Turgenev

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Great run gang! Now to send Devcon off into retirement......

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Aaah, so you were the other bots/traps. I wasn't paying attention to global names last night.

Double-stacked vomit bombs FTW!

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I want to say thank you to everyone who helped me with this mission this morning. I really didn't expect such a quick response.

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Hell, neither did I. Posted at 6:30am, finished the trial by 8:50am? WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE DO WITH YOUR TIME???

(Oh, wait, summer vacation.)
(sighs from his desk job)

Devil's advocate:

Closing AE closes off mission avenues that many other players engage in for valid teaming. The OP's argument falls as such:

1. There are cars on the road.
2. A minority segment of the populace uses these cars to speed and cause accidents.
3. Therefore, get rid of the cars.

I can't agree to that. There's no valid reason to suspend double XP opportunity for one facet of the game, especially when there are years-tested alternatives. Suspending double XP for AE won't stop the farmers. It will just tick off regular players.

Now, I WILL say that I think the AE building in AP needs to disappear. Keep it in Kings Row. Unless the player's an utter twit, they can hoof it to KR to get to AE if they wanted to, and considering that a player can hop into a sewer team at lvl 1, and emerge at lvl 8 30 minutes later, it's not exactly a "nerf" more than a quality of life control.

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It was a most epic way to get the MoLRSF. We pulled Numi, smacked her down, and then on the next pull we got all of them. And won. I was mighty pleased. PGTs are awesome.

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I nearly pissed myself when I saw ALL OF THEM running at us. RR nearly died at least once... I got about 25% before someone kicked off a heal pulse... but we just had a chaotic but harmonious rhythm to the combat.

Truly exemplary gaming from the dreaded "non optimal team build" crew.

*lets out a quiet but furtive 'w00t!'*

*reads Luna's summary* Huh. If I'd known those pugs were going to burr your saddle so much, I'd have volunteered Turg for the run. I was standing there when you kids showed up too.

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I am truly sorry everyone - my nephew & his wife came down from Philly & have just left....

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It's all good, you have a loyal crew that wanted to run with you E, and no one else

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*taps his wristwatch*

Thirty minutes, E. You remember that the next time I'm 5 bloody minutes late. :P

(I shoulda stayed five more mins, you guys finished that respec very quickly, and dammit, I wanted that badge on Soviet. I call for a remedial run! )

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Don't get me wrong, I love my nephew & his wife...

...but, /em Jack Bauer - "The following events take place between 10:15pm & 11:09pm":

10:15pm OK, they are getting ready to leave, let me login & let everyone know what is going on & that I might be late (lol)

10:20pm After logging in I leave my message & go AFK

10:25pm Walk my nephew & niece out of the door (looks good right, but no) where the conversation continues...

10:45pm (I didn't know the time originally) I decide to go in & let everyone know that this is taking longer than I thought & to start without me, only to find that I timed out & auto logged... (ugh)

11:05pm They (finally) start walking to their car & I jump back in to my desk & start logging back in...which for some reason, would not move from the character selection screen...

11:08pm So...I post my message from my laptop

11:09pm I finally log back into the game

Once again, sorry everyone...usually a 1.5-2hr drive from my nearest relatives is sufficient deterrent to prevent these types of interruptions...

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You need to learn how to make stinky farts on command.

...Thor excels at this lately since we've had him on all the meds. Actually makes Tina and me scream in despair on how bad it's been.

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I think what I was more getting at is this: in making generalizations about Anthropologists, you dissed mah momma! I'ma getchu for dat one!

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Ooh! A threat by the child of a pair of soft scientists! I'm so scurred!

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I got 10 INF on Morac. Umbral's a great pansy since he lost the J-Force debt run.

*runs*

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The NCSoft Store is down and has been down for a few days with no Announcements or ETAs. Are me and my coworker the only ones troubleshooting this?

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Worked fine for me on Monday when I bought more server toon slots, and Tuesday afternoon when I bought the mission slots. Are you and your coworker connecting from the workplace? What if you try it from home? On different machines?

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I can buy things In-Game (Character slots, etc) What Im refering to is NCSOFT's WWW based store. From different ISPs, various times all I get is
"We're sorry, but we are unable to accept your order at this time. Please try again later or tomorrow. If you continue to have problems, you may wish to visit one of our retail partners."

You know I got the standard Tech assist response, what OS are you running and when you enter the game what error are you recieving, blah blah blah.

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Okay, so to be clear, your problem has NOTHING to do with buying MA story slots via the Store app in-game?

If so, you should take your concerns over to Tech Issues instead. You're likely to get more visibility there on your problem than in this thread.

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I am truly sorry everyone - my nephew & his wife came down from Philly & have just left....

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It's all good, you have a loyal crew that wanted to run with you E, and no one else

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*taps his wristwatch*

Thirty minutes, E. You remember that the next time I'm 5 bloody minutes late. :P

(I shoulda stayed five more mins, you guys finished that respec very quickly, and dammit, I wanted that badge on Soviet. I call for a remedial run! )

Throw me in the mix as an alternate maybe tonight. I have a need to clean my claws. Obviously, actual signees take precedence over me.

I have 3 villains to decide on now... hmm...

Supreme Soviet. Bots/traps. If there's room.

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Happy 07-08-09 everyone!

No useless info post (although I did look to see if there was some significance to the date and/or sequence of numbers)...

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Jeez, Turg to the rescue.

Turgenev's semi-regular & mostly useless information post #175.5 - Happy 12:34:56 7/8/9 day!

Slacker.

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Nice catch Turg...

Now if I could only go back in time so I can celebrate this monumental numerical sequence properly...

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Set your clock to Pacific time.

Revel in your freedom from the constraints of the time zone indoctrination policy imposed upon you by The Man(tm).

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Happy 07-08-09 everyone!

No useless info post (although I did look to see if there was some significance to the date and/or sequence of numbers)...

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Jeez, Turg to the rescue.

Turgenev's semi-regular & mostly useless information post #175.5 - Happy 12:34:56 7/8/9 day!

Slacker.

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The NCSoft Store is down and has been down for a few days with no Announcements or ETAs. Are me and my coworker the only ones troubleshooting this?

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Worked fine for me on Monday when I bought more server toon slots, and Tuesday afternoon when I bought the mission slots. Are you and your coworker connecting from the workplace? What if you try it from home? On different machines?

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I won't be buying the book but you cannot deny Twixt made quite a name for himself in the zones.

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So has a man named Sheldon, but it's all a matter of perspective.

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To start, I was told of this story by a friend in New Orleans. Apparently, this friend told me, Twixt was this amazing pariah of a player that was outcast by all and loved by none. He was threatened, ridiculed, debased, and hated as none before in this game.

Now, with that said, there needs to be some grave cleanups concerning his research. First and foremost, this is not an experiment. There are no variables. There is no control. There is no causality. Nothing in this man's research even remotely fits the model for a psychological, sociological, anthropological, or scientific mode of experimentation.

This is a case study. It has no applied value, no heuristic value, nor theoretical value. It is, for all intents and purposes, an observational case study. However, it is not natural observation. The researcher heavily involved himself in the carrying out of his case study to such an amount that its value is lost. He became, as he details, emotionally invested in his research. That is the first, and cardinal, rule of research -- don't get involved.

With that said, we now have a case study with little actual merit. So let us look at the actual methodology: One man entered the game and, upon doing so, acted in a way only considering the official Terms of Service rules. He did not, however, gain the informed consent of any participants nor did he offer any therapeutic intervention--two massive ethical lapses. He engaged, however, in a socially sanctioned way of behaving that broke the conventions of the culture, even if just online in a game. This culture dictated specific rules of play style that he was informed of dually. He immediately discarded with these social norms and cultural values. Again, while this may be a video game it does have its own social rules.

He, in essence, broke the social rules. As we all know through grade school, what happens if you break the rules? You get punished. Well, if Anthropology has taught me anything about culture...it is that those who break the cultural value system will be socially punished. Social control theory dictates that those that break our norms and values are sanctioned either formally or informally.

Informal sanctions range from ridicule, sarcasm, criticism, and disapproval all the way to exile, threats, gossiping, and complete exclusion. When he engaged in the behavior others corrected, he was given leeway. Our culture said "He doesn't know, like a child, so he will be taught". He broke the mores again. He was informally sanctioned through ridicule, criticism, and disapproval. He continued to break the cultural values and social norms...he was met with gossip, exclusion, and threats. That is the nature of social control of humans. As a PhD in Media, he should have at least taken ONE course in either Anthropology or Sociology. How this little nugget escaped him is beyond me.

So in recapping:

He engaged in a case study that be involved himself in heavily, gathered no informed consent, gave no exiting therapy, broke the norms and values of the culture and then pretended to be shocked, AND is now pretending to be the victim of a lurid, insulting gaming underworld.

Dr. Myers, I am only a Psychology undergrad and I know enough about research to know that your case study and your published book are absolute hogwash with no applicable value beyond a retelling of the events that you orchestrated. Any self-respecting researcher would realize the moral, ethical, and professional errors in your case study that should be laughed out of any actual peer-reviewed journal. I cannot help but postulate that this very fact is why you've published this as a book and not in a journal.

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Mysidia?

Marry me.

kthx

*goes back to Freedom*

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At least give out a free one like you did with character slots.

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They gave everyone 3 free slots, including you. If you choose to go above the free amount, you can buy additional slots. You're not being forced to buy this.

(Happy to give his CC info to NCSoft for this, yesterday's 5-char slot purchase, and the previous booster packs. Why? Because they add to my enjoyment beyond the normal confines of the game. Hooray, capitalism.)

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lol I'm kidding, It wasn't me.

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I'd pay the whole of the blood money I owe the Ecuadorian Mafia to see a 1v1 between Twixt and the Queen of 4Chan.

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The purchase of slots appears to be working properly now.

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Note: Still no "1 slot transaction" option available.

Niv: To confirm, if you have a story flagged as Dev Choice or Hall of Fame, that will allow you to get beyond the 8 designated slots, to a potential maximum of 10 slots, correct? (I recall a redname stating this recently, but wanted to doublecheck.)

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When I try, I get:

"Payment could not be accepted for your order."

Then:

"Product distribution failed"

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This is what I get as well. Trying for the 5-slot increment at $19.99. I know the store worked recently cuz I just bought five server slots yesterday for Freedom, and that processed immediately.

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Lol MB, I should have added 'yet'!

/sticks large 'NB: Dont whine' note to monitor.



Eco

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Fixed.

Extra credit: Where does the abbrev. "NB" come from? Don't google it, I want to see if anyone knows this. :P

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I like mission planner, but it hasn't really been updated since the opening of i14. So, there are certain features (like triggered collection objectives) that haven't been added in. Also, the offline creator will not allow you "text cheats" - by which I mean going over the character limit on a text entry using html codes. The regular mission creator will ignore html coding in the text for the purpose of your "character limit". If you swap the file from online MAC to offline and then back you will find that your text has been truncated.

Still, it's the best offline tool I've found so far - and if you're just putting together the skeleton of an Arc while offline (say just drafting up the text) - it's a really great tool.

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From Leandro, on his request:

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let twelfth know (he replied to your post about missionplanner) that my account is expired so once it's back up I'll add stuff to it, but I'm currently unable to.


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Only a single one! As much as we love ALL of our characters, just the most awesome

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*notices that a lot people forgot to read your first four words...* XD

My favorite name: Blackest Light, my neon black Warshade. Rolled him on day one when Kheldians were released, and still my most favorite name and bio combo.

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Soon™

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Fix'd!

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Double Fixed.

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Fixed more betterly.

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Fixed even more betterly.

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*nods approvingly*

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Soon™

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Fix'd!

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Double Fixed.

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Fixed more betterly.