No network has the infrastructure for real 4G right now - it's just a scheme to make people think it is.

As far as phones, it is pretty clear that the iPhone is built better.  People with Android usually complain about how "closed" the Apple iOS is, while they themselves root their phone. 

wow that's some great work!!  truly wished i still played, i would have asked you to cook me up a sig!!!

Ouch, i hope you feel better soon!  There is definitely some weird things in the air this time of year.  I'm pretty sure I've got some sort of virus or another, and i don't know how long my immune system can hold it off.

Lightblade can it be true? i was on Drinal during Cats in Hats !

Omg Xiggie you too??

I started my MMO career with EQ back in '99.  I remember when CiH were the dominant guild there, while i was an absolute noob.  

Anyone else see a striking resemblance of bad guild leaders and the inability to write with proper sentence structure?

Lightblade's probably one of the most sincere people I've met on EZ.  Why on earth people would attempt to give him a bad name is beyond me.

I bring up rots because you expect people to pay high prices for items, when the reality is that they often can get them for free in pub.  So yes asking 35k for an item that is given away is a ripoff.  And you never told me if anyone ever bought that 35k Warrior Ore.

Really not sure what your deal is, but 35K is not high at all for ore, especially Warrior.  Just because things rot does not mean its free.  I pretty much let anything I can't sell above 50K to rot due to the fact that it takes my time to gate, zone, guild invite, go back in, mage COH, create banker, and hoping the guy isn't a total noob and take an even longer time.  Time is money, and if I feel that my time is worth more than 50K, that doesn't mean I'm stupid for "declining a sale." 

If you want to put that in a perspective, would you be willing to clear qvic trash just so someone can come in and loot something for 5K? 10K?  It's a waste of time for players who are looking to upgrade their alts as soon as possible so they can continue doing T4.

When the platinum exploit was fixed, what we saw was a gradual increase in value of our platinum.  This was first seen through prices of commodities such as major dragon essences falling from 500k to 250k. 

Let's say you can only sell T3 molds for 100k now instead of 500k.  Yes, you're getting a lot less plat, but with that plat, you can buy more things now that everything on the market dropped in price.  This really isn't a problem for the most part if everything on the server is free market, but it's not.  The prices for Guk & HoH instances were not adjusted down for deflation, and the prices for augs are still at the same price level. 

Another example is if your 100k salary was reduced to 50k, and everything you buy in the stores have dropped their prices by 50% as well.  This isn't really a problem, as the market does adjust itself to the supply/demand; however, what we have here is the government controlling parts of the industry.  This is equivalent to having to pay rent at the same price as before.  What you have now is increases in price for rent, but constant prices in everything else.  In-game, what we will see is a larger gap between people who can afford 100k instances and version 5 augs, and people who can't.  Everything else remains the same.

We do see Hunter adjusting some of this through monetary policies by increasing the plat drop on HoH bosses.

I turned off signatures because people make obnoxiously huge ones. Yours was probably the one that make me do so. Everything in life is your fault.

You are either extremely retarded or extremely retarded.  Your adolescent spasm won't even be remembered next to the likes of Rickross and Grukk. 

Hunter I wonder if waiting a month would be a good idea. This would give you a chance to get the server back into a stable state before having players commit their charms to characters that might get re envisioned.

I agree with pushing back the date of the transfer.  The changes haven't been done yet and the dust have not settled.  It may be a better idea if we wait until everything is stable before we make a committed one-time decision.

Absolutely amazing!  Thank you Hunter! 

Take the weekend off and enjoy the rest of your vacation!

What is tested enough?  Got any mid end toons for us to test with?  And how exactly do you know that a test server hasnt been created and used in the last 3 days?

Clearly the person doing the QC hasn't been following the mandated six sigma approach! 

I kid.

Thank you Hunter, i am looking forward to the Ninjastrike I-IVs.

I've been having the same issues, especially recently.

I usually 12box T3/T4 as my team's DPS is really weak.  My warrior with 2x IV and 1x V comes out on top, with the next in line being my Rogue.  No money for Icestrikes and only a few Firestrikes, and I don't have UC on any character.  My paladins are parsing under my Ranger @ 4000-5000 DPS, and my top 5 DPS are Warrior, Rogue, 4.0 Mage pet, and 3.5 Bst pet.  I don't mind cruising along t3/t4, as the fights are decent, and I get to do other things while in combat.

Anyway, now it takes probably 15-20 minutes to kill 1 T4, and the zone crashes for me every 2-3 spawns.  All I can tell is that a few seconds or so before the crash happens, I notice a few spurts of combat lag.  I haven't really pinpointed to what ability - if any - is causing this, as this has been happening on a variety of both T3 and T4 bosses. 

The real challenge is losing 16 stones every 45ish minutes due to crashing, as well as the wasted time spent on the current boss.  Since my collective DPS is really weak, it hurts big time when the crash happens at a boss that's sub-30%.

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