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Different tasks should get different rewards. A TF is not the same as a story arc. Why should their rewards be similar? If you normalize rewards, you'd be making the problem worse and not better.

There are folks that want to run arcs, and there's folks that want to run the ITF ten times a week. There's nothing you can do to make them change their minds. Why punish them for doing what they've chosen to do with their subscription time? They've weighed the rewards to their time spent and deemed it satisfactory enough to continue.

If you're having trouble finding teams to do what you want to do, perhaps you should alter your methods, rather than trying to alter everyone elses to fit yours.

Did you try downloading the launcher from NCSoft's site again?

The people that want to run TFs and "end game" content all the time have always been in the game. The only reason you're seeing more of it is because there is more for them to do these days. If it didn't affect your play style then, it shouldn't now.

Actually, you probably wouldn't have a case if you hit 'I Accept' anyway. There's no difference between it being illegible and you not reading it at all if it was. If legibility were a concern, there would be no such thing as fine print.

They made Cyclops look like a woman in that picture of the cast. He's standing like one, and he looks like he's got bewbies. Why didn't they draw him like Wolverine and Beast, standing like men normally stand?

Here is the first report, with screenshots, of the new slots we'll be getting with Issue 20: Incarnates.

If you're wondering how you missed your chance, this is from the Euro Test. Our opportunity to go in and play is:

# Thursday, March 3rd, from 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM PST until 10:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM PST, on the North American Beta Server

Remember, they'll also be giving away Animal Pack codes in Pocket D before the Trial testing starts, so show up early.


Lots of interesting new possibilities, and it's only a small sample of what there is. Notice all of the different components, that are completely different than what you need for Alpha Boosts.

EDIT: note the time change in bold. Apparently they've got scheduled maintenance on the Beta server, so they had to cut the time short by an hour.

Waiting till it actually comes out...at the end of the month.

Hope you're doing well getting your edjumucation, Tom. Start bussing tables so you can scratch enough dough together to come back and see us :P

Not really. They drop randomly. Try street sweeping if paper missions don't work. I've gotten two tips from two consecutive defeats on the streets before, and then you could go an hour before the next one. Some say looking for more bosses helps, but I personally haven't noticed much of a difference in frequency of drops.

Thanks for all of your hard work helping to make Champion what it is today. Hopefully you'll be back sooner rather than later.

I motion that we institute new phrases:

Hardcore-Casual

Casual-Hardcore


Hardcore-Casuals just play whatever whenever they can, and they broadcast their disdain for min/maxers, ebil marketeers, farmers, speed TF runners, AE babies, and forum celebrities. They blame these groups for nerfs, high level content, crappy RNG results, and zone lag. Some like being called Casual Players because they can hold themselves above those that "have no life outside the game." They also insist that some content can't be done with the limited time each day they have to play, ignoring the fact that many people plan ahead to do certain things that they just can't pop in and do. Some also play at odd hours of the day, due to work schedules or time zone, and spend their forum posting time lamenting about dead servers and requesting mergers. When new content is introduced, H-Cs complain about no one wanting to do the old content.


Casual-Hardcores play whatever whenever they can, but they know the ins and outs of all their powersets, they figure out how to spend just minutes a day making millions of inf in the market, they know how to throw together Pug TFs and still do speed runs, they might use AE or other forms of PLing to bypass the low levels and get characters to the "fun levels," and they read the forums and other sites to find out ways to maximize their limited time in game. They sometimes blame the Hardcore-Casuals for the general "dumbing down" of the game. Casual-Hardcores have played more in the past than they do now. Some have taken breaks from the game as they grew tired of playing the same content, waiting for new Issues, and spend money just to be able to post in the forums. When new content is introduced, C-H's run through it with all of their alts very quickly, if it is something they've been waiting for, and then spend time taking advantage of any changes in market behavior and reconnecting with old players that have come back.


Both groups are more similar than they want to think they are, and fight for distinction whenever Red Names enter conversations about future development ideas. They both also think, with some exceptions, of course, that the other side gets more attention than they do.