Gravecall

lol, just noticed that there's going to be an event on in Pocket D at 8pm Friday. It'll give everyone something to do while waiting for the voting. Should be a busy place!

Ok, with i8 now out we can have the costume contest this Friday - 9PM Pocket D (no worrys about being booted from the base so).
1st Prize - full set of Halloween Salvage (used to unlock an extra costume slot) and 1.5mil infamy.
2nd Prize - full set of Halloween Salvage and 500K infamy.

The winners will be decided by communal voting, everyone sends me a tell stating who they vote for (so it'll be anonymous) and I'll add up the results. I will only have a say in a case of a Tie (I'm obviously not entering). People obviously can't vote for themselves and only those in Nightfall or an SG we're coalitioned with are elligible for entry.
Currently this means only members of:
Nightfall
Nirvana
Vessel of the Shadowshard
Violators
E.V.I.L.
Dark Lords of the Underworld
Chaos Lord's
Ninjas of the Setting Sun

SGs are allowed to enter.
As such all participants must be in SG mode (so people can see that they are someone who they can vote for) for the duration of the contest and stay logged in until the votes have been verified (need to double check that only members of the SGs voted).

The voting starts at 9pm GMT and closes at 9:10pm. I always have chat logging enabled so there's no fear of losing track of votes. Once the votes are in I'll use the coalition chat to check that the people who voted are in the coalition so you'll need to remain logged in as the character you voted as (also prevents players making multiple votes) until the winners are announced, otherwise your vote will be dropped.
The earlier you arrive before 9pm the more time you have to persuade people to vote for your costume so don't be late.

Any thoughts, questions or concerns from members of the coalition feel free to speak up so we can address them before the event. Hopefully fun will be had by all and it'll help encourage more discussion, teaming and mayhem amoung the coalition members.

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and the villain one does have a back door that nobody seems to know about...

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Was about to mention that, do so few people know about that? I just assumed it was added after i7 since the multiple exits was so popular in RV as it helps prevent crowding the opposing side's base and ganking whateven comes through the main door?

So the news for this week is that we've now got 2 insp stores, 2 salvage stores and 5 enhancement stores. I've also used some of the salvage to make a ley Tap energy source (cost 1.5mil, produces 5000 energy), we'll probably end up needing to up the energy production as the base grows so I'll hold it against such a day.
Oh yeah, and we nabbed the gas trap badge over the weekend so once we start building defences that's another option now open to us.

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and lets not forget even if you were to go down in the first 3 seconds of a fight that means we can pop vengence

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Well we're definitely great for that in the last mission.

To me it seems that the only way to end the arguements about PvP is to:
1. Remove all XP from the PvP zones, including the zone missions.
2. Remove all debt from the PvP zones, including the zone missions.
3. Remove all badges from the PvP zones, except for the PvP Rep one.
4. Remove the Shivans, Nukes and spiderbots.
5. Make complaining about being killed while duelling/RPing or whatever a petitionable offence.

Other than that I doubt it will ever stop...

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I know the people I respect in PvP, and I have never checked if they have the badge or not, or how much reputation they happen to have at each given moment. Respect of your peers is all that really matters. So, there are the few people who point out that there are easier ways to get the reward, but it doesn't mean you have lost anything in the process - you have gained weeks worth of PvP experience. People have taken note of you. Those are things more precious than a badge if you like PvP.


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Well said.
/em clap

Have 2 people in my SG eager for some RP action, told one of them about the CT but they seemed rather disappointed that it wasn't going near 24-7 like with GG (or whatever the heroes equivalent is). So if anyone does decide to get this started again let me know and I'll distribute the message to them. Thanks

So this week's update:
Saturday's raid had to be postponed due to Bru having family illness (hope they're feeling much better mate) to deal with so once we can find a time and date that suits both SGs we can have another try at arranging it.
As for the base; we now have the final Telepad and beacon so we have TP access to all PvE zones from the base. We've added another enhancement storage point and are now just saving towards the larger plot, but we'll add more storage if and when it is needed while we save.
Planning a costume contest, open to all members of SGs we're coalitioned with but want to wait until after i8 comes out for it, that way most people should have costume change tokens and also the i8 additions should allow for greater variety in the outfits. Will just have to see when i8 comes out so that people can have a few days notice, yet still have the event on the weekend (probably Friday evening) so people have the free time needed to attend.

NP. Would've posted it publicly but that one always seems to be in demand and it wouldn't be fair to volunteer someone else for the tell spammage that might ensue.
Gratz on the badges.

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P.S. Scotlands_Bru thx for the advice on mr. broken lightball. you were right about him ;-)

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Dare I ask? (if it's anything negative about a player best not post it on the forums, it's against the rules)

Eh?
And there I was thinking that I was a non-purple people eater (I like to stand-out and be different you know)...

Anyway, I'll try get some more recent pics of Nightfalls base up before the end of the weekend.

Ah, sorry, the other night it seemed to send me to the French boards for both... maybe I accidentally clicked the second one for both new windows...
Sorry again.

Sent you a tell with a possible name (if he'd wanted to be swamped he would've posted it here I'd imagine).

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English boards
French boards

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Emm, both those links are leading to the French boards...

Then there are some heroes out there who aren't very honest.

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Come on people! If we'd have fought a bit longer back and forth with pillbox captures we could have all got the 1000 Points and walked away with something more than just a few notches closer to a badge!

I think people have really lost their perspective on this zone...

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Not entirely true as only the winning side gets the benefit of the 1000 temporal points. A group of us found that out the hard way.

Never had that happen thankfully!
Think I did lose some salvage before as it booted me when refining...

Heh, had occasions over the weekend where when I entered my own SGs base I got booted before the image of the base even showed up, literally one loading screen then the other. Thankfully it was random so just meant I had to click the portal agian and then it was fine.

It certainly did this for me last week in RV, rezzed me right there, where I'd died.

Don't worry, I did scout their base. >
Pretty nasty alright, worst case scenario the "random" spawn point ends up right in the middle of all that.


Anyway, so for this coming week we'll hopefully be raiding the Violators on Tuesday and The Dark Lords of the Underworld on Saturday. Hopefully we should manage at least a full team for each raid. As such the costume contest will wait until the following week, so people will be able to include the new I8 gear and any items from their Veteran rewards in it (any members of SGs we're coalitioned with will be eligible for entry. Now just have to remember to post them all as we're up to 7 if I remember right).

Base now has another Telepad with beacons so TP access to all PvE zones except St. Martial is now set up in the base. As such we'll have to wait until we upgrade the plot to put in any further rooms.

I've asked a few of the members and most are either indifferent or against using Teamspeak so for the moment we'll just stick to the free public server if we want to use it for any event.

NP, that's ok, as I've said to Bru I plan to list details of any events (costume contests, etc...) I'm trying to arrange in here, and am planning to let anyone in SG's we're coalitioned with enter them. Should be good for the social side of things. I'll send you a tell once I log into the game (lazy sod that I am I'm just getting up ).
Most of the SG are still low level chars but it should still be fun, hopefully up the addictiveness of the game for SG members.

More of a badger than PvPer and even I understand and agree with where you're coming from. You get a full warning when entering the zones as to their nature, people just seem to feel free to make up their own rules after that. I'm starting to think that claims that you're not allowed attack for whatever reason should be made petitionable offenses, at least it would disband these people to the other zones so PvP could go on as it should.
Asking people not to attack is one thing, insisting that they don't is another.
Trash talk after being defeated is ok (as long as you don't insult the person, unless you know they'll be ok with it) but giving out to the person as though they'd no right to kill you is not.

If someone comes to kill me and I'm not there for PvP I just leave, simple, the PvPer has more of a right to be there so I accept it and move on, why can't other people?

Ok, we're set for base raiding now. The problem was just me, was going about it in completely the wrong way. Might try set a random one (just whatever group are interested) up either tomorrow night or over the weekend to act as a test run (and some fun hopefully).
So hopefully can now just focus on building up the base further and ensuring that we have regular events for members to look forward to.

Yeah, I've found that in spite of having filled the insp stores with some good ones people don't seem to need them, think base raiding might change that but unless the problem we're having gets fixed that's on hold.