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First of all the Devs have already said that the fate of Passport will be handled some time -after- they square away the NA/EU server list merge. Second of all if I just have an alt on Freedom, log in and earn this ACCOUNT wide badge then why would we be forced to do any server transferring at all? This would not be a valid test for any "server transfer related" badge at all.

Basically this new badge was simply meant to be an enticement to participate in a server stress test, and a pretty shortsighted enticement at that.

I have nothing against the idea of enticing players with a reward to swarm to a particular server at a particular time to provide you with some server stress testing. But please reconsider ever doing that again with a BADGE as the reward. Surely there could be almost anything more appropriate to give us that would not have a -permanent- impact on what players have access to earn in the future.

Think of it this way: The Devs very recently changed how people could earn the 5th Columnist badge because many newer players never had a chance to earn it the original way. You had to make that change because circumstances created a situation that locked players from getting that badge based on limited windows of opportunity. Please learn from that lesson and avoid creating yet another situation where you have a badge "trapped" by a relatively tiny window of opportunity.

Yeah we have no intention of seeing this in 3D. Sure we might miss a few minutes of visuals that might be good looking in 3D, but for the vast majority of the movie it'll likely only prove to be annoying. Until they stop charging extra for 3D and somehow manage to make it work without glasses we're probably going to avoid it as much as we can from now on. *shrugs*

IIRC the Devs mentioned during last week's Usteam chat that they were intending to give us a new iTrial roughly once per Issue into the foreseeable future. Of course that remains to be seen, but if we do end up getting a new iTrial roughly every 2-3 months then we will have plenty of options relatively soon.

Oh I've seen a few failures so far regardless. I guess my main point was that using "4 teams of 6" probably wouldn't lead to an automatic success or failure all by itself. The trial leader would still be responsible for making sure the 4 teams were doing the right things at the right time.

It's unusual, but I can't really think of anything "wrong" with it.
The beauty of these trials is that they can be attempted using many different strategies.

Well I am trying to give this new Conan a chance after all.
If I don't set the bar too high for it it might be somewhat entertaining.

A tiny number of games have moved to F2P from a monthly scheme and had some success with it. Other games start out as F2P and do what they do from the start. But more often than not when a long time monthly subscription game shifts to F2P it's a sure sign that the game is dying. CoH has been a successful monthly game for so long that moving to F2P now (for any reason) could only be taken as a -bad- sign.

Like Zombie Man said it might eventually come to that here. But I would hope that's still years away at this point.

Well the lads of South Park managed to roll in Star Trek and Dr. Who references into last night's episode to good effect.

Your hyperbolic, hyper-strict interpretation of the word 'sacrosanct' and what you perceive as an "incorrect" usage of it in a sci-fi TV show is vaguely amusing. On the other hand if this criticism of yours is going to be one of the main things you remember about this show in years to come then I find that to be a bit unfortunate for your sake. *shrugs*

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with that desire.
I'm just not sure it's as "workable" as it might first appear.

It doesn't surprise me that there are level 50 Praetorians who have never left Praetoria. What surprises me is that there are -only- 6 of them right now. Somehow I figured there'd be at least several dozen or more. I know lots of people who play this game who like to work on "obscure" goals like this.

I still find it strange that obviously elite players such as yourselves still find it hard to understand that not everyone can play this game as well as you can.

I'm not saying I've personally had any more difficulty with this portion of this trial than you have. But at least I'm willing to accept the likelihood that the people you and I tend to play with are far more experienced with this game than the "average" player.

While I might agree that the Lambda badge requirements are a bit shortsighted trying to equate this situation to RV Isolator is taking this about 19 steps too far. I realize you were trying to use that as a related example of bad badge requirements, but don't toss in a verbal nuclear bomb where a standard hand grenade will suffice.

I think you're getting thrown by your definition of the word sacrosanct.

Something being sacrosanct does not mean it's perfect to the exclusion of everything else. It simply means that it is something that shouldn't be questioned or dismissed as false. This is why you can easily have multiple religions all being sacrosanct all at the same time. Sure individual religions might teach that other religions are false, but that's their problem not the other religions'.

So the idea of a secular government allowing for the protection and tolerance of any religion's "sacrosanct-ness" is a perfectly reasonable concept. Like I said it's been working in the United States relatively well for over 200 years now. *shrugs*

Straczynski explored many different aspects of religion both good and bad. I was just making the point that despite his atheism it was actually quite interesting that he was willing to respectfully and seriously cover many religious topics that cast religion in both good and bad lights depending upon the context of the stories. Basically it was arguable that he handled religion in much more mature ways as an atheist than many actual religious people do.

I wouldn't really bother regretting it either. It was a total 100% gamble regardless.

Remember there were several years there where we had absolutely no guarantee there was ever going be any other way to get Power Liberator. No one knew when or if the Devs would ever bring back the CoP Trial at all. So lots of people had to make the choice as to whether it was worth it or not to transfer characters to other servers to take advantage of the last IoP opportunities like Ms. Mesmer mentioned.

In the grand scheme of things I was one of those people who choose NOT to do that. It wasn't really an issue of spending the money - lord knows I've spent far more on much sillier things in my time. The main thing that held me back was my seniority in my SG at the time. I weighed all the pros and cons and at the end of the day I simply choose not to do it. I had no serious delusions or expectations at the time that we would ever get the reworked CoP Trial that we now have. I fully accepted that I would never have Power Liberator at that point.

Now of course as it turned out I and many others got lucky that the Devs did in fact finally give us the reworked CoP Trial. In the long run I traded not having the Power Liberator badge for like 4 years for saving a few dollars in transfer fees. But it's not like I can seriously say I was smarter than you or that I "won" the gamble because again I accepted the very reasonable probability that I'd never have the badge.

All-in-all it was an interesting scenario that could have easily gone either way.