Snow Globe

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Come up with a VALID reason as to WHY you should be allowed to mail emails to yourself by following these rules:

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Stooping to stacking the deck? How droll.

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(1) Refrain from using OTHER MMOs as a source of reference.

(2) The reason(s) MUST be in paragraph form. None of the following will be allowed:
(a) Because it would be cool.
(b) Because we need it.
(c) Because I'm bored.
(Invalid reasons)

(3)Spell check and sentence structure is important. (Remember you're trying to convince the majority of players WHY this feature is needed. Please, sound out the word(s) before you type them.)

(4) Your statements MUST be based on FACT and NOT the rantings of a 5 year old that just wants and wants and wants.

(5) Your reason(s) must FIX the issues rather than create new ones

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There exists several ways to transfer inf and items without a mail system. However they come with added baggage. There is the extra account, but that costs $15 a month. This favors those with more real life money over those with a single account, creating a two-tier system. You could try to trade with a friend, but that comes with a time cost. There is a method with even greater risk by trying to use the market to transfer the item/inf. Finally, there is using group storage items to transfer, but comes with either the risk of theft from another person in the group or the diminished presence of larger groups as people leave to start solo groups.

Seeing that it already exists and is already happening, adding a mail transfer system should have minimal negative effect on the market. Items transferred wouldn't be heading to the market anyways, so there is nothing lost for them. In the case of groups there would likely be some small benefit as people wouldn't have to worry about making "personal storage groups" to facilitate transfer of items. At any rate it would eliminate the advantage of those who can afford to pay for two or more accounts.

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That's still a better idea, though. 500 badges cuts out the Vet. reward badges, and some of the 'no longer attainables', if I recall. The anniversary badges, for instance.

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There are only about 30 badges that pre-Issue 14 fall in the Vet Reward or "no longer available" categories.

There are a total of 563 badges on villains and 638 for heroes.

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They're not mind readers, and as you said, there's a mound of data to sift through.

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Hence my suggestion for the log and the notices that should have been put in place alongside this new rank.

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Why make them go through more than they have to? It is your problem, after all. You pay for service, but you have to be prepared when you ask for it, or your service will be poor.

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Again, see the points about why there should be notices and logs. Logs have been on the player list of group requests for over a year now. They would give players that information that we could bring to the CS team. Yet we still don't have it.

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The SL, of course.

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Isn't that like telling the victim to deal with their attacker before calling the police?

Thank you both!

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This way CS and the rest of the group do not have to sift through mounds of data to determine who did what.

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CS already has this kind of data available to them.

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Buried in all the other data.

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Okay, completely missing from this: You don't know who booted you. You don't know who was booted after you. There is no log showing this to the player, so who exactly are they supposed to /petition?

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So your SG has no way of contacting each other except throught /sg? You have other issues then, my friend.

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They may not be available in a timely fashion.

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If you've got a real problem, you should be man enough to put your name behind a petition and follow through with it.

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Who would they /petition against? The players have no record, which leaves CS to tell the player "too bad, go join another group". Not a good enough answer.

I don't have any problem writing a /petition if someone is griefing me.

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Who would CS talk to if there were an auto-petition generated? They'd have a much better chance of picking the wrong leader (if there were multiples) than the one with the problem.

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As others have said: there is a record of the person doing the booting in the system logs. I doubt that they'd get the wrong person. I don't believe the CS team is full of people that cannot read.

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The following should have been put in place:

Auto message to those being removed from a group stating the global account doing the removal, the character name doing the removal, and the time of removal.

SG log stating the character name of the person doing the booting, time of removal, and the character name being removed from the group. This log should be separate from the other activity logs (storage interaction).

This way CS and the rest of the group do not have to sift through mounds of data to determine who did what.

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These are separate issues from what the SL rank is supposed to address.

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These address problems that the new rank makes worse. Again, the cart has been placed before the horse.

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And if anything, they should be put in just for the players to do the investigative work themselves first. CS shouldn't be first on the list to work out anything, unless it's a bug. SG problems are not bugs.

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And it isn't my job to make theirs easier at my expense. I am paying NCsoft money to provide a service. I have a problem with them offloading their work onto me.

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I'm sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would bring it up. I believe that for every 250 badges you earn you should earn an additional level once you hit lvl50.

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Not only no, but heck no. This is a bad suggestion because:
<ul type="square">[*]Characters are defined by their limitations.[*]Would require significant development time for a small percentage of the player base.[*]Would take away from other expansion plans the developers have.[/list]
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I recently read a post from Castle talking about why they won't raise the level cap - and I 100 percent agree. But if there are toons out there at lvl54, then why can't player toons reach that "Arch-XX" status also?

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You don't agree, because you are suggesting exactly what Castle is against.

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The game experience and dedication to one toon should reward something amazing. That dedication should show not only if someone right clicks and views their information, but blazing in the information box that they have accomplished something amazing.

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A new aura unlocked at level 50? Sure, sounds great.

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If I were king of dreamland, I would reward the badge levels like this:
LVL51 = +3 Slots
LVL52 = +3 Slots
LVL53 = ANY Power in the game
LVL54 = +3 Slots

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Raising the level cap again. In addition you are tossing game balance completely out the window with your "level 53" suggestion. This is the death knell of this suggestion.

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when someone spends more than 1,500 hours playing a single toon to earn badges and during the journey gaining real experience understanding the game dynamics, then they I believe they have earned the privilege of being unrivaled gods.

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I repeat myself: Characters are defined by their limitations, not their powers.

Would you and WarPatriot consent for this to be in the Scoop?

If the Arena were cross-server from issue 9, it would be more popular today (and there likely be less people leaving pvp).

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I'd be interested to hear what the CS stats are on these kinds of issues.

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So would I.

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I'd be willing to wager a fair amount that intentional promotions and subsequent disagreements and conflicts are a much bigger problem and hassle for CS than accidents.

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Barring CS stats, I think we will have to agree to disagree on this point.

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How about being able to promote/demote characters who are offline?
Can the Superleader do that? Please?

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No they can't.

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That is exactly what I meant, and it should have come as part of this new rank. Customer Service wants a tool to make their lives easier, fine. They should take the responsibility for any abuse of this tool as well. That means they should have the tools to monitor someone abusing this new rank.

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Except, what exactly would be abuse?

What if an SG in coalition redefines it purpose (RO has done this, tightening/loosening some of the rules and thus changing who is appropriate in the themed SG) so kicks people who don't belong in that particular SG anymore? With the consent of everyone involved. Then you end banned because of an auto-petition?

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And they could have been asked to leave prior to the boot. If the leadership decided on a whim that a character "didn't fit" and booted without warning, then that is griefing. If they have a communication that the character didn't fit, CS would see that (as you have said below), and not ban.

I see no issue with the auto /petition if the leader in question puts forth a minimum amount of effort to explain themselves before they act.

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There are so many variables in this game nothing should ever generate an auto-report from a player EXCEPT a crash. But, everything is recorded - it's a huge mass of data, but if you petition that your character, and everyone else got kicked after after so-and-so became super leader, they can look it up, and fix the problem.

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Okay, completely missing from this: You don't know who booted you. You don't know who was booted after you. There is no log showing this to the player, so who exactly are they supposed to /petition?

The following should have been put in place:
<ul type="square">[*]Auto message to those being removed from a group stating the global account doing the removal, the character name doing the removal, and the time of removal.[*]SG log stating the character name of the person doing the booting, time of removal, and the character name being removed from the group. This log should be separate from the other activity logs (storage interaction).[/list]This way CS and the rest of the group do not have to sift through mounds of data to determine who did what.

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How is it possible you are still asking this????
That would ONLY prevent those cases where the initial promotion was accidental and would do nothing in the case of leadership disputes when the promotions were very much intentional in the past but need to be adjusted in the present.

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Because I don't believe that is the primary cause of disputes. I would think it is the accidentally promoted that cause the majority of the problems.

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While I understand some of your concerns over the new role, it is unfathomable to me that you still believe a simple prompt would prevent anything this is intended to cure.

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It is intended to cure Customer Service getting involved in internal group disputes, and to correct a bug where a character that has been off-line longer than the auto-demotion period would sometimes be selected. I do not see it curing what you think it cures.

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Again, why not?

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Unless you mean the GM call - as to that, I can think of no situation which auto-generates a petition without the player starting it.

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That is exactly what I meant, and it should have come as part of this new rank. Customer Service wants a tool to make their lives easier, fine. They should take the responsibility for any abuse of this tool as well. That means they should have the tools to monitor someone abusing this new rank.

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And as for using the auto-demote to self-demote, I also should not be forced to NOT play a character.

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Every rank should be able to self-demote, not just leaders.

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Further, WoW has substantially more players, yet the market is no more active then ours, which suggests that their market activity is lower than ours, and they make up for their lower activity per person by having more persons.

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Maybe you are drawing the wrong conclusions. The fact that markets in MMOs are exhibiting low activity per person might mean that people don't like markets in their MMOs (shock!).

The market has shown itself to be no more popular than the Arena in CoX. It can go play in it's corner and leave everyone that doesn't want to use it alone.

Again, why not?

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Wouldn't this have been solved by simply putting in a prompt for promoting to the same level as the person promoting? An ounce of prevention in this case would have been worth this pound of "cure".

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What happens when someone wants to step down, though? You shouldn't have to quit and SG and be re-invited in order to step down from a leadership position.

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Stop playing the character for 15 days. One of my groups has done this. Don't get me wrong, a self-demotion would be wonderful, had they actually followed through on a working self-demotion system. Instead we have a half-baked version.

It only applies to the new rank, not all ranks.

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Is there a mechanism so that if someone in this new rank goes on a booting spree that the GMs will be notified and step in?

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I would think yes - a booting spree would be obvious griefing to me, if everyone had been logging in regularly.

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Not quite what I was asking. I was asking if the GMs were automatically notified so that players wouldn't have to file separate /petitions.

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In the current system, no one can demote someone who is at their same level, and there is no self demotion.

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Wouldn't this have been solved by simply putting in a prompt for promoting to the same level as the person promoting? An ounce of prevention in this case would have been worth this pound of "cure".

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Adding in a "sole" Superleader to the SG system allows for leadership disputes to be solved within the SG themselves, as there is now a level that can demote the current "leader" level. If the Superleader no longer wants to be Superleader, they just need to promote someone else to Superleader, and they will demote themselves in the process.

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Is there a mechanism so that if someone in this new rank goes on a booting spree that the GMs will be notified and step in? Will CS refer people back to rogue super leaders saying that its hands are tied because they didn't break any game rules? Will CS restore these groups or will the people being booted have any recourse other than finding a new group?

So far there has been no official answer to these questions.

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This notification is to give you at least 7 days notice that a respec is coming!

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Thank you for the notice and the development team for the respec.

Just for added fun, something further broke with Issue 14:

See image.

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ManMECH (Poster)

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Can we use for City Scoop? Please?

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Here's some I don't know what this is.

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The Super Gymnastics Family pose?

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Lady Sheenah is one of my brutes on CoX!

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I would have to check with the forum mods before accepting that.

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*looks around for Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon*

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Personally I was expecting Dennis Miller.

Addition to the list:
Remove the dumb requirement that you have to have base edit rights to convert Inf to prestige.