LadySteelBlade

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What a peculiarly SOE approach.

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Not just SOE. Ford does the same thing. They *CAN* put almost every bonus feature into every car they make, but they're only *WILLING* to do it in the cars for which people pay for the bonus packages.

Airlines *CAN* give First Class service to every passenger, but they're only *WILLING* to give it to the the people who pay for it.


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I realize the point your making, but these are bad examples. Ford doesn't ask you to buy an additional full priced car in order to get the optional features, as a matter of fact, you can pick and choose which features you'd like added to your car and pay a little bit more for those. First Class/Coach analogy is similar, depending on the airline, you don't have to pay for another full price coach seat to upgrade to first class.

The only other MMO company I have experience with is SOE, but I guess this is pretty standard fair across the board. Still, $49.99 is too much to pay for an expansion. SOE's expansion packs I've purchased (Galaxies) didn't cost that much.

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Thell me, Soe's expansion packs, are they playable without the base game?

Didn't think so.. and those gold issues that include the base game how much do they cost at release? Oh yeah 49.99$

And how many free updates are SOE giving for EQ2? Oh yeah the first 1 and then you have to pay for the issues...

hmmm....

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Its too late to do that now, all the pre-order bonus discs have already been shipped, they arrive in 3 days. Too late to change it unless they just unlock them all in game.

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Actually what they are shipping you is a cdkey that will declare you a "Pre-Order Player that ordered from store X" that will then unlock something in the game for you. ALL clients need to have the item in the game anyway for display purposes, its just that your cdkey will determine if you have access to it in the character creation screen.

So there is still plenty of time to correct the situation in any way they find fit...

Thanks for the update, but let me get this straight?

If I'm a women who likes to play female characters and already ordered from EBGames because Gamestop was not accepting my creditcard due to a webpage malfunction I'm getting bleeped?

How fun...

Starts kissing Geko's feet

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you......

You can also count how many comic books you got its a fair evaluation.

edit: just counted mine 10 + june + july HAAAA may get lucky

BTW: Statesman stated a few days ago that the slider MAY come as soon as issue 3 but maybe later. You sure you want to wait that long? That makes it around Xmas time. I sure don't.

I cannot stress enough - the +1 mobs everywhere are a BUG. We did NOT notice them on the Training Room server. It happens. I made a mistake. We're fixing it (though it isn't live yet).

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Huhh we kept /bug ing it on a constant basis for 3 weeks. How can't you guys notice that?

We are talking when playing duo or larger groups. What you are talking is soloing which seem fine although most often comprised of +1 lvl mobs. But it IS possible to beat them...

Grouping is involved here.

That is currently the spawn (3lt and 5mins) that I am getting in duo ALL the time of which 75% of the mobs are +1. Maybe there is a bug in the spawns...

I mean a lot of people are currently talking about the upped difficulty of issue 2, and the CC all over the place. The other day me and my roommate tried one of the 1st 2 outcast hollows indoor mission.

ALL mobs were as described above (+1, 3lts and 5 minions) and would Chain CC constantly. I would say that the only time my roommate's Scrapper was not CC'ed was after they had been all attacking ME for a while(and I was almost dead). At which time we would have barely time to run at the elevators to prevent dying (which was not succesfull all the time).

I'm not talking about the simutaneous clickies, I am talking about the fact that solo I get 1 lt and 2 minions per mob(on everage) and duo I get 3 lts and 5 minions

outcast example: 2 shockers, 1 brick, 5 minons of which 2 electricity 1 or 2 earth and the rest fire

Vahzilok example: 3 players: 5 mortificators, 3 reapers and 5 Abominations... OR: 6 abominations, 2 Embalmed, 2 Mortificaters and 3 reapers.

Is that proper scaling?

And most of these were +1 AT LEAST... That was OVER 50% of the time...

THAT is the thing nobody at Cryptic will comment. The best was CuppaJo who was nice enough to forward my PM to the "Girl in QA who would get back to me" and never did actually...

I've bugged it, pm'ed it, posted it and absolutely NO ONE has even said something like : THanks for your info, looking into it or even It is intentional!

Absolutely NOTHING!

It's as if they did not care.

Actually, on one side they are forcing grouping with "Clicking on x number of things simultaneously" type missions. They said that all of them are identified when just yesterday I got 1 that didn't say anything about forced grouping but when I took it the speach AFTER I got the mission said that I needed 2 people... Go figure that one out.

But the problem now is that YES most missions are now soloable, I have done it on test quite effectivally with my scrapper.

BUT! If I try to duo a mission or even with more people the mission is utterly impossible to do, actually it is now GROUPING that is impossible to do..

Point in case: The 1st 2 indoor missions of the Hollows. Solo, most mobs are composed of 1 brick and 2 minions. Duo, we got (and that is ALWAYS) 2 shockers, 1 brick and 5 minions. That is MORE then twice the difficulty of solo missions.

And this is not only in Outcast missions, it is everywhere I tried...

If only someone at Cryptic would dare to talk about it, up to now they seem to ignore totally that fact and that people are asking some accounts! AND they also seem to think that if they don't talk about it people will eventually get used to it and stop talking about it.

Sorry folks but most people will just cancel their accounts when they see this and Cryptic will loose tons of "CASUAL" gamers because of a know programmer traith called "GOD SYNDROME". For those who are unaware of this it is simply that programmers do NOT like to be criticized on their decisions, I should no it took me 10 years to get over that syndrome and still today it insults me when people criticize my programs... But you know what, 100% of the time those people are right, I made mistakes...

One thing to take into account for sidekicking xp penalties. If you are sidekicking someone to 1 (or several) lvls below you, he will have a lower percentage of experience, but...

Take into account that someone 1 lvl below you is fighting a yellow, 2 an orange, 3 a red. So someone 3 levels below you may get 40% of the xp or less but it is 40% of the xp of a RED while you are getting 60% of the xp of a white. Which makes up for the xp penalty in the end. I know, whe have tried it me and my roommate and it does work, we got about the same xp (approximatly).