New Feature Coming - Targeting Heroes

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  • pheregas
    pheregas Posts: 1,721 Chairperson of the Boards
    It seems you can define couple a couple different ways.
  • Aldaen
    Aldaen Posts: 24 Just Dropped In
    edited November 2019
    A point I made earlier is that it doesn't matter what YOUR personal definition of couple is.  This isn't a grammar competition.  It is a company making a public statement to its customers.  The point is that "couple" means "2" to a lot of people.  If I were a PR person trying to set expectations for my customers, I would be more careful about my word choices so I don't set bad expectations and turn a positive message into a negative one. If we don't get some info today, then this was a bad job of setting expectations.
  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 616 Critical Contributor
    "Couple"?  We need to switch to analyzing "next" when used to modify a passage of time.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,471 Chairperson of the Boards
    pop quiz: Today is (hypothetically monday). I tell you something is coming "next friday." Do i mean the very next friday, that same week, or do I mean the friday that's part of the "next" week after the one we're currently in? Discuss.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    Just get over it. It smells like "neutral", "expert players", "soon" debates. Time to stop nitpicking what the devs posted here. It's no wonder they rather post in discord than in here. We have so many lawyers and Investigating Officers in here treating them like criminals and waiting to lay charges on them. 
  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 616 Critical Contributor
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    pop quiz: Today is (hypothetically monday). I tell you something is coming "next friday." Do i mean the very next friday, that same week, or do I mean the friday that's part of the "next" week after the one we're currently in? Discuss.


    The Friday of the current week is "this" Friday, so "next Friday" is 11 days away, or a fortnight less a triplet of days.  If it were Wednesday and you said "next Monday", then it's the Monday that's only 5 days away.  At least that's how people around me seem to use it.

    There seems to be less consensus for the situation where someone is actively navigating you and their use of "take this/the next exit".

  • JDFiend
    JDFiend Posts: 37 Just Dropped In
    RickOShay said:
    Anyone engaging in this ridiculous debate owes me for the wasted 10 minutes spent reading the last couple of pages. 

    I'll send you my hourly rate and it can be split among the few of you. 


    Now please may we all just agree that the Targeting system is coming in a few to several weeks, and wait patiently for any further updates? 
     
    Obviously the sooner the better.

    No more debating about one specific word please, this stuff potentially drives away players who would otherwise be excited to engage in worthy forum discussions.
    Sorry. Linguist, so do find debates like this really fun and fascinating. It's interesting stuff, could literally write papers on it. 

    Didn't mean to bore anyone. 
  • Daredevil217
    Daredevil217 Posts: 3,999 Chairperson of the Boards
    Godzillafan67 said:
    "Couple"?  We need to switch to analyzing "next" when used to modify a passage of time.
    Agreed. If I say “next Saturday”, does that mean tomorrow, or 8 days from now?

    Does “next couple of weeks” mean 2 weeks, or the two weeks following 2 weeks?

    🤔
  • pheregas
    pheregas Posts: 1,721 Chairperson of the Boards
    DarthDeVo said:
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    pop quiz: Today is (hypothetically monday). I tell you something is coming "next friday." Do i mean the very next friday, that same week, or do I mean the friday that's part of the "next" week after the one we're currently in? Discuss.
    It's Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next. Everyone knows this. And since it's a Friday we're talking about (no matter which one), odds are that It Was A Good Day.
    Apparently the "next" indication also has a region-based modifier.  In the midwest, next Friday could be in a few days if it's a Tuesday.  Not necessary the Friday after the upcoming one like most other places.

    If @IceIXwants to pop on and tell me to keep my posts on topic and give us an update, that's cool.
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    pheregas said:
    DarthDeVo said:
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    pop quiz: Today is (hypothetically monday). I tell you something is coming "next friday." Do i mean the very next friday, that same week, or do I mean the friday that's part of the "next" week after the one we're currently in? Discuss.
    It's Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next. Everyone knows this. And since it's a Friday we're talking about (no matter which one), odds are that It Was A Good Day.
    Apparently the "next" indication also has a region-based modifier.  In the midwest, next Friday could be in a few days if it's a Tuesday.  Not necessary the Friday after the upcoming one like most other places.

    If @IceIXwants to pop on and tell me to keep my posts on topic and give us an update, that's cool.

    Ooooooh, sounds like we're going on a road trip. Straight Outta Compton to the Midwest. Are We There Yet?

    Totally unrelated note, does anyone know if @IceIX is related to Ice Cube? 

    (I'll shut up now, just trying to inject a little levity into a thread that's gone off the rails like a crazy train...)


  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,471 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited November 2019
    DarthDeVo said:
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    pop quiz: Today is (hypothetically monday). I tell you something is coming "next friday." Do i mean the very next friday, that same week, or do I mean the friday that's part of the "next" week after the one we're currently in? Discuss.
    It's Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next. Everyone knows this. And since it's a Friday we're talking about (no matter which one), odds are that It Was A Good Day. 
    Maybe everybody got fired on their day off for stealing boxes?

    I assume Ice IX is out on tour or something

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0vmjT-00DU
  • maguirenumber6
    maguirenumber6 Posts: 457 Mover and Shaker
    If I might interject at this juncture.

    We have a new feature coming. A big addition to the game that sounds like it will help us to earn elusive covers. It sounds as if it's going to be a big quality of life improvement.

    However, these things take time to check and test before implementation. Do you want it to be buggy and crash the game? 

    Let's show a little bit of patience for once and allow the devs to bring this new feature to us. They've told us that it's coming, so it can't be far away. I for one am looking forward to this new part of the game, and I'm interested to see how it will allow me to strengthen my roster.

    Thanks devs, hope to hear more from you soon.
  • maguirenumber6
    maguirenumber6 Posts: 457 Mover and Shaker
    bluewolf said:
    I humbly suggest to @IceIX that any actual news on this feature be published in a different thread.

    That way, people can debate linguistics in here as much as they want, and everyone else can know to just wait for a new thread to appear.

    Also:  Geez, the forum gets a little crazy when everyone's done with PVE for the next couple days.

    Also, also:  @maguirenumber6 and everyone.....keep your expectations low....that's the best way to avoid disappointment.

    Everything the game does right now is less generous than it was a year ago.  Feeders?  Anyone?  Anniversary bundles?  Where's the value?  VIP Costumes?  Canceled without comment.

    So thinking there's some awesome thing coming which will give you your desired covers at an accelerated rate seems foolish at best, at least to me.
    It wasn't my intention to be overly excited about something for which we do not yet have the full details for. But I see no harm in being cautiously optimistic about something that will improve the game that we all spend so long debating  :)
  • WiDoW0042
    WiDoW0042 Posts: 26 Just Dropped In
    Why do we park on a driveway but drive on a parkway?  And why can “wind up” mean both to start and to finish?
  • spatenfloot
    spatenfloot Posts: 665 Critical Contributor
    JDFiend said:
    RickOShay said:
    Anyone engaging in this ridiculous debate owes me for the wasted 10 minutes spent reading the last couple of pages. 

    I'll send you my hourly rate and it can be split among the few of you. 


    Now please may we all just agree that the Targeting system is coming in a few to several weeks, and wait patiently for any further updates? 
     
    Obviously the sooner the better.

    No more debating about one specific word please, this stuff potentially drives away players who would otherwise be excited to engage in worthy forum discussions.
    Sorry. Linguist, so do find debates like this really fun and fascinating. It's interesting stuff, could literally write papers on it. 

    Didn't mean to bore anyone. 
    Are you cunning? 
  • Falconfreak
    Falconfreak Posts: 119 Tile Toppler
    For those not wanting to read all these replies arguing over semantics, has there been any actual update on this yet?

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