NuprinFeelgood
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RIP Lucas, a fun guy and a great teammate. He always made me laugh.
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sad news indeed... to honor Lucas' memory I will pull the old toon out of mothballs and be there.
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Ahhh, glad to see I'm not missing much. on the good side there are so many other games that I actually enjoy playing right now...I thought I had forgotten how to enjoy a game.
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Quote:I remember watching Marauders stats the whole time, since I was just a wimpy rad/rad def and keeping my toggles up and staying out of the way was the modus operandi, and I can safely say that I never saw us use a grenade. Far be it from me to question the GM's and their game logs, but I just dont believe them. I am also more than sure we never busted open a cache or tube accidentally. Whatever, I am sure the CS reps have a whole manner of lies they are expected to trot out in the event that the game is really broken. Far more important to maintain the air of perfection than to have us lose faith in the game we play. Right?Originally Posted by Red_Gren
Actually, no. My dealings with Customer Service on this matter appear to me to be taken seriously. This could be because I have the ability, when I want to, to be obstinately oblivious to the brush-off. I guess I'll see as I continue to take them up on their answering any further questions I might have.
Knowing how invested people were in getting the MoLambda badge, even if I hadn't noticed, I'm positive the rest of you would have noticed if Marauder had been pacified & been upset that someone had ruined it for that effort. As that didn't happen, I'm wondering if there's some other way for the use of a pacification grenade to be recorded in the game logs. We have learned that picking up a temporary power in the courtyard should deny you the awarding of any of the non-use badges, so I'm wondering if that's because it gets recorded as a use of the power? So if we accidentally destroyed one of the pacification grenade drops, then that's how our usage of a pacification grenade got recorded?
If that's how the reward determination mechanism is coded & recorded in the game logs, then I can see that getting awkward for Customer Service if they can't differentiate between usage & courtyard pick-up. Not that it would necessarily matter to them as both conditions work out to be the same thing to them, you are not qualified for the the badge. -
Do you ever get the feeling that this game maybe has too many players for them to scrap it, but not enough for them to really care. Since all they do doesn't seem to raise the membership, perhaps they are looking to go the other way so they can finally be rid of it.
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Well the folks at support have no intention of awarding us any badge for anything.
They simply referred me to the thread by Baryonyx that attempts to clarify the badge requirements. I'm sure we have all seen that thread by now.
Even though our team met the requirements of the Lambda Looter badge, they're position seems to be that we did not, that clearly we made a mistake, and that in no way could the system which rewards badges be broken.
This denial and disrespect seems all too prevalent as of late. -
Quote:As long as I get my daily ration of Soma.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Why would you doubt that?
It's like a workers paradise! -
Quote:if so then it must be pay-per-view. to protect humanityOriginally Posted by Mermoine
PSL has a video out?!
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Quote:So glad to see things are "working as intended".Originally Posted by _Fanny_
I got all the badges by collecting all items but not using them.
Apparently I wasn't supposed to.
Still, it was awesome! -
Glad somebody got the Mo Badges... even if it was through a glitch in the system...
Isn't it strange that winning the lambda looter badge awards all three...it almost seems as if someone coded it wrong and it should be that getting the Well-Stocked badge (according to the current descriptions) would award all three. Just saying. It's obviously broken, but the Dev's would never admit it.
At this point, I can honestly say I am sick and tired of the new trials. It bores me to death (more so than usual) to have to do them over and over again to garner the rewards. With so many more alts to go, and the frustration of the rewards system on top of that, I don't know if I am even going to bother. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Shagster
Well, I'm not going to attribute this to either malice or intentional deception.
I will say that I think it was a particularly annoying screw-up. Bad communication on the badge requirements. Plus a bug that awarded extra badges to some and not to others. Plus, what I think are bad badge / reward design choices on the Lambda, especially compared to the BAF. A triple threat of customer frustration on this particular event.
Add to that the consistently inconsistent and unfair balance in the reward tables and you get an Issue that should have spent a few more weeks on the drawing table IMHO. They deserve all the customer dissatisfaction they can stomach... -
Quote:We tallied up all the Acids and Grenades at the end while we were petitioning and we had no extras. We did everything according to the guidelines provided...the screw up is on the Dev's side. At the very least we should have received one badge. As for the rest of the imbalance and bad design, its just par for the course.Originally Posted by Shagster
Based on this, I'm wondering if our League managed to accidentally acquire another Acid or Grenade by killing a weapon shipment.
And well, since Marauder basically jumps right on top of the acid weapon shipment, how the heck were were supposed to avoid that with area of effect damage while fighting all the crazy reinforcements? Especially since WE DIDN'T KNOW IN ADVANCE! And had no reason to think this was the case as OTHER Leagues had gotten all 3 badges at once? -
Today on my blaster, running BAF's, I am getting mostly uncommons and rares. only twice have a got a common. No VR's as of yet, athough I was getting rares and VR's (occasionally) fairly steadily on my scrapper.
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Well I did finally get a response.
Without quoting verbatim (god forbid I should break a rule while trying to inform my fellow gamers) the Badge descriptions SHOULD read as follows:
Synchronized - Destroy a Weapons Cache and an Incubation Pod within 2 seconds of each other during the Lambda Sector Incarnate Trial.
Lambda Looter - Get 10 Molecular Acids and 10 Pacification Grenades, but don't use them.
Well-Stocked - Get no Molecular Acids and 10 Pacification Grenades, but don't use them.
Note that if you get even one Molecular Acid then you will not get this badge. If anyone uses their Pacification Grenade, you would also be ineligible for the badge.
Antacid - Get 10 Molecular Acids and no Pacification Grenades, but don't use them.
Note that if you get even one Pacification Grenade then you will not get this badge. If anyone uses their Molecular Acid, you would also be ineligible for the badge.
It seems we should have received the Lambda Looter. I haven't logged on that toon yet to see if it got awarded but my guess is it didn't. -
Maybe if some of us were getting replies from customer service, we wouldn't be talking about it on the forums... been four days for me with no response.
I am just glad we accomplished it. -
After three days straight of grinding both BAF and Lambda on my Emp/Dark I can honestly say that whatever the rewards system is, it stinks.
I spam heals, buffs, tentacles, and shoot whatever I can, as often as I can, but in the end after every single trial I get a common. I can recall only once or twice (in 100+ runs) getting an uncommon. Never a rare or a VR. So whatever the weighting system may be it is clearly off-kilter. -
Three days later and my escalation had not been escalated...I have received no emails other than the first one.
I honestly don't care that much about the badges, but it irks me that 7 years into the game the Dev's still cant release an issue in working order.
Perhaps now that the membership will be grinding their heads off to fill all their alts with incarnate powers for the next several months (if not years) the Devs can spend some time, perhaps, making the existing game work properly. -
Quote:C'mon Pum you know I work for Crack...put the five bucks toward my tabOriginally Posted by PumBumbler
*Pays Nuprin $5 to be a PvPIO farm victim*
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Had a great day of BAFfing...and many MoBAF's.
Then we gathered the troops and knocked down a MoLambda!
3 Rads and a Kin and lotsa damage, and we barely made it. It was tough.
Marauder dropped an unstoppable on us at 24% and it lasted three minutes, that made it a close one.
Sad thing was, even though we gathered all ten acids and all ten grenades, and used none of them, we got none of the badges. 16 petitions were sent...
(and yeah we got the synchronized badge...that one's easy peasy)
But dang it we did it, and it was fun. Booyah!
Grats to Brax, Arwen, Allyriah, Darkbringer, Rangle, Bleyszen, Beerpig, Phantom, Taboo and everyone else I forget...(sorry) -
Best server period.
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... after a far too long absence due to a road gig and lack of proper laptop-age, I am thankfully back home, blissfully unemployed, and ready to game.
Just in Time for Issue 20! See ya'll in game!
P.S. I missed you too. -
Many many congratulations to you and your beautiful child! PICS!
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Had a great time with the Sister Psyche task force crew.
Lots of levels were had and in the end, of course, we won.
oh..and I hate the new super stunners..a lot.
see you next time... -
I might just have something for this...see you there
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Hope you had a terrific Birthday!