woodwork to offer a 'better' way to do things. Somehow, they think they have better ideas than the employees of a company that do this for a living every single day. They know some people aren't going to like this. They know some people will feel it's not fair or right. And they know some people will quit over it. And they're probably going to do it anyway because they feel it's the correct business decision. I say probably because someone MIGHT come up with a cogent argument to do it differently - but it doesn't seem likely.

It's not. People in the area only receive information on your current costume. This relates to why we have a 30 second timer on costume changes. Each time you change costume, it has to send the costume data to everyone nearby. A handful of people spamming costume changes could cause serious problems for people in the immediate vicinity.

From what I've heard from RL friends and family who play CoH and other MMO's, many (if not most) other MMO's are WORSE. Some are MUCH worse. CoH has a much higher average player age and a higher percentage of women than most other games.

Finally, if you're on Infinity, I'll organize and lead an ITF just for you and your son (and anyone else you'd like to bring). Please contact me via PM or in-game to @Ironblade One or @Ironblade Too

Just for future reference, ALL of the quote is automatically italicized.

Yeah, but on the main site there is a section specifically for patch notes and the last update there is March 3rd.
www.cityofheroes.com
NEWS menu item
PATCH NOTES sub-item
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So they STILL can't get the damn patch notes posted right.

Is there going to be a video on the internet - "Two Brains One Jar"?

No. My main is rolling in them.

It's your imagination. Seriously.

Yeah, we got that. And several people tried to explain that there could be valid BUSINESS (database, administrative, etc) reasons for it, and not just "We hate the EU." But I guess you're too bent out of shape to concede that there might be logical and sensible reasons behind this decision.

You are correct. That argument has already been debunked multiple times. 500 name conflicts is 500 name conflicts. If you change the EU names, you affect 500 people. If you change the NA names, you affect 500 people.

As Arcanaville pointed out, doing it this way may mean less WORK from a programming standpoint. If you hit 500 people either way, then the way that is less work wins.

What are you scanning with? After reading your first post, I did a full scan with Malwarebytes and it came up clean.

I noticed the same thing - five hours after your post.

I have two answers for this.

1) Captain Kirk: "What does God need with a starship?"

2) "I'm going to equip myself with a little . . . FOUR WHEELS OF FURY!"

Of course, all the people who insist that farming is okay seem to be right. It's EXPLOITING that's a problem.

Same here, but only on one toon where I was going for perma-dom.

It is.

I think the context might matter. When Alex in 'A Clockwork Orange' tells someone to "Come and get one in the yarbles!", I don't think there are any childrens toys involved.

Deja vu?
Either that was you on the N P C channel or someone else happened to ask the exact same question AND phrase it the same way. And since that was after 9, I'm guessing you went back and tried asking in-game again?

Also, from an article on Robert Cringely's blog:
"A boiling water reactor does just what it sounds like — it boils water to make steam that drives a turbine generator. This is as opposed to a pressurized water reactor that uses the nuclear reaction to heat a coolant that never really boils because it is under high pressure, then sends that coolant through a heat exchanger which heats water to make steam to drive the generator. Boiling water reactors are simpler, cheaper, but generally aren’t made anymore because they are perceived as being less safe."

Apparently, these are older reactors using an outdated design.

Since you're talking about a scrapper, you should be using Confront (from a scrapper primary), rather than Provoke (from a Power Pool).