Nethergoat

also, yeah, let's have a big party on the 21st, with cake and invitations and everything!
maybe a base tour or something.

Which is why I'm in favor of the 'like' system of ratings.

Taking it a step further, I'd like to see an Amazon-style system of user reviews appended to the arc, identified by global handle. I'm usually able to get an accurate sense of whether or not I'll like a book by reading what other people enjoyed or didn't enjoy about a title.

here ya go.

Gamers as a population don't need "the forums" to tell them what's strong and what's weak. An ATs forum reputation springs directly from performance, not vice versa. To generalize wildly, doms used to suck and nobody played them. They got flack on the forums because they had some very real problems. Changes were made, and now they're a reasonably popular AT. I had an ice/cold dom back in the old days that I liked fine- that didn't make the AT or the set 'good' in any objective way, I just wasn't especially bothered by its obvious shortcomings. I liked my EA brute the same way. I had fun with it while realizing it was not a strong performer.

EA's got a couple of structural problems created by the evolution of the game since it was released.

One, stealth. So what, a few million inf or a few evenings running tip missions and any other brute gets the same utility. I don't have an EA brute any more, but all of my brutes have Stealth IOs of some flavor for judicious stealthing.

Two, the value of end management is depreciated by the IO system and to a lesser extent Inherent Stamina. Having a couple of 'big' powers dedicated to endurance is of much less use in a game where EVERYONE gets to 'skip' stamina and take other stuff.


The playerbase's lack of excitement for EA is totally understandable. If they want defense they go SR. The things that once differentiated EA aren't as valuable as they used to be.

I took a stone/EA brute to the 40s during the early days of CoV and enjoyed the ride (of course, stone had some really nice synergy going for it).

I'm not saying it's unplayable, I'm saying it's weak and needs an update.
When there is no compelling reason to take a set and many reasons to choose something else, that set could use some work.

It is, and I do. I play 'single player' 99.9% of the time I'm logged on.
The reality is that lots of people like to solo. Maybe at some point in the distant past the "multi player" in the genre's acronym referred to teaming, but currently it means little more than "there are lots of other people sharing the game world, who you can choose to interact with, or not."


The reality of the game is that it DOESN'T suck to be me, because
it was conceived, marketed and sold and has been maintained for many years as a 'solo friendly' alternative to the 'forced teaming' model of a prior generation.

There's a reason such a minute portion of the content actually requires a team.

Only if you're worse at math than me, which would be impressive.


I'm not sure why you're in such a hissy in the first place.
My original post noted the comedy of anyone whining about needing to get some help in a game where nearly everything is eminently soloable.

the underlying financial realities of the systems are similar enough that a comparison is entirely applicable.

they should make it worth taking for the ATs that already get it before they worry about porting it for tanks.

=P

huh, which previous pack delivered an equal amount of quality idle emotes?
Did I miss something?
I mean I really like the Magic pack juggle emotes, but that's one animation with different balls.

The party pack is the first of its kind, rating its 'value' against previous packs is an apples and oranges deal.

Impossible, everyone knows they choose price points based solely on the amount of NERDRAGE it will generate on the forums.

=P

I'm looking at *one* myself.

Unless the process is more entertaining than it looks from the outside.

they wouldn't need to wipe anything with a decent GUI that had some meaningful sorting features.

with as much poverty crying as we see on these forums, it always amazes me how hard it is to GIVE AWAY influence.

I regularly tell new/returning players that are suffering 'sticker shock' to PM me their global for free monies, I've only ever had one person take me up on it.

I have better luck just handing it out in the newbie zones.

Everyone gets better with practice, keep trying.

An inefficient sink is better than none at all.
Your suggestion eliminates one of the few sinks we have.
That's a bad idea.

You can already keep it from evaporating.
Don't want to make the effort? That's your decision.
The functionality exists.

The status quo works and I see no need to change it.
If I were to suggest a change, I'd eliminate the ability to 'save' IOs at all.
Want a respec? That's cool....start over from scratch!


You can re-phrase a bad idea in as many different ways as you like, it'll never magically transform into a good one.

I'm hoping my SOLSTICE BONFIRE will close the gap a bit.
I'm planning on stripping all the inf off all my characters except for a few million to cover listing fees and starting the new year with a clean slate!

no it isn't.

I mean, obviously you think it is, but oh well.

The game is in desperate need of inf sinks and IOs are one of the few we have.

Also, you can *already* keep your stuff via multiple respecs, it just takes extra effort.

Of course that little extra effort means that a lot of people just pull the REALLY good stuff when they respec and blow off the rest, which strikes me as a fine compromise. Want all the junk, okay but it's harder.