rsclark

Were you getting a paycheck?

If so, then what relevance does it have to playing a game.

Or go camp the wall in Cim. Or switch to another character and do something interesting. There are plenty of things to do in this game that don't involve waiting for failure to happen. You people sound like masochists. When I get bait-and-switched into a AE farm, I don't stick around and explain why I don't want to do it. They made the quit button and one starring for a reason. The same goes for anything else that takes a nosedive because of bad choices. It's not my job to explain why I'm not enjoying myself. I'm in the game to have fun not to get practice for my future career as a guidance counselor.

There are better things to go down on than a sinking ship.

Acid and grenades are used differently. Not using many grenades means you kill him quickly. Not using many acids means that everyone on the league can handle surplus aggro.

How many of each of those that you need are very different questions.

And it's an important difference. Killing him slowly vs quickly can mean you have a better chance of failure, but everyone still gets a try at it. Letting more adds run wild when some people on the league can't handle it is less fun for those players even if the rest of the group can handle killing Marauder on their own. What is fun for more people doesn't translate directly to what is more likely to generate success.

I have seen BAF failed exactly twice. The idea that you can more easily succeed at Lam is crazy to me. Maybe is you have 2-3 uber people to carry the rest, but in general, if we don't have at least 8 acids, I'm sorely tempted to just quit. I have only succeeded once with fewer than half the doors closed - and that was being entirely carried by others since I did nothing but stare at the back of the hospital door the entire time.

The collection phase of Lam is a death trap. It's not the difficulty of any individual thing, but the fact that they combined a timer with too many things to kill in that time period. We tried to run a direct, kill everything in a straight line to the crates run, and we has 3 by the time the other group had finished 10. The only way to run it is to kill the crates/acids, then move. I've tried sticking together as a group and I've tried going in with someone who can solo the crates and running off on my own, and I can tell you which one is faster and less likely to fail.

That results in a situation with hundreds of things running around looking for a target and one death turning into a hurried rush to find someone to cling onto before that stack of purples wears off. Pick the wrong group to join or simply have a couple of lucky shots, and it's death number 8 and another run.

The whole forced large group set-up is to effectively force the people who could handle the trials with 2-3 people to group with those of us who are not able to do that so they can carry us. But then when you actually get in the thick of things, the disparity between different characters is so great that you might as well be two completely separate groups. And the format of the trials encourages that separation by forcing groups to split, making rejoining the rest of the group dangerous, and sticking that timer on the door just for ***** and giggles.

Odd statement to make given that nothing in his post indicates he isn't calm.
And that's condescending.

Normally it would be a patch applied to an already running application/server, so the fact that they brought down the servers to do it makes it seem like a bit of a misnomer.

Bringing down the servers to do it kind of takes the hot part away.

Don't throw good money after bad. Better to quit than waste more time than has already been wasted.

Hey, it's their decision, but that does seem to be the direction they are going. See, when I complain about the content of the trials, it's because I want them NOT to do what you are saying. I'd rather they used the development time wisely.

Make huge, intricate set-piece battles for major events. Things you can look at and say "oh yea, I did that." Then make basic, straightforward content for anything I'm expected to run 40 times per character. Anything that needs to be run repeatedly needs to be runnable while watching a movie, eating, and being half asleep. Anything else is like a drag racer with a baby-on-board sticker.

Get those two things confused, and you get exactly what you describe - lots of wasted dev time and the oncoming ineffective bribes to get people to run the other content.

As is appropriate to content intended as a grind.

And then Jesus will bake us cupcakes.

And LAM is largely the same as Keyes in terms of frustration - not as bad, but the same disincentive to run it does exist. It's funny, it's almost as if most people just run BAF over and over again. I wonder if that was the original intention - hmmmm.

It doesn't take a master painter to recognize a bad painting. I can tell when food tastes like **** without being a good chef myself. It has never been a requirement that you have to be able to do something to be able to effectively judge it. Why do people insist upon using that horrid argument.

If a leader does a poor job, then of course, anyone on that team is in a position to comment on it.

No, not the actual numbers, just the ratings system they use to lie to new players about the ATs. Like telling them a controller is a pet class.

My Widow who switched at 42 to hero had none.

And the boathouse was plenty fast. They had always respawned by the time I made the circuit.

Yea, the trading insps thing is a perfect example. It doesn't just negatively affect the free players, it negatively affects anyone who groups with them. I keep seeing ways in which the limitations put on the free players negatively affects me as a paying player.

I think D&D alignments don't really match the difference here. Jayne from Firefly is arguably Chaotic Evil, but he's never needlessly cruel and certainly has style.

That may explain why I can't really play my hero/rogue - a basically heroic person who isn't above a little monetary self-benefit. to run the rogue missions you need to be limited to only having the option to run your own villain missions - which are pretty negative. And if you go hero, you can't take the rogue missions. The only option for gray morality is to edge towards violent sociopath...I mean vigilante.

I guess by going hero, I'm expected to be pampered and never be tempted to steal that car.

Every time I'm in a position to see cosplayers. It's one of the better costumes for emaciated goth kids.

It's even worse if you look at what you actually do at a tailor in this game. Yes, now my robot now drips oil and spare parts out of his groin as a fashion choice. It certainly has nothing to do with Art Evolution - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtEvolution. I would never be changing a costume simply because new parts became available to better represent how my character should have looked all along.

No, a cop-out is a cop-out. If he wants to say something, then he should say it.

The word "immersion" is such a meaningless cop-out used in place of making a real point.