Memphis_Bill

At least one base related question was answered - well, the INF to Prestige conversion was brought to their attention. >.>

Well, I didn't expect it to be a "Can do multiple times a day" thing.

That said, "A week's worth of work" for who - someone playing 2 hours a week, or someone doing 10 hours a day on a team of 8?

Give it a proc with a chance to trigger an animation. 1 in 10 chance of having flowers burst out the other side of the target or something. >.>

(Just because, yeah, I don't know either, having had this discussion before.)

... strangely I've been able to solo both with no issues for years. Even when Voids were an actual threat.

At which point mezz is rendered pointless. Or at which point the NPCs get THEIR mez protection jacked up (screwing over control powers) even more, and we're back where we started.

Please review "Powerset" vs "AT." My FF defender is happy at range. My Kin is going to be in melee quite a bit. My /Storm Controller is going to be in melee as well, as will my fire/ controller or dom. My Mind/Fire Dom doesn't have to get anywhere near melee to be exceptionally effective. My /Electric blaster's hold as well as some of the heavier hitting attacks (and END recovery) require melee range.

None of them have mez protection (except Doms in Domination.)

Saying "X AT lives/doesn't live in melee" is incorrect. The AT doesn't determine it. The powerset and the player's choices in that set do.

Wrong. He is being treated differently from you at the moment, true - but you do not meet the same prerequisites for that treatment (only having two punches on your card instead of the required six.)

Definitions of fair that follow have meanings related to weather, complexion and the like trimmed.

Fair - oxford dictionary:
adjective 1 just or appropriate in the circumstances. 2 treating people equally

Fair - dictionary.com:

–adjective1.free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.

2.legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules: a fair fight.

So, yes, both the restaurant and vet rewards, by these, are fair. When you reach 36 months, you will be treated the exact same way as everyone else who has reached 36 months in their subscription. (Barring technical issues, of course.)

"Unfair" would be a GM or Dev just dumping all the purples you can hold, twice a week, on all your characters "just because."

/this, many times.

[QUOTE=Eiko-chan;2805419]I'm sure I'll still be around in 30 months when I get my 60 month vet reward.

And in 30 months, I'll still be really annoyed by the fact that there are 39 months of rewards out there I don't have, and will never have. [quote]

Short of the game ending, though, you would have the exact same chance to get them the exact same way.
No, that's not it. It's not that it "could(n't) possibly match the benefit of your subscription fee in 2006" (or 2005, 2004...) It's for having the sub be *ongoing* since then.

After all, if I had a friend start the same time I did (roughly a week before my forum sub shown to the left) but they left for three years, then came back - would their renewed sub really "have the same benefit?" It's done more for the company (continual income allowing further development) and I (meaning a long term player, not just me personally) am a better resource FOR them, between mentioning playing their game (drumming up interest - word of mouth, including "he's been doing so that long?" vs "They'll get tired of it in 30 days," as well as assisting others in game.

Now, yes, saying EVERYONE with those rewards is the same way is an assumption as well. But how many 60+ month "vets" do you think are forgotten credit card billing issues vs actual players here that long?

As the new player gets up in vet rewards (and comparable in game experience,) they also raise that same "benefit." (Which I don't think is the right term, just using it as reference to your own.)

But there aren't those two extremes - new and "been around since launch." There are people on the entire spectrum in between. There are people who were here at launch and left a year later. Someone who started in 2009 is getting more benefit (and being more of one) from the vet reward program than that launch sub.

I *will* say this is probably the closest you and I come to agreeing on the whole vet reward thing - I'm surprised the vet reward program ISN'T capped. I seem to recall (though I could be wrong) it initially was supposed to be, and they decided to reverse that and just keep going. Of course, the flip side of that is, if it IS capped, they would (I'd think) have to go against their "Not a major advantage" policy (and yes, I do think the 60 month one is still "not a major advantage") for the very last reward, as a "thanks for all this long time and all the time you may still stay with us" reward. That may well be what they're trying to avoid.

Heh. They were... $5 or $10 at mine. Know I snagged the DVD edition for my second account, COV CE for the second account, and got some others for friends who didn't have the goodies.

And yet there are others that DO want it. It was also, as I recall, part of the whole "Get COV, this is one of the things you can do" push.

As far as base builders not wanting the restrictions? Inside the editor, put in a checkmark. "Raidable base." If that's on, you get stricter pathing and placement rules when they hash them out. No need to screw one community for the other.

I wouldn't say it's "pretty clear" what people do or don't want, as base raids have been off for a while. It'd be like saying people don't want recreational jaunts to the moon - who are you going to ask who's going to say "Oh, yeah, they're a lot of fun" when they don't exist?

<-- Started on Pinn. It and Victory are home.

And I'll point out my last sentence there, again - might not get it, but I won't say they're wrong to feel that way. Don't have to defend yourself to me, if it makes you happy to stay mostly on one server, go nuts.

Yeah, I saw their initial one shortly before (or just after) my Aion sub ran out. It was horrible. Not all that visually interesting (though mildly amusing near the end,) and having all the pauses between bits of dialog was irritating.

If nothing else, they should have had the in-game footage of the GMs nuking (literally) the RMT "stores" in there. With the players around cheering. Which wouldn't have been scripted - player vids of it are more entertaining than the official NC vids!

More proof Michelle needs to be hired

Incorrect, we actually *had* in-game ads. Two of them - one for a shoe, one for a phone or game thing or some such. Nothing since.

Since "How the respec works" has been answered, a few tips and suggestions:

1. There are respec recipes available. They're a rather rare drop, but they do drop. You can get them off the market, but they've tended to be very expensive.

2. You don't HAVE to do the respec solely at your level. I have, for instance, a level 50 Mastermind that has never done any of the respecs. I can do three. They just become available FOR you to do at 24, 34, and 44. (You could do and earn two at your level.)

3. Go down to the "Servers" part of the forums, and post there that you're looking for people to run a redside respec in your specific server. Give a date and time.

/disagree. *shrug* Maybe it's from coming from blasters initially, but I don't think it needs mez protection at all. As was said earlier - you have it available. Heck, we're given travel powers (most of the pool, in fact) free - well, half the pool free, one pick that's optional.

The humanform mez situation isn't that big a deal, IMHO. I don't think it needs changing. Would it be *nice?* Sure.
So... don't take it, and play with the fact you don't have mez protection available in mind. Use stealth/qfly. Look to IOs. Carry breakfrees. Summon seekers. As a 'shade, you can get stealthy, keep a stun field going, teleport in and hold the mezzer - plenty of options and combinations of options, just off the top of my head.

I'm not really a fan, in most instances, of global unlocks for armor. But the token idea, I'm actually fine with. Sure, SuperPerson has paid their dues and gotten that roman armor - but they're handing it down to someone else who can actually use it. (And with the upcoming email changes, they don't have to be on the same server if it's an in-game token as opposed to an Icon/Character creation "you have X characters worth of armor you can use.")

And /this. (Though I'd have to think "basic roman armor" = "Hey, watch your toga when you're chasing them down.")

thus:

Yes, your opinion as you said... I'll disagree. Then again, most of my meleers don't have problems snagging aggro back. *shrug* To the point where I wonder why people complain about having to chase anything (barring the "I'm debuffed, head for the hills!" which really has nothing to do with KB.)

/this.

I don't begrudge anyone going for "most efficient DPSENDRPGNTSSLKRBIERUM" on their characters, or trying to cap this, that, or the other, or running a concept character, trying with nothing slotted ever or whatnot - just don't tell me *my* way is wrong, inferior, or whatever because it's not the same. The only time it's wrong is if I'm not having fun with it.

It makes them "non anniversary badges." Yeah, I dislike having them available to be gotten "after the fact." Might as well just make craftable badges that mean nothing more than you crafted the badge.

Won't argue with making them global. I *personally* like not having them global, even though it's a pain if you have a lot of characters, as I like using them generally as a "This character was around then," but I can see others arguments for it.

Of course, combining the two can give an interesting bit of glimpse into an account's history - 30 months with the first, second, and sixth anniversary, for instance, would be different from thirty with the fifth and sixth. *shrug*

Will always disagree with having them purchaseable.

I have some lore that would like to speak to you... run (and read) the RWZ arc, or - I believe it's Organ Grinders from Dr. Sheridan in Brickstown. Or visit the wiki.

Why would this need a new origin?

*raises hand*
I slot them. And on the other side of that, I don't typically play 28 levels of the game on SOs. I replace them with common IOs somewhere in the 30s. So, if I run with your argument, we should be dumping all non-IOs because everything else can be phased out so quickly.

(Full disclosure - from 12, I tend to run a mix of lvl 15/20 DOs and IOs. Somewhere in the 20s, SOs get into the mix, then common and set IOs - more commons than sets.)