JohnnyKilowatt

Hopefully not a car ding.

Paragon City is gone to the Praetorians?

I think you missed the point of my post. Read the line after the one you quoted. It wasn't intended to be a serious build.

I think The Jeff has them.

The same way the forum feedback "feature" was handled.

It looks great on paper, but in real life it causes way more problems than can ever be solved. It will never work for its intended purpose without shafting someone in the process.

Step 1) Scrap "participation" entirely. People will always figure out how to game the system to their advantage while hosing over those around them. The only thing the current system accomplishes is creating distrust between league leaders and members. How do we know their orders aren't being issued only to skew the rewards in their favor only?

Step 2) Scrap "random" entirely. How would you feel if you were leveling a lowbie, and mission rewards were completely random? You got 1 xp, and your neighbor got a million. Why should your advancement be different from your neighbor, based on a random roll? Because that's exactly what random incarnate salvage rewards do.

Instead, completing a trial rewards a preset number of threads, in a similar fashion to how task forces reward a preset number of merits.

Step 3) Scrap incarnate salvage, other than basic shards and threads. Because rewards only give these two items, in non-random quantities, the rest of the salvage no longer has a reason to exist; the cost to make a salvage item, and thus the cost to make or upgrade an ability, will always be the same.

Offer a breakdown rate of existing incarnate salvage at a competitive rate to get them out of the system.

To create new incarnate abilities, or to upgrade an ability to the next tier, a cost in shards or threads is used instead of salvage.

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In conclusion:

No participation system for players to abuse at the expense of the task at hand. No random weirdness to unfairly punish some while rewarding others. No clunky, confusing, over-engineered conversions for upgrading our abilities.

What's left? Simple. Elegant. Efficient.

I've seen people quote 15 days to get a very rare before. Is there a way to get two Empyreans per day? Or buy them with only 15? How is it less than 30 days?

Actually it sounds like this person was more concerned about people leaving powers on and causing lag; using Pocket D to form groups wasn't the real issue. Heck, if I'm RPing in a dance club, more people standing around HELPS my immersion. It's much better than an empty deadzone that makes me wonder how it could possibly stay in business.

Asking people to turn off powers gets said a lot at auction houses as well. No biggie, just smile and nod if you've already turned off your powers.

If you plan on changing your incarnate powers mid-mission, keep in mind there is a very large cooldown timer after you fight stuff. I have no idea how long it is, but it's so long that I've never been able to successfully switch while in a mission. It's _that_ long. I always had to exit the mission and switch outside.

*** Citadel Task Force Spoilers ***

Yea, but at the end of Citadel, the guy has a CANNON ARM! I mean, seriously, what are we supposed to do against that? It's a freakin' CANNON ARM! I've lost track of the number of times I was in a Citadel and we get to the end and the whole team just goes "omg look at that CANNON ARM! WTF HAX!" and then everyone just quits. His right arm is completely imbalanced with his left arm (literally).

One time, after everyone else quit I walked up and brawled him just to see what would happen. And then he used it as a club on my forehead! He's such a basadd, he doesn't even need to shoot the thing at me. He gave me boot to head with a CANNON ARM! I immediately pulled the plug on my PC just to avoid seeing what would happen next. It still gives me nightmares just thinking about it.