JamMasterJMS

Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt

That's because the Mutant Origin power does Toxic damage.

OSA will only light from Fire or Energy damage. It's completely immune to everything else.

Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent

Empaths are a tricky situation indeed. When you recruit one empath, you don't know if he's going to have HA on auto, fire off RAs precisely once inside the mission door, then go AFK, or if the whole team's heads will stay lit up like Christmas as they skate through +2s with ease. When you recruit two empaths, you don't know if the second is going to be redundant deadweight, or if the Empaths will AB each other and make purples cry and hand you XP on silver platters.

Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten

Again, I can see that you don't program.

If you expect perfection, you WILL be disappointed.

The person above who equated Programming and accounting together painted a pretty good analogy. I do auditing for the company I work for and they are correct - you are supposed to go through the data with a fine tooth comb and be accurate. If you find mistakes as an auditor, you report it and get it fixed to make sure it doesn't happen again. If its a BIG mistake...well - there is Enron as an example of failed auditing.

There can either be 3 solutions that would make you happy JMS. They could:

A). Do what they do now (Which is try to get their code mistake free as possible, test it as best they can, and fix what gets broken or missed later)
B). Slow down their production schedule to get more testing done internally...I would guess a Similar QA process that a console game might have - which might take years to complete 1 issue
or
C) Raise the price of the game to higher an assload of additional QA to keep production schedule the same and your required level of quality.

Option C isn't going to happen, and option B would probably cause a sunset of the game.

Originally Posted by EmpireForgotten

You don't program do you?

See how easy it was for you to miss spell that word bolded above? When you are looking at a sheet of code or at a spreadsheet, its easy to go 'bug-eyed' and miss stuff.

Good programmers will make mistakes. If they took the time to test everything themselves (instead of having open beta's/bug reporting done by users), we'd still be back in i3.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

Controllers can do everything better than everyone else. They aren't hugely popular because they take a long time to mature and even while outperforming everyone else they do it subtlety with a very high flow of dot damage rather than huge orange numbers (exception being controller seismic smash). That and very few people spec their controllers to maximize damage output.

Things like fire/rad, ill/rad, fire/kin, plant/kin, fire/storm, earth/storm, ill/cold and others are simply disturbingly powerful if built to the purpose.

And no I don't mean something as niche as a fire/kin farming s/l mobs only. People that think that combo is limited to doing that have either never played it or don't know how to play it.

Trollers do have some deep lows as well, but you'd no more pick something like an ice/ff troller for the purpose of dealing damage than you'd pick a /nrg dom for the purpose of dealing aoe damage. That is implied and really shouldn't need to be stated, but I'm doing it because it probably does need to be stated or someone will come along and pick that nit.
edit: see what I mean?

Why can they be more powerful than dominators? because buff/debuff sets are > assault sets at determining peak power and because trollers have exceptionally potent epic powersets available to them. It results in a very different playstyle, which I already pointed out though.

Originally Posted by Castle

The "above poster" would be the one who found the error thanks to reports from "the clients", rather than the one who created the error. Or, are you saying it is accounting policy to fire the auditors for finding mistakes?

Originally Posted by Castle

You're right. I did use .85 instead of .8 for the math. I always think of tankers having a .85 mod for some reason. I've been making that same mistake for years. Thankfully, the game applies the mods instead of me having to pre-calculate things, so it's not as bad as it COULD be.

FWIW, nothing is going to be done about this for now. It's too big and widespread of an issue for me to unilaterally decide on how to approach it. I'll give folks a heads up on what is decided as soon as I know.

Originally Posted by ConFlict

me and max? I will be in game tomorrow for my 2 billion.

Originally Posted by Phillygirl

The part I am quoting (sorry mod 08) is a direct personal attack, at least that would be my guesstamate on what rule that post violates. The rest of the post looks fine this would be my best guess, again you will probably get a PM Mod08 might not have gotten around to it yet.

For example I could say "Philly stop trolling" and that would be ok, saying "Philly your a troll" not ok. (I think anyway if i remember the wording) Not that i would ever be a troll on these forums The fact that you named names would be what probably got it reported and erased.

Originally Posted by ConFlict

Look real man of genius a couple of facts for you. Only a mod can perform the function in question. Second the edited part in merc's post says last edited by mod 08. I know a huge leap of logic has to take place here but I have faith.

Originally Posted by Phillygirl

Just to further explain, Merc only quoted your post partially and what was quoted by him most likely did not include the forum rule violating wording. My guess is (i can't remember) Max quoted the whole post, and thus also required deletion. Usually you get a PM telling you a post was deleted beause you violated forum rule x *looks at all the old PM's from Nivine and Mod 08* I maybe speaking from experience....