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It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.

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Luckily that doesn't count here - I'd be a multiple offender

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Tempting, so tempting, but no, it's Thanksgiving...

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Hahaha! Golden Girl is fat!

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/em facepalm

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It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.

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Luckily that doesn't count here - I'd be a multiple offender

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Tempting, so tempting, but no, it's Thanksgiving...

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am i the only one thinking I13 tomorrow?

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Yes. Issues have been released on Tuesdays since I5.

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Yup - a Friday release, with an entire dev-less weekend for players to find and be stuck with any bugs that turn up in the first few hours, wouldn't be good.

And that's before you bear in mind it's the Friday after Thanksgiving, so a lot of devs will have run things into a 4-day weekend...

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Q1 is the date positron said. This is not Q1.

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Not anywhere I've been able to find, he didn't. Link plx!

Madness! With the new power capping they'd be way overpowered in PvK!

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the winter events not due to go live till the 15th according the calendar and i cant see i13 hitting before the winter event as its been tested on the current i12 build and it seems strange to test it on a i12 build if its going to come after i13.

realistically i recon we wont see i13 till after Jan 4th (end of the winter event)

It would be nice if it came along before Jan 23rd as that's a DXP weekend and it would give all my lovely new toons a nice lvl boost.

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I think the Winter Event's currently active (in a slightly updated form from last year's) on test, so that will have been hammered a bit and ready for live with I13 too.

So if the devs want the updated WE to go live (which they will!) they'll have to get I13 out before then. There's a separate flag to turn the WE on and off, so barring a major bug showing up I'm guessing next week for I13 live.

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15.in Indiana there is a law stating that Pi is exactly 3
(afraid of decimal places much?)

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u hav faild teh interweb.

Sounds very like a known bug that crops up occasionally; the fix is to get in touch with Support via the Knowledge Base pages and report it (giving account details, etc...), and they can put it right.

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I know. Let's just hound, flame and slag the new person rather than post anything constructive. That'll encourage them to stick around.

Bravo!

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OK, I'm up for that.

I hear the OP has a dire haircut, and drives a rubbish car.

Very nice guide Paralux!

I'm not exactly short on alts at the moment, but after reading through this I've added a Plant/Storm to the end of the "try next" list.

At the weekend too - nice timing! Have a good one SG!

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I work, I've never been at home waiting for the patch; I assumed it was applied as part of normal maintenance.

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Not for full Issues - they like the dev team to be on hand for these, in case something goes pear-shaped. And as the devs are all on US time, that means Issue updates take place in our afternoons.

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Not totally true. It's applied as part of normal maintainance (10am shut down), but it goes on for longer, usually several hours. Well, it used to anyway. Generally this means it's back up for the evening.

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Or, it goes down for normal maintenance at normal maintenance times, then stays down until they do the separate Issue application over the EU afternoons.

Without inside information, we may never know.

Not quite either of those options, I think; at the moment you've got a big pot of prestige (and an empty base!) as a result of selling existing items at I12 prices.

When I13's out, you'll be able to re-buy kit at lower I13 prices to get everything back plus some prestige left over.

Alternatively you can buy back now, at the same price as you sold, and get back to how things were before. Then (following today's refund announcement) you'll get the price difference give to you automatically when I13 goes live. This will put you in exactly the same position as if you'd held off rebuying until I13 was out.

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Calm down. It's not even in beta yet.

I wouldn't say it's out until next year or so.

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You're basing this estimate on what redname info or personal experience of forum setup...?

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I work, I've never been at home waiting for the patch; I assumed it was applied as part of normal maintenance.

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Not for full Issues - they like the dev team to be on hand for these, in case something goes pear-shaped. And as the devs are all on US time, that means Issue updates take place in our afternoons.

Hurrah - nice one devs!


A quiet "tsk" too, as they could have saved themselves a lot of dischuffed players if they'd included this from the start, but even so good to hear they got there in the end!

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Okay, Positron is great for the time it takes, I likes it, it may make people think that at times some tenaciousness and perseverance is needed to complete these things.

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You may like it, but everything I've seen makes me think you're in a small minority with that.

Most people find it a dull, and overly difficult, grind. I don't think the "dull grind" part should ever be in a game people are paying to enjoy themselves with, but as far as "difficult" goes...there's a place for difficult, and I wouldn't say it's the very first TF most people will ever see.

It's common practice to make the first occurrence of something in a game relatively easy (c.f. Outbreak/Breakout), and if people try Posi with a full level 12 team (it's designed for levels 10-15, right?) as their first experience they're going to regard TFs as fun-free debtfests.

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But there is nothing wrong with a bunch of new players doing something for the first time together, finding it hard and failing.

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There's "hard", and "ridiculously impossible" - Posi with an full level 12 team of novices will fall into the "ridiculously impossible" category. Hell, the first mission of Posi will fall into that category, never mind the TF as a whole.

Ramp difficulty up in later TFs, but start things relatively easy; you don't get your first driving lesson on the motorway.

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Don't think I am saying "make them all challenging" without saying "make the rewards worth the challenge". I like things meaty, worth sinking your teeth into and still believe that any 2 TFs worth of reward should easily get the Firetank their KB prot IO.

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It doesn't matter how high the reward is if the beginners' TF is uncompletable by beginners. They'll never earn it, and the TF's failed in its purpose.

Edit: Fixed mission/TF typo

Deadskip, either of those options would get you the same place - a new teleport room and around 1 million extra prestige to spend.

For the purposes of keeping things running, doing it after I13's live is probably best.

Do bear in mind that if you delete the telepads themselves you'll need to recreate them using the new I13 invention salvage system - unless you have enough spare prestige already to create holding room(s) to move them into while you're deleting/recreating the big room. There's no way round this.

Edit: Actually, it might be feasible to delete the telepads and rooms now, then rebuild (but not place) the telepads using the existing base salvage rules. Then make the cheap room and place the pre-built pads in it once I13's live. Anyone know if this is doable?

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I am lost on why a few people finding a couple of TFs annoying or boring, or 'apparently' impossible for newbie teams would warrant a fix."

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"A few people"? I'm not sure I've ever seen a word of praise for Posi, but over the years I've seem many, many people condemning it.

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The only fixes needed is where the TFs aren't played as intended. Everyone has their own idea of fun or challenging.

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It's intended to be fun; even the devs agree it isn't. To me, that means a fix really is needed.

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It's worth mentioning that the free respecs that are given out do not stack, so if you have one unused, you're not going to get an extra one. If I recall correctly, these respecs tend to be given out just before the issue becomes live.

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IIRC it's usually the opposite; if powersets have changed significantly (which is the usual "excuse" for handing out a freespec) they want to give you time to experiment with the new system before giving you a freespec to fix things with.

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Sorry too late, thread already been NoobBusted

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Who you gonna call?

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I'm talking about this:

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He has.

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That's not true Artic. They *have* done something...
They made a questionaire over on the US forums yesterday

So that's all sorted then.

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Specially designed for psychics, too:

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Base Salvage Exchange to Invention Salvage
3) How long will it take you to adjust to learning this new system?

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Uh-huh, try actually slotting your toggles for reduced enduance cost. My current main is a /WP Scrapper. At level 20 she was running 3 toggles continuously when fighting and had no real trouble because I slotted for end rec.

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Um, I take it she didn't happen to pick up the Quick Recovery (= Willpower Stamina lookalikey) at level 20?

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Erm, isn't the Black Market full of weapons, some of which you can buy there as well?

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No, that's only for show.

As for the suggestion itself, I like it. I can understand the reasons against but maybe if you have to do an arc where you get "trust" from the police then maybe you could by the guns. A /signed from me.

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Did you miss the some of which you can buy there as well? bit or just not understand it?

My Thugs MM has bought the Revolver temp power from there before.

I would like more Temp Weapon powers, for example the non-holy Shotgun you can get from a Mayhem sidemission would be nice.

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Yes, but that's only one...

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Other than this and this, you mean?