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Obviously that would be the Devs' call. You might be right and they wouldn't mind this. I'm just thinking there'd be people out there who'd figure out the odds and decide it was worth their time and effort to attempt these conversions on a mass scale to try to produce a bunch of super-valuable inspirations to sell on the market.

Yeah that was pretty much what I got from watching it. I realize this movie tried to be some kind of "social commentary via fantasy" like Durakken was describing, but ultimately it failed to be engaging or entertaining in any serious way. This kind of movie hinged on generating some kind of empathy for the girls' plight but unfortunately it missed that mark pretty badly. This movie desperately wanted to be a "Brazil 2" but it didn't even come close to that.

Basically you could edit Sucker Punch down to about 20 minutes worth of randomly cool anime-inspired CGI action scenes and forget the rest...

Strictly speaking you're right - the Paragonwiki pages doesn't really tell you -how- to do it. That Titles page probably ought to be updated to reflect this relatively new Vet feature...

But even without that info the first place I looked when I first heard about this was the same place I knew where to change the text of those titles. It made the most sense to me at the time. Sorry I wasn't more clear about it in my last post.

To add to what Chad Gulzow-Man said I think this was their vague attempt to stress a hardwired difference between the original 4 unlockable slots (slots #2-5) and the new slots (#6-10).

When you think about it the 4 old extra costumes (the ones earned by the level 20, 30 and 40 missions and the Halloween salvage) were never preassigned to specific slots. This meant for example you could turn in your Halloween salvage for a costume slot and it would unlock the very next slot regardless if that was slot #2, #3, #4 or #5. But none of the new slots (#6-10) can be earned by those methods. The only way those specific slots can be unlocked is via the Paragon Market.

This means that if you use the Paragon Market to unlock 5 costume slots on your account and you make a new character that character will have access to the following slots: #1, #6, #7, #8, #9 and #10. The slots #2-5 are reserved for the old ways to unlock those.

Hope that make some sense.

Really? Looks like it's mentioned where it talks about the 84th month Vet award in Paragonwiki to me.

Thought this for level 6, not 3. But if the Freedom stuff is allowing us to do that at level 4 instead of 6 that'd be cool.

Well the rankings may still reflect which SGs are most active right now, but as others implied you have to take that with a huge grain of salt. The kinds of things many of the top SGs are doing these days to get to the top of the lists may not be the kind of "activity" you're looking for.

Basically the SG ranking lists were part of the whole "SG base raiding PvP" system that never quite happened. They also existed in a time before the markets when it was much harder to "buy" your way to the top. Such is life.

If you want to find a SG to play in I'd do what Forbin_Project said and maybe skim through the server forum areas. The SG ranking list might help, but I wouldn't rely on it at this point. Good luck.

I never claimed making assumptions about people based on how they write was strictly a good thing but clearly we all do it regardless even if it's on an unconscious level. I guess in the context of this thread that makes me an "ageist" of some sort.

I'm by no means a "nitpicky English language nerd" but I do think it's a pretty easy leap of faith to equate a mature style of writing to a mature person. If that means I end up mistaking a very well spoken 20 year old for someone much older I'm willing to accept that. Likewise if there's a 50 year old out there who writes like a 3rd grader then, well, that's what I'm going to assume I'm dealing with until I know otherwise.

That's one of those "use a feature in a novel way" ideas that I probably would never have thought of. I mostly team with my level 50s. When I do get debt with them it usually lasts on the order of milliseconds before it's gone all by itself. It's basically a "problem" I never even thought needed a solution.

Nothing wrong with that. It's just clear that in terms of MMOs the word "casual" can apparently have a lot of different meanings.

Yeah the "types in complete sentences" indicator doesn't usually make me automatically assume the person is male or female.
It mostly steers me towards whether or not I think the person in question is over 30 or under 30.

The only question I have is whether or not DAAOOAA secretly had doing that in mind or if this suggestion was completely innocent and unaware of how it could be used in that semi-devious way. It's amazing how often people come up with seemingly reasonable suggestions without considering the unintended consequences.

Again I think you might need to let go of the old "bundle/pack" concept.
Buying items in this game is no longer going to be confined to "collections" of items.

They might offer bundles. But I think what may be more important is that the concept of what used to be called a Booster Pack is going to be replaced by the a la carte concept. Will it really matter if you buy every "mutant pack" item when the very idea of there being a collection of items called a "mutant pack" doesn't really exist anymore?

Like Yoda famously said, "You must unlearn what you have learned."

Yes if you want -all- of what you used to get from a single pack then yes you could pay more for it all in the Paragon Market. But I think it's probably fairly likely that most people only care about some subset of the items in any given pack. This will allow those people to get only the individual pieces they want. Sure ultimately some people will pay more, but other people will end up paying less than they used to as well.

After reading your post it just occurred to me what having 3 trays of enhancement slots would REALLY be useful for. Sure it'll help when you're playing missions or even working the market. But think about doing respecs and having to swap out huge numbers of enhancements in a build. People have complained for years that having only 10 slots made doing massive respec swapping hard because you could only pull out 10 at a time. Now we'll be able to pull out 30 at a time. Thank goodness for small favors.

Why? You paid extra for those things back in 2005. Would it really be -that- different for someone else to also PAY extra for those same things in 2011? You got the box with all the physical items - someone who uses the Paragon Market would still not be able to get those things. Frankly I'd rather allow the company get a new chance to make more money off of these two particular items than to "preserve" any sense of perceived exclusivity. *shrugs*

Yeah it sucks that this new launcher will not natively work under Linux. Maybe they'll fix that eventually. But sadly since I can probably count on two or three hands/feet the number of people in the world that'll affect I don't think they are going to be too stressed out about it. Clearly you figured it out - anyone else who insists on trying to run this game under Linux are probably computer savvy enough to figure it out too.

Yep that page needs to be fixed. But remember there was a time long ago when the Devs made a "promise" there would never be a way to get the preorder Prestige Sprints, CoV Helmets and so on either. Frankly (as Snow Globe has implied) I'd consider it shortsighted to think they might choose to leave ANYTHING off the Paragon Market table. *shrugs*