DarkGob

Well sure, but you're using your forum time when you're tabbed out, not your game time.

oh crap i just got dizzy from that sentence

I would prefer putting the existing ones in Ouro instead of playing Mayhem/Safeguard Roulette, but this would be an acceptable middle-ground solution if putting them in Ouro is somehow a technical hurdle.

Technically anyone browsing the forum isn't in-game, so if anything you wasted people's forum time.

Honestly, it just needs a whole new interface, cramming it into the e-mail interface was a mistake. It doesn't quite fit once you start accumulating rewards (or if you already have a bunch), and it makes it look like you always have e-mail, even if you don't.

Hooray, I'm helping!

Confirmed. The power names can be called on Live with []-notation. There's a thread somewhere around with screenshots of the real numbers.

I also doubt the mods would have worked so hard to shut down any threads discussing it if it were fake.

I find it odd that you would choose to make this post on the 19th of September when the 5th of November isn't really that far off.

You're going to find a focus on Incarnates on any of the servers because that is The New Shiny (well, we've had it for nearly a year, but it's relatively new and still ongoing), but lots of people have low-level alts running around, especially now with new powersets and new low-level content.

If you intend to mostly solo then server population isn't going to necessarily be a big issue for you; it sounds like chatting with the community is your main interest, and I believe most or all of the servers have their populations concentrated in their global channels (note that while these channels may be server-themed, you can join and chat in them regardless of which server you play on). On Pinnacle server (my home), for instance, the two big global channels are PinnBadges (originally just for badge-hunting, now for forming teams or even just random chatter -- not for the faint of heart btw) and Cozmic's Playground (basically the same as PinnBadges minus most of the chatter). You can find global channels by right-clicking inside your chat window and selecting, I forget exactly what it's called but something like "Find Channels". Or if you already know the name of the channel you want, select Join Channel. You may also wish to check out the server subforums to see what each one has going on. Usually a server's subforum will have posts from people planning events like costume contests, or running Task Forces or other content. (Pinnacle subforum, as I used for an example before, is pretty dead, but that shouldn't necessarily be used as a sole measure of server activity.)

Another point: don't judge server population based on Broadcast chatter. The level of Broadcast chatter in Atlas may give you a good idea of relative server population (i.e., Freedom and Virtue have a lot of Atlas Broadcast chatter, other servers may have little or none), it's not a firm indicator of how many people happen to be on the server. The game is mostly instanced (although the new low-level stuff shies away from that a bit), and mission maps have their own separate Broadcast channel. Plus, there are a lot of city zones for heroes to be spread across (villains have fewer zones so there's a little more density). That said, you are correct in your observation that the EU servers are among the least populated, although I'm sure they each have their own close-knit communities that would be more than welcoming to a newcomer.

On a final note, and I may be wrong about this, but I believe the server load indicators on the server select screen are currently buggy, so you may not want to rely on those either, at least until it gets patched.

I still find the naming scheme counter-intuitive. Character Unlocks, to me, suggests that they are limited to that character, while Account Unlocks may be used by any character, but the opposite is true. I'm glad I figured this out before I actually used any of my Character Unlocks (not that any of them are especially worth using...).

/signed with the stipulation that it actually works consistently unlike the "Last Mob/Glowie" feature.

But we already have the Blaster archetype.

Entry was lowered to 14. If Pilgrim is still a 25+ contact then that needs to be fixed, it makes no sense to enter Ouroboros at 14 but not have any idea what the hell it is for 11 levels.