StratoNexus

Why not just triple the amount of +HPs?

I am not making fun of anyone for liking to collect badges. I like to collect badges too.

I am simply saying I do not believe all badges need to be accessible to all people. Whether that is through limited times to get them or limited means to get them or any other limits the devs decide on.

I was not really thinking about it that hard. Mostly I was making a joke. I just have little sympathy with people who feel they have a right to have every badge. I don't have a problem with completists desire, except when it is used as a reason to argue the devs should limit their design of badges based on that desire.

It's nice that some people want all the badges, but I do not think the devs should be constrained by that fact.

IMO, it is better to head to your server's gathering point and join a pre-formed league. Until the LFG tool is cross-sever, it will be a useless tool (unless the game's population triples or better, which would thrill me, but seems unlikely).

While I agree, I can truly sympathize that most people just don't have the skill/energy to form teams, much less leagues. While I almost always lead, some nights I just do not feel like it. I can understand that many people just do not feel like it all the time and rely on people like me to do the work for them. I am OK with doing that work, of course it may mean I will kick you, since you decided you did not want the star.

Look, kicking that person from my league made me feel bad. I would have felt worse if I had let them stay and they messed up my test, but I still did not like doing it. They had actually dropped into another league I had run some time in the past week or two (and that was just a regular run, so I moved them into a team and we were all happy), so they must use the queue that way more often than not. Needless to say they were not happy about being kicked and I likely could have handled the situation better, but I was on limited time and had formed the league for a specific reason and if I did not get it done that night, I would likely have had to wait until next week or maybe longer to get it done.

I do not think you can run missions (except maybe hunts) and remain in the LFG queue, but I may be incorrect.

Curses! Foiled again.

In game communities are mostly global channel based, which are already "server-less". I'd love to be able to play my Guardian characters with my Pinnacle friends and my Liberty characters with my Guardian friends and my Protector characters with my Liberty friends and my Pinnacle characters with my Protector friends all of which I primarily interact with through various global chat channels.

Keeps the dream alive.

It is not 0.1% of the game. It is 40 minutes to an hour of my play time during the week. That could be 5%, 20%, 50%, or 100% of my play time that week, depending on my schedule. I'd rather not spend any of that time "suffering", just like I am sure you would not rather spend any of your play time "suffering".

Someone gets "punished" no matter what happens.

Either the players who want a closed league are punished by not being able to play how they want.

Or the pick-ups from the queue get punished by not being able to play when they want.

Why are you willing to punish the former, but feel the latter should never be punished?

I have had several random people from the queue join preformed leagues. I welcome that personally and consider it a good feature.

However, I did kick someone once, just this last week. I own that call totally and I am OK with the fact that it means that one night, in that one instance, I was a jerk. Obviously, I felt I had a good reason, but that does not change the fact that the person I kicked had to join a different run and lost x amount of time.

I do like to occasionally run SG/friends only events. If you gave me the option to close leagues, I would likely use it occasionally. I still do not want the option added because I prefer the trials and LFG system to be as they are now.

You couldn't burn your own face off, even if you tried!

This happens to me on my Controller with EE often. I can't recall having it happen on my tanker yet, but it probably has, just not as often thanks to the extra HPs and other mitigation.

How do we know it is far more powerful than it should be? Perhaps it was designed with the intent to be this powerful?

Earth's Embrace is on the same recharge as Dull Pain. Obviously, if you use Granite, this may affect the situation, but out of the box, the power's recharges are identical. Also, EE grants 20% enhanceable Toxic resistance, which DP does not do.

The end drains are rough on my WP tanker, but my Inv scrapper, oddly, has fewer problems. Once I get Ageless, I think my Tanker will do much better. My AoE melee blaster has few problems with the end drain, although the green bar can be problematic once the inspires run out.

I have taken to carrying a few blues on those characters who may get hit with EMP rockets and Drain Psyche a lot.