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Quest_techie · Feb 02, 2007, 09:13 PM // 21:13

okay, I would love to see a mission that requires a runner, not the way you are immediatly thinking

this is a skill, as much as healing, or tanking, or spiking, and there are some runners who are much better than others, and that should be rewarded, or at least recognized by making it official

so, lets say we have an end of mission boss, is invulnerable until a switch is flipped, or an offering is put on a dais or some such thing like that, the switch only STAYS switched as long as someone is standing on it <runner> there is a ghoulish obstacle course from the boss to the switch <I'd rather like to see "invisible" ground and things like the fire flowers near the bridge in urgoz's warren, perhaps with crip as well as burning> anyhow, not only is the party reduced by one member for the fight, but probably for the whole of the mission <it's hard to have a runner skill bar also be a fighter skill bar> you recognize a skillset that is useful in the community and has taken some sharp hits lately <cantha anyone?> and you maybe encourage some runners to be a tad more philanthropic

Aeon_Xin · Feb 02, 2007, 10:57 PM // 22:57

I'm picky in person, but generally very leniant on how people post in the forums, but could you put that in english, and maybe seperate an idea or 3?

< and > are not punctuation.

Anet's pretty much stated they're not sanctioning runners, but are tolerating them.

Running well does have it's rewards, mucho gold for droks run.

Quest_techie · Feb 03, 2007, 04:19 AM // 04:19

1. I may choose which ever brackets I wish, you prefer parenthesis, good for you, I have a different order I prefer to use them, it is more natural to my typing style, and frankly I am not going to change for you, I have posted on many, many forums and people much more relevant, and useful than you have had no objection

2. my ideas are seperated, I used commas, I felt the last portion was one organic idea so it remained one paragraph, if you have a problem with language being organic and in fact living, then you shoud learn to read source code and find a forum where people post in 8088 basic and do choose to fit your very specific inorganic IEEE sort nitpicking

3. in interviews many devs have stated that they do enjoy runners, not perhaps support them, but enjoy them, and when I enjoy something I, as a rational individual tend to support it, I do understand that I am an individual and they are a company with a purpose, but nowhere in the rules of the game does it say running as a concept is wrong, if anything NF proves that the concept of running is approved of, and only some of the side affects that are frowned upon <story skipping>

4. if you hadn't noticed there is a lot of competition for runners before the light turns green, less people in runnable chapter more runners fishing over the same pool of clients, stagnation of routes <haven't seen the droks run made harder in awhile, it used to be you could count on it being tweaked at least once every other patch> then they have to worry about afk people, and non payers, there is nothing to stop a droks runner from losing a half hour of their time because everyone in their group chooses not to pay, I've seen it happen were I taken as margin of error as an observer

so, sorry, you aren't contributing, because clearly you do not understand, I enjoy running, it is my favorite part of the game, farming is an institutionalized part of the game with greens and elite missions, so why the hell isn't running? running at least requires an iota more skill, or would if they'd put together some courses worth putting together <see invisible maze\ground idea>

MithranArkanere · Feb 03, 2007, 04:37 AM // 04:37

I have a better idea. Remake Prophecies so running becomes impossible like in the other too campaigns... yesssshhhh...

holababe · Feb 03, 2007, 05:08 AM // 05:08

Your last paragraph didn't have a single full stop.
You might support something when you like it, but ANet's developers have to make decisions based on what it would do to the community.