What was in the Incarnate Panel?

They could simply add caps to how much of each currency you can hold at any one time (to discourage hoarding) and "downgrade" emps to astrals when new content is added (giving warning a week before hand so people can spend em). The MMO Monster does something similar when it adds a new tier of content. The premier currency gets downgraded to general currency and caps are in place so no matter how much you try to hoard you'll hit a hard limit and have to spend or lose any further gains. Sort of like the ticket limits in AE missions.

This actually makes perfect sense.

If they had offered a solo path from the beginning, the trials very likely would have been dead in the water upon release.

No one is going to run a trial that they have to assemble 23 other people for if the option exists to take their awesomesauce solo farmer/AV soloer through some content instead and make the same progress. And potentially faster depending on just how good their character's build is and how good of a player they are.

No solo path was realistically the only way they could generate enough interest in the trials to make them worth spending the time and money on.

I'm happy with the addition of something I can do by myself, because the addition of the Incarnate system came at the exact same time as the severe drop off of my available playing time. I only get a few hours a week in now, so I have like, 2 characters that have any Incarnate abilities at all, and none above tier 3 (not that I'm too pressed bout getting tier 4, but still)

The "battle of armies" storyline makes sense too. But count me as another who wishes they'd explained that from the start (though I kind of figured it out on my own)

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

We'll replace the hot water with warm milk to help him sleep

I wish they'd explained it, as well, but realistically... What could they have said? "We deliberately omitted a solo option so that we could condition the player base to run Trials." That's what they did, we all know it, but can you imagine that being actually officially stated?

I say this, because as soon as they brought up the "battle of armies" concept, smartasses like me would have gone "Well... Any battle of armies has room for solo action, too. Just look at Modern Warfare!"

Still, it makes sense. So long as an alternative exists - and that's yet to be seen - I'll give them that one.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

It does

What makes you think the additional +2 level shifts will apply in the zone?

Because the devs said so at the summit?

They said that's the current plan at the summit.

Which means that the 50+3s might start spawn camping the level 50 mobs

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Except that giant crossovers have tie-ins in solo books. The excuse still doesn't fly.

Probably easier than doing totally separate content, but as long as villains actually get to be villains I'm not going to complain. Unless the villainous choice is something nobody with half a brain would do, that is. Then I will complain.

I'd also like to see some Vigilante choices, but that's probably too much to hope for. Rogue choices will probably be covered under villains.

Hopefully that means the zombies with their stupid high negative and psi resists will be replaced with something more balanced.
Yeah, haha, funny. No. Leave the forum jokes on the forums.

And yet, people ran TFs for the Alpha slot even though their awesome farmer could get shards fairly quickly.
Then maybe the trials weren't worth spending the time and money on.