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Not totally sure what all the means Code..but it looks important and stuff! I understand some people have a better idea of how hard and feasible things are to add into the game..BUT..just because something needs new coding or whatever, that is not a reason not to do it. At most, it is a reason why whatever the idea is would take LONGER to add.

Maybe I did say as a 'villain'! I seriously can;t remember now. lol. But, I think I was on..redside? Maybe? Didnt mean to cause confusion, but he does attack..in one of the mission. Regardless..it does not explain why he isnt a sonic..sonics need love too.
Sorry Guy.

Guy..not to argue..but i SAW Johnny use a whip. He attacked me. I know he did. SO..again..how isnt he fighting?

Oh, you could be right Guy. BUT..I am totally sure I saw John use a fire whipe..from DS. So even if the demons do belong to Hardcase (which, now I think..in a tip Hardcase IS a fire fire brute, so no.,,they arent his) it still does not explain why he isnt a sonic. lol

I enjoyed SSA part four. It was a little too..wordy? texty? but it was fun. Aside from me waiting to actually kill Malaise and HELP sister psy (as a villain) I have a bit of a poser, pointed out by a friend returning to the game.

Johnny is a singer, granted a super powered voice by some kind of shady deal with the Wailers and other demons. The whole SSA 4 is based around using an artifact (cool to link it in with Mercedes arc, but since the redside Merc arc doesnt even mention the Dirge, it is a bit pointless) and his voice to cause trouble.

So, as this friend wonders..WHY is he apparently a demon summoning MM, and not a sonic?? Wouldn't that sorta fit? Sure, maybe along the way to power, he happened to gain some demonic followers, I can buy that. But..at least make him a DS/Sonic mastermind! Besides, isn't Dessy our token summoner NPC?

What makes it even sillier..is that IN Johnny Sonata's own story arc, his evil spirit appears as, you guessed it, a sonic/sonic!

(Long post. For the tl’dr crowd, extend yourself, and go read a fortune cookie trilogy)

First, I will start out by saying that I KNOW this post is rather sad, lame, pointless and sometimes hypocritical. I know this. I understand, I have faced those demons and moved on. So there is no need to point it out to me.

Some background on me as a person. I use bad language, I swear. Not ever second word, but when I feel like it. 'I' do not see an issue with it, I get angry fast, forget even faster. As players may be aware, this game has a Chat Filter, designed to catch all that icky language. A good thing too..I do not go around mouthing off in front of my sister’s young kids for instance. If someone of the team happens to say they are offended by anything I say, I usually stop. Or, tell them to turn ON the filter.

Because, genius move, the filter isn’t on by default.

Hands up who has been reported for bad language? *lifts hand* I have, a few time. I once got banned for three days, for calling someone a whiny lil canine's mother during a ship raid. He then went and proved me 100% correct by reporting me. Now, the year is 2011, is there anyone who can honestly say they are totally offended by being calling a B word? Really? Remember, it was said in basing, not in anger or during some 30 minutes yelling match. And also, if you ARE offended (who knows, I’m sure some people might be)..why do you play with the filter off?

To me, it is like going into a clearly marked smoking section in a pub, then moaning about not being able to breathe.

Now, I am sure a lot of us have played the STF, and Sciroccos patron arc. If you have ever read her dialogue, I am sure you would agree she is a bit of a bad girl. I'll post samples in case people forget.

First blood: "I heard you were Scirocco's new second. Maybe you'll be more fun than Ice Mistral."
At 75% life: "That's pretty good."
At 50% life: "Can't you hit any harder? My blood's barely pumping!"
At 25% life: "All the pain, all the anger! Now that's more like it!"

and then

At 75% Life: Mmmmm! You hurt me so good!
At 50% Life: The pain! The anger! Yes! You really know how to treat a girl!

but there is more

Silver Mantis: You don't have to start slow on my account. I like it rough.
Silver Mantis: Yes! You're so... Forceful!
Silver Mantis: YES! YES! YES!
Silver Mantis: Ooooh... What a fighter...

Now..what do you see when you read the above? A woman who enjoys being hit, being attacked, getting off on pain, on the brink of orgasm? Is this the image the game is promoting for woman? Oh, along with the OTHER image..that all ‘tough’ women get around in high heels, boob tops and tight lycra.

If you were (are) a parent, is that the kind of thing you would want your young child to read? Easy enough to explain the skimpy female costume..it IS just a costume, but that? ‘Mommy, do you like being hit too? –smack-. Even better, none of that chat gets picked up by the all powerful filter..just in case you were a concerned adult and put it on..to stop a child hearing things that could have a bad effect.

On another note, I was doing the patron arc last night with a friend, and ..I really can’t explain it, I must have been in one of those ‘1800s and super touchy to anything’ type moods, where you get very offended at things. So when we got to Silver Mantis, and saw her chat..I was OUTRAGED. What if my young niece and nephew were in the room? Do I have to explain to them that no..most women do not enjoy being hit in the face till they reach sexual ecstasy.

Going by this, I could make a toon, whose background talks about him being a neo nazi women hating child killing cop burning NUTTER..and go through zones spilling fiery and offensive rhetoric..and it is ok, because, I am totally just keeping to MY background. If I did that, I wonder if the GM’s would take such a passive stance, when I quote their own words back to them.
(Please note, I do not condone any of that stuff.)

Going back to the issue of players reporting others (because obviously this is my core issue, I am spiteful), isn’t anything we say to another player, in our own words, simply following our own background? If I call someone in game an idiot, that is because, in CONTEXT, I regard them as an idiot, and it follows my own background of being a bit of a *****.

To further the issue..I got reported a few weeks back, for saying the Rap music is great...if your are either (A color that is the opposite of white), stupid, or drunk. I do not see why that is a problem. I wasn’t saying that all those people share those 3 traits. I happen to know a lot of people who won’t listen to rap at all, but when they go party and get drunk, the happily groove to it.

In regard to stupid people..well..check this out.
http://www.labnol.org/internet/music...lligence/7489/

Anyway, thank you for reading something that most likely you don’t agree with! It made me feel better to write it. Now, I am going in game to insult someone, just so I can say..’But in the context of my toons background..’ when I get reported!

Patch adds stuff and also has a very annoying bug that hits a huge amount of people: Check

People report said bug in game and on teh forums, with no response: Check

Incremental patch comes in 2 days fixing a totally DIFFERENT bug and not even adding this one to Live Issues: Check

Bug in question will possible, maybe, if we can find those jam donuts, dont ya know, get fixed NEXT week: Check?

Very sad that is not shocking at all.

It is beyond annoying. Have only logged in 3 toons since I found the bug. Well..3 newer toons, logging older ones (100 days inactive) saw them without the bug.
Really is sad, and not at all surprising, that a comment has not even been made by a redname. I was pissed at just getting 3 trays lost..cant imagine the work some people have put into lost macros.
Hopefully it is fixed tonight (for me) as the servers went down. If not, and it becomes another week long fix, like that last god awful patch, welllll...

Say it with me guys and gals:
'All I want for Xmas is a BUG FREE patch!'

Just one..even if it added a single thing, and managed not to destroy ANYTHING..miracles can happen, right?

I can see that Toast. It is quite rare you get a 'friendly' league team, at least on Freedom. Often its random chat between a few members that are friends in any case. I am not sure if thats an issue though..not many trials, maybe BAF? really have periods where you can just take it easy and chat.

Ahh ok. I really do not buy the 'technical grounds' excuse though. If that were the case, we would never get anything new. And it cant be THAT tricky..TK works almost the same as I see a toggle DF working..just applying a phase to a single target rather than an aoe hold.

Yay some people like my idea!

Just a quick idea for FF..

Was logging in older toons to see if they had they annoying tray reset bug (they didnt) and happened on my old grav/ff troller. I was linking powers at random to a friend and she was laughing at Detention Field. I was saying how you can use it to shut down the towers on STF, so they cant buff the spider man.

So my idea. Make DetField a toggle cage. That is, the duration is entirely dependant on the user. I think the biggest gripe with the power is that (other that being very situational) you have to wait a long time before you can actually remove said target.

If it was a toggle, you could slap it on an annoying baddie in a mob, sapper, ills, etc, then simple detoggle it after the rest of the mob is cleared, letting people kill it right away instead of waiting.

yeah I agree Darth. Trouble is..I really dont see how (hopefully they prove me wrong) they can have solo content, that wont stop a lot of people leaving the trials. Especially those that dont power game their builds, lag a lot, have slow load times, flat out hate the events..

When I read about teh changes, I did think they sounded pretty good. That is, the AS Focus mechanic in particular. However, after reading some of Joe's points, I think I do agree with him.

Will the Focus make Stalkers better at doing damage? I am quite sure it will. Does it take them closer to the 'mash attacks like crazy and flip out' scrapper style? I also think it could. Is that a BAD thing? I guess it depends how you look at it. If the goal was simply more reliable damage, then yes, gold star.

However, as Joe again mentions, it is very close to scrapper like. I also agree that one of the things I like about stalking is the ability to pick and choose targets, backing off a little when needed, not playing in that buzzsaw mode of a brute or scrapper.

Too make another comparison, I do not think that Blasters should have got the mechanic in defiance that is a Fury clone. Fury belongs to brutes! I DO like teh tier 1/2 attcking when mezzed ability, but I much preferred the old Defiance. Note, I am saying I preferred it..I wont try to argue that the fury version IS better, from a performance point.

Is performance just what we want though? Stalkers get no TW..because of theme. SO clearly devs think it is important. Most players would agree, up to certain points.

As some people have mentioned, fixing placate should have been a sure fire stalker change. Yet we dont get that. Another person mentions the imbalance between stalker def and res sets. I agree with this. It has gotta be the only AT where good use of your main tools (hide, as, placate) function worlds better on defence sets.

The focus changes might be good, might be great. However, I think that if it sees people just becoming scrappers, that is not a good thing.

I tend to agree with most of this. I have had (mostly when the trials were new) leagues that failed because of people not understanding the temps. Or even the people with them dc'ing, leaving everyone else stranded. That said..I am not sure making the events just happen would be an improvement. Easier, sure, but not better.

Maybe some more notifications should be added? Such as a BIG text pop up when you get a temp (not the tiny thing we have now) and something like teh red exclamation help tips, somewhere on screens. The LIWW on UG is really bad too..as others have said, a pop up should appear.

On a side issue..Speed Lambdas. I understand them, I can see why people do them..but..to me, neglecting half the temps we are meant to be getting, just doesnt fit. I would like to see them add a minimum amount of crates/acids needed. On my last incarnate runs with a toon, I failed about..5? slams..simply because the leader was too dumb and stubborn to see that a team of mostly 50s couldnt handle the aggro from 10 active doors.

Me and a friend were swapping toons to trade that duplicating gift thing..4 out of 4 (each) got reset. Really fun when the toons 50 and has 3-5 trays set out.

I think the title says it all. SO we get the UI bug fixed finally..and now, logging in a toon sees their power trays empty? Great fix that is.

Just got Arc of Destruction..VERY nice power..in fact, I can see why it is not more targets. The animation for it rocks to..this and Whirling Smash seem to look the best.

Yes Dark..revert to sarcasm instead of just saying..I don't agree. Good job.

Just because the OP is using the terms elected, board, etc, does not mean it has ANYTHING to do with politics. At the very best, it would come down to in game and forum politics. And you know what? We already have them. Look at how many of the big posters act, like their own opinions can never be wrong. Also get in game channel and sg leaders trying to get more control.

So yeah..we already have game politics. How is having a group of players as a go between to the devs a bad idea? (Neglecting the fact that actually electing them fairly would be very hard)