MisterJ

if you had a US account you would be posting to the US servers rather than the EU servers so you have an Eu account

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Well my m aths may be weak, but if I got 6 votes of 5 stars (uhnless peoples feedback was a lie), to drop down to 4 stars on the fifth vote can only be a 1 star vote?

Now, Ive no problem with people voting me 3 stars, or even 2. They didnt like it, wasnt for them, no problem.

But a 1 vote? Have you seen the dross out there. Im n ot absolutely *certain* it was a gank vote, but im pretty suspicious.

tbh im not really that bothered or upset. I treat it as a gank vote. If someone had sent me feedback saying "sorry, i didnt like you arc for these reasons" and gave me 2 stars - I would have listened.

It wasnt a fifth of people thinking my arc was below average (im fine with that. Hey, im fine with half thinking that), its 1/7 (or about 1/10 now) saying my arc was rubbish (not below average, but plain rubbish) when everyone else is giving it 4 or 5 stars.

I just ignore outliers. Perhaps im being paranoid, but on the balance of probabilities, I see that as a gank vote.

I have seen even clearer evidence of gank voting on other peoples arcs, as well. Its particuarly nasty to gank vote an unrating arc (as I am almost certain happenedto Bovine Avengers arc).

I know everybodies tastes are different, but there are some well done, polished arcs that nobody in their right mind can give a 1 star vote for, even if its not to their taste. Or am I being unreasonable?

Personally, if I see a polished arc with something I dont like, I wouldnt give it 1 star. I would probably not rate with the veiw "Hey, I can see this is well execited, but my personal preferences mean I cant fairy vote on this".

EDIT: PS with regards to initial votes, I havent got my SG members to vote for arc in question yet, and only one freind has so far.

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See this is where you differ from me. I am taking the MA systeam as a world wide system with a player base in teh hundreds of thousands which over tim eiwll allow the good to rise and the bad to sink.

Yo a re complaing that 5 people gave you 5 stars and the 6th gave you a 1 star. You automatically think they are ganking you, maybe they did not like you colour scheme for your custom faction and gave it a poor rating for that alone harsh maybe, if they did not provide a comment or it got lost then you may never know. But to automatically jump to them ganking you is a leap.

Now if you have 600 vote and 599 were 5 stars and 1 was a 1 star i might have sympathy with you.

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Did a quick search for cognito on the MA and could not find any missions to see for myself to provide feedback.

So from your maths if a fifth (thats 1 in 5 which is quite a lot really) of the people think that your mission os no more than avarage then you are upset that you dont get 5 stars. Eh if a fith of people think it is no more than average it does not deserve 5 stars.

Now if a twentieth (thats 1 in 20) of people felt it was no more than average i would expect it to be mid to high but still 4 stars.

This is the whole process where cream rises to the top scenario, I doubt that over time once some body has gotten all their supergroup members to give dross 5 stars and a few other people play it and realice how bad it is it will sink fast.

I am thinking long term with the MA (9months to a year) so if something has 1500 votes and is 4 stars it will most likely be enjoyable. if something has 1500 votes and has 5 stars it should be exceptional.

To be honest i think there is just too much stuff being published unfinished at the moment for ganking to be in effect.

At the moment my ranking system is for an average arc that is comparable to a devs is 3 stars. If there is something new and interesting say groups with decent power matches and an engaging story it goes up. If you create a custom group but dont provide any info on them an instant - 1 star.

If you create a badge mission which does exactly what it says on the tin then its 3 stars.

If your arc contains one mission could even be the best mission inthe world but it still gets no more than 4 stars.

So a badge mission put together by somebody is no better than an arc which somebody slaved over for days/weeks to get the way they wanted you might say.

Simply yes, a badge mission does not claim to be anything than what it is. If some body creates an arc i would expect them to have tested it to make it engaging and fun. might not seam fair but you are basicaly trying to do seperate things.

But a badge mission will rarely get a 4 rating would need to have a backroung to groups and a decent reason why there was so many clickies hostages etc. There is a fun pirate themed mission where rival pirates have stolen casks of ale with 2 differing priate factions all with information and motivation and some witty dialog. but most will not have any information or reason just lots of thing to click.

For a creative story arc i would expect the author to have wanted to have all of this preapared. So a non badgehunting mission which has no information on mobs or motivation is actually worse in my oppinion.

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Extremely well done to all involved.

The Intrepid Fools.

The least laggy Ship raid I've been on yet

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It was good fun, and completed well before the shields went back up.

On another note who/what/how do people get starts above their name i must have some setting i never knew about turned off cause im such a noob.

whats the point ?

There was indeed a few pant moistening moments especially when all that was left was Recluse and he hits throught elude to put you at 1 hp. Argh that was panic.

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I r back.
Imo, best blasted blastering is the blasterer ice/fire...ok, it's truly the most fun i had and why i say so...and what i say is teh truth. Serious damage, serious fun. Elec/ice pwns squishies, but ice/fire is teh 1337.

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Pah.

Archery/EM.

Boost Range, Build Up, Aim, Rain of Arrows, Explosive arrow, Fistful of Arrows.

Where'd all the mobs go?

(this is an argument that can go round and round and round and....)

Besides, Magnesium's not a blaster, he's a blapper, If I'm remembering corectly. They're a subspecies of those who follow the one true path of ranged combat

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What i should have put in there somewhere was /glib /endglib but hey.
Oh and blaster <> range only...and that argument could go on and on too!

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Pah on you punny blasters who fear to get in close and personal. I dont have debt badges for nothing, i like to see them cry as i pummel them into the nether.

MJ

If you want to go /elec blapping the knockback from nrg will just anoy you. From my blapping with my elec/elec i found lightning field to do a surprising amount of damage but i only used it when there was an effective tank on the team to control the aggro.

MJ

Strange to say this in forum but what the hell welcome back. Got to get that post count up somehow.

MJ

Shame to see you go Jester, but no doubt wil hear you as you pop up on TS during you WoW trial.

MJ

ha ha ha (or should that be ho ho ho)

Gratz

I'm sure you where having a quest to never get Zortel to 50.

Gratz again

MJ

About bloody time.

Err

/Em military salute

Gratz guys hope you had fun.

MJ

gratz mate

MJ

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belated gratz on the boards everyone, keep forgetting to sign into these. the only thing left to do is get everyone close enough to 50 to ding of a glowie click and grab one each...

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I dont think Glowies give XP anymore. So i think the next ine should be an 8 man team dinging from an exploration badge, preferrably Heart of the Hammidon.

MJ

Just to add myself to the mix.

Got an alt just off needing SO's on Defiant so will need a couple of million and i have many millions on Union if anyone needs a transfer.

Just send to @Mister J

Learn to love your nova. They are great for use in any battle. Eithr do it once the tank has herded and let the ret of the team get the straglers qs you recover (unless you are an energey blaster then all the knockback is annoying). Or use it in the middle of a fight to end evy mobs existence particularly good fun if fulcrum has just been droped.

Its not a case of useing your nuke as a i am going to die so are all you too tool, it allows for teams to cut through mobs much quicker just choose which method you want and which suits oyur team make-ip.

MJ

Was indeed a good quick blast throught the trial. Just need to get my kin defender 1 more level for her to be available for the run in the next week.

With Jet going for some Thrunge action I think we will need another tank though.

MJ

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don't need those attacks once you get your pets.

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Going to be pretty boring getting to the pets using just brawl then.

MJ

As I said on TS I'll hang around with Miss Sparkz if you need some damage, otherwise i'll just laught at you guys [censored] on TS.

MJ

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Surely he should look like THIS

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Actually he should look like this or this

Oh by the way very nice picture yet again very peircing eyes and some nice shading going on I am very envious.

MJ

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Jesus wept - i thought i lived in the south yet it's a 4 hour drive from Hampshire! I pity the fool from 'Boro!

Anyway, 18-20th if that's the date - i can swing by Bristol if MJ needs picking up if he's gonna be around too..or anyone else along that route/close enough.

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Hopefully I wont be in bristol by then. Aiming to move back up north of the border so i am not sure how available i will be for this.

MJ

Hi sorry to the team i was just on with as Sarah Jenkins, Free Spirit et al.

The game crashed on me and came up with teh debug box after a min or so. No wit wont let me log in, hopefully it will be letting me in tommorow. But i dont want you guys to think i just abandoned you.

MJ

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Congrats to all three of you poxy nights stopped me from being in attendance however watching the demo was cool!

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Gratz again folks.

It has been a blast (pun intended) getting this generation to 50 teaming the last 15 or so levels with the folks on teamspeak.

capt you have been missed with GI this week but no doubt we will see next with lashings of speed boost and hopefully fulcrum .

MJ

I see people are trying to kick-start this again on the precision rangers boards. Thought i do it here too, don't really read the PR board at work, bad enough finding time to sneak here. I had a look and my sonic/kin corrupter is lvl 16.


MJ