Texas Justice

I probably could have put this in the last post, but I wanted to bring out this specific point and why I slightly disagree with you about it.

Many of us in the community have had direct or indirect interaction with some of the staff (and not just rednames) and have built a bit of a familiar relationship with them.

Knowing that people I've grown to trust are working on Project X makes me think this is something I might like. But some might possibly have that opinion anyway just because it's made by Paragon Studios.

Knowing that several people I've grown to trust are working on Project X makes it even more likely I'd be interested in it. But some might possibly have that opinion anyway just because it's made by Paragon Studios.

It may wind up being something I have no interest at all in, but I can base comments about it or recommendations about it on my previous relationships with those people. But some might possibly have that opinion anyway just because it's made by Paragon Studios.

For example, if it was a game based on the fashion industry I likely wouldn't have any interest in the game but I could give positive recommendations about the people that designed the game due to past interactions with them.

The trust factor is big with me. If you've earned that trust, it takes quite a bit to lose it (or at least something that I consider a very personal betrayal). Once that trust is lost I'm extremely reluctant to have anything to do with someone.

People that have met me and gotten to know me likely have seen that side of me.

Maybe it's not something that would be worth making a HUGE deal over, but mentioning when someone has moved over to work on the other project can help build anticipation for that project.

Of course, I can see where the reverse would be true as well in that some people might not try it just because it was someone that used to work on CoH that they didn't like. But some might possibly have that opinion anyway just because it's made by Paragon Studios.

D'oh. I actually knew about Dark Watcher but somehow left him off the list.

I don't begrudge them moving on to a new project, especially since it's at the same studio with some of the same people they've been working with for some time. I've not had any negative thoughts or interactions with the people who have replaced them in their previous positions either. I just have new names and faces to get used to and will get to talk to familiar names less here on the forums and possibly at future events like the Player Summits (it was great seeing TR, SM, NS and DW at the Spring Summit even though I knew they were on the other project and I knew they couldn't talk about it).

I'm looking forward to seeing what they are working on. It might be something that intrigues me enough to try for more than the first free month that comes with the game. Or enough that if it's a F2P game that I'd be willing to actually spend money on it. Trust from my previous experiences with those people goes a long way in my book.

Of course, I noticed that you didn't directly answer my suspicions about Ghost Falcon so I'll just keep that as a suspicion until given more information.

There were reports on the forums from people who had experienced exactly this situation. They had gone Premium then tried to transfer a locked character to another server but were unable to. Support told them that a character must be unlocked in order to be transferred. The character they wanted to move was on a normal server, not Exalted.

With the way it is working, unless they have found a way to do something different for the Exalted server only, the only way to transfer them off of Exalted would be to do so while still VIP.

That bolded part is actually the crux of the problem. You were only wanting to scan to find what you were interested in, but that wasn't your complaint. You're complaint was that the interface was clunky and hard to use, which is frankly rubbish. This latest statement actually shows why you wanted someone else to do the work to put it into a different format.

For the record, I never said you need to give it more time.

I asked how hard it is to click a forward arrow or a back arrow.

That's not having to learn something new. You already use forward and back arrows in browsers and other interfaces.

As for the work stuff, most of what they refuse to try to use is actually more efficient than the way they insist on doing things. They'll go through an 18-stop process to do something manually that takes them 4 steps to do with the software.

I'm not worried about the technical accomplishments that much, I'm more about them getting things done in a simpler and less time-consuming manner.

I also want them to teach their students how to use these tools effectively since that is part of what they are getting paid to do. When they refuse to learn it themselves, they can't teach it to the students.

Clunky and hard to use?

How hard is it to click a forward arrow or a back arrow?

I guess it would be hard to use if you took an arrow to the mouse hand, but otherwise?

I'm on a slow wireless ISP connection and I can easily click those arrows.

This sounds much like the complaints by some of my staff for software they haven't even tried to use.

You are not wrong, and yet you are wrong in other ways.

Heroes can team with Rogues. If the Rogue is on a team with a Hero that receives a mission located in Echo: Dark Astoria, the Rogue has no way to get there unless they have the Mission Teleporter or possibly the new Team Transport. They shouldn't have to rely on access to a power on a timer that may not be available when the mission comes up.

None of these missions should be sending teams to Echo: Dark Astoria due to the inaccessibility for mixed teams.

As NekoNeko pointed out, some of these are random door locations. They should simply remove the options for locating these missions in Echo: Dark Astoria.

I call shenanigans on whatever you've seen on Amazon. Oddly, I can't find anything along those lines in reviews on Amazon, but if you have somewhere found something like that, the person that posted it is lying through their teeth.

Simply replacing a hard drive will not trigger the reactivation. As Hyperstrike said, it requires replacing a significant amount of hardware to trigger the reactivation query.

I've been a tech since 1993 (not to mention the several years before that of starting to tinker and learn hardware) and have built several systems, rebuilt several systems and done minor hardware upgrades and replacements. Not just for myself but for friends, family, strangers and even some of the companies I've worked for.

In that time, I've had to call Microsoft exactly 2 times for activation problems. One of those was because someone had written the license key down in a way that made it difficult to tell if it was a B or an 8 in the key. The other was due to an electrical storm frying the system less than 4 months after it was built and having to replace everything in the computer. As soon as I said "electrical storm" and mentioned where the customer lived the Microsoft rep apologized for the problems in registration and activated the license in their system. He told me that the only reason it had triggered was due to the major number of hardware ID's changing and how recently the OS had been registered. Total time of call? 10 minutes. I was browsing some tech articles while I made the call. I'd have been reading those articles anyway, so no real loss of my time.

Oh yeah, and both of these problems were on Windows XP. I've yet to have a problem with activations on either Vista or Windows 7.

You asked for advice, were given advice, then made a ridiculous statement that was shot down by several people that are computer techs. You came back in with more FUD posting and again the techs gave you accurate information to shoot down those posts. And yet you still want to act like you're being wronged because we are giving you truthful and accurate information to correct the misinformation you've gotten elsewhere.

You take the cake.

Actually, there is a rationale for it, and it's been posted previously by Clockwork 01, the Associate Producer for the game.

He'd have had to have not looked around very much for the first several years of playing the game.

I've seen people create some amazingly accurate IP Violations over the years, all the way back into Beta.

The OEM versions are not garbage.

I've never been locked to a specific configuration on any OEM version of Windows I've bought.

I had a system that I'd been running Windows 98SE on that I reloaded with XP shortly after XP came out using an OEM version of XP Pro. A few years later I did a major rebuild of the system basically re-using just the case, power supply and optical drives with the rest of the system internals being new and didn't have any problems using that same OEM version of XP Pro.

That system had a motherboard failure shortly after I moved back to Texas and I replaced the motherboard with a different manufacturer's board (couldn't find a reasonably priced ASUS of the same model) and had no trouble with activating the same XP Pro license on it.

And that's just one system. I've regularly re-used OEM licenses when doing complete upgrades. I know several other techs that do the same thing.

Yes, and as usual you completely ignore the fact that there are people in this game that DO NOT TEAM. Not just exceptions for small teams, not just exceptions for large teams, not just exceptions for leagues but NO TEAMING AT ALL.

And as usual, you chose to respond to someone you KNOW does not team with an insipid comment that "it's a small team event".















For anyone wondering, this post has been heavily edited multiple times before hitting Submit Reply. The first 4 versions were much harsher.

Those versions also would have required moderator action.

When people purposely make responses like that because they know it will bait me into responding, they get what they get.

It was a Live Preview of the Summer Blockbuster Event.

The information was posted on the Facebook page and on Twitter.

There was no official announcement on the forums (at least none that show in Dev Digest or Community Digest).

It's already happened (almost 2 hours ago) at this point in time.

It knocks down the pet/minion when you summon it.

And this is why I'll not be doing this event.

(for those that have difficulty interpreting comments, the / text that follows is put there just for you, as is this explanation)

/sarcasm

I'm so glad that they've decided that forced teaming is required for any new events.

/endsarcasm

I'm not sure I can totally place the blame at Paragon Studios door for this one. It seems to be more of a problem caused by PlaySpan.

Check out the upper image on this page.

Interesting.

It started working for the OP in that thread after I put in a support request about it and they started fixing it.

It took a bit of time but they finally got it all fixed.

It all works as it should for me.

Tested again yesterday before I responded to this thread.

Perhaps you should put in a support ticket to get your issue fixed?