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They were going to give those slots to everyone for free.|
Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
I think now would be the perfect time to invest in a fix.
I also firmly believe that properly priced it would be a worthwhile investment on their part. We can only hope that the ones in charge of pricing don't deuce all over the devs efforts this time. We can only hope. |
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Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
I missed that. At "that" time I must then assume it was something that was going to be a part of an issue and since freedom was not here there was never any discussion from them about us having to pay for the slots then right? Help me get up to speed.
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Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
For once I am glad they have a technical limitation which goes against everything I stand for normally. It is almost like everything is up for money in the eyes of many here and there is nothing good about that IMHO.
I am also glad that Z shared their scheduling methodology with us dispelling the rumor that just throwing more of our money at them will solve all the desires even my personal ones(staff fighting). |
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If they decide to do it sometime in the future(I hope they NEVER do), it should be free as planned.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
They were trying to give us 3 enhancement slots as free stuff.
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The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.
Yes please. 3 slots would make my toons so much better. Mainly as most of them would than get extra recovery without having to sacrifice something in their current builds.
or if they were broots they would get damage procs. Give us slots even if we have to pay for them. Tho any more than 800 per slot is unacceptable. Even than thats kinda pushing it. But like the extra enhancement trays just seems very nice to have.
but hey, free is always good. Tho with the tech limitations, i feel like overcoming them they would have to charge.
wait... free?!
FREE?!?!?!?!?!
WANT NAO!!!!!!
edit: 3 slots would be the icing on the cake! Wants badly!
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Wasn't it basically that at level 50, you got an extra three slots (so, 6 total at level 50), so that you could 6-slot your level 49 power if you wanted to? That seems to be what I remember.
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Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
wait... free?!
FREE?!?!?!?!?! WANT NAO!!!!!! edit: 3 slots would be the icing on the cake! Wants badly! |
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From conversations I had, it was going to be extra slots at 25/27/29.
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
Wasn't it basically that at level 50, you got an extra three slots (so, 6 total at level 50), so that you could 6-slot your level 49 power if you wanted to? That seems to be what I remember.
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I vote for a Very Rare Recipe drop. Even if they were level 50 only, I'd imagine they'd go for quite a lot on the Auction House.
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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare
And I'm very open to how we receive those slots: Tokens, Paragon Points, Incarnate progression or even some nasty rework to the leveling system.
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That's how it worked if you were leveling up organically and were below 25. If you were above those levels, you automatically got all three extra slots at once.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
From conversations I had, it was going to be extra slots at 25/27/29.
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As for why it bugged out: I'm not privy to any sort of inside info, but given that level 50 characters had their purple IOs vanish when they got the new slots, I'm thinking maybe power and enhancement slot gain is REALLY hard-coded into a character's level, and that the game interpreted those extra slots as a character being level 51 (or something similar), thereby taking away the IOs that are only available at level 50. And from there, I can see how a bunch of other stuff could be affected. But again, this is just me taking a wild guess based off of one piece of anecdotal evidence.
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From what little I've heard, the (a?) major problem is that leveling and associated bits of code include all kinds of no failsafes at all because no one ever thought it would change, and the extra slots opened the door to potential exploits and, I believe Synapse said, problems potentially as severe as corrupting character data.|
Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
As for why it bugged out: I'm not privy to any sort of inside info, but given that level 50 characters had their purple IOs vanish when they got the new slots, I'm thinking maybe power and enhancement slot gain is REALLY hard-coded into a character's level, and that the game interpreted those extra slots as a character being level 51 (or something similar),
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In any case, moot point; on last week's Ustream Positron said there were so many issues with it that it was off the table indefinitely.
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If this is true then that's one heck of a kludge. It suggests that the original coder responsible for powers, levels and slots (if it was just one person or team responsible for those things), did some quick and dirty coding just to get it to work, and no one since has bothered to go back and clean it up.|
Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
As for why it bugged out: I'm not privy to any sort of inside info, but given that level 50 characters had their purple IOs vanish when they got the new slots, I'm thinking maybe power and enhancement slot gain is REALLY hard-coded into a character's level, and that the game interpreted those extra slots as a character being level 51 (or something similar), thereby taking away the IOs that are only available at level 50. And from there, I can see how a bunch of other stuff could be affected. But again, this is just me taking a wild guess based off of one piece of anecdotal evidence.
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That's the drawback to having deadlines. When the clock is ticking, you're severely tempted to cut corners in order to get it all done in time.
They should work out a way to make those 3 free slots work and offer reasonable prices for paid for slots to put on top of that
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My dominators and khelds want this so bad.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
From conversations I had, it was going to be extra slots at 25/27/29.
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I wouldn't be particularly impressed with cash for slots though.
The technical limitation doesn't prevent them from selling it. The devs not wanting to sell it prevents them from selling it. If you're against the power creep of it, though, that's a different issue, and I'm afraid you've already lost that argument.