LISAR

Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata

You made some good points, but let's not forget that the whole impetus behind AE was the reality television driver. "Wait, our clients want more content? Let's charge them AND make them develop new content for us. Brilliant! No, you are brilliant!"

The way I look at it, the developers are just lazy and sloppy for asking their subscribers to create content AND for not fixing exploits related to that content creation. Hey, we are all lazy and sloppy to some extent. But I wouldn't hire any of these people if I had a serious job I needed done.

Originally Posted by Tank_Washington

Perhaps they could hold off on the mass bannings until, say, March 31 2011, and they could give it an event name like, the exodus.


Just saying, I'm currently a lvl9 something, over in another something that's shiny and going to be something on March 31.

Maybe the purity police can get rid of all their undesirable fellow gamers in one shot.

A girl can dream.

Originally Posted by McNum

Okay, we can agree on that. One thing is to want to see something done about exploits, another is to find joy in seeing other players banned for it. The first is what I want, but I don't want to see mass bannings just so I can sit on my high horse and laugh at them. That's not solving anything.

I only point and laugh at someone getting banned when they really deserve it, like being racist or sexist morons in broadcast, harassing someone or similar. Those people can just get out and stay out.

Also, rereading the CoH Code of Conduct... we're apparently not supposed to trade cross-server. I believe that part needs a re-write with the market and global email systems in place now.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

Pot meet kettle.

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

So, your earlier point that Stamina does nothing to stop end-drain re such creatures are Mu was "making fun of gross over exaggeration"? OK. That sounds likely.

If you dislike my posts, don't read them. They're hardly mandatory.

Originally Posted by Arilou

The simplest solution would simply be for the devs to cap the amount of XP/mish you can get. Like they do with tickets.

Originally Posted by TrueMetal

I know that without flippers, I personally, would buy a lot of stuf for far lower prices than I do now. I can be very patient when I have too. For some things that aren't being 'flipped' it still pays off to be patient, but for a lot of other stuff you just can't buy anything below the minimum price that flippers set.

I divide my play time between a lot of characters, so if one is on hold for a week, or even two, because I need to wait for a bid on a certain recipe or piece of salvage to be filled that's not a problem.

The problem probably lies completely with me, but, say, 100.000 inf means next to nothing to me. But paying 100.000 inf for a piece of common salvage completely rubs me the wrong way.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

I honestly don't know >_>

But how is it suppose to be 'someone obsessed with Japanese culture'? Holes aren't known for their obsessive nature, I surmise.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

I'm most likely the best they're gonna get. We're j-holes, afterall.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

What's the magic word?

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

Again it depends.

I used to be a small-time GM for a text based game. We occasionally had to make calls like this. Item duplication was an actual occurrence on one memorable occasion. My supervisor ended up handling that case in a very unorthodox way; he looked up the offending character's IP address, traced it back to a person, and called the guy at home while he was in the act of duplicating unique items. I doubt if that would fly in CoH but it was kind of hilarious when it happened back in my old game.

In another case, at one point in the game we released exactly 10 very powerful copies of a certain sword. A few years later we did an inventory of powerful items and found that there were now 15! Needless to say there were questions to be asked (it turned out most of the duplicates had been created by players lying to support staff about having "lost" the sword due to a bug, and the support person doing an insufficient check of item logs before cloning a new copy).

Anyway, anyone who thinks every single account in this game doesn't have a comment log tied to it might want to open their eyes. You will never know what it says about you. And I can almost 100% assure you that if you've got numerous notes showing you to be a problem child that that factors into how support staff interact with you when you make a Petition, and how seriously the staff take your claims about bug reports, etc. If this game is anything like other games, that also controls how actively online GMs monitor your /tells and /chats. GMs may even have actual avatars they can use to go invisible, and mark our accounts with 1-star ratings!

Point being, even if it seems like no one was punished, they could have been. And they may never know it, or why the GMs are so much more savvy about their newest exploits.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Good point. My bad, it looks like I'm getting it whether I want it or not.

Still would like un-enhancements specifically for each of those powers so I can neuter them. Insane I know. But that's what some players said about the No XP switch.

Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina

From what I heard it is not the nature of the enemies, but an error in exp calculation.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Yes, that's my point. If I don't want fitness on this character, I can't respec for ANY reason or I will get the fitness pool. No juggling slots or rearranging powers at all.

So to play my character concept, my way I lose my ability to do a respec on this character. I admit it's the only character that I have that the I19 change impacts and I'm not suggesting that in general that the vast majority of players and characters will benefit from this, other than those who whine that it doesn't come with extra slots, I'm just giving an example where I regret that there isn't a way to neuter the effects such as free unenhancements for those powers you can slot if you don't want them.

Originally Posted by Silver Gale

Whoops, triggered Poe's Law there.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

You forgot the Vial of BEES!

Originally Posted by Jet_Boy

Should they be capped? Nah.

They should have however adopt a eBay-liketime for sales - 3, 5, 7, or 10 days - as well as a rating system for sellers. 8D

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

The point here is not that Stamina provides a shield between you and your average contingent of Mu parade-floats; the point here is that someone with Stamina is GOING TO GET THAT END BACK FASTER than someone without Stamina rounding a corner and meeting two Mu Adepts.

Without Stamina: sapped, dead, hosp. Or, sapped, run away, take 5 min to recharge because Rest is still down from you using it 30 seconds ago, and you got to stand around WAITING and WAITING and WAAAAIIITTTINGGGGGG. This is not my idea of a fun mission.

With Stamina: sapped, eat a few blues, back in business - or run off and recharge 30 seconds later, then back to the fight.

Some people prefer option one, and I don't get it - but then there are a lot of stylistic choices in life I don't get either. Truly, it takes all kinds.



Some growing up is indeed needed, if you think this bratty attitude of yours is convincing anyone to drop the Fitness pool like a hot potato. Or that those of us with Fitness on everyone need to "learn to play." If anyone made such a snide statement about one of your playstyles you would be the first to cry foul.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

You are clearly a crazed, freedom-hating revolutionary!

=P

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

We do not talk about Mu Strikers...
Hate. Them.

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

The only think I can think is that Leo here must be running a bunch of regen people. Otherwise he would know that especially on a melee alt, toggles dropping means that you are DEAD. YOU ARE DEAD! Face down. On the ground. How "efficient" am I in the hospital?

When my level 18 or so character is running that Marshall Brass "Discover truth behind PTS" mission with 5000 Mu Adepts in it, is the fact that they can suck me dry as a bone, drop my toggles and kill me due to the fact that I need to "learn to play?" I find such a supposition both naive and arrogant.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

I have a character who's a "Gray" Roswell alien. I went out of my way not to take the fitness pool, not even swift to improve his flight speed (he doesn't walk/run at any time due to his diminutive body and large head).

But now like a player with a costume piece that's been removed from the game and can't visit the tailor to tweak his costume because they would lose that piece, I'm in the similar situation with respec because it would grant this character all of the fitness pool.