Miss Chief

While many many people may not agree with the reasons, EVERYONE should stand 100% behind the troops on the ground that have sworn to go where their commanders tell them without objection, on the whim or orders of someone hundreds or even thousands of miles away looking at a map or being told what is happening 'on the ground' when the very same report has likely been re-written, sanitised and checked for anything that could get some pencil pusher in an office somewhere in trouble.

I stand beside you, resolute and proud.


(it's also my birthday tomorrow, spare a thought for those who's special occassions and special days will forever be overshadowed by what happened.)

In case you guys didn;t understand from my Twitter response and Facebook post, NOT HAPPY as an EU player that we're excluded. If you can't treat everyone equally THEN YOU SHOULDN'T RUN ANY COMPETITIONS AT ALL.

All of the ones posted above, ALL OF THEM!

Especially the Terra arc, Aaron Walker in Prae as well. oh Wretched man is also great, because it comes so early in the Rogue isles and shows that while for a lot fo people Arachnos and Villainy is a choice, for some it's a job and they have lives and relatives and also pay a heavy price for their choices.

I think the one that really got me most of all is part of Crimson's World Wide Red arc (I think). When i found out they'd genetically engineered a child to be the centre of a Zeus Titan and then you have to fight it and the kid inside is screaming out that he can't control it and you have to beat it down, knowing that you're going to kill the child really choked me up, because I have kids of my own. I've only played it a few times because it's about a dozen missions through Crimson's arc but it chokes me up every time as it makes me think about how inhuman Malta are and also makes me think about someone trying to hurt my kids.

Hmm, very much in two minds about this as I've spend a fair wedge softcapping my DM/EA brute to everything apart from Psi and Toxic I think. Of course she now runs all four EA toggles, Combat Jumping, tough and weave, but thankfully she has the powers to back that end use up. I have an open mind, but a taunt aura will be nice. Only thing that does bother me is now she'll get even more defence but if she's already soft capped i wonder if I'll notice or need it. Good to have Energize though but it does make me worry about my end use.

If anyone wishes to come to Defiant we'll make you very welcome! join Defiant Events EU and we'll all be happy to see you. (just make sure you speak the Queens English please. )

And now it's running at 12kb/s and nothing has changed. This sucks!

Closed the launcher and restarted it. now 2,000 kb/s. Great, but I shouldn;t have to close it and reopen it half a dozen times to keep the speed up!

not really sure what's going on here but it's running like a beast right now, getting 1600kbps like I would expect.

I posted some relevant info in GD, but I'll post it here too. I have a 20 meg DSL connection (and I get 20 meg) but thansk to my 1TB HDD going all Clockwork on me I've had to reinstall windows 7. That went fine, Steam updated CoD balck Ops just fine, max download 2MB a second, average about 1.7-1.9MB a second. Download the NC launcher and it's crawling along. It's been as low as 12kb/second and as high as 250-300kb/second, but rarely close to that. it's NOT my connection (Wired) as I also just started another Steam download for BF2 and that raced up to 1.9MB/s within a few seconds. please help, i want to play!

i'll not rant about the EU not getting a boxed copy of GR I could have already installed from in this thread, I already did in the GD one.

Thanks to my 1TB HDD deciding to make noises like the clockwork king (Boo!) I had to reinstall windows (which also coincided with an upgrade! WOOHOO!). that was all fine, no problems. I also had to reinstall CoH. no idea where my discs are and even then the latest disc I have is probably CoV.

No problem I thought, i'm rocking a 20 meg connection, I'll have the game downloaded in a couple of hours. Erm, actually, no. Not even close. I know my connection is working as it should because I re-downloaded CoD Black Ops through Steam. Max download speed 2MB a second.

As I'm typing this, the NCSoft Updater is rocking along at 69kb/sec. Sometimes it'll have the odd moment where it peaks up to 250-300kb/sec but it only stays there for a few minutes. I've tried changing it to US instead of EU, just in case, but this made no difference. This is torture. Oh, now it's showing 12kb/second. That's like double dial up. Seriously guys, if you're not going to give us a boxed copy of Going Rogue in the EU, liek we cried out for and asked for many times, at least make sure the downlaod server is up to the task of letting people download it! <NOT HAPPY SMILEY FACE>

I've just started the battlefield 2 download through Steam. Within 10 seconds of launching I was running at 1.9MB a second again. it's NOT my connection! Is there anything I can do other than leave it on all night?

I've done probably about 3 dozen trials, mostly using my DM/Energy Aura Brute that's softcapped for 'normal' PvE stuff and she's more survivable for it. I'd probably say more Lambda's than BAF's, but only a 60/40 split. I've yet to get ANY Rare or Very Rare reward table from any trial. I try to cause as much trouble as possible and regularly get 'warned' by Siege, Nightstar etc and often 'collect' Nightstar and Siege and bring them to the tennis courts but I'm very much a single target Brute until i got my Void power recently. If it truly is random, then I guess I've been very very unlucky. If it's based on the amount of 'work' you do then there's really not much else I can do. I have no buffs other than the incarnate one I have just slotted (the +Dam res, +def one, Clarion?) and my mystical fortune. If it's really based on amount of damage or activity the game sees you doing, then that's a very very poor decision by the Dev's and should be looked at again.

We've used Pocket D on Defiant, but then we have a much smaller server pop than some of the other servers on your side of the pond.

Some of you may be aware of the thread I posted recently raging about how my Invuln scrapper has been having, erm, 'difficulty' with the Incarnate trials. So I shelved her for a bit and will look at respeccing her at some point (even though I still feel I shouldn't have to. She's still running Fitness pool anyway so it'll be a few free power picks which will probably end up being weave, Tough and Combat jumping, but I digress) so I played a few other characters and i have to say, now that i've done quite a few BAF's and Lamdas. I've had FUN.

Sure my Dark Melee/Energy Aura Brute is far far better suited to either trial than my Invuln thanks to some softcapping but it's been quite good fun. We've failed a few, completed a few at a relative breeze, one we just completed with 5 seconds to spare when it really, really looked like we'd fail which felt good. Yes they're difficult and can, at times, be soul destroyingly 'unfair' towards certain characters who may be weak to the damage types used a lot, but I'm willing to maybe change my mind about the Trials. I've used my Earth/Kin Troller (which everyone should try. Hella good!) has proved to be most useful on the BAF trial, not so much on Lamda and she is also pretty squishy, but she's a Squishy, so it's kinda to be expected.

I still don't like the grind that's going to be required, but I can see that the system is designed to give you something to aim for in 6 or 9 months time. It HAS to be something very long winded and 'grindy' otherwise people would be finished it all by the end of the month and then possibly be bored and leave. It would be good to be able to get threads in a decent quantity faster, sure, but at the moment I'm willing to accept the Dev's vision.

I daresay if I try my Invuln again I may be filled with Nerdrage again, but hey, that's my perogative.

So now I have to take Weave and combat jumping to make the trial survivable and fill my tray exclusively with purples?

I also hate to tell you this, but when you run invinc you won't just have one bad guy in range, you're likely to be hitting double figures. All with damage types you're weak against. And who all are likely to use ranged attacks to do it.

Oh, right, so I have to spend large amounts of influence to make my build 'suitable' for the trial and read up on how to do it? Yeah, Well done Paragon! They've always said you shouldn't need any 'type' of character to complete something, yet if we ended up with a team without many buffs and poor energy def or res then we'll stand a much higher chance of failure?

Congratulations Paragon Studios. You just made one of my Invulnerability Scrappers powers completely pointless, and IMO made her completely piontless too.

Which one? Invincibility. It's pretty much a 'must take' for any invuln character as it provides a good chunk of your Defence and also gives you a nice little to hit boost. Well tonight I ran a lambda trial. And I got creamed repeatedly. Ad I don't mean I died a bit and got annoyed or I died 5 or 6 times. I managed to rack up a full quantity of debt on my level 50 scrapper within 20 minutes. Yes she has tier 4 and yes she has a few sets through her build but she's not softcapped (and I don't see why she should have to be either if the Dev's continue with their 'IO's are optional, we haven't made the game any tougher' mantra) but she was completely useless. Her major points are S+L Resistance which is next to useless thanks to all the fire and energy flying around, she has very little ranged defence which for a melee based character who should be 'in there' shouldn't be a necessity either. Basically she's now completely pointless and incredibly painful to play on the Incarnate trials. I feel like giving up on her and she used to be my favourite character. The trial should be difficult yes, but IMo they've taken it too far. it suits some characters perfectly and practically encourages people to softcap, simple because just about any level of resistance is utterly pointless.

Congratz Pragon, you just relegated one of my favourite to 'No i don't want to play her on this, she'll spend more time face down and in the hospital than fighting' league.

I think I speak for the majority of EU players when i say that we'd rather NOT merge if it meant losing our global names. I only play on one server as it is and still have slots free on it.

Sorry to say this, but while it is a good thing to have equality throughout the playerbase I can forsee Defiant becoming like a ghost town within a few weeks of the list merge. people may not wish to pay for character transfers between servers but I can see some of Defiant's players disappearing onto other servers and once they get settled then they'll make the occassional character transfer and before you know it they hardly play on the 'EU' servers at all. I suspect Union will be the same. The Lure of more populated servers will be strong.

Sorry to post this again, but @kendai has kicked everyone from the channel AGAIN and made it private. No one is sure how he did it, possibly with an unknown slash command to make him an OP but he needs dealt with. And Soon.

For reference, I have also reported this post myself. people are talking about leaving the game and stopping their subscription because of this, yet the mods here and GM's in game see fit to wash their hands of the trouble caused as it's a 'public channel'?

The 'new management' of Defiant events? That being your singular and only management? Give me a freakin' break! Your reasons for demoting other ops were based on nothing but a quest for revenge, spite and childishness. What you have done is detrimental to EVERYONE who uses DE. There's been no problems organising events, in fact what you've done is MADE IT WORSE. If you start silencing and kicking for anyone talking about non events or not organising TF's etc then pretty soon you'll have you and your bum chums sitting in a channel with a dozen people, but hey, at least you'll be able to organise things for you and your mates!

Wow I'm really glad you're taking an interest in our opinions.

TBH i don't mind that our forum interactivity is limited to several hours behind us. no one expects immediate forum moderation and since we moved to the US boards i think you'll find most of us are happy with the forum the way it is. Peak time for us is the start of your working day so it works out well. No one expects Avatea to start at 4am just so we can have someone who may or may not be required to moderate for us.

As has been said, i think we expect parity. if a special event is available for the US players, we should get the same offer, adjusted for times. That's the main bone of contention I think. us not getting treated the same. I think everyone would like a list merge (although I am worried about dozens of EU players leaving for other servers making Union and Defiant ghost towns, ripe for removal and free server transfers being given out) but I'm sure there's legal and financial challenges resulting from that now that the physical challenges have been solved.