Chad Gulzow-Man

Maybe Posi will help me celebrate my birthday by tossing us a few scraps of Going Rogue info today?

ED would still kick in and limit your recharge effectiveness.

You might want to look into slotting Invention sets, though. You can use things like Luck of the Gambler +Recharge enhancements or groupings from one of the Purple sets to get a global recharge bonus, instead of per-power recharge bonuses. (Ideally, you'd throw a Recharge Reduction enhancement in the powers that aren't near the ED cap on top of your IO sets.)

Also, make friends with a Kinetics user. Speed Boost is a Granite's best friend!

My "main" characters all know each other, as my Stalker, Evil Gulzow-Man, is effectively the selfish and self-hating parts of my Scrapper, Chad Gulzow-Man, brought to life. My Peacebringer, Chibi Gulzow-Man, is Chad's inner child made real, and I have a Brute, Rabid Gulzow-Man, that's embodiment of Chad's mindless rage. (In the original story, there were dozens of short-lived minor personality traits brought to life, but all but those listed above were hunted and killed for fun by Rabid.)

The rest of my characters know of each other, since they're mostly in the same SG or VG, but they don't usually work together. Most of them have personality quirks that get on each other's nerves, anyway.

Additionally, each costume recipe can only be crafted once per character. And indeed, there is no reason to craft it again, because crafting it once allows you to use it on every one of your costumes for that character as you see fit.

However, if you create a second character, you'll need to craft the recipe again. As was stated in the posts above, you require a copy of the Tech Wings recipe in that character's recipe inventory and the following three pieces of salvage: 1 Kinetic Weapon, 1 Temporal Analyzer, and 1 Ceramic Armor Plate (all available by defeating level 40-50 technology-based enemies). You will also need 5000 inf to pay for crafting. Once you've gathered all of these, you can take them to a university or abandoned laboratory* (or a craft-friendly Super Group base) to unlock the costume piece on your character.

*red-side only.

Yes, you may pick a completely different Patron Pool for each of your alternate builds.

(Little bit of useless trivia: until the Dual Builds feature was added in Issue 13, players weren't even allowed to respec into a different Patron Pool--whichever one you chose to start was all you got. The addition of a 5th power choice in each of those pools began at the same time, and was finally finished for all Patron and Ancillary Pools in Issue 16.)

I work for a company that used to buy "high-end" laptops from Alienware for video processing. The software and hardware requirements that we need for the work we do are pretty much identical to those of gaming machines.

I have to admit, the Alienware units look really nice... but my experience is that they're pretty wrappers around sub-par machines.

Over half the laptops we ordered had some issue or another, though most of the time it was some minor issue with the case being manufactured improperly. One time, we received a unit that had a bad CMOS battery, of all things (a small battery about the size of a quarter that helps your system keep the internal clock operating even when powered off and allows your motherboard to store your BIOS settings), and of course they use a proprietary connector for it so you can't just buy one at any computer part store. It took them two months to ship us the replacement battery.

Then we had some issues with them cancelling orders without warning and not refunding our money for several weeks.

Basically, the systems are nothing special, especially given the price, and their customer service is awful.

We have since switched to Dell to get high-end business laptops. The units are sturdier, have better specs, and are about $300 cheaper than the Alienware laptops we were using. We have yet to have a single problem with any of the Dells we've purchased, and the sales people we've dealt with have always been helpful.

(Note: Yes, I am completely aware that Dell actually owns Alienware now, but Alienware still operates autonomously--they manufacture their own machines and store parts separately from the Dell facilities.)

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All that said, Flameshot has the right idea. If your friend wants a gaming machine, he/she really should look into getting a desktop instead of a laptop. They're about half the price and much easier to maintain if something does go wrong.

This coming Monday morning at approximately 7:30 AM Eastern, my Stalker will earn his final Day Job badge (though I won't log in for at least another hour).

And then just after midnight, my Scrapper will earn his final Day Job badge as well. (Plus, it'll be my 30th birthday. It was totally a coincidence; I in no way planned for it to happen, but I'm not complaining! )

Wait until you get Lightning Rod.

But yes, you're right. Chain Lightning is pretty sweet too.

Huh. I think this sounds like a fantastic idea. Totally /agree, +1, etc.

I doubt they're willing to change up the system like this, since IOs have been around for what, nearly 3 years now? I really wish they'd thought to do this from the start, though... it's a much simpler, cleaner and simultaneously more robust way to handle both the invention system and the market.

But if they wanna mix things up, this is pretty much the way to do it.

In order to get to Cimerora, you must go to the university in Cap au Diable and speak with Ashley McKnight, the contact there. She'll give you a fairly short story arc, and once you've completed it, you'll gain access to the Midnighter Club.

Inside the Midnighter Club is a Pillar of Ice & Flame (Ouroboros crystal) that transports you to the ancient land of Cimerora.

You can bind one key to activate all your armor toggles.

/bind g "powexec_toggleon Evasion$$powexec_toggleon Focused Senses$$powexec_toggleon Focused Fighting"

Each time you hit the 'g' key, it will activate another toggle, starting on the right side of the bind and working your way left.

You can also use the right-to-left reading of keybinds and macros to do things like:
/bind numpad1 "powexec_name Speed Boost$$teamselect 1"
which will target and Speed Boost the team leader.

SS = Super Strength
SD = Shield Defense
FA = Fiery Aura

Edit: It wasn't made readily apparent, but the preferred Villain farming AT is the Brute. Personally, I'm a big fan of my Elec/Shield Brute for all his crazy AOE attacks.

On a 32-bit operating system, the most you can hope to use at one time on your system is 3.25 GB of RAM (without finding some specific work-around hack).

If you had Win 7 64-bit, I'd say go for it, but as is you're not really going to gain any noticable benefit by adding that extra 1GB. Save your money.

Straight from the Prima Official Game Guide from 2004: