Toril

So I've been trying to find out if anyone else other than Des, Umbriel, and I will be playing Aion from Victory. We've been playing in the closed betas with a group of people that are mostly CoH and Guild Wars people, but we are the only ones from Victory. The maturity level of the people in that group seems to be wide and varied, but mostly lacking in comparison to our Victory community.

Anyone else planning on playing Aion?

Well, it appears they have modified the rep timer thingydoo to allow you to still get a chance at a drop if you get murdernated repeatedly, so I may return next monday to pad the kill count of others once again.

Count me in if there is room. I'm always good to beat up on.

Bombs seem to stay in one place. However the Rikti ships have rayguns now that can damn near vaporize you in a single blast. My L50 MM without bodyguard on got reduced to one hit point by a ray blast from a ship. I even saw it shoot me. I was like, WTF!

Enhanced Difficulty Options - Players can now fine-tune their difficulty levels by telling the game exactly how they want to be treated. They can choose to be regarded as a specific size team (even if they are soloing), and even have control over the level they are detected to be when it comes to the dynamic spawn system. So if you ever wanted to see if your Scrapper could take on a map that is populated for an 8 person team, four levels higher than your own, now you can! The difficulty settings of the mission owner dictate how the mission is handled, just as before, and you can change your difficulty settings at any Hero Corp.'s Representative in Paragon City or Fateweaver in the Rogue Isles.

Demons spawned for 8, no waiting. Huzzah! My WS never needs to speak to another human being again.

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Aww I'm nasty now? But I play both sides...I might even have more villains than heroes at this point.

See, I'm making the group better.

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This post has little to do with anything Voodoo said, but he likes to see his name mentioned so I'll oblige.

Team Toril (Yes, thats right Voodoo, since you've bailed Hamster has gotten desperate it appears) did Mako's second arc and pretty much steam rolled it even after jacking the difficulty up. Thought about doing the Cim arc as well but several didn't have it unlocked. Finished Rikti Ambassador's first and second arcs with most teammates able to participate in the entire arc and get merits as well. We ended up with 4 brutes, 3 VEATs, and a Dominator. Think we had Bone on his MM for the start as well until he had to log. Good to have him back.

Ended at nearly 44 for the night.

I think you misunderstand how many times I end up face down a$$ up in an arena match.

I spend at least 1 minute of an entire match respawning. Add that up.

Yeah, basically what Siph said.

Essentially if you're decent at PVP you have some chance. If you suck at PVP you have zero chance, as a 5 minute "rep" timer turns on for both the killer and the victim the moment someone dies and it resets each time the victim dies or the killer kills someone.

So in a 10 minute span when you die an average of 3-5 times per arena match you haver zero chance of netting anything unless you somehow get the first kill. And even then your chance is as remote as it was in I14.

Yeah, they're doing alot to get people to try it out. Then the dev team does alot to kill it off again. heh

I have been doing ticket rolls. The ios I can't sell due to horrible pricing that have decent bonuses I have been crafting and placing in the L40 bin. These are for anyone that wants them. They aren't the best set IOs in the world, but they are good for some people. There is half a set of Mocking Beratement in there for anyone that is actually uing Taunt.

Some other stuff too, but the MB I remember.

Enjoy.

<shakes a$$ for GP>

Does that get me a cookie too?

Guys,

I probably won't be participating in Fight Night anymore until they actually fix the PVP IO drops. Their current "fix" has just assured that I'll just be there to run around and get killed with zero chance of getting a shiny. I enjoy the company, but eh, I like a reward of some sort. I never PVP'd before the rewards were introduced because of it.

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The thing that always annoyed me about the rep system, and annoys me even more now that PvP IOs are tied to it, is that the rep timer inexplicably starts not only when you kill someone, but when they kill you as well. As an average PvPer at best, I find that I almost never actually get any rep from killing people, simply because the populations are small enough that I'm almost never fighting anyone who hasn't fought me in the past 10 minutes. So now, the only people who will be getting the chance to get PvP IOs are those who always win the first fight they have with someone, which doesn't particularly strike me as fair if it's meant to be a random system like all the rest of the drops in the game.

I think it's high time that the rep system was changed to only care if *you've* defeated the target, not if the target has defeated you. That way, even the most casual PvPer can at least have a slim chance to get an IO.

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This is all kinds of borked. As a new player, what's my incentive to even TRY out PVP? So the ubered out TWIXT guy can get a PVP drop and then be even harder for me to kill? Why should the fact that I've been killed stop ME from earning a reward when I come back and finally kill this guy?

This just tells me don't actually PLAY PVP just farm it for the big payoff... what a really lame change.

Now I will put the anti-doom disclaimer that maybe I/WE don't fully understand this patch...

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This change does strike me as somewhat retarded. As someone that is horrible at PVP but joins a weekly "Fight Night" in pocket D just to meet some new people this now means that I will get nothing when I do manage to kill someone because rest assured they will have already killed me 3 times in the time it takes me to kill them once.

So basically if you're good at PVP this change sux. If you're horrible at PVP it basically says, don't PVP for a reward, cause it isn't coming.

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*gives ya a cookie*

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Oooo Cookie!

*Grabs and runs away*

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Forgot to check back on this. Well, I saw the post on the 9th saying the winners would be announced the next day and then I forgot to check back. And, well, wow... second place. Gratz to everyone who participated. Even if you didn't place or get a mention you put yourself out there and that can be hard if you're not used to it.

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I came. I saw. I submitted. I failed. I hanged head in sorrow. Nobody wuvs me.

Will not be at ISOs this week. On vacation starting Weds. Catch you guys next Weds.

Count me in for Synapse forward. I should be on. May have to bow out of one at some point, but I'm through with work now and have nothing to do today.

Count me in for Ice Mistral @3pm

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TN + Meth = I'm SHOCKED!

SHOCKED!


thunder......thunder........thunder cats.......HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO



edit: A quick check didn't procure a year for the term, but it's been around for awhile. Has to do with laundering money.

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Hmm. Odd. I had never come across the term til now outside of the kids show.

Smurfing in the news..

What's next?

Thundercating? Voltroning? Power Rangering?

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Good run tonight, I made it to 38 as well. Toril tried to give me some gray hairs by emulating Des as much as possible (not to mention the team trying to split as much as possible...), so I was kept on the edge of my seat, heh.

Where was everybody? The iffy Transformers movie? Too few of us on tonight!

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I saw them... Sitting out there. Counting thier money... Laughing...

I had to have it! I had to I say! So I charged, and then i realized the group beyond had a little more cash, so afte I roughed up a few I charged them too. I had to make sure that none of them got away. I had to!

Or..

Don't blame me cause everyone else went the wrong way or wasn't finished with the last group.

Ok read it.

I must officially say I have never sniped people to fill up my team...

That is all.

But then again I'd have to have the star to do such.