Serpine

Victorian Vigilante would seem the obvious pick...

I think that is the perfect name for the game right there. Just sort of brings all the ideas together.

Hmmm... I still got pretty unplayable jumps still in those ranges (though admittedly I haven't been in enough trials to really establish a strong frame of reference). Somebody was suggesting turning off buff notifications but I haven't tried that yet (need to figure out where the option is).

Yech. I have a friend with epilepsy (the one I mentioned who fortunately wasn't playing this game during the issues with sonic) who has literally had doctors say that sort of junk. I've witnessed the guy's muscles contract so bad during a seizure he pretty much folded back on himself, and he will just go down onto concrete or sharp objects if it hits him at the wrong time. That doesn't really fake well.

I'm on the fence regarding the content myself. It took me like 5 years before I bothered getting a character to 50 and I've maybe done 10 trials total so far (and with just my main) so I suspect it could be that I just don't play frequently enough to dislike it. At this point all I get is a vague overwhelmed feeling whenever I hit the "What the ^@#! random piece of stuff do I need for that power now? Did anything useful for it drop? Will I even like that power?" reward stage of the event. But forum wise there seems (from a surface perspective) to be little give from both the like and dislike sides of the issue. I don't know exactly what to make of that (usually I just sort of ignore it since its really not my area of expertise). Anyway, both sides do seem to have valid perspectives for their particular playstyles, so really both seem somewhat right. So it sucks it can't be adjusted to make both (or at least those more in the dislike side) more happy.

Hey its cool, I was probably personally looking for a fight anyway to vent off work frustrations anyway. I'm actually not even sure why I'm in forum pounding mode anyway... its relatively atypical for me. Probably won't last.

Hmm... And I was going to guess Colorodo which is probably to close. I'll go out on a really wild limb and guess... Sweden?

I'll definitely have to try and convince the next league I'm in to try that (frankly I'd rather do the seperated one anyway for the extra benefit). In the last BAF I was in, the 5 second warning that Siege was going to regenerate came up easily 5 seconds after he was already up and fighting us again. That's seriously just funny. Prior to the last patch the lag for four team leagues didn't seem much worse to me then that during a largish ITF pull so something definitely seems to have gone awry.

Wait. Can you actually name them?!?! Or is this just a "refer to" sort of thing.In any case those mechs are just so cute at this size. I figured it would just mentally process as a normal one but further away or something (since they don't seem to have much distortion, just a direct resize) but they just seem 100% more awesome when tiny.

I got it from the wikipedia page for "Diener" (which is indicates is a word for morgue workers) which says "It is derived from the German word Leichendiener, which literally means corpse servant." Yes I know wiki is dangerous about accuracy, but I liked the sound of it, as far as I can tell leichen and diener do translate roughly to those individual words, and mashing words together to make a name is hardly alien to the genre. Which is basically my concern if other people have similar mashed those two words or grabbed from the same wiki entry. Though its probably not much of a valid concern as you indicate.

And to answer Fleeting Whisper, it is absolutely a Necro MM (along with Force Field as a secondary, since he is basically an undead telekinetic re-animated by his own mutant power). And its dressed as an undertaker with a stylish top-hat and big old-west looking mustache. Somehow the guy has even won a few costume contests, which I just seriously don't understand (not that I'm complaining about the Inf or anything)... I even started (but didn't complete) a page for him on VirtueVerse back when I was playing that character more often: Keep meaning to get back to him someday but have been to busy with my mains. Maybe this weekend, now that I'm ranting about him I can actually feel some enthusiasm growing.

Could you imagine though if they made a villain costume parts theme pack and had that as the requisite travel power?

So what I'm wondering is if they declared the Banished Pantheon had basically won in DA and just closed off the zone (perhaps moving the badges, monster, and fog effect to some lesser traveled district in another zone to reflect the Pantheon's next front of invasion): Would people actually consider that an acceptable situation or see that as a sign of decline / still to much investment in new stuff?

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I just think there is a higher chance of the latter during "anniversary" sort of events. Some of the developers have been there longer then a lot of friendships or marriages last, and its hard to imagine (to me) that after that length of time at a one job on one particular product they wouldn't start taking things a little personal. Not the general corporate entity mind you, it doesn't likely as a collective care, but the individuals behind it I would imagine have to care on some noticable level. Since even subtle, unconcious effects on mood can impact performance I think its worth considering this. I was perhaps to snarky in my tone about it earlier in this thread, but its my opinion. And I'm a snarky sort of guy.

Can you please clarify, did he say this after the color was fixed as to why it hadn't been fixed before, or during the period it wasn't getting fixed? I didn't follow the issue a lot (the only of my friends that would have had issues with the color and flash wasn't actually playing the game at that point) so I'm not really clear on the timeline.

There are some doors during the ITF that just boggle the mind with this sort of thing. Its like a massive open gate, let me in already.

Would that be the natural counter to a +6 Pool of Green Ooblek?

It sort of looked to me like a tinier pack with two thrusters on the back when they were demonstating the jump. So I'm highly suspicious this is another situation where something extends from your back like the some existing temp jump packs, maybe alternately set to trigger additional animations in the big backpack if its used. Or perhaps extend out from under it if they somehow have managed to link multiple things to the same back node (which could be why its taken so long to have a backpack).

I have a corpse in a cryo-suit (ala Coffin) ment to look sort of like an angel that will definitely benefit from those new wings in blue and white... The existing tech wings just never looked correct with all the floating pieces and transparent pieces. And the rest of the wings are just to organic or to overbearing (aka Valk wings). I'm hoping that floating sigil aura might also work (in greens or blues probably) for tech sort of projections like the defence fields in Mass Effect (as fun as the ACCUHUD is by itself, I want the whole ACCUSuit).

My big concern is if the frequency of that gear aura can be tuned down. Having the occasional cog spin off is one thing but if its literally raining parts like implied in the one photo its usefullness is going to overwhelmed by silly.

Now you are the one building a straw man. I initially said they probably regret things not done better, and that poking them about it on a day they likely take seriously (some of them have been working with this product for 7 or 8 years) could make them more bitter which could hurt their productivity. I hardly implied they would have a nervous breakdown (or whatever being "DEVASTATED" would entail). And I very rarely use the word "gosh" (note that last bit was a just joke, I'm still trying to keep a bemused smile over here).

That's fair: I'll accept that you are one of the nicer folks, just driven a wee bit past your breaking point by frustration with particular issues. That's understandable, I have a lot of frustrations as well that I've just given up on more or less. But does the complaining really help make a better game? Or does it just make you feel better in the release of it? That's probably a perfectly valid reason as well, but sometimes the negativity on the forums gets to me. And yes, I could use forum tools to ignore all sorts of people who bug me occasionally, but a lot of those people are responsible for very usefull and intelligent posts as well so I don't see missing those as an acceptable trade-off.

But if the devs don't care about negative statements much more then the color of a font as you indicate elsewhere, this could have absolutely nothing to do with anything on the forum and purely been an internal decision to avoid a possible lawsuit. If you on the other hand assume some complaints can have a positive impact then that could mean they potentially can have a negative impact as well: In which case the timing and approach could be very important for achieving desired goals and not making situations worse.

You'll have no disagreement with me there. Post count should have gone the way of the star ratings that users used to have (and were removed from posts for a while to if I recall). It was however a joke, with a smilie. And my response was still a joke: I brought up pickles. I was even tempted to bring up wookies... Wookies with pickles. Okay fine, it wasn't a good joke. And probably not in an appropriate venue. And it was probably also a bit of thin-skinned reaction because the fact that I'm arguing about the finer points of how to manipulate the devs of a game with you probably means we *both* need some perspective.

I assume the developers have human emotions: Perhaps less so then the average person (they *are* programmers), but still enough that they can feel bad about not making a better game. Based on that assumption judging what emotional impact things will have on them is perfectly valid. Now if you assume they can't be emotionally moved, which you appear to be indicating here, then complaining is not an effective technique either because you won't make them feel bad and you are not directly impacting the bottom line (a likely requirement to alter the behavior of a non-emotional entity) because you are still subscribing to their service.

To put it another way: How long have and others been deploying the "heavy complaining technique" to achieve your goals of a superior game? How effective has that tactic been so far in achieving your goals? Based on those answers, do you feel it is a logical method to continue with? If not, maybe you should switch tactics. Or if you assume that all tactics are not effective, maybe your time engaged in this method would be better invested in another unrelated pursuit.

Insinuating as you did that I might lack perspective, without knowing me or my relative level of emotional investment in the game, is also not really a valid addition to the argument. I simply found it funny that the implication came from somebody who has over 50 times my post count, which could imply you care about the game (or at least the forum) 50 times more then I do. Or it could imply pickles. Either way I felt like making a joke about it.

So... Pickles.

I'm not saying things were ever pure joy and kittens over here, but either this forum has gotten more negative over the years or several other MMO forums have gotten nicer. Entropy would tend to favor the former.

Its not an emotional milestone for *me* Bill, I'm trying to imagine how the developers are looking at things. I care about this event personally less then the birthdays of most of my friends or coworkers (which is to say, hardly at all). But if I'm aware of these events in their lives, I usually avoid telling them around those times about how they have disappointed me over the last year: Pointing out flaws when people are having their "special moments" is usually more likely to impair their future performance then improve it. Its purely a question of when best to employ the carrot vs the stick.

And the day my post count on any game forum (any non-professional forum really) goes past 1k is the day I'll start concerning myself with loosing perspective.

This is totally the viewpoint to follow at a wedding anniversary, birthday, or holiday. Emotional milestones are absolutely the best time to remind people of all the negative stuff they already know and probably regret, that way they can be extra bitter going forward. And that is sure to help their productivity.

The flavor of this community just isn't what it used to be...

I'd imagine that would be especially prevalent in the ones populated by super-monkey equivalents of all the heroes...

To me, that would be the single most awesome improvement in the creator since the merge of the hero and villain costume part lists.

Or along that line maybe he is possessed by Hami but not fully dead, and so certain actions like casting Praetorian's out at level 20 or some of the more questionable tactical decisions of his invasion are a subtle act of rebellion against his master. Basically he is *hoping* people will come back in and finish him off so he can finally die free.

Its probably already the secret ingredient. Would that be considered natural flavoring?

A long time back I reqularly played on a MUD where a goblin racial profession I was in had a unique emote that said to the triggering player something like "You bellow out your warcry." I went several years thinking this is essentially what other players saw as well, until one day one of my friends asked me why I frequently yelled "FOOD! FOOD!" in the middle of battle.

Anyway, does this mean I'll actually have a server called Zukunft on my list? If so, that is just awesome. I'd be almost tempted to transfer my character Leichendiener over there... Though it might be taken now that I think of it.

Basically its a little keychain with an lcd screen (or a phone app). The keychain you press a button or the phone you wait 30 seconds and it cycles a long number that is only valid for under a minute. You enter that latest number as a secondary password every time you log in.

When you first enable that security in account management it asks for a serial number from the little device (or one generated and recorded in the phone app) to sort out what the seed will be for numbers to expect (its obviously some complex seed+time formula), then asks you for one or two actual results from the device to confirm you actually have it.

Its only a real pain if you misplace the device somewhere. Among other things it significantly enhances security if you play at a non-home or unsecure location since even if you are keylogged they won't know what number to next expect, so only fast working "man-in-the-middle" attacks are likely to break your account.

Some banks even use these sort of things. I wouldn't mind seeing it done here.