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Well let's just say I'm happy that our Devs "borrowed" Champions Online's Acrobatics travel power. We call it Ninja Run here. We also got the Walk power about a month after Champions Online launched with its Walk feature. Coincidence much?

Anyway like I said earlier I don't really think this "charge up mechanic" should be imported and forced into existing powers here. But I'm not against the idea of our Devs experimenting with a new powerset that might make use of this concept.

Yeah it's possible that along with the little "micro-brawl" power they considered giving them a little "micro-heal" power as well. Maybe if that power existed and was left in the code that somehow a bug could have happened that allowed it to function again.

I realize that sounds semi-impossible but you have the remember the Devs hardly ever completely "delete" anything from the code. If they develop something that they decide they don't want to use they'll usually just let it lie dormant in the code rather than totally remove it. This could just be a case of a bit of "zombie code" that was allowed to work again as a bug. Who knows?

Wow, I guess you learn/hear something new everyday...
I'm not denying what you're saying is true - just never heard of it before. *shrugs*

I would not have noticed that regardless because I managed to get Empath on my main about a month before they lowered the original requirement. In fact I half-jokingly think the Devs lowered it when they did because they knew I was finally done with it.

Anyway that'd be a pretty cool "side effect" considering these vet pets supposedly only provide little buffs, not heals. I assume whatever was causing that was quickly fixed because that'd be a pretty nice trick for people wanting heal badges.

Vet pets that heal? I know back when they were testing the 48 month vet pets they experimented with giving them a little "micro-brawl" attack power but never heard of them having a heal power bugged or otherwise.

You sure you weren't thinking about Gladiators?

Yeah I must agree it's pretty silly that it's not obvious what each serial code is for in that account listing.
It's almost like they want us to "double-buy" things by accident.
Good luck figuring it out.

I highlighted the problem with this process right here. Why does the game give us TWO methods to change our names? If the game provides the relatively safe "clicking the green Rename Character button on the character selection screen" method why on Earth would we need the "by logging the character in" method as well which apparently, in Vitality's case, allowed a problem to happen which should have never occurred.

I blame the software on this. Allowing players to inadvertently follow a path that potentially forces them to waste a rename token is a bad design decision. I see no reason why the game could not simply stick to the "clicking the green Rename Character button on the character selection screen" method as the ONLY way to do it. It would eliminate the scenario Vitality fell victim to.

It'd be a good and simple solution if the game could actually tell the difference between a critter "inside" or "outside" of a map.

Part of the reason things ever spawn outside a map to begin with is that the game gets confused as to exactly where the limits of the map are in a particular mission. I suspect if the Devs could figure out how to implement an "auto-kill" feature for spawns that appear outside a map they would have (as part of that effort) already found a way to prevent them from happening in the first place.

And you are in a deluded state of mind if you believed I thought there was actually an exploit being dealt with here in the first place. Did you even read my posts you were responding to? I attached them to this post and highlighted the portions that should have made it clear to everyone my position on this.

But please tell us your theory about WHY this banning was done. If there is no exploit being dealt with (and again to be perfectly clear I, like you, never saw an exploit here myself) then what possible legitimate excuse can the Devs be using to justify this ban other than "we want it to take players 15 minutes to finish this trial instead of 10 minutes"? If THAT'S the only reason then I'd have to say that's a pretty moronic rationale. Obviously the Devs can do whatever they want to supposedly "balance" the game. But micromanaging our play choices to this level of making something just a "tiny bit" harder is laughably absurd. Don't the Devs have anything better to do?

Had the Devs found a REAL exploit to justify their actions with this I'm sure they would have been overjoyed with themselves. As it is I think they just decided to meddle with something just for the sake of meddling. And THAT's what I'm upset with. I think this kind of foolish tinkering establishes the precedent that the Devs simply won't bother to adequately consider the consequences the next time something like this comes up and it DOES make a real difference to players.

Yeah it was, as I recall, a reaction to having a huge chunk of her latest unfinished Twilight novel leaked on the Internet. Apparently instead of being mad about it she just gave up on trying to finish it because she got tired of the whole situation. In retrospect it makes you wonder if she didn't leak it herself just to give herself an excuse to get out of it.

Either it's a bug that it let you log into a character with a rename token ready to go to begin with or that it forced you to use it once you logged in. Either way it sounds like it let you get into a state that players should not be allowed to get into. I'm surprised after so many years a "gotcha" like that could still exist but I guess anything's possible.

Once again good luck to you on this.

Well I'll be honest in saying that I don't specifically remember reading anything official about what types/classes of critters are supposed to have better/worse chances of dropping Tips.

But in the absence of that kind of specific info and all things being equal I made the basic assumption that "bosses = better" as far as this thing goes. They have a better chance of dropping better recipes and salvage so the logic seemed pretty sound to me that they'd be better for Tips too. It even makes sense from a RP point of view - a boss is more likely to know something useful than a minion.

All I can say is that my experience with this seems to support the assumption in this case. YMMV.

Yeah this idea might technically "solve" the bad spawn issue. But since I've only seen it happen in like 3 or 4 missions out of thousands I'd say it's effectively a solution in search of a problem at this point. I'm just not sure the Devs would see the justification. *shrugs*

You're right, it's not a new thing.
It's just that the Devs usually manage to do a better job pretending they don't approach things this way. *shrugs*

OMG I didn't even think of that possibility. I'd probably quit this game and/or stake myself (whichever is quicker to accomplish) if they ever tried to pull some kind of Twilight crossover.

Really? You're taking that kind of childish tack with this?

Show me some proof that we are even talking about an exploit in the first place before you rudely insult people who question your point of view by presenting you with a valid point.

I don't like Devs "making things up as they go" just because they can. Obviously they can label anything they want to be an exploit because they wield god-like power in this game. But simply being reactionary via calling something they didn't foresee to be an exploit is, like your response to me, an immature way to react to serious problem.

Yeah you might be right that the fact that they are bosses is more important than what level they are.
I'm just going to continue to do what seems to be working for me regardless.
I wish others better luck with this. *shrugs*