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And I'm supposed to sympathize with people who are still "upset" with something that's been the status quo for six years and can be easily "solved" if you simply didn't let it bother you so much? Please...

Talk about being myopic. Get over this useless angst you have over "equal numbers". Anyone who's given it an ounce of thought realizes that most of the redside-only SFs are generally more fun and better designed than the older blueside ones. The fact that the redside has FEWER of them is more than counterbalanced by the fact that they are much BETTER than the older blue ones.

Lastly I tend to *shrug* a lot because most of the time I'm responding to people who ought to know better but for some reason don't. It's usually my way of saying "isn't it obvious you're overreacting to X". *shrugs*

I had problems using PayPal with this game when I tried to use a US based PayPal account while I was visiting Japan.
I'm just saying that NCSoft's handling of PayPal is not perfect either.

I agree that it sucks that it can't handle the initial rush.

But like I said in another related thread I have -never- had a problem buying one of these new packs if I just give it a few hours after its initial release. Since I'm usually at work and can't play until I get home that little extra wait doesn't bother me for the most part.

Well I already resigned myself to having to wait 5 extra days because I wanted to pay for it. But since I'm currently at work, and can't actually play the game for like another 6+ hours anyway, the fact that I'm "willing" to wait a little longer for the account/store servers to clear suits me fairly nicely.

I know there are always a few people like you who get in and get these codes pretty early in the day. But I learned years ago that it's usually far easier to wait 6-12 hours after the "initial" release before I'll even try to buy it. In every case that I waited a few hours I have NEVER had any trouble buying the item in question.

People just have to have some patience.

The fact that CoV has fewer SFs than blueside's TFs has never bothered me because I've played BOTH sides pretty close to 50/50 ever since CoV was released. The idea that it might still be "annoying" to other people is simply a facet of this game's experience that I have zero sympathy for. *shrugs*

My "maturity" in this matter comes from the fact that I don't let trivial differences like this bother me like they might have used to when I was younger.

As always YMMV...

Every free code they give away, regardless of when they give it away, already pretty much guarantees one less SALE of a paid-for code. How many dozens (or even hundreds?) of people had a free legitimate code installed before today?

I understand the whole idea of giving away some of your new product away for free as a form of advertisement. Nothing wrong with that. I just find it funny that because I actually want to give them money I had to wait longer than people who will NOT likely be giving the company any extra money for their efforts. It's almost like being PUNISHED for wanting to be a more loyal customer than someone else.

It's possible that this IO alchemy thing might be "relatively easier" to implement now that we already have the set IO system in place. But I think this would still be a far cry from being a trivial addition to the game for all sorts of reasons.

The potential problems associated with this idea simply outweigh the potential benefits. Again it's not question of being "overpowered", it's more a question of smoothing over a game mechanic that I believe the Devs actually consider important. I believe the Devs want us to have to compromise for build choices and not have "perfectly shaped" custom IOs available to fill in all the gaps in our build designs. The "rough edges" are part of the game and encourage build diversity.

Basically IO alchemy is a fix for a "problem" that really isn't a problem. *shrugs*

I certainly have no problem with the idea of buying the Backup Radio recipes with the cheapest salvage costs. But are you sure the "low level" recipe is actually the middle one listed in the market interface? I always assumed that the middle one listed was in fact the "middle level" recipe.

It makes sense that this would usually be the cheapest one to craft because of simple supply-and-demand. Most people usually speed through the low levels quickly (making low range rare salvage expensive) and most people are crafting high level IOs at high level (making high range rare salvage expensive). Therefore medium range rare salvages tend to be the cheapest available across the board.

This seems like a pretty big hint that the Devs do intend to eventually provide Flashback access to the Praetorian content.
No idea when that'll actually happen of course, just something to keep in mind.

Well this just goes to show you that you can learn something new everyday.

I've been collecting badges for years and know a lot about badges in general but I've honestly never heard about this opportunity to get the RV AV badges outside of RV during the last couple of anniversary "celebrations". Maybe I just never paid attention because I got those badges done so long ago I wasn't thinking about it. *shrugs*

Anyway it sounds like this has become an annual event so this is cool news for those people who still want/need those badges. Hopefully they'll choose to spawn them a bit more regularly so there won't be a repeat of what happened to you Silver Gale.

I bet there will be people out there who'll never get tired of whining that the blueside has more TFs than the redside has SFs. I've been playing CoH for seven years (and CoV for six years) and that pathetic mantra just -never- gets old...

I'm surprised I haven't seen people whining that the blueside has more TFs than Praetoria yet. *rolls eyes*

Well if a talking cat or dog can CONVINCE me through their acting ability that they are Lois Lane then theoretically there's nothing "wrong" with it. But would that be the "best" choice for a serious dramatic role? Probably not...

Frankly I will always question whenever an established character is played by a person who doesn't closely match the original characterization. For example I think Samuel Jackson is a great actor and I usually love him in anything I see him in. But was it right for him to be cast as Nick Fury? Was he the "best" actor for the role? I think things like that will always be open to a reasonable amount of debate. *shrugs*

Did you even read the rest of my post or did you just decide to react to the first couple of sentences I wrote?

I'll requote myself here just to be sure you don't miss it again:

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in the case of something as iconic as the characters surrounding Superman I almost think you'd really have to come up with a serious artistic justification to cast Lois with anyone other than a white woman.

Ironically you ended up REPEATING almost THE EXACT SAME THING I SAID. *sigh*

While I still think it's cool they like to organize all these free give-aways for these packs I still like to pay for them because I want to vote with my money and actually support the game that I love.

The only irony to this is that while some people got to have fun with this new pack as early as Friday I get to wait until tomorrow to actually PAY for it. It just seems funny to force people who WANT to pay to have to wait longer for it.

Hopefully you are, or at least one of the few at any rate.

I still don't understand why people are so upset about this. It was always implied that as time goes on pretty much any TF/SF could eventually become a WST at some point. Obviously some TF/SFs are better than others for all sorts of reasons.

If you don't like whatever's being offered for the latest WST wait for a week with something else.
It's not -that- hard to deal with. *shrugs*

My argument is that many min/maxers have their own preferred min/max numbers right now because the current system (without something like IO alchemy) won't let them get to the one "perfect" optimal build. Because the holy grail is impossible we have some diversity, even among min/maxers.

But if we had a system where we didn't have to make build compromises because we had a means to "smooth" over the shortfalls with perfectly designed custom IOs then I suspect we would be led down a road where there would be less diversity amongst builds in general. Why would people be motivated to make unique builds when an "optimal" build could handle any situation?

Basically the idea behind IO alchemy only serves to circumvent the natural "rough edges" in the system that forces us to make compromises. IO alchemy probably would not break the game and unlike what Carnifax_NA I don't really think it's an issue of being "too powerful". I simply believe it would do much to encourage cookie-cutter builds which in and of itself is not really desirable in a game like this.

And like others I'm not even going to really dwell on how hard this would probably be to implement by the Devs, assuming they actually liked this idea. *shrugs*

Apparently some people care because it goes against their own "expectations" that there would be people out there who would want to do something differently. These people basically need to get over that.

I never said it was HARD to find teams that want to do slow runs. I said I believe in a game that's 7 years old that it's a mistake (on the part of the OP for instance) to ASSUME most people would want to do slow runs. There is a difference.

As always YMMV.

Creative is as creative does. *shrugs*

I just think it's safe to say the people on this forum are more than capable of generating rumors and speculation about future content without the Devs randomly tossing in verbal hand grenades to stir things up.

To be fair I'd just rather have more finished products to play with than public "teases" about future possible products. If Jay can't be direct with us on the forums (because of marketing or whatever) then I'd rather him not make any "effort" to try half-baked or otherwise.