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Yeah, it is likely their ad provider.

This version of the idea sounds like a perfect compromise.

And remember, this only works for the illusionist decoys. You actually have to defeat the Phantasms and Dark Servants.

Well, given that someone has decided to start tagging my posts or threads that I post in with a tag calling me names, it should be very obvious as to some of the rep people leave. There is malice behind it and some are using the ratings (thread, rep, tags) as a means of bullying. This clearly breaks forum rules of behaviour, and should not be tolerated.

To bring back what was said above, it is schoolyard bullying at its worst.

Rep comments still exist, and will continue to exist as long as people are able to use that button at the bottom of each post. The fact that they are next to impossible to find just points out one flaw of the system. The fact that whoever set up the forums did half a job and doesn't know how to let people choose if they want to see the comments or not shows the lack of thought that went into enabling this "feature".

Thread rating = Thread Stars. I think back on it that I should have said "post count" instead of stars there.

I said I would treat some tags as griefing, not that I expected the moderation team to do so.

Yet people are still allowed to make comments, the rep count is still in a prominent spot (if I disable rep, I shouldn't see anyone's rep pips).

I think that should be up to the moderation team and I'm perfectly willing to differ to their judgment about tags.

I seriously dislike graffiti when it isn't in a place that hasn't okay'd it. My family has been victimized by graffiti vandals and I can say from personal experience that there is a social cost to it.

I would fully get behind these. I'd be 100% sold if they add in the ability to hide the rep display (post pips) if you opt-out of the system and the ability to completely remove yourself from the system.

And the Pocket D teleport power (for the times where there are multiple instances of it).

They all use the exact same animation.

So, the original poster can go to the EU version. Problem solved.

Really, 16+?


City of heroes and villains has always been rated T for Teen by the ESRB:
Even though the GMs will enforce towards E10+. I don't mind that.

To be honest I keep forgetting that the tags exist. If there was a way for the user to show or hide them, I'd like that too.

As to the "you're trying to suggest some kind of strict authoritarian order", I'm not. I'm trying to suggest ways for the community reps to foster a sense of inclusiveness.

As far as "specifically when they do no harm", give me a break. You know as well as I do that some people here and in the game have zero sense as to what constitutes "harm". I had a friend last night completely upset because of 3 individuals picking on her. Is this the "harmless fun" (their words) that you are suggesting we foster? Tags, stars, ratings, and rep comments can all be used for the same purpose. Even above, using the rep system or using tags to "label" someone as a troll can foster bad feelings.

I know at least one poster that sought negative rep from the beginning. Usually a troll is very obvious on this forum, even without forum rep.

Yeah, and this brings me back to my initial post...

Post count comments are generally aimed at "Forum Cartel" posters (even before I became one). I've seen it happen both ways: a high post count person has been critical of a poster's low count.

There should be a tag cloud editor, but I'd treat snarky or nonsensical thread tags as griefing.

Edit:
Another thought just occurred to me-- How are users that have the system on able to tell which posts got griefing negative rep so that it could be reported? The simple answer is they can't.

Peacbringers can get Bright Nova at level 6 as well. Both versions (Dark, Bright) are at the flight speed cap. At level 10, Peacebringers get the equal to hover.

Warshades get Black Dwarf and both the dwarfs can also combat jump.

Squishor, please ignore this unhelpful reply.

Positron commented a few years ago when he was in charge of badge issues that the game did not distinguish between different ranks for badge credits. I'd take his word over Claw's.

It is divisive and harmful to the community as a whole. It is just another e-peen contest.

We were told that they were going to hide post count on these new forums to lessen the friction of the old/new posters. Instead we get another popularity contest.

The following forum mechanisms should be removed to promote community:

• Reputation.
• Thread Stars.
• Post count.

These three systems divide the community more than they bring them together.

Ways to get around now:

• Ouroboros hub zone.
• Green & Yellow lines
• Rogue Island Ferries
• Pocket D TP
• WW & BM teleporters
• Pillars of Ice & Flame if you know what contacts are in what zone.
• Base TP power and they can send you to almost any zone.
• Mac/Valkyrie pack mission transport power.

I have a good guess as to why the recharge is 2 hours: there are a number of 2 hour timed missions in CoH. It would also make a farce of the travel needed during the Shadow Shard Task Forces. Another abuse I could see is Radio or Paper missions:

• Select a defeat boss mission.
• Stealth to end to defeat boss.
• Profit with the end of mission bonuses.

Additionally, there is the fact that at 5 minutes (or even 30 minutes) you could do endless PVP missions with zero risk (do mission exit, call it in, get new mission, TP to new mission within 30 seconds).

So take your time enjoy the scenery, DPS isn't everything. If it is too much effort to go to another mission stay in the AE and never leave.

Count me in on the "no" side. Given that this would create a two-tier game where those with more cash to spend have a great advantage over those that don't, all this suggestion would do in the end is cause NCsoft to lose customers.

It doesn't even have any hint of justification other than "I can't be bothered to play, hand me xp NAO!"

I could say something... uncharitable... about the people that set up the current system, but I won't.

Edit: oh, and quoting your post was an interesting example of what I mean.

How it originally shown:
[QUOTE=Fleeting Whisper;2576255]With HTML, yes. But if a new BBCode is defined, the same safeguards which prevent I really hate these forums.

You have a slightly broken link there, it doesn't include the trailing ")".
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Target_custom_next_(Slash_Command)

Fixed.

However I created a guide on these forums, which I transfered to paragonwiki dealing with this command. It can be found here:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Hunt_Target_Macros_/_Binds

I hope this helps.

Normally, yes, but not with tables or divs... Trust me, I have first hand experience with these forums and HTML.

Actually it would be better to use "/ignorespammer <name>". This ignores the RMT and sends a flag to the GMs. Additionally, I'd /petition them, but then again that is what the community reps have asked us on behalf of the GMs to do.

Um, yep, you're right. I just wish I had the listed systems in the late 90's.

Well, that's good, because I have a dozen characters on Virtue already. The highest is a level 32 Storm/Energy Defender.

I don't have the problem you seem to have with others. I've seen plenty of off-beat builds in my time from other players: level 50 tanks without taunt, Empathy defenders with the medicine pool (still scratching my head over that one), andlevel 50s without any travel powers. I don't care what oddball builds people play with. If the player plays well even with a "bad build", then I don't care what their build is. If they play like an idiot, then I finish the mission and never team with them again.

So which accounts should I add a note on?

I've cited several examples already. It is the rare bugs that drive coders nuts due to the fact that they are hard to repeat. It doesn't mean that a bug may not exist just because it can't be repeated.

C being constant does not follow that it is stable or bug free.

Once a bug can be repeated, it makes its way to the Known Issues list. As far as an unofficial bug, do you have some inside knowledge at NCsoft? I've seen reports, and I've personally experienced it in the past, of this type of crash. So I don't care if you think what it status is, to me the long standing nature suggest a bug to me.

Thank you, that is exactly what I meant.