Clave_Dark_5

As I've understood it, that's what that setting is supposed to do, they only fight when first attacked. Never had a problem with "let me set up first", but maybe I don't give my NPCs a ton of things to set up? Try dropping a couple of them.

Those people must have been idiots (every fandom has them), because Firefly was waaay better than Star Wars.

I'd be one of those people. I haven't seen this yet (probably Saturday!), but I'm just happy right now that he's going to be a very busy man for some time to come.

It's been a few months since I've made any screen shots, but that worked just fine for me (print screen + paste into a P'shop window). Iirc.

I'll agree that the crash mechanic makes these annoying to use, but remember that not everyone min/maxes their builds (I'm guessing it's not even a majority of players). I pretty much pass on trying to (unless I'm using a build I've taken off these forums) because it's too chore-like; I'm no longer in school, I don't want to waste time time doing homework when I could be out there spreading mayhem to the bad or good.

Somehow "Release The Pony!" just doesn't have the same ring to it. And no this is not an invitation for some MLP images. Please no.

I'd expect the snack option to be sure as I'm pretty sure the devs will probably never get round to fixing that ol' thing, no matter my possible oratory skills.

I posted it as a suggestion here as both (hopefully... consider it 'thinking outside the box' if that will help you relax), as it would probably* be easier than rebuilding just one zone and more players would get the benefit of a better AE than "just a single zone", sytem shmystem. If I was going to be there, I'd probably do it anyways, just to be the spoiler. But I won't be there, so there you go.

*Who knows what kind of code mess it might be?

...that could be made to be as important to the player population as any zone.

Revamp the AE system.
It would be a "zone revamp" for everyone everywhere.

Why?
1) Any level toon of any alignment can use it, so it's "co-op".
2) It's a system currently sitting darn near broken, which is just embarrassing for the game.
4) Most likely, it would be easier than (re)building a zone from scratch (such as DA).


1) You start by giving us stronger search parameters.
2) You change the voting system.
3) You change (meaning buff, essentially) the rewards, at least for Dev Choice arcs to avoid obvious farming, to draw players back. More Dev Choice arcs would be a part of this too, to keep it from getting too "samey" too quickly.
4) You rework the buildings to fit better into the zones they're in (possibly cut down down the number of AE buildings as well).
5) You also change the interiors of each one to be unique and to fit its new building as well - maybe one's laid out more like an office, another more like one of the enhancement stores, etc.

Hey, it only just came out. Give it some time, some overseas sales and then the DVD and then we'll see.

A lot of films get made with the expectation they might not draw a ton of ticket sales, but clean up on DVD; I'm guessing this is one of those.

When asked about this in a stream, I think, they said they have "no plans", which is more or less a roadmap meaning "dead end".

I'd love to see it, but I seriously don't think we ever will. The only thing down the pike they've mentioned in a positive manner is the newer power sets getting added "eventually".

Did you /bug it?

The last AE arc (one of mine) that I played, it activated it even though the captive was surrounded by mobs to defeat, which annoyed me. I haven't tried it again, but it makes me think there's another bug lurking...

That explains a lot about what the devs are (not) doing for the AE over here; guess I can hang up my hopes for ever ever ever seeing something good or new done.

Although I'm not familair with that other MMO* and what went on there OR coding issues, I feel free to speculate that the other MMO probably got what they asked for with pie-in-the-sky features like custom maps (seriously???). While nice to think about and not uncommonly asked for, I think trying to shoot for things that was biting off more than they could chew.

I'd be more than happy to just have small tweaks and fixes... such as simply changing the star system to a like/dislike rating system (could that really be that hard to code?). But industry is vastly adverse to treading where others have failed before.

*If however that other MMO is the one I'm thinking of, I do know that being poorly managed is nothing new to it, and may have had a lot to do with its problems with updating its AE system...

I seem to recall having heard this thoery ages ago from the PvP crowd and I thought it came across as transparently passive-aggressive swipe about "wimps who won't PvP". You're 100% right though that one has to have a competitive streak to want to PvP in the first place (although that doesn't really have anything to do with betrayal).

As I didn't PvP pre-i13 (past one experience in ganking and trash-talk), I don't know what it was like then. These days, I recall taking a little look-see at it and thinking it would be like playing a completely other MMO as for how builds and powers work. I decided I'd never give it another look as I don't have the time nor desire to learn another game.

Well said without snide-idity, or something. The real prob I see is that the game's whole population seems to be either contracting and/or solidifying at the end-game material. Both would make playing "at the edges" (AE stories run for fun not farming, late night play, low pop servers, redside play) much more likely to be a solo endeavor. I don't see new co-op zones or anything else helping that out, we just need more damn players.

And hey, I have run teams and I have taken over the star on and continued teams before, but it is more work in general than "just playing". Part of the pressure, for me, is the "filltheteamnownownmusthave8let'sgogogo" attitude I see from a some players, I've had teams of four quit and break up after a minute of me searching for others and not being fast enough. That's kind of stressful, you know?

Yeah, that's way too pat, unless you're merely trying to be snide. Not everyone enjoys building the team. I often play just before bed when my energy level is waning. Add on top of that my (apparently) slowish team-building skills and time of day I play (late night/early morning) and making a redside team that's more than 3 players strong can bea real chore, if impossible.

I've also seen other redsiders trying to find a group for DfB not finding anyone - not too surprising when there's only three others players on Mercy.

Meanwhile, the toons I play on blueside, I never have to make a team if I don't feel like it. There definitly is a notciable difference in my experience over the last several months.