Shadowe

I'll thank you to not put words in my mouth.

No, I wasn't being sarcastic.

The Eden Trial level limitation is an intended design feature. As such, it is WAI. Now, we can debate whether that's a good or a bad feature, but what it is NOT is a bug.

Ah, I know it so well... though for me, I was standing there, cursing loudly, and my wife looks over at me and asks me what's wrong, and I point out that I can't click on the train doors. She points out to me exactly why this was... I'd only been playing the game for 3 years at that point.

As fat as that cat in your avatar?

(which is awesome, by the way)

/offtopic

Must confess, I've had my chat window taking up about 40% of my screen width for so long, now, that I didn't notice this at all, but I can understand it bugging people.

is almost completely insane.

Let's look at my Eng/Eng blaster's three possible "best" attacks for a moment (I'm not in-game so I'm not looking at the actual numbers here).

Power Bolt. Low on damage, but recharges damn fast.
Power Burst. Nice damage, but takes several seconds to recharge.
Nova. Insane damage, takes an age to recharge, and that End drain is a pain at the wrong time.

Which one of these three should I be spamming?

The real answer is "none of the above". I should be hurling out an attack chain.

It gets even worse if I consider that order from the perspective of my Rad/Psi defender. Rather than dropping the awesome debuffs, healing, firing off Accelerate Metabolism, rezzing fallen comrades... I should be using my frankly feeble (compared to say a scrapper or blaster) attacks?

No. No, no, no, no, no.

My wife would laugh at me if I asked her to "spam the mobs with her best attacks" on her Earth/Kin 'troller. In fact, she'd probably turn around and whack me round the head. Her contributions when we duo are (firstly) holds, immobs, slows. Followed rapidly by enemy debuffs, with team and self-buffs coming in a close third. She sometimes complains to me that she feels useless, standing around doing "nothing" while I'm ripping through enemy groups like a chainsaw through bubblewrap. My normal response is "BWUH? Without you, they'd have slaughtered me. You might not have killed many of them, but you sure as heck helped. A lot!"

So, just adding my weight to people questioning that as an instruction, because it's a poor one, except, perhaps, on an all Scrapper/Blaster team.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

*wheezing breath*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

They have no obligation to tell us anything. At all.

They ARE communicating, quite often, really, to keep us updated on the issue.

I find it utterly laughable that you believe that you are somehow entitled to have the servers constantly up, and to be continuously updated on what the development staff are doing to resolve the situation. No, sorry. Their servers, their decisions, their rules. You pay for the right to access the servers when THEY have those servers available.

Now, this downtime is longer and more severe than they were expecting, so they might decide to offer us some form of in-game compensation (DXP weekends are popular), but they are under no obligation to do anything of the sort.

If you don't like that, you can put your money where your mouth is and quit the game. Can I have your stuff?

The full expression, as discussed elsewhere on these boards, is "Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt". The meaning is essentially "and that's everything sorted out."

To make a chicken pilaf, brown some chicken with skin on for a few minutes, add an appropriate amount or rice, and a tablespoon of curry powder, stir for one minute, turn over the chicken, add water to cover the chicken, mixed vegetables and a sliced lemon, cover, simmer for 10 minutes (stirring occasionally), and Bob's your uncle, you have a delicious meal.