Bill Z Bubba
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Quote:I consider getting less stuff unless I pay more for it getting screwed over.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
I don't consider being able to choose which items I get access to as being screwed over.
Arcanaville has some decent points in the other threads regarding this topic and I've stated my willingness to be patient and see how this pans out.
I don't, however, see any point in holding back my opinions when I see something come into play that can so easily be turned in a negative direction. -
Quote:Nobody knows. I was being flippant but I'm a bit saddened that folks are so willing to get screwed over.Originally Posted by BrandX
Wait...wait...
VIPs have to pay for the set through Points? Or will VIPs get the set free for paying the monthly fee? -
Quote:Yes, it should, shouldn't it?
Your subscription plus the 400 points should net to what you're getting now *combined* at the very least, and for this model to be truly successful your subscription alone, without even counting the 400 points, should continue to deliver $14.95 of content.
2004: Issues 1, 2
2005: Issues 3, 4, 5, 6
2006: Issues 7, 8
2007: Issues 9, 10, 11
2008: Issues 12, 13
2009: Issues 14, 15, 16
2010: Issues 17, 18, 19
2011: Issues 20, 21
Average per year: 2.625 issues
I won't bore us all with the details of each issue, but you state that our continued $14.95 + the incoming 400 points per month should continue to give us the same level of content than we've gotten in the past.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this is going to be the case as I've stated before. I find it FAR more likely that to get similar levels of content we'll end up paying 50 to 100% more per month just to break even. -
Quote:You may not be. Maybe I'm the one that missed something. I'd love to hit F2P go live with 28800 points. I don't see it happening though.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
huh, I thought I read a post by Zwil saying that the paragon points will also be semi-retroactive if you had a subscription for longer than a month by july 1st. must have mistaken that.
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Quote:Seriously? Wow. I guess we are screwed.Originally Posted by Sermon
I hope you are right about that. One month's stipend seems suitable.
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Quote:Did you read something somewhere that stated paragon points were going to be granted for total paid time rather than starting at 400 for July and another 400 per month after that?Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Given that I might end up with 48000 points come july first, that doesn't seem like such a bad thing.
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Cool. It'll probably only cost 400 points to unlock.
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Quote:Think we all are in different ways. I've got 317% recharge in followup.Originally Posted by B_L_Angel
I'm obsessive. -
I only play on Pinnacle and I've deleted more characters than most players have created. It's not a biggie. Email their inf off. Use respecs to snag enhancements you don't want to lose and email those of. Delete. Move on.
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Quote:I'd watch my new dominator walk in that outfit.Originally Posted by Socorro
Will we ever get that loincloth look WW has? I'd pay a full booster pack price for that entire outfit...
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Quote:You're doing it wrong. I needed some level 25 LotG +recharges. I went to the market, saw that they were selling for 150million inf each, and bought three of them.Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon
Since we are going to the "buy what you want" system, I would like to be able to purchase enhancements with the points from the Freedom system. I would be fine with pricing them such that $5 is the equivalent of a LOTG Global Recharge. Pro-rate Freedom Points based on what the Reward Merit costs are.
I have about 30 characters who want 5 LOTG Global recharges each, and I am an altaholic who never does any task forces at all except on my badge character. So I never earn Reward Merits. So it takes me 20 days of doing tips every single day to earn 5 LOTGs for a character.
So frankly, I'd just like to spend $750 on their points system and buy 150 LOTGs for my various 30 characters that I like to flit between, and be done. Maybe another $250-$500 in Freedom Points to pick up all the Basilisk Gazes I would probably like (hey, I like controllers).
Just a suggestion. I'd rather spend the money on that than on an iPad2 or a Xoom, if I'm going to get myself a birthday or Christmas "happy".
Lewis
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Quote:That's how many are out there now? Heh. I think my main still hasn't hit 300.Originally Posted by B_L_Angel
Two days ago I would have as well.
Now getting that 1204th badge is just kind of meh. -
Quote:Odd. My 5870 HD is running fine with Water FX at max. I'd be glad to compare settings if you like.Originally Posted by Leandro
I bought a Radeon HD 5770 specifically because COH said it would support it better with Ultra Mode. It's been almost a year and it still crashes when water effects are enabled. Plus I ran into a weird issue where the driver would crash on Visual Studio. I'm going back to NVIDIA next time I buy a card.
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Quote:Yup. Looks like the Praetorian version is Elemental Dual Blade/Somethin instead of Ice/Fire blaster.Originally Posted by Avalar
Anyone else notice how she's dual-wielding elemental blades?
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Quote:Thus my response. I do not see the majority of the players of this game moving away from their existing home servers for no other reason but to escape what amounts to long-term trial account users.Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Elite
Hubris
Exclusion
Xenophobia
That basically sums up my feelings about it. -
Ghost-town.
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Quote:/points and laughs
Elec Armor/Willpower is where it's at.
Edit: I don't use DA either. Too much micromanagement. -
Quote:No mathematical analysis is going to cover all possibilities. The scope is too large to deal with. What they CAN do is give us a mostly accurate representation for MOST cases.Originally Posted by Haetron
Who is this "We" and where are the posts? Asides from Arcanaville's SCRAPPER analysis which even admits it works with a "situation always optimal" viewpoint, not taking into account things such as accuracy/recharge debuffs, or situations where Dark Regen fails to work properly. (Let's not forget the lack of innate KB protection, and the fact you can't DR when you're flying through the air, on your back, and kicking back up.)
Arcanaville's post is brilliant and does provide some great insights into comparing Scrapper secondaries, but it gets a little tiresome seeing it thumped as WoG Dark Armor is GREAT when even later in said guide, Arcana admits it's not a true simulation of all play factors.
On top of that, brute and scrapper secondaries are far more alike than they are different.
An INV brute is tougher than an INV scrapper thanks to what? Higher base HP and higher mitigation caps.
Same is true for the DA brute versus the DA scrapper.
It is safe to say that in MOST cases, IF scrapper DA > scrapper INV, then brute DA > brute INV. (Note: I'm not sure that either case there is true since the last round of INV buffs.) -
What's with the funky soul patch?
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Welcome back, Rowrsie.
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GATE-keeper,
Here's what mine looks like:
=(ROUNDUP((D2/0.132),0)+1)*0.132
Arcanaville,
I'm also curious about your lack up "up" in relation to "round" in your typed equation. -
Quote:I don't get that either. Alpha is part of incarnate. Why does it have a "different" system at all?Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution
QFT.
I also find it weird that people are now saying the Alpha system is so perfect. I remember a lot of gnashing of teeth when it first came out also. It took a bit of time for it to be fleshed out and have more options added to it.
The devs figured out that having three types of inf was a ridiculous idea. Why didn't they learn from that mistake with the incarnate system?
Again, scrap the shard system entirely. Do a wholesale swap of shards to threads everywhere they show up. Have all shard components converted to equivalent random thread components. Be done with it. -
Quote:Citation needed. Some spawns, like some of the DE in the tip missions, have been given higher base tohit. There appear to be some enemies that are getting tohit buffs in Praetoria. This changes nothing for all the rest of the content.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
Because they've already been doing things about it? Most new enemies introduced since i18 or so have had higher base accuracy one the whole.
The only way to fix the "everybody gets SR levels of defense" issue is to fix the bonuses coming out of IOs. What have they done there? Added more by giving some typed where positional was granted, gave positional where typed was granted and nerfed BotZ.
That's not a fix. -
Quote:What Tony is describing was a systemic issue. It wasn't just the power burn. It was the pre-GDN, pre-ED, pre-aggro cap, pre-aoe max targets caps, etc system that allowed for dumpster diving.
First off equating one badly broken power ( which burn was at the time ) with an entire system isnt even a correct comparison. The problem with that was the power itself.. not the system...
You're correct, however, that ED's implementation was a cluster#&$^.
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.Quote:Which is why I havent softcapped not ONE blaster.. I KNOW they are going do so something about it sooner or later.. -
Quote:I'm one of those people that have all the packs (cept the Valk/Mac pack, never got around to it.)Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
I for one really appreciate the fact that they seem to be hard at work developing the incarnate system. As for the packs, nobody has to buy them. If you don't feel they're worth the price, don't pay it... Simple. You aren't being nickel-and-dimed. All you have to do to access the game and enjoy free content updates is pay your flat rate subscription.
If you pay for something, it isn't free. We pay the devs to develop their game. Every update, every "issue," is paid for with our subscription fees. Or do you really think that the subscription spikes at issue release mean nothing?