Silver Gale

I got a Fortunata Sleep Acc/Sleep/Rech purple from a ITF run once. They don't sell for much, sadly. No problem, maybe someone in my Coalition can use it, right? I dropped a couple mil on some rares (this was before AE and tickets), crafted it up, started asking around.

There are two level 50 characters with Sleep powers (both Mind/ Controllers). One is slotting hers for damage. The other already has a Fortunata Sleep Acc/Sleep/Recharge.

There is one character who could use it, but he's redside.

So I threw the crafted enhancement in the SG's bin, and it's still languishing there.

The fact that people who were not in the closed beta could access the character creation screen was very clearly a bug of some sort. As I was patching Test earlier, I wondered if along with the new character creator that "unintended feature" would get fixed. Looks like I was half-right.

Of course people will refer to it as "having a privilege taken away". Some people are still talking about the Issue 1 Some Grenade "nerf", after all.

We've tried a "no closed beta" variant just last issue. It resulted in a whole lot of day 1 posts to the tune of "this is a horribly buggy issue, this game sucks and I'm leaving".

Mind you, it would've been nice to get a heads up slightly earlier. At the very least, someone could've spread the word around the office so BABs didn't end up Twittering "Guys, come and check out the new character creator!" and "we're trying to get a fix to the issue where only closed beta testers should access the character creator working" in short succession.

The "defeat X of enemy type Y" (sometimes " in area Z") missions, commonly called "hunts", are usually avoided by players unless they're part of a storyarc (you can't progress the storyarc without doing those).

You take more time to get to the place you need to be, sometimes it takes time to find the correct kind of enemy, sometimes the right kind of enemy only spawns at night or in hard-to-reach places, sometimes you only find very weak ones that don't give a lot of XP, sometimes you get really strong ones that take a long time to defeat.

In "door missions" (instanced missions inside buildings) you always have enemies that are at an appropriate level for you, and if you're defeated you only get half the XP debt you would get outdoors.

Of course, if you have more fun with the more unpredictable hunts, by all means pick them: XP is XP, and you'll get to visit all sorts of interesting places in the city.

I like the tagging system.

This is the sort of post that's best used for a drinking game.

- For every misspelling, take a drink.
- For every misuse of punctuation, take a drink.
- For every demonstrably incorrect assertion, take two drinks.
- Every time the OP demonstrates a complete ignorance of how a game mechanic works, take two drinks.
- If you're not even sure what a sentence is supposed to mean, finish the glass.

For best results, play with friends and combine with a dramatic reading of the post.

So you logged in and you found that you got the shameful _NA or _EU suffix after your display name? Sounds like *someone* on the other forums has stolen your awesome and original name!

Use this thread to negotiate a peaceful resolution, challenge them to a fight to the death, or just yell "CUUUUURSE YOUUUUUU"!

Turning off Reputation:

1. Go to the top of the page, click "USER CP".

2. Find "Edit Options" in the left sidebar, under "Settings & Options".

3. Deselect the box "Show your reputation level"

4. Scroll down to the bottom, click "Save Changes" button.

It does look weird, but that's just lack of familiarity. After a couple hours spent staring at it you'll feel like you've always been here.

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There's still reds, oranges, yellows, etc...but they're desaturated tints.

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Whoa... hold up, BAB... will this be tied into the Desaturation FX setting in Advanced Graphics Settings within the game?

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No. "Desaturation FX" refers only to the thing that makes Flashbacks look like an old photograph at the start and end of a mission. Desaturated tints is just a name for a particular kind of color. (If you look at the two far right columns in the color picker... those are desaturated tints.)

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One reason MMO's aren't literature and shouldn't really be looked at in exactly the same terms is because there can literally never be character growth, resolution, or any great meaning applied.

Given that an MMO adventure can (and likely does) have many more characters than the player,

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Ah, but if any character other than the player is getting development, then that player is a filthy Mary Sue and must be purged for the good of all entertainment everywhere.

...say, I think I have an idea for an arc.

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I think there should be more threads to talk about threads that talk about Architect arcs.

Maybe we can start a thread to talk about them.

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You could just play the damn arc so you know what you're talking about.

[/ QUOTE ]Why? I don't think I'd like it. There are all these reviews discussing it and talking about the type of story it is. Playing it so I can form my own opinion about something I'd probably dislike seems like just asking me to kick sand in an author's face. It certainly, certainly wouldn't do anything to have the arc improved. I've learned a lot about arc authors in my time and I will say there is almost no point giving advice for changing arcs in any but the most incremental of ways. There are some authors who will listen to more sweeping changes, or more conceptual or stylistic ones, but for the most part, there really isn't a point.

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If you played the arc you could actually take part in the discussion about its relative merits or lack thereof, instead of being relegated to the meta-discussion of the relative merits of the people discussing the arc. But since you just want to talk about what people in this thread sound like, I think *you* sound like a reviewer who is bitter that authors don't take your every word as gospel and re-write their arcs to suit you.