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Just for the record, I wasn't whining Z_M.

I think you know that, but I just wanted to make sure. I was pointing out a potentially huge issue.

Also, you know how incomplete (and sometimes completely incorrect) Patch Notes have been for a long time now.

Someone posted it a couple of weeks ago. They were very distraught. I haven't yet had time to find what thread they used.

Personally, I've had it remember a piece of my password upon login. I caught it, so I wasn't bothered by it too much. It happened after quitting to the login screen.

I also understand that without someone's username, it's harmless to see their password in chat. The only problem is that some people aren't quite as security conscious as others, so there's a chance that using a broadcasted password (if recognized as such) along with using a person's global name might allow access to the account.

In my time as a Titan Network helper, we actually had someone send us their username and password to link their account with the Titan sites. It was flattering for them to trust us like tat I suppose, but it showed just how careless people can be with their personal information.

(Note: The Titan Network never asks for sensitive personal information from any of their users. The above example was a mistake by the user. The user was informed that it may be wise to change their password just in case.)

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I'ld come grief, but work is griefing me so i haz to not be here.

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I p00ted.

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I liked it.

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Keep your fetishes to yourself. Kthnx.

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What's not working is that the tailor is bugged that it doesn't show the character animating. So you can change the costume, but the body is frozen. No breathing, no aura animating, and no weapon drawing.

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So you're sedated for surgery.

(I know it needs to be fixed, but the RPness of it is funny.)

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So what did you do/get?

Knowing your bro, I bet you got some literature books by Shakespeare.

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Haha. He sent me a text message.

I got:

- A very sweet card from my wife.
- A grill from my in-laws.
- Monies from several family members. (Dinner with my wife using this.)
- A hilarious hand-drawn birthday card from a good friend.

It's funny how people still send you stuff even when you're turning 30. The grill was more of a gift to both me and my wife since her birthday is exactly 2 months from mine. We've really been cooking up a storm with it.

Thanks again everyone.

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Maybe I'm blind, but is the chat bug fixed in either build?

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Not unless it didn't make it into the patch notes.

*shrug* Might be harder to fix than anyone realizes.

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wwwwwwwweeeeeqqqqqqqqqqqsssMaybe so.

You'd think it would be high priority since it can actually "remember" your password from the login screen. If someone isn't paying attention, they could pretty easily broadcast their password to an entire zone.

It's not just a chat bug. It's a security issue, imo.

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No worse than starting Numina TF is any other time. Zombie events happen at least every few hours on Virtue most days. Don't know about the rest of the servers, but I know about half of the Numina TFs I've been on since the zombies started last year have hit at least one zombie-induced speed bump.

Rikti invasions don't happen nearly as frequently. The actual fighting also isn't as long because the bombing phase takes up a big chunk of the event instead of being the whole event. And the Rikti events actually offer a useful Accolade.

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2 things:

- On an invasion weekend, they are nearly constant. You do realize this thread is about an Invasion weekend not random Rikti raids, right?

- It's not fighting the raids that will take away from a Numina. It's the series of hunt missions that will be affected when ALL enemies in a zone despawn for the duration of the raid in the zone.

I like Rikti raids and zone events in general, but raid weekends tend to be a little obnoxious.

We need a 5th raid that spawns randomly when the new TF/SF is completed. That would be exciting.

Thank you again to everyone's well wishes.

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I DID bug it, and I DID post on the forums about it. I don't know what else was expected.

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And we're very appreciative that you took the time to do so. I don't want you guys to infer that bugging things in game is useless, just that it's only one avenue to bring things to our attention. We get bugs from many sources. Sometimes they come from QA, sometimes they're pulled from the forums, other times they come from PMs or even personal experiences.

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BackAlleyBrawler ,

Did you see that it was posted on the forums 8 days ago? I can link it again if you need it.

(I'm not being snarky. I'm seriously asking.)

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So what's different between an invasion and when they appear regularly? Is the game play different? Or is it just more of those same invasions?

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It's pretty constant.

Good luck to anyone brave enough to attempt a Numina that weekend.

HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!?!?!?!?!?

Oh wait, you just said that.

Carry on.

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For things like this, that have a very dramatic impact on game play, cause crashing, affect a lot of people, can be used as major exploits, etc...it'd be really helpful if you could bring those issues to the forums where they have a chance of being immediately and directly seen by us.

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BAB, I appreciate how much you communicate with the playerbase, so I hate that I have to say I found this without even using search:

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Operating System (Vista, XP, OS X version): Vista
User Client (Mac/PC/Linux): PC
Server: Freedom
Zone: "Grandville" instance
Character name: Paragon's Wrath
Time: between 11:30 PM and 12:30 AM
Archetype: Controller
Level: 46
Mission: Statesman's Task Force, final mission ("Stop Lord Recluse!")
Mission Contact: Statesman
Bug Description: The Tower Repairmen's heals seem to be uniterruptible, even following death. This makes the TF essentually unbeatable; we have 3 teams running it simultaneously and not one is able to bring even a single tower down.

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It was posted on June 30th in the Issue 15 Live Bugs thread.

It was even quoted later in the thread.

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They're not going to "just change it" unless you (meaning testers) provide some feedback showing the changes are needed. That's the way it works.

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Then why was the change implemented? Did testers say it was a problem? And if they did with the initial testing implementation, why push them out without making the change first?

(I'm not being snarky. I'm pointing out the obvious flaws in your logic on this one. FWIW, I don't normally disagree with you.)

The "Oh, we didn't think you guys would do that even though people said it would happen during beta." excuse is thoroughly worn out at this point.

Rodion, I don't disagree with your logic, but as it's been stated several times, this will not stop farming.

It will discourage team PvP.

It will create an even larger gap between the haves and have-nots.

Plenty of other valid points have been made, but those 2 highlight the fact that it's a knee-jerk reaction to something that no one can honestly say was a problem. Are people obnoxious for starting forum threads about it? Totally. Will this deter people from doing the same thing in a different way? Nope.

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Awww. I was hoping the next invasion would come while we still had the looping drone explosions.

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I was hoping for 5th column invasions (read as "Giant Mechman Invasions").

I've asked several devs / red names to join us for Hami raids, but I've gotten no response.

I think that's when I stopped scheduling them.

It's spreading to other parts of Ouroboros. The other problems don't PREVENT the missions, but several villain contacts no longer have their badge missions split out from their normal ones and the normal ones don't go in order.

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I really don't think dropping the timer to 5 minutes is gonna offset it by any significant portion.

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I wonder if they realize by nerfing PvP drops they just buffed badge farms. It will only take half the time it did before the patch to farm rep badges.

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...which will also be how the recipes are farmed now.

Nothing has really changed for farming them. People just have to relog a series of characters to do it. Tedious? Sure. Will it be avoided because of this change. Not a chance.

If the goal is to make PvP "equal" to everyone, then it's time to make an official PvP server with it's own rules and rewards system. Let the rest of the servers stay the same, but make the PvP server it's own special place to battle it out.

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BS. The only people willing to put in the time farming are the hardcore PvPers. And with all the PvPers doing nothing but farming in the arena, there was NO pvp. And once all you hardcore PvPers get all your PvP IO's, the difference between casual PvPers and hardcore will be even more pronounced.
This is one instance where they need to do whatever it takes to stop the farming. People just need to PvP and accept the IO's as a reward. Not a necessity.

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From what I've seen from hardcore PvPers, there's a lot of untruth in that post. I'm hoping you were just trying to flame.

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snorin, do you still get molested by your swimming coach?

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No I stopped teaching swimming

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-fixt

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When I get home I can send you the build I am using currently. Its capped vs ranged/melee and AoE is at 41+

I am doing a few builds on Mids at the moment. One has Char/Melt Armor/Fireball and the other weave/Conserve Power/Taunt

The build with Weave allowed for a heavier recharge build but the one with the Fire Epic added a very nice AoE damage increase thanks to Melt Armor+BU+Fireball+FireSwordCircle+Shield Charge. The higher recharge build is probably the one I will end up with since it has Taunt and BU+FSC+Shield Charge already do a ton of damage AoE wise and the upped recharge leads to higher single target DPS for tough targets. After all if you wipe out everything with Melt Armor/FBall/Shield Charge/FSC, then you wont have anything to feed AAO

When I get home I send em to ya

Edit: I wanted to add the reason I only won a few fights against the Dom is because that all they stayed around for. The only thing that got my health below half was when Lord Recluse hit me with the end drain/-recovery attack. I was never in any real danger of dying because half health was still over 1500hp at that point

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Were gearing off topic a little, but what primary do you think will go well with a shield scrapper?

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Either Dark Melee or Dark Melee.

Or you could go with Dark Melee.

(imo)

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well with that being said I hope they increase the drop rate becuase if they didint they jsut royally [censored] all the small servers

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You know, I remember one of the original PVP IO suggestions was to give them a chance to drop when you are defeated, too. Even if it was half the chance of a victory, it would make a rep-based system seem a little less futile. That also helps alleviate the problem posed earlier in the thread with wanting to "Rebound" and not getting a chance to get the ultimate reward for it.

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Hey you think sometime in the next year we can get a fix for the chat bug?

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wwwwqqqeeeeeWhich one?

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There's no notes concerning the Barracuda Strike Force final encounter.



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It's under Masterminds.

And Happy Birthday.

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Thanks and thanks.

I understand why they put it there, but it might not be a bad thing to put a Barracuda Strike Force note that says "See Mastermind Notes".

Although now that would be even more pointless.

Thanks again.

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Someone attacks you. In zone pvp. Someone esle kills them. They respawn and try to attack you. You kill them. No rep. No recipie roll. Way to jack up the price of pvp recipies even more!!!.

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^^ This is the main issue with a rep-based system. ^^

The low-population server issue has been mentioned more than once already.

Do knee-jerk, anti-farming measures have to be attached to everything now?

EDIT to add: The 5-minute timer is an obvious compromise, but having a rep-based system still seems less than optimal unless the drop rate has been noticeably increased.