Release Notes for Build 19.20090702.2 ~ 7/7/09
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Posted on: 2009-07-07 15:25 in The Global Training Room Test Server
I hope there is a plan to increase the drop rate of PvP IOs then...
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LOL, I can't imagine no one bugged that STF bug.
Methinks BaBs may have been out of the loop on it. 
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I think this is out of BAB's field of work
Someone attacks you. In zone pvp. Someone esle kills them. They respawn and try to attack you. You kill them. No rep. No recipie roll. Way to jack up the price of pvp recipies even more!!!.
In other words, those that atctually PvP and end up fighting the same people in zones will get fewer drops unless they sit around for 5 min after each kill.
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LOL, I can't imagine no one bugged that STF bug.
Methinks BaBs may have been out of the loop on it.
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Right. Just like there are certainly plenty of people on Test to look at this new patch and make sure it's all working right.
Except there were a total of two people in Beta Testers when I logged off just now...
Always /bug something when you see it rather than presume someone else has done it. They might know about the STF bug and have it in the queue, or everyone might have left it to someone else.
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Uhh the STF bug is live. I can't see how someone somewhere hadn't /bugged that by now.
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
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LOL, I can't imagine no one bugged that STF bug.
Methinks BaBs may have been out of the loop on it.
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I think this is out of BAB's field of work
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But THIS, is true.
Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!
For completeness on the STF:
Link to thread #1 the penultimate post mentions an in game discussion with a GM
Who gave the Cimerorans Coffee ? Thread which could be related to the issue. Mobs being 'active' when spawned. If the Repairmen are spwaning 'aware' there first heal will fire before they can be hit.
Players have bugged it in game, I personally haven't because why start a TF when you know there is a bug that stops you finishing it ?
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There's no notes concerning the Barracuda Strike Force final encounter.
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Someone attacks you. In zone pvp. Someone esle kills them. They respawn and try to attack you. You kill them. No rep. No recipie roll. Way to jack up the price of pvp recipies even more!!!.
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^^ This is the main issue with a rep-based system. ^^
The low-population server issue has been mentioned more than once already.
Do knee-jerk, anti-farming measures have to be attached to everything now?
EDIT to add: The 5-minute timer is an obvious compromise, but having a rep-based system still seems less than optimal unless the drop rate has been noticeably increased.
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There's no notes concerning the Barracuda Strike Force final encounter.
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Go Team Venture!
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There's no notes concerning the Barracuda Strike Force final encounter.
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It's under Masterminds.
And Happy Birthday.
I agree, macskull.
If the devs kept the same 1 to 100 ratio for kills to drops... and it only works every 5 minutes... and with rep timers not resetting ifyou afk farm in arena...
Rates are going be double to triple what they were at their worst. Wish I hadn't sold so much over the holiday weekend. I may even nix my blaster's pvp build and sell in a few weeks.
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New farming method if they were to increase the drop rate would be the same as rep farming for the 400 rep badge. Log in one toon, kill. Log in another, kill, every 5 min you cycle through your toons on your secondary account and start over.
No matter what you will not stop people from farming. All you do is end up costing the people that want to buy the farmed product more money while the farmers are stuck with less efficient methods and much higher profit per sale.
There is a much easier fix. Remove inspirations from pvp zones. This would slow down farming without hurting the casual pvper.
They really need to think through these changes
I am so going to miss the fun I had farming the pvp farmers.
Nice to see Destructables get tweaks but I was really hoping for fixes to Defendables.
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There is a much easier fix. Remove inspirations from pvp zones. This would slow down farming without hurting the casual pvper.
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The sale of inspirations or the use of inspirations?
I also thought of another option but I'd really rather not say it out loud due to a few inherant problems with it.
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Nice to see Destructables get tweaks but I was really hoping for fixes to Defendables.
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There is a much easier fix. Remove inspirations from pvp zones. This would slow down farming without hurting the casual pvper.
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The sale of inspirations or the use of inspirations?
I also thought of another option but I'd really rather not say it out loud due to a few inherant problems with it.
[/ QUOTE ] The sale of. Should have made that more clear.
Toss the idea out there and mabye someone could come up with something that would minimize the problems.
Really bad fix to the PVP IOs. I mean do you want IOs costing 2 Bills? Really?
You seriously are making me want to farm them MORE now that when I get one I will basically get as much money as I can hold.
Thanks!
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Nice to see Destructables get tweaks but I was really hoping for fixes to Defendables.
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There is a much easier fix. Remove inspirations from pvp zones. This would slow down farming without hurting the casual pvper.
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The sale of inspirations or the use of inspirations?
I also thought of another option but I'd really rather not say it out loud due to a few inherant problems with it.
[/ QUOTE ] The sale of. Should have made that more clear
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at the very least make them like the arena vendors... no wakie sales.
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Nice to see Destructables get tweaks but I was really hoping for fixes to Defendables.
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There is a much easier fix. Remove inspirations from pvp zones. This would slow down farming without hurting the casual pvper.
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The sale of inspirations or the use of inspirations?
I also thought of another option but I'd really rather not say it out loud due to a few inherant problems with it.
[/ QUOTE ] The sale of. Should have made that more clear
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at the very least make them like the arena vendors... no wakie sales.
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Would still be able to craft them from 3 of anything. Just less AFK farming.
at least it would be painful for them
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Fixed punctuation issues in Mastermind Pet Response text strings.
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Nice! It is such a minor thing, but I was annoyed that the Arsonist kept using his semi-colon as an apostrophe. I bugged this shortly after I played red for the first time.
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<strong>Hero Task Force Return of the Reichsman</strong>
<ul>[*]Changed Task Force version of Reichsmans Unbreakable power so it no longer requires a To Hit check on an opponent to make him phased. </li>
[*]Fixed the Dimensional Grounding Ray so that it can hit Reichsman while he is Phased.</li>[/LIST]
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While I can't participate yet, I think some clarification may be needed here. Whe it say "hit", does this mean the DMRs will damage Reichs during Unbreakable or simply pull him out of it? The two different concepts will yield different needed strategies.
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There's no notes concerning the Barracuda Strike Force final encounter.
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It's under Masterminds.
And Happy Birthday.
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Thanks and thanks.
I understand why they put it there, but it might not be a bad thing to put a Barracuda Strike Force note that says "See Mastermind Notes".
Although now that would be even more pointless.
Thanks again. 
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PVP Changes[*]Fixed a bug where you could sometimes attack a player as they respawn in an Arena match.
[*]Changed Dominator PVP damage bonus to compensate for the improved base damage.
[*]Fixed a bug where mez powers in PvP zones that were affecting NPCs were being limited to four seconds in duration.
[*]Fixed PvP rewards to function once again. Now, influence, inspirations, and other normal rewards occur on every PvP kill, while PvP IO recipes can only be rewarded on rep-valid kills.
[*]Fixed rep-validation to function in arenas, even though it doesn't give you any reputation in arenas.
[*]Also lowering the rep timer from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.[/LIST]
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Wow, look at all the remaining PvP IOs being bought up....can we say huge profits!
Good going for those who got the cheap bids in. All I know is the Villains side is damn near dried out already...lol
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Reeeeeeeally wishing I'd held onto those PvP IOs now. Just lost a lot of potential income.
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and i just gave away a shield wall proc to iggy. Oh well at least i got all my others to make some money.