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Quote:It was when you mentioned Nietzsche that I flashed back to some friends of gamer buddies who'd try to impress everyone with how smart they were by going on and on over-analyzing books, movies, you name it.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Okay, sincerely, I am curious what you use to make the distinction between the pseudo-intellectual claptrap of which you speak and what I said in my earlier post (if you didn't classify it as such).
It's funny, because I am absolutely a mocker and anti-fan of the over-analysis (and, often times, completely untrue assumptions made) about other people's work.
Yet, I also enjoy what others may call "deeper" aspects of things. For me, it is just natural and immediate. Not something contrived to try and pass off as a greater.
As for the original Conan movie, while it is certainly overall just a fun action and adventure film, there is a great aspect of depth behind it. And that makes it far more fun for me than just a sword fight and leaping around.
I swear to if they weren't the ones that always brought the beer on game night we'd have never have put up with them.
I can't even begin to guess how many times someone asked why we let them game with us and someone else would reply, "They always bring a couple of cases of beer." -
Quote:Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance is an IO enhancement. It's one of three recipes you buy with Candy Canes. The set is a Universal Travel enhancement set.Originally Posted by Jibikao
How long does the Winter Gift slow resistance last? 7 days?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Of course it survived, but serious experience tapers were put in place over the Architect and serious exploits patched up. Moreover, the Architect was advertised as a legitimate progression path, something you could level up from 1 to 50 on. Having people do that was never the issue, only the speed with which they do so. Furthermore, with the curbing of rampant (or at least very public) farming, interest in the Architect died down enough for new players to not immediately be swept up in it and never let go.
Again, the DFB is different, in that I don't believe its intent has ever been for people to level up to 50 on that and that alone. Moreover, the DFB is so popular that it exceeds absolutely all other activities available to new players at the time of character creation. In this case, I don't think "nerfing" the DFB to kill interest is a viable solution (or a good idea, for that matter), but I still believe some mechanism needs to be in place to serve as a limiter and a reminder that there's more to the game than just that.
I'm well aware that exemplaring for content is a good idea and I wouldn't dream of preventing people from earning anything off the DFB. I'm not even talking about reducing experience or drops or what have you. Again, I don't know what shape this needs to take, but I've seen enough people argue with me that re-running the DFB in the late 20s is the best experience and I've seen enough people in their early 20s apparently unaware that other content exists to be concerned.
Let it be popular, that's OK. But we need some way of telling people that this isn't World of Tanks.
Sam do you mind if I ask if you've tried to see what it's like leveling a character to 50 just doing DfB's? If not please check for yourself and see how leveling gets slower and slower as the character's level rises.
Maybe the people you've been talking to have a group of friends that get together and power play thru DfB's endlessly. Or maybe they are just perpetuating gossip that they heard but never experienced for themselves. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lazarillo
I'm a little wary of them calling it "hearbreaking". I hope they don't do anything inane just to stir up cheap melodrama.
Honestly, though, I feel like the spot where series 6 ended...they really don't need to be back in series 7 anyway. It was a good closing point for them.
Aren't these the same people that said the "Silence" was the scariest villain the Doctor has ever faced when everyone knows the "Weeping Angels" were the scariest. So I don't put much faith into the description of "Heartbreaking". -
Quote:Pretty sure it was a combination of the Cybermen ghosting and the recovery of the prison sphere that was destroying reality.Originally Posted by Zikar
I'm pretty sure it was the Daleks that were destroying reality. Also, the Doctor didn't break up with her for her safety, they were forced apart.
Did the person who made that even watch Doctor Who? -
Quote:Uhm Darth . . . Just like to point out that the OP's justification for this "suggestion" isn't about how paying customers play it's about the free players.Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Well Sir, happy to say you don't get to control what others are able to do in a game they pay to play.
Carry on.
Now as to the spam that the OP is tired of, he needs to use the /ignore_spammer command that was added to the game so players can report people engaging in disruptive behavior to Customer Service while at the same time adding them to their ignore list.Quote:Originally Posted by Unit24
Look at it this way. Would you rather have freebs playing DFB to 10, getting bored with it because no xp, and subsequently playing actual content and learning to use their powers, or freebs playing DFB to 50 and not knowing how anything else in the game works?
Customer Service will review the report and if he finds it justified the spammer will at the very least get silenced for 24 hours. -
Quote:And I was one of the many screaming about clueless AE babies. I learned my lesson.Originally Posted by SailorET
The alcoholic squirrel is absolutely right.
You can't tell but that squirrel is using a human liver. He gets frequent liver transplants as part of an ongoing long term medical experiment.Quote:By the way, you might want to cut that squirrel off, he's been drinking like that for years. 
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Quote:Yeah, yeah. The same thing was said about the AE and guess what, the game survived, and we are better off having the AE in the game. Same situation here.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The DFB is uniquely different from all other in-game tasks, especially other TFs and Trials, in that it's what brand new Free players meet before they have a chance to even understand the game. It's entirely possible for them to believe that's all there is to the game, especially since a lot of F2P MMOs have pretty much just that as their content. Other TFs notwithstanding, the DFB in particular needs some form of control mechanism or limiter.
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Quote:This.Originally Posted by Rodion
Here's one way to look at this:
If there's an easy way for people to get XP for themselves quickly, like DFB or the various farms in AE, people who want to level quickly will be far less tempted to pay for PLing services from RMTers. Why would they pay real money for something they can do for themselves and their friends?
The leveling speed in DFB really does slow down a lot once you hit level 15 or 20. You'd be better off running with level 50 friends in +2 missions because the drops are much better, and you have a shot at purples.
Plus you'd be able to use all those powers that you're getting. Most people will want to have access to the post-level 10 powers they're spending all that time getting, and that's really the limiting factor on how many times a new player will run this trial.
DfB's already have a built in XP taper called leveling.
And the argument that Freebs will PL their way to the level cap using DfB's is silly. Players have been doing that for 8 years, and before Freedom they were paying subs to do it. The DfB is just the current flavor of the month, and it isn't Freebs and Prems that use it to power level. There are plenty of clueless VIP's that do it to. -
It's Ghost Rider, I am there.
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They kind of have to leave. The Doctors going underground against the people that want him dead, so he can't keep hanging out with them.
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Quote:You miss the point. I'm not talking about the film itself. I'm talking about the viewers that over-analize things with long winded boring ramblings of the philosophical juxtaposition of the blah blah blah.Originally Posted by Quasadu
Yes it can be, if you want it to suck.
Just enjoy the film and keep the pseudo intellectual bull in the college classrooms. Those guys would be mortified to learn how many authors would say that the garbage the pompous intellectuals are spouting never even crossed their minds when they wrote theirs books, they just thought it was a cool story that people would enjoy.
Edit: and for clarification, that's not a jab at E-K. It's a general observation about people I've encountered in real life, not here. -
Quote:Double *squee*Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
*squee*
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Quote:The "everyone's a winner" lotteries are almost always a scam of some sort. The system can easily be abused by the sponsors by manipulating the chances to win. The majority of prizes are usually garbage that people don't really care about with only a few or just one uber rare prize. So it's still gambling, it's just been candy coated to make it go down easier.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Now it may just be me but I don't consider that gambling per se because you always get something. It may not be what you want but you did get something for your money.
Edit: Not saying our devs are doing this. From the info I've gotten in this thread they seem to be trying to avoid that type of shenanigans I described. -
Quote:Granting forum access to customers with entitlement issues.Originally Posted by Rikis
Every MMO's dev team has something they regret implementing.
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Quote:I'm sure there was more than one reason motivating the price of 500 for the dog. I'm also sure the players did snap the dog up in droves. The complaints about the prices sound no different than the ones made when the Boosters were first put out for sale. Despite the complaints from a vocal minority the company made a killing on the boosters.Originally Posted by Agent White
I don't think the dog was priced at 500 solely because of development time, more they thought players would freak for something so new and snap it up in droves. I really really doubt any competent business would model their individual market prices based on recouping development time spent.
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Quote:Never saw the pummit and this was my first time in this thread so thanks for the info.Originally Posted by Codewalker
All of this was answered at the pummit. They're account wide, and once you unlock them, they get removed from the drop pool, thereby slightly increasing the chances of everything else.
There was a half mention of possibly considering making the costume unlocks tradeable, maybe. I kind of doubt there's a way to make that happen in the time frame they're looking at, but if it were done then all bets are off on the above.
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Why do people have to complicate things with too much thought? Can't a movie simply be about kick-*** sword fights, explosions, and gratuitous nudity?
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Quote:Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Hm. Will repeated buys have a chance to get doubles?
EcoSo what happens when a player gets two of the same costume piece?Quote:Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
On some things.
Is it "Oh you got a duplicate you can't use? Sucks to be you. Go buy another pack."
Or are these costume pieces only usable by the character that opens the pack?
If the costume piece can only be used by one character, can it be traded to another that can use it before being claimed?
If the costume pieces can be traded before being claimed, will they be account bound or tradable between players?
If they are tradable between players how long do you think it'll be before people start selling them for real money outside the game? (That's one of the current problems STO is having with the ultra rare starship in their xmas grab bag)
IMHO items like costume pieces should not be in these packs unless 1. they aren't ultra rare , 2. there is an alternative method of getting them, and 3. players aren't screwed out of points if they happen to get duplicates they can't use. -
Quote:No it isn't, it's $2 dollars vs $6.25. That's a difference of $4.25. If they can't afford it, don't buy it.Originally Posted by Jibikao
500 VS 160 is quite a bit of difference you know.
It doesn't matter if someone is new to the game or not. Six bucks is a fair price for an animal skeleton that's never been in the game before. Get over it. -
Quote:And yet at the end of the episodeOriginally Posted by Lothic
Cubert J. Farnsworth: Your explanations are pure weapons grade balognium. It's all impossible.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Nothing is impossible. Not if you can imagine it. That's what being is a scientist is all about.
Cubert J. Farnsworth: No, that's what being a magical elf is all about.
FRY: Damnit, we'll have to fix the engine ourselves.
LEELA: We can't you [pancake], no one knows how it works. It's impossible.
[Cubert comes around and puts his hand in the air.]
CUBERT: Nothing is impossible. I understand how the engines work now. It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it.
BENDER: That's a complete load.
CUBERT: Nothing's a complete load. Not if you can imagine it. That's what being a scientist is all about. Right Professor?
PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH: Eh...whuh...
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Quote:Yeah but the Professor later proved that to be false when he invented the box to another parallel universe and chased Zoidberg thru hundreds of other boxes to other universes.Originally Posted by Lothic
Fry: So, theres an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor: No, just the two.
Fry: Oh, well, Im sure thats enough. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Jagged
He does play and has a lvl 50 called Tactical Swordsman, who swords things tactically. However he is starting to reach that age where anything Dad likes is automatically uncool
That's the first thing I thought when I read Jaggeds post. Teach the boy a lesson. If he thinks the stuff dad likes is uncool then dad should pretend all the stuff sonny likes is the coolest things ever and insist on doing them with him. And that includes everything, even dating his girlfriends.Quote:Originally Posted by PowerStream
UNPOSSIBLE!!!
Okay so maybe possible...
My son (14) asked for Skyrim and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. Both games I can't wait to play. 
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Quote:Cool. Just wanna make sure we're on the same page.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
yes, I'm well aware, hence why I want to know the details of how they "betrayed" their country, much like how the A-Team "betrayed" their country.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I don't know about you, but I'm touching the universe right now. I don't have to be able to get my arms around the fatty to give her a hug, wot.
Eeeewwwww! That's not the universe your touching. It just feels like it.