TehHippeh

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Be glad that you did. I think that is the same article where they talked about all the encounters we can have with that evil entity called "Hammadon."

That was missed by a lot of players in the huge thread, too. I think most people expect a model to be "Free or paid," and in this case we have "Free but gave us no money", "Free but gave us money at some point (Premium)", and "subscribed (VIP)."

Premium is not at all restricted from communication channels, or has very few of them from what I have read. It is only the people who haven't paid jack-all to Paragon that get silenced. Like Ryxx said, those people are basically on trial accounts that get to level to 50. To be bothered by one of those people, you would really have to go out of your way, or keep standing next to them as they spammed you in Local Chat.

Premium only seems to hit you if you have so many toons you may want to play at a given time. When you stop subbing, you get tokens and can choose which of your chars you want to activate. This would not affect most people unless they truly have more than 12 or so chars in their active stable - not things they play once in a while to get a shiny or two, but chars they actually want to play.

I can't see a downside to anything in the announcements so far. For people who pay every month, I cannot see much about the game changing other than maybe running into a newb once in a while.

Unless something changes, all of the announcements have said nothing changes for players who stay subscribers. You get your allotment of paragon points and the paragon tokens/rewards. The only way you could get ripped off compared to now is if you decided you needed to spend more than those 400 points, or whatever you had accumulated. And it is still based on choice.

Granted it could come in the future, but for the moment I don't see it happening.

The VIP server is only there for people who are so damn scared they may see RMT spam in local chat that they feel the need to flee into their gated communities.

You need to let new players team with existing players if they are to have any hope of actually becoming a veteran player in the future. Complaints about Winter Lord and AE Babies? You are talking very high probabilities of having a permanent section of the player base emulate these reviled banes to the server. You can't learn about the game and proper behavior/mission etiquette/slotting if you have no one around you to learn it from.

I'm not going anywhere, and I hope no one else from Vic flees for the "promised land" of the VIP server either. Ignoring a given player is such a minor expenditure of time I can't believe it would even register on someone's annoyance meter.

Would you base a trip to a city on a chance to get a costume code or see a booth for a video game you already play and read its forums? This is a sincere question.

I think the five-minute cooldown on swapping plus the need to be out of combat takes care of this corner case. What is the recharge on Lore pets? If it is longer than 5 minutes I guess you could cheat a little.

The only thing I can see that stacks in that list is the mez protection from ID. Not the damage resist, but the mez. ID seems to be an odd choice given that other -mez were left off, but I guess they are thinking of it mainly for damage resist?

Hopefully they would do this instead of just pull SB out to answer complaints. I really hope it goes in as listed in the patch notes - but the cynic in me says opposition will be strong enough that something will need to be done with SB.


I don't know how possible those are. I would guess the speed cap thing is the most likely to work - the same way that PVP travel suppression is a power applied to you, maybe you could have an option that applies a run speed cap power to your person if you want to effectively have SB never take effect. I didn't mean to Poo Poo your previous suggestions as much as throw out the reason why we don't already have something like "ignore buffs" or a right-click "remove buff." Since run speed is the main concern with SB, it would be great if they could allow you to set a run speed cap via an option. No one seems to ever object to the extra recovery or recharge.

I have seen both. Low-end PCs often do not handle SB well. And there are some who just cannot move well with it on them, or line up their cones, or other movement-based problems. It surprises me, but playing a kin, I have heard more than a couple people tell me these things.


I don't disagree about SB at all. It is one of the better buffs in the game. But, if it is a choice between delaying the buff improvements versus removing SB from the list, I say full steam ahead and keep SB as single-target. The nerdrage is strong already and this is day 1 of the announcement.

Buffs and debuffs in the game are functionally the same thing (debuffs are negative buffs), so any kind of "cancel buff" option has problems because it would also allow us to cancel debuffs. This is why we do not have this request implemented yet - the arguments against run speed and SB go back to day 1 of the game. It would be great if we had options, but they certainly aren't simple and may not be possible. For example, if we were able to check "ignore all buffs," it's possible this would also prevent debuffs from affecting us.

I definitely hope they come up with something.

You know, I love that list, but I almost wish they would take SB off. Complaints about thermal and ice shields are usually pretty lame (my poor costume!), but SB really does make some people almost non-functional on certain maps. Or even outside. :/

If SB were not in the AOE buff list, I can't really see any objections that may stop this from getting pulled or modified. Costume contest objections do not count.

Of course, I do not find it a chore to SB a team. But I also think blasting is more fun. I guess I am torn. I'd love to tell people to just suck it up, but it is also trivially easy to skip people in the buff order.

There is a comic - I have it but sadly forgot its title - that details the confrontation with these blue-handed guys. It is certainly no replacement for getting several episodes of content for sure, but it does serve as a bridge between the series and the movie.

Edit: Whoops, missed the sentence saying he read the comic. My reading is gud

Masque always responds to me right away. But that is because I know a suga daddy when I see one and kiss his *** the correct way

Or you could say that they never balanced around PVP only, but that wouldn't help your argument at all

Blasphemy! More than 1 character!?! Maaaaadness!

Hello. In the past Victory had several active LGBT groups. I have not seen that level of activity in a while, but I am pretty sure the server got this "reputation" a while ago. I still see the Bear Patrol, for example, but not a lot of the other SGs that were active in the past.

Except temp powers are disabled during the trial.

Not true. I love it. The Ghoul fight is the best one in the game IMO. People have already listed tactics to use. I just kite the whole time and never get hit. Seriously, move around a bit or fly. Grab a raptor pack.

A TF that lasts about an hour without hunts, fed ex missions, or extensive inter-zone travel is just what the doctor ordered.

Trypt-o-fantastic

You could give up 7% per IO and slot one of the Quickfoot run/End or a Zephyr travel/end. That would be the ultra cheap Hippy version.

As an example, I was just on a run where 4 (maybe 5) people went to the cutscene, and the other team still had a temp power to get. 5 people is a lot to bail on a phase before it is completed.

Best to just skip the cutscene "funny" and get the trial completed.

I haven't been on many of the runs, but couldn't it be helpful when going for the "separated" badge? One run had both meatshields get cut down by towers, then the squishy who got Siege aggro ran for the hills and pulled him away from the spawn point. Badge failed.

Siege's target is supposed to be the tower target. Turning some off should keep people who are less likely to flee alive.

But in the runs going for the badge, is my above scenario an outlier? Do the towers really not make much of a difference? IMO, one astral merit in exchange for another one isn't that big of a risk - and really, 4 threads "wasted" is not much when trying for a badge.

This power chains differently than other chain powers. I think to avoid the chain stopping if the 2nd or following targets die. The jump is more "simultaneous" if that makes sense. It is happening a lot more quickly, so it is a lot easier to miss.