Hyperstrike
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Quote:Also, I didn't say you did. Just said you shouldn't ever try it with me as it wouldn't work.Originally Posted by Flux_Vector
... I didn't make a threat, dude.
I think I'm going to have to build an image file that blinks (GENERIC YOU). -
Quote:Okay, as you're the author of the original post that it was a reply to, and you've now read the response, I'll pull it.Originally Posted by Flux_Vector
... I didn't make a threat, dude. I'm too small nerdy and out of shape to reliably beat up anything more threatening than a twelve year old anyway. You may wanna put the keyboard down and go have a few beers instead. Also, I too advise removing your information and/or contacting a moderator to have it removed from anyone who might quote it.
What I was doing is giving an example. An analogy.
The LFG tool is a system that pushes unwanted guests onto other peoples' parties and now some people are both surprised and angry that those people are kicking them out. -
Quote:Nope. Merely making a point.Originally Posted by baron_inferno
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WTF?
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Quote:There's no proper way to give you an appropriate answer that this forum will allow.Originally Posted by MunkiLord
I saved the address! Now I need your last name and year of birth. I want to go shopping!
Plus, I'm not even sure that it'd be anatomically possible.
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Quote:Unfortunately while I wouldn't mind Texas, and could do most of my work remotely, my employers expect me to be on-site at least some of the time.Originally Posted by MunkiLord
Hyperstrike, we should switch homes during the summer. Texas is too hot and you have a golf course, pool, and tennis courts! Google is awesome.
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Quote:Your point stands, mostly, for primary zone instances. It does, however, break down for ancillary instances of the same zone.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
The quote was dealing with instanced vs non. So, to put this politely:
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Quote:Okay if you're given a situation by an agency you cannot control, do you punish someone else because of that?Originally Posted by MunkiLord
How does that comparison even begin to make sense? And if you're making statements like that, how could somebody be reasonably expected take you and your opinion seriously?
Now I'm going to wax didactic again here. I asked a rhetorical question, I did NOT make a statement. I did not imply that this person kicked their dog or beats their wife. -
Quote:Originally Posted by MunkiLord
Or you could kick your dog and beat your wife!
Good point! Let me follow up on that.
*FWOOSH!*
Damn, missed the dog because I don't have one. OW.
Okay, the wife gets it now!
Crap. Single. I wonder why...
Oh yeah, face not even a mother xenomorph could love.
Stymied at every turn!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
You know - and coming from me, this is quite the statement, I know - I think you need to back off and cool down. You're reading a lot of aggression where there is none.
I'd also suggest, given this is a public forum, removing your private information. Should you care to PM it to them, go ahead, just don't leave it out publicly.
In short, whether he intended it or not, that's exactly what his post was though.
I simply choose to diffuse it by supplying him the information requested and allowing HIM to choose whether or not to be an actual aggressor. -
Quote:Please see my response to his threat.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Beat me to it.
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Quote:Thing is, the notes feature doesn't allow me to deprive someone of a trial they've already entered.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Exactly. And you wouldn't be griefing him if you did it. That's what the notes feature is for. A tool that let's you screen the people you meet in the game so you can play with people you like and avoid the people you don't like.
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Quote:*Address pulled as Flux got his read on*Originally Posted by Flux_Vector
When and where is your next birthday party? You can't refuse to answer, either.
I'll go buy some beer. And you're more than welcome to come out. Won't be much of a party though. I'm fairly asocial offline. Hence, no parties since I'd be the only one there.
It's also the middle of the work week this year. So I'll probably be at work (and they don't throw parties there either).
I'll also be recovering from GenCon too, so I won't be all that sociable.
You COULD look on my GenCon M&G as a party though. You're more than welcome to come on out to Indy. Hell, if you're of age, I'll even buy you a beer. -
Quote:I could quite convincingly make the same accusation.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
You assume much. And are wrong in doing so.
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Quote:I will post exactly what I said, with a bit of highlighting to prove that you didn't really read what I said. You merely reacted to it.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
No tantrums.
Perhaps YOU have them. I don't know you. I do not.
Again. Stop assuming. If you're talking wrong, you're doing it from vast experience at this time.
In short, this was NOT an attack upon you. Merely an observation of the phenomenon itself.Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I'm sorry, but you're about as wrong as possible on this as can be without imploding into a singularity of wrong.
Life threw you a curve ball. Instead of simply playing the game, you (generic you) had a tantrum and booted someone who only wants to play the damn game.
Simply because the universe didn't align itself to your will. -
Quote:The point is cogent and stated unambiguously so we don't barrel off on another tangent arguing what is and is not "semantics". On top of that, it's quite to the point and leaves no "wiggle room".Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Completely uncalled for. Be better than that.
Simply because you find it difficult to answer such a question without contradicting your POV doesn't mean I'm the one being dishonest or underhanded here. -
Quote:Or what you see as an error is simply the intent of the devs and they simply don't agree with you.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
The error I see, and which we apparently won't agree on, is that I see that as an outstandingly obvious error by the development team. One in need of being fixed.
In short, because it's inconvenient, you'll ignore it. Even though the devs EXPRESSLY stated that the LFG queue was intended to work thus.Quote:(And I also refuse to take "It's developer intent..." as anything close to a persuasive argument on this. -
Quote:I'm sorry, but you're about as wrong as possible on this as can be without imploding into a singularity of wrong.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
That is not "taking it out on" another player.
Life threw you a curve ball. Instead of simply playing the game, you (generic you) had a tantrum and booted someone who only wants to play the damn game.
Simply because the universe didn't align itself to your will. -
Quote:Has a dev confirmed this or are you assuming? Do you KNOW for a fact that the instance of a zone is still active and running if nobody's in there? Or does the server tear down the instance until someone loads in (like secondary, tertiary, etc instances of the same zone)?Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
The Hive exists (or is maintained by the server) whether anyone's in it or not.
Wow. Schrödinger's Zone...
*HEADSPLODY*
Okay good point about zone events.Quote:So is the RWZ. So is every other "real" (I'm going to use that versus the upcoming "instanced' reference) zone - if nobody's there, Adamastor still spawns in DA, the fires still break out in Steel Canyon and the like. And I do put SG bases in this, as the power/control state is monitored and held constant despite occupancy status. -
Quote:League maps are "population limited" too.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Semantics. WHich you're using poorly.
The hive and mothership raids are *population limited* - like every OTHER zone. They are not created specifically for the event. They exist whether it's going on or not, as far as the server's concerned - much like Founders Falls, Nerva, Dark Astoria and the like. They are not, in that definition, "Instanced."
The BAF and Lambda ARE. Just like every (non-hunt/talk-to) mission. They are created specifically for that one event/mission - thus, instanced.
More than 24 or 16 does not "lock" Lambda sector. I can't walk into Lambda sector on my own - it does not exist WITHOUT an ongoing raid.
Their population controls vary slightly from city zones sure. But you can't bring 25 people into a BAF or 17 people into a Lambda. -
Quote:No. It's the devs telling you that the expectation of playing ONLY with your small clique of friends is an ABERRATION.Originally Posted by Flux_Vector
It the devs truly don't want us to be able to play with our friends and only our friends in the incarnate system, then it's their fault when we kick people out for being added against our will in a trial group we formed and organized ourselves ahead of time. It's not our fault that we're doing the best we can despite their, frankly, idiotic design decision here.
Quote:I had no idea that locked leagues weren't an intended feature. It flabbergasts me to think that any designer with two brain cells to rub together wouldn't realize people don't want to have teammates forced on them under any circumstances. Edit - we put up with it in non-instanced raids because we have to and we recognize everyone's right to be in public areas. Instanced areas by definition aren't public ones. We have an expectation of selectivity in who we play with in them.
I can sum up locked leagues thusly:
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Quote:No. But booting someone who's already in the trial through the random queue IS.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
People wanting to team with their friends isn't asshattery.
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Quote:The fact that we're talking about a league leader booting an innocent random add kinda does.Originally Posted by Rylas
Did someone say there should be an expectation?
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Quote:Sure it is!Originally Posted by BrandX
o.O It wasn't greifing.
The League Leader made a team with 15 other people for their BAF, they started it, the game then said "Here's another."
It's no more griefing than a star holder kicking someone off a STF for, for example, not using their powers and just being a waste of space.
Bad example by the way.
A team leader kicking someone for non-participation is QUITE different from a league leader kicking someone simply for being a random add. The first one is, the league leader isn't even granting the random add a CHANCE to participate. -
Quote:I wouldn't go that far. Because the turnstile system doesn't care a whit about team or league balance, it's possible to enter a trial that way with a group that's completely unsuitable for successfully completing.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Actually it probably would have been better if they didn't allow premade leagues to enter the Queue at all. That way everyone would have to enter the queue and take what they get.
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Quote:Sure they do. Just like I have the right to one star them for being a jerk to someone who did nothing wrong.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yes they do.