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^ This, just slightly Off-topic.

Inf=Cash. End of. It just is.

^ This.
I can just imagine what Pocket D would be like.
I may have to purge my cerebral core.

No. Just plain no. If they can fix up the PvP zones, I'll be more than happy to duke it out with people. But not when I, and others, are trying to get on with what we find fun in-game.

You obviously get luck, or have enough of a threat rating that the pumpkin heads will aggro on you just from being there.

Most of the time? They simply ignore you and leg it into the gate. This requires AoEs to actually aggro them and, usually on a melee class, thats rather hard.
Hell, even on other classes, its been damn hard.

He's a bit of a bird?

Thinkya mean 'Honoree'
Which should actually be 'Honouree', but hey, them crazy yanks and all...

Everyone forgets the SWAT Grenadiers. They also happen to look damn cool.
Yeah, this and the Rikti AT are the two I keep begging for

No Face. Want. Do Want. Do want now.

No legs, no face, hovering limbs (think hollow armour) all those sorts of ideas...so very cool, and would be so awesome to have.

At which point I say;
"I tend to like all of them, but, unlike SOME PEOPLE, I can only afford one."

Before knocking their heads together while they try and fathom that, and steal all the consoles on the way out.
What? I'm a Villain, damnit!

Following Statements: Preceded by respect
Self bowing: Before the master

As people have mentioned, the spawn rules themselves seem to have been broken sometime in the recent past, wether it was I16 or not is a bit uncertain.

Mobs have been spawning and delivering lines and things like that as soon as the players enter the map. Of particular note are hostages (bar those with scripted cutscenes or things) who deliver their inactive AND active lines at the same time, often before the mobs are aggroed.

On that note as well, the mobs INACTIVE text (e.g. "We're gonna ransom ya for lotsa cash, kid!" "You'll never get away with this!" ) nearly always doesn't play until the player is actually attacking the mob. Which tends to result in wall of text.

Ambushes outta place and the like, you get the idea. Oh, and please, I beg you, fix the lvl 40 spawn in Sister Airla's mish. And give Ghost Widow the right HP and attack power. Or, if she isn't meant to give that mission out until level 40, please fix that instead?

Emotion: Gratitude
Prescence: Honours us
All hail: The Honoree!

((Yeah, I'm after your job ))

I nearly facepalmed. I DID grin like an idiot, shaking my head and chuckling at the same time.

Sure, I'd love it if I could change some powersets that I might have messed up in the past. Or have my character who is meant to have martial arts, psi blast, empathy and super reflexes all in one bundle.

But it's not possible. So I fudge and compensate and, actually, it's still just as fun.

Only the actual PPD officers are so much cooler?
SWAT? Impossible to get an accurate look. Grenadiers and Ghosts and Equalisers, all incredibly nasty.

Psi-Cop...myeah, I'll give you that one.

Hardsuits. Want. Now. Please. Come on, especially the Boss level ones. Who doesn't want freaking cool armour and laser blasters?

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All that gets a huge /Signed from me

Even then, if you ahve 35 levels of backlogged Merits that you dont use (Like me, for example. I tend not to get enough for anything major) trading them in at 35 for VG Merits would, hopefully, pay for a chunk of the stuff I would be after, mostly the costume parts.

Idea gets my /signed

Niether have I.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't go to town on the little bugs who made my school life absolutely bleeding miserable.

You're never going to get any headway on that one with me, CD. Some things you just can't laugh at.

Don't give hostages or spawns guarding a killable NPC damage auras.

They activate as soon as you are on the map.
It took me a while to realise why one of the hostages in Heart of Steel Pt1 was arriving with no spawn while the NPC lines showed their had been one. Until the time I saw his lightning field killing them all off in short order.

Before that, they need to start whipping Jay some more until he gives us real tails. None of these belt-slot, string wire stuck on things that look awful.

Tradeable would be nice.
It's not like reward merits, where you get something big like IOs. It's costume pieces and small temp powers. Hardly game breaking.

I have one full set of Vanguard armour, on my character who was built as a Vanguard Colonel with a sword and shield. I think I got the weapons ONLY doing regular missions, which nearly killed me. Then I found out that (at the time) ship raids ran every Friday. I ran EVERY raid I could do, and had the costume in no time (I also leveled faster as I was so set on Merits, xp just rocketed while it was ignored)

Without the ship raids, it's nigh impossible to reasonably get a full set.

Not to mention the fact they spawn at 40 even if you're level 37 running on +0/x1
Glad I'm not the only one to find that bug horrible