White Hot Flash

Valid for whom? Who's the first person you'd listen to if there were two groups of people: One group says they don't like a feature. The other group also says they don't like it, but they come up with a list of things that would be better. If you say the first group, you're not trying very hard to listen to the community, and that's what some folks are accusing the Devs of right now.

If I said I didn't like something, and offered nothing better, how is anyone supposed to fix it? To the people that made it, it's fine. If you've got a better idea, feel free to bring it up, and they might think it's better as well and make some changes.

Being a curmudgeon, sitting on the rocker saying "This stinks. That's lame. They could do better...." all day fosters nothing but negativeness. Being negative doesn't make the game better. You can't take something away and not substitute something in it's place, or why bother with the exorcism in the first place? I doubt that there's more than a handful of players that would be happier with less than have something different, if they're clamoring for a change.

If you're going to subtract something because you don't like it, you should substitute something better (in your opinion) in it's place to fix it. The question posed to you was simple: If you don't find those things "epic enough," what would you propose for a storyline instead?


Also, if you're gonna start a thread, it really doesn't help your cause to go ultra defensive at the first response to it. You're the only one that saw something negative in it.

And 90% (or more) of those cheesy Sci-Fi channel movies are theirs.

Instead of uncrafting, they gave us the ability to swap them out without losing the previous one. I like what they've given us a lot more.

Care to enlighten the rest of the class what those contributions might be, or am I to take your word for it? Keep in mind, I'm not the one trying to tear down another player's status by saying "They're no better than me" so it doesn't matter what I've done. I haven't made any claims one way or the other.


The rest of your response is great backpedaling technique. Kudos to you.

I have one that I made a while ago (but don't play much cause he's on a different server) called Electro-Viking. I made him more as a spoof of the Techno Viking, but Thor works too

You have done well, Uncle.

No, what you did was take offense that someone would dare trust one player over another (or really, you, when it comes down to it). You've been trying to defend your position ever since by making her out to be someone seeking attention and downplaying her obvious contributions to the game. Sorry if none of the rest of us follow that same train of thought. There are tangible fingerprints in the game of her unsolicited work. Have you contributed anything besides posting in a forum?

Never said you started it originally, just your response when someone else brought up her past accomplishments.

You're missing the big point, man.

THERE IS NO ADVANTAGE to having Ninja Run, or not having it, in these trials. The maps are too small to make a difference how fast you get somewhere.

Third party websites are not the place to discuss what's wrong with a game, outside of the "what would you do differently?" question that usually gets asked. You were setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Nightshadelegree:
You won't find frank discussions in any third party article while the game is active. Skim the Dev Digest and the Community Digest. You'll see that the Devs are well aware of the feedback (if you take Community Reps at their word, which I'd hope you would, or otherwise, what's the point of reading the forums?). When they get time away from working, they'll come in here and discuss more.

It's a better form of it. You have to pay attention to what you're doing or you'll never get them both down. It's taken the mindless part of fighting one AV, or splitting a pair or group of them up so you can thin the herd one at a time out of the equation.

"More of the same" could mean more than one thing. We'll get more Incarnate content, but it doesn't necessarily have to be more of what we're already seeing (Trials). It could just simply mean we'll be getting more of the same idea that the Incarnate system represents, which Arcana eluded to: a departure from the old 50 content and how you run it. They could find a way to give us content meant for smaller groups than these Trials require, and still make it meaningfully different than running Maria Jenkins' arc over and over, for example, which is what most folks did for kicks because the AVs were the toughest challenge in the game at the time.

You will not be able to unlock further slots without some measure of commitment, but that doesn't have to mean grinding. They might allow us to add the BAF and Lambda to the list of future tasks that will unlock further slots, to give more variety in how you unlock them, which would alleviate much of the complaints we're seeing now (only having two things that can unlock slots quickly).

This is already the case, I thought. Aside from being able to start one solo, that is. You can already just invite enough to start, drop them, and fight spawns set at the TFs minimum. This was a change from several Issues ago (when Posi got revamped, I believe, but it might have been before that).

The idea that there are more lower level characters at this stage in the game's life is becoming obsolete. For example, I have more 50's than everything else put together, and I'm far from the only one. It's very easy to go steaming through the lower levels as you gain XP, so you're not hanging around those low levels as long unless you choose to, whereas there are more people in the 40s because it takes longer to level at that range.

There are also plenty of folks that are running high level TFs with small groups, duos, or even solo. You don't need a full team, just a full group of fillers, which isn't that hard to find, comparatively.