Texas Justice

Remember, this is just ONE of his ELEVEN level 50 characters. I'm not sure how many non-50's Uber has, but I suspect it is more than one.

I'm also fairly sure that he's not just sitting around playing the same small handful of characters all the time. He can swap to whichever character is needed most for particular activities are being run or whichever one he needs the rewards most from what particular activities are being run.

Plus all of the time he spends testing on Beta and posting on the forums.

I'm not sure when he finds time to hold down a full-time job.

What.

Make sure Chewie fills out a W-4 form. Or is he not getting paid?

He tried to get Beta Wolf to do it but that didn't work out as well as he thought.

Someone will eventually come along that gets the joke there.

/auctionhouse is NOT new with Freedom. It was part of the old Veteran Rewards program and was one of the rewards for 84 months along with the badge, 1 Free Character Slot, 7 Free Reward Merits and the ability to change the colors of your title.

/vault is NOT new with Freedom. It was part of the old Veteran Rewards program and was the reward for 87 months along with the badge.

With the launch of Freedom, some of the old Veteran Rewards became available to those that didn't meet the old VR requirements. Both of those commands are available in Tier 8.

The fact that she also makes it look easy is stupefying.

How can you forget about the Wiki?

You make Aggelakis cry when you forget about the Wiki.

One of my main reasons for going to these events now has been to meet more players and hang out with the players I've met in the past or only known through the game or forums.

It was attending some of the NCSoft M&G's in Austin and the 2007 M&G at Dave & Buster's that started getting me out of feeling so shy and awkward in social situations like that. That first NCSoft M&G in Austin had me feeling like the kid that got to sit at the adult table with the heavy hitters. That was where I got to hang out with MissInformed, Moggie, Neutra, Miri and several others that I considered to be part of the heavy hitters crew.

It has long been a tradition that when Red Gren plans something for a Justice meal at the Bay Area events that ALL players are welcome to come, even if they don't play on Justice. We started doing that with the Justice Japanese Junket at the first HeroCon and continue the tradition even now. And breakfast at Holder's Country Inn will always be a part of the events for me, particularly the Bacon Waffles. Everyone should experience those at least once. They did a better job of timing our waffles for delivery to the table Sunday morning than what they did Saturday. I know they recognized us immediately and realized that they needed to get started sooner on the Bacon Waffles so that they didn't get totally overloaded just from our table.

Even more than getting to bend the ears of the devs, I just like getting to hang out with the players, especially when some of them are the same ones I've been seeing at these events for years. I'm not that big into the board games so during that part of the weekend I used it to go around the room several times chatting with various players and catching up or meeting new people. I surprised myself by sitting down at one of the computers for a bit Friday night, but it didn't last long. Once Zwillingtoadmittoonlythreemaitais announced that they were doing an early registration I logged out of the game to get my nametag and such.

Of course, it's always great to get to add new faces and names to my lists of people I look forward to seeing at these things and now you and your wife are on the list of "must see and talk to" just as Impish Kat and Rangle got added this year along with Hyperstrike and others.

Once again it was a fun weekend. They are still trying some things to see what fits best in their plans going forward for events and will refine things based on how this one went, just as they learned things from the last one.

I don't know what it is but we seem to have a very binary system going for Karaoke at these events. One event we'll have an awesome KJ that does a fantastic job and keeps things exciting (the first HeroCon and the first Pummit) and the next time we get some that ... well ... doesn't do such a good job, doesn't seem to be very well prepared, and I'll stop before saying something I shouldn't about them (second HeroCon and second Pummit).

EDIT: Sorry this rambles a bit more than usual. I'm on a serious lack of sleep along with the lag from time zone changes and having to be extra busy at work the first morning back. I'll have my body back on a normal schedule by ... Thursday (possible) or Friday (probable). But by then I'll be starting to get it out of balance due to The Avengers being released.

Just remember that when the VIP status lapses she will lose access to the Invention System unless you purchase a monthly IO license or buy enough Paragon Points to move her up the Reward Tiers high enough to permanently unlock IO's (Tier 7 completed = 27 Reward Tokens earned).

*looks at previous posts*

Around 11:30 or 11:45 is when we should be getting to the Stanford Shopping Center and Schaub's Meat Fish & Poultry.

By the time you get from SFO to San Jose/Palo Alto/Mountain View area we will probably be on our way to the hotel to check in.

Unless we decide to invade the Paragon Studios offices.

If you check the time stamps of the posts, she posted this nearly 30 minutes before the official announcement post was made.

She didn't repost the official announcement.

She pre-posted information before the official announcement.

QFT.

Very well stated.

I can't test this with my system on Virtue since I refuse to create a character there due to the name of the server.

However, I do have a lowbie alt on Freedom that I can test this with after I get back from the Pummit.

I still don't think I'll have much of a problem, but I'm willing to test it during a high server load time.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Thank you Zombie Man.

I needed a good laugh today.

Well done. (or Medium Rare if you prefer)

Reading Ukaserex's post it seems that most of the recommendations are made on the assumption that either the poster is a VIP or is willing to spend money for all of the unlocks (SSA's, IO's, AH, Alignment system, etc).

Side note here. Non-VIP accounts do not have access to the Test server.

They also do not have access to the Beta server but that's a different matter.

That's not a problem I've ever had, even with my lousy ISP connection.

This isn't on a monster gaming rig either. It's on a Dell that is nearly 4 years old. The only change to the system is the addition of a second drive for installing Windows 7 and replacement of a burned out Power Supply.

I've also never had that problem on my laptop even when I'm running wirelessly.

I don't think that is completely accurate. I do think that the developers may have had a problem with the way procs behaved but they just didn't talk about it publicly since they had no tools at that time to change the way they worked.

As new tools have been developed, they have been able to change several things, not just procs, that they couldn't change before (Hami-O's that affected a stat they weren't supposed to affect as one example).

It's also possible that with some of the new items they are trying to introduce that they need to use newer tools with them and they are trying to balance older items along with the newer items.

It's also possible that some of the changes are due to design decisions made by the current team of developers rather than staying with decisions made by previous development teams.

That's not someone trying to claim you are "selfishly trying to protect the bad mechanics for their gain" as you put it. That's someone offering a fairly reasonable and plausible assessment as to why things are being changed now.

Also, there have been changes to the game since day 1 and will continue to be changes to the game. It is the developer's that get to make the decision as to whether or not they think a specific change is needed and they are under no obligation to give us that reasoning. Also, they don't always tell us if they think that something isn't working as well as they want it to work or in the way they want it to work, especially if they don't have a way to change it.

Work with the changes or leave. That's your decision. That's been a decision every player has had to make over the years in regards to specific changes. The old phrase was "vote with your wallet" but that's no longer a relevant phrase.

There ya go.