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sounds like you were the one who was assuming. maybe they wanted you to exemp and run with them explaining things as you went along. or maybe they were 2nd accounts of people who had been here for a while. of course being at lv 40, you shouldn't be in AP. you do know that there are many other AE buildings correct? you do know how to use the find member button right? you do know that you can start your own team and not have to take blind invites right?

FACT: all the whinners about MA "farms" are in AP. what the hell did you expect? go to another zone with an AE building and you barely see any of this. stop trying to be game police and go enjoy the game the way you want. also remember that this is the FoTM. it will die down soon enough.

yeah, good point. didn't think about it like that.

when your 22nd birthday rolls around and you wonder which store to go t oto buy so's.

munki, if you look forbin replied to the OP who replied to you calling you whatever.

hey fleet, there was a big post on it up in announcements. so im sure quite a few peeps know by now.

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NO ITS HORRIBLE! ALL YOU ARE STUPED WITH UR BIG POST COUNT AND NUMEROUS FIFTIES...... THAT AUTOMATICALLY MAKES YOUR POINTS INVALID! SO THAT MEANS MY SIDE IS CORRECT

AND CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL... IM DOING FOR CAPS LOCK WHAT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE DID FOR SEXY!

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Best impression of the OP i've seen yet. you get 3 1/2 stars for effort.

this isn't out of the norm. this is brought up quite frequently, hence the USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION we have all been telling you. not only would merging servers casue a huge problem, but on high play times it would be impossible for people to log on causing people to leave the game. way to make a suggestion to effectively kill CoX. again, use the SEARCH. it is the word that is between Main Index and Active Topics. it won't bite. i promise. and if you dont know how to search, follow the simple instructions that i quoted from another poster.

give us proof that it hurts. and don't use the "everything is so high priced in the market" look at it. that is supply and demand. and again, for everyone who is sitting in AP that is complaining about this, move to a different zone. you don't need to try to be forcing people to play a game the way you play. they pay their subs, you pay yours. they don't tell you how to play neither should you. grow up. this is a freakin video game. if it bothers you that much, you need to step back and rethink if this is what you want to be doing.

yeah, i have noticed that also. especially with my fire/kin and my fire/psi. i think it happens if you hit the run button at just the right time. like i said, it is a nice suggestion but atthis time just not possible.

k, while an unrooted attack would be nice, i dont think it is possible with the current game engine. that takes care of most of the powers you suggested i think. but to be serious, alot of peeps may read this but you probably will get the same kind of answers.

well you can leave this here now, no need to post it again. but please remember when you have an idea that is already posted somewhere to try to post in that post rahter then making a new one.

no ijust were sick of seeing these threads wit hso many of them already out there. seriously, put your idea in one of those. when you do, it will bring that thread to the top and people will actually look at it to see what the new post is.

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I wouldn't call this a made up problem.

2 of my global friends have cancelled their accounts due this.

Myself, I am yet to receive an invite to anything that is NOT a MA farm.

I have to rely on my few remaining global friends who still play, in the chance they are on at the same time as myself.

I used to make a lot of new friends doing PuG missions prior to i14. Since it's release, things have changed. While I don't mind farming, I am significantly enjoying the game a LOT less than I used to. I do love the potential of the AE, but I am NOT enjoying what Atlas Park has turned into.

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eh, play in Galaxy. or dont roll on freedumb.

Not to mention, I've found pugs are never worth the headaches they cause.

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this exactly. if your friends quit over this then they have more severe problems. everyone cries about AP and how theres to many 50's in there and yet they sit there on their 50's. there has been many a suggestion as how to eliminate the "LFF" in broadcast and how to search for arcs rather then "farms" in the MA. this is a game people and should be played as such. we're suppossed to be adults and yet everyone seems to be acting like spoiled children.

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Listen [censored]. It's convenient to the playerbase. These MFing Cryptic MFers made an architect system. Can they not make a mailbox? Look.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...0/Mailbawx.jpg

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Do you forget that Cryptic isn't here anymore. I love how people don't understand how a discussion works. You present an idea, and then people will agree or disagre with your idea. This is not " i have an idea and everybody better agree with me!" If you can't play nice, take your ball and go home.

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It's called a search. Use it. You'd find this, many times:

Why server consolidation is not a good idea.

Welcome to the forum. You have posted one of the oft repeated suggestions, "Consolidate the servers."

First, my stock answer, one which I stand by and repeat with all due fervor. HELL NO.
Second, a tip on searching.
1. Click on "Search" up at the top of the forum.
2. On the left, under "Forum(s) to search," select "Suggestions and ideas."
3. On the right, Keyword Search Terms. This is probably where your problem was if you did search. Try the following, exactly as typed:

+server -pvp -"re: "

This will search for anything with "Server" in the title, including Servers, Combine Servers, Consolidate Servers, and The Server At Mcdonalds Is Rude. it will eliminate "PVP," so you won't see PVP server requests, and the -re: portion of it removes replies, so you'll see the root of every thread that comes up, letting you see just how many threads there are on this. (The last helps for other subjects, as well.)

4. Click the "In subject" radio button. This is a search, not a cute blonde in a bikini. Here, you want to ignore the body.

5. Leave Username Search blank.

6. Date range, Newer Than, change the 1 to a 3, and the time to Months.

7. Result format doesn't matter. Click on "Submit."

As I try this now, (12/3/08,) we have:
Consolidate Server
Server Stats RSS Feed
$server modifier ofr chat
Fix the forum server
Earlyissue server
Merging low population server
Combine slow server
Server status
Global chat on the Character and Server Screens
Rated M server
Add Ponies, Nerf Vills, merge Servers, PistolMelee
Server Visiting
Display Central Time on Server Status Page

Ignoring the smartalec reply, that's three full discussions about this topic.

You should have read one of them if (inevitably) something similar comes up in your search.

Now, on to the topic at hand....

Why server consolidation is not a good idea.

1. Just because YOU like living in New York City doesn't mean I can't like Kansas.

Yay, you love having huge lag spikes as you get near the black market/wentworths and a busy broadcast. Congrats. Enjoy Freedom. Some of us - many of which you will get replies from with this subject - like *low population* servers. If we *wanted* to be on Freedom, we'd *be* on Freedom.

I have characters on Freedom. I rarely play them (and actually moved a character OFF of Freedom to finish leveling it to 50) because *I DON'T LIKE FREEDOM.* I dislike the banality of broadcast, the high percentage of *horrid* teams I've come across there, the lag around any gathering point- and I've got a decent connection and system. For much the same reason, I typically startin Galaxy City instead of Atlas Park - I don't *want* to log in to a costume contest with several 50s spamming powers and nonsense arguments in broadcast.

Some of us *like* nice, quiet servers.

2, Kansas, part 2.

In addition, servers have their own personalities. No, I don't mean that literally, there's no AI to worry about if you start hearing "Daisy, Daisy" over your speakers or headset. Freedom's a crowded mess. Virtue is the RP server. Pinnacle is the "Drunk" server. Others have specific communities, such as those from Australia/NZ, Europe, etc.

3. "I only saw one other person. World of Conancraft has eleventy billion!"

So what?

We don't run around camping spawn points in this game. People are in missions. People are spread across many zones. Search on a map or do a /whoall and you'll miss those in missions, as well as those who are, for whatever reason, on /hide. Your "search" there didn't give you a full picture, not in the least.

4. "I put up my LFT flag and nothing happened!"

Learn to search. Don't just wait. Form a team yourself.

5. "I AM SPARTACUS!" No, not any more.

Remember logging in and seeing all those slots? Everyone has those - some buy more than the base 12, you get an extra one each year, you could have a total of 36 on any server. Everyone does. Every one has a character with a unique name. Maybe not a *good* name, but a unique one. Every one has a character with a unique name. Maybe not a *good* name, but a unique one.

Now merge servers. Suddenly, CoolBlasterDude from server 1 is getting merged with CoolBlasterDude from Server 2. Who gets to keep their name? Nobody has been able to answer this with any degree of satisfaction. Add a number? But I am NOT CoolBlasterGuy1. And what if the name's too long? Does the older character keep it? What if they're not as active?

People are *VERY* attached to their names. They are, quite obviously, part of their character.

6. "This Is SPARTA!" Sorry, Sparta exists already. You are GenericSG 8734 287 9798.

What else has a name? Supergroups. And I can *guarandamntee* that the same name is in use on multiple servers. Sometimes it's 'branches' of the same SG, sometimes it's coincidence. But with *everything* involved in an SG - from its identity and reputation on the server, to everything stored in the database about what it owns, what its base is like and such, this would be a disaster in the making. And no, auto merging them when the servers merge, even if they have room to, is not an option.

This, of course, assumes that they *CAN* move supergroups as a unit. More than likely, it'd just be a mass character move, with bases, prestige, anything stored in bases and all SG affiliations just gone forever.

7. "I am... where'd Spartacus go?"

Remember all those slots? Well, you start with 1/3 of the available ones. You can buy up to 36 total (24 on top of the ones you get initially.) Now, what do you suppose would happen if you merged two servers, and someone has, say, 20 characters on each? Not unusual. In fact, before those extra slots, I had *filled up* several servers. Do those characters just disappear? Do they move? Free move to another server sounds great, right... well, except you now kick them from their supergroup, remove them from their friends lists and more. This makes for angry and unhappy customers. Or rather, ex customers.

8. I will play where I damn well want to. And you can too.

And that should be blunt enough. If I want a crowded server, I'll go to Freedom. If I want an RP server, I'll go to Virtue. I do NOT want to be shoved onto another server I *don't* like. If I wanted to go there, *I'd be there.*

If the server you're on isn't "busy" enough for you, you have two options that won't bother anyone else.
(A) If it's low enough, reroll. You have a ton of character slots for a reason.
(B) If you don't want to reroll, server transfers are available, and relatively cheap. They also finish fast - you should be up and running and being spammed to join someone's SG on the new server in a few minutes, in most instances. So YOU can go to the server of YOUR choice without screwing ME over.

9. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Last but not least (at least until better points come along to be added,) server consolidation is widely viewed in the industry as an MMO going on life support. No, we don't have WoWs numbers (and you should actually pay attention to when and how they got those.) They're an abberation in the MMO industry. COH has had and does have a very successful, sustainable population even at its lowest points, so there's no economic need to combine anything. The flip side of that, of course, has been suggested above - you crowd people together, break up their SGs and friends lists, cause characters to go missing and poeple definitely *will* quit, both out of annoyance and a sense of "The game is almost dead!"

In conclusion....

As stated before, when it comes to server consolidation... HELL NO.

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thank you M_B for these wounderful pasties.

and everytime there is an issue release people will be locked out of their server giving a whole new meaning to nerd rage. ont to mention, not everyone will be able to keep their names. this is an un-needed unwanted thing.

to add to this, use the SEARCH. it is your friend and will not bite you i promise. and incase you can't find it, it is between the words Main index adn Active Topics on the top of the page.

you shouldn't be running ahead of the team or to the baddy that is that close to another group. and if you make a /ninjitsu you get plenty of extra stealth/placate options. smoke flash and blinding powder.

yes i did read it as hard as it was to read, might wanna try to put double spaces between points, but this will cover it nicely. adn yes, please don't be discurraged from making any more suggestions. just try to remember to search first before you do. it's the one between Main Index and Active Topics. it won't bite i promise .

thanks aggle. i was never quite sure how to do that and everytime i tried it looked funny.

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Vehicles as travel powers. This gets brought up a lot.

First, a tip on searching.
1. Click on "Search" up at the top of the forum.
2. On the left, under "Forum(s) to search," select "Suggestions and ideas."
3. On the right, Keyword Search Terms. This is probably where your problem was if you did search. Try the following, exactly as typed:

+vehicle -"re: "

This will search for anything with the string "vehicle" in the title.The -re: portion of it removes replies, so you'll see the root of every thread that comes up, letting you see just how many threads there are on this. (The last helps for other subjects, as well.)

Be sure to put the space between the colon and last quote.

4. Click the "In subject" radio button. This is a search, not a cute blonde in a bikini. Here, you want to ignore the body.

5. Leave Username Search blank.

6. Date range, Newer Than, change the 1 to a 3, and the time to Months.

7. Result format doesn't matter. Click on "Submit."

Now, on to the topic at hand....

Short answer, don't expect it.

Long answer:
There are a lot of problems with the idea.

1. Movement.
Forward and back,even turning - ok. But you can do things that a vehicle can't - such as strafe (direct side to side or angular movement.) It doesn't work with a vehicle.

2. Terrain.
Not every place has roads, or even makes sense for "off roading." Go look at Founder's Falls. Go look at Crey's Folley. Or Eden. Try to get to the north islands in Talos. What, do you have a kubelwagen? Look at the Pit in Sharkshead. Try to use your travel power (car) to get up to some of the doorways in high caves. Cars and motorcycles would be more like Superspeed - horizontal movement, period. And look - I'll be blunt - flat out *stupid* tied with, say, Combat Jumping or Superjump.

3. Combat.
You get ambushed on the way. How do you fight? Just have your powers blast out of the rolled up windows? How do you buff or debuff? EVERY power would need a new animation. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Then you want people with motorcycles instead of cars. Redo ALL the animations AGAIN. And they still wouldn't make sense - how do you use Footstomp in a car? Or Stalagmites?

4. Customizing.
Yeah, it would come up. Not everyone would want a sports car, or a mid-70s Buick boat, or an exotic, or a minivan, or whatever else.

5. Making "sense."
This was touched on in terrain - how do you get across water? How about the Shadow Shard? And if you want downright ridiculous looking, go do the heroside 25-34 Respec. Look at the Sky Skiffs inside of rooms or the reactor room. It makes no sense and looks *ridiculous.* Something that, yes, the devs try to avoid.

That's just a quick overview of some of the issues with having vehicles as a travel power.

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""You ain't got time to do all the arrangements for 9,999,999 one trade at a time to some stranger just to hope and pray he doesn't take your lo0tz.""

When was the last time you played the game? we have been able to transfer up to 2 billion ifluence at a time now. and if you don't have any friends in your global that can help you, maybe you might try someone in your sg.

oh, and search is your friend.

i believe the problem with "wall walking" is that they would have to re-write the entire game program and engine in order to do this. it isn't flip a switch and poof there ya go. it would require months of work if not more, then the test server and game server would have to be brought down for an unknown amount of time to implement this which we all know what would happen then.

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Ok this is outright strange.......if your immobilized at least 1 attk out of 3 YOU LOSE! How is my math wrong?! What faulty update took away the advantage of doing damage to opponents that cant fight back?!

Right now I have a lvl 15 Ice Blaster on Protector. (I know dont laugh with AE now sometimes I cant log onto Freedom). Anybody with any type of 15 lvl toon...

....step up and be served a cup of shut the h*** up! Who wants some?

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because your immobs and holds in PvP mean absolutely nothing now. so my toons will make short work of you. this is not pre i13 PvP anymore.

this is called spam posting. you already posted this in the MA thread. plz have mod8 combine the 2. wouldn't want you to loose both threads.

as i explained in the other thread, greed has a lot to do with it. and what would a dev deleting his toon have to do with the amount of money that is generated in game? people will pay what they see fit to them for anything. it is the people who are selling that need to be taught. or the people who are hoarding that need to learn that more of what you're hoarding will drop again. increasing the drop rates would also alieviate this. but for some reason the dev's think that you would get borred after you get 1 toon to 50 and deck it out. it is this thinking that is actually causing more problems then it is solutions. a few of us have actually kicked around the idea of having the MA drop salvage as well as tickets leaving the rolls to just recipes. not sure how it would work out, but it could help.

of course you could always sell the things you drop at the markets making yourself a nice profit to.