Quasadu

I'm with the squirrel on this one.

I think there's something wrong with your analogy if the most powerful abilities in the game are represented by a bag of rats.

If that happens then, yeah, they'd get a month as VIP. But that's not really all that different from the month they get if they activate today, except they'd have a month to explore the Issue 21 content and powersets that they would lose by going premium. Edit: And Praetoria I suppose.

VIP's get Going Rogue content, but if they didn't buy the expansion, they will lose that content if they switch to Premium. So if one plans to go to Premium they'll either want to buy the GR box now, or buy the GR content from the Paragon Market once Freedom launches.

Edit: Also, If I understand correctly (and I'm not 100% sure I do, so take this with a grain of salt), there is no level of Paragon Reward (Veteran) status that gives a Premium player access to Incarnate content. BUT if you purchased Going Rogue, then you will keep Incarnate access as a Premium player.

There's nothing special about this purchase, other than the fact that it can only be used for a new account. When you buy the game, you get a month of paid time. It doesn't matter what the start date is, the end date is a month later.

This is a new subscription you're buying for $2. This doesn't add-on to an existing subscription.

I was able to create a third game account under my master account using a code I just purchased for $2. So it works.

I figured for $2, I'd take the plunge and find out.

It's a subscription. They're going to get at least the 400 points for the first month, even if they don't renew the sub after the first month. They will be VIP as long as they continue to subscribe. If they stop subscribing, they will go to premium.

This is the way it works with all current subscriptions. This one is no different. The ONLY thing different about this one is that you can't use it to add the code on to an existing game account, thereby getting a month of paid time for $2.

Note that this does NOT include Going Rogue. Nor does it include any of the extra goodies like the GvE jumpjet, etc.

I'm tempted to start a third account this way... >.>

I don't have a problem. I can stop any time I want.

Re-read the post you're replying to, and the post it was replying to. The assertion was that the character's future self IS the letter writer. In which case, it's stupid to say "we haven't met" ever.

I don't think we need to wait and see anything. It's staring us right in the face - and if he had demonstrated this thing as actually working, in a convincing way, to anyone with half the brainpower it would take to not be bamboozled by this charlatan, then the aerospace industry would be falling all over themselves to buy his patent, which he does not apparently have.

From the way it was described, my thinking was that the player and Frostfire managed together to consume ALL the power of the Well, thus becoming, in all practicality, gods. In the end they are all that's left, each having half the power.

I freely admit, though, I haven't read that mission text since I18 beta. So I could have misinterpreted it, or could be misremembering, or it may even have been changed.

Oh god. I totally glossed over the mention of that film. What complete garbage.

What else does he say? "Has done some important research" doesn't really carry much weight out of context.

A journalist clocked a 2 minute difference on the return trip - not the same route driven at the same speed, but the return trip - and he "watched the speedometer closely." Well damn. Must be a warp drive.

"I like his approach" to viewing time is a far cry from "he's qualified and capable of building a warp drive."

What does this have to do with building a warp drive?

This is just a note saying that he claims to have an explanation for something. What is this proving?

What's the paper? Where is it published? I would like to read it before commenting on this.

Praising him for imaginative ideas, again, does not imply an endorsement that he can build a warp drive.

All of these are just more praise for his enthusiasm and charisma with students. They don't say anything about his qualifications or ability to build a warp drive or anything else.

I saw David Copperfield do the same thing.

Thanks.

Unsurprisingly, that turns up no patent results either.

Again, I didn't say science blogs and websites. I didn't say schoolchildren. I said a scientist. Show me a paper with his name on it that was published in a journal.

Everything in the first two pages of that search was something he wrote about how awesome he is, or something a blogger wrote about how awesome he is, or something about a DJ with the same name (or maybe that's the same guy, too?).

So what was your link supposed to prove?

Edit: I did a quick search of my own:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...rive%22&d=PTXT

These are all the results which come up in a patent search for "warp drive" and none of them belong to Barnes. Most are about yarn. One is for an aerospace vehicle but is, agian, not his.

If he is an engineer and an inventor, what are his patents? I would like to look them up.

PS: Searching by inventor name for his name turns up nothing. A search for "STDTS" turned up no results - is there someplace where he spells out what STDTS stands for? I didn't see it.

Come back and talk to me when he's taken seriously by a scientist.

No I don't.

Even Sauron was somebody's lackey.

This was around the time that Issue 9 was in beta (or it may have been just after release).

Positron also once asserted that Hamidon was some kind of an Elder God. I don't always trust his story knowledge without question.

The high mag hold is single target. The Distortion Field is AoE but only has a small chance to hold - kinda like Choking Cloud, but a patch instead of a toggle.