Tripp Hazzard

"FREEEEEEM!" was the "visual sound" for Energy Blast in one of the illustrating pictures. It kind of took on a life of its own from there.

Just to clarify, you don't have to actually go out and buy a second physical copy. Either of the digital versions available from the online store will work just fine to create an additional account.

Just be sure, in this case, that you DO use the code to create a NEW account, and NOT to upgrade your current one.

I have two game accounts, both under my single NCSoft account, both billed to the same card. (One is prepaid a year at a time, so I don't know if they would bill on the same date each month.) The second game account will need its own user name, and you should use a completely different password for each for security.

I know for sure I still had the problem the week before the upgrade. I happened to be playing one of the two that weekend, and remember having to reset his opacity a couple of times. And we're talking about setting the opacity to 75% and after a few transitions (enter/exit mission and change zones) it would be back down to 5-7%

Never tried the save/load idea.

And yes, the new card let me change from minimum settings to max. I do think that's part of what fixed it, along with just having a much better system overall now.

I had the problem on everything from Minimum to Recommended on the old setup. (I could run it at Recommended, just very, very poorly. I usually ran at Performance soloing, and Minimum on any kind of group action.)

I may be wrong, I recognize that. In my reality, wrong is ALWAYS an option. It's just that, for me, after upgrading my system and video, the problem is gone.

So I posted it as a possible solution for anyone else experiencing it.

The last two months of free transfers have almost certainly taken care of all the "I want to transfer these characters, but not bad enough to pay for it". So why put a limit on it? What downside do you see (that I don't) to allowing people to transfer anyone anytime?

I posted in Avatea's thread that I expect to see it made permanent.

I don't think the generic enhancement recipes you posit would necessarily follow.

You'd still have to specify WHAT it enhances (Accuracy, Damage, ???), and the actual amount of the enhancement varies depending on what category, so the different recipes would stay.

But yeah, genericizing the salvage needed is Not A Good Thing.

As I read it, you can only send attachments to YOUR OWN characters. So a spammer can't send you the 1 inf. in the first place.

I think that depends on how easy/difficult it is to actually switch. If you have to do several "opposite" missions in a row to switch that would be a natural limit on how often you could do it.

I'd be surprised if a character who's just switched can switch back immediately.

This. "Caveat Transporter." (Apologies if I screwed up the Latin.)

My 2 Inf, based on pure speculation:

Overall, it's still about the same length as the original Posi.

There's a badge for each portion, plus the normal TF badge once you've run both halves on the same character.

Splitting it into two parts means you can add players between the parts to make up for ones that dropped out. It also means that if you're running each part on different days/weekends/whatever, characters aren't locked out of doing anything else in between.

You don't have to run the first part before running the second part, but it'll make much more sense if you do.

Each part will award merits.

Doing both parts within a certain amount of time will award extra merits/a special badge.

You're right. As many times as I've read that problem, this is the time it finally sank in. I have worn a pack with a waist strap enough to confirm that even normal movements are restricted by something like that.

I think that it could be accounted for in the design of the packs, as Sam described, though. Even a half-height-only jet pack would be better than none at all.

Amen to that!

It seems to me that you could use the wings code and attachment points, and all you need is some new animations.

A pack with folding wings (think Buzz Lightyear) would need a folded image for off, one with the wings extending for starting, one with the wings extended and fixed for flight, and one with the wings folding for landing.

A pack with no wings (or fixed wings like the Raptor Pack) would be even simpler. You'd only need the on and off images/animations, as appropriate.

You would have to make one change to the Wings code: Wings flap when you jump. You'd have to take that part out of the wings code, so the jetpack would activate only when you're actually flying/hovering.

But I must be overlooking something else, because if it was really that simple, wouldn't it have been done by now?

That is very, very cool! I love the way it was sucking in more leaves from the tree!

Then you don't read much of the PvP related material here in the forums. Or you have mental blinders on. Otherwise you'd know it's a problem already in the existing system.

This would not generate new PvPers. It would drive away non-PvPers. And it would spread the existing PvP playerbase even thinner.

What part of that is a good thing?