Lemur Lad

So you admit you're offtopic and trolling? Cool.

Target them and right click, or target them and select the little menu header under your target window.

Conjecture Time (but not too far afield): Aforementioned person plays the game rarely. He drifts into AE and gets a bunch of easy levels. He gets influence, tickets, experience. One of the people he meets gives him some bad info about enhancers. He blows a chunk of his cash on the wrong ones. Someone else tells him to use Wentworth's where it's VERY easy to overpay without a working knowledge. He either blows his tickets on the wrong enhancers or recipes he then doesn't have Salvage to make.

He could have found the SO store but bought what he needed one level before it went Red.

He could in fact be lazy. I don't discount that for a second.

There are a lot of things that could have happened to him, and it's easy for me to imagine them. I do understand most of your points, since I'm actually very similar. I don't hand out inf to beggars, and I have a low tolerance for stupidity. However it doesn't cost me anything to point someone in the right direction to a more productive path.

I'm really not trying to chastise you about anything Sam. I just have a hard time seeing where you're coming from with a post like this. I do indeed sit here and try to put myself in your shoes for a bit and figure out why. It's just that the list of reasons I come up with more often reflect bad things than good. I don't know you, and I don't pretend to, but if I see a thread that looks like it could be:
A) AE rant #45339
B) a thread picking on the slow newb
C) someone who has a real hard time seeing the person on the other side of the screen.

Then you'll have to forgive me if I make a mistake based on the way things are written, because C is the least likely option for me. I have just as many problems understanding people as anyone else, it just seems odd to me that someone as smart as you really can't climb out of your own experience with the game and see how someone new could end up clueless.

Poor attempt at twisting what I said. It's now a world where Force Fields aren't laughed at, where there's more than Fire Tanks, Fire Blasters, and Empaths leading teams, where even sets that don't perform the best out of the box can be given a Wow factor by a player that really loves it, and they can go out and have an awesome time without people making them feel stupid for playing the "wrong" build/powerset/AT.

It's also a world where you can play right along side the person with the uber slotting and still contribute really well even if you only have SOs.

I count the coming to the forums to rail over a simple fact of human nature as part of flying off the handle.

Let's set your setting the record straight even straighter shall we?

The nerfs you speak of adjusted everyone, but mostly they brought severely overperforming sets down out of the stratosphere so that everyone was about the same.

What IOs have done is give everyone more power and options, so that the number of viable and fun builds that can be tweaked to high levels of performance is much wider than it was in the bad old days.

Bottom Line: if you feel those old nerfs unfairly hindered you, you were probably unfairly ahead of the pack. If you feel that IOs are only bringing things back to where they were, you need to look at the people around you, because there is a lot more variety at the top of the heap than there used to be.

If you can't see that as better for the game, I'm sorry.

You really need to avoid loaded terms like "give up on" and "swept under the rug" They're basically inflammatory and show you don't really understand the process.

It got taken off the Known Issues list because that's how the development process works. Known Issues is for issues in the current build they're working on and relates to obvious issues they know about and don't need people reporting.

The Issue with backpacks is it's not a fixable bug without extensive work on both the way Crab powers were built and the Dual Build system is set up. In order to make a backpack that was on all the time and not just when you activated powers, they had to build it into the guts of the AT based on the branch you picked. However the way it was built didn't allow for dual builds and doesn't register when you flip from one to the other. They said they would try, but that's how things would have to stay until they had time to re-engineer it.

With any luck, if they ever do Power Customization for *EATs, that is when the issue will be fixed. Since it's looking like that won't be in this first round of PC, you're going to have to sit tight and quell your moral outrage.

My girlfriend and I say that to each other on occasion, but in a nice way. We both realize that when we're tired/grumpy/hungry/distracted we kind of clam up, and when that happens, we need to stop, get our head back in gear, and speak. Even if it's just to say please leave me alone for a bit.

It's not always a bad thing.

As for Sam's situation, I can definitely say that it is possible for someone who is level 37 to be considered "new" You have to really really take yourself out of your own "Played this game for 5years Know What to Do" headspace for a bit when dealing with these people Sam.

The chat system isn't intuitive. He may have been sending invites because he only knew how to use Local and Team, or had been yelled at for using Broadcast before. He could be a slow typer. He could flat out not know where to go and what to do at his level. The layout of the zones and how to progress has been imprinted on us over the course of years. We know what's best to buy and what is a waste of money. Someone new doesn't He could have no idea what to do with his salvage or recipes or what enhancers he should be using.

Does that mean he asked you for help in the best way? No. Does that mean you had the right to fly off the handle because he wasn't functioning at the level you expected? Also No.

Not quite right. You cannot apply the same kind of code more than once. You can apply different codes though. CoV and CoVCE are different codes, and you can apply one of each.

WoW can increase every year or two because their system is designed to. I was under the impression though that even then they have an upper limit by design (90 or 100 I think).

Our game's characters, creatures, enhancers were designed to go to 50 (+5 in the case of foes to maintain the difficulty curve). We're at our cap. There are things that can be done that give players ways to enjoy their characters even at the cap, and that's what they're doing. However simply adding more levels isn't where this game will go, based on everything we've been told.

Plenty of people do. It's not a trivial cost so that it's not something people will do on a whim, or as part of a scheme to grief/stalk someone else. It's more than cheap enough for people who get all the way to 50 find it's a character they really love, except they had to settle for a name they didn't like so much.

Or in my case, I did it as a gift to my girlfriend. She had a villain she liked a lot, I had an Arachnos Soldier I had given a throwaway name to. I renamed him to something that fit in with her character and origin story, as a surprise. That kind of thing (making characters that fit together) is important to us, and she was very happy.

More than worth the money, even on my fixed income.

Who were you again?

One of us, One of us, One of us!

A parent is allowed to share accounts with their child. Technically speaking they're probably supposed to be under direct supervision all or most of the time, but it's doubtful there's been a EULA violation in this case.

Support WILL undelete characters, if they can. However if you've remade the character while waiting, you're out of luck I think.

Check the Announcements section. You email them and they remove it.

Wow, a dev posted in a goodbye thread. Isn't that like a paradox or something?

I misunderstood when I read this, but I'm ok now. I thought I was no longer a Christmas Baby for a second there.

I think you already have a good handle on what I'm about to tell you, but I will say it anyway. It's great you're putting the game down to focus on school. That shows commitment and focus that I found lacking during the long winter of my first year. Keep to that principle, and make sure you're really ready to come back and play with us, instead of just convincing yourself you are ready.

Second would be do not, under any circumstances, think that you can get through college using a lot of the same tricks that work in high school, at least academically speaking. As hard as it may be, it really really pays to keep up on your reading, and not rely on cramming skills you may or may not have.

Thirdly is take advantage of your safety nets. First are your professors and advisor. Talk to them and feel free to talk to them whenever you're having trouble. They're not the enemy. If they're any good they understand you're investing in yourself and will help you when you show initiative and seek that help. If you have personality conflicts that make dealing with them hard, well in the case of a professor you may just have to suck it up and push through, in the case of your advisor though, I'd seek someone you can get along with and stay on the same page. You're paying for this, they're there for you, and theoretically they are there to see you succeed, not wash you out. Above and beyond the prof and advisors, take advantage of the support networks most colleges have in place to help you succeed. There are study groups, support labs, tutor services, and more, at least if the school is half way decent.

Last bit of advice. If you get into an electronic classroom or some kind of distance learning, be very careful. I enjoyed the concept and the work, but it is nowhere near as easy to build connections and associations with your professors and fellow students. I guess it depends on the program, but in my case there were a lot of forum discussions, and I had a hard time with them because the strictures of the school's system meant everyone felt anonymous to me. I can recognize a post of your's from a mile off, not just because of the avatar or the name. But the same can't be said when you're dealing with 15 people all in the same major all talking about the same subject. There's just not as much room for separation, and in my case, I found it very hard to remember who said what when, and looking back to find out wasn't quick or easy.

Anyhoo, you're a smart guy and your head seems pointed in the right direction. I congratulate you on your goals, and I really hope everything goes well for you.