Tricia

If you're aiming for Tier 4s, obviously it's going to be difficult to get more than one tree. But getting more than one Tier 1 is far easier.

When they get it done. Each power has to be redone by hand, so it's a rather time-consuming project. It's also not a priority at the time, but it is something they want to do.


This is the exact (or at least approximately) the same difficulty.

Or you could always do something crazy like pick up a travel power...

Well, you can either sit here whining about it and hoping the devs change it (hint: It's probably not going to happen, since you can change it yourself), or you can use the tools they provided to take care of what bothers you yourself.

Use /cleartray. Problem solved.

Crazy thought, I know...but has it ever occurred to you that it might not be a refusal, but an inability to make the system allow it? It's not as if there's a tag in the code that says "offline sg invites = off".

AE = Architect Entertainment.

You can't yet, but what I've been doing is just not picking Fitness powers, and then not using any slots I'd use on the Fitness powers. It's not *quite* the same as if it was built in...but it works well enough for me.

Bizzare scenarios nothing. I don't know where it's been.

I'm pretty sure you just answered your own question there.

That, and people on this forum have the tendency to turn even changes that most everyone sees as good into DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, as evidenced by this very thread.

Really now? I have the box right here, and I don't see a single thing on it that's not in GR.

The devs never said anything about the market merge never happening. Posi at one point said it was unlikely to happen while the blue and red side economies were so imbalanced...but that's the closest it ever got.

Powerset Respecification is one of the few things that actually *has* been said to never happen. Power Customization, Market Merger, and all the other things people often quote as "They said it would never happen but here it is!" were all said to be "unlikely" or "very difficult" or the like...but were never said to "never happen".

sooooo, you have no problem with them changing things to make them easier to understand/use, but you have a problem with people that would like things changed to make them easier to understand/use.

yeahhhhhh.

That's the entire point we've been trying to make! For something as core to the game, and something so straightforward in other places like TOs and IOs, the system used for DOs and SOs should be intuitive, not something you should have to "take time to learn".

The overall point is not solely changing the icons. That would solve the problem...but so would many other ideas presented in this thread. The idea is to make the stores more intuitive to use, and the SOs/DOs easier to find, however that might be accomplished.

I think you're confusing "easier" with "less cumbersome". The game (under the proposed change) doesn't buy the SOs for you. It doesn't slot them for you. All it does is make it slightly easier to tell the difference between the multitudes of similar DOs/SOs.

...since when did you tell that by anything *but* the border? The ambiguous and unrelated icons are certainly no help.

You seem to be under the impression that people only need to buy one SO ever, and that they only have one toon. Most every toon needs to buy several different kinds of DOs/SOs, and they're not guaranteed to get the right one on the first time, especially in stores with a larger inventory. So finding what you want from the list, with the number of mistakes a first-timer is bound to make with the rather ambiguous system we have already, repeated for each DO/SO type you need to buy...and done again in 10 levels when you get to SOs and the names and icons change...and done again with a new toon of a new AT or origin...

That's hardly "a few seconds".

As Bubba said so well, "4) The information: this is two extra steps that shouldn't have to be needed. You may say it's a simple two steps (right click, then left click "info") but it is still two more steps."

Really? Even with my first toon, I never bought TOs from the vendor...and even if I did, I wasn't in level range for them for *that* long. Especially today, getting to level 12 is a breeze, and a great deal of people, even new people, just ignore TOs altogether.

Besides which...where in the game does it *tell* you that the order is always the same? Where does it even hint at that? It's a huge list, and if you didn't know that beforehand, it's not immediately obvious. The names and icons are all changed, it's not that big of a stretch to think the order may have as well. I know it was quite a while before I realized the order was the same.

Standardizing everything so the game tells you all the info you need to know, instead of having to figure it out for yourself. Sounds like good game design to me.

Nice job with the hyperbole there. Seems more like you're the one flying off the handle, though.

And yes, fixing the mouseover bug would suffice...but presumably they've been working on that, and for whatever reason haven't been able to fix it. So this is an alternate suggestion that would also serve to facilitate telling the difference between DOs and SOs.

So, this is basically "Screw making things easier and more straightforward, I did it the hard way and so can you!"

Yes, the system can be gotten used to. I did, you did, and most of the other people in this thread did. But why not make it easier to do so?

For every enhancement type you need? For every single toon you have? For all the different origins you cover?

So you want someone to have a chart sitting on their desk telling what every single DO and SO name translates into?

You'd think someone could come up with an easier solution...

Read what...the name? Since tooltips are busted, and right-clicking, as has already been said, can be clunky and time-consuming...that must be what you mean.

So tell me...what does Military Insight enhance? How about Dragon Flurry?

So you really expect people to memorize all 26 enhancement types in alphabetical order, and count through them to figure out where the one they're looking for is?

Listen...I agree that once you get used to the system, it can be worked through. What's being asked for is something to make getting used to the system a little bit less of a hurdle. Color isn't an option, due to possible color-blindness. Names aren't an option due to ambiguous names. And until they fix the tooltips, right-clicking is clunky and time-consuming. Now, whether this would be an easy fix or not obviously isn't known...but it at least merits consideration, in my opinion.

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I must be typing in invisible ink or something.

...even if that was true, which it's not, as was stated above, the names have very little correlation to what they do in many cases. Mutation is fairly easy, but the other origins are a crapshoot as to figuring out which name corresponds with what type.

So now you're backpedaling. Bravo.

And since you obviously missed *those* sentences too, right-clicking is a clunky and time-consuming way to go about it...especially if you don't get what you're looking for right away.

Some people don't like using IOs. Some people don't use IOs until 50. Some people don't use them on alts. Some people wouldn't touch them with a 39-and-a-half foot pole. IOs are completely optional. Just because there's another thing out there, that doesn't mean we should forget about SOs completely.

A) He's color blind.
B) There are too many colors and too subtle of differences for that to be a good indicator for some of them.

That's the entire point here. They train you to do one thing, i.e. be able to look at the icons to tell the difference between them via icon, then they turn around and completely change the way they work.

*ahem*

BECAUSE THERE IS A LONG-STANDING BUG THAT MAKES THAT NOT WORK.

Since you've obviously ignored the several times it's been said so far, maybe you'll see it this time.

Since when can you use those on other people?