Memphis_Bill

Eh. To me, people that acted like that were put in "special needs" classes, not called "comedians." I don't find acting like a hyped up four year old funny.

I find Eddie Izzard funny. I find most of Monty Python's sketches funny. I don't find "Booger booger fart butt!" level humor funny - didn't when I was a kid, either - and Jim Carrey seemed to not want to get past that. Every time I tried watching ILC, it seemed they, and he were at that level... so, yeah. For Jim Carrey, it's worse, since he's shown (again, Truman Show) he can do *SO* much better. He could be brilliant - but he wants to keep being the fool.

Because they gave us Jim Carey. I can think of two, maybe three roles I've liked him in. (Mask, Truman Show.) The rest of the time, I just want someone to drop him off a building.

Not necessarily. In some niche situations, it may be a better answer. As a general computing environment, the way you've described it... again, see "Microsoft Bob."

See also "Realistic." Unless, again, you'd like to spend several thousand dollars to hire someone to make your own, and deal with all the problems that come up with it.

Unless, of course, that's the realistic, factual answer. Some answers are just plain wrong - not "differently right."

"I want to flap my arms and fly, it'd be fun!" "Unfortunately, you can't."
"1+1 should equal 5!" "No."

See? Perfectly good reasons for "No" to be an answer.

Look how unintuitive, resource-intensive, cumbersome and incompatible it would be, that's how a great many things end.

But.. there's this bright THING outside. It takes half a day or so to get across the sky, and it BURNS!

And the other half of the day you can't see the stars!

Errrrrr.....

Have they?

That's something *I* have said as a suspicion for why they can't be respecced. I don't recall seeing a redname verify it. If they have, I'd love to see it.

You sound like you're taking this personally. Don't. I'm pointing out that you're trying to add quite a bit of restriction to something that doesn't need it.

... and that's their strength.

No, but what I'm saying is your categories are far more restrictive than the very open few there are now.

I think you need to look up the definition of natural before dipping into the hyperbole.

Then, again, pick what feels best to you and expand it in your bio. And we do. By picking something nicely broad, and expanding it in the bio - for those who want to.

My points are:
1. You're wanting to restrict something that, right now, is wide open, and
2. You're asking to add potentially a fair bit of work for something that makes no difference, and could potentially break other bits of the game.
And 3 - and I'm sorry to keep saying it, I'm not trying to sound like a broken record - but what you want ("more definition") can be done by just writing out your specifics in the bio.

ummmmmm.... no. Unless by "many years" you mean "Before issue 3-4," because I was sure seeing/avoiding/hunting them in DA around then.

What didn't count for some time were the masks in the portal mission to the BP dimension.

Only as an option. I like the 2x5.

/this. The VEAT so-called storyline (see also half-baked, unfinished and rushed crap) nearly had me delete the first VEAT I was trying to get to 50. Something like a single-mission "arc" that did nothing. It was such an incredible letdown... and let's not get into the craptastic "Um, ok, you win, um, go listen to a bizzarre metagame speech by statesman and beat him up" at the end.

I started working on VEAT arcs in AE... and found I just didn't care. Each branch should have its own arc, quite honestly. Why would Banes and Crabs have much of anything in common? Banes have some potentially interesting lore (touched on by Phipps) that's completely ignored.

... meanwhile the BOTBS and Coralax are just tossed to the side, despite some *really* interesting hints and such we've had for *years*... because "well, they're old and were someone else's idea." Really? No wonder some things feel so haphazard and slipshod.

Yeah. Well, I'm not holding my breath on that. They SHOULD... but I highly doubt they will.

Oh, I agree with that, absolutely. That was one of the issues (and, honestly, it happened the other way too - try to do a rift mission on a level 20-21 more than a minute after the rift appeared, walk into a squad of high levels just camping the rift.) They needed SOME sort of balance there.

Admittedly, at least while I played, a quick callout on the global channel with a ping on location would get a rush of high levels out to fight them off.

Well, here's the thing. It was advertised as PVPVE. The PVP was put forward very heavily... so someone not that interested in that style of game, well.... it's like someone who doesn't like shooters picking up Modern Warfare, or someone who hates RTS buying Starcraft II - what else would they be expecting?

Auction house prices... not as big a deal.

Regular mission item prices? Or level 30 wings? Ugh. And then there's trying to get a full set of flash armor... that was just insane. At least they finally (as in a few months ago?) put a teleporter between the main (I can't even remember the name) "capital" and that distant island... where they had some contacts... and you had to wait forever for that blasted air-boat-thing.

Of course, as a ... I think preorder, might have been early vet, I had better wings free (at 30.) Which was, IMHO, somewhat unfair.

I'm not honestly sure PVP optional servers would really *work* for that game, given some of what various quests involved. If they actually did something like that, they'd have to keep you from being able to transfer between the two types. I couldn't see getting the gold siege (or whatever they were called) medals on the PVE servers - the guardian deities aren't *that* big of a threat on their own, for instance, and past certain points, NPCs are just farmables in the Abyss. Not to mention missions there that change depending on who has control of certain areas (which are, IMHO, also irritating... especially when you have to rescue prisoners, but your faction controls the island that mission is on for *months* at a time... so you can't ever complete it.)

Also, an Asmodean. Loved the hat. Can't remember just what she was any more, though. Just that she hit people with a stick.

Er... To be fair, sub-level-20 zones had no raiding in it, and there were PVE only (non-rifting, non-enemy-entrance) zones. Not enough content there by the time I left to make an alternate path, and some of the "core" content (Fragment of Memory) couldn't be done without dealing with PVP... I still don't know how FoM3 went.

I went in there knowing there would be PVP, expecting to PVP... and at times it was fun. When it WASN'T fun was being sent, at level 20, into an enemy camp to collect 5 of whatever. If you went via rift, within minutes there would be a horde of high level enemies there waiting. Via "spell" (for some missions,) you'd have to penetrate enemy territory ... where the high levels would inevitably be, and would tend to kill you (and destroy your kisk, or wait for you at it) in no time.

The PVP was, on occasion, fun - and I'll admit I enjoyed the *hunt* more than anything (my Ranger didn't have the best gear, but I'd gotten a good hundred some kills in fairly casual play) - but there was a lot that just broke it for me.

And I'd disagree with some of N_A's points - I had no problems with flight, for instance, and teaming (as I recall) was pretty quick. PVP made sense... it just quickly got out of balance. (And with higher levels getting into low level areas, it wasn't restricted enough.)

One of the things that really killed it for me, though, was the *cost* of everything. Try to get a little cash to get ahead, have it burned on a skill upgrade... but only one, your others get to suffer for a while. And don't forget the *required* purchases to finish some quests. Very annoying.