CaptSammy

I agree Lothic. I have over 1,000,000 unused prestige already and have a quite large plot with full functionality and many empty decorative rooms waiting for inspiration on my solo SG. (Was around for the double prestige gift thing they did WAAAAY back when.)

But since my choices on getting blueside villian AT characters are lvling redside but then having to the tips thing or lvling in praetoria, I WAS going to just to redside since PLing redside would be faster, but the getting a couple extra mills of prestige might tilt that equation back to Praetoria.

My "GRAND Plan" is to have 80+ characters of all AT's and all in my Virtue blueside SG. With GR, the plan was to either PL them to 20 on redside (the SoA's will HAVE to do this) and then run the tips to go blue. Or Level them to 20 in Praetoria and have them jump to heroes.
1-20 redside (using RWZ AE) is faster, but two days of tip missions negates some of that. That and adding the 100,000 P bonus for Prae chars might make that a better option.

I am lucky. I am a one-man, two-account (might be three soon) SG. However, I have been one for sooooo long. I actually got the padded double Prestige Grant (OMG, how long ago was THAT?)

I may not need all the Transporters anymore, but I already got them, have the max number of storage bins, everything I need.

As an aside, can anyone remember WHEN that double prestige grant thing happened?

It may have an impact on current lvl 50 content (ITF,STF,LGTF, etc.).

Well the game still be challenging? There is always the AE. I was musing over facing off against a +2 Master Illusionist in a global channel the other day and someone mentioned running across a AV level Master Illusionist in the AE. I think we can find plenty of challenge in there if we want to find it. :-)

I have been out of the game since the LAST winter event. (Wow). I have a one-man SG with a pretty big base that I still have not found a way to fill. (Ha).

Anyway, is there anything new in bases this past year. I am thinking probably not, but wanted to see.

As I was exploring Praetoria, I wished we had the hallways/doors theme from the Praetoria lab building to use in the bases. Guess it is just wishful thinking.

Id match 100 million or 200 million on Virtue Blueside if your still running.

OOOH, Smurph. Lets set that up!

Yea, Im a Ninja Run fan. I have respecced out of travel powers because of it so i can have more 'useful' powers.

I have a spreadsheet at home that just tracks my leveling progress. I have 50 planned heroes (46 of which are made and all over lvl 10). I have 28 villians planned for Going Rogue (praetoria to blueside), one of which is made and almost 50 (to unlock VEATS). I probably have 17-20 level pacts between the made characters and many of the ones I will make in GR will be pacted between my accounts. SO just keeping who is pacted to who is one thing my speadsheet does.

I also keep track of how many levels I gain each week. However, leveling a character from 10 to 11 and another from 44 to 45 is NOWHERE near equal. I fiddled with doing some high end math thing to wieght the levels but decided to keep it simple. If I level a character to level X, I get X number of "leveling points".
For Example if I am playing one of my characters that is level pacted to another of my characters and I ding 25, that means I get 25 points for each character hitting 25 for 50 total points. My goal is 500 points per week, but sometimes I am over that or under that. It is just my way of keeping focused on leveling.

Just for clarification, there is not a 10 second 'LIMIT' on procs. Its just that toggle or rain powers check when they are cast and then every 10 seconds during the duration. I say that, because if you have fast recharging normal powers (like fire cages) it goes off every time you cast the power which can be more often that 10 seconds. I have two procs in fire cages I think, I have 3 in Char though. Heck its now a damage power with two regular and a purple proc in it.

Same thing happened with my 60 month vet in early december. Took 2-3 days when I petitioned.

PM'd You. I can only do 100 million or so. (Need that much on my one red side character and have plenty on blueside) if you are interested. If you found someone, dont worry about it. Xanatos, if you need it too, just PM me. I got 1.3 billion on blueside and would not mind taking 100 million or so of that over to red side.

I bought myself the Ninja Pack on my second account. Ninja Run FTW!

I finally started checking out STO, and I may be wrong, but it seems they are going to do something like this. By that I mean not require unique ship names. Now I can see it there more than here because ship names should be simple and powerful. However, my first thought even there was, "I dont want 233 USS Victory's running around. Or 327 USS Valiant's. Etc. Even worst idea here.

"Once you start down the path to the darkside, consume you it will."

From experience I know that they are still thier, just downgraded to LTs. So if the spawn would have been 1 freak tank, 2 Lts, 4 minions (just pulling numbers) you would still have 4 minions, 2 normal Lts, and 1 tank downgraded to LT. They will be little tougher than a normal LT.

My question is this. When you are on those teams, did you have alot of death/team wipes. If not, then thats great. If my team can 'run and gun' that is just quicker rewards for me and makes it more exciting. Now if you are running into a problem, then you should step back and adjust to something more of what you were talking about.

Case and point: Was on a team that was smoking thru everything. Then we were in a lap map with the three level room that people call the room of death. They ran into thier and we wiped a couple times until we pulled to the door.
Council maps have a room of death too. These you have to be careful with. Other than that. unless you got hard content or hard rooms, just roll with it.

I got mine to start/invite my own SG. I also use it to PL. I have a fire/kin on my main account and i have a bunch of lvl pacts between newer characters on my two accounts. Mostly the support characters are on second account. Run the fire/kin with a support toon on follow and lvl up two toons at once. :-) I do still farm runs occaisionally, but mostly just TF or team on whatever character helps the team most, but at least im lvling two toons as I do it.

I have had my SG long enough that I was able to trade padding and get an almost full double prestige grant a couple years ago. Now I have all the base I want and all the storage i can get. I have 25-30 and 45-50 recipes memorized on my farm toon for the extra slots and he is now the enhancement maker for the SG. It all flows together well.

I had a bunch of characters and some of them started fitting together into theme teams, or were related somehow, and such. Eventually I came up with a set of 50 characters using every power set (some more then once) Only controller TA and Tank stone melee (i just do not like the look) are out. When I can add villian AT's to the mix coming thru praetoria to paragon, I will add more characters and be up to 71. Thinking about just getting a THIRD account or I will not be able to expand any further anyway.


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As I have posted before, Captain Sammy started as a INV/SS Tank. But that was pre-Issue1. Back in those days tank damage was awful and scrappers could cap at the same as tanks (pre-ED) it just took a little more slots. So I rerolled as a DM/Inv Scrapper which was as tough back then and more damage but when ED/GDN hit, he was scaled back some, but by that point I was not rerolling again. He is pretty hardy scrapp though.

I have rerolled him on another server or two as a INV/SS but never played it up any.

And speaking as someone who has run with Zombie man on several TF's (although probably all on different characters so he might not know who i was), he leads a pretty good TF. :-)

One thing I have found. I set my fire/kin to +1/x8 NO Bosses. However, if I dual box, I still get bosses. The Boss setting says do you want to spawn bosses SOLO. Once you dual box you get bosses.

So I still 'map' the mission solo (and the bosses downgrade to LTs) and then invite. Yes this is a hassle, but still preferable to the old way. I would have to map the mission to get the mobs the old way too, but have to find 6 more padders. Ha.

Is this like a 2 hour to 1 day routine thing, or is there a serious issue and it will literally be 'until further notice'?