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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post
    As opposed to a handful of shiny missions that require you to zone twelve times, just to click two blinkies and beat up four EBs (If you use your mission drop you only have to zone ten times, click one blinky and beat up two EBs) that you have to repeat on every character before you can even start to get anywhere? Yes, I would rather they just slap something together. Don't get me wrong, the Trapdoor and Honoree/Holtz encounters are a neat change of pace, but the first mission, the "unique" maps and the cutscene are frills that probably took more resources than everything else in the arc. So yes, I would rather have something half-***ed now than wait six months so they can tweak maps and add special effects to the bad guys.

    Don't forget, you still have the alternative of repeating the WST over and over, and have been explicitly told there is another alternative coming, so if a stop-gap solo alternative is no more imaginative or "fresh" than the stop-gap team method you don't have to do it.
    I will admit I feel different than you on this. I truly love play his arc, as you said it brings a nice change of pace. While I would not need cut scenes in all the other arcs, since it was more fitting in her. I would not mind waiting a couple (even six) months for another well done arc like that.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    Brutes for Ice Armor first. :/
    ^^This^^
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BigFish View Post
    If you don't want to be judged on what YOU posted? It works both ways, but people always forget that

    You've obviously been skipping over/nodding in agreement with the solo haters brigade

    and I've already openly admitted to being an *** on these boards at least 10 times. why do you act surprised?
    I am not like others in this thread anti-soloers. I tend to solo all my characters to 50; although I do team for T/SFs only. I have stated people to have patience till we learn more.

    I do not read every thread in this form, and this is the first time I stepped into you. People are never surprised on the internet cause *gasp* people have seen it with unanimity.

    Also I know people will look at my post, digest them and build their own criticism whether it is for me or against me that is their opinion. If they reply I will try and reply back so eventually we could get on the same level. For you it seems to be a waste of space.

    Since this thread has been derailed horribly I am leaving you alone after this so you can attack anyone else you feel like.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BigFish View Post
    Can you put even more hero worship into your comments, because you're really not putting enough heart into it. At least I can add cultural references into my posts for people older than 12

    Shorter Aracana: BLAH BLAH BLAH It's just TOO HARD for the Devs BLAH BLAH BLAH. My comment. You: How dare you ignore Aracana's wall of text and just get down to the heart of it! Me: Shenanigans

    GG is being just as childish as I am. Not 'lightening' the thread. Report me if you find this offensive
    Wow congrats on really being an ***. If you did not want to be judged on what you said in a post than you should of not typed it out. I do not "love" or put Arcana on any higher pedestal than most people on the forums.

    Also congrats you can reference a former President...it took so much work since I would assume most American student's learn it in high school.

    GG was being childish yes...although I did not see other people take much offense compared to the bile you are spewing.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BigFish View Post
    Thank you for rendering John F Kennedy's "We do not do these things because they are easy" speech completely pointless. So any damned idea that the developers come up with is sacred and complete because the alternative is just too hard?

    Once again, I call shenanigans
    Yes that is all Arcana said in her last paragraph. With her godly insight into the minds of the developers she has pulled out that due to JFK's speech from years past, about "We do not do these things because they are easy" about politics and life converted it to a game. THEN said after all that solo path is too hard so we will never do it cause we are lazy.

    Can you miss the point again entirely next time with more ignorance.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BigFish View Post
    Thank you for this snide, unproductive comment

    Your participation is 100% unneeded
    Just as your ignorant, childish, and disrespectful behavior is needed. I have seen you add nothing to this thread.

    GG may have not added much content wish, but it tried to lighten the fare of how this thread was going.
  6. Truly in life what is annoying:

    Risk
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Actually, the second most annoying trend I've seen are installers that without warning attempt to download massive amounts of additional files from the internet in the middle of the install. If your installer is 281k, I can take a guess. If your installer is 157Mb, and then it downloads an additional 382Mb in the middle of the install, and you don't say this anywhere, I will make your developers pay.

    The *most* annoying trend I've seen are installers that get 90% of the way through an install, check for something, fail that check, and then completely back out of the install automatically.

    On a scale of one to ten, that one's a twelve.
    The most annoying trend I have seen (from my world) is people that do not know what/will not do a traceroute. Of course since they use a PC/tablet/smartphone they know instantly how their connection works.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    In either case, "just be patient" is the same thing as wishing or praying for a miracle.
    I am taking out most of the installation...cause I do deal with that, and I know patience is a common practice until it craps out...not just stalls cause it needs to take time.

    Just being patient means one thing and one thing only, being patient. To say it is equivalent to wishing and miracles is a long stretch to say the least. The idea of wishing for something that is completely irrelevant or self-absorbed, it does nothing to help any cause, that is showing great impatience.

    I wish all my chars were at 50 and fully alpha loaded is a large wish, but the only way I am going to do that is with patience and working it out. Then miracles are something on another level, which is used to much as just common speech no a days. Still the idea in this context shows great impatience once again, and self-absorbed ideas you need this now or a terrible fate will come to you.

    None of this is they case. I know my from work expierence I deal with troubleshooting large networks that feed towns, cities, provinces, and some countries. If something happens breaks out in the field, I do not have control how it is fixed, how long it takes to fix, and when it will be completed.

    I could say "Well this looks like it is only small it should only take a hour to fix." Well it turned out it was larger than I thought and took 12 hours to fully complete. What would happen if I told a customer 1 hr and it turned into 12? They would be furious with me, and I would be in a lot of trouble.

    So with that in mind. I look at the issue, with everything I know, I take that information and hand it off. Once it is out of my hands I have to be patient, since it is out of my hands.

    This i just the same, we have the basic information they are telling us and we are waiting for an update on the situation from them. It is called being patient cause if you are not, well it could delay information, or just turn into nothing since people take information out of context all the time.

    We just learned more of the Animal Pack today. What did we know before this next to nothing. People were patient and they got their information in due time, now everyone is in anticipation for the release. What they are doing for the incarnate system and i20 and beyond is just the same.

    They will give us information when they are ready to give info no later and no less.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    At the moment, if running them meant I could get a Notice, yes, I would.

    My agenda is "getting a Notice without running on a team". It might change after I get that satisfied, but until then, that's what I'm focused on.
    Then your agenda should be patience. It takes time for projects to be finished. As always patience is a virtue.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ice_Wall View Post
    Keep in mind that there will be more content coming and that content will very likely have stuff to keep level shifted folks challenged and give them something to do.

    Secondly, being level shifted doesn't make you more likely to get shards. It makes you able to maybe go through mobs faster, and if other people on your team are level 50 and your rolling level 54, they will get shards and drops too. So it's not like the level 54 will hog all the loot, just do more work, it'd be beneficial.

    Third: The level shift is available to anyone. Hell the Alpha slot doesn't really require non casual play, it just requires running TFs already in the game that casual players already do on occasion. Most of the level 50 TFs can be done in 1-2 hours. Then all you have to do is hit the strike target of the week, once and boom you have a level shift.

    Lastly, the person with the +1 or +4 earned that. They did the work, they got the rewards including the +1. It's not all that unfair considering they had to do stuff to get that +1, they get to enjoy the perks of their reward.
    I think you quoted incorrectly here. I was not talking about people lvl shifting their characters.
    I was talking about if you were a lvl 50 fight npcs at 54, that you in what was proposed is to increase drops.

    I know more content could be coming but we do not know yet on that..so it will be a wait and see.

    2. Missed the point, that is was +4 against you not lvl shift +4

    3. I know the level shift is for everyone I am not against it. I have a few chars already that have the lvl shift within the first few days.

    4. I know I earned it like other people have earned what they got for lvl shifting. Maybe I worded it wrong so it could go off in a different perspective I am sorry for that, but that is what I was trying to show. Was the disparity of fight lvl 50s to lvl 54.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Clouded View Post
    Possibly. Or it might not come in 2-3 issues or ever. I think that's the issue.
    Well I know a lot of people that have come back since they are actually putting time into doing End-Game content.

    Also since Posi and WW and heading two teams of devs from what it sounds. There should be no issue.

    And again, that this is their game, they decide what is best for the game. If they want to focus a little bit of time to get some of the kinks out with multi End-Game to help people that want to stay around longer, which would bring new health into the game for some.

    While other wait for X,Y, and Z. You cannot please everyone...but you can build a strong base and build from that.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    Which are "solo content". Maybe not high quality solo content, but content nonetheless.
    Well then Mender Ramiel is your starting content for the solo incarnate arcs. Just like Cimerora you might have to wait an issue to get the rest of it.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    You're stronger than them. How is it unfair that you can fight stronger enemies?
    It's not a matter of NPC's it is a matter of other players.

    Let's say you can roll at +4 with your tank. Your rolling through and plowing with no issues at all.

    I go on my support corr, and only able to really excel at even con. So with your plus for you get a higher chance not just for shards, but for purples, and other drops. While I just get the normal rate.

    It would not be totally for for the other PCs, which would push the idea, the game is going away from the casual player (in hindsight of other threads which are cropping up). Which would put a divide in the player base.

    Also how can you gauge risk? I saw a guy that was soloing +8's. How do you gauge that? How do you gauge soloing AVs and GMs since that would have to be put into effect also.

    There is to many metrics and ways it would go people would start gnashing teeth for, which would lead to massive headaches for all, and a different gameplay than what we project into the gaming world.
  14. Then what happens if there is more level-shifting over level 54? Will you just keep adding stuff so we will always have +4 even though they could not work?

    Also to sit down and say "Anything over 50 will get bonus drops due to them being "riskier" does not help at all.

    Now with level shift I move +1 I steamroll and get more drops than a person just with a lvl 50. That is unbalanced and unfair.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    We did a good job of unequivocally proving even that was too much.
    Truly, and sadly. These kinds of threads are what I would assume the devs hate seeing since people could pm spam them on this. We take one word or sentence and expand it from the original source till it is not truth anymore.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Unknown_User View Post
    Obviously you have very simple grasp of how the world of competitive business works. Even the smallest piece of info, no matter how vague or simple it might seem to you, leaked or confirmed without the approval of the higher-ups or marketing can lead to a major cluster[censored] for a company, trust me I seen this happen before. Maybe I didn't make the meaning clear with my example, but they don't want to confirm anything because it will give insight to the competition to what Paragon Studios is doing, and as a business you never want your competitors to know what you're future plans are, regardless if it's viewed as something simple or not, and also not wanting to having to deal with the customer backlash should they fail to deliver on what was leaked or confirmed.
    Thank you this, sums up how businesses work with releasing information.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    If the restrictions the marketing department is putting on communications prevents the developers (or the marketing department) from verifying to their customers asking for a feature that said feature is in the works and will, eventually, be added, then the marketing department, whose job is to "sell" the company and the product to present and prospective customers, is failing at its function.

    Customer says "I want X."
    Salesman says "We'll have X pretty soon."
    Marketing says "No! Don't say that!"

    How does this scenario make sense to anyone?


    At a university.

    To TonyV and Clouded: I used the word "broken" metaphorically, speaking of my gaming experience. I never claimed any system was broken. I said my experience was "broken", and if I expected the developers to "fix" it, I had to let them know that it was broken. Otherwise I'm just sitting around with a broken toy expecting it to magically fix itself.
    Yes I work for an ISP. I know a lot of new features that can be implemented for the next year or so. If someone ask me something about it, all I can say is something like BS said. It is up to marketing to do their job which is to release information to attract people. It is not up to the developers.

    If I/developer said something without marketing approval it could get horrendously bad. Let's say they say i20 we are bringing in solo content for incarnates. i20 comes around but it is not there due to unforeseen issues, well all those people who were promised the world are now pissed it did not come.

    I do not know about you, but from my experience I would rather be in the position that they are in now, than the later.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    If they are actually working on such an option, there is no justifiable reason they cannot say "we are working on a solo option." That they have chosen not to say this is the issue.
    Yes there is a reason for this not to be told. It is called the MARKETING DEPARTMENT. I could tell tonnes of info about what my company is doing moving forward, but do to my NDA and marketing I would be gone very quickly.


    I am not sure where you work at. I know where I work at whatever I saw to the public (as my personal facebook account, or twitter, or linkedin), they could be scrutinized by a friend and information is altered to what the need is and issues arise from that.

    That is life.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Master Zaprobo View Post
    As a pure-redside player these days (no L50 Hero, either) I have never seen the STF so can't pass comment on it, however I've been on a few LRSF's (all successful, often with faceplants galore on the last mish).

    It's the one bit of content in the game I don't care for at all. I've done two or three as it's the WST but otherwise I wouldn't touch it. When tactics come down to "stack inspirations, use temp powers" or "you must use mass hypnosis" then I reckon something has gone wrong in the design stages.

    At least it appears it was semi-fixed in the STF - at least LR doesn't spawn until after the Patrons are defeated.

    I feel that the last mission of the LRSF could do with a little redesign - have the Phalanx split into two clear aggro groups so you can take on two groups of four (a la the STF).
    I've done it with no tactics lots of times. It just take people that know what their build can do and rock it. The last group I did this on, we had a mash of builds from people I have teamed with before, by luck. We went in with an Ice tank, no temps, no mass hypnosis, no mass insps and we did fine, it took targeting and some tactics.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    Oh yes. Companies will go absolutely wild over a developer of a rival game posting "we are currently working on balancing several different potential solo paths towards acquiring these Notices to our satisfaction, and expect to release a solo path to full Incarnate power sometime after Issue 20. The solo path will come, but we are not yet ready to reveal more details on what it shall be, or when it shall be ready."

    How can anyone hope to compete without keeping such vital information under wraps?
    Cause it could be tied into something larger which could incorporate a huge update to the system or how the game works? Just cause it looks like a little thing, does not mean it ties into a larger or grander picture.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eiko-chan View Post
    I find that communication style unacceptable. I'm not going to just sit around and pay them money if I don't know I'm going to get what I want out of that investment. If marketing won't let them tell me they're working on my concerns when they actually are doing so, then marketing is failing horribly at their job.
    Well since they are under a lot of NDAs they probably cannot talk to much what is down the line for various reason this thread shows.


    I know for my job and some of my friends jobs we are under strict NDA due to the sensitivity of work we have. They would be the same since they are competing against other companies/games out there that would take something and copy it in their game.....OR it does not get implemented and we feel that we should be entitled to it now.
  22. Excellent I am glad that this is beginning soon.
  23. Trailers I saw last night that were knew to me (since I do not get American commercials due to being a Canuck):

    Thor: Was excited before I saw this trailer, and the little bits added to it make me want to watch it more.

    Capt A: First trailer released it looks good in my books. I am glad they did not make Capt go all Liefeld on us. Tight compact, human looking.

    Cowboys & Aliens: Well there is not much to say other than the title and cast list says it will be awesome.

    PotC-OST: New trailer I saw for this got me stoked for the new film. I am glad they kept the character I enjoyed most in it (Barbosa) and the added snippets show it should be having a fun time.
  24. It was a great run last night. I enjoyed my dom out there and it was quick and fun.

    Hopefully this will be a sign of what to come.
  25. I will check my schedule for this. I should be able to come back for the Master attempt.