Darth_Khasei

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We've added a TON more datamining hooks exclusively for Mission Architect as well, so we can easily see spikes in aberrant behavior. Spikes point us to exploits, which points us to log files, which reveal the identities of exploiters. So if you find a really big exploit in the system, I'd encourage you to PM me or another Dev and try to get your Bug Hunter badge, as the alternative is not pretty.

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I really realy really don't like the wording here. I wonder just what is considered an expliot. You called running KHTF once every three hours an expliot so I wondering what "exactly" is meant here by expliot?

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If your personal moral compass flip flops or even wavers a little while doing something in the game that is obvious to you is not intended behavior, it's probably an exploit.

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Hmm...Interesting response as I never had a moral compass waiver after doing a KHTF and waiting 3 hours to do another or popping on another toon doing them back to back etc...Yet this was called exploitation... Hmm.

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If this affects your moral compass in any way, you probably need therapy. My moral compass is reserved for things like murder,theft, [censored],assault...you know things that are morally unacceptable. Not getting merits in an online game.

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Hey Posi brought up moral compass not I. Like I said I never had my moral compass effected by doing TF's within the specified time limits and rules set by the devs in the game.

I don't have ANY problem understanding the difference between the two, but the person that called people explioters for doing KHTF every three hours does. There is zero misunderstanding on my part whatsoever.

Using the system in the most effcient manner is hardly an expliot. If the system says you can only run a TF once every 3hrs and you play for 9 hours and run 3 tf's that is in no way an expliot.

In reference to tickets you misunderstood what I was saying. I even stated in my first post about tickets that the single most important thing about them was the exchange and then what you could actually buy with them. It really had nothing to do with merits themselves except for the fact that people will farm or find the most effcient way to get them fast and do that repeatedly.

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Okay, while I've gone through all the pages so far, I might've missed a few things, so forgive me if it's all been covered before... I remember it being asked, but I don't see an answer for it: will Giant Monsters be available?

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We may get some monsters (maybe downgraded GMs like Adamastor), but there is no way we will get access to anything that can be farmed for merits.

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Farmed for merits no way farmed for tickets, well....

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We've added a TON more datamining hooks exclusively for Mission Architect as well, so we can easily see spikes in aberrant behavior. Spikes point us to exploits, which points us to log files, which reveal the identities of exploiters. So if you find a really big exploit in the system, I'd encourage you to PM me or another Dev and try to get your Bug Hunter badge, as the alternative is not pretty.

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I really realy really don't like the wording here. I wonder just what is considered an expliot. You called running KHTF once every three hours an expliot so I wondering what "exactly" is meant here by expliot?

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If your personal moral compass flip flops or even wavers a little while doing something in the game that is obvious to you is not intended behavior, it's probably an exploit.

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Hmm...Interesting response as I never had a moral compass waiver after doing a KHTF and waiting 3 hours to do another or popping on another toon doing them back to back etc...Yet this was called exploitation... Hmm.

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We've added a TON more datamining hooks exclusively for Mission Architect as well, so we can easily see spikes in aberrant behavior. Spikes point us to exploits, which points us to log files, which reveal the identities of exploiters. So if you find a really big exploit in the system, I'd encourage you to PM me or another Dev and try to get your Bug Hunter badge, as the alternative is not pretty.

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I really realy really don't like the wording here. I wonder just what is considered an expliot. You called running KHTF once every three hours an expliot so I wondering what "exactly" is meant here by expliot?

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LOL it is actually crazy "to me" that 25 months after I started this game a mob AI runaway thread is still here and it has not been fixed.

I would not be surprised if they were still asking for conformation videos. Brilliant!

They are but ppl just don't post of even hint at them in the forums. No soup for you!

Bet he was not expecting it to be "work" hehe.

Mate, I cannot stress this enough that is "your interpretation" of what Castle said in a post explaining, "one" or a "partial" reason for his decision.

But hey, if repeating the same stuff said in that thread is what you want to do be my guest. Expecting a change based on those previously failed arguements is a bit much though, IMHO.

Aside from the necro quote pull up of Castle's "Partial" reasoning I had no real issue with some of the stuff you said from your prospective.

On the otherhand things like you need to slot dwarf, you have to have hasten etc... Those things are choices not mandatory and Khelds are all about choices and sacrifices.

An example is I have tri-forms, but the Dwarfs are not slotted other than the original slot. I spend the majority of time in human and nova forms, but will pop to dwarf on occassion. When I do, I still kill stuff just at a slower rate if I choose to stay in dwarf the entire fight(VERY super rare) and this is all solo with no boost from enhancements or the inherent.

If this is going to regress back into the Castle made a mistake Khelds NEED self status protection, ok I'll see you later cause that deadhorse has been beaten into an unrecognizable blob.

Hits the play button on previously recorded volumes on the subject of self stats protection.

Wanting and neededing are two completely different things and Khelds don't need self status protection per the devs and other making the journey 1-50 without it. It would be nice to have but not needed.

WOW!

No triggers in a mission builder? Ok, well that limits ALOT of things. That's really a shame, but a few decades of gaming has shown how weak a mission builder is without triggers compared to one with them, but then I digress....

I am looking at things list of things MAM's(Mission Architect Missions) won't give: end mission bonus, salvage, recipies, or enhancements. Then I look at the things they will give: normal kill xp, inf, prestige, and inspirations. Then I look at a certain niche group of farmers rolling on the floor laughing their butts off.

Brilliant!

So the selling of your "secrets" didn't go over so well, now we get this. Brilliant!!!

Hi again Synapse. How about answering these questions.

I see some adjustments have been made to merits.

Q. Why does it cost 20 merits for a random roll for a rare magic or tech salvage and 30 merits to choose one over the other?

Q. Why is the merit cost across the levels the same when they have wildly different values on the market?

Q. Why is the merit cost for SO's at level 25 the same 8 merits it costs for level 50's?

Q. Why is the merit cost of rare IO sets so high 125-250 merits and so outta whack with the market prices for the same receipes? Some of the recipes go for less than 10k-100k, the merit prices should reflect that. Merit cost is outta whack with market prices who would spend 250 merits for recipe that cost 10k on the market?

Q. Why have you increased many of the rare triple aspect recipes some to 250 merits above the best uniques in the game that are 240 merits? LOTG is 200 merits but the LOTG triple aspect is 250 merits! Kismet is 150 merits yet the Kismet triple aspect is 200 merits!

Its looks like the system still needs lots of tweaking before going live IMHO. Please shorten the 24hr clock to six hours. 3 was fine 24 is too long and punitive, doubling it to 6 is fair and strikes a good balance vs the heavy handed punitive nature of the current 24hr clock.

Guess they got tired of giving non-answers to questions. Pift...

That really does not make sense, but whatever.

I see some adjustments have been made to merits.

Q. Why does it cost 20 merits for a random roll for a rare magic or tech salvage and 30 merits to choose one over the other?

Q. Why is the merit cost across the levels the same when they have wildly different values on the market?

Q. Why is the merit cost for SO's at level 25 the same 8 merits it costs for level 50's?

Q. Why is the merit cost of rare IO sets so high 125-250 merits and so outta whack with the market prices for the same receipes? Some of the recipes go for less than 10k-100k, the merit prices should reflect that. Merit cost is outta whack with market prices who would spend 250 merits for recipe that cost 10k on the market?

Q. Why have you increased many of the rare triple aspect recipes some to 250 merits above the best uniques in the game that are 240 merits? LOTG is 200 merits but the LOTG triple aspect is 250 merits! Kismet is 150 merits yet the Kismet triple aspect is 200 merits!

Its looks like the system still needs lots of tweaking before going live IMHO. Please shorten the 24hr clock to six hours. 3 was fine 24 is too long and punitive, doubling it to 6 is fair and strikes a good balance vs the heavy handed punitive nature of the current 24hr clock.

Yeah someone already mentioned this issue before where good soloer's like scrappers have an advantage.

You must need some coffee or something cause what you are saying makes no sense. I never called anyone incompetent.

In terms of the anti alt comment, it was not my intent to prove anything. The lack of the ability to trade merits is anti-alt if you are trying to save say 240 merits for one of the shinny IO's. You are esssentailly forced into having one merit toon if you want to get that shinny anytime soon.

Others have essentially said the same thing I was just echoing it.

I think you must have gotten my post mixed up with someone else, cause your novel really has nothing to do with what "I" said..

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Why is everyone so worried about trading merits?

Use your merit toon to collect and craft the reward. Then have a trustworthy friend transfer the crafted enhancements to the toon you want them on.

Problem solved. Boy that was tough.

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Yeah! Oh right.. this means you have one task force character or you cannot accumulate merits in any large number in a reasonable time frame on any character. It doesn't really matter if you're tired of that character and really want to play an alt on the TF run that you and your friends are running tonight.

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What I want to know is after 4 years of promoting alts why the devs do something like this that is so strongly anti-alt. It makes it look like they don't know what they are doing when they do stupid stuff like this.

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At this point, you guys are locked in to the merit system. So the best way to make it bearable is going to be fixing the pool C drops. Make it so that we actually get something worthwhile with our merits. Drop the fears, confuses, etc into Pool A or B. Or weight the numbers to match the powers in the game.

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Why was this not the way it was originally or changed after the above became more than clear? Makes too much sense.

Cardiff, you are looking for logic where there is none or that which is used is built upon watery sand and would liquify under a strong wind....