Doc_Scorpion

There are many things I miss from Live - the old Hollows is not one of them. OTOH, in the lower levels it was easiest place to find a team and I enjoyed the Stockholm Syndrome shared pain camaraderie as folks griped in broadcast...

That was my understanding from what you posted in this thread.

I LOL'ed.

I'd guess on the Everlasting server forum.

Then don't respond or engage. Seriously.

Second Life shows that it's possible to have a huge open world with adjacent 'zones'... It also shows that there's tremendous problems at the borders between zones. (UO also had, and AFAIK still has, tremendous problems at the 'seams' between adjacent server tiles. Many duping scams/exploits involved taking advantage of the synchronization issues inherent in crossing those seams.) Now, it is true that Praetoria seems (IIRC) to have solved many (most? all?) of those problems... But it's a much smaller map and was designed from the ground up.

I use it routinely and find it very useful. Proven to be incorrect by folks who've dived into the code, there's multiple A.I's. (They've been able to change pet behavior by copy-pasting from one to another.) That's a "poorly designed AI" problem, not a "one AI to rule them all" problem. Only if all mobs use the same AI - which they don't.

Let's run down the problems... First, not all AT's have strong offensive powers that early. (Particularly holds and immobilizations.) Second, not all players load themselves up from the P2W vendor. Third, just because you don't have a problem that doesn't mean other people won't either.

And the build in question is for regular content, not farming.

I should have been clearer... What I'm looking for (from Tough,Weave, & Combat Jump) is to increase my defenses...

FF proc?

As I'm building out my f/f tank, I'm looking at taking Boxing to extend my single target chain, and eventually Tough and Weave (+ Combat Jump since I already have Super Jump as my travel plan). Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

What amazes me is that the average donations is almost U$30.00/person...

With spawns full of yellow mobs on base difficulty, it wasn't always fun for an MM either. The there's the broken maps, the broken mishes... Not to mention the sometimes questionable and patronizing writing. And setting aside the whole tie-in to the Praetorian storyline your character hasn't encountered yet... The whole arc is a train wreck.

Definitely opt-in.

Truth be told, they both descend from the same source - the checked pattern used on medieval money counting tables. That's why "exchequer" has "cheque" (check) in the middle of it.

It can't be *that* hard to create and leave a Group Commander on each server, and log into him and spam /altinvite when needed.

It would be nice if going forward you titled the patch note threads with the Issue and Page so the players can see where they fit into the larger scheme. Nevermind, I just hit the Beta forums and see that you're starting that...

One of the MANY sins of that arc... basically, Twinshot is the new Hollows. Horribly broken, but placed front and center by the game's design.

0.o I don't see how you get straight to the worst possible (and unlikely) outcome... The default is high security, so you can only take what people have knowingly and deliberately made available by a) sharing their passcode, and b) setting the permission to public. That being said, back in the day in UO it was common to toss stuff you didn't want on the ground beside the West Britannia Bank. I equipped quite a few new characters with the deliberate cast offs from other players. I imagine other folks equipped themselves or made a few gold off the odds 'n ends I tossed when cleaning out my bank box.

Sounds like an urban legend to me... (I've actually hand set type and printed using a hand press). We're only talking a handful of words with the dropped 'u' and infinitesimal costs for both the labor or setting a single letter and it's practically impossible to express just how sub atomically small the extra cost of ink is. (Even in the era when ink was mostly produced by hand.) One can also take a look at the word music - commonly spelled musick in both countries... And both countries have dropped the 'k'. Or, we can look at glamour, where the US has retained the 'u'. The real story is this: In that era, spelling was not standardized and was still very much in flux. Webster was influential in setting American spelling, and his chosen spellings came to predominate in the US. Johnson became influential in British spelling, and his chosen spellings became predominant in the UK (and by extension, throughout the Commonwealth). Why did they choose different spellings? You'd have to grab a time machine (or make friends with a Time Lord) and ask them.

No, it's hand-waving freak-outery because people are absolutely bound and determined to be freaked out. You were a GM on live? Cool. (If you weren't, well, we're back to hand-waving freak-outery again.)

In theory. In practice, while it certainly wasn't Trinity based, most folks tended to fall into the same basic templates for a given general type of character. You only had so many points to allocate among different skills and generally your main class (and it's supporting skills) ate most of those points. (That is, you had great freedom within what could be narrow limits.) There were extra points left over for any number of interesting side skills, but they generally had little actual effect on the performance of the main class your template was designed for.

While individual complaints (those related to Marvel employees) were dismissed, the case itself was not. The parties settled out of court.

That's an important distinction - signing away a license is not the same as signing away your rights (or ownership). Folks really should read the EULA's and terms of service of websites, they're be surprised how often they're agreeing to grant license over the use of their words and works. (Often enough that it's practically standard.)