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Quote:Except it's kind of broken and sometimes gives false 'not available' responses. The only way to really be sure is to try to make a toon with the name.Originally Posted by Decorum
Also, you have the ability to check if the name's already taken (there's a button on the server "page"), so you might want to check first. Surprises stink (in this case). -
Quote:Sorry. When I read the wrong part, I lost interest in reading the rest so I didn't finish up the huge run-on sentence that only became clear 3 lines later on.Originally Posted by DarkInvado
My line noting that market changes are not related to specific servers was apparently a bit obtuse for some readers... "...the server population (and general population in the case of the market changes)..."
This doesn't instill confidence that some people can actually read, as for their observations? Meh...
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Quote:And, since the markets are CROSS-SERVER, you've just demonstrated that, literally, you don't know what you're talking about. Quit while you're ahead?Originally Posted by DarkInvado
It occurs to me that all this chatter about why not to or why to consolidate servers is done in a vacuum sans data. I, anecdotally, sense a change in activity level on my server: Prices of IOs and salvage surge to levels higher than I have seen before
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Quote:Not eager for Demon Summoning?Originally Posted by ReclusesPhantom
Serious? That sucks. Looks like no pre-purchase for me then
Pre-purchase of GR will get you demons with Issue 17 - scheduled for April release.
If you don't pre-purchase, you get demons with GR - scheduled for July release. -
Quote:We need more challenging material. You'll notice that I don't put the word challenging in quotes since I'm not using the word sarcastically. Challenge is good. Variety is good. Give me lots of new content and make a portion of it so it really screws over one particular AT (at a time). As long as each AT gets hosed equally, I'll be happy.Originally Posted by Heraclea
What I'm actually saying is that I am somewhat unsettled by the apparent trend to add more of this "challenging" material. My perception, which I gather is not universally shared, is that some of the material seems to be squeezing out the role of melee DPS on teams.
P.S. So far, I'm *NOT* seeing that melee AT's are getting 'squeezed out'.
Oh, hell yes!Quote:Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
IMO, the more this game presents "Do I need to change my tactics?" situations, the better. -
Quote:On what planet????Originally Posted by Heraclea
The Gaussian arc has six missions that pit you against Vanguard, so it takes a minimum of eighteen days to get through it.
I've soloed that arc on a defender, a scrapper, a tank and a controller (I don't play blasters much). -
Quote:But it's *A* playstyle, or *A* tactic that is affected.Originally Posted by Heraclea
On the other hand, being placed in a situation where you cannot use the playstyle or tactics that are the purpose of your AT is a situation that everyone ought to call "broken". It isn't much fun to be a mastermind that can't use pets, a brute that can't charge, a tanker that can't take aggro, or a controller that can't use controls.
Basically, the situation is: "You've got a couple dozen powers / tactics to pick from. This ONE POWER or ONE TACTIC would be a poor choice - work around it." -
Quote:Seriously, you're taking an offhand comment and reading WAY too much into it. Did every player Posi met have their initial subscription date tattooed on their forehead? Or just MAYBE the long-term vets are the group most likely to make a big deal of how long they have been playing. Just MAYBE there was some self-selecting bias here.Originally Posted by BlueBattler
There's a difference between expecting there to be people playing for three weeks and there not being anyone who's been there less than FOUR years.
I'd be a bit happier if there had been some one or two year veterans ...
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Quote:When play = grind, it's time to stop playing.Originally Posted by Daemodand
None of the above matters since grinding 10 levels is grinding 10 levels. Level 51 or Incarnate level 1? A rose by any other name...
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I've had that happen a few times. I don't know what causes it.
Are you using a cordless or wired mouse? -
Quote:I asked because I have two characters with Group Fly.Originally Posted by Cremzen
Anywho, yeah, group fly can be very useful, but everyone planning to attend should take a whole 5 seconds to buy a raptor pack just inside the entrance to Firebase Zulu before coming. It's just so much easier since very few people take group fly anymore.
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Quote:Except that it's not.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The developers may call them Incarnite Levels, but since, from what I can tell, they're ten more levels of another kind you can earn on top of the previous 50 levels of another kind, I can guarantee you that these will be the equivalent of raising the level cap from 50 to 60, only by another name.
Will there be enemies up to level 60?
Will we go up to level 60?
Will there be enhancements at levels 51 to 60?
I didn't think so. -
Quote:It's not that we like or dislike it.Originally Posted by Heraclea
I expect that quite a few aren't going to like what I have to say; so be it.
1) We disagree. And when I say we disagree, I mean that the majority of responses to your rant in the Tanker forum disputed your statements based on their personal experience. As do I. We just aren't having the same problems. Maybe you hang out with a bad crowd. Maybe your server sucks. I don't know. But I do know that you do not speak for the majority of players.
In addition to disagreeing with your statements of 'how the game is' and how broken the STF is, we disagree with your conclusions and your prognostications of doom regarding the end-game content. Again, MOST of the responses to your original post of this rant refute most of your points based on their personal experience.
I'm not saying that you're making anything up, or that it didn't happen to you, I'm just saying that it's not the widespread problem you seem to think it is.
2) Yes, you have a whole laundry list of things you don't like about the STF and various parts of the game. You can't please all the people all of the time. I very much like a lot of the stuff you have issues with and really REALLY don't want it changed or nerfed in any way.
Finally, most of the stuff that you seem to be dreading, I'm anticipating. Why? Because it's different. You say it's the kind of stuff that will drive you from this game. If so, that's unfortunate. However, I'm looking forward to it because it adds VARIETY. -
Quote:(shrug) Not on any STF team that I've been on.Originally Posted by Heraclea
Anything that decreases the chance of success increases the chance of failure. Since Ghost Widow is a major roadblock in the STF, and a blaster helps more than any scrapper in getting past that roadblock, the scrapper will be told to bring another character.
I just don't see the kind of situation you keep describing and I like the STF just the way it is. Having a game be 'casual friendly' doesn't mean that it has to be non-stop easy mode. -
And we could have some wall signs that say B.A.R.T. and have some base NPC's that look like James Franciscus and Charlton Heston!
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Curious.
We went through a round of musical chai... keyboards at work and never had an issue like this. I didn't really pay attention to the keyboard brands but, since we have 3 Dell systems, I'm pretty sure there were Dell keyboards getting juggled around. I know our server has had at least 4 keyboards hooked up to it since it gets hand-me-downs if someone's keyboard is wearing out and the server happens to have a less-than-crummy one. It's an IBM system and I'm pretty sure it has had Dell, Microsoft and Logitech keyboards on it. -
Quote:If I'm reading Red Tomax's site correctly, Rooted is +100% regen. My invuln is at +300%.Originally Posted by Cremzen
Basically, stone has invul beat simply for the extra regen boost. If not for that, they would be virtually identical from the regen standpoint, not including slotting, of course.
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Quote:Actually, you'd only be rolling 2 dice. If you're rolling 5d10, you're getting a bell curve of results and not at all the same distribution as a d50 would yield.Originally Posted by Ravenswing
But they don't make d50s. You can get d100s, but those are weird. You'd have to roll a lot of d10s and do the maths.
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Quote:Tell that to every stone tank running Granite.Originally Posted by Jeminiks
And you are a drain on your team. Good job building a brick wall that doesnt bring anything to a group
Being practically indestructible can have value. -
Quote:Epeen, eh?Originally Posted by SoilentGreen
This thread is just another in a long line of "my e-peen is bigger than yours" threads that are pretty much standard for this section of the forum.
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Quote:Which is a vicious cycle, since the market inequities are a result of the lower population.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
It seems unlikely I am the only one but certainly there are people who play villains less due to that very frustration.
There's already a shortage of villain players over heroes on the servers for a variety of reasons.
So the shortage is likely to grow due to behavior inequities between the two sides' markets. -
I would never delete it since it looks cool (the arcane version). My main SG still has a raid teleporter in the main TP room.
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My favorite ambushes (in countdown form):
3) In Talos on my way to the magic store from the train, I see a crowd approaching. I was soloing a Malta arc and got an ambush of ELEVEN guys, +2 to me, while solo (3 lieuts. and 8 minions). I was on a scrapper (with Eye of the Magus) so I lived.
2) On the platform of the Brickstown train station. I started hearing the police drones firing and watched as several members of a Malta ambush (Malta again!) FLEW from behind the station, avoiding the drones, and murdered a guy waiting for the train.
1) In the Hollows, I'm on an empathy defender around level 40 and see a large team of 50's exit a mission door - the door closest to the Atlas Park gate. They zip off, passing right by the gate and CROWD of low level toons gathered there. It was right after a new powerset had been added so lots of people were starting new toons. A few seconds later, a massive mob of level 51 Malta come from behind a building and follow the same path - through the crowd of bystanders. The carnage was *EPIC*. In a matter of seconds, there were over 30 corpses scattered around David Wincott. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Kinetic Melee looked interesting but if people complain about the powers with long attack animations or the DBZ character invasion during the early years, you aren't going to be a happy camper.
KA
ME
HA
.... what?
Seriously, though, I saw a great DBZ rip-off toon (years ago). The guy yelled, toggled on a fire shield (he was a fire tank), changed costume to the spiky yellow hair and flew off. It was flawless. -
Quote:As an option, sure, that seems believable.Originally Posted by DarkGob
You consider a text-only version of the game and visual sounds to be believable???
I thought it was very clever.
I even made an energy/energy blaster named Captain Freem.