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Given the HUGE and OUTRAGEOUS fees you charge for every little thing, I DEMAND that you... oh, wait, I was thinking of the dentist, not you guys. Never mind.

I don't see much benefit to the change, but if you do then go ahead. I'll adapt. I mean, I might have to change my name to Blue Rabbit, but somehow I'll adapt.

I think it's sad (though probably inevitable, given the way so many people behave on these forums) that Zwill has given up hope of not ticking people off. As a result, some feedback is just being ignored. (Read, perhaps understood, but not acted on). It reminds me of old Psych 101 classes about learned helplessness. After a while, the poor rat just stands there getting shocked and doesn't bother to move out of the way. What's the point? Nothing he does will ever stop the pain.

Personally, I don't care how many different methods you use to communicate with people. I'm only going to use the communication channels that I like. Even after reading all these posts, I don't really understand why I have to miss out on some things because I only read all of your announcements on some websites and not others.

In general, I have always objected to the word "exclusive" when there is no time-limit attached. Go ahead and let people have something special for a few months or a year, but then give it to everyone or put it in the store. I don't understand why that opinion seems like a surprise to Paragon Studios over and over and over and over.

You know what would be a great VIP perk? Getting these codes automatically. Does it really matter to you if I subscribe to your twitter feed? I don't understand how that benefits you. As a VIP, I'm already giving you money. You're not selling things through Twitter. You're not being paid per follower, are you? I understand that you'll advertise there, and you want people to see the ads, but the main thing you're selling is subscriptions, and I already have one! And as a subscriber, you have no trouble getting word of new store items to me by other means.

In general I agree with the OP. The game keeps getting better. I think the overall difficulty level is gradually climbing, but I don't see that as a problem since overall character strength seems to be keeping up. It might make the game a little less friendly to brand new players, but I'm not in a good position to judge that.

The game has also grown much more complex over the years. Honestly, I can't even keep up any more. I find that I can safely ignore most of the complexity most of the time, but I still don't like it. It feels oppressive.

Missed it. Darn. Oh well. It was just a matter of time. I won't be around next week either, so... Devs: please make next week's freebie something lame.

Are you talking about converters?

If it were easy for me to log in tonight, I would have. And it will be impossible for me to log in tomorrow. So I'm wondering if I should make the extra effort to log in tonight. But a princess hat seems pretty irresistible.. :P

EDIT: Oh! It really was a princess hat! For some reason I my sarcasm detector gave a false positive. I was expecting another consumable.

How about today? Was there another freebie, or did the new issue interfere?

Someday I would love to see 8 people hit shield charge all at the same time. And I was just thinking of rolling up a stalker. I've never played a dominator past level 10. I haven't played with the new darkness sets yet. Fire is one of the few powersets which is available as a primary and secondary for every archetype (I think that's true), so an all fire/fire team could allow every AT, while still stacking lots of things, especially DOTs. Or, if you go with corruptors, I'll stick with Chronosian until he hits 50. In other words, I like all of the ideas presented so far!

Sadly, I probably shouldn't get a vote, since I doubt if I'll be playing much more often in the future than I have in the recent past. Final exams, surgery (my son, not me), out of town guests... the string of excuses is long and boring, and summer isn't looking much better. Still, I love all the ideas and I'd like to jump in when I can with whatever you all come up with.

I agree that A_F often has a good point hidden somewhere in his posts, but they're easy to miss for two reasons. First, the nasty personal attacks tend to rapidly derail every thread into ugliness. NetherGoat takes some jabs at people, but with more wit and less vindictiveness. A_F seems to delight in the personal attacks both given and received, which is pretty much textbook troll.

Second, even when his mechanics are right, he often ascribes motives and attitudes to other people which are not accurate, especially not in the extreme black and white terms that he uses. Or at the very least not provable.

Personally, I think the market has a lot of gray areas, a lot of randomness, a lot of excess inf sloshing around and falling into people's pockets, but not very much evilness and not quite as much cleverness as a lot of other people suppose.

There was a time when the prestige slide was sold as a separate item pack. If they've done it before, I don't see why they can't do it again. I think part of the discussion the last time I remember this coming up was something about whether physical items were included or just the digital goodies.

If I had to guess (standard code rant and all) I would say that cross-server teaming is totally different from server transfers from the devs' point of view because of server load balancing. Moving a character to a new server changes the load on both servers. Cross server teaming doesn't do anything to server load, because all mission instances are already on separate mission servers. I would further guess that this is a Big Deal to the devs. The fact that it also bypasses the need to worry about name reservations and super group membership is just icing on the cake. But, of course, I'm not a dev.

I vote for 1. Both characters look better there to me.

In #2, it looks like they're running away from the forums. Also, I don't feel a need to have a dynamic image while I'm sitting still reading forums.

I assume they'll be stationary? Didn't we used to have an image of Positron bobbing up and down all the time? That was annoying. Actually, now that I think about it, I may have been so annoyed that I blocked that image. I can't remember now, but I don't see anything at the top of the forums.

Ok, now I'm stuck in Leonard's mission. He's telling me to go to Independence Port. I'm a villain. How do I get to IP? Submariner Janus won't take me. The helicopter won't take me. I'm not getting a way-point.

The arc is Good Villains Never Die (20-29).
The mission is Get the PPD files in Independence Port!

Huh. Seems like different people have different opinions.

The character I always come back to is my katana/regen scrapper. He's the one I bust out whenever new content shows up. He was more fun back when regen was a fire-and-forget set instead of a clicky set, but he's still my main. I was a little behind the curve on regen as god mode, so I don't think he was ever uber. He has always been good enough for me though.

This didn't work out at all the way I expected. As soon as I heard about the converters, I bought a whole bunch of Glad Armor End/Rech pvp IOs for under 10 million inf each. I had visions of selling them for 2 billion each the day converters went live. Didn't work out like that. I converted reward merits into hero merits and didn't get any converters until today.

Now I'm sitting here comparing prices, and I'm not sure it even makes sense to use converters at all. At three converters a pop, it would be, what 15 converters on average to get the 3% Def IO? (If I did the math wrong, it's because I have lots of germs and no sleep). And then I can sell it for a whopping 300 million inf. That's about 20 million inf per converter.

But if I just use 3 converters and turn it into whatever random Glad Armor I get, it will be worth about 200 million, no matter what it turns into. That's more like 65 million inf per converter.

Or I could just sell the end/rech IOs I've been sitting on. I bought them for under 10 million each. Now they're worth 150 million each. That's... division by zero error million inf per converter!

So I'm not going to make anything close to the billions I had envisioned, but I am going to make a big profit. And I don't actually need to use any converters to do it!