Slaunyeh

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Back the train up... we're talking about thematic choices here, not functional choices. Irregardless if Chum Spray lets me kill every enemy in Recluse's Victory at once and costs 5 END with a 2 second recharge timer, it still doesn't fit the theme of my Robots/Force Field Mastermind, who is himself a robot containing no biological matter and shuns "meatbags" for their inefficiency.

We know the themes, descriptions, and graphics of the powers enough to know if it will simply not fit a character's theme. Test it till your keyboard breaks from button pushing, it won't change the thematic dichotomy of a character and that power(set).

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Oddly enough, I'm talking thematic choices as well. Or, more exactly, I'm not specifically talking functional choices (I guess I don't care enough about the functionality at this stage, to even have considered it an option - my bad).

Maybe I'll be so awed by Grandville that I won't notice the PPPs. Maybe they'll torment my every waking hour. Maybe something else distracts me. Maybe it works better than I expected. Maybe it works worse. Maybe it's not as constricting concept-wise as I thought. Maybe it's more contricting than I could imagine in my wildest dreams. Maybe my character remains fun to play.

I don't know. I guess I just don't like to grief in advance. If the concept suck as much in practice as we apparently hope, there'll be ample opportunity to grief about it then.

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Take the time to understand what people are complaining about before you attempt to tell them to "wait and see."

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Alright. I'll let myself get suckered in by the ill-veiled insult one last time.

I understand what you complain about.
You complain that the part of the picture you've seen doesn't fit the kind of development you'd like to see (to put it briefly; I don't want to paraphrase this entire thread and everyone like it).

My point is that we won't know if we're seeing the entire picture 'till, you know, we've seen the entire picture.

Maybe we know everything there is to know. Maybe we don't.


I'd return the insult, but I got nothing. Sorry

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Are we really going to have to pull out the "I don't have to get kicked in the groin to know I won't like it?" comments again?


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Is it time to bring out the Ethiopian baby muffler already?

I have all sorts of respect for LaserJudas. The above quote isn't his finest moment.

"I don't have to taste pancakes to know that I don't like them."
Oh, wait. I do like pancakes. Glad I tried them then.

Pointless allegories don't really make a point.


Anyway. I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I won't step on your right to complain! Me, I'll build up my righteous rage for when I7 is on test

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What's to test aside from the hard numbers of the powers like BI, recharge, endurance cost, etc.?

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The answer to that question is exactly my point: We. Don't. Know.

Maybe nothing. Maybe pure awsomeness. Maybe something in between.

Only one way to find out (and I don't mean asuming the worst and run around screaming ).

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For the people who don't like the PPPs, there is really nothing to try.

My Stone/Stone Brute (that's based on STONE) does not want to spray anyone with chum.

My Plant/Thorns Dom (that's based on PLANTS) does not want red lightning or a big frickin' mace.

It's really that simple.

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Perhaps you will have a happier life if you wait with the hate 'till you have something better than press releases to base it on. Like, say, five minutes of experience.

It's really that simple.

I promise, I'll be right up there on the baricade with you if I try it out and find that I hate it. I'm just not psychic, so I'll have to wait for I7 before I can form an opinion based on anything concrete.

This complaint would be all fine and good. If it had been posted a week after I7 was released to test.

I'm sorry Samuel, I tend to agree with a lot of what you post. But lately you've been bashing I7 (the PPPs in particular) based on nothing but hearsay.

My advice: Wait. Give it a try. Even if it's just half an hour to talk to one of the PPP contacts. THEN come here and post how much your artistic expression is being repressed.

Maybe there are redeeming qualities. Maybe there aren't. I doubt you're more precognitive than me, so we'll just have to wait and see.

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He blued out all the CoV stuff.

So, essentially, here's the break down:

Day after issue 6 hits: everyone asks when I7 will hit.

A month after I6 hits: everyone complains that there's no news about I7.

Two months after I6: everyone claims that I7 will be the worst issue ever and everything will be nerfed and oh my god I'm quitting.

A month before I7 hits: news is released about what'll be in it. Everyone gets to complain about that.

Two weeks before I7 hits: I7 goes up on test. Everyone gets to complain about what's in there or what's not. Then everyone gets to complain about what gets nerfed or what gets buffed. Then everyone gets to threaten to quit.

The Day I7 Hits: Everyone complains about the servers being down or I7 not being ready to hit live or taking too long to go live.

Day after I7 hits: Everyone starts asking about I8.

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Replace '6' with 'X-1', '7' with 'X' and '8' with 'X+1' and you're dead on.

Everyone should start in Atlas the first time they play the game.

That said. I always start in GC now. You level like twice as fast in GC. On a good day, Atlas is devoid of mobs

Besides, you don't get your Hollows mission from your first contact, so usually you have to run from KR to hollows no matter where you start (*muttergrumble*)

I loved the between-the-lines suggestion that there may (or may not) be something sinister brewing under the benign surface of MAGI. Gave me shivers down the spine.
All in all, good article!

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Athena Z “Vyvyanne” Peters

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Your name is Athena Z? How cool is that?!
Good luck out there!

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As far as I know they was on Road Island (was it Road or Rouge?)

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Neither. It's ROGUE Islands.
Unless Lord Recluse move to Rhode Island...