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So yes, you do advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia directed at one's fellow posters, because you do think one should have to go through any possible quotes with aforementioned fine-toothed comb.

Thank you for confirming that sad fact.

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The quote feature is just a tool to make responses more clear and concise - it is still as if you have written it. Just like when you quote someone in real life.

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Nope.

In real life, if I alter what I purport to be quoting, I am in fact guilty of misquoting the person involved. Furthermore, I have had people go absolutely ballistic on me for simple quoting as I have been here - in pieces and chunks. What do you think will happen if I start inserting [omitted] or [censored] in place of questionable terms, words, or even whole phrases?

Flames, is what.

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As for "/no" posts being singled out, I think it should be obvious to anyone who thinks about the situation. It's not like we're running some kind of democracy here where you're voting on these issues; what we're doing is having a conversation and saying "no" is about as childish and argumentative as you can get. If someone said that to me in conversation I'd be baffled and annoyed.

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That, however, is not a universally-held opinion. You cannot even (with a straight face) claim to know with any certitude that it is a majority opinion.

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I don't understand this because I made four statements in the quote but you don't specify what you're talking about. That's probably because you don't really know what you're saying either. So, if you care to, elucidate me as to which part of the quote you refer.

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Picked out in color for you. Sorry, but I expect single paragraphs to address single topics, usually defined by the first sentence; the colored bits are what I thought the whole thing was about.

Whereas I advocate being responsible only for what I actually write. Once again, I am not my brother's keeper. Nor do I wish to be.

So yes, you do advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia directed at one's fellow posters, because you do think one should have to go through any possible quotes with aforementioned fine-toothed comb.

Thank you for confirming that sad fact.

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So ... you advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia towards your fellow posters? You advocate a climate in which we must suspiciously eye every single word or letter posted by someone to whom we wish to respond, on the merest off chance that they might have slipped up?

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Are you always so overly dramatic about everything? Sheesh, it must be exhausting.

"Suspicion and paranoia?" You have to make sure you're not directly quoting something that's offensive or a violation of the rules, not ensure your fellow forumites aren't plotting your death.

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Which means a fine-toothed comb for those "wall of text" quotes, because it was a three-letter-acronym that got editted out. And regardless, I got tagged, because I was insufficiently vigilant about someone else's post.

I am not my brother's keeper. Cryptic and NCSoft don't pay me enough to be.

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And all of this is, at this point, purely your conjecture. I have yet to see any official word that you can be punished or even held accountable for quoting something.

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I. Got. A. NOTICE. For. That.

And my post was editted. Furthermore, as it was explained to me by Ex Libris herself:

"These are based on edits which are performed by our moderation team, each time a post has to be edited it is tracked, the violation is the inability to post on a regular basis without the need of editing. "

So yes, Virginia, any edit meets the criteria.

So ... you advocate an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia towards your fellow posters? You advocate a climate in which we must suspiciously eye every single word or letter posted by someone to whom we wish to respond, on the merest off chance that they might have slipped up?

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That's not a community.

Nah, only 270 words. And six sentences. ^_^

I'm planning to tweak it a bit, though. Maybe aim for 300 words.

EDIT: made it to 376 words before reaching, I think, the "stretch limit" for the format selected.

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i wanna rename my 1 toon, hopefully and pls give the ones including me that don't have a creditcard, a way to pay for rename or transfer. PLS PLS PLS PRETTY PLS

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Go to a mall, get a VISA Gift Card. Should work.

Also, I use a Debit Card that's emblazoned with the VISA logo ... works fine as a credit card anywhere I care to use it. Including transferring one character, yesterday. (The price means, what moves I want to make will have to wait a while ... but it's not stopping me entirely.)

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As for "/no" posts being singled out, I think it should be obvious to anyone who thinks about the situation. It's not like we're running some kind of democracy here where you're voting on these issues; what we're doing is having a conversation and saying "no" is about as childish and argumentative as you can get. If someone said that to me in conversation I'd be baffled and annoyed.

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That, however, is not a universally-held opinion. You cannot even (with a straight face) claim to know with any certitude that it is a majority opinion.

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Which makes it a LOTTERY OF DOOM: are you the unlucky person whose minor, not really important infractions get editted enough times to be Warned ... while the true, outright trolls go un-edited and un-deleted, thus getting a bonus "get out of jail free" card ...?

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Yet if you're not breaking the rules, you've got nothing to worry about. Know how worried I am about being banned? 0%. Because I understand the rules and I will abide by them, even if I don't 100% agree with them.

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I've gotten Moderator Edit notes in the past, because I quoted someone else, to respond to them civilly and politely ... but I missed that they used a three-letter abbreviation for a verboten string of words, buried in the middle of a wall-o-text. IOW, I didn't break the rules, I wasn't hypervigilant enough to catch the violation in the wall of text I quoted to reply to ... and now, that's another Edit on my oh-so-permanent record ... and I didn't even do anything wrong!

So don't rely on those edits being only for your own violations. Now, you really DO have to be your Brother's Keeper!

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You are right, however, Ex has stated with the number of posts everyday they cannot search every single one. Therefore, until they CAN search every post for violations, let's give this a chance - shall we?

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I slept on this, but you know what? There's still one major, massive problemw ith the whole program:

It relies on counting up times a Moderator edits posts made by a given account. So ... if the Moderators never get around to editing (including outright deletion) of someone's posts ... they get a free pass.

Which makes it a LOTTERY OF DOOM: are you the unlucky person whose minor, not really important infractions get editted enough times to be Warned ... while the true, outright trolls go un-edited and un-deleted, thus getting a bonus "get out of jail free" card ...?

It's like playing Russian Roulette, with a permaban at risk rather than a bullet to the head!

Flawed execution of a flawed concept. This "tracking system" would only work properly if the moderation team responded - in a timely manner! - to each and every Notification, and took action every time it was within the rules to do so.

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Anyone want to start a pool on who draws the Short Straw next?

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This is a sad day when the negatives are bannable, but a positive /Signed or /Yes is still alright.

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Perhaps you should have another look at Ex's announcement, Tundara. Because as KidLazarus noted above, the announcement wasn't specifically calling out negatives and ignoring positives. Ex Libris' exact words were "Refrain from such posts as :"; the examples listed below were just that -- examples.

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Do you really think that she is that stupid, that she would not realise precisely what response and reaction such an omission would prompt ...?? I tend to give her credit for very specifically choosing those examples, every one of them for a direct reason.

Which in turn means, she very specifically, and for direct reasons, chose which items not to include in her list of examples.

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Again, that's assuming Ex Libris hasn't misspoken. And that's not something she's particularly known for.

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PRECISELY my point.

Nonetheless, despite all the strife the issue of "if /no is disallowed, then /yes shoudl be too" ... Ex elected to ONLY single out the negative half of that particular pairing.

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Notice how /signed and "yes" aren't on that list?
So they support one form of fluff but ban another?
That borders on hypocracy.

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... "borders on" ...? That's like saying Moscow "borders on" Russia ...! It is hypocrisy.

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will you notify us if we are on your "watched" list?

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Yes. What's worse - it's retroactive, and as far as I can tell, all the way back to your forum registration date. Or at least as far as the periodic databse purges allow for.

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when will the expansion come out. im really looking forward to the duel blades.

if i have an existing character in the game right now, is it possible to get the duel blades once the expansion comes out?

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Not on that character, no.

Dual Blades is an entire powerset, and you'll have to make a new character to make use of them.

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I am really sorry I couldn't get you all the changes the set needs.

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First, let me echo what your fellow players have said -- you have nothing to be sorry about.

Ice Melee does well at all power levels -- it's never the worst, and never the best. Datamining shows that the points it does worst is in the 38-45 range, which is where the Tier 9 power normally comes into it's own. Since Ice Melee players typically ignore their Tier 9, this can be seen as the cause.

So, why does Frozen Aura get ignored? There've been many threads on this here in the forums, the gist of which is that a PBAoE SLEEP doesn't add anything to a Tankers Repertoire. Since any Aura power interrupts Sleep effects, and Tankers essentially *must* run auras to fulfill their roll, it is counterproductive.

So, what's the solution? Currently, there isn't one. Tankers, as a whole, do better than average, and this includes Ice Melee. My focus is on those AT's who, as a group, underperform. I may be able to take some time to make some changes during the I11 beta, or afterwards, but it entirely depends on how things are going. No promises!

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An idea just struck me: could you make a power which imposes a penalty to mobs' resistance to mez powers? That might be better for the /Ice T9, at least on teams, than a PBAoE Sleep is, for the reasons you've observed.

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will the weapon customization effect ninja katanas or bows?

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Yes, and this was actually a tricky combination to figure out. A Thugs/Trick Arrow Mastermind for example will be able to customize both their left and right hand pistol as well as their bow.

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I don't know (yet - it'll take a while to catch up on a monster thread like this) if this has been asked yet, but:
[*] Crossbows - yes or no?
[*] If crossbows are in, what about pistol-crossbows? (They really do exist, mind) ...?

If you're on a mission, then no way would you get out of the mission, cross the zone, travel to the next zone, etc, to get to where the raid is happening anyway.

You can't pay attention enough to spot the big [VANGUARD] label? Yeesh.

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They be beta testing the Halloween event first.

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... unless they roll the two together. See my idea, above: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, woo hoo!

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We have a special double-length edition of the Paragon Times today. From the headlines:

Outbreak Plague Rampant for Four Years.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Outbreak pandemic that has swept the city and devastated hotspots around the globe. Memorial services are being held throughout Paragon and around the country today. It was four years ago that the Outbreak virus was identified by scientists at the Rivera Medical Center – to date, the plague has claimed nearly 1 million lives worldwide.

Read the full paper here.

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BWA HA HA HA!!!!

For halloween, we're getting A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!! Except it's Contaminated instead of Zombies, and apparently, it may be infections / catching!!

BWA HA HA HA!!!! That's great!

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[...] I was looking forward to a hero system with an interesting levelling. I've never really liked the other systems that are around.

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Have you looked at Mutants and Masterminds ...?

It's still vaporware. >8P By the time it's released, it'll be sadly, seriously out of date with the developments of the storyline in-game. Just look at faultline: the majority of anything they had written up pre-i8 is worthless now. Similar for anything they had written up for the RCS, which is now the RWZ.

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I actually fail to see the purpose in Any threads on this matter as that guy has already said Numerous times Its not a Viable Option at this point.

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And you know, the same was said of Capes at one time.

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No, capes were different. They knew they were going to do capes, they told us from the beginning that capes were coming, they were just going to take time.

Wings were similar. They told us that wings would take some effort, but they were planning to do them in some fashion.

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And really, that's what they've said about Power Customisation, EXCEPT "but we're going to do it, eventually". They've said it's a LOT of work, and that they don't feel they can spare the man-hours needed.

NOT that it CANNOT be done.