BlackSun17

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coolio View Post
    For those of us with altitis...

    I believe the aniversary badges should be made Global and as such if you have one it should be awarded to all characters on your account... Old or New!
    I could not disagree more. Those badges are meant for characters, not accounts. For example, it makes absolutely no sense to have a VEAT with the first anniversary badge.
  2. I have been having some fun attempting to collect this stuff from the market over the past few weeks. A nice little diversion as I take a break from leveling up my Widow.

    Some of the pieces have tons of sales history and seem to get replenished weekly. Other pieces have under five sales ever, and I never expect to see them listed again. Still other items (around 20) have never had any sales, and I am guessing that they are items that the devs never flagged to drop.

    Components seem to have really dried up. I recently rediscovered that the ability to create them is long gone. Fortunately I saved one of each of them when I was clearing out my salvage bins ages ago.

    I imagine that there are others that are collecting these pieces as well. I am at 114 of 140 pieces collected. Anyone have more than that?
  3. It is definitely over now, as the servers just went offline for the new build.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by tanstaafl View Post
    Yup, its worse than useless now.
    You could treat searching through your posts to see what rep you got as an Easter Egg hunt.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lemur Lad View Post
    They shut it off. There's a thread in the City Life section discussing it.

    "IT" being the ability to see comments, not rep itself.
    TY for the fast response, LL.
  6. I used to be able to click on USER CP and see my subscribed posts AND any rep comments assigned to me.

    When I click there now, I only see my subscribed posts. How do I get my rep info back?
  7. BlackSun17

    Plots and Plans

    Some of the folks from the Markets portion of the forum are looking for more inf sinks. Crafting an arc or paying a contact to gather info for you are two good ways to get inf out of the game.

    Also, I like both ideas a lot.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja View Post
    Considering that the economy saw a 40% drop in sales over the same period, having only an 18% drop is ******* astounding.
    Would you provide your data or source? The data I am looking at says that video game sales for Q3 2009 are down only 6%, 9% for the year.
  9. An interesting graph, which needs to be viewed along with a lot of other relevant data to really come to some sound financial conclusions.

    However, just looking at the graph:

    1) This is the only time that there has been a decrease in sales for three consecutive quarters
    2) Each quarter in 2009 the % drop in sales has increased, with an 18% loss in Q3

    Again, this is only part of the story. However, the finance folks at Paragon surely get uneasy seeing this data.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nemesis_Prime View Post
    I am starting to consider a server swap and was wondering if there is any information folks could point me to that might detail the populations of each server and what they are generally about. I remember seeing this info once before, but it has been a long time ago. I am not really interested in going to Freedom, but Virtue might work. I generally like to lvl up my toons, and chase after merits and TF/SF's.

    I am currently on Triumph and it is just not filling my needs anymore.

    If anyone could give me some details it would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
    I have been on Triumph since my inception (12/04) and I can not recall it ever feeling so empty. Good luck with your move, and if you are ever on Triumph (redside) look me up.
  11. I have a corruptor that was created to earn XP only from the Halloween events, and I will gladly help.

    Hopefully a Zombie Invasion kicks off as well, as there are still 3 badges that I need.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chyll View Post
    The story arc listed is excellent, even without the new difficulty sessions that mission was guaranteed a minimum number of skull bosses (also the clockwork that spawn the gears), with the new settings it should be much faster. Its a nice little mission set, the mission before provides embalmed cadavers.
    Agreed - that is how I was able to get that badge. I believe Psymon Omega (sp?) also has one mission with all sorts of lowbie villain factions in it.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    You go up to Paragon Studios to look in the windows but the shades are drawn and the lights are out. You knock on the door and try to open it... it's locked. You think you heard whispering. You knock again. No answer.
    > West

    You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
    front door.
    There is a small mailbox here.

    > Open mailbox

    Opening the mailbox reveals:
    A leaflet

    > Read leaflet

    The leaflet says more information will be released about Issue 17 in 2010.

    > Crumple leaflet in anger

    The leaflet refuses to be crumpled!
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dispari View Post
    Doesn't the day job give you a merit for each mission completed, whether or not it's in the RWZ or against Rikti? Probably works for people sub-35 too?
    Not sure about that. I had never set foot into the RWZ before last night, so I have to rule that one out.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Turbo_Starr View Post
    Already added Az and Cath on linkedIn. If anyone wants to add me im at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mbaldini.
    I just sent you an invite.
  16. Somehow I was able to get 10 Vanguard Merits in the RWZ on my level 15 villain last night. As I am not a level 35 toon, and I have not run the RWZ intro arc, I should not be able to get any Vanguard Merits at this point. I am really not sure how this happened, and I am looking for any ideas that the community may have.

    Background: I was invited to a mixed ToT team in the RWZ last night. I entered the zone thru Cap as a level 13 toon, and was SKd up to lvl 49 when I joined the team.

    Running through the Vanguard base, I got one exploration badge.

    After a bit of ToT, a MS raid formed. During the raid, we planted a bomb, defeated the Rikti AV and I got the explore badge in the bowl of the ship.

    At that point, I went to train up to level 15 and noticed that I had 10 Vanguard Merits. Looking through my reward log, I did not see any notification that I was rewarded with Vanguard Merits. I did see XP earned, inf earned, prestige earned and all reward drops (recipes / salvage / enhancements).

    Any ideas how this happened?
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aliana Blue View Post
    The main reason why I play more blue side than red side is lack of red side scrappers. I can roll a brute, but every time I do I keep thinking "this could have been a scrapper..."

    I'm quite wary of rolling non-mez-protected things red side, you can't walk three paces without getting a beanbag to the face (because there's always longbow lurking, always!), and it gets old after a while. Stalkers are interesting beasts, but still, not a scrapper. And masterminds plain don't do it for me.
    I find my Claws/SR brute is more fun to play than my Claws/SR scrapper. Sure I lose the crits, but I get fury!

    Back on topic ----> I find the Red market is slow, but I usually get or sell what I want over time. It definitely moves at a different pace than the blue.....
  18. Reading Babs recent post, it appears that further Power Customization is not happening anytime soon.

    EDIT: I meant to add that Sunstorm basically shot down any base love happening soon.
  19. Grandville in Triumph was very tough last night. All the players across the entire zone were experiencing severe lag when moving, and clicking powers was a challenge. I have not seen lag like this in a long, long time.

    We were hoping that when it started up a GV2 would spawn - no such luck. We all ended up quitting instead of trying to find another zone where level 50 characters could ToT.

    I did submit a support ticket before I logged off.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cende View Post
    I'm going. I'll update what I can, when I can.
    TY for doing what you can!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SaintNicster View Post
    There have been others.
    I remember the badge (Heart of Light/Darkness) awarding at Midnight according to the server time. This caused confusion since the servers are split on the two coasts.
    <Gives bonus points to SaintNicster for having a good memory>
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ransim View Post
    Ah always something for people to whine about.

    Patience children, its a virtue. The event will go live at the time they specified. Sometimes its been early (zombies last year were early with a massive invasion kickoff by the devs). Sometimes its on time.

    People complain regardless.

    I personally can't wait to get off work.
    Sorry - you lose. There is no specified start time in game.

    The event seems to have kicked off around 10:30 AM EST. Off to have some fun....
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chrome_Family View Post
    Chrome, I totally hear what you are saying. However, that has never been my experience with any CoX event.

    Every time a new event kicks off it seems to go live when the servers are brought up. This includes my experience with the Halloween event over the last few years and the double XP event that happened this month.

    And if this is the case, should it not be listed in the GMOTD?
  24. Here is the text Granny Beldam says if you have a toon ready to turn in salvage:

    So you think you know the season of the witch, eh? Well, during the days of the midnight harvest, you should come across some things that I could use... Halloween costume pieces that I would love to add to my collection. Bring me one Statesman Mask, one Lord Recluse Helmet, one Back Alley Brawler Gloves, and one Hamidon costume. If you are capable of that feat, I will bestow upon you another Costume Slot, just don't make the new outfit as ugly as the one you're wearing now.