Sugar_Rush
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Quote:That's not actually true though.Originally Posted by Commander
The game with Orcs and Lich royalty, you have a specific tree based on the class you play. Everyone has the same exact tree, the same exact abilities. The only thing that differs is the amount of power you assign to each ability.
I used to run around in that game as one of a regular team of 3 mages (yes, we had no tank or healer, imagine that!) and our characters were nothing alike. I built a glass cannon - an all-fire mage, my friend had a cold-based mage, my wife a nice balanced mage with bits from each and the other branch.
It was really no different from choosing three different types of blaster to play here.
Yes, there's a lot more choice here, but there's not 'no choice' there. -
Quote:No doubt there will be yet another form of currency to pay the rent on that once it's in the game!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Positron mentioned recently that they'd been looking at the idea of personal player housing, but that it was very resource intensive.
It seems a bit silly to me that Premium players can unlock IOs but can't pay rent on bases. -
Quote:Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
This is missing a period. It goes inside the quotation marks.
No; in proper English English it would be outside the quotation marks as it belongs to the enclosing sentence, not the quote - and it's called a full stop!
Colonials! Tut!
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Quote:What makes you think it's a bug?Originally Posted by newchemicals
The level 1 double xp bug has been around for years. I've sent in bug reports for this issue more than a few times.
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Looks like level one's have a boost because the game wants to get you to 2 as soon as possible?
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I'm surprised the Lounges aren't going.
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Quote:...and I'm going to disagree with you.Originally Posted by Feycat
Nope. Gonna disagree with you there.
Help is too important to the free playerbase - to help them figure out how to actually PLAY THE GAME to have questions bumped off by idiots misusing the channel to LFG. That channel is busy enough with chatter, it does NOT need LFG spam in it too.
We should all be trying to keep the Help channel as clean as possible for the new folks, so they can get their questions answered, NOT encouraging people to junk it up with LFG spam.
In my experience Help doesn't generally work the way you think it does; it's normally monopolised by a bunch of players discussing anything that crosses their minds, often nothing to do with the game - at least on Virtue when I'm on - with the occasional actual help request getting lost and ignored in the spam.
I would encourage all Free players to use the Help channel as a LFG channel as it's the only real communication channel they have access too, until the devs see sense and give free players their own free player channel that people worried about the inevitable gold selling spam can simply ignore.
The chat restrictions were stupid under the old trials, they're still stupid now. -
Quote:20KB is very generous for avatar images, most come in under 10KB, yours is 4!Originally Posted by Father Xmas
First 20KB is a little small for an Avatar. It was fine for 80x80 but 100x100 needs a bit more for a uncompressed image. Say 40KB (100x100x4 bytes per pixel).
Uncompressed images are for print, not t'internet...
Personally I would ban animated .gifs.
Not just from this forum: outright ban them.
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Quote:I moved to Virtue a while ago; moved back to my EU account when they merged the server lists, but mainly re-rolled on Virtue until a friend came back and we level-pact'd to 50 on Union.Originally Posted by Fluct
This is very probably the best advice.
Now the game has gone free to play you'll notice an upsurge in players on most servers, I mean I just popped out of a mission into Talos Island 2 on Virtue at effectively breakfast time on the east coast. Keep the home server, mine will always be Defiant, but don't be afraid to alt on another if it's busy when you usually play.
The only server I'd recommend avoiding would be Exalted, although that'll no doubt be subjective
I'm hoping the population on Union picks up, but Virtue is a good alternative, it seems busier at the times I play; I'm planning on moving one or two characters there.
Exalted has a decent population at the moment. -
Quote:Might be something in that; I've always had a sneaking suspicion that the most likely person to be in the space suit is the Doctor himself (regardless of all the clues telling us it's River). I never really liked the Substitute-Ganger-Doctor-dies theory though (the Gangers turn to mush when they die, so it would have been obvious), a duplicated Doctor might work.Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Yes it appears that whatever else is going on the Doctor needs to convince The Silence that he has been killed. If you remember one of The Silence watched from the bluff above.
It feels like a long scam on his part to trick them. I do think a Doctor is going to his death. We have seen that 2 of a person can be created in the time stream and note The Dead Doctor didn't have the TARDIS with him. I think he leaves Craig and at some point soon splits himself. One taking the TARDIS one using that wrist time travel thing. And it is the Second Doctor who actually dies.
The most likely outcome is the obvious one: the Doctor is shot by Spacesuit River but cheats and doesn't actually die; I hope the ending isn't that dull, I want something clever! -
Quote:Get out of my head!Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
If the Carnival of Light pack doesn't have any masks in it, because there is a risk of clipping, then that (along with the Circle of Thorns pack) will make the first two costume packs that I don't buy.
I don't have a single barbarian-type character, but I bought that on the first day. I'm a costume *****. I absolutely love all the options. But since you didn't give us those with the Circle pack, I'm out. I'm sad, and I'm out.
I wasn't that keen on the CoT revamp, but some of the higher up bits are nice.
But we don't get those - we can dress as a grunt.
Whoopee do. -
Quote:They're both called Katie; there's no H.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Kathie Douglass (I keep wanting to call her Kathie Hannon for some reason)
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Quote:Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
I have to agree about the tiered unlocking; they need something explicit in game that says "When you complete this tier you unlock access to X, Y & Z". I can't even find any official documentation that explains it anywhere, all I've found outside of random forum threads is this: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Paragon_Rewards_Program
Am I reading it wrong or are the 'Character' and 'Account' rewards listed on that wiki page back to front?
It's using Character to mean 'all characters' and Account as 'one per account', but the game uses Character as 'one character' and Account as 'all characters on the account' doesn't it?
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Quote:I saw those points as an incentive for people to continue subbing until i21 hit, or indeed come back earlier than they might; nothing to do with disruption of service.Originally Posted by Madadh
As I pointed out earlier, you were given at least 400, maybe more, above your contracted amount. If 110 is fair for the inconvenience, can I have the rest of yours?
Edit: Yes, I know, I'm not returning mine either, so I admit, that was a bit of a jab. Meant to illustrate a point I made earlier, not intended for maliciousness. -
Quote:Yeah, but those trees died millions of years ago!Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
Instead you burned the dead trees to power your book.
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Quote:My book has a power socket; I've not read off dead tree since I got it!Originally Posted by SpikyShane
I don't seem to have a USB port on my book. Where do I connect my mouse??
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Quote:It's funny how you play an MMO and hang out all day on its forum and yet don't consider yourself a nerd.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Nerdrage is a T9 vet reward power, so it's been cycled out of this thread for a while.
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Quote:It's not malice or stupidity, it's...indifference I guess?Originally Posted by Giant2005
What can it be then? It has to be either malice or stupidity to have the scheduled downtime on a Friday night's prime time. Surely it is more economical to have that downtime on a Thursday night or any other night?
It may be an oversight but I think that when it comes to business, oversight and stupidity are synonymous.
They have work to do, work that has to be done and has to be done when they can do it. The fact that this regularly annoys the same group of players will be seen as 'unfortunate but unavoidable', nothing more than that. -
Quote:You're saying they should compensate the happy customers instead of the unhappy ones? Or that NCSoft should just know that people are unhappy with the service without them telling them?Originally Posted by Do0msayr
I totally agree with you. Yea, if they did something cool on them.
But realistically, and this is not so fantastic example and not personal to anyone here at all but it will get the point across, would you rather reward the nice child? rather than the one that's throwing a fit and a tantrum with candy?
It only takes a few to ruin it for the majority (And i have been in that situation many a time :/ ), not saying that is the case here but who knows? I don't.
Other MMO companies regularly add time to people's accounts to make up for excessive interruptions to service; heck, even this company has compensated players for interruptions to service in the past (the Union DXP event that all-but killed Defiant springs to mind).
Maybe people shouldn't expect it, but it's good public relations and most MMO companies (including this one!) understand this. -
I think it means the next billing date, once the time you just paid for runs out, you'll get your points and token.
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Quote:If the techies I know are typical, there's no such thing as a "final phase" when it come to servers!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It's the final phase of the upgrades
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Quote:There were many requests for a 'I survived the lag' badge during the first few weeks in the EU; we didn't get that and to be honest that was far, far worse.Originally Posted by CatAstrophy
I would like to see Server Maintenance in NA prime time - bet that thread like this would have more than 1000 posts.
If Server Maintenance must be in EU prime time, can we at least get badge "I've survived Server Maintenance" or something like that, since we won't get any other compensation.
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Quote:Leslie is the male version of Lesley.Originally Posted by TonyV
In Gone with the Wind, there is a male character named Ashley played by a male actor named Leslie.
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Quote:No, not a trial account, just not active.Originally Posted by General_CoH
Interesting. And that was a trial account? Then you lucked out, I guess. Kind of like I did getting 4 character slots.
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Quote:Oh, I dunno, we got a load of extra servers...some of them with actual players on them!Originally Posted by Dylan Clearbrook
in fact, the EU players seem to have gotten the short end of the stick