Ironblade

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  1. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

    A guy I used to work with came up with that. (shrug) He was from Missouri.
  2. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    I want someone to lend me a truck next weekend so I can pick-up my sewing table without wrestling it into the back of my car.

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    I would, but you live in Toadsuck, Arkansas or somewhere equally remote.
  3. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    I'm pleased its Friday. Tomorrow I go out and buy a new quilting table, which I've needed for quite a while.

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    Quilting requires a special table?
  4. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    I have a crate I can't open till doomsday. At least that's what I think it says, my Aramaic is rusty.

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    Maybe it says that doomsday will come when you open it. Why don't you open it now, to check.
  5. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    ::Hands Raiden a box that says "Friday" Do not open till tomorrow."::

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    That's just cruel...

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    The worst part is, it's a quantum box. It may, or may not, have Friday in it.
  6. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

    I like the Robot Chicken version: Your taste buds can't repel flavor of this magnitude!
  7. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

    If I recall correctly, weren't you one of the people who caught me in the 'Egg Hunt phase 2 - catch the bunnies' portion?
  8. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

    Shouldn't that be spelled "haz"?
  9. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    There is an Easter Egg hunt?

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    I think PCSAR runs it. I've found an egg 3 years in a row.

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    Oh, big man! Found 3 eggs! :P

    Yes, PCSAR does an Easter Egg hunt every year (so far). FYI, I am unique in the history of the Easter Egg hunts. I am the only person so far to have *FOUND* an egg and *BEEN* an egg. (i.e. I found an egg in the hunt the year before I joined the SG.)
  10. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    I like to get up 30 minutes before Mr. Sins so I have some time to myself to start the day with. On the weekends, he stays up much later than I do, so I have some private time even when I sleep in until 7 am.

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    Did you just use the words "weekend", "sleep in" and "7 AM" in the same sentence???
  11. Okay, it's certainly possible to fail the ITF. The Statesman TF is even easier to fail. I just had the impression that you were talking about doing a whole range of different TF's and failing 80% of them. The earlier TF's are a walk in the park compared to some of the newer ones.

    As for the times being skewed, (shrug) they are what they are. The ITF gives 28 merits which means an 84 minute median time. I don't think my SG has EVER done it that fast. Hurrying isn't fun and we don't care about 'merits per hour'.
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    im about at an 80%failure rate on tfs with an 8 man team. successfully completed about 3 out of 22-24 tfs gone on.this is what i call casual gaming. if its better than this pros are involved.
    but some people talk about a better average times, my best itf is over 2 hours,with some ghosting involved. the times i see listed are nowhere near attainable by anyone i game with.

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    I routinely do ITF's that take between 2 and 2-1/2 hours. I don't believe in 'speed runs'. I don't think they're fun.

    But I don't understand how you can be failing so many TF's. The vast majority of them aren't that hard. Do you mean having to quit due to time constraints or real life interfering? Failing 80% of TF's isn't 'casual gaming'. Many casual players don't do TF's because they can't commit that amount of time in one sitting, but when they do, casual players and pick-up groups can complete almost every TF in the game.
  13. The part where you said you fail almost every TF you do.

    And you didn't get 9/10ths of the way through the TASK FORCE. You got 0/4ths of the way through it.
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    so could not complete. so we failed, happens almost everytime i go on a tf so nothing new there.

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    I don't see how that is even remotely possible.
    However, to answer your question, if you quit a TF during the first mission that would result in 0 merits awarded. There is a sliding scale where you can get partial merits for partial completion (I don't recall the details), but quitting the first mission = zero completed.


    P.S. The TF contact is Katie Hannon. Katie Holmes is married to Tom Cruise.
  15. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

    Only when you want things to stay together. A sledgehammer takes care of the other times.
  16. Ironblade

    Happy Monday....

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    So this is what I'd use on my bowling shirt.


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    It's Barbarella!
  17. I got her point, I just disagree with it. She said: "That is me analyzing exactly what happened." Okay, exactly what happened? A buff. A 26% increase. All the narrative text in the world doesn't change that. She's predicting a future nerf and complaining about it now.
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    I am looking at what happened too. They increased the merit reward for task forces from 1 per 5 minutes to 1 per 3 minutes, right? Overall, that basically means going from 12/hour to 20/hour. Or roughly a 40% global increase.

    But the increase wasn't 40%. It was 26%. Why? Because of the punitive nature of the system and the fact that the better we get, the worse off we'll be. We are already seeing that by virtue of the fact that the 40% global bonus lost about 40% of itself before it could even come into play.

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    No, you're focusing on the explanation, which is really just noise. They saw an increase was necessary, came up with a good story, and implemented it.


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    So tell me what logically happens if there is an 0% global increase to go along with times getting cut.

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    What happens if another global increase gets implemented?
    What happens if rewards are increased on a case by case basis?
    What if?
    What if?

    You're predicting a future event and complaining about it in advance. This thread isn't to discuss the patch of May 14, 2009.
  19. (shrug) I don't have a crystal ball. I'm just looking at the situation based on what has actually happened, rather than trying to guess the future.
  20. OMG! u r cross-posting the same message in 3 forums!
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    I'm sorry to disagree, but that isn't what he said at all. This is what he said:

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    The short answer is that more people run them and find faster ways of completing these tasks.This in turn changes the average completion time substantially.

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    Without even going into specific arcs and what can or cannot be done or how times can be shortened, this implies that in the future as other arcs are run and people "... find faster ways of completing these tasks...," the rewards will also be cut progressively. Hence, excellence in play will be punished, while mediocrity, ie, those arcs that cannot be effectively sped up for whatever reason will be rewarded by disproportionately high rewards.

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    The FACTS contradict you. Ignore the explanatory text and look at the actual changes. Overall, merit rewards were increased (by 26%, FYI).
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    mission completion should award merits.story arcs need to award at least 20, all recipes need to be for sale for merits, 5-10 yellow , 10-15 orange, 15-20 purp. my opinion. haters will be ignored.

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    Can we disagree without being a "hater"? Story arcs to award at least 20 merits and purples to cost 15-20 merits? You know that's ludicrous, right?
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    No Im not telling everyone to get a clue just one

    fyi last time i will answer one of your posts

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    Fine with me.


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    m not saying your wrong, but how come there are diff amounts of items for sell on diff servers. On justice I can buy just about anything i want if i have the inf, but go to like pinn and if im lucky some of the stuff is avalable?

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    We can't explain the apparent discrepancy without further details. Perhaps you were checking at different times of day, items in different level ranges, or perhaps villain vs hero (the hero and villain markets are separate). Rest assured, though, all the server markets ARE connected.
  24. OMG! Are you saying the person telling us to get a clue doesn't know how the markets work??? Doom!
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    The game is in big trouble right now. Subs are down, the economy is bad, and lots of people are not that happy with how they are being "lissened to" by the dev team. The worst part is there are servers that are basicly dead.

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    I see five statements here.
    1) false
    2) true or false depending on how you frame it
    3) true
    4) false
    5) false

    Your accuracy is either 20% or 40%, depending on how you 'slant' your analysis for statement number two.