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I too would love to see a cite for this, because it seems completely absurd. I can think of dozens of repetitive activities where a sub-70% is normal.

No kidding! This should be stickied as long as there's a GR sub-forum.

/em protest

That was his reaction to seeing the prices.

Anyhoo, as annoying as the powers are, they don't impede the function of the market.

Pets, on the other hand - when pets make it impossible to click on (or find) the vendor, or they push you out of interaction range... that's an issue. Fortunately, it's not that common, but it should still be addressed.

And your basis for assuming that Ex Libris' number was at the lower bound?

It seems it would be just as easy to argue that the community fluctuated between 5-10%.


It's a meaningless number anyway, though, because we don't know what she defined as 'community'.

Two words: Arena Architect.

Fixing PvPers.

Sure, keeps the population down.

/rimshot

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

But seriously, bolting PvP onto a game that was never designed for it was a really bad decision, and I don't see any reason why NC should invest resources in 'fixing' it for miniscule returns. I think if you're a hardcore CoX PvPer, your best bet is to be praying for CoH2 - if they build it in from the start they have at least some chance of getting it right.

Actually, it was confirmed that villain Hami and hero Hami share a timer.

I assume that sarcasm and insulting people were taught as the best way to get questions answered at "Harvard?"

Just in case someone who is actually interested in learning something reads this thread, CoX is a client-server application, which means that your client gets data from NCSoft's server. It's irrelevant where other people in the game are logging in from, because you never connect to their machines directly. Therefore, the only network latency at issue is your own.

Just something I know from doing "network operations" for a "living."

Do you know what client-server architecture is?

In a perfect world, I don't see a problem with an added level of power and control.

This, however, is not a perfect world. The reality is that dev time is limited, and dev time spent on bases is practically non-existent. In this reality, I would rather the devs spend time working on just about any other addition to bases than this.

Is there any evidence at all that this assertion is true? Do people really abandon SGs because of lack of progress in the base? I'm thinking that people who do that were probably blind-invited (or very nearly so), and have no attachment to the SG anyway.

The devs are on record that making the EATs hard to unlock (level 50) was a huge mistake. Somehow I don't see them making new ATs, with all the work that implies, and then making them even harder to unlock.

I see - the fact that the devs changed their minds about something logically implies that they will change their minds about everything. Brilliant.

And besides, 700,000 prestige is not that much, which is why single person bases exist. You get ~300,000 prestige just from going to 1-50. This might also be an indication as to why this is the lowest of low priorities.

So, in essence, you're asking for a solution to a non-problem that isn't part of the design spec.

And I'm the one that's arrogant?

Wow.

Just because something isn't intended by design (single-user bases) doesn't mean that the devs must instantly jump to eliminate it. Nor did anyone say it was a "game-breaking exploit", but congrats on winning the hyperbole of the day award.

Bases are intended for groups, not single players. Therefore, appealing for changes based on the single-player base experience is a waste of time and energy.

Khelds have cooties. It's not hard to understand.

And the devs have been just as assiduously ignoring said complaints.

Bases were never intended to be a single person enterprise. The fact that you can build a nice base solo is an edge case, not the designed usage.

Also, patches usually happen pretty early in the morning here in Calif. You really going to make Avatea wake up to post them?

The devs may not have bothered to make "Quantum blah-blah" for all the villainside groups though.

Unless there's more than one, Praetoria's market is behind a door, so that means that they can isolate it in several ways. That might be the key as to why this isn't in place in PC/RI.