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I'll sign onto this point as far as Superman is concerned. I don't mind "origin stories" for superheroes but if there's any superhero out there that even the general public already knows the origins of it's Superman. Can we go at least another decade or two without having to "reintroduce" him or "reanalyze" what motivates him please?

Yes hopefully Ninja Run (and the presumed Beast Run) are being used as test cases for the other travel powers.

Rainbow powered unicorns for teh win!

No one really said the Devs couldn't do this as a high end Vet award if that was their prerogative. But I think your own use of the word "comical" highlights making almost anything a new Vet award is becoming irksome and comical to most players in this game. Frankly I'm expecting an ever-increasing level of dissatisfaction and push-back over even the most trivial Vet awards from now on. *shrugs*

I think sooner or later the Devs will likely abandon further Vet awards in favor of offering anything new as microtransactions. Do the Devs want to keep a tiny fraction of "old timers" happy or the vast majority of newer players who'll never have a realistic chance to get the newest Vet awards? The choice between the two seems pretty obvious to me.

This makes sense from an "easiest way the Devs could implement this" point of view.
Simply reuse the code behind the Ninja Run power and change the animations for it.

Issue 19.5 went to open beta last week on the Test server.
There are no longer any customers who have any "inside knowledge" on this.

As far a guesstimating when Issue 19.5 will go live knowing the history of this game should serve us pretty well:

First of all the Devs have already told us they are targeting "early February" for the release of Issue 19.5. For the sake of scope we can assume that'll be anywhere from February 1st to the 15th. We also know that the majority of new Issue releases have happened on Tuesdays. Not all of them, but most of them at any rate. This further narrows down when it'll likely launch to either February 1st, 8th or 15th. Finally we now know the Spring Event is starting on February 10th and historically they have never launched a new Issue during an event. This would seem to eliminate the 15th as a possibility. Thus we are left with either the 1st or the 8th. There was an Issue a few years ago (forget exactly which one) that went live after less than a week after it went to open beta. Based on that the 1st is still possible.

After considering all this evidence I would currently rate February 1st about a 30% chance of being the day and the 8th about a 70% chance. Enjoy.

Tell you more? DumpleBerry asks and receives.

With the way there are people out there who like to claim they are the "first" to do something I wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn that there a few who've already done this.

Even if your idea of getting Cannon Fodder/Arachnos Agent badge credit in Warburg was possible that would've only been 1 of the 6 redside Day Joy badges heroes can now earn via sideswitching. If you were interested in earning the others you really couldn't avoid going to other places over on the redside anyway.

As Grouchybeast pointed out you could stay Vigilante, play blueside and just log off redside for the Day Jobs. Then when you have full progress bars for all of them you could just take a few days to swing around through the villain and rogue alignments back to hero to get the badges. *shrugs*

Actually I was seriously planning to leave this thread with just my first post. But you and your post motivated me to go further. Basically this time it was your fault.

It's sort of like that scene in the Matrix when Neo's talking to the Oracle and she's telling him about breaking the vase before he breaks it. Would I have responded a second time to this thread if you hadn't assumed I WAS going to respond a second time? Wrap your noodle around that one.

This is more or less the same problem they'll have to overcome when they choose the next actress to play Wonder Woman. Everyone looks to Lynda Carter as pretty much the literal "personification" of the character and I think that's been part of the reason it's been decades since the last Wonder Woman show/movie. It's as if no one seems to be able to move past having Lynda play the role.

At least in the long history of Superman we've already had at least 6-8 different guys play the part so I think it's easier in the minds of everyone to ultimately accept yet another actor for the role. As for this new guy I think it's funny that some people in this forum are saying he's "too skinny" to play the part. As far as "Hollywood magic" goes that's the kind of thing that can easily be corrected for so that's hardly a reason to think he couldn't do it.

As Snow Globe said there are currently several subsets of badges that a Praetorian can get that a Primal cannot and vise-versa.

For instance badges such as Moral High Ground, Resistance Member, Loyalist and Avid Reader are four badges a Primal character can't get right now. On the other hand a Praetorian character currently can't get the following Anniversary badges: Celebrant, Reveler, Pursuer, Merrymaker, Entertainer, Jubilant or Exultant.

As far as "starting over" again you have to weigh these things into account. If you really want the Primal hero versions of those badges then maybe you can have them on another alt. *shrugs*

I'd never even considered trying to get Cannon Fodder/Arachnos Agent badge credit in Warburg until Yat Man's post but yeah I'd guess Predator would override any attempt for that regardless. *shrugs*

If you're still a Hero then I don't think you're going to be getting close the to Arachnos base areas in Warburg without getting attacked. Besides even though you could earn credit towards redside Day Job badges as a Vigilante you'd eventually have to shift over to full Villain before the game would actually award you those badges anyway.

At best we think the Devs are aware of the situation and, hopefully, realize how many people would be upset if there is NOT soloable incarnate content in I20. Unfortunately I don't think we can say, as of today, that the Devs have in fact GUARANTEED that's going to happen yet.

They'll probably be forced to allow something like that to appease those of the "diehard soloer" persuasion.

That's OK. I'm personally going to be calling them "Weekly Task Forces" myself.
I think the abbreviation of that phrase says it all.

I would just offer that there's a fine line between the Devs "encouraging" us to play the way they'd prefer us to play and simply making the system arbitrarily annoying for annoyance sake.

If the Devs want me to waste a few hours PLing a few of my low level mules up to level 10 to make them useful to store a few extra recipes, enhancements and salvage (something that's equivalent to what we can ALL readily do by using the market storage feature without any extra effort) then I'll do that. But that doesn't mean I can't vent my annoyance about having to do that here.

I agree that may be the case with the way it's implemented now. But I hardly think it would be impossible to change the code to allow it to make that kind of self-check. I'm not assuming it would be a trivial change, but it certainly wouldn't be impossible either.

At best I'd see this as a way to get a last few extra shards if you need a few more to finish something. I suppose you could start from scratch and let this daliy process take a few months, but that would hardly be the least-tedious way to do this.

One thing I've learned in playing this game is that pretty much every update that comes along somehow, in some way, pisses off a few people enough to ragequit. It's regrettable, but it's hardly anything new.

Oftentimes I think many of these people are on the verge of leaving the game anyway and have just decided to let the new changes be their "final straw" to motivate them to finally go.

I honestly think people quiting over this because it doesn't look like it'll be initially soloable is a bit silly, but who am I to really judge. I imagine if I ever get to that point whatever ends up making me leave will seem silly to other people too. *shrugs*

Sure you could do that. But remember you can only buy one Gr'ai Matter component with Vanguard merits once every 18 (or 20?) hours. I forget what the exact timer is, but it's basically only "once a day".

So yes it would be relatively easy to do this, but it would still take a pretty long time. *shrugs*

Hey, I just like games to follow their own rules.
Is that really -too- much to ask for?

I mostly use Turg as my "poster boy" for this problem just because he's usually the most reliable person to "pre-report" all the details of the latest Vet Award here in the forums. I've never once tried to claim that he's personally done anything wrong by getting these awards weeks earlier than he (or anyone) should have them. He's pretty much just a victim of his own luck in this situation.

If anything I almost appreciate that he loves to gloat about getting them too early here in the forums because it helps me "remind" the Devs, yet again, that their system is fundamentally broken.

Yeah as I already mentioned I realize ALL of these restrictions are currently in place to make it harder for RMTers to operate.

I personally only want to see self-mailing not have to require me to waste time having to PL alts up to level 10. The system is not preventing me from doing what I want to do, it's just making what I want to do needlessly annoying. I have no desires to have alts act as "secondary realtime INS trays" or anything silly like that. People can already do that kind of thing now between alts higher than level 10. I just want to have the ability to pass recipes and salvage back and forth between "mule" alts the same way I already do between my active 50s. *shrugs*

Do I seriously expect this to change in our favor? No not really. I just responded here mostly as a mini-rant to highlight the point that "legitimate" non-RMT uses of the email system are being hampered by the unfortunate need to limit what RMTers try to do.