Taiyanna

Mostly luck. I was refreshing their feed every fifteen seconds or so from a few minutes before one of the posts... clicked straight through as soon as it popped up, looked at a random code, and typed that over to my redemption box. Probably took.... 15, 20-ish seconds from it being posted. Helps that I have dual monitors, so I had the feed on one screen and my entry box on the other.

The question is, who are you planning to shoot with all this ammo?

And you need to stop flipping out and pretending you're the crusader of all that is good and just in the online world.

"All this stuff" being.... what, exactly? The tiny snippets given every three months as a vet reward (that we now get every month instead, and have more flexibility in picking)? Content expansions and powersets for free? Wait, still get those as well...

Yes, of course it's a marketing thing. That's in "duh" territory. But that doesn't make it bad. It's not like the freebie item is hidden, and they're forcing people to browse through the store to get it; it's on the very front page. It's about the most unobtrusive "get them to see the inside of the store" method there is, getting people to see the inside of the store is almost their entire business model for the f2p structure. They're not doing anything particularly evil with the marketing. It's not being cynical to say "Oh, it's a marketing ploy", it's being silly. The game would be dead without marketing.

O noes, the first day of a month long event doesn't have the high points of the entire event!

And yes, it is a Nemesis plot. What we've so far is *exactly* what we saw written down as the opening of his plot- swarming the city on multiple fronts to wear defenses down.

Which is also a perfectly valid way of doing it, same way latitude can be given as either +/- or degrees north/degrees south. Standard convention uses the +/- method, is all. At least in my region, and most that I know of.

Nah, it's the original post that's off, unless they just *really* didn't want to be close to precise. The location they give is supposed to be '5 miles from Talos', and yet is more than a hundred fifty miles off the coast. >.<

But the Talos monorail is above-ground!

You'd be wrong. ;-) Longitude is measured from the prime meridian, up to 180 degrees east and -180 west.

And why is http://maps.google.com/maps?q=39.76,...z=8&iwloc=near reachable by monorail from the mainland US?

Okay, now THAT I would download for.

After all, we all know that design works by putting every employee to work on a single problem at a time! Balanced workload? Pff, never heard of it.

You're really not counting the relative value of that content, though- a single incarnate trial is more play value than three level 10-20 zones in general.

I support this happening.

Except that they spent *four issues* specifically building up *WHO* will die. In fact, it's the name of the entire arc. Not "How Will Statesman Die", but "Who Will Die". They spent four arcs explicitly maintaining that who as a mystery, and then drop it as a "btw" in a description of the fifth. Are they just working with multiple teams that have *no* communication with each other, maybe?

Granted, it's at least possible that from the beginning it wasn't planned as THE twist for the arc, but if you're really going to argue that it wasn't being set up as *A* twist, then you're arguing that the writers are either braindead or terrible at their jobs.

That makes total sense for them to do.

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*Where* in Talos? It's a big place and doesn't seem to be on my map. And what's the contact's name?

EDIT: Found him. Slightly northwest of the vault reserve, name is Michael Binocolo.

It does affect Fly, it's just that it's suppresion, not a detoggle. While you're IN the lava, you stop flying and are on the ground walking/running. When you jump, you exit the lava, get out of the -fly effect, and your suppresed Fly kicks back in.