Blood Spectre

I pick up the 30 day jetpack from time to time myself, especially if I am playing a lot of lowbie alts. Havent grabbed one in a few months though.

Hard to be deadpan with a smiley.

No.

Well that's somewhat of an overstatement, I think. Super Sidekicking kills bridges, sure, but they've been trying to kill bridging forever. And meanwhile, the average pick up group's leveling speed will increase dramatically with this change.

Also, they've increased xp from 1-20 to plow through the dull part of the game faster. So it's not like they're trying to bog us down at all. They just swung the nerf bat a touch too hard on this one.

No U!

I take a more moderate perspective. The potential reader has already chosen to sacrifice Patrol XP rewards to experience my arc, and the chance of purple drops if he or she qualifies for those. In this light, I feel some obligation to ensure that their time spent hearing my story is as rewarding as possible. For those who like my story, I celebrate their excellent taste, but I'm not so convinced of my story telling abilities that I think people will play and show friends my arc just because they think I'm great.

If your position differs, I can respect that, but I have to say it's a concern for me. Also, when you finish your arc, slap it in your signature and I will give it a spin.

Well I might do that. But I hate when the whole mob is dead before I finish my attack chain.

It's liberating. We go through our lives achieving things that don't matter to us every day, usually because the person that they do matter to will pay us to make their goals a reality. We spend a third of our lives working very hard on things that don't really mean anything to us. It's unnatural, and it twists our inborn work ethic into something unhealthy, I think.

So for me, to set my own goals, even knowing full well that they don't matter, and to set about achieving them, is life afirming in a small way. Cheaper than therapy too.

If that makes you happy, then I think that's great Bill. I'll be right there with you plowing through an 8 player sized mob day in and day out. I'll probably keep them at around level 50ish to max out on kills per minute and thereby purples per hour. That's just me though.

Now with the Architecht, if you're happy writings stories just for yourself, then I think that is great for you. See me.. I write stories that only I ever get to see all the time. I can't not do it. It just happens. I have thousands of them, everywhere you look in my home. Any time you talk to me, chances are you'll remind me of something I wrote a long time ago.

But with Architecht, I was hoping to write for someone else's enjoyment. My achievement that doesn't matter here really is writing for someone else. And that just got a bit harder.

I love how you think you're playstyle is the only valid one.

Ugh, I know. Some of the xp limitations on custom enemies are a damn good idea. Others... dicey.

You're already giving up your Patrol XP to play in MA, which, I dont know about most players, but is a huge factor for me. I have so many different characters that I almost always have a full level of patrol xp backed up on me. So anyone who wants to play the stories I made is already making a sacrifice.

Now of course you get your xp cut if you dont have a full faction, which I think is a good thing.

And I agree that xp should be balanced around how dangerous the enemy actually is. So I've been re-customizing my custom factions so that when I-16 hits they'll all give their full xp value. And yeah, they're absurdly dangerous and powerful now. It's pretty stupid. But I want people to be able to level during my stories, I dont want to make it any slower than it already is, so... I don't know what else I can do.

this may be the only thing that could get me to say WoW, Uwe Boll and awesome in the same sentence.

It's from Fallout 3. Your childhood associates/bullies grow up to form a gang in the fallout shelter you all live in. They are called the Tunnel Snakes, and apparently, they rule.

I killed them all in my playthrough though. Moar like Tunnel Snakes suck!

HEY!

They're not slimey until the end of the last scene.