Cainus

That command has been a godsend when finishing up a respec. I dont know why the game insists on putting those trash temp powers you accumulate during a career of crimefighting (or crimedoing), but it was the most annoying part of the respec process, and the one that put me off doing them for so long.
I mean, there are so many tools available to help the planning process (okay, just two, but between the Sentinel program, and MIDS, running a respec is dead easy, especially if you have a second monitor/computer on which to view the apps), but until I learned about the /cleartray command, I'd sit there for much too long deleting the icons from my trays (and I usually run the default 3, plus at least 1 and sometimes as many as 3 additional trays).

That might be one of the benefits of playing on a lower population server (rather than say... Freedom). On my home server of Protector, there seems to be a lot less discrimination.

When the calls for the various TFs go out over the global channels, there are usually enough responses to fill the team, and maybe a couple extra that get left out, who then go on to start a second TF. Of course, the 2nd TF may have to resort to needling others to help fill out the group, and thus takes a bit longer to form.

The end result, though, is that teams tend to be far more accepting of anyone (with the exception of the Incarnate TFs that require a slotted Alpha boost to be able to actually help the team). I've never seen anyone who was eligible to take part in a TF be turned away because they didnt have their alpha slot, even when attempting Master runs, and I would be shocked to see it happening in the future.

Ahh, that explains his comments at the end of his arc, about it being better to have known. Maybe I should do the arc again, and take time to read all of the text. All I remember is a lot of Fusionette rescues.

His arc is available for lvls 15-18, if I recall correctly... its been a long time since I've been to Faultline early enough to do his or Penelopie's - that's her name, right? The store owner's daughter who Jim introduces as a contact if you're low enough level?

The cost of it is irrelevant, as I dont buy them from WW. I have stacks of them that have dropped while playing over the years, and slowly levellling up my guys. One of the benefits of just enjoying the game, rather than the mad dash power levelling to 50 (which, thankfully, doesnt seem that common on my primary server).
And I dont need cash any longer thanks to multiple purple drops that I seem to have lucked into recently, so there's no reason to sell them off to fund my guys.

I do this as well with my 2 accounts, although sometimes, I take it a bit further and have 2 sets of pacted characters that I swap partners with (ie, take the 2nd account's character from team 2, and play him with the main account from team 1). That way, I've got 4 characters that are being levelled up at once.
Of course, its going twice as slowly, which is where Patroll XP comes in handy.

No, I didnt mean that they always rez. But when they do, they always rez at full health. The Super Stunner rez is different in that their health and endurance is based on the number of targets.

The standard Freakshow revive is different than the Super Stunner one, though. The SS, when they come back (and it's automatic if there's even one person in range), shows balls of red electricity coming from each person in range into their body as they rise from the dead and float in the air. This lowers the recovery of every affected character to 2% higher than your current end cost, which is something I noticed on a Sister Psyche TF last night, where my Katana/Dark scrapper was originally running with all the toggles on, but decided to run most of the TF with only a couple. With all the toggles running, the recovery was lowered to around 1.59. With only a couple running, it was lowered to .59.
The amount of people in range affects the health and end of the SS when they rise. If there isnt anyone in range, the power fires off harmlessly, and the SS does not get resurrected.

The standard revive is a chance effect on any freakshow, regardless of the amount of people in range. There's a crackle of electricity around their body, and they stand up from a prone position. It doesnt affect those that are in range, and they always revive with full health and half end.

I think its meaning is less "to lose money", and more "to be cheated out of money" which is where it enters the derogatory territory.

I'm more surprised at the lack of offense over the usage of the phrase "Rule of thumb" and get a perverse kick out of women using it.

I quote:
The power of the toilet must never be abused
He must be plunged, he must be sponged, or carnage could ensue.
If a dead sheep had clogged him, who knows what could arrive.
Maybe it will bring the Master here, wouldn't that be a surprise!

Thank you. I found that discussion very helpful.