MrCaptainMan

Aha...that explains a lot.

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Those black shoulderpads sure look comfy.

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There's your problem solved. Just ask for a No Teamspeak server. Biggest immersion-breaking 'facepalm i ever met was using VoIP once. Hulking great big Stone tank thundering into combat like an impact from orbit...with a nasal whiny 12yr olds voice babbling utter shite. Horrific.

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Almost 7 years of PuGing, and I can recall maybe 3 or 4 instances of players revealing their gender, and I'm pretty sure they were all 'I'm cooking for my wife tonight, only got half hour folks. or 'hubbies home in 20, can we get this BAF done quick?' type reveals, ie likely to be indicative of one gender but not exclusively so. Can't recall any 'I am female/male!' declarations or any 'Hey, [Player X], are you a man or a woman?'. Usually the questions in PuGs are more on the lines of 'where are you from?'

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That's server-ist talk, that is.

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Cool! i like the time-spanning stuff. And that fast-cut sequence at the end was great

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Shouldn't there have been at least one actual DC awarded by now? Maybe there has been, and I missed it?

I think I must have completely the wrong idea about how this DC thing is supposed to work. I thought that this new venture would see in its first month a spate of DCs finally awarded to deserving arcs which have been waiting patiently for a long time, followed by at least one or 2 DCs a month.

Throw us a bone, eh?

Becky's Revenge, Fear and Loathing on Striga and Drakule vs. the Werewolf Bikers from Hell, the 3 that have been played so far, are all IMO fairly good candidates for a DC. In terms of writing, mechanics, design and intent they are at least as good as and in many ways better than a number of DCs already awarded. Also, their authors are certainly deserving of some recognition for their contributions to the AE community.

My view is that if they don't measure up, then either the bar is bafflingly high, or the success criteria are unfairly arbitrary.

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Roll up a random toon on freedom just to go pop your head into Atlas AE. It's tragic IMO.

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/facepalm

Because nobody plays MA arcs for the story, right?

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I have read the whole thread, but this post seems to illustrate your slightly histrionic attitude quite well.

In my opinion, you're not arguing from a level field as I for two reasons - your insistence that the free points are irrelevant, and your claim that we've bought powersets before.

I've never bought a powerset from NCSoft. I've bought GR and CoV and all the boosters.

And the free points ARE relevant to me, no matter how much you bleat on about them not being so to you.

As a VIP, I'll get a new powerset 2 months 'for free' 2 months later than sb who pays $10 at launch, if I do nothing? To me, this is not at all a problem. I'll probably do this for Titan Weapons. Street Justice I'll probably buy as soon as, and I don't think ten bucks is too much.

I'll pay more than you, obviously, for stuff. I dont think its important who's right in wether or mot stuff is 'worth' X bucks. What's important is wether NCSoft has accurately forecasted what prices the market will sustain. Grumbling abt prices is lRgely irrelevant, if you still click the 'buy now' button.

I'm personally fine with the mooted costs. I hope enough other customers are.

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That's weird, then. You don't actually have to lead the downed PPD out, do you? I find them, click them, get a window with a single 'get out of here!' piece of accept text, and then move on to the next one?

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This is madness IMO. The one general rule of tjumb I have if I'm not leading is 'follow instructions from the leader'. If I'm told to hit the north chokes, then I do. I'll have a quick scan around and if I see obvious masfive gaps (like nobody at all south) then I'll say so, but I'd never try to override the leader's instructions.

The first few times I led, I said 'I'm new to leading, so any advoce is welcome' before leading the team. Luckily, with the BAF, the general method is quite simple, so we did ok with no complaints from anyone.

When leading/being led, I'd rather see possibly redundant instruction like 'keep their hp levels equal' than nothing at all.

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Or leaders that don't give them anything to listen to. One PuG BAF I was on, the leader said "You know the drill" after the cutscene (which you'd think would have alerted him to the possibility that at least one of us didn't), and then said nothing until his silence after NS went down prompted me to ask 'where d'you want us, boss?'
'chokes' was his rather sparse reply.
A little while later of course, and Escapees started escaping, since one of the routes or other was leaking due to no central coordination.

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