ClancyClown

I just bought the think tank for one of my villain toons. It shows up unlocked in the costume dialog box just fine (under heads). I tried a new costume with it, and left the facemaker. Voila, I'm back in the facemaker in my old costume. So, I redid the new costume, and saved it, and tried to load it, and I get a nul costume part error.

Also tried changing just the head, with the same result...

In an amusing/frustrating note: The response to my petition was something along the lines of, check to see if you have supergroup mode turned on as that can effect the chest emblems. I would be mad, but help desk's everywhere seem to throw generic junk out in the first salvo without bothering to read the problem description, sigh.

I'm a feeling a bit conflicted.

Pros:
This is probably needed so that the game can continue for a few more years.
They are promising new content on a more frequent basis; great news if they can deliver.


Neutral:
Free accounts look a lot like extended trials, no harm/no foul there. I like newbs.

Cons:
It is sad to see the game reach this stage.
it isn't quite clear what will happen to my pre-existing toons when I come back for a peek.

Welcome back! Lots of changes over the last 5 years.

Welcome back!

I'm not sure its necessary to start a new toon, but any old toon you play will definitely need to be respecced. The biggest changes are Invention Origin, Inherent Fitness, and (of course) Incarnate powers.

I've been repeatedly crashing in Lambda sector. I sent you the dialog box msg, nslookup, and the log. I sent it in two parts because it was over the character limit.

I have the same issue.

I get a client crash pretty regularly in lambda. The server crashes seem pretty rare now. But in this case there is an error message which passes too fast for me to read, it seem something like texture not found. The new patch that allows for deeper file continuity checking did not locate the missing texture, though it appeared to do the check.

Yay, was finaly on a team that won BAF. Fighting at the chokepoints N and S of tennnis courts (2 teams South, 1 team North) seemed to work a lot better than the three zone strategy.

Hmm, just had two crashes on BAF where entire league lost map. Kind of anoying.

New content is fun!
Failed BAF on Tuesday, failed 3 Lambda's on Wednesday and finaly won the 4th (all four were 8 person team), also unlocked interface. Biggest plus of all is the merciful time limit which puts an underpowered/unprepared team out of their misery. Both trials are fun,but Lambda gets the nod for being easier to start with just 8 people.

I was a little disappointed that the LFG button was being ignored for setting up BAF on Wednesday (it was being used for the Lambda's on Thursday). I kind of like the randomness it introduces.

It appears to work just fine in Quills:
Quills deals 55.61 points of lethal damage to Man O' War.
Quills deals 55.61 points of lethal damage to Protean.
You blast Man O' War for 246.3 points of bonus fire damage!
Quills deals 55.61 points of lethal damage to Man O' War.
You blast Protean for 246.3 points of bonus fire damage!
Quills deals 55.61 points of lethal damage to Protean.
Quills deals 55.61 points of lethal damage to Man O' War.

I wouldn't say Trapdoor is invincible, but the mission did go from PITA, to not worth doing on more than one or two lvl 50's. For those of you that talk difficulty, you need to realize that most people who want 'hard' MMOs are playing harder MMOs...

IMHO the patch was counter-productive (except fixing the lava bug which was a cheesey way to win). I just wish I had read about the patch before doing an I19 respec on an old stone tanker. I messed with Trapdoor and clones for a silly amount of time.

I'm not goint to sort through my temp powers to find a combination that will enable me to kill Trapdoor and his clones more quickly. I'm probably not going to bother forming a team to get trapdoor. What I will do is put this old stone tanker back on the shelf and play the other toons that got through prior to the patch.

Life is too short to beat my head against the wall.

Am I the only one that looks on I20 with a bit of apprehension? With IOs, toons are as overpowered (peraps more so) as they were before the Global Defense Nerf and Enhancement Diversification. Adding inherent stamina and the incarnate system may make it seem even more unbalanced.

I won't be surprised to see some 'balancing' in issue 20. Not doomsaying here, just a bit of trepidation; GDN and ED were painful.

I there is room, I would like to bring Spinnaker (now a villain). He is a scrapper, but should have all the listed items by Sunday (currently has everything but the nuclear missile).

On a side note, I had forgotten how tedius the warburg missiles are (even when there are no PvPrs trying thwarting). OTOH the shivan was a lot easier to get than I remember, it feels like the base where you craft the shivan has been toned down.

On another note, there was some PvP going on in the Warburg durring one of my runs, but no one griefed me, which was both surprising and gratifying. Are the PvPr's always this nice on Protector these days?

New zones are really nice looking, and the branching story arcs make the stories feel more alive.

Dual Blades/Willpower Brute, Samarai costume, Name - Bankur
I'm clearly out of concepts.

Following the resistance warden path

Yay Canada! Any country that allows their Navy to serve beer while at sea must be doing something right.

Nice teaser. It certainly explains why there haven't been many new oficial arcs in a long while. They have been saving up. Any word on what happens to super/villain group afilitiation to somone cycling from one side to the other?

In any case I look forward to seeing the new stuff!