Capa_Devans

Sad to see that but perfectly understandable on every count.

Hope to see you again.

Be well.

You can stick me down but I can't give you a powerset. I will alt to whatever blue dude I have that is most useful for you: inv/ss tank, spines/fire scrapper, fire/elec blaster, ill/sonic troller, mind/ff troller. My dark/dark defender is available but not setted out yet (only early 40s). If I have enough notice I can move a rogue to hero but I'd need notice for that.

I know Anne Marie wants in but she isn't online, so could you add her please? I've sent her a tell that the thread is up now.

Bloodbath also wanted in. No doubt he'll be along shortly to provide powerset info.

There ya go three for the price of one.

Another really well organized run.

Tad rocky at the start but pulling out, breaking aggro and regrouping worked.

Stormy went down just .. amazingly well. Thanks all. *polishes shiny badge*

I'll third it.

As I said, my main is a stalker and I've been refused a place on a team (ITF) precisely ONCE and that was when I first started playing. In fact the ITF I did earlier today, the guy who put it together SUGGESTED I grab my main not my VEAT/kin/myriad other alts.

I'll put a not to the "depends what you're known FOR" comment from CMA earlier. If you're known for running through the map, drawing aggro to your squishies and being about as much use to the team as a chocolate fireguard, that might be your problem in finding a team. I've always killed the nastiest thing, then stood and fought in melee like a scrapper.

I've tanked LR on my INV/SS a few times.

The first time was flawless. Took one nasty hit but stayed up, kept aggro, it was great. Very solid and I was delighted having been on runs with collapsible tanks.

Second time, I got whacked and died and it didn't get better on that run. I was pretty irritated considering how smoothly the first run went.

Both times I'd downed some purples and an orange, the only difference was the buffs I had. If I recall correctly, first time was an Emp (who wasn't needing to heal me), second was a Thermal who just couldn't heal me enough.

So I put it down to a) buffs and b) a little luck but INV absolutely can tank LR.

EDIT:
I don't have Unstoppable, I don't like the crash.

I was looking for a list of dates of free reactivations. Not just the one that is on at the moment but a historical list of when these occurred previously.

Anyone? (I checked the wiki but could only find the news announcement.)

Thanks in advance.

Blue is likely most busy yes. However, I'd always go 'quality' over 'quantity' which is why I prefer redside.

/search is a start but many people do stay in hide because it helps avoid the spam.

Use the global channels of your server to team, not necessarily broadcast or search. I can't remember the last time I picked up a team via broadcast/search rather than a channel.

I'd also say it depends on which server you are on. My home is a 'quiet' server which has been described as 'dead'. Which I thought was quite amusing when I read it as I was on my fourth TF of the day at that point.

Going Rogue did attract a lot of people to Praetoria but I'd suggest the novelty has worn off a little now, so rather than "let's make a yellow char" it's "shall we go red, blue or yellow?".

I would rather start red then blue then yellow but I doubt I'm typical in that. Why not start in the zone of which you prefer the 'feel'?

Whether the filter is there or not, is it that hard to show a little respect amongst people whom you don't know?

A filter is never going to be perfect. I eat crackers as a snack leading to a few "afk grabbing a cracker" and "semi-afk eating cracker" messages in team chat. After 18 months I learnt "cracker" is filtered in game anyone who has the profanity filter on ... well I dread to think what they thought I was doing.

I play with the profanity filter off simply because it can mangle perfectly innocent sentences. Ideally, the profanity filter should be removed; I recall a perfectly civil discussion about gay marriage on another board where "gay" is filtered. The posts looked terrible with all the "***" in there. However, I can understand parents using the filter as a 'first line defence' against the potty mouthed especially in broadcast.

Personally, I loathe the use of a word for a forced sexual assault (filtered by the forum) for getting whopped by a mob. Similarly the use of "gay" for anything substandard makes me think the typist isn't very bright. But would you filter? Unlikely because they aren't traditional swear words. Those two examples require a change in the attitude of the user behind the keyboard and that isn't down to NC. That's down to the individuals. Neither is any filter going to catch unsavoury topics or 'going over the line'.

I've teamed with everyone from very young kids to grandparents in this game, you never know who is behind the other keyboards.

If it's friends who won't be offended that's one thing, the end of a particularly difficult TF I can understand a slightly more forceful response than "stitch that" but there's a difference between an expletive when you stub your toe and one you type; with the latter you have time to edit it and consider if it's appropriate.

Oh and I'm not that prissy, many of my relatives are all truck drivers and I can be quite inventive when I feel like it. However, swearing at the monitor is usually sufficient.

I'd say find out who your team mates are. If it's a static RP group, they may be more amiable than a PuG.

Best of luck.

I congratulate you on grammar/spelling/punctuation lessons and corrections in school; now they appear to be optional extras. Wouldn't dream of correcting pupils in case they are made to feel like failures or prejudiced against regional variations. (EDIT: Where I grew up "bus" was known as "buzz", a local town of "Bedworth" was "Bedduth" and "Birmingham" was "Brum". We would have been utterly unintelligible if schools hadn't made an attempt at correct English. )

At the risk of being on topic, I'll play the arc when I get on. Just got back from shopping so tea and shower is on the immediate cards.

They were doing another blue one today at 1pm EST. (I might be an hour out send a tell to vix or willow)

Just want another 'thank you' to Alpha in here.

The work put in in those raids contributed to tonights success. So thanks again for running them and being big enough to discuss/listen to options even when you didn't go with them or they didn't work.

And as for the tank not hanging around under the cube; yeah we don't need to do that; just destroy him in one pass.

You know I'm there with damage.

Capa.

Stitch that Rularuu.

(Clean version of my exact words.)

OUTSTANDING organization. Fantastic planning.

Nice to see we started pretty much on time which is a testament to the pre-raid team organization.

Cubes went down in one go without any hanging around or holding.

Although there was a little bit of standing around in the Cathedral, it was no more than 10 mins and that will no doubt lesson as people get more accustomed to the strategy.

Rularuu went down before he could get his shields back up once. Yeah the organization, planning and teams were THAT GOOD.

Thanks for the effort involved. Especially to those who have listened to input and learnt and developed strategies from previous experiences instead of trying the same thing which didn't work again and again.

Appreciate the invite and I WILL be at the next raid you guys run because I KNOW you know what you're doing.

Great job all. Thank you for the invites.

Happy birthday, PG.

I love fly. It's my favourite travel power and so easy for badgers etc. The jet pack, while allowing flight, is very noisy.

Often the reason my char doesn't have flight is I just can't squeeze it in to the build. I sense a respec of quite a few characters based on the powers the inherent fitness pool will free up.

SS is handy if you get caught on a speed run but the lack of vertical movement irritates me unless I waste another power for hurdle; I much prefer swift.

As always YMMV and often people dropping builds on the forum are going to be min/maxers who have adapted one of their own builds for you. In which case they may not alter the travel power because THEY couldn't fit it in.

Making reactivation weekend a double xp would be a really bad idea, IMO, YMMV.

The server loads have been high since GR (understandable) and they haven't stood up fantastically. More lag and more unscheduled downtime for fixes or unexpected crashes.

Either a reactivation OR double XP weekend does increase the loads further but doing both together would really increase the likelihood of problems a lot more, IMO.

It's bad enough that the bugs/lag/unscheduled maint has been marring GR because that's not a great introduction to the game for new players, but to re-invite people who haven't come back and then present them with red (or worse, grey) servers across the board, would be a really dumb decision.

Nice idea (we all like freebees and I have a dozen level 2s planned), but from a practical standpoint, I honestly (and regretfully) don't believe NC can deliver the server stability for it.

Zoning has helped me out a few times.

I was trying to claim a rare bit of salvage, forgot my salvage was full and after that it wouldn't allow it to be claimed even though I'd made space. It allowed me to claim it after zoning.

I do live in fear of hitting ignore rather than claim though.

The only cut scenes I really dislike are in the STF. The writing is ok, but their timing sucks. I used to run MoSTFs on an ill/sonic controller and EVERYTIME I went to buff *cutscene*. I wanted to kill Aeon on principle.

I agree the mindless bind hitting gets a bit wearing. It did spoil my first ever ITF a bit because almost al of the rest of the team was hitting them.

Sad to miss this but I'm asleep by then.

Waaaaaaaaaaay past bed time but I managed to keep up despite being half asleep!

Thanks to TA for running these and thanks to Willow for running the team I was on last night.