Preparing for Freedom Version 2


Arcanaville

 

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So we, the illustrious blessed beings known as VIPs, will be getting access to Freedom (v 1.0) before it is opened to everyone and anyone who has a computer and an internet connection (v 2.0).

It occurs to me that perhaps we should prepare ourselves for the sudden wave of unwashed heath... er... new free-to-play players. Follows is a list of things you may want to consider getting done in preparation for the f2p invasion.

* Get a finely crafted, supple leather saddle with custom engravings and sized-to-your-hiney dimensions... just in case the Devs take our advice on the "Ride-a-Freebie" Travel Power.

* Pester the Devs for a new base item... an animatronic old man in a rocking chair to put just outside your base entrance with motion sensors and an audio track that broadcasts "Get the hell off my lawn!" at high volume.

* An identification program that will transform any Free-to-Play player's costume just slightly so you can tell who is one and who isn't... all F2P characters will now have a beach towel cape secured with a safety pin.

* Go to the Market and buy as many Computer Virus salvage as you can carry. Give them to new players as they enter Atlas or Mercy... convince them it's a problem that will infect their real life computer without the appropriate patch... When they are at an acceptable level of panic... give them a Daemon Program to "fix the problem"

* Set up macros for local chat to spam the message "I am your first contact; please approach and speak to me for your first mission assignment!" Have a list of outrageous requests and missions ready for anyone who approaches you which you can send them in private tell. Stand within range of the tutorial drop-off point in Mercy or Atlas.

* Prepare a list of "In my day..." items you can crank out in broadcast as you sit under the Atlas Statue. "In MY day City Hall only had ONE floor... guess those politicians got so fulla hot air it just inflated..."

* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".


My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

 

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* Go to the Market and buy as many Computer Virus salvage as you can carry. Give them to new players as they enter Atlas or Mercy... convince them it's a problem that will infect their real life computer without the appropriate patch... When they are at an acceptable level of panic... give them a Daemon Program to "fix the problem"
Woah! Woah! Woah! What do you mean GIVE them the Daemon Program? SELL it to them!! Remember, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. TEACH a man to fish and ruin a completely good business opportunity.


- Garielle
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I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".

 

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Woah! Woah! Woah! What do you mean GIVE them the Daemon Program? SELL it to them!! Remember, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. TEACH a man to fish and ruin a completely good business opportunity.
Teach a man to fish and you can come back tomorrow and take his fish.


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Prepare a list of "In my day..." items you can crank out in broadcast as you sit under the Atlas Statue. "In MY day City Hall only had ONE floor... guess those politicians got so fulla hot air it just inflated..."
When *I* was a new player, there was none of this unlocking Epic Archetypes at 20 horsepuckey. We had to level all the way to 50 to get our Epics. Uphill in the snow! And dadgum it, that's how we liked it!

/e canewave

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Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
I... I actually kinda want this for real now...


 

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* Set up macros for local chat to spam the message "I am your first contact; please approach and speak to me for your first mission assignment!" Have a list of outrageous requests and missions ready for anyone who approaches you which you can send them in private tell. Stand within range of the tutorial drop-off point in Mercy or Atlas.
It's probably a good thing that I'm too damn lazy to bother.


@Roderick

 

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* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
I guess I am a vet with a twisted sense of humor, because this sounds hilarious. The way to make it even better? Have someone rename an unplayed 50 to "Snipe" (hopefully the name is available), respec it so that it has both teleport (slotted for range) and super speed maxed out, and have them run around to give f2p players a glimpse. muahahaha!


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* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
Sign me up


 

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-a beach towel cape secured with a safety pin.
I sort'a... kind'a... want this.


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Sign me up
Ditto.


 

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When *I* was a new player, there was none of this unlocking Epic Archetypes at 20 horsepuckey. We had to level all the way to 50 to get our Epics. Uphill in the snow! And dadgum it, that's how we liked it!
Pfft, when *I* was a new player, there was no such thing as these newfangled "Epic Archetypes". All we had was getting to 50 and then killing Nemesis endlessly, then sitting around by Positron in Steel Canyon fielding lots of "can u give me money" questions from lower level characters.

I see your canewave and raise you /e walker.


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Back in my day you used to farm by jumping in a dumpster with a full map of enemies and set it on fire!


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*... all F2P characters will now have a beach towel cape secured with a safety pin.
Damn it! Now I want this!


My Stories

Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.

 

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
Oh, that is evil!

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Where do I sign up?


 

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Make a warshade, has innate teleport.

Might as well make it a Hide and Seek game no? First newbie
to find it and open a trade window gets some stuff. Next teleport, and clue.

Remember to put search hide on.


As for me, I think I'm going to farm some influence, make a BOTLER-like toon and distribute it to the newbies.
Assuming that we even have an influx of new players...


"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty." -- Plato

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Make a warshade, has innate teleport.

Might as well make it a Hide and Seek game no? First newbie
to find it and open a trade window gets some stuff. Next teleport, and clue.

Remember to put search hide on.


As for me, I think I'm going to farm some influence, make a BOTLER-like toon and distribute it to the newbies.
Assuming that we even have an influx of new players...
Ummm.... you did catch the fact that the whole point was to have them running around looking for something that doesn't actually exist, right?

Sorta reminds me of what I did to someone who was being particularly nagging in Atlas Park once. He kept asking in Broadcast how he could fly. Me, and some others, kept telling him. He kept asking. So, I figured, "Okay, this guy obviously doesn't want the correct answer, so I will just make one up."

I told him it was badge, and what he had to do was to ask someone to teleport him to the top of Atlas and when it says "BADGE EARNED" he had to make the leap of faith and jump off within 3 seconds.

He did, and when he landed with a splat with 1 HP left, he sent me a tell saying it didn't work. I told him he must not have jumped off fast enough so he would need to earn Flight the hard way... and proceeded to give him the CORRECT instructions. He thanked me and we both went our merry ways.


- Garielle
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I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".

 

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Well I was a vet until my ex wife decided to destroy my account by changing all the contact info and passwords. SO i had to start a new account but oh well I will still be a VIP. Anyhow "When I was a new player you couldn't choose were to go on the tram you had to take the right color line" and I'm still mad the Devs stole my perma Unstoppable.


 

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* An identification program that will transform any Free-to-Play player's costume just slightly so you can tell who is one and who isn't... all F2P characters will now have a beach towel cape secured with a safety pin.
Safety pins? Nay. Wooden clothes pins.

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* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
Or, you could always fall back on the old "telephone rings in the middle of Perez Park and it's a contact with a special mission" for those in the level 5-7 range. It worked over 7 years ago, I'm sure it will still work now.


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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"When I was a new player you couldn't choose were to go on the tram you had to take the right color line"
Bah, you whippersnappers don't know how good you had it. I remember having to get on the tram, get off in the next zone, run to the tram entrance door, get on the tram, get off in the next zone, rinse, repeat until you got to the zone you needed. This "choosing" a stop on the Yellow Line or "choosing" a stop on the Green Line is silly.

Oh, and no one told you that you had to run to another door, you got off the tram and clicked the doors you were at and wondered why they wouldn't open.


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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OMG I remember having to get off of each stop that was so freaking annoying i had purged it out of my mind Hell i Remember When 40 was the original level cap.


 

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Ummm.... you did catch the fact that the whole point was to have them running around looking for something that doesn't actually exist, right?
I did.
But why make fun of newbies, when you can have fun with newbies?


"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty." -- Plato

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1) Grab a high level character with Fly and a ranged attack, preferably AoE.
2) Fly around Atlas Park, wiping out spawns that have civilian hostages. Because the hostages cannot reach you to say thanks, they will trail after you.
3) Flashmob Ms. Liberty.
Ouch! Showing your age bringing up tricks that old, man. Actually, I don't think that one actually works anymore anyway. Pretty sure the masses of civies died out with the aggro cap. Additionally, with the dynamic spawns in Atlas Park in I21, the number of those "hostage" situations has decreased dramatically.


- Garielle
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I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".

 

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw View Post
* Get some Vets with twisted senses of humor together to organize a Snipe Hunting Zone Event. Spread out over Atlas Park and start talking in Broadcast about the event. Say the Snipe is loose in Atlas Park... it's not a strong creature and can be defeated by just six hits regardless of the power or level of the character hitting it. The trick is that it teleports the instant it takes a hit and can reappear anywhere in Atlas. So... the naughty Vets spread out and begin yelling things like "First hit! I got first hit on it!", "I see it... at my location and headed East FAST!", "It's on top of the Atlas Statue! Hurry!" and so on. Sprinkled liberally with "The one who delivers the last blow gets a badge, reward merits and enough xp to raise a first level character to 10th!" comments. See how many Newbs you can get to "play".
Twisted sense of humor....Check.

You let me know when the Snipe Hunt takes place. I am SO there.



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* all F2P characters will now have a beach towel cape secured with a safety pin.
I *definitely* want this! We actually had a group of elementary school age heros who formed the After School Super Secret Super Hero Society. This cape would have been perfect for all of the members!


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3) Flashmob Ms. Liberty.
We need to do this. Get SOME use out of the damn Party pack!!!