Troo

Thanks for liking this one. It's one of my favorites.

Not yet, though, another asked for the one at the top of my wish list. [Tell] 2024-11-04 15: 28:20 Message From @Truepenny : Hi! I'm the former owner of the name Tru. Long story short, I lost it in the summer of 2023 when someone deleted all my characters. I'd happily trade another name - "True," perhaps - for it, if you're interested. I haven't decided what to say yet.

Maybe something to this thought. There are things I don't do because I'm not supposed to but see others doing (traffic is a classic example).

Uh.. how does this work? I missed this nugget.

Interesting, while you do not like to be told what to do... They are not totally wrong and like you, they can have an opinion. I was gonna let this go but since I am replying... Just FYI - Absolute statements can have inherent issues and tend to be easily discredited taking an associated argument with them. I appreciate you chiming in and sharing your opinion. That's often the idea of a topic. Folks are welcome to disagree without being disagreeable. We have lots of levels of experience with the game and life here.

@Ukase Thanks for the input. As I said, I generally don't have an issue with farming, Someone else mentioned 'time'. If the computer is doing the work is time being leveraged? Unfairly? It's debatable. Being clever, great. With the understanding that pushing the rules can come with consequences. When some push too far it can effect others. One farmer has no problem exploiting a vulnerability the resulting action to remedy it can effect other farmers. That's sorta what happened with Empyrean Merit. A few abused a system for exponentially outsized rewards and the resulting action effected many. (possible over generalization)

Oooooo name calling, the bastion of those "with the intentions of gaining advantage over, or defending themselves from, an opponent or critic" where "personal attacks are employed to devalue a speaker's argument by attacking the speaker" rather than their ideas or opinions. -vs- Because I can combine words and spellz some stuff?! I couldn't choose a preferred response sooo...

Yeah, not intended that way. I could have added something there to be more clear. (I was happy to minimize misspelling in that wall of words) "Overall and not limited to farming, if someone chooses to violate the User Agreement or Code of Conduct, that choice has consequences." Correct. As stated, AFK farming is something I situationally have a problem with (keyword "excessively" which would need to be defined). Is someone playing the game if they are AFK farming? To me folks simply found a way to mine resources without playing. (my opinion) AFK farming can vary. Do all forms get thrown in the same basket? Are they doing it for just a couple hours once in a while? Are they having to check back every seven minutes or are they simply walking away for hours at a time while doing it 24/7 with three accounts going on each and every server? My opinion: it is something that is debatable. Well this is nonsense to me. Sure, they wanted to monetize shortcuts to capitalize on what they saw as unrealized revenue? It's fairly shallow what they were doing without some deep conspiracy or sinister goals. What does that have to do with S/L farming? If I agreed with your premise at all, I would have to ask: Why even have players gather resources at all? Why have levels?

Folks wanna power level a new character or a friend's character while playing, I have no problem with that. Folks wanna gather some funds to flush out a new build while playing, I have no problem with that. Folks want to chill by frying hordes of gimped enemies without having to run all over Cryptic Studios creation, I like that too. I don't think anyone has a problem with that. It is ironic to see folks say 'don't tell me how to play' while the same folks promote 'get yourself a fire farmer' in answer to new players regarding earning or leveling. Not all who farm do this. If someone chooses to violate the User Agreement or Code of Conduct, that choice has consequences. Enabling someone else to violate those terms also has consequences, intentional or not. In my opinion, having a way to level faster or cobble together some resources is good. Is farming the best way to learn the game, probably not, but folks can do what they want. I would certainly and have helped folks level up when asked. I'd rather hand someone resources than farm for them but not everyone is in that situation. Honestly, very very few who farm are an issue. I have no problem with folks playing how they want. ------- What do I have a problem with? --------- A Tanker with three spines Scrappers on follow with AoEs on auto-fire openly parading around a zone. Account deletion. AFK farming... seriously? Okay, I actually don't have a problem with someone doing a little on the down low. I do have a problem with doing it excessively, writing a guide about it, and promoting it while e-peening how much they earn how fast. This is just my opinion though. Running scripts or code to exploit vulnerabilities in the program which could even potentially impact other players. Account deletion. Non-stop begging in global channels to be farmed. It's annoying. Punishment = grumpy but polite tells. Promoting farming as the only or best solution to a problem or question. It's counter productive and in my opinion short sighted. There are somethings I won't mention here, but let me leave it at: If YOU like to farm, other farmers who abuse and exploit are actually the ones who impact your farming, not anyone complaining.

Correct. Create the new character, then delete that character, and the name will be available for rename. Caution, be quick. Name Stealers are everywhere and their hunger is strong today.

If you love a name, set it free.. at least the ones you're not really gonna use. Gift them to some friends you'll feel good every time you see them. This is troo. I saw someone trying to sell names on one of the servers. That person deserves a little timeout, followed by an account reset for the day, and maybe the loss of a finger (just to the first knuckle, nothing too terrible but a taste of old testament). It's up there with price gouging for water.

I think I'll address this in a separate thread.

Celebrate good times!!

I am glad you brought this up. There may be folks who planned to build 'tribute' characters with names they acquired. This is NOT allowed. A combination of Name, Costume and/or Description can and should lead to removal. Costume alone could be enough. Name alone is more discretionary with obvious exceptions. I tried to get Knight and Rook first, then did get Bishop. I wouldn't risk the name Bishop by intentionally infringing on any intellectual property. Mine will likely be a wizard. IF I were to unintentionally infringe on some intellectual property, be cool about it, I do not know comics as well as many of our resident experts. Send me a nice tell and I would make changes. If I fail to make changes, then report me.

I think the logins peaked around 2,500 (total all servers) with Excelsior going red. [seems pretty strong 5+ years in] The strategy of [new character] [any AT] [any Power] [random costume] [Atlas Park] [run into City Hall (for the zero second logout)], rinse & repeat worked well enough. Villain side.. not as easy. Biggest fear: Misspelling a name. Biggest surprise: 10 minutes for the name release code to proliferate. Biggest laugh: 'Bob' was available. I have a character named Bob now. It was great to see so many new characters created at the spawn points. I won't tell folks what to do but in my opinion there is no need to name squat on dozens of names we aren't going to use. Hi @Magical. There's little difference between Star Hammer, Starhammer, S t a r h a m m e r, Star_Hammer, Star-Hammer, Hammer Star, & Star Hamster. Gold star if you read that far. Congratulations to those who were able to grab that one-coveted-name! And /em fistwave to whomever has Tru on Indomitable. I loathe thee. You are nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for ya. Burning's too good for ya! You should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried aliiiiive! Alternately, feel free reach out with a reasonable request to make a deal and we can be friendsies, okay 🙂

I have ~100 alts on each Indom and Excel with about 20 on Ever, some with pretty sad naming. Some 50s will be getting new names. I was able to secure some from my tiered wish list: Indomitable Excelsior Tru nope X Shadow X nope Demon X X Spectre X X Mummy nope nope Endgame X nope Glacier nope X Saturn X nope Jupiter nope nope Bob X nope I am pretty happy to get one 'Tru', and two 'Demon' and 'Spectre'. Also secured: 'Supreme', 'Wiz', 'Bishop', and 'Rascal' Will be dumping dozens of names into the wild by Tuesday via Drop a name, pick up a name.

I'll post a list of what I got later. I had a list of 10 with two I really wished for.

Excellent

@Dacy It is amazing you all do this. Thank you!!

Is it a typo if terminology is interchanged? Most places refer to 'servers' other places are referred to as 'shards'. It seems this can and does cause some confusion. "Transfer you character to another server." "CHARACTER TRANSFER WARNING! NOTE: Your name is not guaranteed to be available on the new server! Transferring a character to another server cannot be reversed and has the following effects: One server transfer token will be deducted from your account inventory. You will be granted a rename token if your name has to be changed." "Shard XP Boosts Reunion & Indomitable: 2x Torchbearer: 1.5x"

300% XP that's amazing!

You may be able to find some help in the thread below: "I use a PS2 controller and sometimes the ingame setting dropdown switches from 'joystick' to something else and it seems like the controller just isn't working."

Actually, it's going on now and ends Tuesday. It has been there for sometime and not well advertised.

This weekend only!