Gravecall

Might have me sending all you three a tell enquiring about it , couldn't hurt the teaming possibilities for Nightfall members and (assumiing you permit coalition members to take a peak at your base) will at least give a glimpse of what we could achieve if we put in the work. If some decide the work seems like it will be too much effort or that they prefer your groups and elect to jump ship then so be it, will just be encouragement for me to work harder to improve the SG.

Probably be Thursday/Friday before I can contact you guys as sadly I'm being pulled away from the game for the next few days due to a business trip.

Decided to take some pics to see what people thought of the base:
Overview
Entrance, pretty much entirely designed by a character called Kamien (don't know his global though), though there was more he wanted done
The workshop
Control Room
Power room
TP room, with 2 TP pads and 4 beacons
Medical Room
Hopefully our soon to be raid TP room.

Yeah, that was fun, in spite of the serious lag and Jack constantly disappearing as a result, most villains I've ever seen in one spot, and in spite of the numbers every last one of us got the badge.

Gratz, hopefully the first of many 50's for you.

He's the only one I need to get too now, at least on Gravecall , helped take down a load of Eochai so hopefully tonight...

Well if Eochi spawned at least we needn't worry that they'll only spawn in CoH zones (phew!), so try put out a call on the badgehunter channel and see if anyone pipes up.
Good luck!

and don't forget the rikti monkeys tossing their faeces!

Well our player number is now up to 35, so about 47 characters (once again I say roll on the global based SG limit ). Tend to get at least 15 players on most days.
Even picked up a new member through this thread yesterday.

Formed a coalition with a small RP group (Vessel of the Shadowshard) as my knowledge of RP is limited and we have a few RPers, both serious and dabblers.
The Cap au Diable SF has been put back as the average level of the team was too low so we just weren't up to it. Plan to have another crack this weekend now that more of the SG is in the upper teens/early 20's.

Wow, only teamed with you the once (you helped me get a second respec) but I'm sorry to hear you're leaving, hopefully I9 will offer enough content to lure you back and keep you interested.

Suppose I should do the typical SG pimping since I've began recruiting properly recently...

SG name: Nightfall
Arcane oriented base but all origins accepted.

Aimed at casual players as much as the hardcore ones (tend to clock about 35 hrs a week myself so I'm somewhere in the middle)
Open for Badgers, PvPers, RPers or just plain gamers (plan to set up division heads as we grow so those with the most knowledgeable are leaders for the specific events).

Have a developed base with Workshop, TP room, Med room, control and energy.
27 players (not toons, people behind the toons) as of last night, a few of whom have transferred other toons into the SG (I'd like to think that means we're a decent SG to be a member of. Role on the 75 globals change!).
Fair few toons in the 0-10, 10-20 regions, handful in the 20-30 region and then one lvl 50 (Gravecall) for farming inf for the group.

All members have base access, those who I feel I can trust not to run off with all the salvage then get access to remove things from the storage. So in the mean time the TP/Med bay combination can be useful, along with the empowerment stations (tier 3 tech, tier 1 arcane).

***Promotions are NOT prestige related! (no worse way to make a player feel like nothing more than a source of prestige IMO!)***

Doing the Cap SF this weekend, hopefully with the entire team from the SG, then plan to have regular SFs within the SG, good way to encourage teaming within the SG.
Also hoping to arrange friendly (non base destructive) base raids with some of the SGs I'm friends with, good fun all round and great for the PvP players.

Not yet Cathedral of Pain ready but well on our way there, probably be ready very soon.

I'd like to think that we're easy going and friendly, good and democratic, etc..., if you have an idea I'm always willing to hear it out. (already re-organised the base due to member oppinions)

Anyway, if you want in send me a tell in game @daivahataka, or just ask one of our members for an invite. Feel free to ask any questions either here or via a tell to me.
Advice from the more developed SG is of course also welcome.

Gratz on the badge, and I knew you're in my SG, you only joined last night, I'm not THAT old!
Hopefully you can get the mask maker one easy enough too, I'll make a point of passing on any info regarding badge hunts to you.

Took a while for me to get anyone with this before, think the only one that took longer to find someone with was the Strikebreaker one. If you still need it tonight I can ask around some of my regular team mates (mostly badgehunters), see if any of them has the contact on a toon but has yet to do/get this mission.

Well we're not as yet an active PvP group, although I do plan long term to have some PvP events and friendly base raids (with some of the SG groups I'm friendly with) and one of the members has already made his interest in PvP clear, but I would like to think we're a friendly lot so the offer's there if you want a place. Been recruiting quite a few people since Saturday so there are a few other players in the group who're completely new to the game so you hopefully won't feel out of place.
Hold out to see if any of the other groups can offer you a place though as I know there are some of them who have weekly PvP/Arena nights which should do you grand.

Think Nightfall is pretty much full on PvE aspects anyway as the only upgrades would be another/larger TP room for the extra beacons and the other 2 Workbenches (trying for the expert at the moment so maybe it'll give access to something useful too, basic doesn't offer much other than teleporters so not adding it again until needed). If there's anything useful we don't have I'd appreciate the head's up:

We have:
Workshop - 1 salvage storage, 1 inspiration storage, 1 enhancement storage, middle workbench, tier 3 tech empowerment station, tier 1 arcane empowerment (as an arcane group I'd rather members don't use arcane salvage like this).
Control - main control + 2 bookshelves for total of 150 control, also have arcane version of SG mission computer.
Power - main power, no aux, so whatever the basic output of that thing is.
TP room- with 2 Teleporters and 4 beacons.
Medbay (the little 50K thing)- with 1 rez ring, a little over half way to first SG heal badge so no aux.

A Cathedral of Pain capable base would be nice but it's a bit beyond our current reach. Still, I'm still trying to recruit more as ideally no SG member should ever have to solo so lots of internal teaming is the goal. Think we were up to 20 players last night, with me having all my 12 toons in the SG, so 30+ characters, a nice start IMO considering I only started actively recruiting over the weekend (previously only sent invites to people requesting SG membership over help channel).
Would appreciate any guidance in being a good SG leader too of course.

Hmm... just set up one of these last night and it sounds pretty useless actually , think I'll have a chat with the lads see if there is anything else they feel might be useful without jumping into raids...


*edited to clear up my pottymouth

Think that's another badge that only the mission owner gets, not the rest of the team, not certain of it though.

Gratz people, hopefully Pythia will be able to take up Jon's discarded mantle as ruler of the LRSFs.

Well my advice would be to keep the SG and make sure to get 15 members made up of your toons/alts on the server, that should get you started, with 2 of you you should begin to get use out of the base pretty quickly, though it will be just for storage and emmpowerments. Within 5 months you should have Teleporters and that's about the best PvE bits in a base, if you want to build for raid that'll take a lot longer.

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I've already made some proposals to change how raids are designed (and I'm once again asking community coordinators to report them up to the developpers) :

1/ let the raiders steal the IoP, but repair automatically the base at the end like in an instant raid.

Given that this would lead to repair bots and other stuff becoming useless, it's probably more reasonable to ask for...


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Thought people had been complaining a while back that even in friendly raids items which were destroyed were gone for good? Is this no-longer the case or was it never the case and I just heard wrong?

Didn't Kitetsu organise another Sirens Call event earlier this year? I remember trying to join one and I only started playing 19th Dec last year. Had the same lag problems, plus all the issues with MM pets having a mind of their own due to a bug.

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well, i still try to run them at times, tho i find it hard to get corrs interested i dont really agrea on corrs and MMs being close in performance in RSF, since MMs are usually useless for dmg after the 1st min of combat (this since pets buffs wear off, and the die very, very fast and its mostly very hard to respawn them

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And yet Maximillian and those have tried claim that MM's don't need tweaking for this SF , nice to know I'm not the only one on the forums who sees the problem of MM's pretty much being without primaries for this SF, unless you get miraculous pulls, and so not nearly as useful as Brutes and Corrs.
But anyway, as I said before, if you send a tell to Mortana (global) he'll gladly team with [u]you Frosthound[u] for it (think it's a case of villain worship ), he should be able to get others for you too.
I'm not particularly interested for the very reason of MMs=pretty bad on LRSF so with Mortana you'll already have one, no sense in filling up on padding.
Anyway, good luck with this.

If Mortana is on you should give him a buzz, he'll certainly be up for it with his lv50 MM (necro/poison/soul).

Just wanted to see if there were any people interested in trading raw unprocessed salvage, I'm offering sci/tech for arcane type? Thanks

So will the funeral be respectful or contemptuous?

And I'm sure others do care but are either:
1. Full.
2. Not forum Regulars.
3. Don't have members in the right level region.
4. Don't have enough regular members to be considered an active SG.

Just curious as to why the arcane versions are more expensive, is arcane salvage rarer?