Bionic_Flea

Personally, I never convert Empyreans to Reward Merits. I use them to get to T4, occasionally add some different I-powers to cover situations or just to try something new. Anything beyond that get e-mailed to newer characters for them to get their incarnates quicker. I also never buy IOs with merits. I use the merits almost exclusively to buy converters, which I use to convert junk IOs into good to great IOs and then use, store, or sell them. I buy all my IOs from the Auction House, if I don't already have them stored. The merits I get from running story arcs and TFs and raids. Other people prefer to buy their IOs with merits. What I find to be a bad exchange rate, they find to be a nice, consistent, fixed amount that isn't being gamed by another player.

I hear you. But that market toon has to check his sales and restock!

My guess would be that a few outliers are multi-boxing afk farms and cashing in 1000s of Reward Merits a day. The original plan to ban all vet XP in AE seems targeted at that same issue. It's hard to reign in the outliers without affecting the masses.

But at level 6 it becomes a year. You can get to level 6 pretty darn quick.

Yeah, that stupid blunder was already pointed out yesterday. We're talking about my stupid blunder today. Keep up!

I dunno. I must search my feelings.

I thought they were testing the implementation too. What is there to test then for this section of the patch notes?

I used my other account to try and steal the name of Meteoric Flea, who is level 1 and has been offline for 236 days. I was prevented from taking it and it said that the name was taken, choose something else. Shouldn't I be able to take that name?

I totally think that Trick or Treating in the PVP zones would be appropriate, hilarious, and tons of fun. "Here come the bullies to take our candy . . . hit them with the rotten eggs first!"

Just let folks know that you are new and have questions. While there are some elitist jerks, I think you will find the vast majority of players will be happy to walk you through whatever questions you might have.

To mail them to alts so that they can T4 faster and with less effort.

I like the new additions, but I still think that Rando Cal Tipsian, the administrator of this facility, should give the rundown. 😁 https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx0rhrAD58g4tTOhPNgDRTDiZdQxRWjDwX Sorry to nitpick but one repetitive phrase was replaced by another: [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: I really should take more breaks to catch up on the gossip. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Oh. Nevermind. It's one of the heroes. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job.

I tried the SG promotion trick on Brainstorm. Confirmed that it no longer works to reset the days logged out timer.

I don't know why we bother testing and offering suggestions when the Devs have already made up their minds! *Reads Patch Notes*

Just posting to confirm that I was able to obtain these two badges via Ouro as stated in the patch notes. I remember running these way back when and being shocked at the implications. A nice piece of lore that deserves to stay in the game. Thanks for adding them back. Pecking Order - Complete the badge mission "Lost Motivation", listed as arc 0.42 under 'Champion (Level 25-29)' bracket in Ouroboros. Traditionalist Foil - Complete the badge mission "Revelation: Rikti Factions", listed as arc 0.43 under 'Vindicator (Level 35-39)' bracket in Ouroboros.

Number Six gave careful readers a work around . . .

If AE farming for Vet level rewards goes away, those that do it will either move to a different kind of farm or stop playing. It depends on how many of each of those two groups there are. One will keep generating those rewards, just slower. The other will eliminate one source of the supply chain altogether.

*Leaves to name squat "I'll be Bach" and every other classic composer I can think of.*

While I would like for there to be an easier way for active accounts to keep their names, I would NOT like a system that automatically set all my characters to zero days online whenever I logged in to any character or whenever the query was run. I use the time logged off as an indicator of when certain characters deserve some game time.

Ah! Thanks, that makes sense. Meteoric was actually Auto-boosted to 50 with the freebies menu, but not trained. And he sits at 50 on the live server. So my brain just read right past that.

POSSIBLE BUG? I'm not sure what is going on here. I have one character on Brainstorm with a ! for being offline for 236 days. OK that makes sense, but I also have one with 208 days and two with over 400 days that do NOT give the notification icon. What's up with that?

I have no problem with an automated system to free up names that have been and may remain unused for a long time. However, I am concerned that a purely automated system with no governor or regulator may lead to offensive name claiming (see my post above) or a new name squatter that doesn't mind logging in periodically. I think there should be a limit to how many names an account can claim in a certain period of time. What I don't know is what amount is reasonable. One name claim per month per account, perhaps?

I think that would actually be an interesting experiment, assuming that all the proposed AE changes go live, for one server to be kept as it is currently. Let players literally vote with their feet.

Unless that leads to less people playing, earning drops, and selling them . . .

Considering that many of us have been playing this game for 18 years . . . Also considering that it took me several months to get my first 50, but I never want to go back to that.