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An excellent idea! If only I had finished my arc

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hey people, im looking for a ill/rad build for pve and pvp

for the pve , im looking for more group skills, like rez, team teleport, group heals, hugs, stuff like that :P

and for the pvp, more self skills, and single target attacks, with super speed and super jump,

if you could post some builds up, it will be great

thank you

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It's very hard to give a good build for you, I have an Illusion/Rad (no idea if it's good in PVP i never touch the stuff). My playstyle includes lots of superion invis, and decive and blind. Flash+EMP when you jump in next to someone in trouble. Occasionally dropping PA where they are needed. I never bother to use the Rad clouds against anything but AVs, possiby Lingering effect to keep a spawn in one place (Slow).

It's hard to give you a good build without knowing how you enjoy playing.

Btw, ignore Team teleport, Recall friend is all you need unless you have a spare power.

I'll try to remember to post a build when I get to my gaming box.

has noticed that my hands aren't all that cold, so you're not allowed to pry them off this game yet.

Cya, and welcome back when you feel like it.

Indeed, cya and I hope you have the best of luck in your future endevours.

No need to be sorry, after re-reading my own post I don't think it's crystal clear

I'll set up a tcpdump on the Linux box and use wireshark to see if I can spot anything when I get home.

Reason I know about this is that my Windows box isn't on the internet, it's on a twice NAT-ed net, behind the Linux server that sits listening to the internet.

I know about TCP, even if it was a bit more than ten years since I wrote a TCP-stack at university. It's not the fact that I recive UDP-packages that I'm wondering about or why you use UDP instead of TCP, it's the fact that plaync try and send me UDP-packages several hours after I have logged off and shutdown the windows box that I assume was the target machine.

I wondered if anyone knew about what kind of packages it was, as you said it can't be automated resends since UDP uses the fire and forget method of package delivery.

I have gotten 33 UDP packages from 206-127-156-126.plaync.com between 7.51 am CEDT and 10.21 am CEDT today all to ports 33436-33438. 7.51 might be when I logged onto the game, but I wasn't logged on more than 10 minutes or so (just checked day jobs)

Does anyone know what this is about?

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Master of Mothership Raids?

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But we have a Mother of Mothership Raids, what more can you ask for?

Last week I got a huge amount of influence at Wentworths, about ten times as much as I would have expected for the thing I sold. I guess it was someone that happened to add an extra "0" and return, and it bought my thingie before the poor sap could cancel.

It would be nice if Went's asked "Do you really want to bid this much" if you are bidding more than twice of what's in the log or some other reasonble breaking point.

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I expect people to come up with new content and fix bugs. If there is a problem with fitting in both then there is a problem with what is most likely, staffing levels. Some things however could be our end or that the servers are in the bermuda triangle of the internets run on hamster energy.

[/ QUOTE ]Given what have seen so far, there ain't enough resources to do both, or don't you agree? Which is sort of the whole point with this thread and as I see it they have prioritized making new toys over fixing the old ones for too long. I think it's time to do it the other way around for a change.

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All bugs shouldn't of existed with past issues. Using up an issue to fix issues is a loss of an issue. We pay subscriptions for new issues and customer care. Clearing up old bugs is just customer care besides the development of I15 is already started.

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Somehow the sentence "All bugs shouldn't of existed with past issues" feels to me like a "What if", what if there had been no bugs to be fixed. Great! All new content, a new set of toys in the bargain. Life is good! Problem is, the bugs are there and we all know of them. So do you want them to use up the man-hours that fixing them will take even if it would mean less new content, or would you rather live with them and get more shiney toys that will almost work?

Sinergy, since you'e usually concise and well articulated I wonder why you are trolling in here?

Why not make AE buildings into a zone, that you enter by using the door? That way you could also allow people to meet inside, even if they enter from different zones.

OK, let me try this again, let me rephrase, expand or simplify parts of my first post.

I assume that farming wont go away. If you don't agree with this and think that farming could and should be stamped out, go and start your own thread instead of insult people in this. This thread was not supposed to be pro- or anti-farming, it's was supposed to be about getting along.

So how do we get farmers and non-farmers to not get into each others face? The main thing that non-farmers seem to upset about farmer is the "Can you fill", "Will you join my farm" and the broadcasts that now has increased in Atlas Park to ridiculous levels.

So how do we reduce the amount tells and broadcasts? My suggestion was and is to give the farmers a way to find each other, that a non-farmer do not need to see. If I am a farmer, this would also be a good thing since people in the farming channel is here by choice, so the odds that they will respond favourable is bigger.

All this is based on the assumption that farming won't go away, so why not try and make the best of it for all people concerned.

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I'm pretty sure that someone (one of the smurfs IIRC) set up a farming channel a year or so ago for much the same reasons. It might still be going.

Can't recall the name of it though (as I never joined it).

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That's a bit why I want a real farming channel since you don't have to know anyone, or remember any name to join.

A user defined channel could solve most of the same things, given that you had someone that was willing to announce it all the time until it has big enough following that it would keep going by it's own momentum.

Edit: Added last paragraph, since it might be worth doing, at least until we get a real one. Not by me though

I would like a real farming channel, just like the the arena chat and possibly search options like "Looking for farm team"

Reason for this is the assumption that farming wont go away, there will always be a fastest way to gain xp and/or influence(infamy) and there will always be people that want to use this.

So how do we make sure that those that farm don't bother others and vice versa? We help people that farm find each other so those that don't, don't have to listen to (read) "Looking farm team in Atlas EA, SK slot needed" in broadcast and those that want to farm don't have to listen to "Keep quiet u n00b, play the game for real" in the same channel. No sending of 30 tells to various people you don't know just seeing if they want to join your farm team, or if you can join theirs.

All of which would reduce friction between players, which is a good thing in my book. This is as I started the post with based on the assumption that there will always be farming, so let's make the best of the situation for all parties involved.

Not too bad, one out of four understood what I meant. For all others, let me further explain myself.

I assume that the developers are a limited resource, that is you have a certain amount of developer hours at your disposal until your next release. If you don't believe that, you might as well switch to the next thread because this will not make any sense.

Since we have a limited amount of resources there will have to be priorities. For simplicity's sake I will represent the way I feel they should be allocated as a straight list. You probably work on four or five at any given time, so it's not a perfect model. Some of these can be dealt with in a patch and some will have to wait for a new issue.

1. The prepend letters into chat bug. (This really annoys me)
2. The valley of lag in ITF
3. Reduce the amount of lag which I feel has risen overall over the last few issues.
4. Some random quality of life issues
5. Do an overhaul of a villain zone.
6. Do an overhaul of a hero zone.
7. Do something to make the PvPers to come back (like admit you were wrong, return to the way it was before and give those that left a free month)
8. A new cool zone, like a space station
9. New powers
10. Convert all the personal non-tradable salvage into one.
11. Allow me to send stuff between toons on the same account.

and what I put in the list is not as important as to understand that as long as you have limited resources you will have to have a list. This of course is as long as you understand my original point. I would rather that the toys I have works properly than get one more set of toys that is slightly broken and that never will get fixed.

Edit: Fixed some spelling errors

For I15 I would prefer if we didn't get more toys. I would rather see a revamp of some old zones. For example remake the valley of lag in ITF to something playable, see if you could let the villains into Shadow Shards and so on and so forth.

I don't want a space station (now, I want everything just as much as the next guy), or a submarine or the map editor to MA or the expanded costume design kit. I want the stuff I already have to work properly.

I see people objecting to this "That's only patches", and while most of the stuff I would like could be done in patches if the developers need to concentrate on making new toys for each issue there will be no time for them to iron out old bugs, handle QoL issues and so on.

I couldn't do the contribution in your name, Mum, so I just did it while thinking of you.

I just shamelessly stole this information from the Draw the world together page.

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Andrew Wildman (if you don't know his work... what planet are you on?)

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Earth, EU. Sweden. Why are you wondering? Are you implying that reading loads of Marvel comics and paying attention to the artists names should be mandatory? I don't think I know the names of any comic artist, except those who write their own stuff (possibly) with Jim Davis and Frode Øverli as the only examples I can think of now.

I am a supporter of my friends *points at ML* and like to support them in their efforts, though.

Errr, Mumsey since I know you intended to make the profits go to a charity... If you just happen to mention a charity they might get a few contributions.. ahem...

You did great work Mum, hugs!

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“He who laughs last is normally the Tank”

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in smaller letters, from someone in the background
"The rest of us got the joke the first time"

This joke would probably work best if an obvious tank is standing in a heap of fallen enemies, so that everyone understand the implication that the main text is about survivability.

From a defender in nurses outfit, in the typical sniper pose

"Do I look like a healer to you?"

Earth 'troller in a room full of debris (possibly on phone)

"Cleaning crew charges HOW much?"

A totally empty room with the text

"Illusion 'trollers are spotless"
(would work fine for Stalker's as well)