Dispari

I have a friend who binds - to shout "DUH I PRESSED MINUS." He always ends up hitting it instead of 0 when reaching for powers, and the default is to change his tray which throws him out of whack for a few seconds. So he just started binding that. Even after three years, it's still funny to be in the thick of combat and then my friend shouts "DUH I PRESSED MINUS"

I think the loyalty program was a good idea, and did what it was designed to do. The system gave people three different ways to get into the beta. If you didn't apply to one, you have other options.

Fretting over a badge is pretty weak, though. There are plenty of badges you don't have and probably will never be able to get. This whole system wasn't about the badge, it was about the beta, with the badge as a side effect. Badges were never meant to be all obtainable by everyone. If you don't qualify for the badge, you don't get that badge. It's just that simple. There are things that you might not want to do, like PvP, or never get to do, like report a severe bug. This is one of those things.

I'm a badge hunter myself, but I've accepted that there are badges I'll never be able to get. The earlier you accept that and deal with it, the happier you'll be. It's not worth getting angry over a few bytes and pixels on your computer screen.

Yes, this is a fair system to me. They announced ahead of time what would qualify someone for the badge. You had to stay subscribed between two dates. They announced it far in advance so as to allow people to make reservations.

Having a flub in payment is underestandable. Having a flub that lasts a couple days is not. If you're really "loyal" and play the game, you should've noticed right away. Or at the very least, known when your time was going to expire and made sure it was handled. As for people who are "just bored with the game," well that's not very loyal is it?

My heart goes out to people who have financial issues. It really does. I've been unemployed for about two months now and I have no money. My account was set to expire the day before the cutoff period. I got a 15-day time card from a friend who wanted to make sure I'd be in the beta. They're like $6 or $7. I know not everyone is having good times right now. But if this stuff means so much to you and your friend that you'd have to make a hate post on the forums about the system, you could've found a way. People go through different things, but we all have our priorities, and if this is a priority to you, you can make it happen.

As for that person who only played for 6 months, what makes them not loyal? They joined, enjoyed the game, and played for the time limit required. You may view that as imperfect because someone who just joined gets a reward that they may not even be aware about, but no system is really perfect. I'm only about 3.5 years into the vet reward system, while a friend of mine who has almost never played the game at all has about 5 years worth, just because she had a card on autopay. She's not exactly a loyal fan, just a lucky person who paid some cash.

Like I said above, your friend needs to deal with the fact that this system was about beta access and not the badge. I'm sorry if your friend didn't get the badge due to the lapse, but he's still in due to 66 month vet badges. If he doesn't care, that's not the devs' fault. He's looking at the system in a way that it wasn't designed for. He's asking for rewards for stuff he doesn't qualify for. He's asking to get badges that he doesn't meet the requirements for.

And honestly, the reason it's taking 3 days to get back is because people like him who know they don't qualify are clogging up the system trying to get it anyway. I've already seen another post or two in this thread for people who know they don't qualify but are sending stuff anyway. That's why they're backlogged. A friend of mine who legitimately got missed on the reward sent hers in, got a reply in about 24 hours, and got her stuf.

Loyalty is up for the devs to decide. Maybe you don't think that time frame is loyal, but I do. The devs are getting ready to release their first real expansion. What they need right now is subscribers and money. If the devs say "jump" right now because they need us to so they can release GR on schedule, those of us who are loyal will say "How high?"

The devs decided that they wanted people to be subscribed between two dates to qualify for the loyalty program. Maybe you don't like it, or don't "consider" it loyalty, but that's how they defined it, and that's how it is.

This wasn't a Jack move. This wasn't someone telling us one thing and delivering something else. It wasn't us being promised something that never happened. It wasn't them waiting until the last second to tell us some awful truth. All that happened here is you and your friend saw the rules, didn't qualify for them, and decided it's unfair. There are no malicious developers wringing their hands behind their desks at all the people who didn't qualify.

I'm perfectly certain they'd rather you did qualify. But they aren't going to give people rewards they don't meet the minimum requirements for. They aren't going to give everyone who is upset at the system Bug Hunter either.

*lobs a tomato for good measure*

RttC by itself with 10 targets in range gives you 797% regen. So, that was easy.

Can't meet 1700%, but 1200% isn't that hard. And that's not counting the HP, RES, or DEF you get all the time.

You forgot to mention how we can now set missions for up to 8 by ourselves, turn off bosses if we want, and fight up to +4 enemies. In any missions, not just AE. It seems like now is a good time to be a farmer.

That may be the case. I know and remember a lot about the game off the top of my head, but admittedly intangibility powers are not one of the things I've spent much time with.

Phase Shift isn't slottable for duration. It's always 30 seconds.

I'd rather get inspirations. It's like giving out coins on Halloween. You're just adding a step to the candy-consuming experience.

This is the source of much love/hate with me and Brutes. I don't particularly enjoy the fury mechanic. I hate trying to watch it and jumping into a spawn with no fury and trying to decide if using a power is worth it or not.

However, done right, Brutes are just superior to Scrappers. I hate to have to admit it, because I really like Scrappers. But of all my 50s, I have more Brutes than anything. And toons over 30 as well. I've made some failed Brutes, but the ones I stuck with are better than Scrappers of the same sort.

Defensively Brutes are better. They just are, numerically. Brutes I have go over the Scrapper HP cap, or over their RES cap. Even with other sets, the Brutes just have more HP, heal for more, and regen for more.

Offensively, as long as a Brute has high fury, the damage is outdoing a Scrapper. I think it's crazy that Brutes are better defensively AND offensively, but that's how it is. I believe the highest damage dealer of the melees should be Stalkers, then Scrappers, then Brutes, then Tanks. But it was designed in a skewed way so that Brutes are far higher overall, and Stalkers far lower overall.

Competing for aggro can be an issue as my EM/WP Brute can tell you (she's one of the failed ones). Having more than one Brute on a team can be problematic. Scrappers stack better and get that "start high" ability, but for the types of toons I play, the kinds of teams I run with, and the sort of content I do, there's no way a Scrapper could beat a Brute defensively OR offensively. Not that I don't still love Scrappers.

It's funny you say you know what's in it, and then go on to say you're not sure.

Anyway, I always found 250 inf to be kind of insulting. 250 inf is pretty pointless to just about anyone. I know it would be a bad idea to give out tons of free cash no matter how you look at it, so I'd rather see something else. Anything but 250 inf.

I actually play with one hand on homerow (left), and one hand on the mouse. The way I play, I can actually do everything I want using just my left hand. I don't need the mouse to move, jump, turn the camera, or use any powers. I keep all my powers comfortably on 1-6 and alt+1-6 for ease of use. The only time I have to stop to use the mouse is to hit a glowie or a door, and sometimes if I'm using a toon with Shield Charge or Lightning Rod.

Point being, I can play a whole mission with just one hand, and have done so for years. So I agree with MI; doesn't matter if she does it one way, as long as it works for her.

I wouldn't worry about it. It didn't go through a closed/open beta process, though there was probably internal testing. BABs already said they're working on some costume and emote concerns. So we just need to be patient.

Alternatively, maybe when you try to take a name on a server, instead of telling you the name is already being used, it generates a list of playful taunts like "Come on, that's a pretty boring name," or "You can do better than that. Try again."

If I recall correctly, it was from the test server for the 5th anniversary.

And I move using ESDF. I could never get comfortable moving with WASD because my index finger needs to be on the little bump on F to feel comfortable. And I never understood the advantage of being closer to the edge of the keyboard where there's less keys anyway.

Pfft! Brutes don't take Stun! Time spent using Stun would be time better spent smashing people!

Shh! Quiet, you! Clipping is one of the main reasons Jay gives for not adding new stuff! Don't give him fuel! I love the look of the new stuff, clipping or not! Don't discourage future stuff!

Clipping that can be fixed should be fixed, though.

People who like platypuses are blind! I think it's time to give the cottage rule a miss and replace platypuses with a useful and well-balanced animal. Who's with me?!