Carnifax

I do actually have a Neo clone, but I've had him for years now. And the whole point of the character is that he's a deluded idiot who thinks he's The One (actually he's an out-of-work actor who shorted out his brain trying to follow the plot of a particularly tricky film script). And thus Johnny Moronic was born (Thugs/Traps MM).

For Focus you have to bear the animation in mind again. Compared to Impale it's damage per activation time is nearly 50% higher thanks to the fact it's lightning quick to animate.

In fact with the exceptions of Spin and Eviscerate this holds for most of the Claws set. It does lower orange numbers usually, but it can do them mighty quickly.

One thing to note with Eviscerate is that it's actually a fairly poor single target attack thanks to the long animation.

But it's not a single-target attack, it's a wee cone. You need to hit 2+ enemies with it for it to start to shine IMO. If you don't like doing the adjustments needed to line it up to do so then it's probably worth skipping for another single target attack.

Also redraw is a bit of a pain (like any weapon set really) so minimising the amount of redraw you do helps a lot.

I've just got off Virtue and easily got a team just by sticking the LFT flag on and broadcasting. This afternoon at 5 GMT was a bit quiet, or hard to get a team with anyway (there were still 300+ people on) but no issues in the evenings at all so far.

And as Rent says you can easily make one with that selection of people available to you. There's no real comparison to the Scrapper I was playing on Union last week who's never been on a team.

Mind you a LFM flag for teams or team leaders could go a long way to making teams easier to find on the smaller servers.

Stress testing the download servers is also useful, especially when such a big patch is involved.

I do hope you're not implying that a thread on these boards would go off-topic and shoot off in some weird and wonderful (or sometimes less than wonderful) tangent?

That's unpossible!

Spin so. It's got higher damage & lower recharge than Spine Burst and half the recharge time of FSC.

Given how badly NCSofts Marketing and Legal teams have come down on certain EU Members offering designs and samples of merchandise previously (Cease and Decease letter heavy, even though the end recipient of any profit was the Draw the World charity) I doubt we'll ever see anything like this.

I still have samples of them somewhere in fact. The Mastermind bibs are excellent.

^This

Stupid Sky Raiders!

Have they not fixed that yet? Surely the button should disable itself and switch to a Please Wait message the first time it's pressed (that's how I dealt with impatient end-users placing multiple orders).

I really don't like this idea. If I'm already on a team I don't want to hear from people trying to poach from other teams.

It's widely known this side of the pond that the Rabbit rules with an iron paw!

I think Rabbits point was that solo-SGing is just too tricky to do on your own since there's no way to easily invite all your alts. An Email system is a far less convoluted way to do transfers than messing with SG bases and trying to wrangle Alts into them somehow.

A few of them do that. Life (the BBC David Attenborough narrated show)had a bug (not a spider but hey) with loads of baby bugs who took too long to deliver some fruit to her babies. So the babies took up and left, finding another nest of the same sort of bugs to co-habit with. So the second mum suddenly had twice the workload in terms of feeding her babies. So much work that she ended up dying of exhaustion. The lovely babies then ate her corpse before departing.

If I was one of those bugs I think I'd be like the first mum, since being a good mother is apparently rewarded with being worked to death and then eaten.

Life in the Undergrowth is a great show if you're interested in bugs, there's some crazy stuff in it (a Wasp grub which lives on a spider, eating it slowly and then when it wants to pupate drives its host insane causing it to entomb itself and the grub in silk, perfect for pupating).

Not to mention the truly horrific ant brain fungus...

I love those shows.

Our Flag system is handy but I've been using it a lot and not getting many hits. A "Look for Members" / "Open Team" system a la WAR would be a fantastic addition.

Weirdly though our dependence on instances makes our PuGs much friendlier than WARs. In WAR you sorta join a PQ team, say very little, do the Public Quest and then disband. Even for our Events the same sort of thing happens.

An Open Team system coupled with our friendly PuGs running instanced missions would be a dream combo for me.