Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. It should increase all movement speeds by 30%.

    I'm guessing that since Fly already hits the flyspeed cap unslotted it's calculating the uncapped boost to actual flyspeed which is capped and, thus, coming up with a reduction in flyspeed.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by masterpiece View Post
    Totally impressed about issue 21 going to live so soon after the beta. Glad my 6 month subs went through already for my two accounts. Here's a question with i21 arriving for vip on tuesday that means level pacts cease to exist too?

    My first purchase will be beam rifle but looking forward to spending points on enhancements, salvage, and recipe storage expansion.
    There are 'concerns' about level pacting under FREEDOM which need a coding fix. During the VIP Head Start, level pacts can still be made. And after Head Start is over and the F2P players start play, those previously created level pacts will continue to exist. However, once F2P starts, no new level pacts can be made until they put in the coding fix. No time estimation of when that will be.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by bromley View Post
    One thing that bugs me is seeing people say that if VIPs just wait two months, then the 800 point "premium" power sets are free. But that is only true if you don't want ANYTHING else at all from the store. And I think it is safe to say that almost every costume piece or perk is going to cost points to buy. And that too will be said to be fine, because VIPs will have 400 points a month to play with, so given enough patience, everything will be free.

    But it really seems like not much will be free. IMO.
    You will still get three new Issues per year without paying extra for them.

    You get 400 Points per month which will buy you the equivalent of 3 Boosters worth of extras. Did you get Boosters for free before? No. But you'll be getting the equivalent of them for free after FREEDOM.

    You get one Server Transfer per month at no cost. Did you get that free before? No. That used to cost $10 per transfer.

    You get a new Server to play on at no additional cost.


    The catch is that the Devs are producing about 6 Boosters worth of extras per year. That's more content than ever before. However, you only get enough stipend to buy about 3 Boosters worth. You either prioritize or you pay up.

    But, if you remain a VIP, you will be getting more under FREEDOM at no extra cost than every before: Solid, demonstrable FACT.

    But, there are more goodies than ever to buy.

    The only way to view that as "seems like not much will be free" is if you expect everything to be free, which is not a reasonable expectation from a for-profit business.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oathbound_Too View Post
    Pretty sure it was mentioned a good while ago we'd get them... how long before we do is a whole other story though.
    No. How much is the other story.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arilou View Post
    Heh, considering your preferences I suspect you're going to change your mind once you actually FIGHT them.

    The Awakened, especially, are just mean.
    Awakened?! Where?! Run away!!!

    SUPPRESSORS??!!! KILL ME, NAO!!!!



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Synergy View Post
    I'm confused. I thought Tyrant was the Well's champion. Why now is the Well suddenly trying to punish him?
    ***Spoilers Below****

    Highlight to read more clearly.

    Three reasons: 1. Because Cole is failing the Well. His invasion of Primal Earth was not the quick push over he thought it to be. This has led to Praetorian Hamidon to lose respect for Cole and break their truce where Cole had to prove to P-Hami that humanity was worth not destroying. And now Cole has a two-front war on his hands. Meaning that maybe he won't be the Well's Champion to drive off The Coming Storm.

    And, 2. Because Cole left a lot of collateral damage in the war on Hamidon and while crafting his paradise. Those whom he has hurt want vengeance, and, the Furies are all about making that happen.

    And, 3. They're not really the Furies of the Well in that the Well gets mad and dispatches its Furies, but instead the Furies of the Well in that in Primal Earth, the Furies were the only Immortal Incarnates that hung around guarding the Ancient Greek incarnation of the Well. Thus, that Well is often called the Well of the Furies. They're more the Furies empowered by the Well as much as any other Incarnate is.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nos482 View Post
    Ouch, and there goes the majority of my limited bandwidth... not to mention that I only have 500MB a day without getting reduced to a crawl.
    Oh joy
    Don't let it download or pre-download if you already have Beta or Test patched up. When FREEDOM is Live, you can copy over the piggs from Beta or Test and just do a repair....

    theoretically.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Thany144 View Post
    You guys dont think they have been giving us pieces of thia for weeks with the publishes?
    No. FREEDOM alters the directories of the files so that brand new players can get the character creator working while the rest of the game is downloading. None of the new file structures have made it to the Live build. And when it does, it will be a 2 Gig download.
  7. I realize that.

    I'm going by their history. And telling the actual one, not the one they remember.

  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vanden View Post
    Liar!

    Yep.


    But the Liar with the closest correct date guess.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    If one auto-renews monthly for a year, for $180 they get:
    • 12 month's subscription ($180)
    • 13 Reward Tokens doled out once a month (the extra is for the yearly Token)
    • 400 Paragon Points doled out once a month


    If one buys a year in advance, and with the savings, buys Paragon Points, and in doing so, get enough Tokens to bump themselves up to Tier 9, they get:
    • 12 month's subscription ($143.40)
    • 13 Reward Tokens doled out RITE NAO
    I just wanted to point out that if you buy a subscription, you get all of your Reward Tokens up front...it's only the Paragon Points that are doled out once a month (on your "billing day", which is the same day each month even if you buy a multi-month sub).
    Right. But in the first scenario, you're on one-month auto-renew. You're paying just one month at a time, so, you only get one Token per month.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ultimus View Post
    We are in Manticore TF on the mission "Defeat Security Chief and his men" -- The problem is everytime we complete the mission we exit the mission and the game automatically re-assigns the mission to us.

    We've completed it about 4 times now in about 6 mins and it still keeps giving us it. (at the same door too)

    Is there a way to fix this? Has anyone seen this?
    1. /petition for a GM
    2. Leader logs out and back and new leader can get next mission.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by elvnsword09 View Post
    What about those of us with pre-purchased time now Zwill, will we get extra merits for the rewards program since we have already effectively paid upfront. I am paid up through Jan, and would like to know if I am gonna get some extra kaching when it hits

    Elvnsword
    They said on Ustream, yes, current pre-paids will get their Tokens (which come with the Paragon Reward Badges) up-front.

    Whether that actually happens, we don't know yet since Beta wasn't hooked up to full account info.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by WHTJunior View Post
    Oh, and why I came here in the first place:

    Some of the costume contests are fairly self-explanatory, but could we just get a bit more explanation on them? I'm mostly looking for "Famous Historical People - with a Twist." Is that only real-life historical figures, such as Houdini, Stalin, Joan of Arc, or would it include fictional ones such as MacBeth, Odin, Perseus, etc? I know you probably don't want anything that already holds a copyright, but what about public domain stuff? Also, I'm guessing that the "twist" is up to the creator, and not set by the devs?
    With a twist means to super them up. So, e.g., Joan of ArcWelding and give her a lightning aura.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by seebs View Post
    Wasn't there something about points being cheaper in larger quantities? If so, is it one token per $15, or one token per 1200 points?

    ... Not that I am quite ready to spend $500 extra per account to get an extra 150 points per month, which I would not need for a long time, having 39,600 points and already being a VIP. :P
    They *could* have a sale on large quantities, and judging by the standard model they're using which is suspiciously like some other big name MMO, they probably will. However, they haven't announced such a sale (yet), nor have we seen one on Beta.

    If you check out this post, you see that can get Tokens more cheaply by buying a subscription for a year.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by seebs View Post
    Hmm.

    So if I start a brand new account, there exists some number, N, of tokens I could have which would get me into Tier 9, and since Tokens come from Points, if I buy enough Points, I will go from 400 to 550 PP per month. And in general, I'll be getting Tokens about 3x as fast as I was getting Vet Rewards, yes?
    Yes.

    One Token per 1,200 Paragon Points bought (which costs $15).

    Takes 34 Tokens to break into Tier 9 (completing Reward Level 8). But the first is free. So, that's 33x15 = $495.

    It might be $15 cheaper because on Beta, there was an extra Token being granted for buy any points at all the first time. Don't know if that was WAI.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Nice Zwill

    So, just to finally clarify; if I buy a certain ammount of sub-time once Freedom hits, will I get the Veteran points to spend up front?

    I want the Celestial armour, and I'm willing to pay for it
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha View Post
    Right, I just need to stop the auto-update and then purchase enough time to get me from 7 to 9 so I can get the shiny goodness Thanks

    If one auto-renews monthly for a year, for $180 they get:
    • 12 month's subscription ($180)
    • 13 Reward Tokens doled out once a month (the extra is for the yearly Token)
    • 400 Paragon Points doled out once a month


    If one buys a year in advance, and with the savings, buys Paragon Points, and in doing so, get enough Tokens to bump themselves up to Tier 9, they get:
    • 12 month's subscription ($143.40)
    • 13 Reward Tokens doled out RITE NAO
    • 550 Paragon Points doled out once a month (an extra 1,800 from the above plan, which is worth $22.50 in Points)
    • 2,800 Paragon Points RITE NAO (spending the $35 savings from yearly account), which gives you ANOTHER 2 TOKENS (1 Token for every 1,200 Paragon Points bought).

    Those two plans cost exactly the same in real money. It's really a no-brainer if you plan to be VIP for a year.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snowzone View Post
    Not sure if this has been asked at all, but on the 1st October I am supposed to be getting my 27 month veteran reward. Obviously the headstart means I won't get that in October. So I want to know if I will get the reward token for having a month of already paid-for subscription when the headstart launches?... If that makes sense...
    Once FREEDOM launches, there will be no more legacy Veteran Rewards and Veteran Reward Badges. A new system, Paragon Rewards, will be in place.


    When it comes to Tokens, the FREEDOM launch date will serve as a dividing line: You figure out how many *Tokens* you get up to that point by adding up:
    • The number of Vet Badges you have
    • The number of Vet Badges divided by four and drop the remainder (representing 1 Token per year subscribed)
    • One Token if you ever bought any retail box (this is applied once for a max of one Token.

    Then from the launch of FREEDOM and forward, you will get:
    • One Free Token for your first reward on the new Paragon Reward tree.
    • One Token for every future month subscribed (you get these immediately)
    • One Token for every 1,200 Paragon *Points* you purchase with real money (a value of ~$15 per Token)


    When it comes to Paragon *Point* rewards, you will get 400 PP per month starting with July (if you were subbed in July). If you sub months ahead of time, this free 400 Point stipend isn't granted all at once, it still gets credited to you at the rate of 400/month. (And if you've reached Reward Level 8, and are 'into' Tier 9, then you get 550 PP / month.)
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
    EDIT: Why does the untouchable pet feel the need to leave my side and close to melee of a pylon that's shooting at me? It can't attack, so why does it leave my side EVER?
    Bug it. The Veteran Buff Pets used to do that do. I've seen Light Fairy Pets charge AVs... and do nothing but intently stare at them til squished... until it was fixed.
  18. They have never dropped during Praetorian zone events. The powers team devs at the time said that was Working As Intended. So, either the Ustream Dev is talking about a change in policy, or, he forget it was WAI.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
    Yeah I can't really see a hypothetical Potter MMO being confined to just Hogwarts. The Hogwarts portion of the game could be like an extended tutorial and the area could always serve as a central social hub of the game for higher level players. A Potter MMO might work, but of course there's a million ways it could fail too. I guess we'll see if it ever happens.
    No, no, no...

    You have to spend the first several hours trying to get out of Harry's old muggle house. It always has to start that way.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
    Slang: Disparaging and Offensive
    And in an act of reappropriation of a slur into a badge of pride, a growing number in the LGBT community are using it proudly as a replacement of all those letters in toto. "The Queer Community" is oft a self identified label used purposefully to hijack that label and make it lose it's bite.

    It must be working if there are people who don't know it was, and sometimes still is, a slur.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by houtex View Post
    Belgium (If you don't know, you need to, it's one of the most vile, disgusting words in the Universe.)
    Sprouts!


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    So out of curiosity what unoffensive names can you come up with using queer? Cuz honestly I'm drawing a blank.
    Queer Hero for the Straight Victim
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by magicj View Post
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man
    Using incarnate pets totally invalidates the claim to have 'solo'd' these AVs. My emp/psi fender can 'solo' a rikti pylon..just by forting and abing my Vicky incarnate pet. Is that me soloing the pylon? Of course it isnt.
    The incarnate pets do insane damage, utterly insane. What's more..they have a recharge value, meaning you cant have them out all the time. Sounds a lot like a temp power to me. Of course you can get technical, and call them Incarnate Powers.
    Videos are cool though.
    Hey, I didn't say that!
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lucky666 View Post
    Better yet if we look at the Big Bang Theory it's said that all space and time was created then at that single instance, so maybe every point in the universe is the center. Crazy theory I know but hey it makes sense kinda.
    Yes, that's exactly the point I was making.

    And if every point is the center, then, no matter where you go, you're in the center, thus, you never move.

    Movement is an illusion.