TrueMetal

Which just goes to show how ridiculous these sort of filters are. But hey, someone should think of the children and all that.

Honestly, I don't give a carp about staff fighting. It can come tomorrow or never, I don't care either way. It's not really my thing. But don't worry I get the point you're making.

I'm well aware of everything you said. Trust me, I'm firmly in the pro-Freedom camp. That doesn't change anything about what I said in my previous post though.

From what I've seen I have no doubt that TM will a great set either. I'm actually already designing costumes for the 2 characters I'll be creating with it.

It is the reasoning I'm dissapointed about. As it gives the impression that all things that truly raise the bar will be payed for extras. I'd like the have some bar raising included in my subscription every now and then too.

In that case 'one day' will be the time that I buy them.

That's ... dissapointing.

It will be cheaper for me.

If I look back at the all the packs I've bought (all of them except the emote one), I notice that I currently only use 3 costume change emotes, none of the regular emotes (most of them are really well done and they're fun for goofing around but really, how often do you *use* them?) and 2 'powers' (ninja, size change). And most of the costume parts on one charcter or another of course.

If I add all that up using the current PP prices I'd have been off cheaper picking and choosing instead of paying €8.99 for the full pack.

That being said, I don't regret buying any of the packs.

Erh ... Time manipulation IS free for subscribers, but the reasons you are giving are truly horrible reasons for making it free. It sends the message that we only get 'average' and 'vanilla' stuff for free and if we want to see something actually worth while we have to fork out.

Also they're not true, since all the effects for time manipulation are completely new (and quite lavish from what I've seen) and it uses a unique mechanic too (combinations of different buffs/debuffs give extra effects.)

This mainly. Apparently there are going to be uncommon recipes for sale of the market and even though those aren't top end powerful it's already a step to far in this direction i.m.o.

I don't mind paying for extra power sets, costumes, slots for all and sundry, as long as we they are indeed extras and we be still will be getting a good part of that stuff for free as well.

I would be annoyed too if they made things like Itrials pay for extras. (on top of the subscription.)

How ? .. whu? .. buh ... urg ...

Before this post I thought you were just being intentionally stuborn. Now ... well, I'll leave it at that.

Same here, I got an angel/warrior of light type character who would love to use the valkyrie set head wings, but can't because they don't come with a headband.

I know. But again, you were spouting nonsense and being confrontational so I choose to react again.

Oh for the love of ...

Read what I'm saying. You can have an opinion all you want, but if that opinion doesn't have any basis in reality it is ignorant and wrong .

You are ignorant, because it is obvious from your post that you don't know what you're talking about. That is not a big deal. Noone knows everything. But the fact that you completely disregard someone correcting your wrong assumptions with *fact* and then continue to spout your 'opinion' one post later irks me a little. Because imo there are few things worse than willful ignorance.

Example: You are a project developer and you're turning a piece of land in series of mid to high class residencies.

Do you a) do you what you are suggesting and let all your foundation workers, carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers and electricians work at the same house at the same time. 'Focussing on one project' and only continuing on once it's finished.

Or b) While the foundations of the first and second houses are set, have the foundation workers work on the foundations of the third house at the same time as your masons are working on the walls of the second house, while your carpenters are putting a roof on the finished walls of the first one so the electrician can start putting in the wiring.

I'm keeping the example simple because, as I'm sure you're aware, coördinating a build site is a bit more complex than this. And you know what? So is developing a game.

Dividing your personel up like this happens everywhere. Other game development studios do it, engineering agencies do it, research labs do it. And you know why? Because it is the most efficient way to do things.

You can have your opinion that it would be faster to just throw everyone at the same thing at the same time, but in that case your opnion is wrong.

Yes, yes make fun of the Euro guy with his crappy English.

LOL, oh come on.

The reason *I* reacted to your first post was two fold, and it has nothing to do with 'dev worship.'

1) Your tone was hostile for no good reason. It annoys me when people do that. It's funny that you're now complaining about being 'flamed and bashed' while you were the one instigating it. People will react to the tone you set.

2) Your post was so full of ignorance and flat out wrong that it was impossible to ignore. I also found it amusing that you chose to ignore my post but did reply to the Chad's reiterating the same ignorant arguments I just debunked.

Heh, I still need to buy the steampunk pack, then I have every ingame item that's ever been for sale except the arachnos cape and emblem from the CoV collectors edition. I haven't gotten the steam punk pack yet because i can't get into my masteraccount, again. I already changed my security questions once when they became mandatory, but apparently I made a typo somewhere or something. It wont accept my answers even though I'm 99% sure i'm providing the correct ones. I should sort it out with support again one of these days ...

Also the Time Manipulation set will be free for subscribers, so you wont have to click on it and buy it.

I actually have had several people in the past believe I was a girl because, and I quote one woman's reaction when she learned I was not, "you're to nice to be guy". (Yea, I know ... ) I also have a lot of female characters and apparently I make them in a way that looks like they were made by a girl, or so people tell me. I take it as a compliment.

I also broke a guy's hearth once. He was a guy (in his late teens) who I had been playing with for a couple of weeks. He sought me out everyday to team up when he saw I was online. One day he started that whole 'I like you' conversation, and I reacted with something in the line of 'Woa, sorry man but I'm really not into guys', assuming he knew I was male. Then he asked 'Oh, so you are gay?' Which was the point where I clued in to the situation (dur) and told him that I was a guy. He was then quiet for a minute, said 'Oh' and promptly logged out. I didn't see him online for over a week after that. He later apologized for the misunderstanding (which wasn't needed imo) and we still teamed some together a couple of times. I haven't seen him online in over 3 years now though.

Yes. The devs have confirmed on multiple occasions that you will retain access to all the packs you have already bought.

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Splitting personel up in teams/'taskforces'/whatever, each focussing on a different stage of a project, is actually a very common and effective way to tackle big projects in the real world. There are a lot of software development studios who work this way and it's used in things like engineering as well.

Also, it was said from the start of this whole incarnate thing that incarnate trials would be released 1 at a time with and in between issues.
It was planned like this, they didn't just quickly add an extra trial in.
You don't just throw a long term development schedule out of whack by shoehorning something big like an incarnate trial in, just because a number of people are impatient.

It always amazes me when random people think they know how to do things better than a whole company of professionals ...

He will keep them. The Devs have explicitely said that everything you have bought you will keep when you go premium.

In your example the now premium 6 year vet will end up with 2+6+15+12= 35 slots on that server and none on the other servers (assuming he chooses to redeem all his slots on that same server). His original 12 per server will go away and be replaced by 2 character slot tokens.

Yes, but the 12 he got 'for free' (ie the standard slots every subscriber gets ) will go away.

I'm guessing, but i believe that's the whole reason only VIPS can buy up to 48 slots. Premium players will be able to buy up to 36 and then when they subscribe they will have 48.

You're definitely not alone. I have two high level characters who use ninja run as their travel power and one that uses beast run (well, she's not high level yet, but she will be.) I know plenty of other people who use them as primary travel powers aswel on some of their characters.

Actually the notion that people consider those as 'low level substitutes' is new to me. In combination with sprint they're plenty fast, if not as fast as super speed, but that's easily compensated by the added amount of vertical movement.