Sapphire7

See, that's one of the bad things about blanket statements: they try to encapsulate everyone under one umbrella, which is often in conflict with reality.

I care, and I am suffering from a massive shortage of prestige. I realize I am a minority, but I think this is a really nifty bonus. Eventually my one-person (/several-alt) VG will be able to afford the last TP beacon I want to put in. This will help.

Thank you Devs! ^_^ I'm happy that the badges keep coming, the bonuses are icing on the cake.

Someone said this to me once in-game as well. Except it doesn't only happen to me when the chat window is hidden. It happens all the time. Any time anyone sends me a tell at all. Ever. Even if I'm staring at my chat window. The really fun thing is, if they send me a tell and then enter a window where *their* chat window is hidden (level up, costume, etc) ... then the auto replies start bouncing back and forth. I send them one, they send me one, I send them one, they send me one... until they exit the screen. About two a second.

Though it makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that my chat windows are in tab 2 instead of tab 1.

I MUST TEST THIS!


... Never mind. It has apparently already been fixed on live. YYAAAAAYYYY!

What exactly is this setting? I apparently have this enabled, because I was auto-replying to tells.. but I don't know what this setting is, why it is enabled, or how to disable it. When the bug first started happening I tried what I usually try when people can't invite me to a team or send me a tell - I brought up my global hide list, selected everything, saved it, brought it up again, unselected everything, and saved it again. But that didn't work for the chat reply bug. I have never seen this setting in options and don't even know what it does, so I don't know why it's enabled on my account.

Ahhhh, makes total sense now. Thank you. (I have done less than 5 LGTFs total ever, and have done maybe two Hami Raids since i7. So.. yeah, not so "up" on how they work anymore.)

I don't disagree with someone's right to be upset; as I mentioned earlier: if something took down the ITF I'd be pretty upset. My observation is that people are getting *too* upset about it, that's all I'm saying. I totally understand hitting that brick wall, I've been there with Mako in the STF. We stood there for over three hours (no exaggeration, I got to use my various accolades seven times each.. not even kidding), so yes I understand the frustration. But some of the comments seem way overblown, especially accusing Castle of doing a "half-*****" job and so on. It was a mistake, but given the number of changes made to this game and the number of people working on it, it's not a common thread. Yes there *are* mistakes, but given the possible chances for mistakes, I think the mistakes that are made are few and far between. And besides, the developers love this game, they've said so repeatedly. They're honestly trying to make it better because they love it.. so when things don't go according to plan, they've shown that they're more than willing to step back and take another look. It all comes down to degree.. saying things like "I disagree with this change, it makes the TF unplayable, and I am really upset" is totally acceptable and constructive feedback. Saying "you suck at your job, you never listen to us, I am going to quit and play another game" is neither constructive nor acceptable. In fact I think the mods let people tear down the devs more than they'd allow for/of a regular forum user.

But moot point atm, as expected Castle has said he's fixing it this very afternoon, and bringing the hold back down to a reasonable level.

Ahhh, I see what you're asking. And since I now understand your question, I can't answer it. Basically: if they were spamming their heal when they were held before, why does it matter if they can no longer be held? They're still spamming their heal, why is it any harder than it was before?

And yeah, I don't know the answer.

I don't see the point of locked doors being to slow players down, I see it as a method to enforce participation of certain content. If you can steamroll +2 and up, that's awesome. I've been on those teams and it is lovely and fun. However, if we're going to be rewarded based on "difficulty to complete (X)", they have to do something to make sure that there really is some difficulty in (X). I certainly don't know what "the answer" is, if there even is one. The only true solution may be to revamp the whole way rewards work. As someone pointed out in another thread, the whole system is getting kinda bulky.. we have inspirations and enhancements, salvage, recipes, merits, tickets.. it's fine for those of us who have been here to watch the game grow, but it probably seems insurmountable to someone who is new to the game. (Or games in general.) But the way I see it, there's all kinds of neat content that people miss because of skipping. That's certainly a player's choice, but I wouldn't begrudge a TF/mish designer for putting locks on doors to make sure that people see the content you worked so hard to design. ^_^ To each his own, though.

I'm not sure how else I can phrase this, though apparently my earlier reply wasn't clear.

The mitos were indeed executing the heal power. The whole reason this bug was discovered is because they *were* executing the heal, even *while held*. That's the point, that's what opened this whole can of worms. You could hold them, but they would heal anyway.

Also, you still need multiple holds because they have Mag-2 and then another 50 on top of that. So they're -52, meaning you need Mag53 to bring them up over zero. Which is fine for the Hami Raid version, but obviously not so great for a team of 8.

I absolutely agree that the "fix" was not done in the best possible manner (or even, in a "good" manner), but I don't see the point in the fury I'm seeing in this thread. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, it needs to be looked at and fixed properly, and I think Castle pretty much indicated that he was going to ask around and get this done. I don't know how the chain of command works, but he may have had to get permission to put the current change to live (and the permission-giver didn't realize the ramifications either), and now he has to get permission to change it again or roll it back. He may be working on it *right now*. So I do agree that this wasn't executed well, but I disagree with the bitterness and wrath that people are shoving at Castle.. just seems a little short sighted and mean, to me.

That's what brought this whole thing up. Mitos were perma-holding themselves, but the healing power was still set to execute while they were held. So it got fixed that they could no longer use the power while held.. but Castle *also* fixed them so they no longer permaheld themselves. The debate now is exactly what hold mag protection they're supposed to have, because the general consensus is "mag50 is unrealistic unless you expect us to run with nothing but Controllers and Doms".

I really, really like the solution of "locked door, find the key". Excellent idea. As far as the problem and the fix.. there are a lot of times that a series of seemingly unrelated events combine to form a catastrophic failure. In real life this has lead to the Gulf of Mexico being flooded with four million gallons (or barrels? I can't even remember anymore) of oil, threatening wildlife and fishermen's livelihoods. In the case of the green Mitos.. a specific Task Force in an online game is basically unbeatable unless a specific undesirable tactic is used. The same thing happened with the uber Regen.. remember when you could spend three hours pounding on Mako in the STF and still not kill him? When you needed two rads and a sonic just to finish the TF? I do.. and it got fixed. I agree that this particular bug is annoying, if something made the ITF unplayable I'd be upset too. All I'm sayin is.. it's not the end of the world. The people who are slinging mud at Castle and "poppin a 'tude" or whatever need to relax. If your "fun" from this game hinges on ONE specific task force, and if not being able to do the ONE task force ruins the whole game for you.. it's time to move on. If this is "the last straw" for you, it's time to move on. It's a game. If you're getting this stressed out about it, you're missing the point. I'm not speaking from a high horse here, I pulled my website off the net, closed down my livejournal to all but about ten people, and have reduced my presence on the internet by about 80% because it just wasn't fun anymore. When it stops being fun and starts to cause you stress, you need to evaluate just why you're doing it. I play City because the Fun outweighs any annoyances I may have (which are few and far between, but do exist). The teeny enhancement screen text annoys me, my power tray moving when I zone annoys me, rubber banding and lag annoys me.. but the game is still overwhelmingly fun for me. So I keep playing.

I totally agree that pets and temps shouldn't be required for a TF. But again I think Castle gets it and will fix it.

To be fair, there are a lot of people who hate speed runs. You define them as "fun", others (myself included) define them as "way, waaaay on the suck end of not fun". I specifically recruit for TFs as "Normal paced, not-a-speed-run" so people who specifically want a speed run know not to join my TF. In fact, even the not-speed-runs on the ITF tend to go too quick for me, I miss the days of fighting up Lag Valley, and taking over the computer terminals so the pop-up turrets fight on your side :[ Also, I would guess that most people don't do speed-runs for the "fun" factor, they do it for the "more reward for time spent" factor. Which may be a part of their fun, but if I had to put money on it I'd say that IF the reward wasn't based on time spent, and IF running the TF faster meant a reduced reward over spending [some standard time] on it, many of the speed runs would stop. But again, that's still exploitable. I don't know what the fix is, but I know nothing will make everyone happy. *shrug*

A mistake was made. Luckily the universe hasn't imploded. In the meantime there are a couple dozen other TFs you can do, and hundreds of hours of other game content. There's also a whole bunch of stuff you could be doing outside of the game, and possibly even in the real world. So sit back and relax, and wait for the fix to come down the pipe. No use in getting worked up over it. ;]

IIRC this question was asked before, and the general answer was "No, because it's too exploitable." Though I don't know how it's any more exploitable than the current setup, since a team could (if they so desired) start a TF, log out for an hour, and then come back to finish it up just to increase the complete time. But I doubt there's much of this going on, because obviously the people who do speed runs are too impatient to try this strategy. I mean I agree with you, but I think they've already said No.

I'm pretty sure this is a mistake and will be corrected. And as an aside, I have a Blaster with four single target holds and can stack them to effectively get between mag 12 and 24 on a single target. There are plenty of Defender holds too. In fact I think some Scrappers and Tanks have access to a hold or two too.. so just "requiring a hold" does not necessarily mean that you need a Controller. (Requiring Mag50 hold pretty much requires a Controller, or several, but again I think this is a mistake and will be corrected.)

First, you're right and name-calling doesn't actually solve anything. I do, however, feel that a lot of people in this thread are blowing the whole thing *way* out of proportion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but .. I mean, have you been reading the thread?
Second, Castle doesn't represent "The [whole] Company", and if ignoring people who provide no useful input (and instead only wank) lets him get his job done in a more efficient manner, I don't see anything wrong with that. He probably doesn't actually put anyone on ignore (probably most of the Devs don't), but I would be surprised if he didn't start skimming past certain people. Because again, I can't read this thread without think "WAAAANNNNKKKKK". Not as bad as on other forums to be sure, but still, wankery it is.

I see a third option: He fixes it because that's his job, and then puts the creeps, whiners and jerks on ignore.

HAhAHAHHAhAhahAH! *inhale* AAAAAAAhhAHhAHHAhAhAHHAhAhaha! *wipes tears from eyes* Whoo boy, I needed the laugh, thanks!

Seconded! *flail!* I filed it as a bug report when i17 dropped, thinking that the enhancement screen had inherited its text size from my window scale. (I have the UI scaled to 65%, and then some specific windows scaled back up to 80 or 100.) But then when I heard other people having the issue, I knew it couldn't just be the UI scale, since not many people scale it down like that.

There's also an issue (has been for a LONG time) where if you scale your UI down (to 65% definitely, but possibly other numbers), the power tray has a tendency to migrate upwards when you zone. Not every single time, but often enough that I find myself yanking my tray back down a couple times per hour.

Also: face out of the cave, jump up and to the right. Works every time for me and pretty much everyone else I've told.

As far as I know the reward is a badge?