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  1. Ironblade

    2010 4Q earnings

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by End Sinister View Post
    The game is obviously on the tail end of a slow decline.
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    Yet the fan boys and girls of the game always deny that the game is on a decline. I'm only saying there's not much life in this game because there isn't.
    Whenever I see someone stating certainties about possible future events, I wonder what their agenda is. When they then preemptively dismiss anyone who disagrees with them as fanboys, their comments become even more suspect.
  2. Ironblade

    Partner

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Beef_Cake View Post
    Well considering the Kahn only takes 20 minutes to complete, yeah it was very easy
    The overwhelming majority of Kahn TF's do *NOT* get done in 20 minutes. It gives 30 merits. That means the median completion time was datamined at way the hell over 20 minutes (more like 90).
  3. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    You're kidding with this right? The Khan TF has only counted for WST runs since Tuesday. Even if we assume Beefy ran it 5 times a day he only had 4 days to do that. You do realize that only equals 20 right? And you're telling me MY math assumptions are really awful...
    YOU'RE kidding, right? Getting the 50 badge is no big deal at this point. I've got 27 out of 50 so far, having run the TF only once today and spent a lot of time on a clear all ITF yesterday.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mscats View Post
    Meet by the good Lady Gray at 12:45 (Ironblade, you can arrive at 1) so we can get started as close to 1 as possible.
    Ah, good. That would be consistent with my plans.

    I'll probably bring Ironblade. If we need debuffs, my earth/rad needs the component from this TF. I have a couple of tanks that need the Notice, but it seems we already have a tank.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Doctor_A_Science View Post
    I apologize for not making it.. but i overslept.. just woke up.. verry sorry
    BINGO!

    I was chatting with someone while the teams were forming up and they said they had been playing with you the previous night and you gave the impression that you would be on for the TF.

    I replied, "Well, Doc is notorious for being late."
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg View Post
    Other outdoor maps and not to mention zone maps don't seem to have this problem so we have to wonder; what's so special about these maps that make them cause more lag than usual?
    I have to agree. On the Council Empire map from Unai, when you 'paint' the map you spawn EVERYTHING and there is no noticeable lag. But the Boomtown map in the Kahn TF is a disaster. Something is different about it.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bosstone View Post
    I was just curious about whether there really was a bond in place and how it would work if so.
    There is not. And, by the nature of the game, there can't be.
  8. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    But for the moment, any TFs highlighted for acquisition of notices of the well, need to be level 50 material first, once all the "reasonable" level 50 has been cycled through, then go thru lowbie if the ability to gain shards while exemplared down has been incorporated, but not before; this is simply a courtesy and professional etiquette.
    No and no.
    The task forces for Notices DO NOT need to be level 50 content.
    There is nothing about courtesy or etiquette here. It was a design decision and plenty of people LIKE it. We get that you don't like it, but to say that it is bad, wrong or mistaken is ridiculous. You don't like it. No more, no less. Other people do.
  9. Ironblade

    shard drop chances

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    Originally Posted by SM123 View Post
    i have not done any testing on this, and i asked around and got mixed answers. some say it does affect and others say it doesnt.
    Well, we have been told that level of the enemy does not affect chance for drops. i.e. You can fight 50's, 51's or 52's and the odds do not change. We know this.

    In light of this, it seems a reasonable 'conclusion' that your being 50 or 51 also will not affect the odds.
  10. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    I'll probably bring Ironblade. There's a badge for doing the WST fifty extra times (i.e. runs where you can't get the bonus since you already got it that week).
    Or I might not bring him.
    I've run this 4 times Tuesday evening, 3 Wednesday, 4 Thursday. I imagine I'll do 3 or 4 on Friday and the Saturday TF would be within the time limit for Diminishing Returns so the merits would be pretty scrubby.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    Stupid me, being optimistic. I keep hoping they'll lower the requirement to something sane. 88 really sort of feels like a "shut up, soloers" sort of thing.
    I think every sector of the playerbase has to get that at some point.
    "Sure, we'll put the Contaminated in the game..... just ONE.... in a PvP zone.... every 2 hours...."


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    Originally Posted by Aliana Blue View Post
    The thing to do, IMO, is to wait for a TF that can be soloed to be chosen as WTF, and parallelize runs. Instead of running the TF with your weak character(s) combined with someone else's strong ones, find someone who has one or more strong characters that can solo the TF set to x2, have your weak character be the "anchor", while YOU run the TF solo with your strong character in parallel, having that other person's "weak" one as anchor.

    That ain't gonna work until the right TF comes along tho
    Based on the TF's listed so far, Sister Psyche is the best one yet. I plan to try soloing it.
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    They could use a point system for the reward. Say you need 300 points to get the final reward....
    200 pts - kill credit on U'kon Gr'ai
    100 pts - team credit for planting a bomb
    50 pts - kill credit on a bomb grate
    20 pts - kill credit on a pylon
    1 pt - kill credit on a Rikti on the ship

    You could focus on high point value actions or just go all Buck Wild on the Rikti.
  13. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by _eeek_ View Post
    I honestly think the reason you see so many scrappers and brutes hanging about is because no one will INVITE the scrappers and brutes! I am on for roughly 3 seconds without a team invite on an empath or rad troller. The scrappers and brutes don't get invited without a lot of work involved.
    If I don't get a quick invite on my scrapper, I just start a team myself.


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    But for Kahn? There is nothing tricky about Kahn! 1 def. debuffer and the rest can be damage, no prob. (Yes, I did it once without a def. debuffer a few months ago. We finished it, but it was a loooooong process to slowly whittle down Reichs. So "needed"? No. Good idea? Oh, yeah.).
    I did it the other night with 1 tank and 7 damage dealers. Reichsman was a bit slow, but we zipped through all the other missions.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
    When someone actually completes one,
    They have.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    I like the concept of the weekly special TF, but I expected it to be level 50 material TFs not a lowbie Sister TF, that is plainly wrong, especially when there are other level 50 TF material available!
    No, you're wrong. What you mean is that YOU don't like it. There is no right or wrong about it; it's entirely subjective. Personally, I think it's great. Currently, there just isn't enough level 50 content to restrict the WST's in that manner.
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    Shard drop rates

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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA View Post
    Mmm...

    I think its the so called random number generator is simply peeing in your punch.
    Exactly. Across a long period of time, or across many players, it's random. But it occasionally decides to hate on someone and messes with their drops.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
    To me it seems that this particular area of the game was programmed without anyone ever taking the time to realize the game might be successful or popular. Because a good channel is a game changer. Especially with issue 20 creating mega teams of 24. Like I wanna do that trial on a PUG. No way brother. I may have to head back to Freedom and the good channel I have there. But it seems really odd to be stuck on one server because no one programmed a super simple piece of code into the game.
    A little less assuming and more inquiring, perhaps.
    In fact, there is code to kick inactive members from a channel. Unfortunately, it does not currently work. So it's not like no one ever thought of this.
  18. Ironblade
    All of my 50's (21 of them) have the Alpha Slot unlocked.
    I've been running the WST's the most on my badge hunter (a scrapper).
    My stone tank is Alpha'ed up to tier 3.
    My earth/rad with perma-hasten / perma-AM is up to tier 2.

    So yeah, 2 of my 3 slotted Incarnates are 'useful' on task forces.
  19. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    Temporarily add a few recipes to the Vanguard workbenches? 150 Vmerits for a Notice, 300 Vmerits for 600 Vmerits, 300 VMerits for 5 bars of XP perhaps?
    Two for one sale? I'm guessing you made a typo there, but I can't figure out what you meant . . . . .
  20. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sukothai View Post
    But the lower level players cannot recieve the "Notice of the Well."
    We're aware of that. And we STILL think that it's a great idea to include the lower level task forces / strike forces.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by OdinSon View Post
    Is this the effect of ED, and if so, why is it applied to Invention Sets? I can see it being applied to generics IO's and SO's etc. But the buff for sets appear to be scaled down already when other aspects are present.
    ED applies to *ALL* enhancements: training, DO, SO, IO, HO, purple, PvP.
    Where ED does *NOT* apply is to the invention set BONUSES. The set bonuses are applied AFTER ED.
  22. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    I merely pointed out that "8" was not a "small group".
    This is 'end game / raid content'. In that context, 8 is most definitely a small group.
  23. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master-Blade View Post
    Some of us even spend time helping other people get the badges, even though we are not getting anything at all out of it.
    Really? People do that?


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    Originally Posted by Turgenev View Post
    *Oh, and got my 10x WST badge, just the 50 left. Good way to get Shards, btw... KTF seems to be shard-rich, more than the STF was.*
    Plus it's more fun (to me). I don't like the STF as much so I only ran it 6 times the entire week. I ran Kahn 4 times in the first night.
  24. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by No Torius View Post
    However, let's look at it from a toon that's not level 50.
    1. You will not receive any incarnate shard drop.
    2. You will get double xp.
    3. Will we get double merits automatically since we haven't the alpha arc?
    4. Will we get Notice of Well since the toon is not level 50 and has not completed the alpha arc?
    When you complete a Weekly Strike Task the first time in a week, you get:
    - Bonus XP, if you can earn XP.
    - Notice of the Well, if you have the Alpha Slot unlocked.
    - Bonus merits. Period. No conditions. (As long as it's your first run, of course.)
  25. Ironblade
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sukothai View Post
    Sister Psyche TF and Silver Mantis are both level 20-25, so how do we earn shards from these?
    You don't.
    The Weekly Strike Task rewards:
    - bonus XP
    - bonus merits
    - Notice of the Well (if you have your Alpha Slot unlocked)