LaFollet

It is designed to do that, but it's a little bit different in missions, most of them have "spawn areas" if I'm remembering correctly. So I think it spawns a whole floor at once rather than each spawn as you get close to it. IF I'm remembering correctly of course.

Nice to see the 50 day finally making it's appearance! I was thinking that it had been lost somewhere in alts and such.

And while my play time is a lot less now, I'm still online often drop me a global tell @LaFollet or even global friend me. I'm always willing to cook up some adventures with the infamous tpull.

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And where is Jiraiya?!

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My guess is we're getting "filler" right now as the Manga tries to pull ahead with the "real" storylines again. That's why Jiraiya has been away on his "secret mission" for a while now. Someone who's acctually read the manga could probably give you a better confirmation of this, but that's what I think's happenning.

Good to hear that you're still around, sorry to hear that your title companies, sewer drains, and delivery men were all nerfed. You've always been so good saying when you're going to be away that the prolonged silence was kinda scary. Like you deserted us for, oh, say the CoV beta or something like that.

Anyways, hope everything works out for ya and as always I look forward to your continueing adventures.

Ummmm, tpull? Are you still there? O_o

Some of us are waiting for our next fix of MMORPG Theater.

If you don't want to keep going that's fine, kinda your time so you should decide how to use it, but I'm sure that all your rabid fans (and I guess the non-rabid fans too) would really like to know what happens next. **Cue ominous music now**

As always, thanks a lot for all the fun reads, and I hope you keep it up!

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A subsequent reply from Cuppa indicates that she will push for the Devs to write a script that will check for the Souvenir and award the Badge if the result = True.

I hope that they decide to go this route. The issue seems to be one of manual awarding. Automated awarding would seem to be a logical choice here and I would question why things are being done the hard way instead of the smart way.

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This is a gaming company right? As in someone there does programing right? So, why not make a program to sift through whatever data they have to find some unique flag to say that you complete the TFs in question. Not knowing the specific format of the data (but knowing that the data does exist in some form, otherwise dataming for badges would be immposible without data to mine...) it could range from one flag needed to search for all TFs to one flag needed to search through for each TF.

It probably wouldn't be fast or pretty to run the program, but it would work, and work without human interaction once the base program was made. (I've made several programs that input throught large text files to find specifics, it's not that hard...) I'd do it myself given the format of the data and database to work with. Of course I can't expect them to release that, that would be crazy and like releasing uncomplied source code. Anyways, the point is that while it might take a while for a program to sift/award the badge, it wouldn't be manpower intensive, or even CPU time intensive if build with a few limiters on the rate of mining. I'm just kinda confused why anyone would ever want to even attempt to do something like this even close to manually...

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Clarification - Monsters in TF's do not count towards the badges for those monsters (Babbage for ex). It has been this way for some time.

Also - after much pushing and shoving - we were told that there will NOT be data mining for TF badges. So if you did a TF before I5 - when I5 goes live you will not get a badge for it auto-magically.

I know - it stinks - I'm sorry about that.

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KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!

(That's 5 days of my life wasted on two shard TFs that will never matter....)

Of course we missed you! I must have checked this thread at least once a day just in case I missed an entry, even though it wasn't saying any new entries. Keep up the great work as always!

(Personally I can't wait for the level 50 Martial Master entry...)

Well, I was acctually thinking of doing it more in a team setting, of course we can bump up the number of people in the missions by bringing them in and then they quit the team, but that would be really dangerous for lower level fans. Plus of course there's the whole SK system, so those of lower level can get in on the actual team, depending on space.

Fuji's getting pretty high up, so I might have her in range to ding at or around the same time....

I guess the real issue is how much interest will people have in this in the first place. :S

(oh crap, I just remembered I have a friend's wedding on the 21st, so I have no idea when I'd be able to get on anyways... Doesn't mean that other's can't be around, but it would have been cool to see, I keep missing my SGmates' 50 ding. )

LOL "Play better drunk but I don't drink"! LOL

And I find music is the only way to really play by, I have winamp running through 10-20 songs during my play sessions, or MMORadio, whichever I really feel like at the time. And the blinkies still have sound too them, it's more like a base hum, but it's there.

How close are you to 50? I'm sure a bunch of your readers would love to come along for that last few missions to 50. Think of it as an autograph / book signing like thing, even though we can't get your autograph and you haven't published a book.... Oh well, the idea still stands.

What do you think?

Thanks for challenging my ideas of what makes a game great!
Thanks for making a character creation system that's at both times simple and complex!
Thanks for making yourselves availible!
Thanks for making the new content FREE!!!!!
And thanks for so many other things that I just can't remember right now!


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A little suggestion for your writing times, if you stick Elude on Auto-Fire, you might have a better chance of being standing when you come back.

Ya it's shift-tab, or I guess whatever you have set up as your "next bad guy" button. Also works for the "next friendly" bind options. I think...

And since I haven't said it in a while, keep up the good work TPull, this is a nice distraction from all the nastiness of the boards around new issue time.

For all those thinking that the "5 new archetypes in CoV" is the false one, maybe they decided to have 5 after all...

Just because there's 5 ATs doesn't mean they'll follow along the same lines as the 5 CoH ATs... Which means at least 1 AT that we've never seen before!


But that's only if the mimes are not true.

I love ST and it'll always be in my build, but not because of what it does but how it looks. Right now I use it when some has agroed another group close to what we're fighting, or a patrol comes running in on us. Works great that way, the extras run/cower and we can get on with taking out whatever is so hard that's still alive. But on the other had this has to be the MOST sittuational power I've ever used, even a rez/Vengance is better then this just because the sittuations that require/allow those powers to be used are more often then the times that ST is needed.

Now as for how to make it work well with most other powers in the game, make it a single target Cower Fear power. So you drop one, it Phantom Army style targets something and makes it cower, requires double stack on a boss, and maybe have it recharge so it only gets out like 5-6 shots before it disapears. If you had it 6 slottted for recharge, you could keep it out so often that you could cower-hold huge groups, but who wants that? And with it's usual hold it would be a nice addition to the Chaotic Control of the Illusion set.
Chaotic yet controlling

Just so you know Tpull, I'm not gonna tell you until after you get past that part, I'm not really expecting you to remember me, we played together pretty briefly, but I'm quite sure you'll mention the mutual friend. So sad about people leaving for WoW....

Man, I find this thread highly irritating, cause well, there's NO MORE right now... REALLY looking forward to more posts about your experiences and very interested in what you're gonna post about your early 40s...

I really gotta thank you for this thread cause they're so much nostalgia running through my head right now. And this kinda thing really makes me want to post my own thoughts/experiences especially since I'm a shameless alt-aholic that likes to play famale chars (I'm male in RL) and respond as if it was my char responding rather than me.


PS The reason I can't wait for your low 40s on MM is cause we've teamed together a few times.

Great guide! I personally love my Kin/Psy and I've had an awesome time bashing through the first 2 TFs with friends with him. And with that said, I'd have to say, as you yourself said, that this is a heavily end game guide. My own suggestion would be for all those little Kins out there (under 22) would be to slot heavily for accuracy.
Most of a Kins' powers are enemy dependant, and pre SOs it's really hard to get enough enhancement power out of 1 accuracy to keep hitting most of the time.
My general slotting is (at 21) 2 Accuracy DOs, 2 Recharge, and whatever else is needed (like heal for Transfusion). This has let me hit most, if not everything quite regularly. The only time I had a problem was on the first TF when I was 12 and most of the enemies were 16s and 17s. We had to restart and pick up a Rad defender for the debufs until I got some more levels in the TF. (Yep I went from 12 to 16 in the first TF, rocked it HARD too. Ya at the beginning I was relying heavily on teamates, but I was still the crack dealer of the group. )
Sadly in that TF I made the poor rad defender doubt her powers, she asked me what I had sloted in Trans (my 2s set up 2 acc 2 rchg 2 heal and she almost flipped I reasured her that this was because a Kin heal has to hit an enemy (why it has so much power) and why her heal wasn't so good (rad isn't about healing, it's buffing/debuffing))

So, to sum up the ramblings, LOVE Kinetics (gotta love the "2 Kin on a team" groups and keep your accuracy slotted!