Lemur Lad

Nice of you to speak for all those folks, but I for one want things to look as good as they can if they're going to be done. What's the point of an emote that doesn't do the job?

I wasn't saying simply do as you please without concern for other people's feelings. Take the feedback into account and look at both sides of the coin. If someone told you something you said was annoying, then it was.

If that's what the comments were about, then I'd say I agree with the person who felt it was annoying. It's tone is borderline, and it really needs a broader explanation of your feelings than belongs in a sig. A short guide with a link in your sig would be less inflammatory. Even better would be to open a discussion in the City Life section and get a broader sample of people's feelings through the community instead of just promoting your way to do things.

Applying stilted and rigid interpretations of the rules invalidates the system just as much as playing a forum game to artificially inflate your rating. Let people do as they will, find an appropriate way to explain your feelings, and then do what you will in your own way.

I think the point is to make an effort to do more good things than bad things. Try to see issues from all sides instead of just your own, and worry less about defending yourself and pleasing other people, and more about doing what you feel is right.

additionally, part of the point of the system is that people aren't obligated to sign their name. It's anonymous feedback that gives someone the freedom to let you know something, without making a snarky post and derailing a thread.

If you feel someone broke a rule of conduct, then send a message to a mod.

Is that a technical term?

It doesn't. They almost always release them right after the servers have been successfully patched and brought online. Your question would more accurately be stated: "Why do I expect the patch notes hours earlier than they should be posted?"

If they put up patch notes as soon as the servers go down, then something goes wrong, they have to not only roll back the patch, but take down the notes, and post something else to the effect that the changes you may be expecting won't be there. That's 1-2+ unavoidable postings/changes.

Under the current system, if they wait on the notes until they know it worked, then it's 0-1 postings. Overall more efficient and less confusing.

Yes, there have been times in the past where patches have to be rolled back hours or even days later, but at least under the current system most problems can be avoided.

Posting patch notes before they find out if the patch is successfully deployed would be sillier to me.

I really wouldn't count on it. Most things don't rely heavily on links. The few things that do (City Scoop, Guide to Guides) they will rely on the players to make or remake fixed/new versions.

It would be next to impossible to write a script to fix all the old links, and as much of a pain as manually fixing things is, it is a less labor intensive solution.

At least the Guides are mainly a matter of fixing links. wrt the City Scoop, we're discovering the new forums handle html in a very different fashion, and whether or not we can fix the old issues is still a bit up in the air.

Getting less of a reward is not a penalty, it's just a smaller reward.
People who play for fun, xp, what have you still get all those things, they just get slightly less of a bonus than they would for other harder tasks.

Basing rewards on the average runtime may lead to some occasions where it seems unfair for the people who take far longer, but when the alternative is that people run Katie 8-20 times a day to the exclusion of most all other content, then something has to be done.

Think again. I've played a Kin/Elec to 50, and you tend to pull a lot of aggro and soak a lot of hurt before you manage to sap anything to a notable degree. It is indeed one of the weakest Defender builds in terms of mitigation.

This is correct.

You should edit it back, because now you're wrong. Read the OP a few more times. If need be, look up Pentium 166 and 10baseT. Between the topic, describing his experience as "worthless" and the weak attempt at geekslam, I'd say he was belligerent.

There was a time, back when the two games were separate, that you could choose to upgrade an existing account with CoV access, or start a new account. However the website was not clear about the difference between UPGRADE and ADD, and many people accidentally created 2 separate accounts. In those cases, GMs would effectively combine the 2, by deactivating one of them and upgrading the other (your choice which). However that did not include transferring any characters on one account to the other. You lost access to one of them (unless you decided to pay the sub fee later, then you could reactivate it but it would still be for a single game).

Since then, all new and existing accounts have been granted access to CoH and CoV by default.

1) Patron Pools are considerably improved. People used to think they were garbage, now they are less so.

2) anytime after 40, talk to Arbiter Rein, standing at the doors to Arachnos tower in Grandville.

Also painful to read are thinly disguised rants in the wrong section of the forums. Both things are against the rules.

Sometimes people point out when a post is **** by giving back the same kind of attitude that is given. Tit for tat.

If you really want to prove you're better than that and don't like seeing it here, then deduct reputation from both posters and report both posts to the moderators for rule violations. Don't bother making a holier than thou speech, because a non-productive reply to a non-productive reply to a non-productive post is not the way to get the discussion back on track.