Clave_Dark_5

Switching should work well for me as I have a handful of toons that I stalled out on around the high 30s to low 40s. That said, I have to admit that my conception of the character strongly influences my choice - how do I see them? Are they 100% worthy of that Heart Of Darkness badge? Are they evil to the core or is there some room for redemption? Are they tempted to do hateful things normal society would shun them for or will they go out of their way to help someone?

I'll be taking one of my bots MMs to Paragon City just cuz. It'll be hard to know which one as they're both pretty eveil, but I'll figure something out. I'll probably go looking for a stalker as well for the same reason, although I'm not sure off the top of my head who I have that might go - my namesake here certainly won't; maybe my panda assassin that I made for the SG that only runs MA arcs (but that sort of defeats the purpose, huh? )

Other than that, I don't think I have anyone blueside that I wish to take red. I rarely play blueside (and have few hero toons whatsoever); something about either the ATs or the content feels very lifeless to me compared to red. Then again, I'm looking forward to dual pistols, so I might make a Corr and take it blueside.

EDIT: I actually thought of a villain that would be worthwhile taking blueside - Operative SNAFUBAR, my Widow who's strongly rebeling against Arachnos through cyber terrorism... well, ok, she hacked Lord Recluse's blog and sent him a RickRoll. She claims. Anyways, I forget - can VEATs go good or HEATs go bad?

I never read the Scoop on any kind of regular basis, just once in a while; now I find the idea of it being no more kind of sad-ifying...

Keep working on solving the problems guys!

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It seems as if I've been playing for forever and yet I only have two 50s.

Mi Ko To was a Katana/Regen scrapper I made as a joke character (long story) and then discovered that I loved playing. The first ever AT I "got" was a stalker, so this shouldn't surprise too much. I think he was the first toon I ever looked up build advice on as well, so that probably helped. He was about say 30ish when IOs came out and managed to get some really nice ones dirt cheap. Someday maybe I'll strip those for another hero, but... maybe not. He hit 50 in the then-new RWZ and quickly got left behind; I haven't played him in so long I'd have to start again solo to get a feel for what all he's capable of.

Spin The Knife is a crazy-girl Dual-Blade/Nin stalker that I leveled up pre-stalker buffs, so I obviously liked playing her for her own sake rather than because of uber-pwnage or anything. I was in my first SG (hard for me to get an SG due to my hours) and that helped.

She tended to end a lot of her sentences with the phrase "... WITH KNIVES!!", it was her battelcry: "Ok, are we ready to take on this AV?" "I am... WITH KNIVES!!" "Hey, wanna go for some pizza?" "I like pizza... WITH KNIVES!!" "Do you ever say anything else, Spin?" "I say all sorts of things... WITH KNIVES!!" You get the idea. I know it sounds annoying, but I often got in some creative uses of it. I also had a couple of funny macros for her that then got topped off with her battle cry, such as "Hey! Aren't you the $name that dumped me last October?! It's payback time... WITH KNIVES!!" "Hey $name, let's play a teenage kissing game... WITH KNIVES!!" (those were pretty funny to pull on Dev. Earth and such) Anyways, yeah, you can see how I enjoyed myself playing her. And I'm not even an RPer.

She doesn't get played anymore either, due to altitis and a lack of direction to take her in. Someday I might sit down and give her a good respec - she has the sloppiest build ever, plus over a hundred mil in the bank thanks to a LOT of market work - which rather burned me out on marketeering. I'm hoping someday they let us email cash from one toon to another.

She was created right after the DB set came out and because so little was known about it at the time, I tended to avoid taking powers from it up until say her 30's - and yet she was still playable. She taught me to love Caltrops too... WITH KNIVES!!

Since then, I've found that I tend to drop toons somewhere in the late 30s to early 40s for any number of reasons, but altitis is a big one. I probably have about 7 to 10 I do intend to level all the way up some day, a few I even have builds laid out for. In the end I don't regret this; now whenever I feel like playing, say, an MM, I have at least two I can go to that are already pretty powerful. Plus it gives me a range of ATs to test arcs that I write.

I fae we gett a mekanical tyme-travelyng contrivanfe & goe back and whack Samuel Johnston, the Englifh langwidge fhould be free, juft af our Creater maed it...

Sometimes when I'm composing the arc's text, I get second thoughts about chunks of it - "this needs to go after the mission accept, she needs to tell them this before she warns them about the sandwich, that chunk of text needs to go on mission 3 not 4", etc. So I cut and paste that chunk to wherever I want it, then go back and highlight the now-redundant text and hit delete.

Use to be that was that - text gone. Twice today I did that and it deleted all the text in that window not highlighted. And of course we don't have a Control-Z function.

This may have been just a one-time bug or something with my system, but after having it happen to me twice, I quit tempting fate and backspaced over any text I wanted to delete.

I haven't been playing a lot and certainly haven't been working on my MA arcs like I feel I should, so this seems new to me and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it.

Just a quick note - I was standing around in the MA on Freedom's Cap this morning up to about 11 AM mountain time, working on my latest epic arc. During that time I kept seeing the chat stream by in broadcast and there were definitly a few people broadcasting for AE stuff (even if one was just a brute looking for a 'tiket[sic] farm').

When I closed my MA window to log, I saw about 6 to 8 other players standing around in there as well.

This is not the first time I've seen that.

Players who actually leave feedback are generally pretty good about letting you know where you've screwed up. For spelling errors, you might try what I do:

1) Google up an online spell-checker
2) cut and paste your text into it, correct it and then CnP it back in
3) ????
4) PROFIT!

Some players claim there's no new content.

Devs make new content.

Some players nit pic it.

Some players play it within an hour or two.

Two weeks later (or sooner), some players claim there's no new content.

This is the grand, eternal circle of life.

It never was in there, far as I know. I'd love to have that map too as it would be perfect for my third arc, but... *shrug*

Seeing how it is a pre-existing map, maybe some day Doc Aeon will be able to make it pop up in the MA - I'm certainly hoping so.

"That's nothing! Those crummy FFGs I buy from Wam-Mart keep blowing up on me all the freakin' time! I pull one out of the box and it seems that just few minutes later - BLAM!"

"That's the way it is" is actually a good summation. I dunno why, but MMs seem to be the most WTH-little-quirks-plagued AT, such as the Mercs' Medic who always runs into melee combat and dies before he can, you know, heal people.

The good news is MMs are such awesome ATs no one really cares.