Tyger42

I wouldn't say so much "lack of end-game commitment" so much as "lack of catering only to the end-game players". NCSoft is committed to putting out content for EVERYONE, not just the "raider" types. Unlike that other MMO you mention.

Did you start them as heroes or Praetorians? They have to be true-blue heroes... ( Or Villains for VEATs )


Not that 50 is all that hard to attain in this game.

Wait for what? That was the notes...

Lord Reclasper, the friendly Praetorian ghost.

Ah, I suppose the levels of those characters would have been the critical question here.

Yeeeeah, I think we've kinda missed the meaning of "casual" somewhere here.

Can't say I ever had that happen. Or even heard of it. Not that I doubt you, but given my experience, it doesn't exactly sound common.

I don't find it very likely and would be very surprised if it did happen, though. But, that's just speculation.

The US was fine before the 80s, too, really.

Well, when you run into someone who's convinced he was able to do something in the game that was never possible, it's best to have as many people as you can confirming that he's wrong. He'll either accept that he's wrong or pitch a tantrum. Option B isn't great, true, but letting him think someone's yanking his chain because only a couple are saying it won't be much better.

Your memory's off. You've never been able to target yourself in CoH. AOE heals/buffs/etc would generally hit you as well, but targeted effects could never be used on yourself.


No, seriously, you weren't. Otherwise more people than just you would have noticed it and talked about it. That isn't the type of bug that is kept quiet.

I guess any tiny question that was left about whether the real life ads are gone for good or not has been answered. I didn't mind the RL ads myself.

Curious as to what your issue is.... But your issue is irrelevant to him asking about something they can't help with then getting whiny over them not being helpful...

Please, show me where this imaginary "personal attack" was...

Not that I've managed to find.

Which I did. I was a bit snarky, but nothing I said in my initial reply could be even remotely construed as a "personal attack".

Still not an excuse to take snipes at CS. If he had bothered looking through the forum titled, vaguely enough, "Training Room", all the info about it is posted there. The most obvious first step when you have a problem relating to the Training Room would be to try to find a solution there. ( He found his way here, he damn well could have found his way to the Training Room folder in the process )

The whole problem is he does what so many other self-entitled MMO players do whenever they encounter a problem: Immediately take pot shots at the devs and/or CS for it. Being a newbie doesn't excuse belligerence. It's a behavioral trait in gamers that shouldn't be tolerated, yet the ones who criticize over it are the ones made out to be the bad guys...

Edit: Like I've said a couple times, had he left out the wholly unnecessary whine about CS, he would have been MUCH better off.

Thank you. At least someone has some sense in looking at the situation rather than playing the knee-jerk "defend the poor defenseless newbie from the evil forum bullies, nevermind that the poor defenseless newbie is making knee-jerk snipes at CS over something they can't help him with" attitude.

Eh, I wouldn't call the first one an overreaction. The rest were a reaction to the reaction I got from others more than anything.

The experience that led him how to set up access to the training room in the first place which would have made information about what the training room was unavoidable? It's not exactly rocket science to figure out that the characters on a server for testing unfinished patches are secluded from the live server for a reason...

Edit: Again, it's not so much that he asked, but he had to make the unnecessary snipe at support for not telling him how to transfer the character. Y'all are so desperate to paint me as the evil bully snapping at the poor, innocent newbie that you overlook his belligerent tone that garnered him the snarky response in the first place.

Another two-fer answer: The problem with that theory is that you have to specially set up a custom shortcut to get into the training room. I find it hard to believe that someone could find the instructions on how to do so without also finding details on what these servers are...

I'll answer both at the same time: Common sense. It's a TEST ENVIRONMENT. A little common sense will tell you that some unstable and buggy patches ripe for possible exploitation are being tested there for the specific purpose of finding and hammering out those very problems. Who in their right mind would even begin to think you'd be able to transfer from there to the live servers? Hell, the ability to copy ( *COPY*, not transfer ) characters over from live without limits should be enough to make it obvious it's not going to be allowed the other direction. You'd have to be blind not to see how that would be a wide open door for rampant duping.

Perhaps if he wasn't quite so ****** about it and had used his brain before whining he wouldn't have gotten the snark.

Why would you ever think that they'd be stupid enough to allow such a thing? Before getting irritated at them for being "unhelpful", try using some common sense... Transfers from a test environment to live aren't allowed in ANY MMO and for good reason...