seebs

I won't discuss the Other MMO thing here (though people who'd like to discuss it are welcome to PM me or look around for other places I post, I suppose; I'm the_real_seebs on some forums, seebs on others). I will say, though, that variety and depth of content matters a lot to me, and that a game which has nothing but big-group endgame content being added is a game which I will likely not play.

That's an interesting thought; this could be a better way to convert merits to wealth than previous ways.

Wait, if they're trying to convince us to stop being VIPs, is their intent that incarnate content be so anti-fun that people will stop paying to avoid the risk of accidentally stepping in it?

Because if so, they're doing a really, really, bad job of that.

It finally occurred to me, re-reading this, that I could in theory MOVE money from one character to another, allowing me to reach the inf cap precisely.

I should totally do this. I updated my spreadsheets and I have 12b liquid inf. Note that I haven't really played CoH significantly in months, but every so often I log in and do some marketing.

I used to take it as a given that MMO forums needed to eliminate specific references and compare-and-contrast threads. However, I've now seen it allowed for a year and change and with only a small amount of moderation effort, it turns out to produce a much more interesting set of discussions, without the feared degeneration into chaos.

I think as the market has matured, more people have gotten in the habit of playing two MMOs at a time, and thus not being inclined to holy wars with all other MMOs.

So, I read up a bit on UAC, and once I understood it, I configured my game installs so that I do not need admin privs to run my games. This works. So I can click "no" when NCAccess requests admin privs, and everything's fine. Heck, I can replace NCAccess.exe with a no-op that doesn't do anything, and everything's still fine.

However, I still get a dialogue box telling me that "you'll need to accept ncaccess".

Obviously, this is untrue. Untrue things upset me because they are incorrect, but I don't really think I want to get into altering NCLauncher to try to suppress this...

Any suggestions?

Anyone ever have communications with ncsoft which would lead you to believe that I might be able to communicate my question to their support people in under a month? (I mean, such that they respond to the question I asked, rather than some tenuously-related question.)

I have seen many complaints about how any given MMO does not sufficiently force teaming, like old MMOs did. MANY complaints. Always from people who were imprinted on an MMO which has long since become irrelevant.

Forcing people to team is stupid. Enticing them to team works beautifully.

I frequently can't team ("can't" might be a bit strong, but I'm autistic and much of the time, grouping would be far too stressful), and what I've found is that if a game entices me to team, but leaves it optional, I'm much more likely to team when I'm up for it.

I frequently run into people who think games are less sociable because they do nor force you to group.

As I recently commented in an in-game chat:

If there's one thing I've learned from the past hour of interesting and civil discussion among a dozen or more players, it's that no one in MMOs ever socializes anymore.

I just assumed that the devs can only remember that activation time matters for a week or so at a time before they go back to thinking it's irrelevant.

Ooh, an eggcorn!

Seriously, though, if a potentially-crash-inducing bug can survive in the display of things like Kismet +6 0X0.000000P+00ccuracy in base storage, WW, etc., for years, despite detailed reports of exactly what's wrong and how to fix it, why would you expect proofreading?

One thing to consider:

The right comparison for the effect of burning, say, 100B inf, is not "what prices were like before", but "what prices would have been like with that inf still in circulation".

Prices are certainly higher than they were when I started; what we don't have direct information on is what they'd have been without large-scale destruction of inf. But simple math says that the amount of money available for things to cost is lower than it would be if there were more of it.

What? Darkness Control isn't all tentacles?

It's like you ripped the still-beating heart from the chest of the Hentai Avenger and threw it on the ground. You guys are wrecking my dreams.

... Seriously, though, awesome patch. I was just griping the other day about having to log in to make settings. Heck, I think I still have a character named Settings Changer whose sole purpose in life was to let me shut off the music before Atlas Park was loaded.

I am, quite honestly, amazed that there are people who seem unhappy with this set of patch notes. Yeah, I want Staff Melee and enhancement converters and also a puppy and a pony, and a pony that takes a puppy for rides and they're friends, and also a million dollars.

But the question I ask, when I look at patch notes, is:

Will I have more fun playing this game than I would have playing the game I had available yesterday?

And the answer is yes, yes I will.

It's quite possible that the net effect is negligible, but it's obviously an effect.

Why do people keep playing pacman, getting all those points, if they aren't going to spend them?

And yes, I'm one of the people who messes with the market despite never having gotten to 50.

It's a game in and of itself. I'm not even good at it as such, I don't think I've ever had 20B total.