Clave_Dark_5

Maybe the fact we're here and not in those other, more grind-intensive MMOs is part of the answer you're not seeing?

Here's my view of the big picture; hopefully I'll be wrong:

; by stating they will always have another end-game trial or whatever in the pipeline, this isn't going to change much, far as I can see. When I log in, I see about 80%+ people currently online are playing their 50s.

There will be new lower level content of course, but I'm going to make the prediction that it's popularity will be like the seasonal events - 'the new shiny' for about a month, then the usual ghost town the rest of the game is, while everyone goes back to their 50s*.

Those of us who dislike playing 50s (bored of the character after about a hundred hours) or speed-runs through repeating content are going to be sort of left out in the cold, or are going to have to get used to soloing more often.

*The funny part is how common it is to see people post about being bored by the seasonal events after one week while relatively few argue the same about repeating end-game material or SF/TFs. Maybe they should attack some serious merits or whatever to the seasonal events - we'll never hear such complaints again.

Oh, I can be that pretentious - go check out my arc When The Words Stop - but I haven't read that book - lots of his work, but not that one. Maybe if you had linked to something comics related, like "Justice League #147" or something..

Myself, I'd have tried for a Heart Of Darkness riff...

I agree, the writing on the ones I've seen is usually head and shoulders above the older stuff. I'd really like to see them get a chance to re-do the others.

Alting helps a great deal, I really like the characters I make. Only playing for an hour or so when I can play no doubt helps too, leaves me with a twinge of regret for logging off. When it does gets old, I hunker down and work on a new MA arc (and at an hour per session, that's a looong time). Plus I'm not even close to having done everything in the game, all the story arcs, every tip mission, etc - I've never seen the Eden map for cryin' out loud!

As for the movie thing - that's just me, not everyone. I know some people can be all "I've seen Star Wars 35 times! ^^", but I'm not one of them. Heck, I love Frank Zappa too, but after having heard his stuff enough times to actually hear it note for note in a dream (true story), I just don't listen any more; for a film, that's usually about 4 viewings before boredom sets in. I may have one of those personalities that requires novel input more than the average bear for all I know...

Yes, only three times!

I feel the same way about movies I really like - 3rd time in, I'm starting to know the film, to have it memorized - thus it's getting dull to re-watch it.

This game has always been fun for me due to alting and the plethora of content all over the place. When I do end up replaying some of it ("Defeat Tindelos and guards!"), at least it's coming at pretty spaced out intervals (like 2 months at a time) and it's over in ten minutes or so. This "end- game content", not so much.

Ah, we learn a lot from this, such as: the devs are only playing one arc a Thursday (at least I didn't see that), which means after a month they'll only have tried out four before awarding the new DC.

Can you please give us any more info, Zwill? Which server, how the players react, etc.? That sort of stuff may not tell us much, but since I couldn't be there, it'd be fun to read.

So which one wears the goatee?

I'll second that. I watched (well, listened to) a few minutes of the linked vid and gave up after reading some of the stuff I found posted here (especially in the comments section):

http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2011/...roy-the-earth/

Not that I was giving any serious credence to the vid anyways. I actually gave up before that, but I had to be sure, can't trust those reptilians!

There can be no arguing, fudging or bargaining with the tournament. It may seem a burden, but it is also its own reward. SteelClaw is a crazy man on it's mission and he likes it that way.

I think they said they'd post a thread to highlight the new choice and why they chose it; I'm guessing it will be sort of like the old ones Doc A used t make for them. (As for the risk of drowning in farms, why do you think they asked us to suggest good arcs? )

I'm also guessing we won't see one of those until the end of July as they seem to be choosing to play arcs on Thursdays for a month and then selecting one of those.

The use of the term BS on my part was bad; my excuse is I was starting to write out my post and then looked up to see I was a couple of minutes late to leave for work, so I didn't edit myself. Remember: quick posting can be bad, kids!

The reasoning that "you can still do anything you want in the game" which is often tossed out in these discussions is fine up to certain a point, and that point is where I log in and see that a good 80% of people online 50s and I was hoping to do some casual PUGing below 50 like I used to without problem. Playing below 50 these days (for me, at my hours) mostly means soloing or pulling teeth to form my own team - which I can do but never had to do in the past. That's the change I've seen in the game that I dislike.

Things may change, but I've never been big on the previous strike force stuff as it was and as time goes by the devs just seem to keep throwing more of that our way and making it the most rewarding (loot-wise) to do. I think I've done the new one that starts on Sharkhead (over there by the ferry? can't remember the name of it off-hand) three times now and I'm pretty much done with it. It may reward me nicely and all that but to keep running a small set of these things day after day, even just a few times a week would get really old for me. (Same thing goes for playing a 50: I only have two. I enjoyed back in their day but these days it's just dull to play them.)

Not bad, you?

Running this through the BS translator, I keep getting "Sure, you can solo anytime you want!" and/or "Sure, you can be forced into leading a half-size team to do the older content anytime you want!" Both reflect a change in the game, which did not use to be like that. This may still be a temp fluke, but with new end-game Free-player temptations to sub to the game being provided with every issue, I doubt it.

I've long believed and said much the same to people complaining about whatever the latest update brought us. The thing that disappoints me about this "another iTrial every issue" is that nothing has ever been "every issue" before.

The devs are going to be spending time putting more of something I don't particularly care for into the game every issue, which means less time for something potentially might like.

I know I'm not all players and some really do like this stuff, but pick one topic you don't like in this game and then imagine if the devs dedicated themselves to putting more of that in every issue. Every freakin' issue, more PVP, AE, combat-less pets, whatever you personally don't care about.

You'd be a bit annoyed and spend time wondering if you're wasting your money too. But it's more fun to kick the minority of us who speak our minds on that, I know.

If you haven't found an answer to this yet:
I had this same problem. What's happening here is that no matter what you change the name to, the file name remains what it was originally. Change your guy "Dr. Doom" to "Doctor D-Stuff" and it won't save. You have to change the file name itself as well, that's found down at the bottom. Iirc, you have to change the save path, then you can change the file name.

I think I posted something about this in this thread which may be technically more exact, I've forgotten the details now. :P

I know, changing clothes in public is embarrassing.

Did I miss what July's theme was going to be or is it theme-less?