JeetKuneDo

Originally Posted by Vanum

Tell me about it. It's like a whole new game again playing without that lag. And for those lucky enough to have never gotten this lag count yourselves lucky because I'm no exaggerating when I say it's like a whole new game.

Originally Posted by CaffeineAddict

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

Although you're right, the only custom critter farms I have run into, after the initial wave of Dual Blades customs, were all Fire Melee lieutenants. The overwhelming majority have used standard critters.

Originally Posted by Belief

It's gotten a little better for me the past few days. I still lose packets, but the frequency seems to be much less. Full teams on busy maps can still hammer it though (ITF).

Originally Posted by Slashman

On the point of redside missions. I agree that there are too many of them that force your character into a 'mercenary/do odd-jobs for some cash' role. That's not to say that the missions themselves are bad...but when you do a redside mission, if someone was standing over your shoulder and watching the actual mission...they would be hard pressed to tell if it was blue or red. There aren't any villain game mechanics in redside content with the exception of mayhem missions.

There are not missions/story arcs that even give the illusion of being proactive as a force of chaos/evil. You just do what you're told. One of the things that villains needed badly was some kind of metric to measure their villainy that translated into the game. Whether that was some kind of map overlay that showed your evil grip on a zone growing as you do your dirty deeds and eventually lead to you establishing some kind of personal stronghold(NOT a VG base). Or even if contacts grew increasingly afraid of you as you gained levels and power and allowed you to make choices as to how you deal with the situations they presented(do you truly work to help them or help yourself at their expense?).

Those types of things(off the top of my head), are what would make villains stand apart from heroes. I hope GR will address some of that.

My biggest concern now is that with GR being a huge heap of content, we are unlikely to see new story content added to the game in any great quantity until its launch...which will certainly make me unhappy if its launch is a significant period of time away still.

Originally Posted by shizaru

ARC 314976 "It's Fundamental"
Lvl range 30 to 54
Also nuetral. A psycho is building androids that resmeble fictional characters that go on seemingly pointless rampages. Can you defeat them and find out who this new villain is,and what they want?

Originally Posted by Tatmia

Agreed.

Solo'ing this morning on Liberty was ridiculous. I had to open combat log to see when some of my powers has recharged.

I never paid attention to east coast/west coast when picking servers, so I have no idea how I ended up on almost all east coast servers.

Originally Posted by Westley

lol"efficiency"

I love how many people look for efficiency in a game.... that's meant to relax....

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

And yet they admit there is nothing they can do but contact the companies involved in hopes that they will fix something on their end. It's not something that NCSoft can fix. The OP blaming them and "flipping them the bird" would be completely inappropriate in this case. I do sympathize, and it's unfortunate to have to close down an account that you might otherwise enjoy if conditions were different, but it's not always the direct fault of the service you are subscribing to. It's frustrating indeed, but the anger is misguided.

Like I said, "It can be any number of access points en route to the server" and my location apparently doesn't require passing through the particular network that is failing to perform correctly.

As somebody who plays almost exclusively on Freedom, I'll certainly take your advice and "count my blessings" that I live in an area that is not experiencing this difficulty. A few other people I've teamed with and asked about this have also reported no issues at all, and they also live on the East Coast, though I cannot say specifically where, or what service they are using.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

And yet I'm seeing no difference between any server... even this morning.

Like I said, I'd look at the service provider and/or your location. Jiblets said they have issues with Satellite. I don't know what provider you have, but you both seem to be from Texas. There might be something to that.

Just because your connection works fine on one server, and not another, doesn't mean the server is broken. It can be any number of access points en route to the server. The providers in your area apparently take some bumpy back roads to the East Coast. I'm not sure what NCSoft could do to help you on that one.

I'm from Boston area on Cable internet and perform equally on both the east and west coast servers. I can even Dual-log with Freedom (East) and Test Server (West?), and still not have an issue with either instance. I'm sorry, but I can't duplicate your results.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

I don't know if it was broken. That's the way it usually looks for me, and the way it looked all last night when you made your post. I posted only a half an hour after you did, and was on for more than 3 hours at the time.

If you were having an issue at the time you posted, I'm afraid it wasn't everybody having the problem, and I don't know of anybody but you that did.

During that time period, I was in Monster Island (it's where I logged off), Mercy Island (to help somebody transfer some money), Port Oakes (to pay my base rent), Cap (to go to market), and Nerva and GV (for the SF). Which zone were you having trouble in? Was anybody else complaining about it in /broadcast?

How is it working for you now?

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

I am on Freedom, currently nearing the end of a successful MoLRSF.

I've been logged in for almost 3 hours now without any issues.
(Ok, so the whole team did have a momentary hiccup in first mission, but that was it.)
(And no, the SF isn't taking that long, I was just online before we started. lol)

Here is my current netgraph:



I'd be looking at your network provider instead.

Originally Posted by Ultimus

7) Post level 50 progression -- I think they are going to take the idea from World of Warcraft (And Everquest did this before this) and do post level 50 progression without a level system. The way Everquest did it was a system called Alternate Advance. Basically, at max level you could set your experience gain to go toward earning points. These points could be spent to increase various aspects of a character such as strength, agi, crit chance, etc. As you got more points you could buy abilities like Flurry (A passive ability that sometimes gave you an extra attack when you swing), an AOE taunt (with a 10 min cooldown), etc.

World of Warcraft is doing a similar system in their expansion called the Titan's path. From what it sounds like, via questing you can unlock extra abilities for your character and passive bonuses. There are several paths to take and a character can respec them.