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The problem I'm having is that all my new characters seem to start at +0/x0 rather than +0/x1 and the x0 part causes some buggy behavior, like an entire map filled with single spawn mobs of lieutenants that all con orange, red, or even purple. I can't for the life of me figure out how I can be x0 players and the only way to fix the problem is to be able to visit someone to change the difficulty. I have submitted this as a bug but never heard anything on it.

For those that are interested, I got my Infamy back, HOORAY!

So, in the future, if the same thing should happen to you, send a petition right away and you too might get lucky.

Seems that after a thorough trawling of the server logs they found something, though they were not specific as to the details. I don't envy them at all, I've had to trawl server logs myself and it is a tediously boring thing to do.

I sent an email to myself with a huge amount of inf attached to it and I got lucky. I sent it just as the db server went down. The mail sent, I got DC'd. When I get back on, no email, gone, poof.

What do you think my chances are of getting that Inf back?

Or is that a stupid question?

Can't connect to anything, all servers give me the same response "Lost Connection to DB Sever". Can't tell anyone that matters, all I can do is B*tch about it here.

For me it really depends on the type of character I'm playing. So far, the three I enjoy and have played enough to test are tanks, scrappers and defenders (and only an emp defender). I never target through another character with a tank or a scrapper, on the other hand, with an emp defender I am always targeting another and almost never target an enemy. I have a macro set up so that I can quickly click a button to target each teammate. Also, the only time I attack anything is when it appears I don't need to heal someone or use some other helpful power and then I attack through whatever teammate I happen to be targeting. Generally I'm kept fairly busy and don't get to do much attacking.

The reason I ask. first off, I've been in the game just over 6 months and probably done thousands of missions but I still think of myself as a beginner and still learning. I enjoy playing solo and I also enjoy joining teams.

Someone mentioned PuGs, well, that's mostly what I end up on. Once in a while the leader of one of these will friend me and continue to invite me and these always do well. But it is not really a PuG, I was probably the only random person in the group with all the others chosen from that same list of friends.

I guess I was speaking specifically of PuGs in a way. I've noticed two things with PuGs.

1) If the leader does not set rules things either go really well or go horribly bad with near team wipe throughout the mission(s). There usually is not much in-between. Many times everyone knows what they should be doing, on the other hand, there are many times when it seems no one is even trying to work together.

2) If the leader of a PuG states some simple rules to anyone new that joins I rarely see these teams go south. While there may be one or two bad fights, as a general rule these teams are more fun to be on. I'm not talking about anything extensive, more like guidelines like:
a) Everyone follows X (whoever X may be, but a tank more often than not);
b) Everyone stays together (there are some exceptions, as mentioned by some that have replied)
c) We don't start a mission until everyone is on the map. I have to say, I rather like those that insist that everyone is there before we begin. I have a relatively fast computer and connection and am usually one of the first to get in. However, I know people that have slow computers and/or connections that are quite put off when they get in and find that the mission is nearly completed. (of course the exception is that if someone says it's okay to start without them.)

As far as how the missions go, I've recently started to notice this more. I have created my first Empath Defender. I didn't think I'd like it, but I'm having a blast with it. This is the main reason that I've started noticing the difference. I must say that it is so much easier to keep people on their feet when everyone stays in a group. As soon as people start splitting of into two or three different groups then my job becomes extremely difficult if not completely impossible.

To be honest, I've not had the opportunity to see a team where someone expected to not fight, and I hope I never do. I've never joined a team where the leader had to state outright that everyone needs to be in the fight. Seems like common sense to me.

As far as rules if I am running a team, I will generally hold off and see how it goes. If everything seems to be going well then I will let everyone roll. On the other hand if after the first battle or 3 it seems that things are going to get out of hand then I'll say.... "Ok, this isn't going well, from now on we will...." and give the sticking together/follow the tank rule or whatever seems to fit the circumstances. All it takes is one really bad mission and you find yourself alone again when it's over, if they stick around that long.

I have some questions about what people think about something, so I guess this may be a poll.

My questions have to do with teams and setting rules.

1) Do you think that more team leaders should set some simple rules or would you find this offensive?

2) If you feel that the leader should set some rules, what should they be?

3) If you feel that it would be offensive for the leader to set rules, why?

Hi,

did a search on this bu had no luck.

Is there a way, using a key bind or a macro, to turn on and off prompts?

Example, the prompt to allow teleport. Is there some way that I can disable or enable this without opening up the settings window every time. While I don't mind being TP'd most of the time there are situations where I might be in the middle of something, like placing an item on the market. Remembering to open the options window to enable it and then doing the same to disable it when I'm done is a pain in the butt.

Thanks

Thanks for the info all. I don't recall, but I may have used one of the V-Day buffs on a teammate during the stop Snaptooth mission. I remember purchasing them, but I don't remember what character I was playing at the time. This is about the only thing that makes sense though.

One of my characters is a Claws/SR Scrapper. Somehow, this character managed to get some credit toward a healing badge. The character has no healing abilities and I don't recall ever healing anyone. Can someone explain to me how I may have gotten the credit toward this badge?

<sarcasm>But it's not them, I have the emails from support to prove it. Must me my crappy computer and crappy internet connection. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that server. Any disconnects or lag must be on your end. Lets run a few more diagnostic programs to see what it is.</sarcasm>

Yup, I came jsut now to post that my math was wrong, but I still think there is a bug.

To my surprise, you divide reductions and not multiply.

So if you have a 70% reduction to a recharge rate that has a base of 200 seconds

200 / 1.7 = ~117 = 1 minute 57 seconds.

This is what I am seeing so the enhancements are being applied correctly.

However, I should also be getting a 20% reduction for "Quickness". I'm not sure where this is supposed to be applied, but it seems that it is not. Since I was seeing ~90 seconds pre 17 then it would appear that the 20% was applied before the 70% (or after, doesn't matter) resulting in:

200 / 1.2 / 1.7 = ~98 = 1 minute 38 seconds. (This is very close to what I was seeing pre 17) So rather than a nerf it appears like another bug.

Also, as far as out leveling the enhancements, the character is level 31 and both SO's are 30++. The value of reduction actually shown for the enhancements is 35%. So this is not an issue of... duh. I forgot to get new enhancements.

My math seems to agree with je_saist's now.