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They were hoping that by doing that we wouldn't notice the horrible scripts.

Sorry Charlie,

IO salvage was added to the game on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 when Issue 9 went live. The devs didn't change the salvage bin storage capacity until Tuesday, December 2, 2008 when Issue 13 went live.

The datamining they did was based on the information acquired from player activities between Issues 9 and 13.

So as much as you'd like to spin doctor what I said so you can dismiss it, the fact remains the devs based their decision upon information that was readily available to them.


None of us like the devs decision, and we all hope they one day change their minds.

Actually depending on which state you live in the taxes vary, but in a state that doesn't charge state tax you'd be looking at

Annuity:
Your net per year: $13,730,769

After 26 payments: $356,999,994


Or a lump sum:
Your net payout: $255,750,000


http://www.usamega.com/mega-millions-jackpot.asp

I think we all wish that but as was explained by one of the devs in the same thread as the one about the animations each toggle has to be done separately and with each new power set (and each new travel power) that gets added they'd have to go back and add the new toggles so the work takes longer and longer which in turn causes releases to get pushed further and further back.

It's just easier and faster to have the powers turned off.

I support this idea but I also want to be able to wear the Boxer Shorts with the monstrous legs. They end above the knees so there shouldn't be any clipping issues.

See what I mean? Some people just love portraying VIP's as the bad guys.

Panther travel power is already on the beta server. You turn into a black panther the power comes with a stealth mode you can activate making it harder for you to be seen by enemies.

The devs explained that the amount of work the animations require is the reason the they decided the new travel powers turn off everything else. And each new power set that gets added to the game just increases the animation workload thus making it take longer and longer to release them.

So the buyable travel powers will most likely be what we get from now on.

I just had a mental picture of Bay in court being prosecuted for molestation.

Prosecutor: Bumblebee please point out to the court exactly where Mr. Bay molested you.

Oh I thought the logic chain was All VIP's are evil elitist snobs that wouldn't stoop to help a Prem pay rent unless he was out to steal his stuff out from under him!

You needed two accounts to do it if you wanted to invite your own alts into the SG's. Either two of your own accounts or you and another player.

And for the record I have done the solo SG/Base myself more than once. I just pretty much completed a solo base on Justice using the very techniques you describe.

Now while you and I may not be bothered by the hurdles we have to go thru, other people are more sensitive about it, and/or they don't like asking for help.

Back to the devs opinion on solo SG's. I recall the devs response to a recent request for offline/email SG invites where the devs flat out told us that if they were to add such a feature to the game they would deliberately code it so we couldn't send invites to characters on the same account.

I think that depends on how he interprets what a pacifist is. I knew some people in the military that wouldn't shoot a gun if their lives depended on it. They chose to go into jobs like medical, dental, and religion. So I can't honestly say that I see a conflict of interest.

I have a SJ/WP Tank that's a combat medic. He's loaded up with temp power heals/rez allys, team Inspirations, and the Medicine pool. The Leadership pool is his selfless courage that inspires his teammates. Sure he gets into fist fights but that's about it.

And I do appreciate that you and the other poster took the time to give me more accurate information. I was only trying to explain that I chose to word my post the way I did because I wasn't certain we would be getting staffs this week. And to be honest if I were to quantify my disappointment, I'd say most of it is based on the fact that while we didn't get staffs, there wasn't anything new for VIP's to consider purchasing. Heck, I'd have been pleased to see something I didn't want as long as it was something new.

I've chosen to view Tuesdays as a mini Christmas with each new addition to the store as gifts I eagerly wait to see how they are going to try to get my money that week. Some I salivate over as my new gotta haves while others I laugh at because I wouldn't buy them if my life depended on it.

And that is why I used the terms "impression" and "implied" as opposed to saying, "I was certain that she said...". I wasn't following the issue closely and what I heard was second, third, or fourth hand.

And I'm still disappointed there wasn't anything new to buy added to the market for VIP's this week. Free stuff doesn't count, and the sales are just trying to sell old stuff.

I don't recall ever hearing this blamed on a particular dev. What I heard was that someone asked Zwill about it, and Posi responded that certain people would have to stop working for the company before the issue of Power Slide being re-released could ever be brought up.

Now having worked for a few corporations in my time that sounds suspiciously like the type of responses lower level employees get stuck with when people higher up in management makes a "policy" decision and has the pull to keep their name out of circulation even tho the people forced to give the answer know exactly who are responsible.



Oh and I'm all for giving people power slide.

I agree. I was under the impression that War Witch implied that staff would be released before the end of the month.

As others have said welcome back. Hope you're using your old account so you qualify as a Premium if you spent any money on the game before we went F2p.

Yep tried CO and I was just as disappointed as you were.

Hope you like what you see.

Uhm Oh, if you had an SG with storage you should know that you need a VIP as a member to pay base rent. It's one of the account restrictions to encourage people using solo SG's to subscribe.

We know for a fact they aren't because RMT spam became nearly nonexistent after the devs implemented the account restrictions
back in I12. And if they were spending money after Freedom launched we'd be flooded with them spamming Tells and Emails but they aren't. We only see them using Local and /help.

And you can provide incontrovertible evidence that those accounts in those other games being used to advertise weren't hacked accounts or trial accounts.

They didn't spam RMT advertisements on accounts they used to farm. They only spammed using disposable Trial accounts.

No they don't.

No they aren't.

And yet we have not seen or heard of any RMT email abuse for at least 2 years. Yeah obviously not working. <rolls eyes>

If they're using hacked/stolen accounts from their customers why would they need to pay to advertise?


Yep. The restrictions have been proven effective by the (at least) 90% elimination of RMT abuse in this game since I12

I think you meant to say virtually nonexistent. At least in this game.

Fortunately for us the devs aren't putting this up for a vote.

Having actors sign for multiple pictures is a standard clause in movie contracts.

I'm not disagreeing with you luv, just explaining the philosophy they have concerning bases, and how the way we want to use them doesn't mesh with the way they want them to be used.

Which is exactly what they've been telling us since Issue 9 when they explained why they don't allow us to store recipes in bases. Forcing us to craft items or sell them on the market has never been a secret.

Given the chance players hoard as much as possible. We are willing to jump thru hoops to increase our hoarding potential by creating multiple accounts in order to create solo storage bases for salvage. The devs can see how many solo SG's have been made, how many bins are in them, how much stuff is in each bin, and probably how long the stuff has been in the bins.

So yes it is the same thing.

You do realize that those RMTers sell everything right? Inf, Salvage, Enhancements, Recipes, all of it. They also steal from SG's they can manage to get invited into and access to storage bins.

No they can't. RMTers use the F2P accounts and those accounts cannot initiate trades with anyone else nor can anyone trade with them.

The F2P accounts have an inf cap of 25 million, and they can't send emails.

Premium Accounts don't get an increase to their inf cap until they've acquired 2 reward tokens. Then it goes up to 500 million.

5 reward tokens raises the inf cap for Premiums to 1 billion.

And finally 8 reward tokens raises the cap to 2 billion.

That's a financial investment that RMTer's and spammers are unwilling to make on accounts that are going to be banned as soon as they are caught.

That's because you seem to be ignorant of all the restrictions and how they work. You are focusing on one tiny aspect you don't like and not taking everything else that it works in conjunction with into consideration.