Eva Destruction

Obviously we need a new filter that includes the words "Fire," "Ambush," "Farm," and "Ticket." That'll get more AE users up in arms, right?

Some Masterminds do take it to move their army of morons around without aggroing everything in a 5-mile radius. It's certainly not common, but it is annoying to suddenly be caught in it.

Implied?

It pretty much flat out states that these things are bought with Astrals and Empyreans. Can you blame anyone for reading it that way? If they can also be bought with some other currency that can be earned outside the trials, it should clearly say so. Otherwise, I stand by my position, and my original complaint: epic marketspeak fail is epic.

Hey, wouldn't it be nice if the search function had a built in "people who liked this arc also liked...." feature? Something that has been suggested multiple times....

That's how many arcs have been published since i14 release, not how many arcs are currently published. I haven't counted in a while, but I know the number of currently available arcs is nowhere near that.

Ah, I see. The "It doesn't happen to me so it's not a problem" argument. How about they just don't bother fixing any technical issues that don't affect you? Of course when one comes up that does affect you, I'm sure you won't hesitate to scream for a fix.
Ok, so fixing lag and crashes is unimportant because some people play despite them. Note that I said "some" people because you aren't seeing the people who do no or fewer trials because they're fed up with lag and crashing in the RWZ looking for trials, do you? So as long as there are enough people willing to put up with it that you can get a league together, it's not a problem, am I correct?

Hmmm, could it be that people who lag a lot on trials mention it as one of the major reasons they don't like grinding trials? And that it's only you and the rest of the "grind moar trials cause I love grinding trials and anybody who doesn't like what I like is stupid" crowd that equates "I want an alternative to trial/large group grinds" with "I'm an antisocial shut-in who never wants to encounter another human being again?"

Yes, I will admit the collection phase of Lambda does require your full attention, as does the prisoner phase of BAF. Incidentally, those phases lend themselves to a solo/small team mentality.

Yeah, yeah, I know, the collection phase goes better if you stick together. I'm happy for your uberleague that manages to do that.

The official guide to the Keyes Reactor trial makes it sound like it has an opening cutscene too. Either way, it does mean that the devs have heard many players' dislike of being forced to sit through overly long cutscenes and hopefully will lead to fewer and shorter cutscenes in the future.

That's part of it, and of course the bigger the group the more annoying the process. A better system to group people up doesn't help when there aren't enough people who want to group when you do. Solo content can be done whenever the hell you feel like it, while group content can only be done when other people feel like it.

Then there is the "I watched the Simpsons while running a BAF" aspect. The bigger the group, the more it comes down to "use your most powerful abilities as fast as they recharge" and less a matter of picking and choosing what to do when so you can win. How long did you spend in Mids trying to make yourself as invincible as possible? Who cares, have some buffs from 12 people, now everyone is invincible. For something billed as a challenge, the trials often aren't, or at least they aren't enough of one that everybody actually has to be up to the challenge.

And there is are performance issues. Lag is one thing, and IMO it's something the devs don't do nearly enough to minimize, but there is also the flash bang boom flash flash flash I can't see the AV in all that crap flashy flashy flashy NEED MOAR FLASHY FX overload that happens no matter how good your PC is. Some people don't like that. I hate it when I can't clearly see my guy, let alone anyone else's.

It's still not a solo-friendly path, but at least it wasn't advertised as such. And at least you only need 3-7 other people to progress this way.
Honestly, that sounds even more boring to me than running them with multiple characters. At least it's a slightly different experience that way.

I did meet them halfway. I've run enough trials to have three T3s on two characters, two T3s on two more, and I'm working on unlocking the slots on a fifth. I'm bored of the trials. The new one will be nice to have, but it won't be new forever. If it's more difficult and/or time-consuming than BAF, it will be hard to form leagues for, especially since it doesn't have Lambda's advantage of requiring fewer people. And then what?

And I think at that point they'll have to question whether people really find the trials fun, and more importantly, whether people really find repeating the trials many many times fun. On the plus side for trial runners, people who really would rather solo won't be soloing in the trials.

He got eaten by facepalming Godzilla.

You realize that people who "emerged from the woodwork" for i20 to say "how much this game is horrible and the dev team should feel horrible" are probably the only reason you get Rikti, Nemesis and Rularuu pets, right? Do you really think the devs would have acknowledged that we don't all love Praetoria as much as they do if all of us whiny complaining doomcryers hadn't said so loudly and repeatedly?

Oh wow. Excuse me a sec, I'm going to go make popcorn. I'm going to enjoy this....

Does your machine exceed the recommended minimum requirements? Because if they're not going to design stuff that runs well on machines that meet the recommended minimum requirements, they need to raise those requirements. I hear many many complaints about lag during the trials, and I doubt all those people are playing on relics. A seven-year-old game shouldn't require a top-of-the-line PC to run decently.

What bone, where? Please enlighten me where the bone is for people who only solo, or even for people who often solo.

Let's not forget the warehouse in Lambda. The playerbase seems to be split between "I'm fine," "I'm mostly ok as long as I look at the floor," and "I can barely move."

Oh, and then there's the power-delay lag (can't blame that on your machine) plaguing my entire league once the reinforcements on two MOLambda attempts started piling up, which is probably what cost us the badge.

Lambda and BAF don't have the -4 debuff, and I see no reason for any new content to have it either. It should be removed from Apex and Tin Mage too, because it's stupid.

Yeah, and right now neither of us are getting what we want. A difficult solo path would give at least some of us what we want. (As long as "difficulty" isn't measured in S/L resistance. I am so freaking sick of everything "difficult" having insane S/L resistance. Swords are cool, ok? Claws are cool, guns are cool, axes are cool, jumping up and kicking someone in the face and backflipping off their head is extremely cool. Stop punishing people who want to be cool by making us take twice as long to kill anything. /end rant.)

So? At least then you can do trials (and complain about it) or do the arc (and complain about it). See, two different things to complain about.

So why does it award things that would appeal to those people?

People who like to show off can show off to anyone who cares enough to click their info. Most people don't care enough to click your info, and they won't care if you're wearing the same glowy costume as everyone else who tagged along on a BAF.

Nope. As long as he's disparaging the ADHD shiny-chaser mentality, I approve his message and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

I think the fact that there ultimately is no real and achievable solo option is...well pretty much par for the course, why would you want to solo when there's a shiny new trial on which you can lag and crash and try to get enough people for at 11 am and farm and farm for a million billion Uncommons?

I think the wording of this "feature" is marketspeak fail on Galactus-meets-Unicron levels of epic.

You get a pass on running a soloable arc. But in order to get this pass you must team. And it is being advertised as a boon to players who prefer to solo. What's so hard to understand?

In the case of Lambda, the fail condition is literally "make Marauder chase you." If someone is attacking Anti-Matter when they shouldn't be, you can kick them. If someone stands outside and taunts Marauder, you fail.

Lambda is also harder and longer than BAF, and that's why it gets farmed less. You can't button mash your way through Lambda. You can through BAF. It's also a lot easier to multi-box and not have anyone notice.

Lambda is even more griefable, and I have yet to have one griefed. Unless you count "stupidity griefing" from people who can't find their temps, which has never actually resulted in a failed trial.

No, because a kill switch that wipes the team isn't a challenge, it's a cheat. A challenge can be overcome.

I'm not really sure who this is supposed to appeal to. People who prefer to solo their FF/Psi Defenders and don't have a single friend they can call on for help?

If it makes you feel better, I'm not really trying to make you feel better. I'm just pointing out that someone completely missed the point.