rsclark

On what do you base that statement? Did you pull it from a warm, dark place?

You just said the same thing twice and are acting like they are supposed to be different things. If there are two people (A and B), then A joining B has the exact same effect as B joining A. Teaming is commutative.

While your hypothetical player is terse, I see no way in which he was ambiguous.

There are quite a few things we can tell about the potential of servers. There were some people who planned on moving all (or at least most) of their characters to exalted in order to avoid the free players. Those people will be more strongly represented on exalted than anywhere else.

In the future, when populations inevitably drop again, exalted will be more susceptible to those losses than the other servers.

So, best of all worlds, it comes out slightly behind the other servers which do not have those two particular shortcomings.

No profit in that.

Inaccurate?

Did they explicitly say this? It's not the impression I got.

Is the first time award per mission or just the first time you do any one of them?

The quote was
So it doesn't seem the context is limited to the lazy, but also includes those incapable of keeping up due to build limitations and choices. This idea that you were only justifying anger at the lazy seems to be backpedaling.

It's not identical, but it stems from the same root cause. Once you reach a critical mass of the power players, it becomes the assumption that everything is done the speediest way possible and to hell with the scattered remains of those that couldn't keep up. When you have to specifically announce while recruiting that you aren't zipping invisibly and bulletproof past 90% of the missions, then the game doesn't appear inviting to those not capable of doing that.

Taking information that is organized specifically by what the reader is looking for and smashing it together with things that are unrelated is not simplifying.

The Tank forum generally does not have threads on "how does taunt work" or things equally generic. It has specific questions about tank builds and powers. Having that convenience removed by smooshing irrelevant information about brutes in there does nothing but make things harder to find.

Neither of those is antithetical to "strong".

A slight tangent from this comment, but while watching the linked video, I couldn't get past the point where he showed 90% identical pictures of males and females and talked about how the women were posing and the men were mini-novellas told in image format.

Then they got to the fat man, who supposedly was wearing a window to his soul on his forehead, but to my limited sight was generic anime fat man with a flag. I suppose I do know from his detailed portrayal that he was supposed to be jolly - after all, why else make him fat. Glad men don't live with cliched images like women do.

This is what bothers me. If you think rmt spammers are annoying, just wait until the free players are trained to think blind invites are the correct way of playing the game.

This is the part I find funniest about the whole thing. The reward for being vigilante is you can go to rogue isles, but if you want to get vigilante style morality missions, you need to go back to PC.

Rogue and vigilante seem designed as speedbumps to switching sides completely, as there isn't a sustainable point where I can keep doing vigilante missions in the enemy's area.

If you're buying purples, yes, but for anything else, it's conservatively 2 hours for a recipe. I doubt you can get 32 astrals in 2 hours.

Plus, you need to be 50 to even begin, compared to being 20 and getting xp along with your merits.

In terms of what it says about your character, 1 and 2 are the same.

I have 3 characters I am considering taking back to hero-villain just for the Signature story arc. 3 missions once a week is about all I play them anyway, and I might as well get the best rewards possible for that time. It bothered me when I ran out of viable characters at the free merit buffet.

I can already do that.

What is the benefit of that?

I consider it zero additional content, since...

1. I have plenty of alts I can play the content on
2. If I'm playing a hero, then the Villain content is worthless to me, thematically.

The hero/villain merits are the easiest to get/most valuable currency in the game. I have several vigilante/rogues, but they see maybe 10% the play of heroes and villains at later levels due to having the main source of available rewards cut in half. It's so imbalanced that I consider it effectively broken.

Yea forgot about that. Fill my dom bar instantly vs a confuse? Hmmmm...


Also, if they keep making trials, Death from Below can't be run with a mixed team. So, on the fastest lobie leveling non-AE content, rogues and vigilantes have no more freedom than heroes and villains do.

If they do cycle out, then new rewards would cycle in, and you would need to fill those separately since they are different rewards. Presumably, if the same reward cycles back in, it would still be filled.

If you're napping by the door, then sure, people can get pissed, but what is "rightly so" about getting bothered by someone moving as quickly as they are able to?

And as for not doing speed runs, I would love to see what a non-speed eden looks like. Never seen one. Ran 8 when it was WTF, and not a single one was non-speed.

You can get a non-speed ITF because it's so good for farming shards, but much of the game is to the point where if you can't zip past an army of enemies at X8, then you need not apply.

I've had people get pissed that I didn't run a speed TF. Apparently "we can take a straight path to the end, but I'm going to attack everything I see" is anathema in the game.

Oh, and that last part was on pinnacle and it was formed using pinnbadges and cozmic's.