Should I be happy or bummed?
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Posted on: 2012-01-15 11:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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It was "older players returning". Newbies only run Death From Below. WELL into their thirties.|
Originally Posted by shaggy5
So either these are newbies or, more likely, older players returning.
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Strange...whenever I say that I get kicked from team...|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I was on one of my alts in the Reactor and I actually used the line, "I'm Zombie Man from the forums and I assure you it's a myth." And they backed off.
Posting has its privileges. |
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Nah, some of them find an AE farm before that, but they still don't leave AP |
Originally Posted by NuclearToast
It was "older players returning". Newbies only run Death From Below. WELL into their thirties.
--NT |
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Laugh it up, hat-boy!|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Strange...whenever I say that I get kicked from team...
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It's funny, on Protector it seems to be universally accepted that glowies are a "free for all" sort of situation. I've never seen a team leader complain about people clicking glowies without permission and I've never seen anyone ask for permission. This works out quite well until I make an alt on another server then get yelled at for clicking a glowie and told I have "bad manners" |
Originally Posted by Kallandra
I was always told, when I first started playing, "Never click another man's glowie."
I still feel uncomfortable clicking them in other people's missions. I'll usually ask if it's okay first . Or wait for the mission owner to click them. |
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Yeah, it seems to vary from place to place.|
Originally Posted by Zaloopa
It's funny, on Protector it seems to be universally accepted that glowies are a "free for all" sort of situation. I've never seen a team leader complain about people clicking glowies without permission and I've never seen anyone ask for permission. This works out quite well until I make an alt on another server then get yelled at for clicking a glowie and told I have "bad manners"
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I tend to just not grab glowies in other people's missions (or leave it up to the team leader in TFs), but I will call it out if I find one and no one else seems to have noticed it. If someone says "Grab it" then I will, otherwise I'll wait or someone else to get it.
On my own missions, I tend not to care if other people grab the glowies. Knock yourself out.
If someone seems to be under a false impression about whether you should use glowies (like in TV trial) I'll do my best to dispel that nonsense.
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Originally Posted by Dark Energon
Out of respect for the mission holder, i always ask the deal about glowies.
Some, like me, don't care, u see a glowie just click it. There are others who do care, and that is fine. We have to team up and interact with each other, so we have to be considerate of each other and respect the others play style and wishes. I always say that the leader leads, and i follow. Even when i don't like his tactic, and even when i know the tactic won't work, i let the leader play it out. A good friend of mine in game has a weird tactic on several trails, i don't like the tactic, at all, but it'll get the job done if people pay attention. He knows i hate it, but he also knows i'll enforce his tactic to others because i know it should work. However, when things start to fall apart, i'll open my mouth to the leader with a few suggestions in a tell to him/her. I'm pretty well known on my home server on my Crab Spider, and a lot of the times they ask me for advice anyways. IMO, it's all about respecting the other players leadership style. If we do that, more than likely they'll respect your style too and will follow that when you are leading. |
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Originally Posted by Zaloopa
It's funny, on Protector it seems to be universally accepted that glowies are a "free for all" sort of situation. I've never seen a team leader complain about people clicking glowies without permission and I've never seen anyone ask for permission. This works out quite well until I make an alt on another server then get yelled at for clicking a glowie and told I have "bad manners"
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), and you run over absentmindedly and click on a glowy, you're likely to find everyone on the team crowding around, expectantly asking, "So what'd you find in the box, Zaloopa?" Many (not all) team leaders will be impressed if you answer eloquently in a way that describes the clue you've picked up AND shows off your IC chops, and likely won't mind you clicking on glowies after that. But if you were to answer back, "stuff lolz, go go go!!" you'd basically be crapping all over the team's idea of fun, and you might not find yourself teaming with them again.
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Yeah, this times 9,000. I'd be, "CLICK THE !@#$! GLOWIE NAO, NEWB! NAO!"|
Originally Posted by Codewalker
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I *WISH* clicking the glowies made them spawn more / faster... Then the last part wouldn't be so boring. |
But I do remember the old days when the trial was actually hard....
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Really?! I've spun the camera around to take a screenshot: it's a really neat view if you can catch your character about to land that flying kick to the head. But I didn't know it also did extra damage!|
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I'm joking about the extra damage. Really.
To be fair, we did have glowies provide XP at one time (Issue 21 got rid of the last hold outs... Farewell XP-granting cans of food in council crates) and in other missions temp powers - and the temps/xp only went to who clicked them.
It's mostly a hold over of that.
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For a while I debated on starting the following rumors:|
Originally Posted by NuclearToast
It was "older players returning". Newbies only run Death From Below. WELL into their thirties.
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- That you had to to jump on both the hydras in 100 DFB trials to get the "Head of the Hydra badge".
- That you had to do 200 DFB trials to get the "Sewer King" badge.
- That you had to do 50 DFB trials to get the "Sewer Stalker" badge.
- That you had to level 1-50 in the DFB Trial for the "Sewer Dweller" badge.
- That you had to get all the badges in DFB and have no one die for the Master Plumber badge.
- That you had to lead 20 DFB trials for the Apprentice Plumber badge.
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It's not what you said, it's just Nvidia's new smell-o-vision technology at work.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Strange...whenever I say that I get kicked from team...
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
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I just pull out a picture of Chuck Norris saying "Or else" and people stop.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I was on one of my alts in the Reactor and I actually used the line, "I'm Zombie Man from the forums and I assure you it's a myth." And they backed off.
Posting has its privileges. |
The only mission that taking a glowie (from the mission holder) would annoy me on is on a Safeguard/Mayhem weapons deal. Then again, I haven't picked up a bank mission in years, so...
(Well, i'd say that the original post pretty clearly implies at least one returning veteran. New players wouldn't know about the urban myth regarding the glowies and the reactor. i'd say that the suggested reaction would be happiness that a veteran is back while being slightly bummed that they haven't bothered to learn anything new about the game since they left. Or, really, learned more about how things actually work, then or now.)
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