BellaStrega

Haha! This was genuinely funny.

Not surprising. I just haven't managed to get to Aftershock.

I don't know. I mean when it gets to the point of characterizing people who like something as stupid or whatever (or secretly hating it but too ashamed to come back to this game) it's going beyond simply stating a preference.

Nah, it's fine. It's just not a game you like.

You don't?

Check out Serpent Lantern or Resistance. Both gave me that feeling.

I had a similar problem, made worse by the fact that things had changed so much from what it was at launch, that I did understand, that I kept getting stuck in the Powerhouse.

I solved it the same way you did, though. I posted a thread with a build and asked for help, and that helped a lot.

It's only arithmetic in terms of adding up numbers. Choosing where to put those numbers and how to frame them is a whole other thing.

However, I think that your statement about psychology is pretty uninformed. There is a lot of bad science in psychiatry, as there is in many other fields. However, psychology is still a science as long as one doesn't subscribe to overly elitist false beliefs.

This is precisely what I meant. I can find my way to the Titan network pretty easily on my own.

Then saying that one can go find it is just a way to waste others' time.

I do wonder what kind of stipulations were rumored that made buying it unfeasible.

It's a way to manipulate the numbers on the books so that a loss (such as eliminating an entire subsidiary) looks like a profit. This is because the expenses are gone and the subsidiary's worth can be written off. It's an accounting thing, and accounting isn't just arithmetic.

I doubt it would be a problem to just link it.

Do you even read Arcanaville's posts?

Why so many drama posts in a row? Can't the drama just gtfo?

Rep was a forum game but some people used it badly (I won't say I didn't a few times, either - poor impulse control is me).

Anyway, I don't dislike you. I think I was frustrated a few times, but that's true with a lot of people I've had arguments with, even those I agreed with except on one particular point, whatever that may have been. Some of them I do miss (such as blueeyed - I don't know whatever became of him - or Concern).

I don't think you're the anti-christ, although I remember a couple of arguments we've had. I think.

But as one abrasive poster to another, you're definitely abrasive.

I accept it because, as Arcana pointed out, every decision can cost players. However, that is not the crux of her post. Her post is, overall, a logical explanation as to why blasters needed to be buffed. I simply quoted the last line as a random choice, not because of what the last line said.

I do not see how comparing the statement to ongoing events makes the statement or agreement into complete insanity. I think that it would be hard to argue that buffing blasters is in any way responsible for the end of CoH, since the buffing never actually happened in any official capacity.

If anything, I would argue that the resistance to buffing blasters in the first place may have already cost many players. This doesn't mean I think that said resistance killed the game. It does, however, mean that I see no point to not providing a more satisfactory and above all consistent with the rest of the game playing experience. And I think that such a buff would make more players happier than the number of players it would upset or chase away. I do not even think that every player who likes blasters being some kind of "hard mode" would have left after issue 24 had it gone live.

Control right-click to turn all old crafting components into rank 1 mods. You only need to do this to one stack, and it'll get everything in your inventory and bank. This also applies to any qliphothic energy you pick up in Unity missions, although stopping to harvest a single rank 1 mod at level 40 seems to be a bit of a waste of time.

This is an excellent post. Would read again.

This part is awkward, but if you're all doing the same mission, you can remain teamed while doing the solo instance part. Or you could avoid doing solo instance stuff. Or you could do dungeons.

This I do not think is true. In fact I would say that the parts of the game that are like this stand out to me (such as anywhere Ak'ab have nests) because the rest of the game is not like that. I routinely run through areas that are dense with mobs and get out the other side, often with my sprinting intact. You need to be hit several times for sprinting to go away, or get hindered once.

Most of the time I actually do fairly well on managing how many mobs are attacking me, and I think some of the people in TSW from here can attest to the times when it falls apart, as I tend to get a bit touchy about it. Most of the time I'm busy killing everything I see or running past it with little risk.

This can often be avoided by keeping track of where you and the mob are standing and moving to avoid patrols...or just killing the patrols.

But you can go back to your body and revive at the point you fought your way to, and not have to kill everything again.

I won't argue that it never happens or that it is never irritating, but I will say I don't think it's all that frequent. The two places where it was the worst for me recently were in the areas you do The Eye of Horus and The Girl Who Kicked the Vampire's Nest - both of which are nightmare areas (or signet drops are bugged and dropping from them), and both of which I completed solo. Most of the time I can handle 1-2 additional adds, depending, and I have consumables handy to keep things going just a bit longer - barrier and heal drinks are both very useful when things look like they're going pear-shaped. Also, anima consumables that buff stats like block, evade, etc.

Could you take this disagreement out of this thread? It's off-topic and rather pointless.

^^^

Yes. I agree with this.