Acemace
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The revamped raid is better in some ways of course, the number cap certainly did cut down on epic lag, for example.
It's also a tad less fun to a lot of the old raiding groups, but you can't please everyone, as you're acutely aware.
PS, how are those new alternate War Mace animations coming? ;] -
Quote:Originally Posted by stever
OK, OK!
- The new Hami is better.
- More efficient, challenging to more people.
- More ATs get to, have to, play a part.
- IF you manage to get in, You may have a better, more rich experience.
I, like many others here, ran over a hundred of the old Hami.
I, like many others here, have only run in 3 or 4 of the new Hami.
I have TRIED to run about 15.
The new Hami requires that you actively research.
Read the forums,
Know the global channel or people planning them.
You need to know ahead of time,
And carefully schedule so you can be one of the 50.
The 12 or so I mentioned above that I failed to make it in, were back soon after the new Hami was novel. It might be easier now, but I don't know, or try much anymore.
With the Old Hami,
- I would be running around doing missions, and The Call would go out!
- "Hami is up! Let's go kick A**!"
- No problem advertising it big. Everyone could go participate.
- Broadcast alerts! Messages in Global channels!
- 1 or 2 teammates would say "Hami!! I gotta go!"
- The population of PI would drop drastically.
- People who were younger than 45 would wish they could join in.
- Heroes dropped what they were doing to go fight the threat.
- And for a while, you and a lot of Heroes would go and be part of the Major Event!
I know the ways the actual raid is better now.
But I kind of miss the Major Event status of the old raid, and how the effects of it seemed to ripple through the whole city.
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Agreed with most of your post, especially, "the Major Event status of the old raid".
Like you and tons of other people who led literally hundreds of old raids, I just don't find the new encounter being able to reach the level of fun that was possible with the old one.
I've been to one villain and one hero raid since the changes, and that's likely to be it, for me anyway.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The old Hamidon was a frikkin' mess. I know people always tout the social aspects, but for me it always sounded like a bunch of 12-year-old telling UR MOM jokes for four hours straight. I'd have turned off my Broadcast if it weren't important to hear the leaders' chat.
And the event itself was absurdly boring if you're not one of the designated few. I brought a Scrapper, so I spent half the time sitting on my hands and half the time lagging out. Literally sitting on my hands. "OK, everyone who doesn't have a hold, just stand back and wait." Yeah, great gaming there.
And with a bazillion people, the lag was epic. Not only did my system grind to a halt even with all the graphics turned down, but the server slowed down, as well. I couldn't see the Hamidon, I couldn't see our effects, I couldn't see more than 20 people (out of 200), powers on a 5-second recharge took a minute to recharge and I essentially spent the last quarter to half of the battle just staring at my combat tab, waiting to see system messages that a power had recharged so I could click it. If there's anything more boring, I don't know what it is.
And to top it all off, not only did people rush out to nuke as many Hamidon Buds as they could (good thing the Hamidon Enhancement were no longer given out by these) but as the raid people stood back in the now empty Hamidon crater, swapping their spoils, someone thought it was very funny to start dragging Monsters into the pit, thus preventing people from trading. And not just a monster or two, mind you. I left after we took down five and had five more coming. I left with most of the raid, in fact.
There was NOTHING about the old raid that I could describe as good. At all.
That encompasses every part of the old raids that might even now make someone still appear bitter about them.
On the other hand, having myself been part of the cool kids, on the lead team during champions first hami win, I can say along with everyone else of that point of view, that while lagtastic and some times very messy, they were the most fun social encounters for the lvl 50 club the game has still ever delivered. -
The OP took his ******* over to co, lost interest in that, ****** some more about it, so I heard. His return and heralding is welcome by someone I suppose -necromonger- -
*cough* GR *cough*
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Love the ninja run, good job, keep the new travel powers coming.. :]
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Grats DR.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ashcraft
Lunch is on me today, Champs.
Enjoy!
Mmmm, oak barrel aged bacon.
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Tanker types are oddly attracted to threads containing the headline "The State Of ....."
Is it because of a want to give a seasoned viewpoint on said state, to rebut misrepresentations?
Sort of odd and silly when you think of it.
Off to start my "The State Of Bacon" thread. -
Quote:Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler
I had no idea so much was at stake with Going Rogue,
You need to read these forums more often. -
PvP zones?
Ohh, you mean those spaces where we store our lint and cobwebs. -
Quote:Originally Posted by NetMinder
Actually, I wont even be there tomorrow, darn RL.
Let's trade the part of our RL that pays bills and cleans the gutters with our game persona's.
See ya at 62 Netster. -
The cgi looks immaculate, maybe alone worth the price of admission, especially in imax.
This also wouldn't be Camerons first movie to get mixed response from the trailer, though, no one's calling this Titanic 2. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Ultraamann
I'm a Tank, I win.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Talon_Arsenal
Aren't the previews implying that it ends up being one of the family that pushes the button that is selected as the person to die?
I mean, what bad could transpire when murder is involved?
Brilliant plot.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Peterbilt
If it's as bad as it looks, the producer of the movie.
Very first sentence that came to my mind. -
Is this, curb your enthusiasm?
Let me take a stab at your list.
1 kick them
2 let them
3 kick them
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Do we get to wear costumes? I have mine ready.
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Maybe in the yet released details of what else is going into GR?
One can wonder.
Oh and the obligatory feel free to bump at your leisure if if the idea tickles ya. -
I use this sometimes when goofing around with various builds.
Just find what a power takes and see what fits best with the overall build goals, recharge/regen etc. -
Good updates y'all, sounds like some fun stuff coming down the road.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bud
15 minutes, you say Ace? Hmm, sounds like a challenge to me.
4 DM/SD scraps and 4 Cold Corrs/Fenders, should do the trick.
If I remember right wc did their record runs with all veats. But like everyone's said, doing it anywhere south of twenty is a feat. -
That's very fast. It was done in 15 something by w/c or one of those groups, they posted pics.
Still, that's smokin fast. -
Remember it's not a party if you can account for all your actions while you're there.