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@aesica Don't bother arguing with spinny, it's a waste of time :lol: I quit the game a few months ago, soon after the entire SCR spike happened. I decided to maybe come here and ask if anything happened in these few months that would make getting decent gear for alts easier but... this thread was the first thing i saw, and…
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I know i said i wouldn't post anymore, but this is the last, i promise. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Third day of not playing CO and i feel great. It's like getting out of an abusive relationship. No need to worry about gears, levels, alts, whatnots, and especially no need to worry about what greedy, catatonic devs will come up with next.…
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That's PWE's general practice And since Cryptic seems to follow that creed... Either way, i have no more reason to lurk around these forums. Cheerio, and godspeed Heroes.
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@squirrelloid Interesting I'll check out NWO, i've been curious about the game ever since i learned the details of DDOSing that has been going on It's kind of funny how the damage on CO was just a fracture caused by an attack on something bigger I won't get my hopes up though, it's branded by both PWE and Cryptic The Steam…
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The more of the grind i have to do, the less i find myself playing the game these days. I used to devote most of my free time to it but now it's just a fragment where i log in, look at my various currencies and go "meh". Now whenever i play CO, i'm having a mental slideshow of other things i could spend my time on, things…
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Eyyyyyy That's pretty good!
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Ayup. It's a drop in the sea, though. I see three ways out of this 1. Adjust the gear prices 2. Adjust the SCR rewards 3. Sankt curls up into a little ball and cries in the corner So far i've got 3 on point I've got 3 nailed down
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I've been also thinking that making Heroics harder to get was yet another """"subtle"""" maneuver to make people buy something, in this case the spicy fresh new gear. No wonder they put it up almost directly behind a paywall. I have no problem with idiot tax and natural selection, it's not like this is the first time it…
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@crypticbuxom I understand how you feel. And it might already be too late. But still, personally i still have fight in me. I want to see the conclusion to all of this. @riverocean I'm trying to find alternatives all the time. I will attempt soloing for Vikorin and i'll see how it works out. But nevertheless, we should…
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I agree completely. I'm glad to see more and more people speak up about this. (4 years here as well, fistbump :D ) If our voice is loud enough, they will have to notice that they are walking a very dangerous path. It's not their modus operandi, but at one point they will have to listen to the players. Let's hope and keep…
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@crypticbuxom Now this is a good post. I would even say that i agree with you, especially after seeing a certain few people's reactions to the changes *cough* right here in this thread *cough*. MMO games cannot exist without their communities. And if we won't raise an uproar against unfairness, then we are only going to…
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I read over your previous posts, not once did i see a clear explanation concerning the prices. So i'm making the neener neener face now, you earned this goofy face by not being coherent. If you actually have a point, speak it clearly. As for your second paragraph, i wouldn't usually grace a strawman argument like this with…
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Let me stop you there for a bit. Two things stood out for me there. First, entitlement. Whenever someone uses this word regarding video games, i get flashbacks to how developers responded to the backlash of Mass Effect 3's ending. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? Yes, yes he is. We supported the game, it…
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To add to my previous post, i meant that there is too big of a gap between Mercenary and Heroic. In addition, with Heroic you got to pick and choose which pieces suit your toon. With Mercenary you are on the mercy of what someone put in AH. I will freely admit that Vikorin is a pretty good alternative, but the problem lies…
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If you used to only do the custom alert and you were getting SCR as a byproduct of doing something, not as your goal, i see why you wouldn't fully understand the situation. Doing Unity1 missions granted 18 SCR daily, which in two days was more than enough for a piece of heroics. The problem is that you can't get much more…
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Well my hunger is not that bad, i have my food pellets after all. I do agree that Vikorin gear is only a notch below Heroic, but AH is not exactly booming with it's quantity. Plus it's still a money grind in the long run, if you spread it out. I must say though, i'm enamored with that "rats and pellets" expression. It's…
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Since you don't care, i'm going to talk to my cat. See kitty, new content is fine. Yes it is! Yesss it is! But the crux of new content is a laaaaair that requires meeee to have decent geaaaar to even get iiiiin. And the rest of new content requires me to griiiiiiiind. Griiiiiiiiiind. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I did ask for new…
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With the problem affecting mostly people with many alts, sharing rec across the account would indeed help a lot. The more alts you have (ergo, the more alts you want to gear), the more rec you could get (by doing dailies across many toons).
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Thick as Thieves (I know it's not a lair, b-but...) Not even kidding, a version of TaT on steroids, if you will. With elements of other westside missions combined. Assisted not just by Defender but his entire crew, fighting against buffed versions of each westside villain. It could be a large lair with NemCon-esque rooms…
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But your analogy has nothing about aliens in it :( @quasimojo1 >But then again, now seems like a terrible time to take break. When is the last time we've seen this degree of development effort. Don't you want to see what they have planned next? Well actually and personally i think this is the best time to take a break. The…
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And just in case this is still too complicated, let me offer a metaphor as my last argument on the matter. Imagine a Restaurant. Your favorite eatery which you were visiting for one menu item only - Animal Crackers. Animal Crackers which also were the only human food that your extraterrestrial organs could ingest. You were…
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@riverocean Let me say it again. Heroics were easily accessible, so i see no reason to try and find a replacement for them just because devs had an insane idea. I will not start farming G or Q for something that's inferior to what was easily accessible. I'm used to heroics. It's been a long time since i was using them. I…
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The problem is that in the past, if i wanted to get Heroic Gear for all of my characters, i could. What i liked about the game was that no matter how many toons i put out, i could feel powerful as every one of them. If i wanted a toon to constantly crit, it could. If i wanted a toon to be a beefcake, so it was. Now it…
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Actually i changed my mind, two days of doing this and i'm already spent. This destroyed any semblance of balance in the way i used to do things, and i don't have to stand for this. For devs to shake things out of balance like this, without a reason, is unforgivable. I'll pop in after a few months has passed, hopefully…
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TA in a nutshell? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po77bJk1DdI
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Personally i'm not really aggro about all of this anymore. I still stand by saying that the prices are too high, but i found enough alternatives not to worry.
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Heh, i can't read. But yes, anyone could benefit from it now,
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You just gave me a great idea. What if we could trade RECOGNITION between toons, just like we can salvage? A way to deposit SCR and GCR to your hideout bank, something like that. If at the end of the thread you decide to make a post in the "Suggestions" forum, feel very free to include that.
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Sorry if i went off on anyone in this thread, didn't mean to be mean, but this price raise is something i will never accept. I 'll try adapting to it, at best. @roughbearmattach I do use Nem Heirloom for levelling up toons, though i never entertained the idea of getting more than one set and using that for 40's. But you…
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That's how i'm proceeding right now. I decided not to level any more alts until all of the 40's get their heroics, as painful as it will be. At least i'll get some Q in the process. I'm still salty about the whole issue, but not as much. I used to get 18 SCR per toon daily for doing just Unity 1 If i did this on 3 toons, i…
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Depends on how they proceed with this. I'd rather if they fixed SCR the way it was, but maybe made double GCR events. But as i'm addicted and can't quit the game, i'm Cryptic's little B.
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Don't assume i'm talking about myself. As for dying, squishy pure DPS, that's who has the potential to die in an alert even if things go smoothly otherwise. This might come as a surprise but not every toon is FF, and not every party has a tank/healer. I agree that ressing and moving on is the way to go, but if you said you…
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I really don't think i would be so peeved if not for the fact that you could get a full set in a 6 days time. Maxing a toon takes 3-4 days, gearing it takes 6, that's what i liked because from then on you could move onto another toon or focus on doing stuff like Q and G grinding - Not out of necessity and not ungeared as…
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Cheap? It's Questionite or G value? Because for an average player, both would need to be grinded for. Granted that grinding Globals is easier than Q, you would still need to mostly rely on an alert, and even though it's fast, Smash is not always kind to ungeared players - not to mention that they would be, like i said, an…
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It is ridiculous. Here's hoping that Cryptic care and are willing to listen to the voices of reason. Here's hoping...
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I'm glad so many people agree. I understand that they added a few other ways to gain SCR, like alert dailies other than special smash, but in that case the LOGICAL change would be to raise the price of each piece to something like 50-60 at best. Double the price would make more sense than FIVE TIMES the price.
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If they DESPERATELY need people to bleed out of their rears grinding for heroics, why don't they at least offer any kind of compromise at all. Put in a weaker set of gear that costs less SCR. Yes, it would be weaker, but it would be SOMETHING. To put the problem in perspective: -New Player/Toon starts playing -They manage…
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I was looking through AH before but the few pieces that were there were missing popular SS obviously, like CON. I know that Market is in constant motion, but still.
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I agree with OP, crudeness aside. I survived every bad update until now without complaining but this is what killed me, now i understand why there is so little people playing. ~60 across all millenium zones during nighttime/european time If i wanted to play a grindfest i would pick up a random Korean MMO. The real problem…
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Well, it is. So yes.
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Yeah, there are enough grindy MMO's out there, it hurts to see my favorite become one of them. I did try looking for alternatives to Heroics but Q gear is either too expensive, or too weak for a level 40. And AH is vacant. So with that said, i decided to take a "break" from CO until something is done about this. As much as…
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I agree with pro-flight guys, yes this is a video game and your first instinct would be to be as effective and "OP" as possible, but then again we have the other side of the coin - this is a roleplaying video game, with choice being one of it's most appealing factors. For most people this game is not just about whose tiny…
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Thanks Neural, i'll take that advice, plus i already said most of what could be said about what happened. I guess all we can do now is put this (yet another) CO disaster behind us and put it on the shelf amongst other past mishaps, and mishaps that are surely yet to happen. :( As for what you said: I agree with that…
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I didn't find much of anything else worth quoting because most of it was droning, but i agree with that greatly. I agree with that but it goes both ways (I'd like to mention that playerbase is not "just existing", but financing the game. Indirectly signing the paychecks. I'd say that's grounds for some respect, but eh,…
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I was going to write a heated post about how devs didn't extend the event for a few days after fixing the alerts, which would be the modest way make up for their incompetence, but the two toons i maxed out during this entire disaster made me realize that people were right and alerts really are just a supplement to the good…
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I wrote about this in the bugs thread but levels 25~26 are usually when the bug happens, myself and several other people confirm it, hopefully this information will help solve the problem faster.
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I can confirm the post above, once you start receiving lvl 25-tier EXP rewards, the bug happens. Personally i think that it may have something to do with some sort of an EXP cap, an upper EXP limit, the maximum amount of EXP one can gain being surpassed, causing the bug. I'm not sure if such an EXP cap exists, though, but…
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Call it what you want, a customer - especially a paying one, has not only the right but the duty to react whenever things like these happen. Being vocal is good, it allows customers to find temporary closure by addressing the creators directly, instead of having to silently bear and suffer the issues. At the same time it…
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Disappointing. Utterly disappointing. Grab alerts crippled during the rare Double EXP event. Right after that long maintenance too. Inconvenience after inconvenience. And just when i was considering going Gold, too. This whole situation has been sort of a wake-up call that in this game everything can break at any time, and…