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Quote:When I worked for **&* we did both directory assistance and call completion if the number was inside the US, Hawaii, or Alaska.Originally Posted by reiella
Directory Assistance or Call Completion?
I've had people upset that the dmv wasn't answering their phone at 4am. Two moments of disney stupidity come to mind though. One person calling from the Small World ride (creeeeepy), and another caller wanting the number for one of the attractions. -
Quote:Small correction. What they aired was the season finale. They never got to shoot the series finale. The show was cancelled after they finished shooting the second season episodes.Originally Posted by starphoenix
SGU did have a decent series finale. A ride off into the sunset scene is much better than using some Deus Ex Machina to get home which is what Voyager did. Although the Deus Ex Machina of Voyager at least had Voyager destroying Borg and the Death of the Borg Queen.
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Quote:Reminds me of a South Carolina woman that called me 7:30 am on a Sunday wanting to be connected to a shoe store in Hawaii. She didn't want to listen to my telling her that there is a 6 hour time difference and the store probably wasn't open at 1:30 am there. So I connected her like she requested. 5 minutes later she called back demanding a refund and trying to complain that I gave her the wrong number because no one answered the phone there.Originally Posted by Razoras
My favorite customer was the one who disagreed with me that Midnight was 12:00AM. Midnight was night time and AM is morning! This is stuff I might've agreed with when I was 5 years old, sure... but I was speaking to a woman that sounded significantly older.
Then there was the woman that was having problems dialing Disney's Magic Kingdom because she thought she needed to dial 011 before dialing the Florida number. It turned out she thought she needed to make an international call to reach them. As she explained to me, "America is a democracy and doesn't have any kingdoms." -
Quote:It may have been disabled to make sure it worked smoothly. We haven't been told.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Is it only between US and EU, or are all transfers unavailable?
i can understand disabling transfers for a few days to make sure there's no unexpected database problems.
Pie in the sky wishful thinking has me hoping they have more discounted transfer fees planned or dare I say it maybe even (pretty please) some free transfers, and they don't want any impatient players complaining that they feel cheated because they bought their transfers before the "surprise" was activated.
But the most likely reason is that they want to make sure there are no bugs. -
No transfers are not working yet between NA and EU servers.
No we haven't been told why.
Yes this is the 7th or 8th thread asking the same question and the answer has been the same each time it's been asked. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
I don't know about the others (well, except no. 1) but as someone whose main hero is a Mind/Emp Controller I have to ask:
ARE YOU INSANE?!?!
That is one of the best effects the power has! Collecting every mob you can see into a corner or wall and let the team rip them apart. If you're suggesting something like this, you must be doing it wrong./What they said.Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
lolLrn2Buff
No. Seriously, no. As someone running an Empath on freaking ITrials, if people are honestly finding that too 'strenous'...they should have picked a different freaking set or AT.
I don't want to be draining myself for silly ammounts of end. I don't want to have to herd team mates just so they can get their mez shield which makes my life easier as well as theirs. This way, I can pick those who need it NOW, like the squishies, and cast exactly as many times as I need.
This is as bad an idea as the one where MM pets get AoE buffed (insane end cost, doesn't scale for when you only need to buff the two that died mid fight, idiot idea...) -
Quote:I'll leave the details like that to the people that actually work with the code. I wouldn't presume to think I knew how to do it.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
And how do they keep global names above level 6? If you have a character above 6 you're fine?
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Quote:Sorry to disagree with you A_F, but this is no different than the character name purge they have run twice in the past. Same rules should apply here that applys to them.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
/unsigned, unless its more than 5 years. People (included military) often take long breaks such as two years and still come back.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Dark One
One thing people always forget for a long-term survival place...
Salt.
Plain ol' iodized salt. Useful for cooking and preservation of both vegetables and meats as well as being necessary for survival. Also makes a handy currency if needed. Throw in a couple 50 gallon drums of the stuff and you'd be well set. Maybe get one drum of unrefined sea salt for variety and micronutrient need.
Salt falls under the sub-heading of supplies which I hadn't bothered to list because there are just too many different things to stock up on.
One of the things I forgot to mention was a decent sized septic tank. Say 60,000 gallons with pump and an aerobic treatment system. -
Quote:Okay I can agree to a year.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
I'd say a year.
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Quote:Thanks. I don't remember that, but I didn't watch every single episode.Originally Posted by Durakken
The Puddle Jumpers have their own power source and it was discussed. They had a system that the PJs could be tied into the city for some reason... I forget why but it was only enough for emergency power or some such.
I'm not disagreeing with you about that, because a lot of what you said is right. Just pointing out that going by what keeps a show on the air which is the number of viewers the previous shows had it while SGU didn't.Quote:It's not as straight forward as that.
SG1 and SGA are different show types. And they are different genres.
SGU is a drama serial.
SG1 and SGA are more comedy one-shot stories
When you switch like that you are going to get a massive negative feedback and it's going to take a while to get numbers back, much longer than a new brand. -
Quote:People seem to have that problem from time to time. Try using paypal.Originally Posted by CyberSlave
RL store not in store.
I have been trying since last night to get few boosters. My first one went through just fine, but every single one after that says there is a problem and try back later.
I know its not my cards, but just curious if anyone else has had any issues? -
All in favor of running the script again, but no need to limit themselves to 3+ years. Just don't be surprised when you still can't get the names you want because they are still being used by active players.
The devs datamining from the last name wipe showed that nearly all the names freed were garbage names like kjygfkuyrtut or SG Filler 1 from throwaway characters on trial accounts or RMT sites. -
Quote:What about them? They never went into detail about what their powersource was as I recall. If they did need to recharge off the city's grid they wouldn't use more than a fraction of power, and then only when they need to be recharged.Originally Posted by Cass_
And the puddle jumpers? or was that just glossed over?
But for all we know they have their own power cells on a much smaller scale than the ZPM's and just like them they could last for years before needing to be replaced.
So sorry to disappoint you but that isn't the huge Gotcha you want to think it is.
Quote:as for the likeable characters... bwah hahahahahahahaha, good one, well written, an excellent lampooning of cliché ridden drivel.
Awww sour grapes huh. No matter how much you want to trash those two shows the simple fact remains that they had fanbases large enough to keep them on the air for years. (SG1 - 10 years, SGA - 5 years) While SGU which aired Oct, 2009 didn't have the fanbase to keep it from getting cancelled 1 year later in Dec, 2010.
So as much as it galls you, yes the viewers felt the shows were better written and had more likable characters. -
Quote:Uhm Blue where do you see the OP saying anything about "Free" transfers?Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
As someone has already posted in another thread where this has come up:
Silly marketing people not wanting to hand out things for free during a period where there is high demand for them... what are they thinking.
Oh nevermind the OP already responded about not saying "free". My bad.Quote:Originally Posted by MothersWomb
GM said i should post here.
Please enable transfers to and from Zukunft, Vigilance, Defiant and Union. -
Quote:Ah. Now I see, and TerraDraconis already responded with the answer.Originally Posted by Cass_
The Zero Point modules, why was there no facility for making them in the city? Why the hell would you leave home with out that?
If this power source was so awesome was it not used in anything that needed a lot of power like for instance the puddle jumpers? If not what the hell was powering them?
Weren't they also getting power from that underwater facility after they found it?Quote:Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
Oh there clearly is a ZPM manufacturing plant in the city. The problem is that they haven't found it or else figured out what it is yet. When the ancients took over the city for a while they promptly built more ZPM's using the cities resources. So the tech is there in the city. They just never identified it in the series. Now that the city is on earth at some point they will finally figure out the trick of it and be able to manufacture them to order. -
Quote:Okay you lost me, I need more specifics cuz I'm not sure what your referring to. Sorry for being confused.Originally Posted by Cass_
So the gaping maw of "why leave the ability to manufacture your power source behind" in SG:A didn't seem like a bit of an issue?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Given the reception of that "other game," I'm not sure we can actually say it works.
And - they tried this in alpha. It *didn't* work. Thus our getting the Archetype system.Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
I don't have any problem considering such an idea just as a hypothetical game mechanic. But the chances of such a concept being shoehorned into this game is effectively zero at this point. It would require so many fundamental power balance changes that this would probably be a better suggestion for CoH2 than something for this game.
Like Memphis_Bill said way back before this game even launched it originally had a more "free-form" power scheme. But it quickly became clear during beta testing that everyone would simply min/max their characters and there was no good way to balance that. They scrapped the idea in favor of the AT/Powerset system we have now.
Champions Online arguably tried a free-form powers system as well. It also arguably failed, at least in part, because that system ultimately proved to be too problematic. That game has now fallen back to a more "archetype" class structure in its reworked F2P format.
I'm honestly not too familiar with DCUO so I don't know anything about the "fight style" thing you mentioned. Still I'd have reservations about any kind of free-form power system, even one that was only kinda, sorta free-form like you're implying here, based on the relatively bad track record they've had so far.
Bottomline I think free-form game systems work much better in "pen-n-paper" settings because you can have a human GM control things directly and make rulings on the fly to maintain balance. I've yet to see an automated MMO game manage the same flexibility required to prevent "tank-magery" from taking over. I think this is one of those ideas that always sounds better on paper than it actually is in reality. *shrugs*/all thisQuote:Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
About the only thing I agree with from the OP is that every character should have access to a reliable ranged attack. I know we've got craftable temp powers now, but they run out and you can't slot them. They reworked every melee attack set in AE specifically to ensure that no custom enemies could be stuck in a situation where they're unable to attack, and yet it's still okay for players to be in that position for some reason? Makes no sense to me.
As I've mentioned in other threads, I'd like to see a new Assault/Defense AT at some point... but I've got no real desire for a pick-your-own-power system. -
Quote:Yeah if the TL is willing to do that then I applaud his efforts.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Yep, though I like Baron's approach. Team majority rules and whatnot.
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Now this is just wild speculation on my part but maybe they plan to do something special with transfers like another discount or <fingers crossed> dare we hope some free transfers and they want to make sure they work before giving them to us.
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I know we could do it on the old forums because I did it, but I don't know if we have that option here.
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Quote:Unfortunately in situations where any decision they make is going to upset people they try to choose the smallest group of people possible to lessen the response.Originally Posted by Slazenger
Yes indeed, some with good reason
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Quote:No matter what gets done someone will always be unhappy.Originally Posted by Slazenger
Had my global this morning, but somehow it's gone now. So I am now known @The Real Slazenger.
I didn't want the merge before yesterday, guess what I feel about it now? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Tubby
That seems a little silly. I left the game for around 2 years due to medical issues and family issues. I have every intention on coming back eventually. None of my characters or global should have changed in that time.
And they should also be concerned with getting people to come back and play the game they left for whatever reason. Keeping customers happy works in several ways. Keeping current customers happy, keeping new customers happy, and keeping returning customers happy.
Sorry to sound callous to your personal situation but intentions don't pay the bills. Furthermore you don't own the characters, names, or costumes. Read the EULA. -
Quote:Nope. They had much better writing staff. Good writing, likeable characters, and solid entertaining episodes makes the fans much more lenient and forgiving.Originally Posted by Cass_
Man SG:1 and SG:A must have driven you up the wall...
The only thing that irritated me was when they realized they screwed up and made Zats too powerful (1 shot stuns, 2 shots kill, 3 shots disintegrates) then pretended it never happened. They should have realized that was a bad idea to begin with.