Positron Interviewed by Boomtown
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Blind_Minotaur,
Posted on: 2008-11-12 11:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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You knew it wasn't directed at you, but instead you reply with a comment that suggest my comment needs editing when any 3 year old can recognise I wasn't pointing at you.
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I know it isn't at me. People scanning the thread may not. And given that the discussion keeps turning somewhat negative/doomy I don't want people scanning to mistakenly believe the quote to be from me. I don't think it's too late and I resent the misattribution of quote.
Now I think I asked quite nicely, and I'm pretty sure that to attribute the quote you're probably only looking at 10 to 20 keystrokes...
So is it too much to ask you to correctly attribute the quote rather than enter into this dialogue regarding the post (which is the one thing that is derailing the thread)?
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You knew it wasn't directed at you, but instead you reply with a comment that suggest my comment needs editing when any 3 year old can recognise I wasn't pointing at you.
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I know it isn't at me. People scanning the thread may not. And given that the discussion keeps turning somewhat negative/doomy I don't want people scanning to mistakenly believe the quote to be from me. I don't think it's too late and I resent the misattribution of quote.
Now I think I asked quite nicely, and I'm pretty sure that to attribute the quote you're probably only looking at 10 to 20 keystrokes...
So is it too much to ask you to correctly attribute the quote rather than enter into this dialogue regarding the post (which is the one thing that is derailing the thread)?
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I apologize; I only wanted to point out that it was not aimed at you, and that could be easily seen.
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You knew it wasn't directed at you, but instead you reply with a comment that suggest my comment needs editing when any 3 year old can recognise I wasn't pointing at you.
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I know it isn't at me. People scanning the thread may not. And given that the discussion keeps turning somewhat negative/doomy I don't want people scanning to mistakenly believe the quote to be from me. I don't think it's too late and I resent the misattribution of quote.
Now I think I asked quite nicely, and I'm pretty sure that to attribute the quote you're probably only looking at 10 to 20 keystrokes...
So is it too much to ask you to correctly attribute the quote rather than enter into this dialogue regarding the post (which is the one thing that is derailing the thread)?
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Good grief.....you must be bored.
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It doesnt have to be that way. Instead of making us pay millions for a single set IO, they could rebalance the way IOs are distributed in game.
This would minimise the need for farming (another reason this game will fall behind) and give more casual players a chance of catching up by going through the normal mission route.
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And get rid of one of the few remaining goals this game has.
For people that cant be arsed to keep rolling chars to grind the same old same old, there's little enough to do already.
Apart from that i agree with most of what you have said there.
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It doesnt have to be that way. Instead of making us pay millions for a single set IO, they could rebalance the way IOs are distributed in game.
This would minimise the need for farming (another reason this game will fall behind) and give more casual players a chance of catching up by going through the normal mission route.
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Good god if the gme got any more basic they could start to sell it in mother care, im sick of the game being dumded down already, we got to have something that is hard to do or whats the point in playing.
Saving and aiming for that One IO you have been after is the only hard thing left in the game.
Funny how any mention of making the game more accessible to casual gamers brings out the farmers isnt it.
The old "leave OUR game alone" chant rings out.
Yes good idea lets drive away any potential subscribers by making it extremely difficult to get purple IO's because of the cost,time involved in doing TF's,etc.
While you clog up the forums with endless posts of smurfs hitting 50 on your superfarms.
How powerlvling a char to 50 this way can be classed as quality I dont know.
Guess you will be happy when you have the server all to yourselves with no issues on the horizon..........
Think of the future and be less selfish.
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Funny how any mention of making the game more accessible to casual gamers brings out the farmers isnt it.
The old "leave OUR game alone" chant rings out.
Yes good idea lets drive away any potential subscribers by making it extremely difficult to get purple IO's because of the cost,time involved in doing TF's,etc.
While you clog up the forums with endless posts of smurfs hitting 50 on your superfarms.
How powerlvling a char to 50 this way can be classed as quality I dont know.
Guess you will be happy when you have the server all to yourselves with no issues on the horizon..........
Think of the future and be less selfish.
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Sorry but just who the hell are you to make comments like that about myself and my SG?
Everyone plays this game how they want and my commetns about making the game to easy are valid from my point of view, i have been playing this game now for 4 years so after that much time anythign well get to easy and tbh making what is abit on the hard side like getting purples to easy for im guessing the likes of you is just dumb.
Still based on your comments here i guess you need things to be easy as you cant play the game and just like to cry that things are to hard.
Before you comment on posts i would think about who you are making comments about.
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Guess you will be happy when you have the server all to yourselves with no issues on the horizon..........
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No i wont but i could do with out cry babys like you!! that would be no loss to anyone
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While you clog up the forums with endless posts of smurfs hitting 50 on your superfarms.
How powerlvling a char to 50 this way can be classed as quality I dont know.
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Oh do shut up, posting a gratz on here is a tradition, get over it.
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Everyone plays this game how they want and my commetns about making the game to easy are valid from my point of view, i have been playing this game now for 4 years so after that much time anythign well get to easy and tbh making what is abit on the hard side like getting purples to easy for im guessing the likes of you is just dumb.
Still based on your comments here i guess you need things to be easy as you cant play the game and just like to cry that things are to hard.
Before you comment on posts i would think about who you are making comments about.
Oh yes and this
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Guess you will be happy when you have the server all to yourselves with no issues on the horizon..........
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No i wont but i could do with out cry babys like you!! that would be no loss to anyone
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
Not everyone has the time to put in endless hours to rack up 50's and inf to buy IO's Junior.
If you have been playing for 4yrs then please act like a veteran and stop whining bout people spoiling your precious "HARD" game when you clearly take the easy way every time.
How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game,instead of crying for the waaaahbulance cos the nasty men are changing YOUR game.
Farmers are gonna be the death of this game....trust me !!!!
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Everyone plays this game how they want and my commetns about making the game to easy are valid from my point of view, i have been playing this game now for 4 years so after that much time anythign well get to easy and tbh making what is abit on the hard side like getting purples to easy for im guessing the likes of you is just dumb.
Still based on your comments here i guess you need things to be easy as you cant play the game and just like to cry that things are to hard.
Before you comment on posts i would think about who you are making comments about.
Oh yes and this
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Guess you will be happy when you have the server all to yourselves with no issues on the horizon..........
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No i wont but i could do with out cry babys like you!! that would be no loss to anyone
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
Not everyone has the time to put in endless hours to rack up 50's and inf to buy IO's Junior.
If you have been playing for 4yrs then please act like a veteran and stop whining bout people spoiling your precious "HARD" game when you clearly take the easy way every time.
How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game,instead of crying for the waaaahbulance cos the nasty men are changing YOUR game.
Farmers are gonna be the death of this game....trust me !!!!
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Hnag on one second, what gives you the right to make comments like that about me?
I have not PL everytoon i have, yes i have PL the grand total of 2 toons both for pvp the rest have been done the old normal way.
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How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game,instead of crying for the waaaahbulance cos the nasty men are changing YOUR game.
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I do thankyou but from your point of view im crying about them changing the game when infact making the game way to easy well jsut take away any kind of fun, but i take it you find it hard or you would agree.
Also again you call me a "farmer" im sorry but i dont even know you so im sure you dont know me so how do you know what i do and to be frank even if i did farm whats it got to do with you?
Guess you could say its people like me who spoil the game for you but seeing as how i dont farm i dont see how, i get my inf for my IOs by doing tons of missions and tfs etc with my sg, it sounds to me you have a case of the green eye monster.
Making attacks like this against me and my sg are not called for as i have asked the other leaders and im sorry we dont know you so how can you make such claims about any of us.
NOw to stop this turning into a flame war or getting nasty i would ask you to stop make such comments or if you wish to carry on please do but if you do know me then you must know i never back away from a forum war.
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How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game
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How is 4 years knowledge in farming going to give you enough knowledge about the game for sensible suggestions, other than ones that benefit farming, that is? 
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game
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How is 4 years knowledge in farming going to give you enough knowledge about the game for sensible suggestions, other than ones that benefit farming, that is?
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You dont want any of this today ffm, think you know me to well by now, i have no wish to start a flame war but i DO not lilke people making claims about me that are not true
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How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game
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How is 4 years knowledge in farming going to give you enough knowledge about the game for sensible suggestions, other than ones that benefit farming, that is?
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You dont want any of this today ffm, think you know me to well by now, i have no wish to start a flame war but i DO not lilke people making claims about me that are not true
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Oh hush, Shocky. Didn't you see that tongue in cheek smiley at the end? Why so serious, hmm?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
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Perhaps because he got the 1st 10 level 50s to 50 the "hard way" and now just wants to get chars up to 50 to pvp?
As for 50s lists, iv certainly not got one anywhere, in fact i cant think of anyone in our sg who has.
And taking the easy route? it's you that is championing it, not us.
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How bout putting some of that 4yrs knowledge to use and posting some suggestions about how to improve the game
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How is 4 years knowledge in farming going to give you enough knowledge about the game for sensible suggestions, other than ones that benefit farming, that is?
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You dont want any of this today ffm, think you know me to well by now, i have no wish to start a flame war but i DO not lilke people making claims about me that are not true
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Oh hush, Shocky. Didn't you see that tongue in cheek smiley at the end? Why so serious, hmm?
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Yeh sorry ffm just that guy has rattled my cage
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Yeh sorry ffm just that guy has rattled my cage
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Yeah, I know. That's why I decided to inject a little humour in to it and try to defuse the building flamewar. 
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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and more to the point 13,000 active players
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Got a linky for where that figure comes from?
Or are you misunderstanding the peak concurrency figures?
If the latter then please try to understand that maximum active accounts at any one instant in time is not the same as number of active accounts.
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I didnt understand what you just said but in any event I said active players not accounts. Perhaps I should have said average.
Either way the game doesnt have much more than 13,000 players on at any given time.
That figure means that while things are just about sustainable now, as soon as the game takes a major hit it will enter the land of diminishing returns.
Too few players to interest any new players. Too little money to justify expansion, or major advertising etc etc.
Don't get into a flap. It's only my opinion and I'm thick
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and more to the point 13,000 active players
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Got a linky for where that figure comes from?
Or are you misunderstanding the peak concurrency figures?
If the latter then please try to understand that maximum active accounts at any one instant in time is not the same as number of active accounts.
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I didnt understand what you just said but in any event I said active players not accounts. Perhaps I should have said average.
Either way the game doesnt have much more than 13,000 players on at any given time.
That figure means that while things are just about sustainable now, as soon as the game takes a major hit it will enter the land of diminishing returns.
Too few players to interest any new players. Too little money to justify expansion, or major advertising etc etc.
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^This
Any kind of mass sub loss now would deal a huge blow to the game
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
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Perhaps because he got the 1st 10 level 50s to 50 the "hard way" and now just wants to get chars up to 50 to pvp?
As for 50s lists, iv certainly not got one anywhere, in fact i cant think of anyone in our sg who has.
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http://www.murders-unlimited.co.uk/page26.html
You might need to look a bit harder next time.....
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
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Perhaps because he got the 1st 10 level 50s to 50 the "hard way" and now just wants to get chars up to 50 to pvp?
As for 50s lists, iv certainly not got one anywhere, in fact i cant think of anyone in our sg who has.
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http://www.murders-unlimited.co.uk/page26.html
You might need to look a bit harder next time.....
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Lol, thats called a sg membership list mate, when i can be arsed i'l add all the rest that are under 50.
Anyway you seem very down on my sg, did you get [censored] off out of it at one time out of curiosity?
You have a kin dont you?
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If you want the game to be hard why do you take the easy way out and powerlvl every char to 50 on farm teams then.oh I get it "the look at my list of 50's" badge.
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Perhaps because he got the 1st 10 level 50s to 50 the "hard way" and now just wants to get chars up to 50 to pvp?
As for 50s lists, iv certainly not got one anywhere, in fact i cant think of anyone in our sg who has.
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http://www.murders-unlimited.co.uk/page26.html
You might need to look a bit harder next time.....
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And you think that makes your claims right?
All that shows is MU is the biggest and most active sg on the defiant server
Got to ask did we kick you from the sg or something as you seem to have a huge bee in your hat about us.
Dont bother know who you are now, and funny thing is you use to be part of the sg , on that note carry on with your own flame war wont be dragging up the past.
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It doesnt have to be that way. Instead of making us pay millions for a single set IO, they could rebalance the way IOs are distributed in game.
This would minimise the need for farming (another reason this game will fall behind) and give more casual players a chance of catching up by going through the normal mission route.
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Good god if the gme got any more basic they could start to sell it in mother care, im sick of the game being dumded down already, we got to have something that is hard to do or whats the point in playing.
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While I agree that the game is way too basic, what on earth is more basic than endless hundreds of hours of farming?
Farming you must do if you want to get even one decent IO set?
The very fact we face the question of what else is there is indicitive of the limited imagination the devs have put into this game.
the idea that the ios come from gameplay rather than purchase is just that: an idea.
But the point is that PvP is broken not necessarily because of the current state of powers but because relatively few people are able to endure the sheer amount of farming required to get 300 million or whatever they they need to compete. (buy io sets)
So they cant compete, so they get fed up trying. Which is one reason less people are willing to enter and really play out the PvP domain.
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Saving and aiming for that One IO you have been after is the only hard thing left in the game.
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Yes I take your point but we're not talking about one io here.
For me to equal you in terms of set iOs would cost me hundereds of millions. I can never get the time to devote to one alt getting that sort of inf, never mind the three i have.
That is a massive inbalance between players and while that goes on, PvP isnt fun for a lot of people because they can never compete.
What's frustrated me is the way they've devoted an entire issue to this and have displayed no recognision of the core issues at all.
This is valuable time, that should have been spent putting into place implementations that were ground breaking, in the hope that it would keep loyal players here rather than desert and go to CO or DC.
Is there anyone who honestly thinks that issue i13 goes anywhere substantial towards doing that job?
Don't get into a flap. It's only my opinion and I'm thick
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Is there anyone who honestly thinks that issue i13 goes anywhere substantial towards doing that job?
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Problem is what precisely do you expect? To remove the gap between Hard Core PvPers and normal PvPers would take quite a lot of work, if you remove all need of IO sets then those of us who have spent our hours working to earn them will hate it, and if you make all IOs very easy to get so that even those people who don't have time or interest in farming can get them again you are directly penalising those of us who do have the interest and time to earn them.
i13 introduces the Merit system which will in part at least get rid of some of the need to farm, you can earn merits all the way from level 1 to 50 and more from TFs & Trials. If they make access to IO sets too easy I think a lot of the people who have earned their IOs would be really angry. I know I would.
Or they could just reduce PvP to Brawl, Sprint and Rest, which would be boring but very balanced and very little slotting would make a great deal of difference.
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Good enough for you?
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No. Not when the edit window will still be open for you but rather than attribute the quote you'd rather post a poorly written response (then you are not being directed at).
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Oh, Dave, don't get in a huff. You knew it wasn't directed at you, but instead you reply with a comment that suggest my comment needs editing when any 3 year old can recognise I wasn't pointing at you. Are you trying to increase your post count or derail the thread? I sincerely hope it's not the former, for your sake.