Redoptic

Being a parent or otherwise, those are fair and rational conclusions.

They're as good as they're going to get, and for my kids that's pretty awesome, personally the quote is about where I'm at on them.

There's a reason mmo players are depicted the way they are.

If the bulk of your personal connections can be literally unplugged, you can't be living a fulfilling life with family and friends.

Coh is made up of mostly casual players, but there are some, I'll be away on business come home and they're on, go to a bbq with my family come back and they're on, go on vacation get back and they're on.

And those people who've played for years and still are logging in heavy hours aren't happy fulfilled people, they live in stages of denial about the reason why.

If you quickly dismiss that quote as stupid the authors as morons et cetera, then you've answered the titles inquiry.


Me, I play with my boys now and then, so very casual.

That's terrible news, Positron, War Witch and others are soon to follow this "natural progression" then according to you. And here I was looking for good news.

You and forty end reducers. The first quote explains a lot about the second (compared to what? lmao).

Shield/SS is the easiest primary and secondary out of the box with standard IOs - SO to dominate with period.

Agreed.

The problem with any game like this is the inevitable "pick me" mentality, where nominations are offered for forumites you're familiar with from a section of the boards (like forum games) or because of omnipresent posting habits, but who's actual contributions to the forums or game might be minimal.


If you set criteria like, got something changed in the actual game via the boards, then the list gets fairly narrow, Tundara got ice melee buffed, Liliaceae got doms buffed, acemace got war mace and fa buffed, etc.



But even at that, if you get right down to it, there's only a list of two, Arcanaville and Zombie_Man, that's it, it's not even "seven", they are the two most important active forumites, period.

Arcana has actual discussions about game design with the developers, which is why she's in every alpha/beta etc, and Zombie works close enough with PS during closed betas writing prolific detailed guides and updating build status, that he's nearly an unpaid GM, and the dev's have said as much.


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Well, Pilcrow once... oh right.. um, Lady_Athyna has soo many... err, Silverspar ... erm.. Curveball ... DrZeus ... KaliMagdalene ... Ultimus ... Havoc ... TimeLord ... GenericVillain ... Malibu Barbie (rip) ... Friggin_Taser ... Jacobi_Law .....Uh, Um, Err,..


Are we really down to like ten active forum celebs, pretty small list indeed.


Small pond = Big fish, and all that I guess. Heck when gets on the first draft that's a darn small talent pool.

Is this for real? The thought of 20-30 yr olds vying for those coveted chairmanships, is, is, is..

.well it is an mmorpg..

..never mind, walking out of thread..

Don't bring in the Badgers to the topic, in many cases they're card carrying members of the purity police (though admittedly not all).


You see, running even a cannon mission repeatedly to receive a badge, is not the same as the exact identical activity, and even the same mission, to receive the reward of influence.
Because influence is more valuable then a badge.......err, unless you're a badger (as you would be if you're farming badges, wink..) in which case the badge is worth infinitely more then influence...then, um..

Well never mind, it's not the same, move along, end of discussion.

The purity police will have it's eye on you for bringing up such an arrant subject.

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Being perma banned on both CoX and CO boards simultaneously while reaching forum cartel on the Euro boards in under three months, is more of a no life category. That is crying out for a twelve step program, not a reward.

The goat digested logic and reason, along with the teachers notepad.

Herein lies the rub between the differing opinions on the topic, you're implying that having perhaps many players in AE (which is usually empty on many servers), who may say something in chat (also may not, according to eyewitness feedback in this thread), will lead to driving all good intentioned fun seekers fleeing these buildings like the plague.


Even on Freedom, I believe there are AE's in more then Atlas Park, should a player be crowd-averse.


Donald Trump will tell you that "there's no such thing as bad publicity", whether players are going to reward your arc is up to you, and wishing that the hundreds of thousands of mostly bad, mostly sloppy, and many farming pcm's, would both stop and disappear, is, not even wishful thinking. It's unsoundness of mind sufficient to incapacitate one for civil transactions.




Anyway, I19 will drop tomorrow and this feud will be relived another day, yawn. See you next round.


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I'll comment on these since I see some familiar names:

Heraclea - always in the tanker section offering sound advice.

Acemace - man got two power sets buffed nuff said.

Sailboat - also helpful in the tanker area, though kind of pissy sometimes.

Golden Ace - the eternal jester, though drops a thousand spots on my list for seconding princess spams a lot. Posting 30 times a day endlessly takes no skill, just no life.

Any list that contains the twice perma banned what's-their-face, deserves a can of poop freeze.

The same righteous arguments were made for everything that could be classified as a farm for seven years now, when you could herd a map of wolves into a dumpster you were a dirty cheat mocking the game rules even though you were using the games own mechanics.

BI is in fact quite accurate in her assessment.



Personally I missed a lot of the farms through the years, but the recent one I was able to top off some old characters and I had more fun then I've had in the past two years, of which I've almost never logged on, I was on as much as I could last week.


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Then you're green to these boards 09 because BI hit the nail on the head.
This has gone on for many years, with each new "farm" or cries of PL abuse comes the purity police imploring that ban hammers rain down and eliminate all the vile scum.

As implied in my earlier post, if put in their hands these bastions of (leveling) honesty would review the data of recent AE use and remove a portion of the subscriber base sizable enough to make the game insolvent.

Sharp crowd, right..


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Perhaps they could hold off on the mass bannings until, say, March 31 2011, and they could give it an event name like, the exodus.


Just saying, I'm currently a lvl9 something, over in another something that's shiny and going to be something on March 31.

Maybe the purity police can get rid of all their undesirable fellow gamers in one shot.

A girl can dream.

In a perfect world all of those types in this thread would be put in charge of doling out permanent bans to everyone at their discretion who's recently used the AE in a malicious manner.

Followed some days later by the startling gaming news that the highly touted CoH is closing it's doors, all 42 remaining players were sad.


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Not insulting, assuming they're lying, to save face with the "purity community", all 1% of them.

That perception is quite narrow minded.


In related news the Sun will rise tomorrow.


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How many formal letters released by the lead developer referring to punishment for vaguely outlined parameters of "game abuse" have we had......................oh, right. Only one.

(actually, it's berserk)



It's common knowledge, unless you know, you live within your own reality.


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