MentalMaden

I'm enjoying the heck out of mine! About to lvl 24 now.

And what is easier than, 'Hey I wonder if I can find out something about my blaster. Where would I look? Oh look a section called blasters.' I really don't see how playstyle makes anything simpler. Seems to me it makes it much more confusing. If you want to make it easier for a brand new player to find the AT they want, why not just head the existing forums with:

Blaster (Ranged Damage)
Controllers (CC and support)
Scrappers (Melee Damage)
etc instead of lumping them all together give the information to simplify in their forum titles.

Agreed 100%. I can see lumping a bunch of ATs into one heading causing a lot of bad advice and in-fighting. While it isn't apples to oranges it is apples to pears. You gotta keepem separated.

Not true, the imps cause less aggro.

Shhh,they don't know about the day job exploit yet. Do you want to ruin it for everybody???

They are doing physical upgrades. That's standard procedure and should be appreciated if you ask me (sometimes you have to swap out the hamsters). And it's less about whether anyone wanted to watch or enjoy the Ustream. It was a gesture, which is what it sounds like people are asking for. They don't want the game to be down. They don't want threads like this. They want us playing and happy and satisfied. They do acknowledge the inconvenience and they have gone out of their way to demonstrate that to us. Personally the fact they acknowledge that inconvenience and do anything is compensation enough for me, because it shows they do actually care. They could have done nothing, but they didn't.

So a game should always be available and never have any downtime for fixes and upgrades? We had a launch, we lost a few hours. That all seems standard operating procedure for a game. Inconvenient? Yes. Out of the norm? No.

Don't get me wrong, I get just as annoyed as the next person when I take time to play and the servers are down. But things happen and Paragon really goes the extra mile here and through social media to keep the playerbase informed. It doesn't feel like abuse of the playerbase's trust to me. I mean we had a community rep on webcam for 12 hours the day of launch to keep the playerbase informed and occupied. It's very hard to feel slighted or mistreated when that's the attitude they take with their customer service.

I hear they do offer complimentary Fosters and shrimp on tha' barbie.

Why compensate someone for something that didn't happen to them? I get we all want to play, but really. This isn't that big of a deal in the scheme of things and only equal to a dollar or so at most.

What do you think a EULA is for then? It's things exactly like this, so someone can't get a bee in their bonnet over a few hours of downtime and decide they are going to call Corey B. Trotz Esq. to get their dollar back. And I don't recall them saying "We're shutting them down because we can." It's my understanding they are shutting them down so that the game will actually, you know, work. Not a whim.

Per Wiki:

Shipping, derived from the word relationship, is the belief that two fictional characters, typically from the same series, are in an intimate relationship, or have romantic feelings that could potentially lead to a relationship. It is considered a general term for fans' emotional involvement with the ongoing development of romance in a work of fiction. Though technically applicable to any such involvement, it refers chiefly to various related social dynamics observable on the Internet, and is seldom used outside of that context.

Shipping can involve virtually any kind of relationship — from the well-known and established, to the ambiguous or those undergoing development, and even to the highly improbable and the blatantly impossible. People involved in shipping (called shippers) variously assert that the relationship does exist, will exist, or simply that they would like it to exist.

You know this just struck me while I was thinking about the show. I wonder if Bill and Eric were tipped off and were acting on behalf of the Authority given that Nan had quit and was trying to usurp their power with a new faction. They kind of eyed each other when she entered like they were up to something.

Oh, I'm not arguing that point one bit. As far as I'm concerned they are two different (but similar) universes that I enjoy as completely separate entities. What I do like about what the show does is that the first few episodes of a new season has you going 'Ok this is NOTHING like the books', but by the end of the season you see they actual did a good job of getting the right vibe of the books, just through a more ensamble approach. And it's never really "too far off" just different.

Personally I think the show has improved a lot of some of the weaker aspects of the books (much of the credit goes to the cast) and I've found very few things that I truely don't like compared to the books. The only thing, off the top of my head, is I think they've tried too hard to make Sam's character dark. Sure it's making him a bit more three dimensional, but the whole point of Sam's character (as with his personal go-to animal to shift to) is his man's best friend-like loyalty and goodness. And even that is minor really.

No, it's not a show for the dyed in the wool canon-ite. But I think it hits so many notes, so right, that the differences can be overlooked and even enjoyed. I'm not holding out hope, but given her 'break up' with Bill and Eric it would be great to see Quinn next season. My guess is we'll get some version of the charcter and I wouldn't be too surprised if it turns out to be Scott Foley's character. (Old Iraq war vet is much more interesting than party planner to the supes community)