Time Manipulation, Null the Gull, and VIP Server questions
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Posted on: 2011-07-12 03:56 in Player Questions
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
Go through my ticket history or talk to GM LLoyd or Grackle. It's a miracle we're still talking. I thought my sub already ended.
I want to say this again. This was a fun game but I was due for a change. I'm trying to be as positive as I can in my final communication. I did try to resolve my issues before I resigned. I wish you all the best. |
You know we don't have access to your support account, right?
Wait, why am I asking this?
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I was trying to be more polite than saying flat-out that you're wrong.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
"As far as I know" ....here we go again.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Tell us more about this bug. Since Ironblade and I both spend quite a bit of time in the Gameplay / Technical Issues and Bugs section helping players with problems (and possibly several others that have posted in this thread as well), it would be beneficial to know what you are talking about in case others bring up the same item.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
Go through my ticket history or talk to GM LLoyd or Grackle.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Wait, why am I asking this?
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I know why you asked...
Can I ask you a question? If "official support" couldn't fix it why do you think you can? If your not even paid by NCSOFT, why do you care? I find your attempts insincere.
If you can't view my tickets, we can't really have a meaningful conversation can we now? Thanks for reminding me about the indirect reason I quit.
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I really hope this was a typo... If not I want pictures of his rig!
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If I could wish upon a star....
I would wish the Forum Moderator would close this thread. It's just the polite thing to do...
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I can't see any of your tickets so that doesn't help. |
Originally Posted by Residentx10
Go through my ticket history or talk to GM LLoyd or Grackle. It's a miracle we're still talking. I thought my sub already ended.
I want to say this again. This was a fun game but I was due for a change. I'm trying to be as positive as I can in my final communication. I did try very hard to resolve my issues before I resigned Specifically, - I bought a 20,000k Custom HP 8740w Mobile Workstation(QuadCore Extreme) with 32GB of Ram and 2GB of Video. - I installed a Business Class Verizon Fios 150 MB FTTH Line - I played the game at all different times to minimize disconnects during trials. I wish you all the best. |
GM Lloyd, Grackle and any other support staff are not allowed to discuss anything related to other players with us, just as the forum rules do not allow us to make public any private communication with any NCSoft employees be they Devs, OCR team members, support staff, GM's, Moderators, or any other position without their permission. So that doesn't help either.
I don't understand why you won't discuss what you consider to be a bug while making comments like this one:
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
"As far as I know" ....here we go again. Thanks for the fun
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If someone else mentions it after you've told us about it, we won't be answering with comments similar to "As far as I know there is no cooldown bug."
If you aren't willing to discuss things with people that are trying to help you or possibly help others in the future, I really don't know what to say.
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It's definitely a typo, Dragon...|
Originally Posted by Dragon_King
I really hope this was a typo...
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Am I a paid bug tester, Texas? I took it as far as I could. Even though you offer help this game is owned by Ncsoft/Paragon/Crpytic(ip only).
20/20 vision here, ok? I played the game a lot....some months I was doing more than 65 hours.
The game was fun at sub 50, okay?
*starts running through the thread flailing like a muppet*
*screeches to a halt*
i, uh, i thought there wouldn't be anyone still here. How embarrassing.
*starts reading the new posts*
Mmmm, good luck with sussing out the problem, Ironblade and Texas_Justice. Although i suspect it'll turn out to be pretty simple. *Groucho Marx eyebrow waggle*
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Originally Posted by TonyV
And for god's sake, if people on the forums are bothering you, I feel your pain, some here have gotten on my last nerve too. (Many of them gone now, funny enough.)
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*flees*
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I don't know if you have noticed, but players help other players here all the time with no more expectation than a simple thank you.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
I know why you asked...
Can I ask you a question? If "official support" couldn't fix it why do you think you can? If your not even paid by NCSOFT, why do you care? I find your attempts insincere. |
You, personally, have received less helpful responses largely due to the fact that you usually begin with an incorrect assumption, and, rather than accepting that you might have made a mistake with a little bit of grace when someone corrects you, you usually respond with an attitude.
After a while, your pattern of behavior was noted, and people began responding to anything you posted as if your attitude was in the forefront in every post. It may not be fair, but that is what happens when you build a bad reputation for yourself in the community. The only way to repair that reputation is to consistently show that you have changed.
As you have already given up on this community, I think it unlikely that you will do so, but stranger things have happened.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
If you can't view my tickets, we can't really have a meaningful conversation can we now? Thanks for reminding me about the indirect reason I quit.
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There are people here who genuinely want to help you, but you need to let them do that if it is going to happen. Telling them to look up your tickets, even if they could, is not helping them help you. That is you asking them to do all of the legwork while you reap the fruits of their labor. You already noted that they would be volunteers. The only payment they receive from helping people with their tech problems is the knowledge of a job well done, and maybe a "Thank you."
There is a saying, "The Lord helps those who help themselves." The Lord has placed people in your path who might be able to help you (Ironblade and Texas Justice), but the only way they even stand a chance to do so is if you provide them the information they need. By helping them, you help yourself.
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Your right and I'm wrong so I'm leaving....do you feel better now?
What other questions do you want to ask me now?
The game was fun at sub 50, okay?
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This is exactly the attitude I am talking about. There are people genuinely trying to help you, and you are doing everything in your power to make them not want to help you any more.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
Your right and I'm wrong so I'm leaving....do you feel better now?
What other questions do you want to ask me now? The game was fun at sub 50, okay? |
Even I was trying to help you, though it may not have appeared so because I was also being critical of you. I simply pointed out that you have a bad reputation in the community. I would like to help you repair that reputation. I don't want you to leave.
Criticism does not equal scorn, and there would be a lot more "GTFO" and "lrn2playnub" in this thread if we wanted to see you gone.
By sub 50, did you mean that the game was fun up until you reached 50 months subscribed (of your 65), or that the game was fun when you were playing characters below level 50?
If the former, then maybe it is time to take a break and do something else for a change. We'll leave the light on for you, and more than a few people will probably greet you warmly the next time you walk through that door.
If the latter, then I need to ask: Why in the world are you wasting so much time grinding trials with your 50s? Why are you rushing through the "fun levels" in order to get to 50? Almost seven years in the game, and I have well over 150 alts spread across 14 servers (I haven't made any alts on Zukunft or Defiance yet, and it may be a while after Freedom launches before I make anyone on the FREEEM server). All those characters, and I only have two 50s, because I have fun playing the sub 50 game.
When you return, feel free to hit me up and I'll give you some tips about how I keep the game fresh and fun for me no matter which alt or level I am playing. If my methods work out for you, that would be awesome.
New story arcs coming soon (ARC IDs will be aded when I finish the arc):
So, you want to join the Hellions? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
Sparks & Steel (level 5-20 Heroic arc)
and
So you want to join the Skulls? (level 1-14 Villainous arc)
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I'm not asking you to be a bug tester. I don't recall seeing anyone else suggest that either.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
Am I a paid bug tester, Texas? I took it as far as I could. Even though you offer help this game is owned by Ncsoft/Paragon/Crpytic(ip only).
20/20 vision here, ok? I played the game a lot....some months I was doing more than 65 hours. The game was fun at sub 50, okay? |
All I'm asking for is some information about the bug you mentioned since it isn't something I've heard of, and someone else might mention it sometime. I'd prefer not to say "well, I've heard a report about some bug with the cooldown timer and incarnate slots but I don't have any other information so I'm not sure if it's the same problem".
You asked someone earlier why they thought they could fix it if official support couldn't. We've had several examples over the years of support not knowing the solution to a problem that players already knew the solution for. One example would be the WindowBlinds program not allowing the game to start. Another would be the drivers for Wacom graphics tablets conflicting and not letting the game start. Those are just two examples I can recall off the top of my head that official support didn't know how to resolve but players did know how.
You also asked them why they care if they aren't NCSoft employees. Several of us care about helping others, even if we aren't NCSoft employees. It's been that way since the original forums. The original forum moderators were other forum members that volunteered their time to help others. One of them has had his character put into the game in the tutorial after he died. I'm fairly sure you've seen Coyote in the hero tutorial. Just one example of someone that cared about helping others, even though he wasn't an NCSoft (or Cryptic at that time) employee.
Some of us just enjoy helping others. Some of us just enjoy solving technical problems. That's why I do Technical Support for a living, and did it on the side before it was my job, I just like digging through things and finding a solution.
I'm trying really hard here to be helpful. Even if you won't allow me to try to help you, I'd at least like to know what the bug is so that I can try to help other players in the future.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
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Holy crap, you don't even know what I was talking about. If this were any other game, people wouldn't want to help you because of your attitude. But since it's CoH, look at all the people who still want to try.|
Originally Posted by Residentx10
I know why you asked...
Can I ask you a question? If "official support" couldn't fix it why do you think you can? If your not even paid by NCSOFT, why do you care? I find your attempts insincere. |
I'm not angry, I'm just laughing. You could let us help you, or you could ragequit. (Or sequentially ragequit?) Since it doesn't affect my game experience at all, the choice is yours. I don't care.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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Originally Posted by Residentx10
The time manipulation thing was the last straw.
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This confuses me why would you be mad and leave the game cause the devs are adding a new power set?
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This is still bugging me as well. None of what he is saying makes any sense to me about this. He's thinking of deleting a character to make a new one with the new powerset, but doesn't want to respec now because they take time? I really don't get what one has to do with the other. Then he's mad that he doesn't know how many slots he'll need for the powers in the new sets, when his current build schemes don't make any sense anyways.
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Originally Posted by CyWolf
This confuses me why would you be mad and leave the game cause the devs are adding a new power set?
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Originally Posted by CyWolf
This confuses me why would you be mad and leave the game cause the devs are adding a new power set?
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
This is still bugging me as well. None of what he is saying makes any sense to me about this. He's thinking of deleting a character to make a new one with the new powerset, but doesn't want to respec now because they take time? I really don't get what one has to do with the other. Then he's mad that he doesn't know how many slots he'll need for the powers in the new sets, when his current build schemes don't make any sense anyways.
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Several of us tried to explain to him that Time Manipulation is going to be a Primary or Secondary powerset for some ATs, so he would not be able to respec his existing character into the set. That is my interpretation of his /ragequit over Time Manipulation.
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Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
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Is the "bug" perhaps that you can't switch your Incarnate abilities rapidly? Is it saying you've been in combat too recently to switch? Is it telling you that you can't switch abilities because your Incarnate powers are still recharging?
If it's one of the above, those are all intentional design limitations on the system, not bugs. (I'm not 100% sure, but I think it counts your teammates' combat actions against the 5 minute cooldown timer as well.)
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
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I *think* anyone responding seriously to Rx10 should just consider themselves successfully trolled.
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Originally Posted by Rylas
I *think* anyone responding seriously to Rx10 should just consider themselves successfully trolled.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
I love this game. I've been playing it for waaaay too long. I would like to make this game fun for the OP. I think, if we can get past the whole /emowrathquit thing, we can.
Now that they've, ostensibly, deleted every character they own, uninstalled the game, and canceled their account because of new, free content...it's too late.
Plenty of other people to help out.
There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.
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Residentx10, I'm so sorry that you've decided to leave the game; I was just reading through your questions and the thread. I see what you mean and were asking. I think the terminology (like power sets vs. power pools) can be confusing, and I totally understand what you thought about the respec and why. Anyway, I know this is all moot now, but if you decide to play again and want some help with stuff like this, let me know |
Originally Posted by Residentx10
I did enjoy the game but my point was that this is a game.
I deleted my characters to show that. I have no hard feelings about this game. It's just time to play something else. I had issues with numerous incarnate bugs that the devs can't seem to wrap their arms around. Before I had deleted my characters, I was playing 60-65 hours a month. I was wasting resources just maintaining these characters, couldn't use all of the incarnate slots due to the cooldown timer bug, the incarnate powers at the top levels were lame, and I decided I just wanted out.... The time manipulation thing was the last straw. Also, AGG was the first person to comment when I joined COH so it was fitting I go out on his comments. Thanks for the fun and good luck with "Freedom" P.S. I did remove/cancel all of my account stuff but NCSOFT doesn't remove you completely. This was surprising. |
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It does, and this is the only 'issue' related to the incarnate abilities and switching that I can think of. And I hear there's ways around it. Like if you're on a league, getting the leader to move you to a new team -may- reset your timer allowing you to swap out abilities (if any incarnate abilities are still recharging though, you can't swap those out)... another possibility I heard about was zoning, If you leave the map the cooldown timer is reset (again, still bound by the recharge). |
Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
(I'm not 100% sure, but I think it counts your teammates' combat actions against the 5 minute cooldown timer as well.)
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And the recharge limitation on switching out abilities might be avoided by switching builds (it resets the recharge on things like self-destruct and the accolades (demonic/eye of the magus)). Even if this works it has limited usefulness, however, as the cooldown for switching builds is much longer than the recharge of any (current) incarnate ability. And if you don't have a combat ready second build? well...
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The more detail you can give about it the better. It may also help anyone on the Dev team that reads it to be able to reproduce the issue. Several of us have been known to send PM's to the Dev team when a good write up about a problem is posted, just to make sure that they are aware of it and possible steps for them to reproduce it.
I want to say this again. This was a fun game but I was due for a change. I'm trying to be as positive as I can in my final communication. I did try very hard to resolve my issues before I resigned
Specifically,
- I bought a 20,000k Custom HP 8740w Mobile Workstation(QuadCore Extreme) with 32GB of Ram and 2GB of Video.
- I installed a Business Class Verizon Fios 150 MB FTTH Line
- I played the game at all different times to minimize disconnects during trials.
I wish you all the best.