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I actually went from tri-form to Nova/Tank, with human only for buffing.

I guess I'm silly, but generally my MA Scrapper (or any toon's) attack chain involves me attacking the bad guy until dead.

My all time favorite teammate was an Earth/Rad, I was so impressed with how well she played the toon and how effective it was.

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Perhaps a vault that can hold limited mixed items. Six recipes, six enhancements, influence/infamy, and a dozen pieces of salvage. Not big enough to let you hoard things, but still large enough to transfer items or put things aside for just one character.

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whats interesting is that players who pay twice the subscription fees already have this bonus feature.
its called make an alt character on your second account and name it "storage alt" then transfer stuff to it all you want.
players with second accounts dont even have to stop at making one alt, they can have multitudes of storage alts.

too bad that you need to pay more money for this bonus feature though.....would be nice if everyone could do it also.

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You should just take you ball and GTFO.

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this just all goes back to the continuing argument and bad attitude towards solo players that they do not deserve to have the same conveniences that others get.

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Actually, I haven't seen anyone demonstrating a bad attitude toward soloers. However, I have noticed that people don't have a lot of sympathy for people with a sense of entitlement and the attitude that their $15 per month puts them in a position to dictate to the devs.

Choose to solo or not. But, after you've made your decision, don't come here and whine about the SELF-IMPOSED inconveniences you have to put up with.

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And the "inconveniences" are hardly worth the tears of self-righteous outrage.

My 6 year old smashed in his two front teeth doing this wickedly awesome flying spinning kick, landed right down on his chompers and I had to manually yank them out.

Took 8 tries.

I'm proud to say he cried far less than I've read on here about such a non-issue.

Though I still have the heebie jeebies over the whole thing.

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Wow. Some of you people sound like you're jaded beyond enjoying the game anymore. Myself, I've only been playing since January, and I can't wait to see this. I get all excited when the sky turns red or green...

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Me too! Sky turning eerie and then crowds of players pumping up to take them down the min they arrive... I love it.

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Yep, but wait until its there are a few more, then a few more, and then another is announced.

A few more will be posting that it gets tiring to have the same "special event" happen over and over again.

1. Not in 4+ years.
2. Not in 4+ years.

But then again, I don't socialize at all, just play to have fun on teams.

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Not this lagfest again.

Boring. Been there. Done that. Too many times.

Just another recycling of old stuff put out there for the fanbois to fawn over.

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For you, maybe. But there's always plenty of new players who haven't gotten to experience the invasion events yet.

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And they will.

Over, and over, and over, and over, and over...again.

*RUBS TEMPLES*

Okay, maybe its time to kick the tires and see if the old "new idea machine" can come up with something...new.

I mean, another invasion?

Haven't the Rikti gotten the point, yet?

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its this double standard that bugs me. if players in supergroups can do it easily, then solo players should have an easy method also.

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It's not a double standard at all. The practice is 'frowned upon' by the devs so there are no systems to facilitate it. Solo players can't start task forces, either. This is not a first person shooter. This game is built around cooperation and teaming. Most of it CAN be soloed, but it's not designed as a solo game so the soloist has some extra hoops to jump through and some things are difficult or even impossible.

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it is a double standard. if the devs "frown" upon it and dont want us to transfer inf between characters, then no one should be able to do it.
there should be things in place to prevent everyone from being able to transfer inf easily regardless if your in a supergroup or not.
right now the limitations they have in place only negatively affect solo players or people that are not in a supergroup.
its like the devs saying "nope we do not like players transferring inf between their characters, we do not want that happening....but....if you have friends or supergroup members to help you do it....go right ahead and transfer all you want!! but be warned we will frown at you doing this!
and hey, if your willing to pay us another 15bucks a month and get another account to do it....even better!! "_

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I would be careful about characterizing the "no transferring inf. to another toon on your account" rule as something the Dev's "frown upon but allow."

Very often, when reading the boards, I see a lot of easy to use catch phrases get tossed around by the players to describe certain rules of the game that sound right but may not express exactly why the Dev's do something as accurately as the Dev's would be able to.

In other words, its easy to take what the players describe as the Dev's "allowing but frown upon" as being some sort of hypocritical stance by the Dev's, when in reality the actual reasoning behind WHY they have the rule is lost in translation.


And further, with WW's and the Black Market, and AE farms, there's hardly any reason to cry about this issue.

Personal example from last night on Freedom:

I transferred 60+ million I earned in less than 2 weeks of playing (avg. less than 2 hours a day) one toon to another using WW's, which gave my newly minted 50 PB a total of over $100 million Infl. (also earned during the same time).

I then went nuts and had my first costume contest (mostly for my son, who is 6, to judge) and had a great time with my kid deciding who won, who was second, etc.

After the contest, a toon said, "Hey, can you help out a returning player who has lost everything?"

My response was simple:

"Yes, you can earn millions easily doing AE missions."

If you can't earn millions and millions per toon just farting around doing AE missions, and can't figure out the mechanics of a market trade (I can help, just ask), come see me on Freedom.

PM me for a toon handle to find, and a location to meet, and I'll give you a few dozen million Infl.

The stuff is just dripping from the sky lately.

Someone write up a paper on this refuting his positions and conclusions and send it to the head of his department.

I'll pay for the postage if necessary.

I hope they'll either tire of AE and try content or the Dev's make each AE zone level appropriate (can only do level 1-6 in Atlas, can only do 45-50 in PI, etc.) just to get some of these guys out and exploring.

"If you aren't a member of the tribe, you get whacked with a stick," he said. "I look at social groups with dismay."


Looks like Twixt came into PvP with a preconceived mindset, looked to do whatever he could to negatively affect the playerbase so he could support the conclusion he had already made.

For someone who is studying social conventions and social conflict to ONLY act in a socially negative way isn't academically honest, even if it is within the "rules of the game."

A more balanced approach would have been to have a Twixt character and one that would have been the exact opposite, and one that was neutral, and to chart the resulting interactions with all three.

Plus in his paper he said he had been playing for almost 2 years, logging "thousands of hours."

I think someone got caught playing during work time by a higher power and had to figure out a way to turn his play into work.

If you are mostly soloing, try Spines/WP.

It is a great synergy and you have AoE's, which is great for soloing.

My Spines/WP went to 50 faster than any other I've tried, and it was awesome sauce from level 1 to 50.

I still play it more than any other 50 I have.

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But see that is the thing they haven't encourage PvPing at all with the new enhancements, all they have done is encourage arena farming. That's it.

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As should have been obvious ahead of time. It's almost like they're admitting that PvP sucks so bad that they have to bribe people into playing against their will. But even that didn't work, because the devs have never heard of the concept of “perverse incentives”.

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That is what I do not understand, if there are a metric ton of people complaining, recommending, etc... that PvP 2.0 is terrible and the results are blatantly obvious then shouldn't everything be reverted to how it was until a better solution can be found?

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I would so rush right into PvP if they did that.

Would also love -KB in DA and FA.

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Not quite true.

You can trasnfer INFL/INF using Wentworths/Black Market.

Takes a tiny bit of learning but its really easy, only thing you lose are the fees. Let me know if you need help on it, its pretty simple and failproof.

*SIGH*


My 42 DM/Regen Scrapper, Dammit, was nuked by the powers that be a few years ago.

I still think they were damn stupid about that one.

You can build out and 6 slot your Nova form and Dwarf form, as well as all of the attacks for each form, and still have plenty of slots/power picks in human form for buffing.

Now you won't have many slots in human form for attacking, but for buffing up, healing and switching to Nova to blast and Dwarf to turtle, it works well...from a PvE point of view.

I'll someday venture in PvP, if they ever change it back.

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From my non-PvPer perspective, having a completely different set of rules for PvP makes me even less likely to try it out. I don't know if it makes it more casual friendly or not, but the very idea that my character will function completely differently in PvP is a point against it in my book. So if it was done to entice non-PvPers into PvP, my guess (having absolutely no data) is that it was a failure. Same with the PvP IOs, which appear (again with absolutely no data to back this up) to have done nothing but encourage PvP farming rather than actual PvP.

I can't believe I'm complaining about changes that don't even affect me, but yeah. Even as a complete outsider, it sounds like it's taken an already poor add on feature and made it worse. Hopefully I'm wrong, because I think the PvP community deserves better than they seem to have gotten in this game and in the recent changes.

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I have the exact same complaint, and its sad that they didn't see or use the second build to allow for a PvP build with the "old rules."

Its even sadder that these complaints have fallen on deaf ears.

I was so looking forward to secondary build for my Spines/WP for PvP.

But I won't under a totally new set of rules that flattens out the curve for beginners.

I want to become an expert, I don't want to have the playing field borked so noobs (which I would be!) can take on experts.

I want to learn.

Take off the shackles.

Set my PvP freeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

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It is not risky to use the market if you half half a functioning brain cell.

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Opening with an insult. Way to go!

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The only other real "risk" is that someone will scroll through all the low level crafted IO's, see that the one at the level you picked was bought, have one handy and place it for sale and you will buy it and lose all that influence. This won't happen.

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....It has happened before, it will happen again. It's not -likely-, but to say it -won't happen- is a flat-out lie.

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What were the conditions?

That is key.

As for opening with an insult, its only an insult if you take it as such. If you are that touchy, perhaps a kinder, gentler message board is for you.

I'm sure there are plenty out there.

It won't happen if you take the simple precaution of using half of a functioning brain cell.

If it does happen, the person was sloppy. It is very easy to see that someone purchased your item for sale, or has listed another since my advice was to look for something with only one for sale, or to buy up all available whatevers.

No need to make a mountain out of a molehill without giving the conditions and specifics of how someone got ripped off.

Otherwise, it won't happen.

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Worked like a charm.

Hard part was finding something that was 0 or 1 that I could buy out for cheap... Only took about 10 mins though. Was my first time to try, so it worked out well enough and didn't take too long.

Thanks again for the advice.

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I was sweating like a pig in heat the first time I did it.

After that, I realized the odds of someone knowing what I was doing was zero. The only real way to get ripped is to either tell someone or to be sloppy and not notice a sale after yours.

It is not risky to use the market if you half half a functioning brain cell.

All of the markets hero-side and villain-side are cross-server, so it doesn't matter if your hero is on Freedom and you want to transfer to a hero on Virtue, but it does matter if you are trying a hero to villain transfer, which won't work using Wentworth's.

So, the easy way (for me) was to find a low level, unused crafted IO enhancement, like a level 12 Cacophony, and find one that has only one for sale (or if many are available, buy them all up). Buy it with the character you want to send Infl. to, not the one with all the money.

That is absolutely critical, that you buy up all of them, and I suggest to make it even easier, buy it for a funky amount like 4567 Influence. Note that the sale will indicate the amount and date purchased. If another goes for sale and is bought and relisted to try and gank you, you'll see it.

You then place it for sale for an amount that is essentially "gank" proof, like 199,999. If someone wants to buy it and relist it, you'll see the 4567 sale and a sale for at least 199,999. You just made money off of a thief!

The only other real "risk" is that someone will scroll through all the low level crafted IO's, see that the one at the level you picked was bought, have one handy and place it for sale and you will buy it and lose all that influence. This won't happen.

In the dozens of transfers I've done, not once has this happened.

The simplest security is not to tell anyone you are doing it, and to place all of your toons involved in the transfer at WW's.

Logging off takes 30 seconds, logging in another 30 or so, and it is not likely that anyone will gank you.

So then its simple. Log off the toon who needs the money, log on with the toon who has the money, buy the IO for whatever you want to pay and minus the fees you have successfully "transferred" the Infl. The toon who listed the IO will have sold the IO and pocketed the Infl from your toon, who bought a level 12 Cacophony for $50 million.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

I usually take that approach to boards, since usually most of what is typed is motivated by anger, confusion and the need to vent.

Maybe I'm spoiled by the Scrapper forum, where the standard answer to the age old question, "Which Scrapper primary/secondary is best?" is usually "any/any."

While browsing the Brute forum, I get the distinct feeling that there is a clear opinion that there are a lot of problems with certain sets, and that these are really bad problems, and I'd like to avoid sets that have glaring weaknesses (like I've never played a Fire/ Tank or /Fire Scrapper, no -KB).

I guess I should take my own advice and run them for 6 or 8 levels to see if it fits.

My altitis will get its fill this weekend...

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This system has the default power supply?

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Yes, everything is the original except for the harddrive which i just replaced less than a week ago.

And I will look around newegg.com, but the problem is I don't know which graphics card will give me the best performance with my system while taking into consideration how much I can spend on it.

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Check to make sure your power supply was strong enough for the 6800.

Then make sure its enough for whatever new card you get.

Knowing HP's, if your system came without a graphics card, it more than likely won't have a power supply strong enough for one. You should check that it is before investing in a new card.