galadiman

So I guess the only thing that isn't a gimmick is punching people in the face... and you get Street Justice in the last issue!

Seriously. What you call 'Gimmicks' others call 'alternatives to staid historical gameplay' and 'boring, old mechanics.' Example you gave: the last encounter in STF. So I'm assuming the Hami Raid is 'not a gimmick', since you didn't mention it. So let me draw the analogy in a pedantic way:

In Hami, you destroy a number of objects that generate a protective field over the main target, then destroy the main target, all while the main target is attacking you and has to be distracted by a tank and the tank has to be supported so the tank does not fall.

How exactly is that different from the last encounter in the STF??
Oh yeah, in the Hami, you do it multiple times.
Again, how is it different?

I like what most people call 'gimmicks' in the game, for the most part. It changes the focus; it calls for a little of what some people might call 'strategy'; and it adds to the charm of 'face-punching' with 'brain-thinking'.

You mean the masters of the space-time continuum?

Bubblegum Tate: Sweet Clyde, laugh derisively at him!
Sweet Clyde: Ha ha! Ha ha! Ah Ha ha ha!

I agree it's doable... but you'd think a championship fighter would have, you know, studied those moves. Sure Tyson could run out of steam, but emotion +high physical exertion can cloud a person's judgement (also, all due respect, I'd never want the guy to hit me, but he was never the sharpest tool in the shed. Ali, on the other hand... that guy is a hero for more than being a great boxer).

I'd think removng the physical exertion part would allow the operators to do a better intellectual job of managing energy/damage/etc.

So it would be a lot like THIS...

Except "firehose" takes on a whole new meaning.

Well now that you know how easy it is, you'll prob make it back in no time... but it IS easier to earn money when you HAVE lots of money...

So as that guy above said, "Never spend the float"...

Meaning (for the non-savvy) (I think)
Keep an amount for 'investment' (I like a nice round 1B usually), and you can spend any excess, but use the 1B for stuff like bids and salvage/craft costs.

Yes, clearly, because someone spending 2 days (not) defending a bad buying decision (as opposed to the purchase of a bad product, something completely different, and not this) on a forum and then giving in to them, thus seemingly justifying their unjustified outrage would probably have no fallout at all.

Arguments have been made refuting your perception of StJ as a 'bad powerset'. Arguments have been made refuting your idea that you 'deserve' a 'satisfaction guaranteed or your money back' level of refund. Few places offer that kind of refund anymore, and software nearly never does, for reasons already stated in this thread.

Repeated threats of quitting seem to be in your history, as noted by other authors in the thread. 'Threatening to quit' to 'get your way' - that would seem to imply a head covering worn on the wrong end of one's body, to imply internet vernacular. Someone else already mentioned you might have waited and read more info on the forums about it before buying - I'll go as far as to say that if you value your $10, why would you gamble it before knowing that you could be less than 100% satisified? The McDonalds example which you refuted, just replace it with 'You ate 1/3 of the hamburger'. You think they'll take it back?

There IS such a thing as 'a Bad Customer', and the customer is NOT always right. And yes, the customer can 'vote with his/her feet', as it were, if they think they are being mistreated. But sometimes it is worse for the business to cave to an unreasonable demand of one customer to keep their business vs. letting that customer go - for example, I hope Zwillinger is not wasting time here reading these particular forum posts when he could be doing something of more value - like, say, watching paint dry, or explaining quantum mechanics to a three-toed sloth.

We can only hope. GLHF.

Absolutely correct. And that's why we have

Veteran Respecs
Issue freespecs (nearly every issue)
Respec Recipes (While rare, certainly obtainable.)
And now,
Enhancement Unslotters.

(and I may have missed something in there.)

edit: Oh yeah, 3 respec trials, which ain't that hard.

Arcanaville's statement regarding GW is very on-point.

Wow, excellent.

"I bought this fancy mixer at the store. So I tried to make a cake, and, who needs a recipe - I just put in 'some' flour, and 'some' sugar, and 'some' eggs... but the cake SUCKS!

...

I'm gonna call the Mixer Company, this damned MIXER IS BROKEN AND NEEDS TO BE FIXED!"

Perhaps reading the vast storehouse of information that is provided to you free of charge here on the forums (for no money) by the players of this very game, after they have played these archetypes for YEARS themselves, and have been kind enough to take the time to organize into a coherent index of information (and ain't not chargin' you a dime for it)
might be something to look into.

Or, with all due respect, there's the wall, and you may continue to beat the head there, if that is your whim.

WhiteHotFlash solved your problem for you. If you do not want that solution, asking for more respecs actually is not the answer.

I, too, like Shield with my KM.

I'll just pick one of the vast number of ... dubiously sane... arguments you put up here.

Do you understand how money works? If they offered you a respec for $0.01, you seriously would not pay it? Well, kudos for you! Your dedication to your principles has once again thwarted your ability to have any fun in this game, and if you carry it to any other games you play, to any other game you ever particpate in.

I don't really understand how anyone can run out of respecs in this game. Even if you hamper your AT to 50% of its potential power (which is pretty damned dificult to do unless you don't know what the initials I.O. stand for)... your character will STILL be a decent comparison to other characters in nearly any party, or solo for that matter.

Also, learn about "marginal benefit". If you take 50% of your time respeccing to get an extra 3.76% performance out of your character, then ou may eed to retake a few math classes. Unless, as someone has pointed out, respeccing is your kind of 'fun'... in which case, the Test Server is a limitless abundance of free respecc-y goodness.

Precisely. So since a week game time is about 20x the amount that the downtime was....

the next time you are texting in line at the bank, and hold up the line, you have to wait for the next 20 people to pass you by before you go.

And the next time you miss an appointment at the doctor's (for whatever reason, because you gave the same consideration), and they lose an hour appointment, you have to work 20 hours for them to compensate.

And if you happen to have an accident on the road? Fuggedaboutit! Let's say each person held up behind you lost 15 minutes, and I'll guess 100 people (conservatively - we want to be reasonable), right? So 100*15*20 minutes working for them, that's... 1250 hours. So take 7 and a half months off from work to make up all that time.

That's reasonable, for the comparable inconvenience, right?

OMG Where's my towel?!?!?

Gotta say, my fave Batmobile was in the first movie. Sleek, long, sexy. It would have to be built of a solid titanium/steel alloy to resist dents and dings, and it weighed a couple of tons more than needed due to, you know, fairings and exterior shape, and it shouldnt have been able to turn worth a ****, but it looked awesome.

My second favorite? The Tumbler. Brute force, efficiency, nothing wasted on appearance except what was needed to make it go, go fast, go hard, and go more. No waxing this puppy. No worries about denting the shiny. It matches the psychological aesthetic of the new Batman. It's the weapon you go with against a guy like Heath Ledger's Joker, just like the Batmobile from the first movie was the right weapon to go after Jack Nicholson with. (Ok, sorta.).

I don't really know what I'm looking at in that picture, but I like the general look and feel of the tech in the new series of movies, so I trust it will all work out in the end.