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I wonder if the drop rate was deliberately decreased. That would force more players to pay $10 for a respec instead of $20 for 1b from RMT, which was equivalent to about 10 BM respecs a couple months ago.

Keep forcing that price up, it's still another 300m before paying the inf farmers is only a break-even proposition.

Can someone upmod the OP for me? There's no way to take back feedback, and since I downmodded the original scary font thread I can't upmod him/her for some arbitrary period of time.

If you're considering both Assault Rifle and Archery as options for your primary on your first villain, I'd go Archery because you get the important powers fast and it's more fun to play early on.

AR is irritating early on - an AoE focused set with unreliable knockback on the first 2 AOEs and no high damage/slow recharge single target attack. It blooms late, but fills out nicely with Flamethrower, Ignite, and Full Auto rounding out the AOE goodness.

On the other hand, if you're considering an Assault Rifle/Trick Arrow corrupter, I'd like you introduce you to my friend Redraw McGraw. He'd shake hands, but that'd take more redraw.

There -is- a 5% defense, for 6 pieces of the confusion set IIRC.

If you're going to try with 6 and one isn't a Mind/* dominator with permadom, I suggest doing this ASAP to take advantage of the -1 setting and get an idea of how to complete it.

I'd tend to say that a 6 man team would just lose outright on the last mission thanks to AV-level auto-hit debuffs.

Meaningful PVP, meaningful bases, and Items of Power.

Some -reason- for people to join VGs outside of a base with a handful of porters and a channel that might help them get teams.

A way for VGs to differentiate themselves from one another outside of 'We killed a million boars in VG mode!'.

Basically, everything that was promised during the CoV release. What's "Going Rogue" without a real differentiation between heroism and villainy?

Based on the content of your previous posts, I'd suggest that you wait another year before you attempt it. It's going to be hard to get anyone to join your SG if you have problems clearly presenting a case for why they should do so.

Any Firefox ninjas out there that can recommend a good addon to force my own CSS formatting on stuff?

So far Add Block Plus + No Script have been enough to disable most of the intrusive adds and ugly CSS loadouts you see on the net, but I can't get the oversized font, bold, and italics off this poster's stuff.

I've already disabled everything I can through the User CP as far as images, avatars, signatures, etc. Maybe I should post to the technical support forum?

Lowbie arcs are particularly useful, actually. Tickets are much more valuable than lowbie salvage and recipes. PM me when you're done and I'll run through it on my AR/Cold

If it can be saved, it can be farmed.

You'll be hard pressed to find most players in the MA without commensurate reward per hour spent. However, as soon as you add commensurate reward you provide a farming environment that's better than any map out there until you start farming purples.

That's not a bad thing. The fact that devs made missions that are farmable shows that farms can be used as a part of the storytelling process. I wouldn't expect many people to be interested in playing your arc for sub-par rewards and no badge credit, though.

To all the people who're up in arms about the search feature - don't expect that people are the slighest bit interested in playing random arcs, whether there are farms in the mix or not. People don't just watch random TV channels - they watch a show they know they'll like, or they switch to a channel that typically shows stuff they're interested in. If you want to get people to watch a new show, you have to sell it to them. That's why TV show A contains commercials for TV show B.

Play host for your arc. Start a group up and lead them through it. If you're really interested in getting the word out, make alts on other servers, rinse and repeat. If you can't get a group to stick together through the whole arc, there's a problem you need to address in either the arc or your presentation of the arc. You'll get much better and much more honest feedback if you're actually present.

If you don't want to put forth any effort to present your work to others, you have only yourself to blame when noone cares enough to play ARC ID 398281 based on a one sentence descriptive blurb.

I want video of you guys doing a cave mission. :P

I appreciate all the feedback - keep it coming! I was able to get a group going last night, in large part thanks to the LFG Alpha channel. I kept it rolling for several hours, but I had to go to RWZ because the first 6 responses I got were from bluesiders.

Throughout the night I was able to play with some great redsiders as well, they stuck around longer. I picked up 4 redsiders throughout the night and 2 of them were with the group for several hours. The very first bluesider who joined was around for quite a while, and there was a bubbler that stuck around for several missions, but most of the rest of the group consisted of bluesiders that ran a mission or two and logged.

That really reinforced my perception that most of the players are blueside, but it leads me to think that the people who're still playing redside right now are more hardcore.

Our team had a great time tearing through +3/8x targets and everyone reported great xp, but we also ripped through one and a half contacts worth of my missions in a day. I'm concerned that I'm going to run out of RWZ missions in the next day or two, and since I can't get papers in that zone I'm not sure what to do next. Cimerora? Sure, but it's one of the only remaining restricted zones. That's particularly true for redsiders who can't start the quest until 30.

There's always the option of starting an ITF or LGTF, but those take a little more planning and without the ability to see the powersets and bonuses of heroes it's difficult to tell if I've got a good team put together or not. In my experience I need a core group of 3-4 players who really know what they're doing to get through a TF without a lot of headache. I'd need to run them 3-4 times each before I'd be willing to lead one.

Also, regarding the flack I'm getting for not going anywhere without a corrupter - I'll gladly switch to one of my 4 40+ corrupters before I'll lead or join a team without one. It's my experience that it's much easier to end up with a successful PUG if you have one than if you don't. A good corrupter can provide the safety net you need to have fun with 6 decent players and 2 guys with a pulse and an internet connection - which is your average 8 man PUG. A really great player can do the same with most ATs, but it's a lot easier to find a good corrupter than a really great player, especailly if you're recruiting for a PUG.

I got a full confuse set for 80m. YMMV, but that's 1/3rd of what I was willing to pay based on pre-nerf prices. I just threw up lowball bids on the actual crafted items that were half the last sale price for the recipes, just in case someone was desperate for cash.

..and it looks like some folks have managed to snag those pieces for under 5m apiece, so I'm guessing it's just going down from here.

Alright, I'll try that.

Also added a note to the virtue channels sticky, which was still pointing to the defunct "Virtue LFG" channel. I tried that one for a moment, saw nothing, bailed.

Now I know where to point the other poor fools who try fishing for a team in VU2009. Thanks!