Lemur Lad

You have a one month gap in posts. If GG meant welcome back to the forums, you were indeed gone.

There have been comments in the past that have implied that they may in fact have run the script on trial accounts that were never paid on, and done without the usual warnings. I don't have an issue with that. Someone who never invested in the game shouldn't get the same consideration as anyone who paid, even for just a couple of months.

God, getting killed by a car at level 40 was embarassing.

Actually I was thinking they wouldn't drop at all. And yes, they wouldn't interact with existing Inspires. Similar to Empowerment Buffs, they would be crafted, or maybe bought with merits, tickets, or Bounty points (if they were PvP Inspires).

If my value did in fact come from those things, then a unique name should be more important to me than less, especially since two of those things involve relating to other people. Anything that increases the chance that my feats and skills will be confused with someone else means that they immediately get genericized. I'm not the Lemur Lad people ask to team, or the one they ask questions, I MIGHT be that one, or I MIGHT be the one people avoid like the plague. Or someone who goes to find me may find someone impersonating me by mistake and I may end up getting blamed for things I didn't do or say.

What I really value is feeling secure. A system that makes it easier for people to spoof or be spoofed does not add to that.

That's a nice little story, but interesting in that while it's what was going on in the forum at the time, it has almost nothing to do with why the section got moved and why it's where it is.

Since the committee is no more, I feel like I can talk a bit about what happened now. If I'm wrong, Ocho or Niv can edit my post, and it won't bother me in the least.

Part of the way Ex Libris and Lighthouse got things done was to gather small groups of players for specific topics and set up a private section that let them have discussions and feedback without the full hurly burly of the open forum. PERC, PvPEC, and the City Scoop are all examples of this. However the starting point for it all was the Forum Planning Committee. A small group of players that discussed ideas for making the forums better. Most of the other committees came from ideas we kicked around in there. We didn't have secret powers, we didn't get people banned, we mainly pointed out things that were good about the forums and found ways to boost them, and found things that weren't so good and tried to fix them.

Probably our biggest failure was the S&I forum. Long before the events quoted by Sigium, we noticed the change in tone here. Things flat out weren't as nice as they used to be. The negativity had a lot to do with many many posters, not just a few bad apples. We came up with a lot of possible solutions, and it's mainly coincidence that things were getting as bad as the quote above happened around the same time we were discussing things.

Based on what we'd been kicking around Ex Libris came up with her plan, and posted it here. A large (really large) number of players saw a more formalized process as interference. They really really did not want their toy taken away. Some saw it as a form of forum PvP. They liked shooting down ideas. They didn't even take the opportunity Ex gave them to help form the new version of the forum, they just got very very nasty about any changes.

So it was made clear, that the occasional good idea wasn't worth the aggravation to the mods or the people who wanted the tone of the discussion to improve. The section got moved from Player Help to For Fun! and that's where we are today. Don't for a moment think that doesn't mean it's unread and unseen by the devs though. They do see a good portion of what's said. The key is, you can't expect responses, and you can't expect a dialogue. They simply don't have time in their workday to interface with thousands of players.

So what can we as players do? The simple fact is, bad ideas still float, good ideas still sink. If you really want to see the profile of the section change, you need to make a personal choice to contribute and discuss the good ideas, and don't get wrapped up in arguing about the bad ones. Do more than just bump good threads, or say I like this, or I agree. Sit and think and put in a portion of the time the OP put into the good post, and add some feedback.

The FPC is gone, and until Paragon hires a new Community Manager, we probably won't see major changes to the forum structure and practices. It's great to see some people still feel like this section could be a lot more than it is. However don't treat it as an Us v Them situation, and the devs don't listen, realize that it's your fellow players who are largely responsible for the way things are.

Let's complete the list of things that work to pop buried mobs, since we keep missing some:

1) someone within aggro range (lowbie character)
2) damage aura
3) drop power (location targeted AoE)
4) taunt aura
5) any debuff or mezz aura
6) combat pets
7) veteran buff pets

anything I missed?

I got Working Class Hero and Luddite Overlord just last week. There are plenty of good names to be had out there.

I think he means things to do in game.