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Originally Posted by Syntax42

Why bother collecting this data? It won't impact a power-gamer's choice of TF because they know LGTF is easier. It won't impact a casual gamer's choice because they don't care as much about progression rates. In any case, shards are only required for the Alpha slot. It is much easier to get threads for the other slots. You are basically collecting information that is no longer needed (would have been slightly useful before I20) and nobody will use it.

Originally Posted by Pampl

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't mobs have to be at least level 50 to drop purples?

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

I've got rules when I run a team as well.

Try to keep up. Kill things.

Seems to work out well.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I don't know that, because ALL evidence out there says the most likely way for a subscription MMO to add a F2P option is to create a hybrid tiered model. I say all evidence because I can't find an MMO in recent memory that launched as a subscription service and then threw out its subscription program while it actually still had subscribers and converted 100% to an ala carte play model without actually shutting down first. Certainly, none of the high profile recent conversions did that.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

This isn't true. If this game goes F2P it will most likely follow the route of tiered accounts.

Uhm news flash but this game as well as every sub based MMO is already pay per play. You can't play unless you pay first, and the smallest block of time you can buy is 30 days.

No argument on the nickel and diming, but it's up to the company how far they take it. If they are smart they'll try to find a balance between what gets added for free and what has to be bought.

If they are really smart they'll make sure everything in the store (with the exception of things like server transfers and rename tokens) is available for free in the game as long as the player puts the effort into unlocking it.

That way players don't have to spend money to get what they want from playing the game, and the "Gottahaveitnao" impulse buyers can buy it from the store.

Originally Posted by Obsidian_Light

Looks can be deceiving.

Regardless of how well he knows his stuff, or plays the game, or has this bottled up inside and given all of us a piece of his mind in his venting, a sign of a good leader (in my opinion) is someone who can keep the 'bitchy and cranky' to a low roar in teams/leagues and compensate for the problems as they arise with some level of poise and control. To kick someone because they are a 'drag to the team' (I'd like some kind of clarification on what his definition of 'drag to the team' is) without proper, or warranted, kicking rings to me that he'd rather get what he needs from someone, then drop them so the numbers increase in his favor for drops.

As far as this clarification is concerned, what makes someone a 'drag to the team'?
- They're new and not entirely sure how to play a particular AT?
- They are still getting the hang of a particular raid, tf/sf, trial, and tend to make some mistakes?
- They go AFK for several minutes without a prior warning of them not being there? (i.e. Parking themselves in a zone/base/hosp and not responding to tells or pokings for 10+minutes.)
- They're a grievance to the team? (I can get on board with kicking swiftly over this)

See, there's a lot of scenarios that could cause someone to be a 'drag to the team' be it inexperience or that person just being a jacka**.

Only reason I ask is because of what the OP says in his first post.

Originally Posted by JD_Gumby

Ditto. 5 minutes after the red text across all chat tabs (Gods, that is so annoying, Devs - set it to only go to the currently-open tab. Can't be *that* hard!) announces the start of the event, I am off to Justice because there will be no point to trying to play on Freedom that night.

And look for server mergers by the end of the year if they deem these stress tests to be successful... (because why else would they need to stress-test the servers of a game with a fairly static population that is unlikely to grow?)

Originally Posted by Auroxis

I would personally like Trial players to have the ability of sending tells to team leaders, but I can't see how it could be done without enabling RMT spammers.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

The only way I will for sure be quitting is if they make it so F2P is the ONLY option and everyone has to pay an additional fee for things we all currently get for free (like new zones, new powersets, etc.)

If they introduce F2P as an option alongside subscriptions, well, I'll probably be annoyed at all the badly behaving people who inevitably flock to free games so they can troll people and in general be a bunch of tools, but I doubt I would quit over it.

My opinion is that I think F2P is a bad idea for this game, but my decision as to whether I would continue to play would hinge on exactly how it's implemented, if it indeed goes that way.

Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint_0I

Doing speed runs nets you more overall rewards then killing everything. I can get more shards then you do on an LGTF by doing a speed run many times. Look at it this way, if I run an LGTF in 30 mins and get 6 shards compared to your 1 1/2 hr run with 10 shards, I am getting 18 shards per 1 1/2 hrs. I am getting 80% more shards then you in the same amount of time. All of this is dependent on the RNG(RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR) though.

You also need to take into acount that if you want comparable stats, the teams need to be made up of the same people every time. This way you are getting just about the same figures every time.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

That means nothing without more data to compare it to which we don't have. It could simply mean that they went from earning $100 dollars in revenue to $115 dollars.

Originally Posted by Eric Nelson

Did you bother reading what I directed you to (i.e., the individual powers' description pages, that expressly cites the cooldown timers being 5 minutes on each one)?

Originally Posted by Lazarillo

It has less to do with any potential affiliations as it does with the fact that forum gripeyness aside, I play the game to have fun, and joining a massive lag event with a level 1 character for no real benefit isn't particularly fun. I've avoided the event on the servers I do play on thusfar, as well, and Freedom's won't be any different, except if enough people show up, there'll be an event badge enabled this weekend.

Tell ya what, if ya'll get 2499 people and the badge doesn't happen entirely because I don't want to suffer for it, I'll............

............have a massive ego boost.