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I had to consciously click on the User CP to see them anyway. They really shouldn't have been the first thing people saw when they came online unless they intentionally set it up that way.

If you put two siblings in the back seat of the car and told them not to mess with each other, guess what's gonna happen eventually? Daddy's gonna have to pull this car over and whup somebody.

I like Arcana's idea of being more proactive in opposing faction zones with special missions.

So does everyone else, but that shouldn't stop them from making new stuff too. You're not a special snowflake, sorry.

I just wanted to point out the irony of this statement, EvilRyu. This is essentually what you and many others continue to do with every post that deals with game mechanics or new features or wish lists, etc.

You know nothing except what YOU are gonna do.





Here's a hypothetical I just thought of as I was reading through this thread:

Let's take two brand new level one characters. One hero, one villain. ATs don't really matter. Let's also make them now (before GR, so changing sides and using both markets isn't a valid tactic). Play them through the content without doing anything out of the ordinary, like PLing. They will level at generally the same pace. Any IO's that drop that are useful will be crafted and slotted, and the remainder will all be sold at the market (no storing, any non-usable recipes can be crafted, but must be sold and not stored for other characters). As of this moment, the markets aren't merged, so which character will be outfitted with IOs first?

Gotta base it on how fast they can sell goods, and how cheap they can buy what they need off the market, right? If we all agree that redside content is lacking compared to blueside, specifically the disparity between numbers of TFs available to run and merit differences between comparable content, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that heroes would be more likely to earn their IOs through either gameplay or rolling merits than using the market, and the opposite would be true for villains? (Villains would be more likely to have to purchase their IOs through the market, since theoretically they're earning less merits and inf than their blueside brother at the same level)

Now, if we merged the markets (before GR hits) would anything we're theorizing change? Heroes and Villains still have to run the same content as before, so the earning power outside the market hasn't changed. Won't Villains still have to do more marketing, on average, than a comparable Hero, to outfit themselves? Won't that mean that, on average, a Villain has to spend more inf than a Hero to IO themselves, since they'd be paying more to purchase things than they would to craft things they earned through gameplay?

Or is the issue totally about things being available, and not really about how much people are paying for things?

And now we've come full circle again.

YOUR definition of what "good looking" is is different from what MY definition is, and are both different from what each and every other person in existence's definition of what "good looking" is. Sometimes you have to pay a little extra for it, sometimes you won't have to. That's the way "real life" works. It all averages out in the end.

The folks at Paragon and NCSoft have chosen this route for giving us new things. Like it or not, it's not going to change anytime soon. Lucky for us, they've made the boosters totally optional, and given us the ability to decide if the cool bits in a booster outweigh the cost of buying the stuff that's not so cool, or not buying it at all.

No, it's gamer logic. If I don't like it and won't use it, it's a pointless waste of developer resources that could be giving me what I want. What I want changes with the wind, but the devs should be mindreaders and omniscient and know what I want before I do and already be working on it.

I can log in every ten days too, doesn't mean I'm active.

Maybe the issue here is that there's more than a few small SGs (ie less than 8 people) who would love to participate and represent their own SG, but not at the expense of having to allow more people in the group, or having to place alts in other groups they don't play with much. There's tons of legitimate reasons for limiting enrollment in a group. They can be plenty active teaming with those outside their group. They don't need someone from a quote-unquote large SG coming in to "save everyone" from the bordedom they've inflicted on themselves by not being part of some other large SG, as if what they've chosen to do is somehow the wrong way to play.

Your event, your rules. That's fine. Just don't expect a lot of participation when you go out of your way to alienate everyone that doesn't see things your way about how SGs and coalitions should work.

How is getting a relatively small patch rolled back "disasterous?" Were there massive earthquakes? Did the game spontaneously blink out of existence?

So you have to wait a few more days to walk. Somehow I don't think that warrants questioning QA's ability to please you.

They want you all to be in the same SG, which means you get the fun of temporarily joining someone else's SG for the event, or just trying to do it with a smaller team, or not participating at all.

Here's the answer to the Base Builder's questions, all nice and color coded. You can see here that A) Yes, the Dev's do read the forums, even those containing Base related topics, B) There is indeed a person assigned to deal with Bases (maybe not exclusively, but Bases are more than just pretty shineys that you get to move around like Legos. Raids are also part of the Bases, and those require dealing with powers and game mechanics, so it's not out of line to have someone that does both Bases and Powers.) and C) They do have future plans for it (I know, they've been saying it for a while, but still...better than no response at all), and they've been kind enough to let us know not to expect anything with GR. That doesn't mean we won't get stuff with any Issue that is either before or right after GR.

Anything in the works that they haven't already told us is either still in the early planning stages, or otherwise subject to the marketing gag, so more patience is in order. Bases, and the secondary game content stemming from bases, is too big a feature to continue being an eyesore for too much longer. They'll get to it.

The desired results from investing in an expansion for a stable game is to still be a stable game on the other side. Stable games make way more money for a development/producing company than a start-up game.

If 90% of the current subs buy the expansion (there's always gonna be some that won't, for whatever reason), any new subs the expansion will attract will virtually be icing on the cake. This is not as risky an investment as you're envisioning.

This....so much this.

Although sometimes we get told exactly everything there is to tell, and there's gonna be folks that always jump to the conclusion that the Devs are hiding something because they always do.

They can't win for losing, sometimes.

whoa....I didn't know neg rep went that high. Never saw anyone with more than two bars

Sorry. Kheldian and Kelvin is nowhere near close enough to claim anything.

You can use a word in Arabic, or whatever, all you want, but if you make it a proper name, and there is some other intellectual property that already has it for a name, you lose every time.