I Burnt The Toast

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

What known issue? I haven't logged in today yet.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

You don't LIKE the stuff, and WON'T use it. Not CAN'T...WON'T.

Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades

I have never done a Raid on WoW could not stand the game.

I am a very long time gamer - literally from the day of 300 baud modems. I played text adventures, Elite, Dungeon Master, Half Life, TFC, Soldier of Fortune 1&2 and a ton of games in between.

I have a squad of cheerleaders constantly reminding me that the reason DA solo missions have terrible rewards is because Trials are HARD.

In the Baf in 20 seconds I figured out how to slow the prisoners to a crawl and I had never set foot in the zone. I figured out that getting on the boxes means I am away from the blue AoE splash and never died - I was spamming my attacks as a good blaster should and only needed 3 greens to heal even though I was outside of the healing shield area.

In the Lam I mostly had to battle the lag inside and died when I froze in the middle of a large group. I again reply these are NOT hard. They require an orchestration that says do this now - and in fact they scream at you in huge letters what to do. I was there the first time on Champion that 150 of us defeated Hamidon.

I help plan and work for MONTHS to figure him out. Marut was the genius and we were the grunts. I died literally hundreds of times on my tank as we studied Hamidon. It was research and it was HARD.

The untyped damage and no protection from it.
The monster spawns and our SG - Sin - running monster duty.
The sniper squads.
The healing shields.
Learning the order of defeat and the damage required to overcome the Mitos.

On the day we defeated Hamidon without gimmicks in a straight in your face fight - I became Incarnate. The game can hand that out now if they want to but when me and 149 of my friends kicked Hamidons *** after months of planning - that was hard.

Marut, Dynamite, Acemace, CC, Addie, Zarok and so many others who worked so hard for so long - on that day we became gods. I didn't need a level shift to know it and those first Hami O's - even though I gave away my first one because of the poor delivery system and some were shorted - was sweet.

So please when you tell me something is hard - have a little perspective. These trials are trivial. I ran with our Sin SG a nightly Respec team that would Guarantee anyone they would get a Respec even when it was bugged and could randomly spawn +6 Freaks in the reactor room.

Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit

That's when they would have been given a 1-star along with a note to not ever team with again and a swift kick on their bottom to get them on their merry way.

Thanks for playing boo!

Originally Posted by DarkGob

Yeah, and I'm not okay with "buying randomness". (In before "then don't buy them".) I have no intention of buying them, and if there were no exclusive items to the packs I'd be content to ignore them entirely, but it still bothers me that they're trying to draw people into buying them with this sort of thing. It's almost as if they know people wouldn't bother with them if there was nothing locked behind them.

Originally Posted by BlackArua

A server where a Infinity, Exiled, Freedom, or Etc player can jump on to and interact with players from other servers. Even start fights with groups from other servers. PvP Players happen have a special place where they can go kick booty. The Small number on the servers warrants it. Multi versus server where a Infinity play can play with a exiled without transferring there chars or having start a new char. and make the gains less on the milti server like 25% what they are on home servers.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

The difference is that when you bought those you knew what you were getting and you knew how much it cost. Not the case anymore.

Originally Posted by Deathless

Welcome to Freedom where you gotta pay to win.

Originally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater

The other obvious answer: Most of the weekly Ustreams are recorded and are available for viewing at your leisure fairly soon after they're finished.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

We add to SG bases as time allows. over the last 2 Issues we've made some decent QOL improvements (More easily manipulation of objects in the designer and increased nodes on the telepads) and we'll most likely do more as we're able to.

When it comes to bases we tread very lightly. It's a legacy system which takes a significant amount of time to reverse engineer any time we want to do *anything* to it. Because player bases are tied to it, and subsequenty a significant investment of your time, anything we do is going to be done in a methodical and cautious manner.



It's not on a schedule right now but it's a feature we know is wanted.



As Tunnel Rat has said both on Ustream and her all things art thread, she's investigated it. I don't know if she's scoped out the amount of time it would take or if it's been approved by production, however the FX team has done more than just nod gratuitously at it.



Stock Synapse answer every time he's on Ustream (he'll be there again this Wed): If it's within reason it will eventually be proliferated. It's just a matter of time.



We're adding new maps every issue, including a new cave map with Issue 21 and (I think) another in 22.



No.



No. We know people want it, however right now it poses to much of a risk from a customer service standpoint. It's very easily exploitable by RMT'rs and opens us up to untold amounts of fraud.



Yes, although I do not expect a fix in the immediate future.



The current Market interface doesn't support this. We do not have direct control over this. I imagine there's other concerns such as performance and how much real estate this would take up in the interface, but that's between our vendors and the graphic designers.

Don't forget you can always preview costume parts in the costume creator which will let you jump directly to it in the market if you don't own it. This feature was added in Issue 21 to accomodate players seeing items before they purchase them.



If you've seen how frequently we're putting out Power Sets these days, you know that the likelihood of this happening is probably better now than it has been in the past. We have some plans for defensive based secondaries/primaries, however I cannot say what AT's they're for at this point.



The devs spend a lot of time answering concerns and responding in the beta forums. This is the content they're currently working on and thus requires the most direct interaction. When they have time they answer questions in the non beta forums, but that is less frequent.

Keep in mind that I do a Ustream broadcast every week. Each Wednesday at 10:30 AM Pacific you can join us and ask your questions in real time as we usually have a developer stop by and chat for awhile. We always dedicate the last 15-20 minutes to Q&A and we rarely shy away from any questions, so long as they're asked in a respectful and non trollish manner. We also record and archive each episode, so as long as you don't mind sitting through a bit of tangenting, there's usually some decent information to glean from them on a weekly basis.

On a broader scope: If we can provide a more detailed answer, we will. If we can answer it, but only in general terms, we will. It's my belief that it's just as important to acknowledge a concern or a request as it is to provide a specific detail regarding it which is why we will always acknowledge a question as a known quantity when it's appropriate for us to do so.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

*Inserts comment regarding how Freedom Friday's target audience isn't the veteran players and forum goers, but rather players who have been away from the game and/or new players.*

Facebook is a great way for us to hit people who don't regularly hit the forums but check FB daily. We definitely appreciate the enthusiasm you are all showing for these weekly Q&A sessions, just remember that they're more focused on answer questions for people new to the game or who may be interested .