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Originally Posted by Smersh

Okay, serious question time. This one is primarily directed at Silencer7, but anyone can feel free to chime in.

What is it that makes an MMO a different social space than the real world? Why do normal standards not apply (or different standards apply, if you prefer to phrase it that way)?

In the real world, asking for something that hasn't been offered can be seen to be pretty rude. You can ask your grandmother for a cookie and have a fair chance of getting one, but asking a stranger would get you a weird look or worse.

In the MMO world, much of it is a public space shared by all. However, there do exist private spaces within the MMO world, private being defined as 'only able to be entered by an owner, member, or someone who has been invited.' In our MMO, spaces with varying degrees of privacy can be found in instances, arena matches, supergroup bases, global channels and teams. You can enter your own private spaces (for instance, by taking a mission) or create a space that has you and a few other people (for instance, making a global channel or team.) Just because you are in such a private space, however, does not insulate you from those outside the space; you can be sent a tell or email and receive it inside that private space.

Likewise, such private spaces exist in the real world, and communication can be sent into those private spaces, by cell phones, land lines, knocking on the door, et cetera. Most of the time, sending communications to those private spaces without knowing the people inside is considered to be rude, unless you have some sort of specific business with them. (No one I know likes getting a phone call or a knock on the door from some sort of salesperson, especially when you're otherwise occupied.)

Now, as a mitigating factor, the MMO space has a lowered threshold of social interaction for strangers. Everyone who is playing has, presumably, at least some interest in the subject matter, and everyone is paying $15 a month for the chance to play the game and interact with others who are also interested in playing the game. This, incidentally, is why it is not rude to send a tell when you are recruiting for a team to people that show up on /search solo. You can presume that everyone who is playing the game is at least marginally interested in gaining experience, influence, etc. This is a social norm for the MMO.

My position is that the lowered threshold is what allows PUGs to form. A gathering of people who want to play the game, just for fun or to accomplish a specific goal (task force, raid, etc.) I do not view that lowered threshold of interaction as extending to asking for entry into a private space when it is not offered.

Originally Posted by CaptA

Well, bases are instanced maps just like missions. That's why you can't log out in a base and be in the base when you log back in.

Originally Posted by Aquila_NA

I haven't had much problem with Spam email lately. Just one Pinnacle particular portal in PI CLOGGED with adsf dsa, jlksdjlk and jneio0887 characters. All zero vet badges, all global names same as toon names, all Fire/* Trollers, no SG, all level 50s with "random button" costumes.

Originally Posted by Rajani Isa

Of course the stealth IO worked - it is a 120. So it's
basically a proc.

Both purple and PvP ( thus also called.muave) sets retain their sete bonuses regardless of exemplAr status.

Originally Posted by Mandur12

Does anyone else dream about a time when we might be able to affect the scaling Midnight Grasp tentacle animation in a fight against Rularuu the Ravager? Or am I the only one?

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Now you know how I feel about this, and that I am aware of the devs' stance on it.

But saying THE. DEVELOPERS. SAID. NO.

.....and then linking to a number of posts in which you also said that they said no.....doesn't prove anything at all. You're basically telling people to just take your word for it that they did indeed say no. Like the fact that you yourself have said it multiple times somehow makes it more true.

Would work MUCH better if you linked to posts FROM the devs saying no, instead of linking to posts where you say they said no.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Stealth for non-stalker characters caps at 571 feet. Base perception is 500 feet.

Getting to the Stealth cap is A) Pretty easy, and B) Pretty pointless, because +Perception is readily available to anyone in the form of Tactics.

Well, at least it used to be pretty easy, I haven't bothered to find out how hard Diminished Returns smacks stacked stealth powers.

Originally Posted by Postagulous

Stealth power + IO = invis
Super Speed + IO = Invis
Stealth power + SS = invis
Stealth Power + IO + SS = too much invis
Sup Invis = best invis in game, alone, it's at the cap
Other secondary stealths = same as Stealth pool power approx enough
Buff Invis from others = don't trust it, it'll wear off at the wrong time.

I like option 1, but I think I might go #2 on one toon. [/e beavislaugh]

Originally Posted by mousedroid

?

Travel suppression was a player suggestion/request?

Originally Posted by DitzyBlonde

My advice is get your son off video games and into sports or more family activities that don't involve a computer.

Disclaimer: ^^^^^ is my opinion and in no way an insult to your parenting.

Originally Posted by Walleye_

"You're the worst pirate I've ever heard of!"
"Aaah, but you have heard of me."

Name that film!

[and now we return to the regularly scheduled PvP boards.]

/w

Originally Posted by ConFlict

I am the reason there are so many psi ems in zones. Because I told people that is all there is to roll on the forums. They all came here, read it, rolled them and play them there. Dodgy has figured out my evil plan.