Lemur Lad

Because on a standard contact story arc, there's no way to measure who was there since the beginning. Do an arc until the last mission, invite 7 others, do last mission, pass along merits they didn't earn. If 8 people run arcs then mutually join each other's teams for the finale, you get 8 arcs worth of merits in the amount of time it takes to do one arc.

In Ouroboros, you can invite people for the beginning, and have them logoff until the finale, but at the least that character is locked into the arc until it's complete. In order to pull the same stunt, you'd have to use 8 different characters on 8 different teams, much less efficient logistically speaking, and the rewards are spread over 8 characters and nontradeable.

Better to ask why it's more unfair to someone with Def than it is to any non squishy. The protective set you have is completely irrelevant if you are working on a damage badge via the accepted method of getting hit while Resting, since Rest negates them. Since that's the case, it's the ATs with fewest hit points that lose out, since they have a much lower threshold for damage throughput.

Bring Purples and learn timing, Nosferatu is a fun challenge.

Taking advantage of the reports filed by people who went before you isn't cheating. This is how humans made it everywhere on the planet. We all had to find these markers on our own once, and kindly we left the info behind for others so that they wouldn't have to look for hours.

Whether or not you take advantage of that or not is up to you. You could simply work to figure it out on your own, like a lot of people have.

Supergroup accomplishments are measured by things done in SG mode. I'm sorry you think it's silly, but if it weren't done that way, as soon as the character who had the badges that granted the beacon left an SG, they'd lose it.

If the rules change such that the aspect that made it rulebreaking is no longer relevant or even possible, there's no reason NOT to unban it.

I know you're big on story above all but jeez, it's a simulator. Let people use it as such to test their abilities if the choose, and their intent is not to gain undue rewards.

Clicking where the little blue Click Here hand appears doesn't seem counter intuitive to me.

It's not that they're impossible to play, it's that they don't rank very well on the Satisfaction Curve for most people. If you don't expect a lot from them, you won't be disappointed.

Things you've been wrong about since the OP:
1) You have a right to ask, not demand.
2) just because trial accounts can email doesn't mean that's the only way spam is sent.
3) as I said before, if you'd looked or asked you'd have learned a solution is already on the way and there's no need to implement further restrictions on trial accounts.
4) you leave the strong implication that not solving this problem means the devs are stupid.
5) you overstate the difficulty and scope of the problem and the amount of use the email system got even before spam. Hyperbole doesn't make your case.

Really, I don't want drama. The fact that you keep posting in such an inflammatory way shows you think it's fun or will solve your issue more effectively, even though it's already solved.

Final Tip: you seem as if your feelings have been hurt by the way people responded to you. Don't take the forums personally, and don't start from an emotional position, and people won't be as likely to come down on you.

I have a level 50 EM/EA brute, and I'd say you don't see them often because they play like scrappers more than most other brutes, and thus don't meet the expectations of people on teams who want a brute to tank.

Typed Defenses were really hard to improve on before the Halo changes were made to IO bonuses, and that helps a lot though. So does Darkest Night in the Ghost Widow pool. My EA brute went from minor annoyance to zomg fun pretty quickly once I paid him some attention after those changes.

Though I still wouldn't mind getting Energize instead of CP, like Elec did.

*shrug* just because you were right about one thing, doesn't mean you were right about the other stuff. The entire thread would have been better served if you'd either done a bit of looking before posting, or used this section of the forum as intended and come here asking if any changes were coming instead of trying to whip up support for your crusade.

"Is anything going to be done about spam emails?"

"Yes. Issue 16 has some cool filter options and it's due on Live in the near future"

Much less drama, see?

Also it should be noted that if you have some time, selling salvage on the Market can be more lucrative than selling to NPC vendors.

As for my personal salvage choices, I keep rares unless I know they're not needful, and I sell Uncommons and Commons unless I know they're called for often in recipes I plan to make and are harder to come by.

Really it helps to have a general plan, instead of keeping things "in case"

I make enhancers at level 12 (lvl 15 IOs are better than DOs) and at level 32 (lvl 35 IOs are better than SOs 4/5 of the time and last me until 50). From there and knowing the character and powers you have, you can come up with a kind of shopping list by looking up what the recipes you will need will take. That's a little more work than I tend to put in lately, but it works well.

After that, you can sell anything not on the list, and when the time comes, buy anything you still haven't gotten yet.

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