Goliath Bird Eater

Actually, I say "y'all" all the time (I'm a South Carolinian, originally); it's just much more prevalent in my speech than in my writing.

Yeah, being an American living in England and having traveled through a good portion of the UK, I still give the nod to my American Indian ancestors for unpronounceable place names.

And really, is it that big of a deal that we spell or pronounce things differently? Or are some people just looking for ways to keep these forums "Us vs. Them"?

Geez, P_P ... tell us how you really feel.

That was a begrudging poke, Athy. But I'll take what I can get.

Exactly.

If the GR closed beta is going to be run like a real closed beta, as I suspect it will, the first group of testers will be looking at huge chunks of content not being there, big bugs out the wazoo, and maybe even limited, scheduled, playtimes. As a 60+ month vet, I'm not looking toward the GR closed beta and saying "Oh goody goody gumdrops, this will be great!"; I'm looking toward the GR closed beta and saying "There's gonna be a lot of work for me to do."

Yet another reason to come out of retirement and make new trailers. You'd be the Green Rep Goddess.

Do you know me? No? Then how about you refrain from doing stupid stuff like calling me an "elite 'play the game my way'" type of person, hmm? I have no problem with people using the MA. As long as they're not using exploits, they can level as fast as they want to. But I have come across people who honestly don't know that there's more to this game than just Atlas Park, and I have heard people say that that there's nothing to do in the game, after they've gone from 1 to 50 in a week or so - and I'm being very generous there - courtesy of exploits present in the MA. People who are bored with a game usually quit playing that game. Yes, user numbers are up currently, but what will the numbers look like over time? Will we keep those people who do nothing but run MA farms and get board after a week or two? I thought that the devs might have the foresight to not include the MA in double xp weekend, and gave a reason why I thought they might. No elitism from me.

So, in the future, before you make another smug little comment like the one above, why don't you just think about it, then just keep your mouth shut?

For one, only enabling double xp outside of the AE would possibly be an enticing enough carrot to get some people out of there and experience some of the game's other content, thereby showing them that there's more to it than just one building in Atlas Park. Upon realizing this, maybe they'd no longer find themselves bored and would stay around longer, increasing the subscription numbers in a meaningful way, as well as extending the long-term revenue generated by the game.

Lots of hypotheticals, yes. But it's better than turning the AE into a double-speed PLing machine for three days, churning out new players who leave after a few weeks because they think that's all there is to the game.

• Aside from licensing the game engine to Paragon Studios, Cryptic has nothing to do with this game anymore.
• NCSoft has upgraded server capacity ... several times, in fact!
• It may be neither your PC nor the game servers. It could very well be some point between the two that is responsible for your lag. Have you tried running a traceroute? I'm currently connecting to the North American servers from the Eastern coast of England, and I haven't been experiencing any noticeable increases in lag.
• It's double xp weekend right now. The most populous servers (Freedom, Virtue, and Infinity) are likely to be very full. This could cause lag.
• No servers are empty. The devs are not going to merge servers anytime soon. It is not necessary, since the numbers for this game are actually going up (according to The Ocho/Mod8 at Comic-Con).

Somebody else, please feel free to take the rest of the post. I'm going to bed.

Very constructive feedback. I'm sure the community team has reached many new insights thanks to this enlightening post.

Whole thing's pointless, which is why I'm in favor of disabling it

User CP > Last reputation received. Should see a red dot where I gave you negative rep to demonstrate that rep isn't just used to vote people up. Might need to click on the + in order to expand it.

It pretty much is the same thing, as far as outcome. The intent of the Quick Reply box was to allow users to post something it they didn't want or need to go into their full text editor. But having the "click to use" feature enabled more or less takes away the point. Once again: hopefully, the admins will disable that feature when they're making further tweaks to board functionality. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*

Check your profile

It's not uncommon for players on the North American servers to play both sides to some degree. And besides that, it's a closed beta: they tell you what testing goals they have, you go out and test them. If you're just there to sight-see and play around with new stuff early, you probably shouldn't take part in the closed beta.

And this can be prevented by the admins either installing a [spoiler] code so that you don't have to load the pic unless you want to see it, or by forcing all images beyond certain dimensions to automatically scale down into a thumbnail version which expands to full size when clicked upon. Easy peasy.

Except for the fact that if you keep your account active from August to November, you still get to be in on the GR closed beta. What's more, you get to be in on it when it's hopefully not as broken and incomplete as it will be when the 60+ vets get to see it.

I actually addressed someone else who brought this point up, so neener!

Yeah, Quick Reply can be set to not require the click. The only possible downside is that it might make the Threaded and Hybrid board modes a little screwy. But this day and age, why bother with those two modes anyways?

With any luck, it'll be among the many little tweaks, fixes, and additions that still need to be made to the board.

The Quick Reply box is just a feature of vBulletin. Since we're used to having to type (QR) thanks to UbbThreads' limited functionality, the Quick Reply box is kinda redundant. Since the quote system on this board inserts the name of the user you're quoting into the quote, the "New Reply" button pretty much serves the same purpose as the Quick Reply box.