Lemur Lad

Yes, because comics r srs bsns, and the fact that someone has a different opinion about a character than you smacks of heresy and the witch must be burned!

Yeah, like I said, no need to take it personally. Just because Aqua Man was your favorite, doesn't mean he was everyone's. Get over it.

I KNOW! But since that isn't who/what I was talking about, it's not really relevant to my point, is it?

It doesn't degrade my play experience. It degrades your play experience. You're asking to do encounters designed around a certain team size that in turn portrays a certain epic aspect not available to a soloist. TFs aren't designed to be groups of 3-4 per spawn, and even if you're willing to forgo rewards to see that, it cheapens it.

Then on top of this, if they did implement your allowance, we'd end up dealing with complaints from people like Ultimo_ who feel that if one character can start something, it should be designed such that one character can complete it.

You may not like being able to do everything at your own pace, but the idea of cheapening the difficulty of a very little content solely for the sake of a few players like yourself would end up having far worse consequences for the game in the long run.

As for the feeling of being rushed when teaming with people, I don't accept your premise that in order to complete TFs in 2 hours they need to be rushed. I completed a Positron with a team of 8 over double xp weekend, and it took 2 and a half hours. That's the second longest TF by most estimates, and we weren't rushing. We weren't killing every mob either, but we weren't trying to break any records. The +5 levels exemplar powers has made nearly all TFs smoother and easier with just 1-2 players above the cap. Not to mention that the exemplar xp rule change makes it even easier to form teams for them.

I like to type in my channels while I play too. That doesn't mean I feel incapable of doing so even when I'm on a Speed TF.

If you really want to solo TFs, you already can. You just need one person to leave an offline alt on the team and some other people willing to pad the start for you. If you're at all determined to play the way you want, you have an option and don't need to have the rules changed, when all the consequences of the recent changes haven't been fully datamined.

Postscript- Thought of an example: They added "Master of" badges to the game, along with enhanced difficulty settings. This very quickly led to people earning those badges on the -1 setting, making the content's difficulty trivial. The devs very quickly shut off the ability to change settings on TFs because of that (and the people getting easy Merits too, but there were multiple reasons).

In other words, the devs are very concerned about the cheapening of the experience, and reducing the amount of rewards isn't sufficient motivation for them to allow it.

1) So? The run to the tram then through King's Row is nearly NPC free.
2) I wasn't talking about Trina. King's Row Door, to Founder's Fall exit, into the canal, swim down to the Icon. Zero exposure to NPCs.
3) I've gotten more +rep and demands to never change it than anything I've ever done. I have another good Avatar lined up, but I gotta appease the fans for a while

See above.

They locked the Day Job badge. You can earn time for it by logging off, but the badge will not award nor will you have the buff power unless you are 35+

Thanks for putting words in my mouth, but I'm not afraid of anything. I just feel in a game that is already 98% soloable, the emphasis should not be on making it 100% soloable for the few people that are incapable of doing a little advance planning or setting aside some extra time to play. Especially since the amount of effort needed and time required is so small.

It's great that they make an effort to keep every type of player happy, but there's a point where a game that's about playing online with other people has to be about that, or why not just make this offline?

We've had that ever since Pocket D opened.

Probably because they got reminded enough times that the rules used to be pinned in every section before the conversion, but were only in Announcements after. They got around to propagating the announcement and then maybe decided to get fancy about the coloration.

[disclaimer- I'm on BaB's side in this issue]

The emo-theatrics weren't necessary Deej. While BaB may not want to do it, that doesn't mean it's the end of the world and your hopes and dreams are crushed. He's one of many, and design choices are made by committee. Of course, considering he's Lead Animator and most of the work would fall on his lap, that means he would have a bigger vote than most anyone except Positron.

Was he flippant? Yeah, that's because he's a funny guy. Does that mean you need to take it personally? No.

Cross faction everything, not just MA. Just because they can't start the Vanguard arcs on their own doesn't mean anything is stopping them from participating with a mixed team running them. Same with a Ship Raid. They'd more than likely be a complete leech, and they wouldn't get bonus VMerits, however theoretically they'd get great xp and credit for the Ship Raid badges.

I don't remember writing that. Sounds like me though.

If it's the bug I'm thinking of, it's actually been around quite a while. If it truly has been fixed, I'm very pleased.

Awesome. Can't wait for beta.

So the fact that your thread was based on faulty information, specious reasoning, and hyperbolic conclusions doesn't deserve -rep? Or the fact that you defended those flawed ideas with a sense of attitude and rudeness that was borderline against the rules doesn't either?

'k

Right there with nothing below them forcing you to scroll down that far if you don't want to.

Subscribe to a few forum sections and those will be perma listed, forcing the nasty horrible comments that you can't look away from with a prybar out of view.

Or, you know, just not look.

Not in official content, but I have an arc with him in it.

All New environmental textures, new rules for lighting, shadows, reflections (on costumes and environment), and water. No radical reworking of the character models themselves, from what I saw.

Yeah, we already know how players feel when an MA change means they have to go back and edit all their arcs to work, I'm sure the devs wouldn't super enjoy going back through 5 years of content to do the same. Ah well, that's what summer interns are for. Bring in the flunky!