ShardWarrior

Yes there are, however if there are people like those commenting in this thread ostracizing and berating them about using the LFG channel to find a farm, what else would you like them to do other than hang out in AE? Seems to me that is where a select few here would like to relegate them for not playing a way they like.

Your first two examples do not hold up to your own definition of what an exploit is as both have to be done via the trade window.

I have an alt named Arachnos Deathicus 😁

This is a movie screaming for a sequel!

Whatever. You go right on thinking that.

How is pointing out what should be very obvious to anyone inflammatory?

And you are always making presumptions that supposedly work for the majority when they do not.

I did not know where Peregrine Island was when I first started playing the game. There are many reasons why someone may not know it and it is a bit of a presumption to assume someone who does not know where a particular zone is automatically means they are a bad player.

Like I said, believe whatever you want to believe.

I was not being passive aggressive nor am I trying to change anyone's mind - just adding my own personal view. It seems to me that you have your mind made up in that the big evil corporation stole the idea from the little guy, so no point in continuing the discussion. Being similar does not mean there was anything nefarious going on, and having only part of the information from a few articles here and there is not the whole picture. I do not know if the records of the case are sealed or part of the public record. If the latter, perhaps doing the research and looking at all the information and facts provided in the court proceedings may answer your question. As I said earlier, believe whatever you want to believe.

Pointing out how your position does not make any rational sense is not trolling, nor does insulting others add anything valuable to the discussion.

You are missing a very glaringly obvious part of the game - in game commerce. This is a staple of many MMOs. Following this logic, anyone crafting IOs and selling them on the exchange for profit should be banned too because they are asking for compensation for something they spent their time and earned resources on.

In the eyes of the law, yes it does. No one here was in the courtroom and has read all of the documents or listened to the arguments made. We are only seeing part of what went on because it makes it a more interesting news story. You are again assuming they even knew about it to buy the idea in the first place. Keep in mind this is the same studio who for decades never once cared about fan films being made using their property - even encouraged them - until an idiot took advantage of that and essentially tried to steal from them, ruining fan productions forever. That door swings both ways. Anyway, I can see it is pointless to attempt to have a discussion on this.

I have not really decided yet. I was not looking to do anything crazy as this is just for a personal alt SG of mine. The theme is very simple. I will post some shots of it when I figure out what to do. Hmmm... I had not thought about using staircases. That might work well enough - I will give that a try and see. Thanks @Dacy and @MyriVerse!

I never inferred anything of the sort one way or the other. Even if it were, that does not mean that the law is written and applied to always render verdicts in favor of those with more money. Sometimes there truly is no case. I understand that people want to "root for the little guy" and decry the evil corporation.

I am confused - you seem to not want to play with anyone who is PLed but do not want to /ignore them which means you are opening up yourself to being teamed with PLed people.

I have to agree that I do not see this ever becoming a reality.

Sure it does. It shows the case was dismissed because it was a non-starter. If there were a case, it would not have been dismissed. I find it very unlikely that an indy game no one ever heard of before was plagarized for a TV show. You are assuming that the game was an original concept. I will try to locate the thread (which has since been closed) on the STO forums where several posters linked to other sci fi works - pre-dating anything that indy game developer did - that include interstellar travel using tardigrades, mycelial networks and the like.

Oh do not get me wrong, it pains me to think about how much fun my EM tank was prior to all the nerfs. EM definitely does suffer from the long animations more than other sets and I say this just having recently leveled a Kinetic Melee scrapper to 50.

This is not exclusive to EM. Kinetic Melee, Eagle's Claw come to mind right away and this can happen with just about any power.

I am not sold that adding +5 or higher is the answer. Given how the game works, anything higher than +6 chances are you will never be able to hit it, let alone cause any damage. Seems to me this is leading more toward a stalemate than anything else. I cannot speak for anyone else, but most all of my fully decked out characters will solo bosses and EBs rather easily whether there is one or ten of them. Adding more HP and ludicrous spike damage to NPCs is the easy answer, but to me this is not adding challenge, just drawing out the battle. Were I a real choice, I would choose a more intelligent AI that can adapt to you.

You do realize how absurdly easy it is to quickly out level and therefore never be sent to the Hollows, right?

I just leveled my KM/Nin scrapper to 50 and I am having a blast playing it. Overall I like the set and the animations are very pretty. My two minor gripes are the animation speed being just a bit too slow and I do not care for how the boost from Power Siphon works. Other than those, I found it to be a very solid set.

I will at least give it a try. The first season of TNG was truly awful, but the show found its footing.