Today's alpha realm patch, one week turbo race results and supporter pack shipping update

i can imagine a "30 seconds auto mute" when mentioning "the other game" would prevent alot of noise as this was the most discussed topic earlier this year and will be brought up again in ob.
i'm already thinking about autoit scripts which automatically enters the answers for the most frequently asked questions and of course "this game is not diablo 3, it's called path of exile" and "no this company doesn't have a multimillion dollar background to satisfy your desires".

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geradon wrote:

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Charan wrote:

I have been theorycrafting in my head last thing at night

yes, these are the moments in daytime too when THE GIRL throws a jealous look and says: "you're at your game again, aren't you?"

Actually, not really. She's often just as absent and easily distracted as I am, so we're very good at tolerating each other's 'games', whatever they might be. :)

I'm a lucky dude like that.

Although I have stopped discussing the day-to-day affairs of moderation with her. I figured out, eventually, that it was like bringing work home with me at the end of the day. Not cool.

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About auto-muting: ick. ew. no. :)

New chat UI: Probably not for a bit.

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Charan wrote:

I'm a lucky dude like that.

indeed.

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Charan wrote:

Although I have stopped discussing the day-to-day affairs of moderation with her.

try telling the mod stories or explaining the game mechanics at bed time, works for me.

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Charan wrote:

About auto-muting: ick. ew. no. :)

eh, was kinda joking. forgot the smiley though, dang ...

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geradon wrote:

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species258 wrote:

can you imagine chat after release? spam .. spam everywhere...

yes there will be alot of newbie questions. it will be a tolerance test for the current community to handle it the same way as we did as we all were new to this game.
i have alot of trust it works because of the low ... (is there a english word for "arschlochdichte").

then i hope they get a solution to posting trade requests other than the global chat, maybe a separate chat in a horizontally split chat window so you can watch both.

and, it's likely the chat areas get more separated in open beta, the same way they did in open weekends when thousands of people joined the hunt.

so no worries here.

I found a German-language site titled "Arschlochdichte im Forum" and hit translate; I got "Asshole density in the Forum," which appears to be a perfect match for what was being discussed.

Some things are universal. =^[.]^=

i had a gamer girl once, when she get mad at me for overbidding her on some fire dmg neck i figured its not the best thing for me :)

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Charan wrote:

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species258 wrote:

i dont understand why everyone crave OB so much, personally? i hope it never arrives. 1st of all i want my game as polished as humanly possible and most importantly - can you imagine chat after release? spam .. spam everywhere... so take your time guys

You are talking as though people will be blaming you for the state of the chat and not, oh, I don't know, the moderators.

Hey, that includes me!

...And I have access to act 3 already, did I mention?

...all that and I STILL cannot wait for open beta.

you didnt get me at all, im not talking like im responsible for the state of chat. I merely ment that it wont be as "friendly" and spam free enviroment as it is now...

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species258 wrote:

i dont understand why everyone crave OB so much, personally? i hope it never arrives. 1st of all i want my game as polished as humanly possible and most importantly - can you imagine chat after release? spam .. spam everywhere... so take your time guys

I'm counting the days until OB, and for me, it can't come quickly enough. Every time I log on to this site, I hope and pray we get a date for the OB. Yes, I do want it to be as polished as possible, but more than that, I want to be able to actually play the darn thing. I'm really tired of looking at my Level 3 Ranger up in the left corner, knowing I won't be able to play with her again until the OB. Oh, sure, I can log in and play right now if I wanted to (I did reach level 3, after all), but once the OB is launched, all my charactes will be wiped, and I'll have to start over from scratch. I don't want that. I want to start from scratch and keep playing, knowing I can play for years and never suffer a character wipe ever again. Just because the OB launches, it doesn't mean the game is finished. The game will continue to grow, and they will keep polishing it for years after the actual release. But they won't wipe the characters after OB, and that's why I'm waiting. As soon as I can keep my characters, I'll be stuck in the game for a really long time. :)

If you dont want/like to 'loose' progress, to redo/replay in the same or a different way than before...

you should think about participating in a game that's based on events and leagues of limited time spans at all, and by all means stay away from any kind of hardcore. ^^

There will be game rules, that are functionally comparable to the ladder resets in D2... 'default' may be not more than a (kind of legacy) non-ladder league within some time. And also the game itself, is meaned to create multiple chars (unlike most "real" MMO games), to do things again (and again and again).

I still play, cause the only thing you loose, is playtime (and fun) - if you dont play now. To play or not to play, changes NOTHING on the situation at the OB date.

I have finished ACt 1 once and start Act 2, but I stopped early on in it. As for Act 3, I've seen one or two screenshots, and that's it. The two main reasons for that are Bioshock and Super Mario Galaxy. Both were games I was really looking forward to, so I read every preview, looked at every screenshot and so on until I got the games for myself. But know what? When I could finally play them, I realized I already knew pretty much everything about them already. Where's the fun in that? I want to explore the world, find new skill gems I didn't know about, fight monsters I didn't know about, and go places I didn't know existed. I want to experience everything for myself. I don't want someone else experiencing it for me.

Of course, I will play with several characters, and I will play the same thing over and over and over. But the first time I play it, I want everything to be fresh and new. I won't get that if I play the CB. Once the OB rolls out, I'll be stuck playing the same thing I've already played several times before I get to the new stuff, and where's the fun in that? I want to rather explore everything the first time and know I can take my time with it, as my character won't be deleted.

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Mr_Cee wrote:

If you dont want/like to 'loose' progress, to redo/replay in the same or a different way than before...

you should think about participating in a game that's based on events and leagues of limited time spans at all, and by all means stay away from any kind of hardcore. ^^

There will be game rules, that are functionally comparable to the ladder resets in D2... 'default' may be not more than a (kind of legacy) non-ladder league within some time. And also the game itself, is meaned to create multiple chars (unlike most "real" MMO games), to do things again (and again and again).

I still play, cause the only thing you loose, is playtime (and fun) - if you dont play now. To play or not to play, changes NOTHING on the situation at the OB date.

ya that's WHAT I thought. I totally AGREE