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I've never converted emps to reward merits that I can remember, so that part of this isn't really resonating with me though I am sure there is probably a problem to address there. I guess where I am hanging up is for the regular players, who I hope make up the majority of the player base, who just log on and have fun... how many MORE reward merits they are going to have floating around. And, if that's a good thing.
On those days when I have the chance to lead everything I like to, here's what another player running with me would walk away with if they didn't alt (just an example):
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Behavioral Adjustment Facility Trial = 18 Reward Merits (KeS badge)
- BAF SnP badge = 0 Reward Merits
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Lambda Sector Trial = 20 Reward Merits (Antacid badge)
- LAM Well Stocked badge = 0 Reward Merits
- LAM Looter + Synchronized = 0 Reward Merits
- Dilemma Diabolique Trial = 30 Reward Merits
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The Magisterium Trial = 22 Reward Merits (Ready to Rumble badge)
- MAG Triple Threat badge = 0 Reward Merits
Plus an MSR where you can convert vMerits to Reward Merits and end up with 40-ish Reward Merits. (Talking averages here for the zoned event - I understand instanced can get 70-ish.)
That's 130-ish Reward Merits per day that they are collecting, on top of whatever they may be collecting already just through normal play. I'm told, though I can't verify, that some players do play with other leaders besides me - and those leaders may be running a similar pattern of iTrials. I'm talking about people who aren't chasing Reward Merits, they're just playing the game and having fun, and now they have 100+ Reward Merits falling in their lap a few days a week on top of the rewards they've been used to getting.
Then you've got the people who WILL chase Reward Merits - maybe for the first time, since they are given out easier with this update - who will alt a lot so they can maximize their rewards.
I'm trying to think about what this game looks like if the majority of the players (well, Level 50, really) now have a few hundred Reward Merits each week, on top of their normal haul. Because 100 Reward Merits for me usually ends up being 20+ million inf.
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Behavioral Adjustment Facility Trial = 18 Reward Merits (KeS badge)
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2 hours ago, Cobalt Arachne said:
Those Incarnate Trial Reward Merits are subject to the standard 18 hour cooldown on the same character and are priced at the exact numbers you'd have gotten if you converted all the Empyrean/Astrals you earned from a fresh run into Reward Merits.
Not a complaint here, just an observation. I think almost all of the iTrials listed can technically be done in a single run to get the Master of... badge, though you may not want to try that with Magisterium. (Came darned close one time, tho.) Lambda requires at least 3 successful runs to get Master - there's just no way around that. Same with Minds of Mayhem, where people end up just farming that after the first completion, instead of completing the trial each additional time.
Overall, I think this change would encourage the "iTrial train" model of leaders not running BAF on repeat (for instance), which I think is good. But it creates an annoyance for Lambda where a player is incentivized to use Character A on the Antacid run, Character B on the Well Stocked Run, and Character C for the Looter and Synchronized run - then rotate all those the next day to eventually get Master on all 3 characters several days later.
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14 hours ago, Booper said:
Lambda Sector Trial = 20 Reward Merits
Double check my understanding on this: I can run a speed LAM which takes about 12 minutes, and on top of the rewards I'm already getting I would ALSO get 20 Reward Merits? Per run? That seems crazy to me.
For MSRs, can we drop 20 reward merits to the league just for finishing the raid?
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4 hours ago, Nemu said:
I don't understand this vehement opposition to...
Have you not met the internet before?
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New content aside - which is wonderful - I wonder how many of these changes were made based on posts in the Suggestions and Feedback forum?
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I am not excited about the idea of adding yet another currency to the game. If anything, I think we should be looking to simplify in this respect. For instance, I'd like to see us get rid of shards and incarnate components entirely and just have everything run off threads. I know that's not a popular opinion.
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Even back on Live, people were asking for Empathy to get some love. I like some of your ideas, just like I like some of the ideas in these other threads. Hopefully, we'll see some long overdue attention to this powerset soon.
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12 minutes ago, Luminara said:
Regen was fixed a long time ago, just like my cats.
But, wouldn't it work better for your cats if that was a toggle?
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I've always kicked around the idea that a team/league leader should have some special ability, but never have been quite sure what. I've thought it should probably be a buff of some kind with a long recharge. I wonder if Fold Space would be a good candidate for a team/league leader power? Thinking of DFB (and some of the other examples given, that gives you a way to dislodge a problematic bad guy.
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Some of the discussion here looks like it really belongs over here:
It's a problem when a DFB is stuck because no one has a way to damage a bad guy stuck in a wall. It's downright infuriating when Tyrant gets taken out too quickly and Baby Tyrant falls out from under the earth. GMs can't do anything about the latter in-game, and my experience is that it's difficult to summon a GM for something like a DFB.
For Magisterium, if there could be some kind of "beacon" a player could hit in the bowl once every 5 minutes that would TP Baby Tyrant to them, maybe that would solve that. Or, just remove Baby Tyrant entirely and have everything finish after taking down Tyrant.
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1 hour ago, Bionic_Flea said:
If all you are looking at is time, no one should team with any blaster that isn't fire.
I agree, it doesn't help to zoom in on one specific metric then blow that up to something larger than that. Better, with this game right now anyway, to foster an acceptance among the community that knockback is simply part of the game and you may need to chase down flying bad guys that someone else knocked back. In everything I run, there is only 1 badge run (BAF Strong and Pretty) where I specifically ask for one team to not use knockback. I just don't see it as meriting this many threads on the subject.
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2 hours ago, Luminara said:
The toggle suggestion has been discussed. Thoroughly. Repeatedly. Heatedly.
Yeah, but not since, like, a year ago, right? That horse might be moving again.
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9 hours ago, Akalabeth said:
You were the first one I ran with on a Lambda to get synchronized. The side I wasn't on was running around destroying the crates ignoring what people were saying. 😞 I think we got it on one of the last crate things left. That was a few months back.
People who are just playing the game and not reading chat don't bother me near as much as what was mentioned in the thread here - someone who is obviously sabotaging a run by hanging on to a Pacification Grenade until the last second and using it then. Or running straight out and using a Molecular Acid (seriously, who even uses those these days?). Or sneaking away from the group to destroy either the Containment Chamber or Weapons Cache outside. I don't understand the joy in intentionally sabotaging a badge run.
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On 6/22/2022 at 2:26 PM, Ulysses Dare said:
Griefing. Actually, deliberately screwing up the game for other people. The worst example I've seen was the jerk (I'm being polite there) who sabotaged several Master of Lambda attempts by waiting until we had Marauder's health bar down to a sliver and then tossing a grenade on him. Compared to that, dropping out of a TF is nothing.
My signature has a link to where I documented a way to discover who is ruining Lambda badge runs like this, using the demorecord option. I'm sure you can use the demorecord option more broadly for other places in the game where griefing is possible. Best practice in Lambda badge runs is to insist that all temps get passed to the league or team leader after TP out of the munitions depot or training facility, so you know where all of them are. You are then on high alert if you don't get all 10. For griefers, you also have to watch the weapon cache and containment chamber outside, as well - those are pretty easy, but also pretty obvious, for a griefer to prevent a badge run from succeeding. I let it be known to my leagues what the demorecord shows, and let them decide what to do from there. Often, as someone else mentioned, it's not intentional, but when it is you will see them run for the hills.
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Found a bug with email and sending influence. If this has already been documented, please include a link below.
- PLAYER B sends PLAYER A an email with any amount of influence attached to it.
- PLAYER A sends PLAYER C an email with any amount of influence attached to it.
- PLAYER A replies to PLAYER B's email before clicking claim.
The email to PLAYER B will automatically include the influence amount from step 2 as an attachment.
I documented this with pics in a support ticket, but it keeps getting marked as "resolved" with no explanation. Perhaps I was unclear. Thought I would post it here to gain visibility.
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20 hours ago, Techwright said:
Just casual observation, but I usually notice that Hybrid finally unlocks when I'm Incarnate level 9.
I doubt this is the case here, but since you can use a combination of influence and threads to buy incarnate XP, someone with a lot of inf and emps/transcendents to move around could buy their way to a fully open incarnate tree and still be vet level 3 (maybe less?). Absent something like that, I think you're right.
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On 6/11/2022 at 4:30 PM, Zappalina said:
There is a raid 6 PM EST run some days in the Abyss by Conflict? and friends
It's Confusion? Not Conflict? And still not sure he has friends. 🙂
On 6/11/2022 at 4:30 PM, Zappalina said:There is an MSR run by Ok which he could let you know about (see his post in this forum)
I can't commit to be online at any certain point in time. *IF* I am online at 10pm Central, I like to run an MSR, sometimes a Hami, sometimes both. I run iTrials when I can before, and sometimes after, that.
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In some cases, you can be moved from the team to a team of your own within the league, and that will work.
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16 hours ago, Shred Monkey said:
a few people having a brief back-and-forth dialogue on LFG
First off, how many is a few, and how many messages do each of those few get to contribute to LFG?
3 hours ago, Bionic_Flea said:Finally, I find that "take it to general" is as much off topic as anything else posted to those channels.
Agreed, but if it ends a conversation that's been going on in LFG for several minutes, I think it's appropriate.
2 hours ago, Cyber Bishop said:I too occasionally do try to answer questions even if it is in LFG although most of the time Ill just send the person a tell with the answer.
This is the way.
2 hours ago, TraumaTrain said:You want to talk about the hockey game in LFG? No.
The "hockey game" can start by looking like many things - "Healer LFT", "My league leader kicked me for no reason!", "I'll pay 10M for an AE farm", "Why won't anyone join my costume contest? Grand prize 10,000 inf!" Of course, sometimes a hockey game is just a hockey game, too. All that is to say that I agree with you.
Bottom line for me - if you are posting non-LFG stuff in LFG, you are not helping people LFG. You are making it harder for them to LFG. You are, in fact, anti-LFG. The occasional exception is quickly moved on from. The conversation drags on and becomes a problem.
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/kick @Infinitum
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I don't care what everyone says about @PeregrineFalcon, I reckon they ARE fit to sleep with pigs!
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41 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
In my defense I'll say only that I'm not always an idiot.
Nobody thinks you are always an idiot.
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2 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:
So you all won't talk on Teamspeak, Skype, Discord, and now we're not supposed to talk on
the in game chat channelsLFG?FIFY, and correct.
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There, I said it. Let the hate flow.
Look, I've played on other servers and I know their LFG channels aren't nearly as busy as ours on Excelsior. Those servers can tolerate that extremely witty reply you absolutely have to make in response to someone else's typo in an LFG post. In fact, it likely will be welcomed as the first time two messages were posted back-to-back to LFG in, what, days?
On Excelsior, though, we have numerous posts to LFG per minute, pretty much around the clock as far as I can tell. We are fortunate to have a lot of people trying to form groups. Maybe you don't realize how frustrating it is, then, when a conversation breaks out in LFG and our ad scrolls off the screen immediately.
No, I don't "own" any aspect of this game. But asking you to move a conversation to GENERAL or HELP is not some great offense worthy of a nasty /tell.
Anyway, that's the burr in my saddle this morning. How are you?
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New Title Option: Global Name
in Suggestions & Feedback
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Yes, you are correct. Gives you the same info as /getglobalname ShardWarrior
A couple thoughts here. It would helpful (to me, anyway) if I could right click the character name and select "Email Global" or something like that. I prefer to email prize money for MSRs, and my process right now is to right click the name, select Get Global Name, copy that global from the system window, open e-mail, create new email, and paste into the To field. I love doing DFBs with kill shot prizes for everything, but it is a tremendous pain to go through that process for 7 people.
Second, some players have a standard base for all of their character names - WeaponX Air, WeaponX Mez, etc. So, I know all those characters are the same person. A suggestion like OP is making would help me piece together the rest of us - for those who choose that option.