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To be honest, I think that post is in reference to Freedom. Once subscriptions are surplus to playing, they really have a set of Bad Choices for what names to purge.

Just to add in here, Second Measure did confirm that the later trials themselves are weighted to reward the higher rewards more frequently, so it does potentially cause dataset contamination wrt to Keyes' results.

Second Measure on Later Trial Rewards

30m? Nice.

From Positron's post, I'm pretty sure the devs realize the big problem with Keyes is more that the population doesn't want to put it on farm status.

Just curious as to why for this?

One of the player's first time and haven't seen the cutscene yet?

Just want to add that I apparently also got a reward token today, and it isn't near my renewal date.

They just mediport themselves.

That's actually rather easy.

Quality does not relate to rarity of drop rate.

As for why that occurs, it is likely that the plan/intention is for incarnate threads to generate the vast majority of common salvage.

I do agree that the flash incidents have been worse [I'd include AE/ban threat and PVP/Lighthouse with those as well]. However, those are singular events as opposed to a climate of hostility. While they do tend to leave a residue [and be more memorable], I don't really consider them indicative of the toxicity.

It's just age of the game I think.

There's also the damage that occurs because of the developers pursuing content that a significant plurality of the player base does not enjoy [ITrials, and the Praetorian story-line in general].

You also have a few players that have long standing bones that haven't been addressed to their satisfaction [Bases and pvp come to mind here really].

That said, generally, I see most of the gaming communities turning into wretched hives of villainy and suspect it's more a case of outside factors coming in.

That's ... not right. Mothership Raid is so mindnumbingly easy you can do it afk.

Hate asking this, but what server?

My experience with the iTrials, just express at the beginning/when you get recruited that you haven't done it before. It'll usually be fine. Keyes [and to some extent] UGT have an appearance of being intimidating [especially Keyes if you read the forums], but they are pretty straight forward. Keyes might be a bit more awkward since it's one of the few times in the game that it utilizes vertical space.

The only real general 'thing' to know I can suggest is knowing about your temp powers and knowing when you get some. Two of the trials randomly award them out to members, so you have to be aware of that.

So. Brain in Jar, Military/Merc costume, MM (Mercs), name Commander Jarhead.

Ah, my guess is that would have been the bug that was getting fixed by the confirmed status check. Interesting.

The only in game indication is at the reward screen.

Is Maelstrom the man in the back [bah wrong person fixed it]?

It won't require incarnates. They've said as much in the ustreams about it before.

Also, it'd be an even greater Not Worth The Purchase Price issue for the premium members.

The issue is that it would take longer for the 10 toons to do their tips + alignment missions than the SSA arcs.

Tips + Such is 5.5 missions/day. So, about 38.5 Missions/week.
Versus 3 missions/week for SSA. Even if we assume that the SSA missions and the Tip missions are of comparable length, I can do about 12 of them in the same time frame as one set.

And yep, this change doesn't deter the farmability that significantly. It's very fast and easy to get to 20 if you know how. And frankly, I think there is a better advantage to doing the farming at 25 [or can you buy them at 22? not too important really] you could destroy the market value of LotGs.

I mean, I can have theoretically 207 characters farming [although the idea of 103.5 hours a week farming the SSAs is daunting ], and that 'endeavor' wouldn't take that would be a lot of LotGs to drop on the market.

Although I'm almost tempted now to see if I can cause a bubble.

The team lead should be able to invite people to the event in progress. I am not certain if it works or not.

Thresholds are an antsy subject, since people didn't like it when it waited 5 minutes to try to fill a League before launching, so now we have 1 minute. The time delay is mostly what is supposed to facilitate it. To be honest though, setting your own minimum thresholds sounds like a better option for a 'private' league than necessarily a pug setup.

Part of the issue is that there are some necessary components to a league that the TUT doesn't really account for. You don't need a checklist to be able to do a run, but the frustration declines [in general] when you have your needs met [sufficient Confuse Prot for UGT, sufficient healing for Keyes being the big two]. Now, there is an oddity for me with that, since barring badge runs, I don't see current league-leaders screening for those components anyway, so I believe that is probably more of a perception issue than necessarily an actual issue. Although I could well be wrong .

The big thing, for me anyway, is the TUT needs to be able to let the character do something else while in the queue. Sure, if you're waiting in RWZ, you're not really doing something else, but if you can still keep an ear out on the globals. I am interested to see if a cross-server TUT would break the habit out, but at the same time, I suspect that without a players being able to do stuff while in the queue, it won't take off.

City of Tony Stark was pretty amusing too.

Quite. Although, I would like to see the contact system overhauled [yes again] so where the wiki isn't as necessary. No reason that TaskForce/SF contacts can't have their own tab.

Maybe she is Grey. Or an avatar of Grey.

Would have killed off teaming with any [minor] level variance, ya. That would have been troubling. Although I could see something more similar to a level range allowing xp, but that would belong more in suggestions, and to be honest, that ship has sailed anyway .