Nihilii

I'm going to take a (not so) wild guess and assume this isn't the case, simply because unless you've got a schizophrenic-like split personality thing going on the boards, you're a gigantic, bigotic and xenophobic pain in the *** whereas he seems like a decent guy.

It doesn't seem too much of a stretch to assume you are someone for whom popularity is an important thing, and that you made the whole story up just to pretend you're some kind of internet celebrity everyone cares about; and yet I bet we won't see a single person popping up in this thread vouching for this supposed reality.

Me, I feel bad for people using Vista/7 with the default GUI look. So ugly and such a step backwards compared to the clean, neat, ergonomic WinXP interface. :|

Idiots like the OP? You see one or two every now and then, but the much bigger pool of people who believe flawless spelling and grammar have any relevancy in good writing is the reason fanfiction or roleplaying isn't worth caring about. Words are only a means to convey information, as long as it is intelligible there's little point making a fuss over technical mistakes.

It's like an audiophile calling himself a musician, an awareness activist claiming to be a revolutionary, a geek obsessed about linux distros posing as a computer scientist; and yet, in writing communities everyone is just a "writer". Hogwash!

Won't happen from me. Not even sure I got the skillz - I suck at controllers. But really, the main stinker is, as DreadShinobi points out, the need for 8 VIP accounts (even as fillers it's a bother as I doubt this sort of venture would be a success on first go).

I'm confident the final fight wouldn't be impossible, provided you manage to complete the sabotage phase with all acids and grenades. For a ranged character with level shifts, lambda Marauder is little more than the original weak +1 AV ; the extra HP and time limit are a bother but Ill/Cold with Lore can deal quite a lot of DPS against a (mostly) static target.

The trouble is that this relies on lots of if, no argument. Got to make that sabotage flawless, got to have PA focused on / nades affecting Marauder just right every time so he never 2-hit KOs you, etc.. Definitely lots of thing that can and would likely go wrong.

Perhaps SS/Fire would be a better choice indeed. I kind of ruled it out because I was still stuck in the old uber Unstoppable and heightened S/L res mindset.

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Oh come on, logout bug while sitting on this page writing this post, really? Boo, forum software. Boo.

... Two of those three level shifts only work in incarnate trials, and +4/x8 arachnos is one of the hardest faction out there, if not the absolute hardest, for anyone who isn't playing something with capped DDR or close to it.

This is the kind of ignorant comment coupled with a know-it-all attitude that made me put you on ignore, alright. Shame I get to see your posts every now and then due to the forum logout bug.

I doubt it's actually possible to fail at solo content in this game on -1/x1 unless you purposefully build and play to do so. I've rerolled a CoV alt just a few months ago and went level 1 to 44 on premium (SOs only), doing all the new content available at this time on +1/x8. I guess if I refused to use Rest or inspirations as they drop the story might play out differently at that reputation, but I'm having a hard time even conceptualizing the idea of a character not being able to progress on -1/x1. I'd be genuinely interested in seeing video footage of such a thing, ideally with UI included and build details.

Holy ****. Now I understand why you're saying running trials is a stupid idea.

As for following your strategy... I'm already sitting on ~100 billion liquid influence and I don't know what to do with it. I resubbed 15 days ago partly because I didn't want those market bids storing the money to vanish, as at that point it was 59 days since I stopped paying. Yep, I guess I value pretendy pixel money I don't even have an use for in a game I don't even play anymore, because omgz there's a lot of zeroes in 100B. That's sad enough, and you want me to earn *more*?...

... That's what I'm telling you is happening. Dev team purposefully introduce things that go against the point of the game, for the sake of keeping players playing (paying). There is less and less numerical balance. There is less and less opportunity balance. It's essentially a long run of special offers, designed to appeal to the gotta have it all nature of people as well as the natural arms race mentality that goes in every PVP-centered game.

I guess you could say your point means a properly functioning multiplayer game is a game with players, but if so that's banging open doors and saying essentially nothing. There is more to a game, even a multiplayer one, than just people. Otherwise it might as well be a chatroom, or a facebook wall.

You could also argue FarmVille is one of the better functioning games out there, but damn. If you define a properly functioning game as something that takes a lot of money from a lot of people to redistribute it to a much smaller pool of people, it works, but to me that's confusing quantity with quality. You bet every decision of theirs is intended - intended to maximise profits, intended to exploit people's weaknesses and addictions ; not intended to deliver a quality game experience.

I'm not peeing in your cornflakes here. If you'd step back for a second and stop considering every forum post as an argument you have to win, you'd see that. Crack dealers being successful doesn't invalidate the pharmaceutical industry.

...Ok, perhaps a bad analogy, as both are as crooked if in a different way and would fit better to illustrate the two examples I've named. Pharmaceutical industry vs doctors, perhaps.

There's two ways to sell a game, carrot or stick. This game fortunately sticks with the carrot most of the time, but not every other game out there does the same.

I think everyone, and I do mean everyone without exception, playing that game would find this quote very amusing.

For that matter, even the head developer herself (who is... an university student. Yeah.) doesn't like the current situation and considers it broken. She's stuck with the current publisher, which is some flight sim company interested in milking licenses and won't sell the rights.

Perhaps you were just talking about peacebringers, but as it's unspecified I'm going to use the excuse to jump on my soapbox once more.

With Kinetic Melee and Quick Strike, I strongly suspect that reason was "we didn't consider the level shift / threw a random value that we thought would be KD against appropriate level foes", and I don't know how could anyone manage to use a 25% chance to KB one -1 foe to their advantage.

I've been keeping an eye on a small MMO (the "massively" part really doesn't belong, but that's what it's called) that shouldn't have any business being still played, much less paid for, and yet still is, mostly thanks to the dev team introducing horribly overpowered things every now and then, often for limited amount of times. Balance has been turned on its head multiple times to the point I'm not sure anyone sees the big picture, power creeps up in spikes and that keeps an hardcore fanbase playing, for the sake of getting that next elite item that will obliterate everything and so on.

If anyone wants to look it up (mostly because I wouldn't blame you if you think I'm making this up), it's called Helbreath. Be warned, the community is very abrasive.