Smurphy

"The spirit of the square" is open to broad interpretation. One could interpret this square to be a sarcastic, stereotyped quip which one would respond with a rimshot or a sarcastic "har har har you are SOOO funny". Another interpretation is a player on the team commenting how bad Stalkers are while a Stalker on the team contributes greatly. A 3rd interpretation may be a Stalker who is terrible and an embarrassment to Stalker kind. All are valid.

As stated above, think broad interpretation for "the spirit of the card". I am unsure exactly what TGIF means but I will assume it means "Tank Goes in First". We had a specific scenario in mind with this square. This is the example in exaggerated form:

"You are on a team with a Tank. A player who is not the Tank, perhaps you, for some reason is separated from the team and solos 3 packs with ease. The Tank and some of the other team members attack a pack and the Tank gets obliterated and dies. The separated player returns to the group after defeating 3 groups in the time it takes the Tank's group to defeat one because the Tank is getting destroyed. The separated player offers "why don't I go in first". "No, you aren't a Tank. He's a Tank. Follow the Tank in." "Follow Tank" BINGO! Check off that square.

I think the examples of "broad interpretation" of "spirit of the square" handle most of these and "it's a sarcastic jab". A lot of the squares are obscure and ludicrous things. We wanted to toss in some more reasonable ones and/or freebies -- "I'm teamed with a Stalker - That gets a facetious Check!"

Ruined Sleep is sometime where someone uses a Sleep power with awesome affect. He just neutralized that boss that was coming out of nowhere the rest of the team didn't see. Someone aggro'd a 2nd pack and didn't engage them and now they are storming in from behind. Mass Hypnosis! Now the team has time to handle the initial group while the new enemies are safe asleep. Captain Atomic Hole sees the slept enemies and sends in his weak fireball doing 11 damage and waking up the entire gang. Great job Cpt. A-Hole. Ruined Sleep. BINGO! Check that square.

Mentioning Dr. Quaterfield gets a Bad Team Bingo square solely because Chriffer and I find it amusing that the mere mention of it earns you a square. We tried to toss in some other "stereotyped content" like sewers, frostfire, and Mayhem missions for good measure.

Wolfereen does not care about your spelling.

Chriffer and I know exactly how you feel. Some of the squares are brutal and mean

Chriffer and I don't believe so. A scrapper who runs into a huge pack alone is simply "A scrapper". However, a scrapper who runs into huge packs alone, repeatedly, and dies is a "Suicidal Scrapper." That is the spirit of the card. An analogy would be "A Dog" and "Suicidal Dog". A dog who chases cars is a dog. That's just what dogs do. A dog who runs in front of cars is a suicidal dog.

At first I was simply confused. Now I'm thinking I'm being trolled.

I believe I'm being told that playing City of Heroes is the same as having my computer turned off and pressing keys on my keyboard **EDIT** or maybe we're talking to an AI program or a robot who is incapable of grasping the concept of "entertainment".

I am unclear on what you are saying here. Specifically, I do not understand what you mean by "stamina threads" and "what people want to do...keep smashing non stop".

As explained several times in this thread the difference between Reichsman and fighting a large horde of enemies is action, excitement and entertainment.

I enjoy the Reichsman fight as much as I enjoy sitting at my desk with my computer off while pressing 1-2-3-4 repeatedly for a half hour. I cannot discern a significant different between fighting Reichsman and pressing 1-2-3-4 with my computer off.

Tips for next time:
tl:dr: Don't be coherent, rational and reasonable.

Don't properly organize your thoughts: you use bold, sentences, and introductions to categories very well.
Don't use proper spelling and punctuation as frequently as you did.
Gradually get more ludicrous. In your post you actual gave more rational support as you moved through your post. "It would make things more easy, I am lazy". Are rational supports. They are true and counter the obvious retort that many others posted: "just reroll" --> "I'm too lazy".
Don't ask "would this help" or "would this work". Your idea cannot be wrong. Take it and run.
Add some logical fallacies: You need some ad-hominem attacks or things that truly don't line up.

No.

1) "Some folks don't like the grind of having to whittle down an AV with no challenge but how long it takes"

Thus, reduce his hitpoints greatly. Any team that takes his life half-way can take his life all the way down. Unlike other encounters where fights can drastically change or something new and exciting can happen in this fight everything stays the same. There's no "increased danger" or "new encounter" once he reaches 1/2 hit points or so.

2) "Then there's the other group of people saying the gimmick (temp powers based on ATs on the team, or the perceived need to bring a certain team build or risk not being able to complete it) needs to go and "how dare they attempt to make me resort to tricks to finish a fight everything should be easy enough for the greenest Pug team to beat." "

Thus remove anything where "Only a player of type XXXX can do this". Other content merely encourages certain players or certain styles. In this one there is a line that literally cannot be crossed without the requisite archetype. One literally cannot push that button without being a stalker. Contrast to the Green Mitos in a Hamidon encounter. They highly encourage holds but other archetypes can pull it off too.

Two non-mutually exclusive steps. Do one AND do the other.

There will always be players complaining about every change. When they give critical review with logical and valid reasons why its not fun and how to fix it then they should be changed. This situation is one where players have logical and valid complaints and simple solutions: 1) Reduce the HP, 2) Remove archetype specific stuff.


No.

5 minutes and 7 minutes. As described below, the TF minimum is 4 people. The time differences are quite large between Reichsman and other encounters and likely much larger than 5 and 7 minutes.

At some point there is a subjective "this takes too long to be fun". Perhaps your personal subjective line is "I don't mind attacking the same guy for 3 days straight." Mine, however, is right where Reichsman is...

Also, the Khan and Barracuda TF are minimum team size 4. How long do you think this encounter lasts on a team of 4? Would you consider it "lasting too long" on a team of 4?

I like trying and sometimes failing too. I like the devs trying new things. However, I want them to fix their failures.

That's probably the same rainbow that was removed from the old interface. Now could you please take that rainbow and re-insert it into the interface so one can distinguish the status of items at a glance on the all tab

Undoubtedly. I'm looking to move about 10 in total

Oh, I didn't even notice. I use Paragonwiki. I googled "Lughebu" and those links came up 1-2.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...TF-8&q=lughebu

Haha, touche. Sadly there were a lot more snakes than clones.

I'm unsure sure how I feel about you NOT mentioning where I placed badges and PvP.

I believe the issue priorities are as follows:

1) Badge related issues
2) Server stability and login issues a close 2nd to badges.
3) Game play issues
4) Costume issues
5) Base issues
6) Social/chat issues
....
50) Market issues
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100,000) Hm... what should my forum avatar be
100,001) PvP

I was thinking about sending the devs huge thank you notes, certificates of awesome, and other things for fixing TF difficulty.

Then they made it so my AE works in moronic ways with allies rendering my contest pointless and unfun...
Then they "upgraded" the market so I can no longer search for recipes, no longer can get an at a glance reading of how everything is doing, have to turn off prompts everytime I log into a character, and have to go slowly because their new system auto-fills in fields with numbers I don't type there.
Now they are placing pop ups on my screen that they spent time removing.

What's next? Clippy?

I am familiar with playing with a no death playstyle. I have an Empathy/Assault Rifle toon in that SG named "Shutup and ShootThem". I make stuff dead, toss out some buffs, and occasionally toss out a heal in between fights. I am familiar with playing with a frequent death playstyle. I'm familiar with everything and anything in between. In no scenario have I ever thought "man, we could use someome who just buffs and heals."