Post about Incarnate Rewards is coming

I said that she was human and it's an attack on her credibility? This is exactly what I was addressing, I sincerely appreciate you providing a ready example.

Also, when you said I had a chip on my shoulder are *you* claiming omniscience or are you making the point that your personal observations should be discounted as being factually incorrect.

I only ask because I evidently don't know me as well as you know me.

I see. What criteria do you wish to propose that makes the cutoff for this?

Please show the math.

No, what you did was take offense that someone would dare trust one player over another (or really, you, when it comes down to it). You've been trying to defend your position ever since by making her out to be someone seeking attention and downplaying her obvious contributions to the game. Sorry if none of the rest of us follow that same train of thought. There are tangible fingerprints in the game of her unsolicited work. Have you contributed anything besides posting in a forum?

Never said you started it originally, just your response when someone else brought up her past accomplishments.

Conversion recipes are going in so that uncommons can be broken down into commons or even changed into other uncommons. This means it will never be to your advantage to "slack off" because in all possible cases higher rewards never have less utility: they always have equal or superior utility, even in the dreaded case of getting nothing but uncommons.

The main point I objected to was:

Saying I'm good with numbers is a complement. Saying I'm a "numbers person" and implying that limits my viewpoint or expertise is not a complement. Its an attempt to turn me into a caricature. I wrote one of the first guides to pulling. I helped formulate the standard strategy for the level 50 Hamidon. I used to solo task forces and AVs when it wasn't considered easy. I'm actually to the best of my knowledge the first person to post a "scrapper challenge" thread and the first to post a "earn X from scratch in the markets on the red side" threads. Its not like any of these things are big secrets, so saying I'm just a numbers person, instead of just someone good at numbers, is an attempt to put me into a small box with air holes that other people can ignore.

My numbers posts should not necessarily afford me more credibility in my other endeavors, but they should not afford me less either.

One more thing: I was actually a known quantity on the forums *before* I became known as the numbers maven. Notoriety came first, numbers came second. I guess most of the people who were around to know that have died of old age.

Not trust, elevate to an unreasonable level.

If you're going to try to antagonize me by attributing thoughts and motives that aren't present, then you'll have to try harder. If that is not your intention, then there may be an adult literacy class in your neighborhood.

Sure have, thanks for asking.

You?

Hmm, that's funny because earlier you said, "I just think it's funny that MyLexicon..., yet it was he that brought up the discussion in the first place,..."

You may want to look in that class sooner, rather than later.

That is a fair point, pigeonholing is something that shouldn't be encouraged.

All the rest is fine and dandy, but you are not unique in the other accomplishments, in comparative terms. And unless I am misunderstanding you, you are not claiming to be uniquely suited to the role(s) that others attribute to be only filled by you. However, you do often come across with exactly that personae.

No, they should afford you exactly the credibility you deserve. While I personally think that should rightly be more than someone with 2 weeks of forum participation and under a 100 posts, it likewise doesn't afford you the role of sole player arbiter.

Not necessarily. But history is a fickle thing.

What's unique about me is that anyone else with a similar resume would be known as a jack of all trades, not a "numbers person." It would be assumed they played the game to death, not studied it in a telescope from a long way away. That's really the main thing I object to.


Actually, there is another unique thing about me. When the players say "X should go take a look at this" most players don't. I tend to foolishly say "ok." That may have more to do with it than anything else.

You caught me--I'm actually not omniscient. I just read words, and the ones you wrote were: "That's a far cry from any justification that elevates any player above us mere peons...". That makes you sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. So do the rest of your posts, like this one:

There you go with the omniscience thing again. Listen, Truman may have known more taxi drivers, but he surely didn't put them in his Cabinet. If the devs solicit opinions from players (and we are not even sure this is the case), I would hope it is only from experienced, knowledgeable, credible people. And, I would hope the devs spend most of their time designing the game, and not spending all day reading these forums to make sure that everyone has an equal say in what happens.

And in terms of me showing a criteria for cutoff and showing the math, I am not going to dictate to the people on this forum what it takes to have credibility. I am not questioning anyone's credibility at this point, except perhaps yours. You are the one who is relentless in chipping away at Arcana's contributions to the knowledge base, and making her seem like she gets more attention than she deserves. And the more you write, the more petty it sounds.

I'm afraid that is beyond my meager capabilities. I'm forced to be great, and leave it to others to be humble.

Care to enlighten the rest of the class what those contributions might be, or am I to take your word for it? Keep in mind, I'm not the one trying to tear down another player's status by saying "They're no better than me" so it doesn't matter what I've done. I haven't made any claims one way or the other.


The rest of your response is great backpedaling technique. Kudos to you.

Lexi is responsible for more than your average player. More than Arcana? Probably not. Lexi has a right to be heard just like everyone else, and ignored too.

I don't think any player should need to be doing what Arcana does, and asking for her to do the devs' job is a bit much, considering the devs are paid by us to deliver entertainment. Anything Arcana does is unpaid and therefore solely a volunteer effort. As professional as her critique may be, it is still an amateur effort and the players are asking for work from the 'pros'.

Customers are pretty much demanding that the devs hire someone who can do what is requested of Arcana or do it themselves and be more open and transparent with the results.

Pretty much this. I'm sorry if this hurts the developer team's feelings, but we wouldn't have this mess if they were forthright in their explanation. While the developers might have revealed some of the workings for the reward tables, it is obvious that everything isn't clear by the simple fact that even Arcana is asking for clarification on points.

Instead we have guesswork, rumors, and conspiracy theories at a time when simple clarity would allow players to tell the developers "this isn't working".

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