rian_frostdrake

leally, there are things he cant say, legally there are things the company cant say, i was laid off a bit ago and went through some irritation with this as well, my company COULD give me a really top recommendation, but legally the new companies hr had to go through hoops to do so, it stinks but it does keep a vindictive ex employer from torching your career, just stinks when they would have had lots of good things to say...grumble grumble.
i can fully understand why some things could not be said, rationally this mostly adds up, i hope its lemur's guess that is right, that would be a good way to go, protecting junior workers, but there is some stuff that if released could get a company sued, so we probably know what we will know.
as i said, just celebrate the man, he did good work and was skilled in customer interaction, that's his takeaway from this job, the customers appreciated him, i'd like to think that that is something important, i suspect to him it was.

now you know enough to know this is a biased comment. the players have complained about just about every change made to the game, in some cases their commentary has helped the game, in some cases it has been unreliable, statistically invalid, biased to specific play styles or would make the game worse. just because a few decisions were overturned for the argueably better does not mean that player feedback is in any way superior to internal metrics, it simply is another metirc to watch. We can just selectively point to the times that it has and forget that long time posters here have repeatedly made suggestions that would so permanently throw balance out of whack in this game(particularly for specific kinds of tanks) that their feedback would have done irrevocable harm. we can also point to suggestions that have been made that simply are infeaseable for this or any video game, or would be huge time/resource sinks for limited payoff. we get it right some times, but there are a lot of us and we throw a lot of suggestions, and a lot of them are "horribly wrong".

Furthermore, it assumes that here ever is clear concensus in the first place, have you noticed how free stamina has even generated some vocal discontent, remember the dom buff? Even on ostensibly popular ideas, there will be some who will object because it upsets some aspect of their game, that's just the nature of change. feedback is important, and it has, at times, lead to improvements in the product but lets not oversell ourselves, we are as fallible as they, and most of us, realistically, dont know as much about the reality of programming and financially maintaining a video game.

then you have probably answered your own question, havent you?

i'm always fuzzy about what can be said from beta pre nda drop. figured that was the most "to the point" answer.

i can see some pizza related applications, are there devouring earth tomatoes?

the first part of the incarnate system, a system of alternative leveling for max level characters, unlocked by specific content.

1. male
2.scrappers/brutes and nightwidows. ease of play lack of concern about mezzes, melee focus. also, i do like me some doms, they just feel like they have in-at variety, i play a plant totally different from a ice, for the others i mentioned, i just run in and throw down, regardless of power type.
3.mostly blueside but about a 65-35 split.
4.honestly im really loving the tips more than the arcs. they are right now my favorite writing. the emerging stories of flambeaux, doc quantum and polar shift are pretty intriguing for me.
5.customization, alternate animations, thematic breadth(superheros can be fantasy, sci-fi, ultratech.)
6.lots,generally rpgs and action rpgs, fighting games and action platformers, also some retro arcade stuff. at the moment just finished DQ IX, and metroid: other m. am working on fallout 3, final fantasy tactics ds, blade kitten, dig dug arranged. and tekken 6. arc rise fantasia is queued up next.
7.75 months
8.60'ish, they tend to group around level 14, level 26, and late 30's.
9.well, i try to pull my weight, but i dont go crazy with mids and min/maxing. i do use ios and pay attention to bonuses, but given the general difficulty i dont feel a need to go into the heavy number crunching mode. that approches the feel of working, rather than playing. its cool for those who do, though. i tend to compare it to office workers who do heavy weight lifting, its not really needed for their life, but its cool when you can pull it off.

as for diff, i tend to keep level the same, and raise numbers, and always with bosses, they just are fun. rian runs on x3+1 w bosses, but for non-favorites, i tend to keep the level flat.

i love it when a plan comes together...otherwise you have one plan feeling somewhat unfulfilled and the other one just making lame excuses.

well, i wouldnt really have a huge issue with something generally like this. xena did have some wonder-womanish elements anyhow. obviously i want more than a xerox plus of xena, but it would fit how i conceptualize that character.

but its not half as fun.

so we will notice a difference when exactly?

(you get that this post is silly or do i need a smiley)

I suspect that by the i19 release, females will be added, i would really be surprised if they werent. but since this is a accident(like the insect 2 cape, remember that?) i dont think any expectations can really be attached to it.

a few things there that are wrong. the resounding meh was at first because the parts they put on test were incomplete, myself and several others were upset that a specific costume part, tails of any kind, were missing, there were no tails. after david posted in that thread people calmed down significantly. Then, when the bushy tail was added, some were thrilled, some fell into full on conspiracy mode,and a good deal more, the people who still cannot tell the difference between anthropomorphic costume parts and furries(strong venn diagram overlap with 4channers) and people who just like more classic human-looking characters were still unimpressed, and would never have been pleased because they had a different definition of the nebulous definition of "mutant". But say the facts straight, the initial meh was because the mutant pack was incomplete on test and a FEW posters were converted by the wolf tail, but to pretend that it was a significant number is to purposely distort available information.

one more point, matching other pieces is not the prerequisite of costume pieces, in fact the fact that many new sets work poorly with anything other than the rest of the set has been a point of significant contention around here, because the launch creator was a great deal more mix-and-match friendly. so whether it matched or not is largely irrelevant, a portion of the players would prefer more pieces that are multi purpose rather than being locked into a set.