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Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the people who are (incorrectly in my judgment) accusing the devs of being rude, immature, and unprofessional cause them to reduce or eliminate their public contact with the playerbase, then those players are doing a level of damage to the game disproportionate to their own net benefit. I was specifically thinking about the cold hard calculus of that equation when I posted what I did.

Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree

Since so many people are (allegedly) going to move all their characters to Freedom in search of easier teaming it'll be even worse next 2XP weekend, since there will be even more people trying to log in than there are now.

This of course proves that extending the free transfers is all part of an evil dev plan to blow up the Freedom server.

Originally Posted by Ascendant

Corn On Macabre
A sentient stalk of genetically engineered corn turned eco-terrorist; he's a vehement carnivore who cheerfully describes the mass execution of "meatlings" as "pest control". He's (understandably) angry that human beings eat his fellow corn on a regular basis, but absolutely furious that every year, millions of his people are cut down, boiled/fried in oil/microwaved/etc, and eaten purely as a side dish that most humans cannot even effectively digest.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Loss of revenue. Pretty much.
*shrug*

Originally Posted by Rylas

OR... because the devs don't plan on upping the server cap anytime soon, they have decided to give us an opportunity to shuffle characters to other servers, so that we might have more room on our personal preferred server to make new toons for GR.

If your doom post had any credibility, the devs would at least be telling you which servers will be shut down in advance. Sure, the first time they announced it they wanted to see which servers became highly populated, but they'd have the info they needed to choose by the second announcement.

Originally Posted by GibsonMcCoy

ClawsandEffect is completely correct here, and so are Westley and Fleeting. It's not easy to get the drops/inf to purple out a a character, and those that do take the time to do so, deserve the bonus they get from it.

Originally Posted by Xanatos

Dolphin & Dopplegang are awesome!

Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna

lol Valentin's Day...

Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen

ATI video card?

Are you running the latest drivers for your video card?

Originally Posted by supermax

rei, i do know how to write it in russian. No matter how you write it with english letters, it will be wrong, because it's english letters. But the pronunciation is closer to sabaka.

But if it makes you happy....СОБАКА!

Originally Posted by Xanatos

Popular kids are never self aware. You were a social floater that "got along with everyone." In other words you blended in but still thought you were hot **** because Sally Perkins checked you out once.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I wouldn't say rich, but if the payoff is good enough I'm willing to work for it. I've already IOed out two toons, just don't have a whole lot of inf floating around right now.

Originally Posted by Dispari

So, my awesome Plant/Earth Dom is rounding the corner, just over 42, and should be on track to hit 50 if I can stay focused. I've been looking over some builds and I can't decide what I want to do with her as far as IOs are concerned. Since permadom isn't tied to damage now I thought I could shoot for a range DEF build or build for +DMG, though I'm starting to wonder if that's worth it or if I should just go for permadom anyway.

My only real goals are to have Carrion Creepers on perma and not run out of endurance. But if I can gain something significant through other bonuses, I'd be quite happy with that. The only purples I want to spring for are confuse, hold, and maybe immobilize (though I'd need to find 3 slots for that). I also like the powers I have now, except for SS and Stealth which are set mules. And don't want to leave anything underslotted, except for Strangler, Roots, and maybe Stone Spears. So any tips or advice on what direction I could go would be a big help.

Originally Posted by macskull

The mez system is the single biggest change in terms of high-end (lol) arena PvP these days because even with TS and HD off it's start-stop-start-stop and there's nothing you can do about it. I don't think the DPA balancing was all bad, it's just the weird things it did that make it suck (I'm looking at you, pool powers, AoEs, and Ice Blast). These days it's largely become a non-issue because people have just stopped using the attack sets that worked well before that don't work as well now (really there aren't many, Ice Blast is the big one here, and maybe the Defender version of Psi) and have respec'd out of the attacks that aren't useful under the new rules.

The mez changes? I'd love to see something done about the mez system because in its current form it's pretty bad if you've got two competitive teams going at each other. In zone it's not too bad (ok, I get tagged by a random hold, and it's worn off by the time I land from my jump arc) unless the other team provides a coordinated follow-up to the mez, but in arena against another organized team it's pretty terrible. The only problem is that many people won't be satisfied until we get a full return to the old system, but there's another group of people that thinks the best solution is somewhere between the new and the old.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Dark Cold it is.


Thanks.

Originally Posted by CriticalKat

I think the word is ummm bi. Oddly I am not. I am just a big flirt, regardless of what sex someone is. No worries though, your accent does absolutely nothing for me. :-)

Originally Posted by CriticalKat

Well one of my best friends is really fat and he says he can't see his stuff when he looks down. If that is so then I guess it doesn't really matter if you are a chick or fugly man.

I would rather hear another chick rubbing one out on vent then half the huge e-peen kiddos in this game. One is definitely moar hawt than the other.

Originally Posted by Aliana Blue

This may be a bit Pavlovian, but sometimes I wonder if this isn't, in some small part, the fault of those that "stayed loyal" (I didn't, I took a long break between issues 5 and 10, and another longish one later on). Let me explain:

I think Cryptic learned the wrong lessons from City of Heroes. If you look at it, it started with a very "standard" MMOG development cycle. Initial release, issues with extra content, probably a lot of work involved in them. After the initial peak of suscribers, the numbers went down noticeably, but afterwards were pretty stable.

Enter City of Villains. Again, a large spike in sales and extra income, then the suscriptions stabilized. They did a ROI analysis and decided to put CoH/V on life support for a while and move on to greener pastures. But, to their surprise... The numbers stayed. Little new "woah!" content and noticeably less effort to support the game, but the suscriptions stayed.

So the equation was simple: Box release + skeleton crew = (Big bucks, quick ROI). Why bother making free content and work hard to put improvements in the game? Their previous experience told them it wasn't that important, after all.

In CO they're testing just how much they can get away with THAT. Then, since they already have the initial box release money (plus those that got suckered into the long suscriptions), why not throw Microtransactions into the mix? After all, what happens to the suscriber numbers in between box releases isn't very important, when you're spending very little money on maintaining it and the main investment/return is all around the boxed sets. And everyone's doing it anyway. Faster expansions? Hardly surprising, it's all about getting those shiny new boxes and looking at the money roll in.

Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna

u catgurl, dun put meh in same category..i am fat fugly man not some fat chick!

If some chick would actually "rubbing one out" on vent it would be disgusting.
And for all the people who ever get wrong ideas/hopes, don't even try, just don't. I am quite evil person and it might end up quite embarasing for you.

Originally Posted by Supermax

I'd be interested to find out the specifics.

Originally Posted by black_barrier

what do i care?
you think people say things just to entertain you?