Bionic_Flea

I also notice on Brainstorm that my LRT had Fort Trident listed, but greyed out. What's the deal with that?

/timeout @Yomo Kimyata 24

I think he means in my imaginary "what if 4 star gave 10x the XP and Inf as standard run" from a post above. I still think more people would run 2 and 3 star, but who knows.

You know, I haven't checked if level 35s can even be invited to or run hardmode stuff. Lemme see. EDIT1: I checked on a level 38 that I already had on Brainstorm. He doesn't even get the UI for Advanced Difficulty ITF selections. So Ivan is right, no Hardmode for level 35-49. EDIT2: Same for ASF. No Advanced Difficulty UI settings for under 50. EDIT3: Level 50 IS able to invite level 35 to 4 Star . . . but that's probably not wise and definitely a pity spot. (Thanks @ivanhedgehog) EDIT4: Level 50 can quit team and leave poor little level 35 on a 50+4.x8 4 star TF. LOL. So much pain for my 38 ice/cold controller.

I can't answer the first question because I am not a dev. But it seems to me this update has more than hardcore stuff -- new powersets, new costumes, new arcs, and a bunch of other stuff on top of the "hardcore game." I don't know if you have tried 1-star Aeon SF or on the new ITF currently being tested. It's only slightly harder and no where near as intense as a 4 star. If all they were adding was 4 star, I would agree with you. As for not being able to run ITF on a level 35, that is also conjecture. We won't know until we get there. And I 100% agree with the last part. I would like to know precisely what the problem to be solved is to know if this is a good solution.

That may work for you, but that doesn't work for me. Clicking on totals does nothing.

And put some clothes on that Avatar, Zac!

That's exactly what a member of this cabal would say!

Bad Ghost! Timeout for you. Go to the corner!

My understanding, as I have never checked myself, is the daily numbers everyday between 8:30 am and 9:30 am. And especially in Pocket D and other zones with AE buildings. There is a noticeable difference on Tuesdays when the servers go offline. Presumably there are a number of AFk farmers that get booted and don't come back until they wake up, come back from work, whatever. @Ukase Here's a chart from HC Discord.

Our voices have been heard!

Methinks thou dost presume too much.

Man, I was hoping this idea would get some traction, but nobody has responded . . . .

I was having a great debate. But now that it's been downgraded I'm logging in and setting up several AFK farmers to get it while the getting is good. So long, suckers!

Ask and ye shall receive:

I agree. I think people that do this: DFB, PST DFB, PST DFB, PST DFB, PST continuously with nothing in between or any break of time ARE spamming. But I don't think that a conversation, even if inappropriate or in the wrong channel is spamming. It could be some other violation, but not spamming. If I am mistaken, I'd like official word on it. Because this is what I understand spamming to mean: spam verb gerund or present participle: spamming send the same message indiscriminately to (large numbers of recipients) on the internet. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spam

Do you get angry with people going on about something you find inappropriate in a chat channel but don't want to use /ignore or /gignore because now you won't ever hear them or be able to team with them? Or otherwise you have to keep track like an accountant of whether someone deserves a lifetime ban or a week, a day, or an hour before you remove them from your ignore list? I propose a new command: /timeout (playername or @global) (number from 1 - 9999) - where the number represents the number of hours you want the person to spend on "timeout" on your ignore list. The max number 9999 is about 14 months. This idea originated from the discussion found here:

I thought spamming was writing the same thing over and over in a channel like: I will not have a conversation in LFG I will not have a conversation in LFG I will not have a conversation in LFG I will not have a conversation in LFG Not actually having a conversation. Done.

It was hard to corner the market on live, almost impossible here, because seeded prices of salvage, converters, and Reward Merit Vendors give folks an out.

I think that maybe we need more missions/TFs that are like farms, ITF, Yin, Apex, Tin Mage, Market Crash, which means densely packed maps of critters that give great XP and also make you feel super. Add limited travel to that. If all missions were farms, would anybody farm? Dun, Dun DUN!

I propose a /timeout command to ignore people for X hours! Can I get a code monkey in here? Stat!

Delayed response, but when you are pushing buttons and looking at that character, you are playing that character. If you are leveling up, slotting, buying, selling, attacking, defending, then you are playing that character. Some people don't count marketing, or role-playing, but I do. It's you at the computer interacting with that character and the game. When you tab out to read e-mail, shop Amazon, or play another account you are not playing your character, even if it is automated to do certain things.

I think it's more of a thought experiment than an actual experiment that our devs would do.

I made a Symphonic/Dark as well with Ice Mastery's Frost Breath adding another cone with great damage (with procs) and Ice Storm for more damage and slows to keep things at range. I liked it and think it does good damage as a solo controller x8. I liked that one a lot more than Symphonic/Sonic Dom. You'd think it would be a good pairing, but I found it less than good.

I'm all for experiments, but if population size is not a good measure of popularity, what are we experimenting for?