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Kicking out our bassist
Our bass player's a young lad of 19, and plays a lot of guitar as well. We're not even sure he considers himself a bassist; he hadn't heard of many of the greats, and doesn't practice very much. He certainly can't read music, and two weeks in a row we had to take time out of our rehearsal to teach him a bass part for which he's had the material for weeks. He didn't even know what a triplet was. Not really something you want from a bassist.
Anyway, for the second time in a row he's pulled out of our regular rehearsal slot to record with his other band which, to sound utterly harsh, is a kiddy outfit with absolutely no future. Now, I don't have any problem with people pursuing all the projects they want, good and bad, but he knows we regularly rehearse on Sundays, and committed to this recording session anyway. On top of that, he used Facebook to "let us know", and didn't bother to e-mail the whole band, even when asked to.
The fact that he's not actually very good just takes away our tolerance really. The rest of the band are on a much higher level, and we shouldn't have to put up with shoddy commitment from new members (he's only been with us a few months).
It's a shame because he's a nice enough lad, but when the pieces don't fit....
Does anyone else have any "wasn't meant to be" member stories?
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I have a "wasn't meant to be" story.
It was actually myself. Last summer I played with some folks that I just ended up not gelling with.
They all were content to play tiny churches in the middle of nowhere. I knew the context of the music when I joined; I had no problem with that. They just wanted to do cheesy covers instead of their pretty decent originals. The setlists had about 2 or 3 originals in it. They also were trying to appeal mostly to kids. I wanted to play something a little more mature.
I also tried several times to tell the other members about places around town that would have us, but they never pursued it. Also, I was the only person in the band that could read music. Do you know what it's like to be the drummer and try to explain time signatures and such to 2 guitarists? One of whom claimed to be a drummer.
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Funnily enough,. yes.
Now, not that I condone slagging off ex-band members but sit down kiddies and I shall regale you with the tale of Vertiis' ex-four stringer.
Things he did:
* Went AWOL for three weeks prior to his first audition.
* "Forgot" to pay his part of our 24/7 room rent.
* Didn't learn songs
* Couldn't tune his bass.
We got another guy auditioning on Thursday by all accounts hes a lot better then the afrementioned.
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Since my first band, I've been a lot less tolerant of players who just... can't play. I'm not getting any younger, actually turning 27 this weekend. If there's such a serious lack of musicality (aka, not knowing what a triplet is), then it's the boot, no questions asked.
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We're auditioning two bass players. Our soon to be former bass player, I don't know why he even bothers. He doesn't even try to play. What makes the whole thing difficult is this our church band, so we can't be too mean.
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my last band had really great music, but the lead singer was just... well, extremely odd.
he's a big boy, too, and i mean big. probably goes six foot four and weighs 260? and none of it fat. he has a lot of issues, and he began to literally scare the guys and i, and so we kinda just faded out and made our own project.
guy's a great song writer, but relatively scary human being.
Technique trumps everything.
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I used to play with a person (let's call them "X") who was actually a very good musician, but after I while I got sick of hearing (from X) how good X was and how X should be playing with various jazz greats etc..... one day during a practice session X said that "if he had the money" he'd get a top class jazz drummer and bass player to play on his album.... (Oh now I've given away that "X" is male - o dear).....
Hmmm I thought.... as I was drumming and engineering (at the same time) and providing the studio to mix/master the album that didn't go down real well with me.......
When "X" said that he should be invited to play at the local jazz festival and wouldn't even go to audition (in fact, he wouldn't even go to watch!!) that was enough for me. "X" was politely advised that he should find another drummer.
- and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.... ;-)
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It must be something about bassists.....
I've been with my band for less than a year, and we have the three original members including myself, and have had 4 bassists. This last one however, is by far the best, the friendliest, and the most committed, so hopefully, it will all be good for now.
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This is how I got to be drummer in my current band a couple years ago. Their drummer was a head case, and was always getting injured. The band had difficulty booking gigs because they didn't know if he was going to show up. In the month leading up to one of their gigs, he injured his shoulder falling out of a tree on a hunting trip. Two of the guys in that band played with me at church, so asked if I wanted to fill in for the one gig, and I said yes. I had less than a week to get ready for the gig, and to top it all off, their drummer showed up at the gig and sat at a table right in front of the band. I so impressed the guitarist that he told the drummer he was out and I was in. It was really awkward because he was the brother-in-law of the bass player, but the bass player didn't like him either.
Not to toot my own horn, but I helped to revitalize the band with my playing and ability to sing (old drummer did no singing). We were able to expand the band's repetoir significantly and make the music more palatable to the viewing audience.
"Through many dangers, toils and snares..." - Amazing Grace, third verse
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Not a bassist story, but a "not meant to be" story nonetheless.
Three or four weeks ago, my three-piece band decided to upgrade to a four or five-piece band, becoming a larger instrumental or a full band respectively. We still have the guitarist (grew up in the Nashville area playing Deathmetal and other regional music), but the guitarist/vocalist we also invited to play wasn't cut out to be in the group.
He couldn't tune his guitar, and he never actually sang. He inadvertently took over rehearsals (inadvertently meaning that he's more of a leader, and we already had a sort of order to things), and continually suggested music that none of us had heard of nor enjoyed. He had very little, if any, understanding of musical terminology and theory, so having him 'jam' with us was more of a time-consuming burden than anything else.
And the problem was, he was a great guy and a good friend of mine. Obviously I wasn't the one who called him to kick him out.
So, now we're an instrumental four-piece, and I'm pretty sure we're all enjoying it thoroughly.
"At the end of the day you just draw pretty pictures on a field and play some rimp ska dimps."
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Too many similar incidences to even begin talking about. I will say though that the majority of the drama/divaness issues were with the bass players. They are a different breed or at least appear to be where I reside right now. And it was not they could not play, it mostly was just the drama issues, refusal to play certain covers/originals or just not showing up or constantly bailing on rehearsals. You are certainly not alone. Good luck, gotta keep the faith..
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Wow, good stories everyone. It is strange that many seem to involve bassists. Where are all the Victor Wootens and Avishai Cohens?
I'm not sure our current position at the moment. Our band leader e-mailed the bassist in question an ultimatum: our band 100%, or out. The bassist had tried to protest that he wasn't non-committal, Sunday was the "only day" he could record with this other band. But he has known for months that Sunday is our regular slot and booked the recording session anyway, knowing full well he'd have to cancel the practice.
It must have been hard for him to be fair, since the four "core" members have been friends for years and he is trying to come in from the outside, but you'd think people in that situation would try harder to impress. No offence to the younger guys on here, but maybe 19 is too young for many people to understand what commitment is. I'm only 24, and only just beginning to understand what is needed.
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If you want to succeed then you've got to do what you got to do. There is no choice. It's a relentless business and you have to make tough decisions.
My first band started off OK. We had lead and rhythm guitars and a bass player/singer who had been in quite a popular band.
As time went on he came to tick just about all the boxes above, including turning up late and drunk for gigs, not remembering the words; he had to read from crib cards and he had no idea of the meaning of the word "key". Also he didn't like being counted in.
So we unanimously decided that if we were going to get anywhere he had to go or else we might as well pack the band up. We tackled him about it one night at rehearsal. He turned up late and we'd already been going for half an hour!
There was a lot of shouting and bad language, there was almost a fight. But he went!
We did better after that, the rhythm guy took over bass and singing and we settled down well.
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You had to teach him the part after having the material for weeks...sounds like he cant be in 2 bands at once... bands are like 3 or 4 or more piece marriages and very hard to keep together... Sounds like he is wasting your time coming to practice not prepared.. There is something exciting about all the members learning there parts at home and coming into practice and play a complex song together for the first time and nail it.. what a rush it can give.
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The bass player and myself in our band have been together for over 14 years so we "click" when it comes to playing. I know his licks and he knows mine and couldn't ask for a better combo.
I could tell you stories about lead guitar players, keyboard players as well as lead singers who's egos were as big as all outdoors. Guys who though they were going to make it "big" one day.
But where are they now? Driving trucks, taking care of kids or getting high and/or drunk.
Sad really as making music is supposed to be fun, not a job!
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"Through many dangers, toils and snares..." - Amazing Grace, third verse
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I must be the only drummer here who
a) can only just read drum music
b) doesn't know that much music terminology.
Yet I'm a f**king good drummer in my own right...
My band play a cross between thrash metal (Anthrax / Megadeth / Slayer) and groove-oriented stuff (Pantera, White Zombie, Anihilator), our guitarists can read tab, I can just read drum music but don't care to.
Jamming is 100% the reason we write songs.
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Yes, I have met a few people like "X" in my time. There always going on about how great "X" is, but then they repeatedly screw up a solo for weeks at a time and then "X is just having a bad day" or "X is really more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist", even though that's the reason "X" was brought into the band in the first place.
Don't get me wrong: I make mistakes all the time, but I at least I own up to them and try not to repeat them. It's never "X's" fault.
Oh, and "X" has played with all these different bands over the years and could play with anyone in town right now, so you should feel privileged that "X" is playing with you. Hey "X", show don't tell....mmkay?
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Can you tell that I'm going through this same situation with our lead guitar player right now? ;-)
Too bad he's actually a nice guy. It's easy to fire a jerk.
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I'm surprised there aren't more "sack the lead git player" stories - aren't they the primadonnas of the music world?
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Only one of those with the ego problem is still playing but he has to smoke his pot and drink his gin and by the end of the night, he can barely stand up, much less sing and play guitar. Sad really as he is as good as Eric Clapton or any other guitar player...when sober!
We play local VFW and country bar and grill, once a month, every month and for now I'm enjoying it. When the enjoyment stops, I'll quit and retire from it.
I tell folks that a band is only as good as the worst player in group. No matter what, you can't make a bad player sound good.
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i had to fire our former lead guitarist a few months ago. what an idiot! when we first brought him in he was telling us all these stories about how he was a "pro" and knew every song ever written. i was thinking great, that's just what we need! but after a couple rehearsals it became clear that he was an idiot. i took him up on his claim to know all these songs, but it turned out that he didn't really know much of anything. his definition of knowing a song was more like he could play a few of the chords. he really didn't know the structure of any song. i'd tell him we all need to agree on a structure for a song, even a loose structure, and stick to it, but he wanted to wing everything. apparently that's what he did when he played his solo gigs, which in that situation doesn't matter that much, but in a band everyone has to agree on how the songs go. half the time he couldn't play the songs he suggested. for example, he suggested we play "dream on" and "sweet child of mine" because he "knew" those songs, but he couldn't play the intro to either of those songs to save his life, and he couldn't be bothered to learn them either. he never worked on anything at home. what finally pissed me off beyond the point of no return was the day he told me he couldn't come to practice unless we paid him because he was a "pro" and for him "time is money". i said ok, great, don't bother coming to practice. in fact, don't ever come again, you're fired! he got really mad and called me a bunch of names, but it was worth it! what an idiot!
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Since you asked, here goes:
I have no trouble calling these guys hicks or hillbillies or whatever. Trying to put something back in the community by playing with some musicians at two nursing homes, I was invited to sit in with three guitar players, a bassist, and a piano player. The piano player I was - up until last week - a member of. her group More about that later.
After playing two weekend gigs with these guys, one of the guitar players - who was very good, and his obnoxious buddy a - AGAIN - bass player invited me over jam. Ok, sure. I'll jam with these two older guys and hope I can pick something up along the way. To make a very long story short, after about an hour with these guys I knew I wasn't going to jell at all. The guitar player was very good and very nice and accomodating. His short, fat obnoxious buddy who claimed to have toured with (insert any international C and W star here) was a complete jerk who did everything short of telling me how to hold the drum sticks.
I politely left after about an hour making the excuse I had to pick up my kids. The obnoxious jerk called the next day and said they were really exicted about the band and wanted to know when I can start gigging. I told him politely I wasn't interested and he rambled on for 30 minutes trying to convince me to join up and "make a lot of money".
And another story with the piano player...I spent two years in the band and after putting up with playing in nursing homes, shit houses, coffee bars and church venues and not so much as making or even being offered gas money, have decided to call it quits. They ain't goin' nowhere! So, it's in my own best interest to leave on good terms and take back 4 hours of my weekends I spent on rehearsals.
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Mythic Entertainment's Mark Jacobs has posted an informative overview of upcoming improvements to Warhammer Online's Open RvR system with the addition of an RvR Influence system, changes to the map system, new RvR incentives for players and guilds, and more.
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Sounds great, i guess. Might re-activate my account after the holidays. One thing that bothers me though, the amount of times the word "easy" was used. Sounds like he's turning into a Blizzard employee. =(
THIS WAS SAID: First, we have created an RvR Influence system. This system is designed to reward our oRvR players with lots of new stuff that you can only get through oRvR. This will be a complimentary system to our PQ Influence system. This system is already implemented in 1.1 and is scheduled to go LIVE along with that version in December.
MY THOUGHTS: PQ's will now be completely useless and a waste of time. I don't know why they even put PvE in the game, it should be entirely RvR, because there is nothing worthwhile to be doing in PvE that will receive better rewards and xp - or even on par - than RvR.
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Joined: 8/10/04
While I am a fan of WAR I must say that things have taken a definite turn for the worse since launch. The huge ORVR battles that were the norm throughout beta are a rarity in live. What ORVR there is quickly turns into a very boring and unappealing game of keep tag. The game was closer to balance a month before release and some of the decisions at mythic to turn the game into a loot grind akin to wow have really turned me off and im really not sure that I am going to be able to justify my paying to play this for too much longer.
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Joined: 10/07/06
I think there are plenty of wonderful PVE rewards in the game , as there should be. You should be able to choose what you want to do , not be force into PVP or PVE. There should be great rewards for both and rewards that you can only get by either doing PVP or PVE. Personally, I think the announced additions sound great.
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Joined: 10/17/05
I agree that these ideas sound like a great idea. However, I still want more to do in the game. You don't ALWAYS want to fight the opposite faction. In order to make the game totally immersive, I would say that it needs some other side-games and such. Every game has some variety and while the focus is to be fun oRvR, they should still give the choice of doing something else.
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Joined: 9/20/06
It's good that more is going to be done to encourage RvR. I have a lvl 30 zealot and a lvl 20 squig herder and have only ever managed to join a warband for a keep siege battle three times in the whole time I've been playing. There are clearly insufficient incentives for people to bother at the moment. Unless someone takes it upon themselves to organise a warband and to keep spamming regional chat to get others to join, it just doesn't happen.
Having said that, I can't understand people who are anti PvE and scenarios. To my mind, it's the variety of the game that makes it fun to play. Better RvR would be good but not at the expense of fun PvE and scenarios. Everything has its place and it's great to have choices.
Not that any of this matters much to me at the moment . I'm back playing LotRO for the first time in a year and had forgotten just how much there is to do there compared with the other games I've played since. My new Rune Keeper is likely to keep me busy for the next couple of months so I may drop WAR for now. It's definitely likely to be one of the few games where I've dropped my subscription and gone back to it later though.
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Mythic has such a huge disconnect from the pvp/rvr scene its unbelievable.
HELLO, its not the fame thats the problem, its the whole design of rvr offered in Warhammer, Its pathetic.
Its liner and static. Static siege pads, knock on the door kill the keep lord wash rince and repeat. Its boring and repetitive.
The keep will always be there, you cant destroy one or build anything on the keep except siege engines that are poorly implemented, and most times have blocked view from its perspective overlooking the field. The dmg is pathetic on them.
Siege once and thats how it is for the rest. boring.
There is no WAR in Warhammer. Unless you change the core design of the rvr in Warhammer, nothing you do is going to work. The foundation is built poorly.
It doesnt matter what i type, they wont listen... Its like a deaf and a blind person trying to play i spy...
Thank god Darkfall is so close to release.. There will be war there for sure. And no stupid lvling system..
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I think they pretty much addressed everything about RvR without actually addressing the problem. The problem isn't that there's not enough rewards and goodies for doing RvR. There's RvR gear sets with some good blues (some are better than others..). You don't need to have tangible rewards in a faction-based game that's supposed to be about PvP and crushing the opposition. You were going to do PvP anyway because this is at its heart a PvP game; the real fun is there and everyone knows it.
The root of the problem with oRvR is that there's no reason to defend anything. You get a measly 100 renown every so often for defending a keep. Aside from tangible rewards, taking a keep doesn't do anything really in the global context. In DAoC, taking keeps was how you ended up taking relics from the opposing faction. Relics were powerful and worth taking or defending. In tier 4, you'll see more defense going on than other tiers as the opposition moves into striking distance because nobody wants their city to get taken, nobody wants the enemy to push the front and gain an advantage. It's a battle for pride. Making all keep takes matter in a global or tier-based context towards some sort of goal would go a long way towards making oRvR more vibrant at all levels. Only when losing a keep actually hurts or matters at all levels will people consistently want to defend them. Adding more rewards in is a band-aid at best, and a reason for someone to participate for a while.. mostly to sit around and get rewards.
WAR has frequently designed its systems to be about spontaneous community. These design changes are in keeping with what they've done previously, but they don't provide the reason to care that people really want. oRvR will be just a big PQ, experience giveaway and loot jamboree. What my friends and others in my guild would really like is for there to be a reason beyond sheer pride or loot for taking or defending something -- something that builds community and is so important that when someone IMs you and says "ORDER IS ON THE LAST KEEP IN PRAAG!" you drop whatever you were doing and join the WAR.
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No mention at all about the dozens upon dozens of Low pop servers. Frankly, that's the biggest blow to RvR.
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I'd like to see a few things.
-remove siege pads, they limit siege and are horribly placed.
-make siege useful (other than a ram.) At least give siege a knockback factor or something...at least it would be fun to knock people off of the walls (pesky casters.)
- Add open world dungeons in rvr land that factions could fight over/in.
- add mobs and epic mobs in rvr lands to fight. (increased exp/loot) to give people something to do while waiting for people to show up and fight.
- make owning a keep useful. Give an exp boost or something to guild members that own a keep, or an option to upgrade keep defenses, etc. and so on.
- Figure out a way to make rvr lakes bigger, they are so small right now that all fights take place at the keep or at the warcamps.
- Add a reason and room for small group fighting rather than just supporting zerg warfare.
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First an aside, there've been so many people whining about low pop servers and in the same breath complaining about migration. I understand people holding either view but get confused by those that seem to hold both. how does that work? hopefully more low pop servers will be offered the opportunity to migrate to med pop servers. if you then choose to remain with friends fine but please accept a choice has been made.
This announcement seems great news. I loved ORvR. Went to fight order on a med pop server to get killed and hopefully get a hundred order as well in the recent halloween event. Nobody there. Went back to select scens. One immediately popped for our trio. We basically switched from waiting in Org in WoW to waiting in a deserted battlefield in WAR for scens to pop.
I don't really blame people though. I spent a few evening attempting to capture T2 keeps. Sometimes we succeeded but often were repelled. One thing that was guaranteed not to happen was that we gained much xp. Glad to see that's being adjusted and this can only be good news. I am about to cancel my subscription and explore northrend but it's nice to know that it'll be worth retrying in a couple of months. Looks like i'll be back.
Finally a whine. Now I know this is a team game but I just wish they'd rebalance healer renown. I realise that lotsa healing doesn't equal a good healer. Popping group heals on tanks while the rest die does not make a good healer and I know of people who seemed to be renown grinding that way. But to be so dependent on other's kills where destro regularly pop with one healer to order's four and get no renown meant I re-rolled sorcerer. assuming i am not the only one to reroll this has worsened a problem for order.
Maybe its to encourage people to roll order? I don't know. Just seems to imbalance in favour of pre-mades the already unlevel playing field a little too much. Maybe I'm just a whining casual and should just shut up but I'd liked the fact the lower level fights did not relate to gear so much and gave new players a chance.
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seems to me too little too late, at least for EU servers that don't have transfers and are empty now. By the time these changes hit live, most likely there will be even less players left so it won't matter any more. I hope I am wrong...
Daily quests.. thats new.. oh wait. And yet more rank style grinding... must be the answer to everything.
Everything else sounds ok, But I still think there needs to be less Keeps to help concentrate the RVR. Might check it out if they do a "come back ot war for 10days free" type of trial.
This is how I think RVR should work
Just an idea.
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Originally posted by Wardrop
I think you should play it before you make any proclamations. People were Gungho about Vanguard, Gungho about Conan, Gungho about Warhammer.
Players have become their own worst enemy in creatng these impossible expectations only to find out that the reality can be quite different.
Darkfall "May" bring a better war system and though it doesn't have leveling systems I'm sure it has some sort of system for advancing your character. So you are still going to have to deal with that.
As far as Warhammer goes, I think the problem is not just "not enough carrots" but also players have no direct incentive to take a keep.
What they could have done was have it so that not only do you get some rewards, it also makes it difficult for the losing faction to "do something". Not sure if it's a negative to xp or increased prices, etc. But there has to be something where if the loser doesn't take the keep he is going to be slightly inconvenienced.
However, there then needs to be a system where the longer one holds a keep the more difficult it is for them to keep the "keep". Otherwise you can have one side that is so powerful there is no way to break it and then the opposing team will just give up and quit.
For some reason it works very well in Lineage 2 but the sieges are only once every two weeks. There are of course the fortress battles which you can take every few hours but those have an odd implementation where the winner eventually gets kicked out after a few days regardless if they can be ousted.
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Originally posted by daelnor
Greeting fellow ASC friend
now to Mark Jacob topic, I think this annoucment is great, great news. It is what Warhammer needs. Good things are in motion, although I can see some of you still have to reply negativly to good news.
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Ive been playing WAR for about a month now, and I think the first and most important fix to the "no oRvR in lower tiers" problem would big a bunch of big fat server merges. THEN start working on optimizing the maps, xp etc.. There is no oRvR because there ARENT ENOUGH PPL IN THE FREAKING ZONES.
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Joined: 9/12/05
Quotes from Mark:
Our goal is to ensure that oRvR is the place where players can level the fastest, get the best items and overall, have a great time while doing it.
Finally, we will begin work on a global oRvR "Fame" system that will be tied directly to the Tome of Knowledge which will provide more rewards, titles, experience, etc. for participating and being successful in oRvR.
Free server moves have been available for weeks now.
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Originally posted by orionite
and they thought this 2 months after release when there are only about 1/4-1/5 of the original players still playing i.e. they lost a lot of the momentum? someone says we are still bitching and being negative, I call it being realistic. Yes they are making an effort I give them that, if it's not too late or too little remains to be seen. I hope its not too late cause I liked the *idea* of the game, but not the way it was implemented.
In the US not in Europe.
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Originally posted by iceberg2ice
and they thought this 2 months after release when there are only about 1/4-1/5 of the original players still playing i.e. they lost a lot of the momentum? someone says we are still bitching and being negative, I call it being realistic. Yes they are making an effort I give them that, if it's not too late or too little remains to be seen. I hope its not too late cause I liked the *idea* of the game, but not the way it was implemented.
In the US not in Europe.
They are available in Europe as well since Monday, get your facts right. Sure, not all servers have them so far but more stages of free character moves are planned. Get those negative pads out of your eyes and stop being pessimistic about every single thing.

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Man held after being charged with eight feloniesFebruary 08,2013Man charged with eight felonies
BENNINGTON A Rupert man is facing eight felony charges, all of them punishable by life in prison after police said he assaulted a woman in two different towns Jan. 31 and Feb. 1.
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According to affidavits filed by Vermont State Police troopers, a woman who knew Johnson reported Feb. 2 that he had assaulted her Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. She said he had punched her in the back of the head Jan. 31 at his home in Rupert.
The woman told police that Johnson hits her in the back of the head so that no one would see any bruises he leaves.
She said Feb. 1 Johnson hit her and dragged her by the hair, pulling some of her hair out, in a public park in Manchester. During the incident she said, Johnson also kept her from leaving a vehicle and took her phone so she couldnt call police.
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MeadWestvaco has a long and positive history in Summerville, Mayor Bill Collins said, and Wednesday's groundbreaking at its Nexton development is a "game-changer."
"This is just the next step and I think it's going to be a major one for all of us," he said.
The groundbreaking was for a 100,000-square-foot, Class A, Gold LEED-certified office building near the northern intersection of I-26 and U.S. 17-A.
It's the first building in almost 5,000 acres of development – 400 acres along I-26 within the town limits of Summerville, and 4,500 acres in unincorporated Berkeley County.
The development will include office space, retail and housing, with the village of Brighton Park beginning construction in 2014 and a new elementary school expected to be ready in the fall of 2014.
A Marriott Courtyard Hotel, one of the first to be LEED certified in the U.S., will begin construction in the next three to four months.
"At the moment you see a lot of dirt, but hopefully you see the skeleton, the bones of things to come," said Kenneth Seeger, senior vice president and president of community development and land management at MWV.
He said the community would enjoy "world-class technology," the latest in fiber networks, and the ability to live, work and shop in the same area.
"This is something we're all going to be proud of," said Berkeley County Supervisor Dan Davis.
The Sheep Island interchange, which should be complete in 2015, was instrumental in opening the way for the development, he said.
It will open up miles for development, Davis said.
Ed Guiltinan, vice president of development and leasing with The Rockefeller Group, said Nexton will give people the opportunity to walk from their office to lunch, shops and doctor or dentist appointments.
He invited everyone to the ribbon-cutting in about a year.
"We're confident you'll be very pleased by what you see," he said.
After the ceremonial groundbreaking, Chamber Chair Nancyjean Nettles said the development is a huge draw for Summerville.
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- The title compound, [FeZr2(C5H5)4Cl2(C13H18B2)], is a heteronuclear complex that consists of a [3]ferrocenophane moiety substituted at each cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ring by a BH3 group; the BH3 group is bonded via two H atoms to the Zr atom of the zirconocene chloride moiety in a bidentate fashion. The two Cp rings of the [3]ferrocenophane moiety are aligned at a dihedral angle of 8.9 (4)° arising from the strain of the propane-1,3-diyl bridge linking the two Cp rings. [One methylene group is disordered over two positions with a site-occupation factor of 0.552 (18) for the major occupied site.] The dihedral angles between the Cp rings at the two Zr atoms are 50.0 (3) and 51.7 (3)°. The bonding Zr(...)H distances are in the range 1.89 (7)–2.14 (7) Å. As the two Cp rings of the ferrocene unit are connected by an ansa bridge, the two Zr atoms approach each other at 6.485 (1) Å. The crystal packing features C—H(...)Cl interactions.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Summerville hosted its first National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Walk last Saturday, Oct. 5, in Azalea Park.
In only a few months of planning, the event drew 22 registrants and raised a total of $1,925 – almost $1,000 more than their goal.
"Even though our numbers are small I'm proud of what we've done," said walk organizer Renay Marsh. "It's just been an uphill battle because people don't recognize eating disorders."
Marsh said she and her family discovered the community's lack of awareness when recently helping her daughter, Lora Marsh, battle with anorexia.
"If you don't know where to go for help you can feel alone," the mother said tearfully. "And that's why we're having this event. So no one ever feels alone."
Eating disorders are fairly common psychiatric conditions that involve "extreme emotions, attitudes and behaviors surrounding weight and food issues," according to the NEDA website.
There are a variety of eating disorders that can affect men and women of all ages, but three are more common than the rest: anorexia nervosa, when a person starves themselves; bulimia nervosa, which a person binge eats and then purges by vomiting or using laxatives; and binge eating disorder, when a person binge eats uncontrollably.
The disorders can cause a variety of health complications and can be fatal.
"More people die from eating disorders than from any other psychiatric illness," said participant Amy Gerberry, LPC.
Gerberry is the director of eating disorders programs at the Hearth Center for Healing, which opened in Columbia in the spring of this year. It's the only facility of its kind in South Carolina.
She told participants their involvement with the walk was of vital importance in order to educate that community about eating disorders, the signs and symptoms of the conditions, and to know that they are treatable.
Before the Hearth opened, Gerberry said "South Carolina was known as the eating disorder program wasteland. There's no help here."
She said before the Hearth opened, the closest treatment facilities were in places like Florida, Maryland and Colorado.
"There's been a void here. … It impedes people from getting help as soon as they can," she said.
But if eating disorders can affect almost anyone – Gerberry said she's seen patients as young as 6 years old struggle with the disorders – than how have South Carolina and other southern states fallen behind in providing awareness and treatment?
Pamela Wood, LISW, the professional relations coordinator at the Hearth, said she thinks it may come from Southern culture.
"I think it's a bit of a cultural phenomenon," said the South Carolina native. "In the South, we have a tendency to be not as transparent about what's happening for real. We have this 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' mentality but with this disease you just cannot do that."
But with this year's walk completed, and the Marshes already beginning to plan next year's walk, the area culture around eating disorders may have the opportunity to change.
"Our numbers may be small but our voices are loud so let's hear it!" Marsh shouted to the crowd to kick-off the walk.
The crowd cheered encouragingly in reply.
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Could use some advice about dizziness.
Lately I've been getting really dizzy after a cardio workout, but it only happens when I finish, and if I start again it goes away. Its occasionally accompanied by nausea, but goes away if I get back to it. Finishing up my cardio means sitting through an upset stomach and a spinning room for about 5-10 minutes. Got any ideas about what the issue might be?
I'm thinking it may have something to do with an antibiotic I just finished taking since I had to fight off strep throat not long ago, but I'm not 100% sure. Hoping somebody might know about this from experience.
sounds like low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)... what are you eating, how's your metabolism?
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Most carbs come from fruit, and are eaten only in the morning.
White meat and spinach are primary sources of protein.
Salad with all meals after noon.
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Every day I take one multivitamin (Every Man's One Daily) and 3 Flax Seed Oil Extract capsules throughout the day.
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But keeping things on track - it could well be related to smoking. Giving up the growlers frequently left me feeling nauseous and light-headed. Have you dramatically increased the amount or intensity of the cardio in the three weeks since you quit? If so, your body chemistry could be adjusting at the same as you're asking new things of it.
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My cardio has remained the same for a long while now. I run 4 miles every time I step on the treadmill and skip rope occasionally for about 10 minutes each time. Could very well be the smoking I think. It sucks to give it up! I have nothing to do during break-time at work now...
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If it keeps repeating even after you get your diet and hydration right, you might want to check your blood pressure. Particularly if you have a family history of heart/vascular disease.
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Thousands of paper snowflakes are on their way to Connecticut to bring joy to the kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School; hundreds of them came from the Washington West Supervisory Union. Although this was not a coordinated districtwide project, almost every school in the district participated. At Warren School, Heidi Ringer's students created their own way to express their sorrow and compassion as Heidi explains, "My class created a card of interlocking hearts and sent it off before we heard about the snowflake project." Other teachers at Warren School took the reins and spearheaded the snowflake project, along with teachers from CBMS, HUMS, Moretown Elementary, Fayston Elementary and Waitsfield Elementary School. The WWSU teachers mailed hundreds of paper snowflakes to Sandy Hook on behalf of their students.
People all over the country are making snowflakes as part of a national campaign called "Snowflakes for Sandy Hook." Teachers at Sandy Hook will use them to line the walls of their classrooms to make going back to school enjoyable. Most of the district's elementary students only know minor facts about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary. They know that the kids there were hurt and that's why they spent time in their classrooms making paper snowflakes – to show compassion for those fellow students.
Social studies teacher Ruth Hoogenboom (who coordinated the project for the seventh-graders at HUMS) sums up the importance of the project: "After the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting, many Americans wondered what they could do to help. This project enabled kids to feel like they could do something to make things better – it took away that feeling of helplessness they all had in the wake of the tragedy."
Social studies teacher Sarah Ibson, who led the project for the eighth grade, commented, "Sandy Hook students need to feel the love and compassion from fellow students around the country. They need to know that there are good people in the world who care for them and want to help them heal."
Sandy Hook teachers will hang these snowflakes in their new school to make it a winter wonderland for the children to make them smile – smiles that will hopefully help the community heal. Each of the district schools boxed and sent the snowflakes to Connecticut last week. The goal is to get all the snowflakes, from across the country, to Connecticut by January 12.


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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky was sentenced Tuesday to at least 30 years in prison effectively a life sentence in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paternos downfall.
A defiant Sandusky gave a rambling statement in which he denied the allegations and talked about his life in prison and the pain of being away from his family.
Three victims spoke, often fighting back tears. One looked Sandusky in the eyes at times.
The 68-year-old former Penn State assistant coach was found guilty in June of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, convicted of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Witnesses said Sandusky used the charitable organization he founded for troubled children as his personal hunting ground to find and groom boys to become his victims.
His arrest 11 months ago, and the details that came out during his trial over the summer, transformed Sanduskys public image from a college coach who had been widely admired for his work with The Second Mile charity into that of a reviled pervert who preyed on the very youngsters who sought his help.
Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse. One of the prosecutions star witnesses, former graduate assistant Mike McQueary, testified that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in a locker room shower.
Among the three who spoke Tuesday, a young man who said he was 11 when Sandusky groped him in a shower in 1998. He said Sandusky is in denial and should stop coming up with excuses.
Ive been left with deep painful wounds that you caused and had been buried in the garden of my heart for many years, he said.
Another man said he was 13 when, in 2001, Sandusky lured him into a Penn State sauna and then a shower and then forced him to touch the ex-coach.
I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory, he said. Jerry has harmed children, of which I am one of them.
Sandusky has consistently maintained his innocence and plans to appeal. One element of the appeal is expected to be a claim that the defense did not have time to adequately prepare for trial. Sandusky was charged in November, following a lengthy investigation.
In a three-minute monologue aired Monday night by Penn State Com Radio that used some of the same language as his courtroom statement, Sandusky said he knows in his heart that he did not do what he called these alleged disgusting acts and described himself as the victim of a coordinated conspiracy among Penn State, investigators, civil attorneys, the media and others.
His statement in court lasted 15 minutes and his voice cracked as he spoke of missing his loved ones.
Judge John Cleland sentenced him to 30 to 60 years in prison. Under Pennsylvania law, Sandusky cannot be released on parole before the minimum term is up.
The tragedy of this crime is that its a story of betrayal. The most obvious aspect is your betrayal of 10 children, Cleland told Sandusky. Im not going to sentence you to centuries in prison, although the law will permit that. Still, Cleland said, he expected Sandusky to die in prison.
Before sentencing, Cleland designated Sandusky as a sexually violent predator under the states Megans Law. The label essentially has no effect on Sandusky, since its requirement is lifetime registration after a convict is released from prison.
In sentencing the ex-coach, Cleland called Sandusky dangerous, saying, You abused the trust of those who trusted you.
The scandal brought devastation in State College that will take years to fully assess, as Sanduskys victims are pressing civil claims and a January trial is pending for Gary Schultz and Tim Curley, two university administrators charged with failing to properly report suspicions about Sandusky and lying to the grand jury that investigated him.
Soon after the three were arrested in November, the board of trustees fired Paterno, the schools most famous figure and a man who won two national college football championships in the 1980s. Paterno died of lung cancer in January.
Over the summer, an investigation commissioned by the university and led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh concluded that Paterno and other top officials covered up allegations against Sandusky for years to avoid bad publicity.
The scandal also toppled university President Graham Spanier and led to crippling NCAA sanctions against the football team that included a $60 million fine, a ban on postseason play and a reduction in the number of football scholarships the school can award. The NCAA also erased 14 years of victories for Paterno, stripping him of his standing as major college footballs winningest coach.
At least four young men have sued Penn State over the way the university responded to disturbing complaints about Sandusky.
Eight legal teams representing at least 20 young men have surfaced, and the school recently announced an effort to settle as many claims as possible by the end of the year.
Penn State President Rodney Erickson released a statement shortly after the sentence was handed down.
Our thoughts today, as they have been for the last year, go out to the victims of Jerry Sanduskys abuse, Erickson said. While todays sentence cannot erase what has happened, hopefully it will provide comfort to those affected by these horrible events.
The third victim who spoke had testified that he was raped over the course of years by Sandusky, including on team trips to bowl games in Texas and Florida.
I want you to know I dont forgive you and I dont know if I will ever forgive you, he said. My only regret is that I didnt come forward sooner.
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The NCSoft company is nothing about a bunch of theives. I was considering getting into GW2 but after seeing them merge all the servers in Lineage 2 and losing about 20 characters that I spent two years leveling. Only to see the game reappear. AND after now seeing that City Of Heroes is closing down nothing good is coming of this company.
I have the same feeling that they are doing the same thing here with City Of Heroes. People will do their damnest to keep the game going, the game will stay opened but will be changed. All the characters will be wiped. Personally I think this is an excuse to wipe everyone's account out and start fresh.
There are certain organizations in life that after a while become corrupt and only giggle and laugh at marketing schemes to get a person's money. These people are no good. The NCSoft organization is turning into one of them.
Personally I feel as if I have been supporting some sort of war effort knowing that the Koreans are behind it and that the US branch cares nothing about its service/product.
I am losing 10 servers full of chars, 2 level 50s, many more level 30s and a bunch of level 20s or higher. Not to mention the 20 chars that I lost in the Lineage 2 game.
Most people sort of guessed the game was over after it went free. It was pretty much for me, but I did plan to return at a later date when I had more free time.
This sort of thing will be happening over and over again with the main reason being legal. So much for leaving your characters or account in a will for your family to fight over and taking the company to court. I see nothing wrong with taking an organization like this to court anyways.
They give business organizations a bad name. It is only a matter of time before they do the same thing to Aion.
Its great when you invest 6 years of money into a paid service only to have all of the work disappear.
I hope this happens to a few companies out there that are as the saying goes, dishonest and thieves.
As for MMO gaming, if I wanted a social network I would join Facebook.
10 years from now I do not believe that an 'NCSoft' will be around. At least not with that name.
This is a perfect example of why playing with people is nothing but trouble. It is better just to play against a computer.
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Originally posted by Kalay
So, the game closed down and you are upset that characters that YOU USED TO PLAY but "did plan to return" to will be gone by November 30. Perhaps, and just perhaps, if the people who "used to play" kept on playing and not just used the game as an MMORPG booty call, the game would still be a vibrant playground. Don't move out of the old neighborhood and then get ticked off becaue they tore it down before you could get back for a visit.
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I thought what I'd do is I'd pretend I was one of those Deaf-mutes.
What about Tabula Rasa?
or Dungeon Runners?
I mean lets complain about all the games NCSoft has shut down, probably because they became unprofitable.
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Of all the crap NC Soft has pulled CoH is your last straw? Meh better late then never I guess.
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Joined: 6/12/07
They seem to shutdown games to fast, when TR was getting good they shut it down, Devs had so many plans and they just shut the game down same with all other ncsoft games.
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Silly rant. You invest in the stock market, you play MMORPG's.
You had fun while you were there, they have no obligation to keep your characters around forever.
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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Joined: 12/03/04
I said this before and I'll say it again. "There should be a guarantee that you will not lose any characters".
I went through this with Lineage 2. The EULA actually states that the characters are not yours. Their support got back to me to emphasis that. I feel that is wrong. But that is the case when you play with other people, BUT it is not that way with all games. I seriously mentioned the legal aspects in it. Someone should take them to court over it.
One to mention right away is Diablo 2. I have maybe 30 characters created there. And I still have them though even after surviving the Win 98 crashes. Why? Because I have control of them.
If no one has noticed the MMO games/services have security system that supposedly no one can break into. D2 is done to play online because, as the phrase goes, it is nerfed. The game has been taken apart by people who have all the items so why still play it online? Hopefully those people have moved on and are trying to break something else. Lan the game is the answer. You can't do that to D3 which is why I consider it to be less of a game. Funny they have a new leveling system called Paragon levels.
I am actually wondering if the days of on line gaming are becoming numbered.
All of this is why your best playing partner is your computer. No intervention of outside sources, no fight over 'gang' tactics. I could get into this but that is another story.
In my opinion City Of Heroes has the best teaming online, in any game! You can relax, work as a team, and at the end come out feeling as if you had fun. I have not found another game like that in any other MMO. Am I willing to put more money up for that? Hell no. To see the game keep going downhill more and more.
All of these contracts with other parts of the industry are ruining the game. Hollywood, the music industry being involved are all adding to the deterioration of the industry. It is no wonder Half Life 2 Episode 3 has not been made.
And I have another thing to add to that you will just love. The intervention of 'killer queens'/woman gaining more and more interest in online gaming. Which is all they really seem to want to do. Why? Because they have an edge.
I will never be buying another NCSoft game and I am hoping that the quality of Blizzard picks up as well as that has recently been lacking in fun.
Socializing is not gaming. And 'gang' rule is also not gaming. Coming up with a solution to something your play, IS gaming.
I am sorry to see it go. But I am also not surprised as time moves on to see the quality of work go downhill.
With all the money they have 'stolen' from people with undue promises...well...I hope they choke on it.
As far as I am concerned it is the same as some child breaking another child's toy. Did you raise your kids to do that?
Its entertainment. Stick with your product and make it better and better and you may be surprised how that pays off in the end.
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Joined: 1/30/08
I'm not going as far as saying they are thieves, but going "free to play" and then selling various things to unlock parts of the game only to close it down a year later is awfully crappy.
They should have made at least a 3 year commitment to F2P, I think, unless they were absolutely losing money hand over fist on CoH, and even then, they could simply cease development and run the servers. I mean, we all know that server costs are not that much.
R.I.P. City of Heroes and my 17 characters there
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Joined: 8/07/11
GW2 socialist.
Originally posted by Corthala
They're the FOX of MMO companies.
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Joined: 7/05/12
Originally posted by Laughing-man
Even less proitable than games like Daoc or Vanguard or WAR? Even EA and SOE is not that hasty when it comes to shut down.
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Joined: 9/27/10
Keeping account of the number of caualties on NCSoft side, investing time and money on any of their games is a jump of fate. It's hard to believe that oldies from other companies like Ultima Online, Dark Age of Kamelot or Vanguard, just to name some of them, still profitable enough for vampire companies like EA and SOE don't pulling the plug while NCsoft seems to have problems with most of their games.
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Joined: 10/13/07
I wouldn't call them thieves, more like hypocrites. It got under my skin when I heard about them forging a letter claiming it was written by Richard Garriot about closing down Tabula Rasa when Garriot was out in space at the time being and he filed a lawsuit when he returned home. I think NCSoft are only interested in money churning products, and I think GW2 will be that, but honestly, if GW2 stops generating money a year from now NCSoft will no doubt attempt to close it down without hesitation and this is the 5th game for them to shut down. Aion will be next on the list, that game is slowly shrinking.
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Joined: 8/24/07
Originally posted by Kalay
"Someone?" Anyone? Why not you? You seem pretty worked up over it.
And I say that in all seriousness. I'm not commenting on your particulars because, frankly, it sounds like so much whining. BUT, if you were truly harmed and feel you can prove it, then by all means, take NCSoft (or whoever) to court. There are alot of shenanigans in gaming that will not be resolved until the courts intervene. You can be a test case.
Put up or shut up.


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