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From the Patch Notes for the newest patch on the Test server:
Quote:I know the GM's don't have the capability to add time to the trial. I'm fairly sure that they cannot award the Empyrean merits when all of the conditions for the awarding of those merits isn't met. That's the standard they've had with any rewards since day 1 of the game.Originally Posted by Freitag
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Incarnate Trial: Keyes Island Reactor- Anti Matter should no longer get stuck in walls and platforms.
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Quote:?_?Originally Posted by LSK
I can do both on Little Black n red lvl 10 dp/pain cor
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For ATI, the Driver Version reported isn't the number ATI refers to them as publicly. The numbers ATI uses publicly, and the ones most players of various games use, equate to the date the drivers were released in a Last2DigitsOfYear.Month format.
For example, the drivers released in May 2011 are referred to as the 11.5 drivers and similarly the drivers released in February 2011 would be the 11.2 drivers.
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Not sure why the link doesn't work. Here are two that will work.
Posi's post as well as the rest of the thread.
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Quote:Others have already pointed out that you don't have to run the trials to get threads, so I won't go there. You didn't care for my examples of rewards tied to specific content in game. Ok. In order to switch sides and advance your character through different contacts, you must run X number of Tip missions and then an Alignment mission. A reward that advances you character tied to very specific content. To get Vanguard Merits, you must run specific types of missions against specific foes. Those Vanguard Merits can get you some new powers such as the HVAS. Those help advance your character.Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
Problem is definitely in game. Threads are forcing me and requiring me to do the trials. And your examples are invalid because the rewards you mentioned are not required to advance in the game. Being forced to do specific content to get threads would be like being forced to do specific content to earn XP all the way from 1 to 50. The only thing you're really forced to do at level one is the tutorial and that's only if you've never done it before after that you have the option to skip it. Now imagine that at level 1 you had all of two missions that gave XP and everything else in the game didn't give rewards at all. That's what incarnate trials are. That's what I am complaining about. Incarnate trials are in fact, by design, limiting the amount of content I have access to in order to get the rewards needed to advance in the game.
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Shards I can already get anywhere in the game, I have a choice of what I want to do in order to obtain my shards. This is how Threads should work but they don't, they limit me to doing these trials weather or not I actually want to do them.
There is an alternative. As already mentioned by others you can convert Shards to Threads. You don't have to do trials. There is a choice. And not everyone wants the rewards.Quote:The game design has always been about CHOICE. The choice to make whatever character you want, the choice to make your own missions, the choice to do whatever content you choose to do without limiting how you advance in the game. This can even be seen with Incarnate Shards. You are not required to the WST to get shards, that is your own choice, Shards will drop regardless of whatever content you are doing. I can whatever I want and still be able to upgrade my Alpha Slot but ONLY my Alpha Slot.
With Threads there is no choice. You can't use Shards to upgrade Interface, Destiny, Judgment, or Lore, you have to have Threads. You can't get threads unless you do Trials. This removes the choice from the player. If I could get Threads in other content or had any other choice to unlock and slot the other 4 slots I wouldn't be here complaining about the lack of content to do that. There is no choice because there is not other content to get Threads. I'm forced to do these two trials.
Trials have no alternative. You have to do trials. There is no choice. There should be a choice because not everyone can do them and not everyone wants to do them, but everyone wants the rewards. I'm not asking for the rewards to be given easily, just that there be options to get them. I'm asking for a choice which currently does NOT exist.
The problem is still in the chair. There is a way to get threads without doing only the trials. You've made a choice not to use that method.Quote:
If the problem were in chair and not in game that would mean there was already ways to get threads without doing repeated content. That would mean I only wanted Threads to drop faster without doing Trials. But they can't drop faster because they don't drop at all. Double of nothing is still nothing.
Wrong. This is a SUGGESTION. As such, it belongs in Suggestions and Ideas. You even refer to it as a suggestion, so don't say I'm putting words in your mouth. See, here it is:Quote:
And YES, this does belong in this forum section. It doesn't belong in player help because I'm not asking for player help. It belongs here because it has everything to do with improving the quality of life in game play for everyone not just me.
And here:Quote:
Why do people even continue to argue with me on this stuff. This has being going on for 7 years and every time I suggested a change be made to the game I get these hate messages and every time the changes have been made to the game. Going Rouge is a perfect example, if you look back you'll see a topic where I had first suggested the idea nearly a year, possibly 2 years before it was ever announced and that topic is just full of people insulting me, complaining about "balance issues" and claiming it would never happen but here we are. Another of my ideas that's in the game right now is power customization. People claimed it was impossible to do but in fact it was just very complicated and took a long time to implement. Doppelgangers, again, I made that suggestion years before it made it into the game and got lots of negative feedback on the forums from it. I was right and they were all wrong.
And here:Quote:
How many times do I have to post a suggestion to improve the game play and have it be implemented before people stop trying to argue with me and actually hold a civilized conversation? Seriously like 90% of every suggestion I've ever made on the forums has actually been implemented in the game and 100% of the comments on every one of them has been negative.
Yep. Definitely suggestions. And definitely belongs in the Suggestions and Ideas forums.Quote:
Oh I might also add that the only suggestions I've made that haven't been implemented in game are Praetorian Arachnos with the exception of Ghost Widow. A way to completely get rid of the Arachnos Uniform on the VEATs. And color names on the costume editor for the color blind.
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1. Were you in SG mode by any chance? Also, there were some changes made to Steampunk costume pieces in todays' patch, including jackets.
It's possible that when making those changes that the color palettes were swapped. -
Ravenwing,
Your first post today was timestamped at 9:42 AM Central time, which was within the scheduled Maintenance window of 6 AM to 10 AM Central time.
Your second post was at 10:38 AM Central time. Since it is a normal occurence for the servers to not be fully available for players to access by the end of the Maintenance period (especially when a patch is involved like today) it's possible that you were just a bit early.
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Quote:Some don't want to remember what happened yesterday.Originally Posted by Katfood
Why would I want to remember that?
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Quote:Gee. How did we ever form teams before global channels were introduced?Originally Posted by LSK
I guess the global channels are down? so dose that mean no one can really get a team together for the new trials?
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Quote:Eh, Alt + 0153 and Alt + 0128 aren't that difficult.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
That is infinitely more simple than the PC method.
WHY ARE YOU SO EVIL STEVE JOBS???
Steve Jobs isn't evil per se, but I can't use the words to describe him and remain within the currently posted Message Forum Rules and Guidelines.
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Quote:eHow to the rescue.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'm sticking with dot, dot, dot right now since I can't figure out how to make the trademark symbol on my Macbook, and I'm too busy watching cartoons with my kids right now to google it.
As an aside...Phineas and Ferb are totally OP.
EDIT: Option - 2 on the keyboard is the symbol. Shift - Option - 2 is the symbol. And of course, if you are using a Macbook you should know that Option = Alt already. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
I've been worried about this issue for a while, started another topic about this possibility before it was actually an issue but now it's actually happening.
Sense the new incarnate stuff has been out I've been trying to run the weekly strike Target once a day always on a different character. As well as doing some badge hunting for accolades and trials for the 4 new incarnate slots.
Now here's the issue. As more and more people have been realizing that they don't need shards anymore for their Alpha Slot there have been less and less people doing the weekly strike target. Last week there were actually times where I was trying to form a team for both Dr. Khan and Barracuda and one of the teams took me about 5 hours to form and the other never even happened. I got 1 person to show up and a bunch of people telling me "Why don't you just go into trials, threads are allot easier to get than shards."
There are only two trials and I'm already doing them way too much. I shouldn't have to run both trials more than once each per day just to get a slot unlocked and slotted. And I know there's a new trial coming out soon but one extra trial is not going to solve the problem.
Quite frankly the game is becoming repetitive and boring. When you start out the game there's a whole world of content that you can play and all of it will give you the same rewards that will help your character advance in the game... till you get to 50 then you have to do this very specific and limited content in order to advance in the game.
To be honest I felt like there was more content in the game for 50s before incarnate content existed. Sure we couldn't get XP and Inf was basically useless to us but we could do anything we wanted. There was nothing limiting our game play except our own desire to make the character stronger than it already was and that's why incarnate content was created, to give us a way to make our characters stronger.
But has incarnate content really added any new game play features. No, it has actually taken away from game play not added to it. I can't advance in the game without doing the same thing over and over again and it's getting really boring. Sunday this week I actually stopped playing the game. I've logged on, upgraded an incarnate ability with threads I already had and then logged off without playing. Because what am I going to do on the game? I'm going to run a bunch of trials or stand around forever begging people to join a TF team.
How about changing the content to one form of currency. There doesn't need to be Shards and Threads if everything can be done with threads. As I predicted months ago the value of Shards has gone down hill sense the introduction of Threads. So just get rid of them. And why do I need to do trials to get the damn things anyway? I'm bored out of my skull, make the rewards drop for all content so I can play the normal game like before I was 50 where I could do anything and still advance. Don't make game content that forces me into doing this or I can't get this. I don't like that. New content like the incarnate trials are only good when I'm not being forced to do them.
And yes it is forced. When you have it programmed so there's no other way to get the rewards than to do this one specific thing, that's force. You're using an incentive to get me to do something I might not normally do on my own. No you're no pointing a gun to my head and saying I have to do the incarnate trials or else, that's a different kind of force with a different motivator. And actually I'm allot more likely to do something I don't want to do if you reward me for it than if you punish me for not doing it so I'd probably just let you shoot me in the head rather than do the incarnate trials over and over again.
Eventually I'll run out of threads to just craft things and maybe I'll have a different outlook after a break from the game but damn stop with the "you have to do this to get this" tactics. I'm bored, right now staring at the little bumps in the ceiling seems like more fun than killing Marauder, Siege, and Nightstar for the 123,456,790th time.
I've been on this game for 7 years. Most of my friends stopped playing years ago because they felt it was getting too repetitive and I keep trying to convince them to start playing again every time new content gets added but this time around. I don't think I could convince anyone that the game isn't repetitive when I don't even believe it myself.
I almost want to just role a new character and ignore the incarnate stuff till there's more content to play with. I'm just bored with BAF/LAM runs. Keys will only be a temporary fix till I've done that one so much I'm bored with it. In a perfect world I'd have everything unlocked before I could get bored with the trials or there would of been more content to do before it was made public. The way I see it with as long as it takes to unlock everything there should already be at least 45 different incarnate trials. That way with a single character you can unlock a slot and get up to a t4 incarnate ability without the need to repeat a trial unless you really want to.
People have been begging for more level 50 content for years when they already had content they could do. My first 50 still has missions after 7 years that he hasn't finished and still won't finish because I'm too busy repeating these trials over and over. With so much content already in the game why limit me to these two trials? Why can't I just do my normal missions in Firebase Zulu and get Threads that way? I've still never seen the storm palace and probably never will the way this is going. X(You aren't? At the beginning of your first post you lamented that you couldn't get people to run the WST's, which drop shards BTW, because, in their words, "threads are allot (sic) easier to get than shards". If this has nothing to do with shards, why bring them up? Yes, I read your post. I had to read through it more than once due to the spelling errors to make sure I understood what you are saying.Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
Did you even read my original post or the information about the rewards in trials for that matter? I'm not complaining about Shard drops.
Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
Sense the new incarnate stuff has been out I've been trying to run the weekly strike Target once a day always on a different character. As well as doing some badge hunting for accolades and trials for the 4 new incarnate slots.
Now here's the issue. As more and more people have been realizing that they don't need shards anymore for their Alpha Slot there have been less and less people doing the weekly strike target. Last week there were actually times where I was trying to form a team for both Dr. Khan and Barracuda and one of the teams took me about 5 hours to form and the other never even happened. I got 1 person to show up and a bunch of people telling me "Why don't you just go into trials, threads are allot easier to get than shards."No, I didn't "schemed threw" it, nor did I skim through it. As I stated previously, I read it more than once to make sure I understood what you were saying, which wouldn't have been necessary if you hadn't been spelling words wrong or using the wrong word entirely.Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
It looks like you've at least schemed threw it but you missed the point of the topic by a mile. Incarnate Threads only drop regularly during incarnate Trials. You can get 2 Threads, but ONLY two threads at the end of both Tin Mage and Apex TFs which is a major rip off sense they're allot more work for less of a reward. No other content in the entire game will ever drop Threads so you are REQUIRED to do the Trials REPEATEDLY.
Yes, there is something else to do. The only one forcing you to do the trials is you. There is plenty of other content you can do, which you've already stated. Oh look, here it is in your own words, at the start of the paragraph that ended with you stating there is nothing else to do.Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
This is not a simple "I don't like this and so I don't want to do it" in fact I actually like the trials, when I'm not constantly crashing from them. And I've repeated them countless times over the course of 2 weeks before I finally went "I really wish I could do something else right now." but I can't do something else because there's nothing else to do.
Problem is definitely in chair. Absolutely nothing in the game is forcing you or requiring you to do the trials. It is your own desire to reap the rewards that are available through those trials that is at work there. For several years, the only way you could get a Hami-O was by participating in a Hami raid, and the only way to get a Titan-O was to run Eden trial. That didn't mean people were required to do that content. They ran the content IF they wanted that type of reward. The rewards weren't and still aren't required. Same with Vanguard Merits. Nothing requires you to run the content that generates those rewards. It's all personal choice.Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
I actually admitted in my first post that yes there is other content I could do but if I want rewards I have to do trials. There's no other options for reward but repeating trials. It's a choice between repeat content with needed rewards or new content with no rewards at all. Thus problem not in chair, problem in game.
The game design has always had specific rewards tied to specific actions or content. If you want those rewards, you participate in the content.Quote:Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
TThis is actually in the games design, it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the game only being programed to give me threads if I do Trials.
Please please PLEASE try to ACTUALLY read what the problem ACTUALLY is before you ASSUME something TOTALLY the opposite.
If you don't like running the content to continue to get those rewards, don't run it. But don't expect them to change the game design to meet your selfish wants.
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Call the credit card company back and ask for the Fraud department. I went through a similar situation a few years ago and the "regular" staff looking at the card couldn't see any problems or the attempted charges.
It turns out is was being blocked as possible fraud due to the store IP address being outside the US. Several calls to NCSoft in Austin and several to the Credit Card company didn't find the problems until someone with the credit card company got the wild idea to transfer me to the Fraud department.
All that NCSoft's billing department could see when we tried the transaction with them watching my account was that it was being blocked (not denied) by the credit card company.
Once I had them whitelist my purchases from NCSoft it stopped my problems.
EDIT: Some of the information is in the stickied post by Lighthouse called Discussion: Credit Card Billing Issues -
Quote:But how much will I be paying per month so that I can kill someone with my mind?Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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Quote:After this much time has passed, it would add the "Last edited my MrDead" tag with the date and time to the end of the post.Originally Posted by MrDead
I am so tempted to go change it and act like I don't know what you're talking about...
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Quote:I only see one question enumerated in your previous post.Originally Posted by KayJMM
Wow!!! The famous Arcanaville answering my question!!! I feel so honored! (and yes, i am saying it trully, with an open heart and only with admiration on my mind!)
Most of I have seen from Freedom got me really happy. Up until now, the ingame store works fine for me, without the regional block. Its the NCSOFT store that is blocked. If the gamestore works on that principle... well... I see a happy future for me and sadness for my credit card and shoes and watches collection. And I know that many brazillians will love it too.
But... and about my second question? *blinks blinks*
Nevermind. I tracked it back and found the other question.
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Quote:No. It's not a semantic argument. There is a difference between Solo players and people that prefer small teams and often are unteamed. Most of the people I know that refer to themselves as Solo players do not team at all. Does this keep them from running Task Forces and other content that requires a team? Yes. Does that bother them? Sometimes. Does that mean they are going to join a team in order to partake of that content? Nope.Originally Posted by Amish_Justice
Yeah it is.
Many players who enjoy playing their toons solo (players I refer to as "Solo-ers") occasionally find that small groups are enjoyable too. Just because someone likes to play by themselves doesn't mean that they hate teaming. Instead, I've found that many people opt to play solo because they prefer to avoid the pitfalls of teaming in online games (incompetence, ignorance, rudeness, etc.)
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Nope. Just pointing out a few things I've seen over the years aside from what you noted.
Several of us prefer the logs simply because it reduces quite a bit of the guesswork. I've never liked trying to rely on guesswork in troubleshooting computer problems, whether I'm doing it for free (such as here and a few other forums), in my side jobs, or in my real job in the Technology Department for the local school district.
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Quote:No thanks. I don't like mixing Snickers and popcorn.Originally Posted by MrDead
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Quote:*pops a bag of popcorn*Originally Posted by MrDead
I'm sorry I fail to see how this makes sense at all. Giving them 5 points for completing the ITF would wreck the game in what way exactly that you couldn't perhaps say AE already did. What does performance ranges in game have to do with say, buying the Posi TF from the Paragon store with points you earned in game?Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I can't imagine why this would be remotely a good idea. And I know other games do it. But I'll be 100% frank here: our idea of "balance" in City of Heroes would be laughable bordering on embarrassing everywhere else in the industry. We allow performance ranges that would get people fired and games terminated, because we feel its the price to pay to have the levels of power we want to be able to represent in a superhero game.
Allowing people to earn the functional equivalent of money in this game for doing content would mean, no question, no option, and no discussion, levels of game rebalancing that would be draconian to players familiar with this game. As far as I'm concerned, debating this point is like debating the color of the sky.
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Quote:GMTA is a phrase I've used for years. I'll stand by it's usage, no matter which of my definitions you use.Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down
I see Texas already covered some of this while i was putting it together.
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Quote:You are correct in blaming the spammers. Trial accounts used to have much less restrictions than they currently do, and the restrictions on the new Free accounts are for the same reasons.Originally Posted by Psyte
I very firmly blame the spammers for how restricted the Free accounts are. The fact premiums have to pay at some point is a barrier for them - not insurmountable but when coupled with all the other tools we have? Hey, I'm ALL for making COH more unattractive for them.
Also, the Premium is both an incentive for a Free player to make a purchase and a method for (what would currently be) inactive accounts to be able to play their characters and they game they previously played at no cost. Since financial reasons are one of the reasons players cite for canceling their subscription, this seems like a good way to bring back old players and try to get them to once again subscribe. The Reactivation weekends were nice, but this gives a bit of a different take on that. -
Quote:You've been misinformed. There has never been a Lifetime subscription offered for City of Herores/City of Villains.Originally Posted by Cabin_Boy
I would like to see them start lifetime subs like they (apparently) did early on.
There are other games that have offered Lifetime subs, but this one hasn't.
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Quote:You are correct. I stand corrected. I'll have to correct how I word things in the future in relation to this.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Purchasing points does not, in fact, make you premium. Spending the points does.
Lemme do another list to show the differences between Free, Premium and VIP accounts (will be editing this over the next few minutes)...
As for whether this is based off of the DDO model, I don't really think it is based solely off of any one games model. There are a few games using variations of a hybrid model and I believe they are choosing to find a hybrid model that incorporates some of the best of the different systems while trying to avoid some of the problems they've seen with those systems, and still provide a slightly unique model of their own.
For all else, I'll just contemplate the first part of my signature.
EDIT: Looking at what Psyte quoted, perhaps I DON'T need to change how I word things in the future.