White Hot Flash

I don't think there's a caveat in any statute that mandates that a knife has to be sharp to be a deadly weapon. A pen is just a really short, blunt knife. If the guy had hit what he aimed at (the eye), he could have driven it far enough into the guy's head to do some calligraphy on his brain.

YOU WERE NEVER PROMISED. No one was promised. Please let that sink in before more complaining commences. All they've ever said, for any method of qualifying for beta, was that you'd be ELIGIBLE for beta testing. Closed Beta never invites everyone and their dog. That's what Open Beta is for. It's been like this for every Closed Beta they've ever ran, and ever will run. You did the things they asked for, and got put on a list. That's all they said they'd do. There's been no redname post, no community rep post, no anything, that says you're guaranteed to get in by doing X, Y, or Z.


Ahh....I feel better now.

You could always try to run it that way and see if you crash.

The only things in the base that cost a lot of prestige are empty rooms when you add them or items that add to the utility of your base, like power generators or control items, or things you have to craft. All the decorative stuff, which is what the vast majority of the items we see in those pictures, don't really add up to a whole ton of prestige. And like someone upthread already said, right now there's a physical limit to how many items you can safely put into your base no matter how big or small the plot is before it crashes. Having more prestige right now before they fix that (if they can) would only mean you'd get to that limit faster.

It wasn't meant to just be a preview for Beta testers, but as Positron said, the way the testing was going led the Devs to decide to pull it back and wait till more of the system was ready before giving it to us. They thought that giving us just the first level of the Incarnate system would be ok, but then they found out it wasn't going to live up to their standards. Nothing wrong or underhanded with that at all.

Not to take this off topic too much, but if there's a 'but' coming after a statement like that, then you are ashamed to a certain degree. If you think it's a negative to bring up the fact that you are an online gamer, then at some point you're hiding that fact. Not saying you should or shouldn't, because I don't know your current situation, but I'd think the art/music field would not only not care about you being a gamer, they are both fields that flow very much into the gaming world. You might be shooting yourself in the foot as much as trying to maintain a certain image. Just something to consider.

Who is "They"? The only "They" that matters said in the announcement for Issue 18 that further PvP changes are on the back burner for the foreseeable future.

You're missing the point of the AE edition of the game. The Architect Edition was not ever labeled as an expansion, like Going Rogue is. It was solely an updated game disc (which was sorely needed) and happened to coincide with the AE system being added into the game. AE was originally supposed to be part of a larger free Issue, but they decided to pull it separate from the rest and put it out early. AE is not an expansion. All of the content of Going Rogue, however (not I18), IS a paid expansion, and is being marketed as such, and therefore requires a higher (though not much if you don't buy the Collector's Edition) price point. AE Edition sold you something you already had, outside of the free booster pack code and the free month of game play. Going Rogue has nothing but content that isn't in the game, and can't be played unless you buy the expansion.

If they made people pay extra for AE just to be able to use it, it would never have worked. It was a relatively untested system and it would have been dumb for marketing to make us pay to field test it, which is what we've been doing since its release.

You were doing just fine till you got to the last part, which I bolded. Adding comments like that won't make things better any faster. Besides, it's not like they don't hear that ten times a day...much like "Devs hate Villians."

If he can do umlauts, he should be Zwolf (umlaut over the o)

All I need is a tall building and some willing people that want to hit the ground "running"