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Apparently the new penalty for griefing is having Jack's barely clad rear end dropped on your head.

Naw, we're completely shameless over there.

This issue is already resolved. As far as the GMs/Paragon Studios are concerned it's the Leader. There's only one person with that rank and all customer service responses are basically along the line of, "The Leader can do what they wish." The Leader is always free to loot all of the storage for personal gain, kick any character, delete the base, or even dissolve the entire group at a whim. That's why they added that category in the first place, to make it easy to handle any complaints about supergroups.

Not that I expect this suggestion to happen. Not against it really, but I don't see it happening without a complete redesign of the Base system. And I sincerely doubt Paragon Studios is ever going to do that.

This is basically true for States and Psyche as well from the perspective of any new player. Other than Who Will Die? and Silo's pseudo-TF/SF they don't appear in game.
I suppose. Still seems a little odd to me that you'd leave the guy who's essentially the main character of the story for last.
I thought Paragon Studios switched to a release date timeline with I20? Otherwise the Sutter TF is a huge problem, what with fighting a battle in an invasion that won't start until you're an Incarnate.


Thanks for the answers though. Glad to see I didn't just miss a Redname comment in all the drama related to the SSA.

That's not what it sounds like when you post things like
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Those quotes sound an awful lot like talking about how useful the non-costume parts in the pack are. Promoting them as worth the value, if you will.
It is a way awesome costume. It's just not $30 worth of awesome. If there was a way to buy it without spending a large amount on useless (to me) items, I would fight to be first in line to get it. It's not like I don't know why Paragon Studio isn't ever going to make it available as a stand alone. Even at double the price of a normal costume set I'd still only be paying about a third what the average person who bought it through packs paid. Just because I understand the business decision doesn't mean I can't be disappointed about being on the losing end.
Don't be coy. You're the ideal customer. You don't have to like it to buy it. You don't even have to know what it is that you are handing money over for in the first place.
It honestly doesn't. I'm genuinely happy for the people who enjoyed all the parts of the Super Packs. I'm even happy that buying things without knowing what they are has worked out for you.

Is there a reason you (not Paragon Studios) are bothered by offering the Elemental Set separately other than an, "I paid $30 for it," mindset? Just cause you're okay overpaying for junk doesn't mean I should have to be too, does it?
You're really late to that party. Go back to post #8. I've known I'd never get the Elemental set since before they even made it to Beta. I'll admit a tiny part of me wanted to see the Super Packs crash and burn upon release so that they wouldn't stick with the exclusive costume business plan, if that helps your schadenfreude any. But nothing related to the Super Packs has been particularly surprising, especially Paragon Studios retaining the Pack only method of obtaining costumes.

The non-pejorative sense? Of a word without a positive connotation?
You're interested enough to tout them as a major feature of the packs you purchased. If you don't care about them why are you so surprised that I don't either? But at least we've found common ground now.
You've estimated several times in this thread that 25-30 is a reasonable number of packs to obtain the full costume set. That's $25-$30 for a single costume. Which, we agree, is the interesting part of these packs. That's not even remotely a reasonable price based on anything else in the store.
Unrelated, but every time I see comments like this I wonder how much Paragon Studios would make with just a donate button.
So you were buying packs before you knew there was costume parts in them but you were really buying packs because you wanted the costume parts in them.
Can't be that far off. I think it's easier for Paragon Studios to get money out of you so they gate items I like to tempt me while throwing you a bone. Since you were apparently buying the packs before you even learned what was in them I'm probably right.
Except for the packs you were buying before you learned there was a costume in there. Presumably you had some reason for buying them other than closing your eyes and clicking randomly, so it was for the ATOs? To work on your build? Because you've denied it was for merits or inf. And there is no chance you are going to convince me it was for the inspirations.
At least you're taking paying $30 for a costume set well. Um, hooray?

I will log on right now and trade you 1 billion inf and 1500 reward merits for that "costume junk." I'll even toss in a random handful of ATOs just cause I like you.

Oh, wait. The part I like is gated and the parts you like aren't. That is the complaint from people like me who only want one portion of the packs. Why is only part of it locked out from being obtained outside the pack? Take a look at most of the people who agree with you about loving the packs, it's going to be people who love the parts that are trade-able/acquirable in game. Why do you win and I don't?

That's rhetorical of course. I know why. Because min/max, character build focused people would largely by those items anyway. To force people like me even consider it they have to gate items you don't want. Since it's easier to get money out of you, people like me lose. I can understand the business decision even as I loathe Paragon Studios for doing it. About the only humor I can see in this is the irony that part of the promotion for Freedom was that you would be able to get the parts of the game you wanted and didn't have to waste money on the parts you didn't.

Not really. The sale lowers the price of buying a single pack to the same cost as a single pack that's part of the 24 bundle. It's not much of a sale assuming people don't buy just one pack at a time. I'll admit it's possible, but it seems weird since bulk purchases of packs have always been more economical and this "sale" doesn't do anything to change that.

It's not much of a difference. The issue is mostly server-side, similar to the lag hill problem on the ITF. There isn't a whole lot you can do. There's too much going on when you fire off the AoEs for it to keep up. When it tries to calculate how much damage and where to apply it the game starts to get overwhelmed.

Like Roderick said sticking to single target attacks is the best solution. Although I agree that it's not a good one. The whole point of the mission is to play with flashy powers yet you can't use them without risking a crash.

List of items first appearing as player suggestions before being added to the game.

Can any one person point and say, "that was my idea"? Probably not. Things get suggested all the time and frequently get repeated. Can you prove that these things weren't already on the drawing board before appearing on the forums? No. Still, that's a long list of ideas that were discussed by players before any official announcement took place.

Going to go out on a limb and guess that Texas Justice doesn't mean you collective, but just Nethergoat. And unless Nether's had a change of heart recently I gotta agree.

Updated to reflect career change.