The_Coming_Storm

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Well, I've just run through it and it is indeed awesome - we need something like that on the Hero side too

Also, I can confirm that this map, and the Cavern one, are working ok on Test.

Originally Posted by Quinch

A short suggestion.

Issue 15 introduced a serverwide channel named Architect Chat. That's... all that's really known of it, since it's not present in the interface and for the most part, knowledge of its existence is only spread by word-of-mouth.

Given the lack of need for an Architect-specific channel {even if it doesn't have an officially stated purpose} and the potential usefulness of a serverwide general chat channel, I propose that "Architect Chat" channel be renamed into "General" and be automatically added to the first tab that already receives Local or Broadcast channels.

Any thoughts on this?

Originally Posted by Paladin_Musashi

TF's and Radio missions have pretty much always been the only things that kept me interested. And I do take breaks. Generally months long breaks, which is why I only have about 30 months of vet badges when I've been playing since release.

I've pretty much always hated the "real game" as some purists would like to call it. The regular contact missions in this game are tedious and awful. I was running TFs the moment they were available, and I could never understand the people whining about how they were too long and boring. To me they were finally something halfway fun in the game.

When they introduced radio missions I was overjoyed because the "real content" that so many people seem to gush over is so damn idiotic to me. But that didn't keep me interested more than a few months at a time, off and on.

AE farms kept me captivated for pretty much the entire time the AE was around. Awesome fun, purple enemies that can two shot any squishy, not a single wimpy minion in sight, no waiting between bad guy bashing sessions, no fedex, no nothing. And enough exp flowing that I didn't get bored going days without getting a new power.

Remove the AE farms, and I've been doing pretty much nothing but TFs and the occasional AE team (Not farms, per se, because you can't farm with an 8 person team anymore, and it's boring with just a few people) or radio team.

Nerf TFs so that I can't fight purples in them and there's just very little of interest left for me.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Are you suggesting that TFs and SFs would behave differently from one another?

If not, the answer is in the patch notes.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Good news. The settings work again in Ouro.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

Personally, I have seen a great many people *ASSUMING* that it is only a temporary measure. I hope that's true, as I think it's a bad move, but we haven't been told for sure.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

Explain to me how the reverse isn't true also? You're freaking and jumping up and down because of a change that makes your game a bit less fun, and can't for a second see that on the whole A) the change isn't that bad and B) there are other good things coming that outweigh the pain for the time being. If Cat's the selfish one here, I need stronger meds.

Originally Posted by Catwhoorg

I, personally, am very happy about the drop rate fix.

No doom here, sorry.

Originally Posted by catwhoorg

the patch will be the current test configuration.

Originally Posted by Smite_King

wow your a jerk, i hope YOU get banned. he was simply pointing out the FIXES comming to live soonish
*cough*jerk*cough*

*cough*>_>.... any who... its nice to know the AVs will be a challenge once agian *not that ive been able to fight thems* and the elec discription is nice considering it does heal, never knew that it said it doesnt heal in ela discription... *shrugs* eh

Originally Posted by Starjammer

Add me to the chorus of people who think a better solution would simply be to disqualify the -1 level setting from earning Master-of badges.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Before I-16, I liked running TF/SFs at 5th diff. It was fun. It wasn't a cakewalk. The rewards were good.

Acemace, you're very wrong in your opinion. Is it unreasonable for me to ask for a salary that is in line with the job I'm doing? Is it unreasonable to accept that to lose 10 pounds I need to eat less and exercise more?

No, neither of those stances are unreasonable. It's also not unreasonable at all to expect X reward for accomplishing Y task in a game when that standard has already been set within the game.

I disagree with this change. I find it a sloppy workaround for a problem that should have been dealt with in a more logical way before the new difficulty settings went live.

Standard difficulty TF/SFs are boring. Expecting someone to increase their difficulty without comparable rewards is idiotic. At least when we do it in Ouroboros we're doing it for a badge.

Quite frankly, your "correction" of the post comes across as trollish and nothing more.

And I say this as someone who generally enjoys your posts.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon

Well, there's your problem. Probably a Freedomite.

(rimshot!)

Originally Posted by Frosticus

So the only options for TF's are those found when selecting an Ouro mish? ie buffed enemies, debuffed you, etc?

And you can't increase enemy level beyond default +0/1?

What about people that like fighting a sea of reds/purples on a specially formed Task Force Team? You know a team that has been designed to fight the toughest challenges the game offers?

Forgive me, but shutting off my ability to use inspirations and buffing even con enemies is not the same as jacking them up to +3. Even if the end result of difficulty is about the same fighting whites and yellows doesn't "feel" nearly as awesome (especially on a Task Force Team) nor do they reward commensurate with the difficulty as +cons do.

I personally want more challenge, but I personally want to be adequately and fairly rewarded for said challenge. That's why the Ouro settings were auto fail for me and from the sounds of it new TF's are going to be auto fail.

Unless I'm not reading it accurately, then please feel free to correct me.

Originally Posted by Oya

Then again, we could read the patch notes for test and not have nerd rage.


Tasks

• Level 54 Archvillains / Heroes should now appear in Task / Strike Forces again.
• Added restrictions to prevent player difficulty from affecting Task / Strike Forces

Originally Posted by CoX_Junkie

Throwing a hissy fit nerd rage on the forums about a change to the game? Lolz, Sad.

Originally Posted by Meben

-1 presents sidekicks with enemies they can hit. I don't want to form a scanner team without it.

Originally Posted by enderbean

I think this has more to do with the -1 setting. When you ran STF at -1 all of the AVs in the last mission appeared as level 49. The new build on test makes them stay as level 54 AVs regardless of your difficulty setting.

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

This change is to prevent the forced-nerf of the rewards from the Task Forces from runs at -1 difficulty. This is most likely a temporary solution until.

We need less hissy fits.