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There is a difference between your character being a poor teammate and you being a poor teammate. Yes, it's an RPG, but don't forget the MM. Those aren't NPC's you're playing with. They're human beings. If you play in a way that bothers other people, they will not consider RP a valid excuse.

There are two bits of CoX culture you may not know which could have influenced their behavior. First, the reason a lot of people don't like to team with stalkers is because a lot of people play stalkers just like you did: they sneak ahead and click glowies while letting the rest of the team struggle along shorthanded. There are times when ghosting is appropriate and there are times when it is not, but there have been a lot of people playing stalkers who insist on ghosting no matter what. Most people find that pretty annoying, and it just gets more annoying the more it happens.

Second, when CoV came out it was very common for people to act like horrible jerks, griefing people and using all sorts of racist language and engaging in other types of poor behavior. Then, when someone would complain, they would say "Hey, I'm RP'ing a villain!" And pretend like that made everything ok. It didn't. Since that behavior seems less common now, I'm guessing the GM's didn't accept that excuse any more than anyone else did. RP is a fine excuse for your character to treat other characters poorly. It's a lousy excuse for you to treat other people poorly. If there's any risk that the people you're playing with won't understand the distinction, then I suggest you err on the side of common courtesy.

It sounds like your teammates went overboard with the nastiness, though. It's just a game. One mission ending sooner than they expected isn't the end of the world. I don't know why some people can't just shrug things off. Common courtesy isn't as common as I'd like.

Well, there's no guarantee that heals and buffs won't deactivate it.

I'm not sure "glitter" is the word I would use to describe something that makes you less visible. That's kind of the opposite of glitter. I'm really not seeing the appeal here. I guess it's helpful to avoid patrols while you're AFK.

P.S. I liked the tongue-sticking-out smiley on the old forums better.

So people on trial accounts can't play them? I'm just guessing, but that might be the reason they are keeping a level gate on them.

You're absolutely right - we should merge the markets!

No, he's the guy with the gun. Guns.

Snow ice cream!

That's my plan for the day.

No, only the vinaigrettes with fruit in them are stupid. Balsamic vinaigrette rocks!

Really? I was thinking that people would have lower expectations of what a Kheld can do if the threshold to get one is lower.

Anyhow, it's no skin off my nose. Having other people play a Kheld doesn't hurt me in the slightest. I will point out that having the limit at 20 keeps the trial accounts locked out. Also, it sounds like level 20 is going to be a significant milestone once GR comes out.

It was exclusively available to people who paid extra for it. It will remain exclusively available to people who pay extra for it. I don't see the problem.

This is a brilliant post. Far too many times the devs have stood by silently while speculation went wildly out of hand. When they finally stepped in, the resulting disappointment swamped the excitement of the original announcement. I know marketing stops them from saying what *is* in the future releases, but I'm glad to see them stepping up and saying what is *not* before people get their hopes too high about the wrong stuff.

Nope. It's 9:30 a.m. on the west coast, and I still can't get into the test server. I'm not seeing any "queue" message though. It just says the test server is closed for internal testing.

I'd certainly like to see more tidbits too, but this doesn't seem to be a very good reason from NCSoft's point of view. Why should they care when you decide to buy it, as long as you do decide to buy it? It's not even for sale yet. If they told you enough now to get you excited enough to buy it... what good would that be? You can't buy it. By the time it does hit the shelves, in three months or six months or whatever, your excitement will have faded away and you might not buy it after all.

Better to wait until there is something you can do with that excitement before trying to get anyone excited.