Mister_Wonder

I am all for it. Except connecting CoH and CoV... there is no logical way to do that as they are roughly 730 miles apart. The sewers are long enough as it is. Just sayin'.

How does eat food?

BUSES!

I mean, c'mon, how can you be taken seriously when you have oodles of bus stops and no friggin' buses?!

Whoa, that is totally insane. I hope they find out what is causing this. I can see farmers selling the second spot. lol

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they should sell their own gold while their at it. Next thing you know they will be selling double xp tokens xD

I should be in charge of their marketing strategies klub.

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We don't have gold, here, Just so ya know.

And I think its a good move. It allows farmers to do what they want without having to spam filler announcements. It also satisfies those who crave a bigger challenge. And it allows us "soloists" to get what we want out of the game. There is no down side that I can see right now.

This has been suggested many times before (along with action figures, statues, etc). Due to the time it would take to hand craft it, the figure would cost easily into the hundreds of dollars. However, there is a new prototype machine which can take the in game character model and "print" a 3D version of it. It would be much more feasible to do it this way. It still involves some hand work, but it would be a lot less than making them out of plastic. A company called Figure Prints can do them (currently, they just produce WoW figures). The feedback on the figures are the colors aren't as bright as they should be and the finished figure looks as if it has powder on them. But it would be nice if NCSoft could work out a deal with this company or one like it. I would order everyone of my alts. I would go broke fast!

Sounds amazing. I love the back stories on these two and can't wait to hear Emperor Cole's background!

Oh and... don't do it - don't do -- FIRST AFTER REDNAME! *disgusted with myself*

Just how has the game been "severely damaged" by the AE? Because there are so many players running around not knowing what they're doing? Ever play on Freedumb? Just remember these noobs are paying for subscriptions. That means more money in the pot to add other fun stuff to the game. So I argue that AE has severely helped the game, not vice versa. They can fix the AE by not allowing the creator to pack it full of bosses or lts (and certainly not bubbles). Period. No more farming. But since they are allowed to stack the missions, don't punish the players. And to place a cap on xp is kind of defeating the point of double xp wouldn't you say?

*And BTW, I'm NOT a farmer*

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If this is a "We told you so!" type of thread, go ahead and be proud of the fact that you turned out correct. That really isn't anything to be proud of, though, because all it meant is that your incredibly unlikely scenario turned out to be correct.

Rationally, the likelihood of things in that survey leaving the planning stage were low. You just went with the crazy option with little to go on aside from hope and turned out correct.

That doesn't really seem like something to be proud of, to me.

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Most/all of those things were already in the works. There was a huge hiring phase prior to the marketing survey. They wanted to know the importance placed on each new planned feature...ya know, for MARKETING.

Old news.

I only have one badge hunting toon. The rest I could care less.

If I had to narrow it down, I would say Ironman is more of a an invulnerable scrapper with defender-like blasts. Hopefully, they are working on a pistol based scrapper set and with any luck, maybe a laser based one (but that is wishful thinking). I think the best you can hope for is rolling an energy blaster, choosing combat jumping and the fighting pool for the extra defense - and when you actually get up to 41 - choose moar defense!

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Forcefield Defender. Easier to softcap his defense with Defender mods on pool power defenses and with Dispersion bubble. Force Bolt for repulsors, go Energy Blast if you like. Some good status protection from Dispersion Bubble.

Forcefield Defender doesn't do enough damage, you say? I thought this wasn't about doing lots of damage/tankmagery.

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This.

Its supposed to be a punishment to the playerbase disguised as a "fix" to even the playing field of badges. Even though they are supposedly going through accounts and banning those who farmed/PL egregiously, they decided the best way to deal with it was to punish the players who actually earned them. Kudos, Posi.

A million times YES. But I heard they took away formatting because it was an exploit of some kind. Apparantly some people were farming paragraph spaces and the developers became concerned that some people wouldn't be able to attain that many spaces so they took them away completely.

ISSUE 15: We know there are some things that are exploitable, but we're realeasing it anyway and will punish you if you use said exploits.

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Nice resume. Doesn't make a damn bit of difference to me. I'd still disagree with you all day long. Not that I will, since it would be a waste of time. Suffice it to say that there are enough people that don't agree with your assessment to warrant the notation.

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I'll personally call 'very vocal minority' on this whole thing and am extremely comfortable assuming the vast majority of the games population doesn't even know anything about any of this.

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Then you are ignoring the boards and in-game conversations. I really have not seen this kind of discussion since ED. I whole-heartily agree with the OP. It must be addressed.

Sorry to hear your leaving. I, too, am weighing my options. I will wait to hear what is said regarding the badges. I feel Positron and the team rushed to judgement instead of carefully and without predjudice examing all of the facts. I hate that my game has become a series of 'we screwed up so we're going to punish you'. Good luck.

Never played with you but I'll miss you. Its a shame to lose loyal players based on recent changes (for the worse, IMO). Anyway... good luck with all you do and I hope the powers that be start to realize the mess they are creating.

Maybe you could offer up some info on the characters bio? That's usually where I start at.

Here's a hint to help you: If the mission states it has a boss, get help. It is the same way in the game. Its an MMO. And since there is no XP bonus, you can simple quit the arc and start a new one. You still get your noraml XP. Sheesh.

Hey NCSoft - THIS is how you market your product. Take notes.

You are truly the Spielberg of MMO fan vids. Can't wait for the next one(s).

I pray for a world in which children are free from disease and suffering. No child should ever have to go through something like this. My heart sank when I read your post. You and your family have my undivided support, man. Keep the faith!

I guess you can file this under Subjective. I'm not a numbers guy, I'm a thirty-something that plays this game casually as time permits. I have been craving shields since day one (that I started playing four years ago). I love the look and customisation of the shield. However, the defense leaves a lot to be desired. Again, this is subjective, but it feels like it has almost all of the good from Willpower, but minus the regen. Now, I'm not suggesting you add regen, it really isn't part of the "feel" of shields. However, I would expect to survive more missions set on heroic than I do. It literally feels like I have the defense of a blaster sometimes. I guess I'm not much help here, because I don't have an idea to "fix" this, but I would be remiss if I didn't at least comment on it. I wish I had the same defense as those damn Spartans who are always yelling have. Maybe its the spear...

EDIT: Oh yeah the endurance use is awful!

My thought on this, is fix the Task Forces instead of trying new ways to force people into playing them. Merits accomplish nothing new. If it included the epic IOs then it would make sense. I still have not seen a purple IO except on WW. Include purples or do away with the merit system.

Thanks a million for your hardwork!