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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

That they're awesome?

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Far as I'm concerned, we don't need more flags so much as we need a system for automated team generation, where the game will try to put you in either a team as close to your specifications, or in as big a team as close to your level range as it can manage. Most people want "just teams" anyway, despite what the few of us more focused people here on the forums insist, and such a system would basically satisfy the great masses and take care of the "I can't get a team!!!" problem.

Beyond that, the team finding interface is actually not that bad for building a team. What it sucks at is FINDING a team.

Originally Posted by Scorpion aka Scorp

Had to reformat my pc and will have to again in a week or so when Win 7 comes in...How do i reload the game after reformating?

Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire

Looks like most people are gonna be a rogue/vigilante because then they can access every zone in the game.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

But their gaming pleasure monitoring network would still have detected an illegally high amount of enjoyment coming from your avatar while on the Positron TF, so they would have taken steps.

Originally Posted by Dr_Illuminatis

This. I never got to do the Calvin Scott TF. I came in just right before the GDN and ED.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

I don't believe this has been mentioned yet, but...

Free server transfers make for-pay rename tokens a waste.

1. Transfer Character "ABCD" from server X to server Y
   1. If "ABCD" exists on server Y, rename character and transfer back to server X
2. Create character "ABCD" on server X
3. Transfer "ABCD" from server Y to server X. A rename is forced (and free)
4. Delete "ABCD", since it's no longer needed

The only situation this doesn't work in is if you've got one single character slot open to you on all of the servers you have access to. Even if you've filled a single server, you can transfer a character off temporarily to make the rename free.

Originally Posted by Clebstein

It can also be people forgetting to set it. I always set mine to "Looking for anything" unless I'm specifically not interested in joining a team, but some times I'll log on and if the search window's not open, I won't even think about it.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The dves probably found that out, so the change will be targeted at you.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Yeah, there's a huge difference in Posi runs depending on how experienced and/or small the team is.

The other week i did a Posi duo that finished in a bit over 70 minutes IIRC. The team for that run was my lowbie 14-ish Scrapper and an IO slotted 50 Scrapper. The infamous rescuing FEMA workers from CoT mission is easy when you can just pop a few purples and lead the workers out through the ambushes.

Large teams with several newbies (or worse, several n00bs) can take over four hours.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

My only gripe is the lvl 20 for EATs and VEATs thing. I dont think its fair to those who did get to 50 for them. Plus with all the changes to xp lately its no where near hard to get to 50 like it was back in the day. I dont see why this change had to happen. To me this is like giving folks the Task Force Commander accolade without doing the upper level TFs. I am not going to comment on the Posi TF changes until I see it for myself exactly what they did. Personally my fear is that they are going to gut the merits for the whole thing and still make it not worth running even as 2 seperate tfs.

Originally Posted by Roderick

All they have to do is set a fee for mailing items, either a fixed amount, or something based off the vendor price o the item. Prices would have to be added to the list for non-vedorable items.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

I have to admit, I copy/pasted it into something else to read it.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

IMO, level 50s are "the best." A large enough amount of people aren't planning on being exempt enough to where having IOs below level 50 matter to them all that much. The poster children for this are farmers.

Originally Posted by Tr3yTr3y

Sorry if it's been asked already,

Do your missions you have saved also go with you?

Took forever to get my BM mish and I was just wondering.

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by Bad_Dog

There will almost certainly be free character slots with GR.

Many people who have played this game for a while are either close to if not already filled their available character slots on their favorite server. While its true that everyone has had free server transfers for a couple months, with Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning coming BEFORE GR there will be many players with no free character slots again. The NCSofft execs are not dummies. They aren't stupid enough to have players spend $30 on the expansion and then demand they pay more to get character slots or transfer characters off the server once you see the goodies and want to make new toons.

It would be a bad business decision not to give out 2-4 character slots with GR.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

There might be one or two things featuring multiple teams (like Hamidon Raids) but I suspect most of the end-game content will be for a single team. This makes the content a lot more accessible which I suspect will be one of their goals. Even in WoW all of the new raids contain a 10-man variant specifically because Blizzard realized the larger team sizes limited the number of people who got to see the content. Realistically developers want content to be accessible to as large a portion of the playerbase as possible since that helps retain subscriptions.

Originally Posted by Poysyb

The entire AH front-end was re-written