Nethergoat
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Quote:Wow!Originally Posted by Case_Anarchy
Necro'd for succeeding.
Super dedication is super.
GRATZ on being the 'youngest' hero in the club!~ =D -
here's an instructive neg rep comment:
Quote:instructive, since we players have a near zero knowledge of the details behind the dev's little pogrom. But that's fine with my anonymous detractor- for a certain kind of mind Daddy deciding to deliver a spanking is all the justification the act needs.Every banning, level rollback and character deletion was wholly justified. -
Quote:Do the exp's we're not allowed to have come with dye packets that explode once we level, so the cops can bust in the door and arrest us?Originally Posted by Smurch
No, the crime was a result of people taking something that didn't belong to them.
If I neglect to lock my car door, and someone takes my car, they're still guilty of stealing my car. A failure to secure against theft does not legitimize theft, neither ethically nor legally.
'cause one exp looks just like every other exp to this longtime player. -
Quote:Be fair now, you're much more likely to be gunned down in a school shooting than trampled to death by Cletus & the Wide Loads at Wal*Mart!Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
Last year I remember at least one person being trampled to death at a Wal Mart and a man being gunned down at a Toys R Us.
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Quote:well, we DID start two world wars......oh wait, no...that was EUROPE.Originally Posted by KaliMagdalene
Yeah. All Americans are gun-toting thugs who would just as soon shoot our neighbors as look at them. It's a real bloodbath over here when holiday shopping comes around.
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One need read no further than
Quote:to determine that the author is a crank.Assuming the first priority of game design is to create a good game, massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft have failed spectacularly, opting for commercial success instead of creative integrity, entertainment value, or compelling game design.
We should all be thankful they are a good enough writer not to bury the lede, saving the attentive reader the necessity of plowing through the rest of their article. Whatever sickly plant sprouts from such an unpromising seed cannot possibly be edible. -
Quote:So, how do we tell which EXP belongs to us and which EXP is off limits?Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
Also if you leave a property with something that doesn't belong to you that is clearly theft so crime doesn't need quotation marks.
And how do we take it out of the game?
See, because I pointed out that my analogy was also flawed, just less so than yours. Which means I realized that real world parallels to virtual world behaviors are necessarily imperfect, rendering your nit picking superfluous. -
Quote:Bingo!Originally Posted by EricHough
Honestly I don't think it was the AE changes that pulled everyone out - I think it was the changes to the rest of the game. Specifically the difficulty level changes and super side kicking.
It took them longer than it should have to figure out that punitive action against paying customers is a poor business decision, but once they grasped that salient fact they proceeded very intelligently.
It being impossible to chase the farmers out of MA without making it unappealing to basically everyone except a couple of RP headcases, they made the rest of the game sexier to lure them out.
And I don't know where people are coming from with all the "deserted" talk.
Maybe compared to OMG EVERYBODY'S MA FARMIN it's deserted, but I see people in the main MA hubs and hear them putting teams together in chat.
It's one more thing for us to do, not the be-all, end-all of CoH evolution. -
Quote:who ever 'broke into' MA?Originally Posted by Mr. NoPants
By that logic why pay for membership when you can break in and leave a steamer floating in the pool?
A more accurate analogy would be some janitor forgetting to clean up the gold doubloons covering the bottom of the pool after the board of director's party, club members saw dollar signs and filled their up their backpacks, after which the owners prosecuted them for theft even though the 'crime' was a result of negligence by their own employees.
Still not entirely useful, but a vast improvement over poo poo in the pool. -
here's what I do for all generics except endmod (which is always pricey due to the plotting of an eeebil super secret cartel):
1: Put in cheap bids for crafted IOs I know I'm going to need. Cheap = 1/4 to 1/3rd of whatever the 'last 5' looks like during rush hour. You can go lower if you don't mind waiting longer, or higher if you want to pick them up sooner.
2: Go play for a while, log out whenever and check back tomorrow or the next day.
3: Collect IOs because nice, kindly badgers have dumped loads of ridiculously cheap stock on the market out of the kindness of their hearts...or maybe because the game doesn't give us a lot of storage options, one or the other. =P
The only time I've ever paid higher than crafting cost for a finished generic is because I was in a hurry & ate the buy it NAO price. Well, except for endmods- they're the exception to all generic IO conventional wisdom. -
Quote:So true.Originally Posted by Dr. Overdose
that takes away any real reason for me to not like defeat alls.
I never minded mowing down everything I could see....but I greatly resented all that time wasted pouring over a "clear" map to find the one enemy that fell into a crack. -
Quote:Originally Posted by castle
pohsyb mentioned this at pax to some folks. I'm not sure if this is an i16 thing, or something being added for going rogue, but it is real.
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Quote:The awesome thing about this urban legend is that it's the same as the "I didn't have an SO'ed build so nobody would team with me!" urban legend of the pre-inventions game.Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
I'm calling shenanigans here. In the entire time I have been playing this game, I have never once seen an example of a player being kicked from a team or otherwise discriminated against because they didn't have an IO'd build.
On my last foray into WoWlandia the phrase "must be well geared" was attached to a majority of the team requests I saw. I can honestly say I've *never* seen anything like that in this game. -
Isn't directly comparing competing games with CoH explicitly against forum rules?
Oh! Yes, yes it is!
Sorry Jack, try another sock puppet. -
file under Thinking, Wishful.
Although it would be totally AWESOME. -
Quote:Those original three volumes feature prominently in my fave personal gaming story.Originally Posted by Mutant_Mike
I still have the first three volumes of that...
Lots of interesting modifications we used in our DnD sessions.
Wandering around a con with my buddy (I think it was Pacific Origins, one year when Pacificon & Origins combined to make a gaming Voltron), he sees a squat, round, hairy dude he's POSITIVE is Dave Hargrave- he pulls his Arduin books out of his backpack and bolts over, only to discover it's actually Dave Arneson. Who is (understandably) slightly insulted that a couple of juvenile nerds are accosting him to autograph what amounts to an unlicensed D&D rip-off.
Undeterred, my friend somehow won him over and ended up getting him to sign all three volumes.
Later, we ran across the genuine Dave Hargrave, who got a good laugh out of our tale and signed the books What About Me? - Dave Hargrave right under Arneson's sig. -
I still remember my all time favorite RPG critical hit word for word.
It hails from Arduin Grimoire, a game I haven't played in probably 25 years.
00: Head pulped and splattered about a wide area- instant and irrevocable death. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
*edit*
There is this misconception that women don't play female characters, so meeting one who does can cause some men's brains to crash and reboot.
I wish you hadn't disabled rep so I could just +rep you for this fine vision, but since you have I am forced to post for no other reason than congratulating you on making me LOL. -
Quote:If only some mad genius invented an emoticon that combined the three!Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I have a choice between *rolleyes* *facepalm* and *headdesk*. Which one would you advise me to choose?
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Is beating a zombie horse the same as beating a dead one, morally speaking?
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Quote:I'll point out that even as distracted as I was this weekend, I still found time to vendor generic IO recipes just because I could!Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I saw no spell scrolls for sale in the Black Market and the last 5 had prices of 10k, 100k and even 1 million and I didn't care enough to even list the handful I had. (or is that ebil?! )
This sort of apathy can get you kicked out of the club, sir! -
I ended up making quite a bit on a couple of characters, not because of my impeccable market acumen, but because players crazed by double XP and inf bought up a bunch of overpriced junk that had been clogging up my slots for weeks.
The only meaningful inf I made 'on purpose' was flipping some low-level Blessing of the Zephyr -KBs. Put in a bunch of bids a few weeks back, picked up the winners and re-listed them at 100m each for 2xp.
They sold fast enough that I'm probably should have bumped them up even more... =P -
That's an excellent story.
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Quote:I'd add throwing a purple proc into an aoe power to that list.Originally Posted by Werner
I have found purples most useful for three different cases. First, a build that depends on high recharge for performance - perma Dull Pain, high end DPS chain, whatever it might be. Second, in an attack that needs high recharge enhancement. Third, where you're frankenslotting a power and a specific purple offers a big dose of the needed enhancements.
Sure I'm easily amused, but the Goat dropping Rain of Fire on a big pull and knocking half of them on their keisters never gets old. Thank you, Ragnarok: Chance for Knockdown!