I've never played Rift so I wasn't comparing to that or really any other game. I realize other games have more graphics and selection and such. I just think it would be a neat feature that would take next to no effort to put in. Even 2 or 3 would be better than one size fits all. In weapons though there is a hell of a lot more than 2 or 3.

So I was wondering if it would be possible to turn our armor into augs and put aug slots on everything in the game. For instance the monk BP could be turned into an aug and then I could go find a bp that I like the graphics on and put my tier bp into that armor. It would create a lot of diversity in looks and in naming. I was going to suggest this before but the clickies we got from the armors always stopped me but now that augs carry their click over that is not an issue. We could even do the same thing with epics. I think this would add a hell of a lot of diversity.

I can see why you wouldn't. You and I have disagreed several times. That still wouldn't stop me from being impartial and fair to you or anyone else.

Well the offer is there and will stay as an offer. No hard feelings if it is not taken and honestly no hard feelings taken from those who would not want me as a guide.

I have history on this server. I fully understand that there would be those who would not want me as a guide. I still think I would be a good one. I am removed enough by not playing long enough that I am not in anyone's niche. I am quite confident that if I was chosen Hunter would scour my logs looking for any kind of impropriety. I in no way shape or form would try to be overbearing in looking for every time someone said a bad word in ooc or cussed. Quite frankly I think that would be a guide looking for trouble and creating more drama than what it is worth. I too have cussed in ooc and have seen Hunter do it. Where I think I guide should step in is where someone gets out of hand and starts disgustingly talking about how they want to impregnate your 14 year old sister while your grandma watches, (sorry for the example but I wanted a for instance).

I have had my opinion of things in the past and have spoken about the quite loudly. But as a guide, my opinion would not matter. It would not matter what I think is right or wrong or what I want or want not to do or see. As I guide it would be my job to look after what Hunter wants and does not want in the capacity that he allows me too. As for my coming back as a guide and therefore getting back into playing, make my characters unplayable. I guarantee you this... within a month the majority of people will either thank Hunter for making me a guide or thank Hunter for firing me. I think majority of people would like me as a guide eventually, yes even those who speak out against me. I think it so much and so confidently that I would even put my own toons on the line. Hunter knows my accounts. If I get fired, ban me all around.

I doubt I will be taken up on this at all but I want to make my one plea. I want to help, not control. I humbly as all of you, give me a chance. I won't disappoint.

Giving people the right to vote silence people I can see being a good idea on paper but in practice it would lead to people exploiting it. X guild leader gets in a pissing match with y person and does a /vote stfu. He then asks everyone else in his guild to do the same thing. Then he sends a message to his buddy who leads another guild to do the same thing. It would be especially hard on new people an would give another way for end game people or long term people to troll newbs. Those who are established, whether they be right or wrong would have rights over those who are not established.

I am not going to be coy, I think I would be a good candidate for a guide. I know I have been pretty sharp on the forums in the past but I think I am far removed enough from the drama to not be drawn into it to take sides. Dispelling a dramatic situation does not involve resolving drama. It just means taking the fire out of it. Banning or even suspending would not even be needed. Equip with the power to silence if needed would be the most I think a guide would need. I'd like to reiterate I am not asking to be able to resolve peoples drama or to take anyone's side. Just to help out with dispelling that drama and using silence if needed. I would keep a log of everything to show what happened and why silenced was used or even any interaction I would have with anyone in tells or ooc. There would be no banter from me or even opinions thrown out for that matter. As a guide it wouldn't be my job to have an opinion, it would be my job to dispel loud opinions. And if I abuse it, fire me. Simple as that.

As for being able to stealth, fraps what I might see, report it to Hunter and he takes the action. I don't need to.

No offense if you don't take my offer up, I know this is something you have always resisted but Hunter, the offer is there and I extend it with as much dignity and honor as I can possibly give. I am not looking to impose my will, I am looking to help. This is something I can give back to a server that has given so much to me since 07 or 08.

Honestly as much as I like Hate I think he is too involved. To be effective it can't be someone who would have to defend their own content. Someone who doesn't have an axe to grind and quite honestly someone who will not take sides. I don't think Hunter needs someone to help him settle arguments, that is for him to do. He needs someone to silence arguments. Jail people who are jerking up in public zones maybe and generally a peace keeper. Not a resolution person. Again, not someone who take sides but someone who could deflate conflict instead of trying to resolve conflict.

You really need to get a guide or 2. Your population has been high enough for it for a long time. You need it to be a veteran, preferably someone who does not play anymore who is very limited in what they can do. Mostly observe and report. Maybe the ability to much and definitely the ability to stealth. If you limit your guides abilities they can be a help not a liability.

The UW broke this server period. Everyone can be end game with one.

Nah not true, Redtwo complains non stop about how he cant beat T8 with a UW9.
/whistle

Lol

I have played since the change to the warrior bp. I generally make it a point to not post when I am not playing on the server. If you are not playing the server then you don't know the dynamics of what is going on. However the UW is still more dps than an entire group without the UW. The UW still makes a warrior more survivable than an entire group, or 3 groups for that matter. It doesn't even take T8 to understand that. The UW broke this server period. Everyone can be end game with one. Sure make the UW harder to obtain and maybe 2 years or so down the road when the drones of people who currently have them finally quit the health of the server will pick up. Or you can just do it now. Nerf what should have never been put on the server in the first place. It started with the Halloween weapons and now it is with the UW.

Right now you have the people who can't get a UW because it is too hard/have a lot less UW's and you have the people who have several of the UW. Who do you balance the content for? If you balance the content for the people who don't have several or any UW then the people who do have several UW scream about how the went through he new tier in less than a week. If you balance the content to people who do have their UW's then it is too hard for those who don't and you have people screaming about how the UW needs to be made easier.

As for the people who threaten to leave, I promise you nerfing the UW, turning it into an aug and then tweaking the content to fit the new firepower will result in more people coming into the server than leaving. Of all the years I have played on this server I have never seen anything threaten this server as much as the UW's.

What about the people who donated to the server and now find it a farce because of the UW? UW have trivialized the entire game. I can do more with my warrior than I can with 3 groups of toons without the UW and my warrior only has UW8. If the change is made, people will complain, they will come here on the forums and shit up the walls. But the overall health of the server will improve over time. Sure some adjustments will have to be made to the content and that will take time. But these are changes that are good for the longevity of the server.

I have 3 UW, this would effect me profoundly. I think it would effect the server in a very positive way. I feel for the people who donated to buy this but you did so in a server you know is ever changing. Yeah I would lose a lot of what I put into the server but I would get a lot more out of a good server than what things have become. There would be a lot of crying and whatnot but I think the server health would improve after the shock of it all. Incidentally I would leave the stats on there, just cut to 1/4th of what they were. A general cross the board cut. I would also add an aug slot to every weapon in the game. An aug slot just for the ultimate aug.

I think turning UW's into Aug's at 1/4 dmg (white + proc) is good idea. Remove stats/hp. Maybe slot any aug type slot, and make them non-lore? Still time consuming to get.

Main tanks would still have to survive from their other gears stats.

Seems right now the only quest that is so hard that nobody is doing is that Earring of the Ages for 50k AA per rank.

UW was meant to be rare, and some how more people got them than I expected. Do we really have that many hardcore players doing 12-18 hours per day here? I thought majority of the players would have been more casual than that =P

I could easily make a quest npc that you hand them a 50 million platinum token plus no-drop item to get a 'cd key' in return that can be redeemed for that item id at the Key_Master NPC

This would get me trying out the server again. Actually made me a little excited about it.

The ultimate weapon is a large part of the reason I don't play on this server anymore. It made everyone end game. Doing things like is being done right now is just putting more band aids on it. Want to fix the ultimate weapons? Make them augs at 1/4th what they were before. Do the same thing to their proc's and clicks. Drop it to 1/4th. Put an item in game that cost 50m plat to make that you can combine with your ultimate weapon aug that will make it tradeable so that people can move them from one toon to another if they wish. Or sell them for that matter. Slowly over time reduce the amount of stuff to make them to a comfortable level that fits with the new stats. Until something like this happens there are going to be way too many people end game. I have 3 UW so this would effect me a lot on this server but I think it is a change that needs to be made.

I wish Hunter would take away the ability to spawn the BU in public. Would really help with the lag.

nah, just make it 2-3 zones that you can spawn BU in

Whether it's 1 2 or 10 zones when people spawn them in public loads of people will show up. It will lock down the zone. Spreading it over zones will not make people not go to those zones, it will just make them go to each one.