Lady Arete

Thanks for the info Marcian and thanks for asking about EU/NA merge of community (aka server list merge).
I'm not surprised that the Devs would not even talk about it, but I'm a little sad that that they said it that way. (The dismissing way)

Gratulations on your new sidekick Carnifax, will we be able to see some pictures of your new addition?

Nicely drawn and gave me several small chuckles
Keep drawing over there.

Congratulations Days, may the day be a great day (the greatest day in yours and your better halfs day). I wish you and your other half a happy life together.

Err... Never heard about Alpha thingy before Posi posted this...
Where was it mentioned outside GR about this .. Alpha first thingy bit (specifically)? I do know that with GR the first bit of Incarnate system was going to be given and that was mentioned, but I cannot remember any spesific of what that entailed.
Cause will not confirming comments etc say the following "Hey, I'm in Closed Beta"? .. and breaching the NDA? I would expect such a notification to have been put in the umm Beta boards.
...
*Confused and goes back to my sanctum.*

Well Christopher I can offer someone you might remember, my Lady Arete

Magic is strong in her and her mothers kin's blood. She has had several of years of practise and is quite talented and knows spells aplenty.

I got not problem with players heading over to a different enemy group then the rest of the team are on, provided:
1. They can handle the spawn.
2. If 1 is not kept, takes the fall there instead of running back to the group and get us killed.
(3). I'm on my Emp or any support. If the runner-of asks for buffs or healing and he is not with the team... I'll stick with the team.
It annoys me when i'm tossing out them buffs and "What I cannot bu... aha split" = buff on next person.

One little event that really nagged me (on my main blaster) happened during a double xp weekend. Since I'm a badger I tend to use those to get my main badger, in case this blaster, progress towards the Leader badge (influence badge).
We where a full group and we did get a fire/kin a few levels lower then us into the group. I was exemped (to get more progress yeay).
The team is a steamroller and well I can accept that the fire/kin goes off on his own. For some weird reason, he seems to be used to that. No biggie. I stay and wack with the rest of the group (When exemped you could, it was only if you where sidekicked that you had to stay with your mentor to be effective).
But both me and the leader did get a little tired of the fire/kin going constantly alone. Yes we did take down mobs quickly, but both me, the leader and a few of the others knew that if that fire/kin had been with the team... things would have gone even quicker.

Welcome back to the game.
Well there is one big thing that has arrived this season.
Summer vacation.
People being away from the computer etc... However our peak times are around 5/6 pm CET to later.
Also if you want to see more of the population I recommend that you join in all or atleast two of the following channels (To get a little more idea where some people are).
Sals badgehunters, Union Chat and Union Task Force.
Sals badgehunters: Main badgehunter channel, creates Taskforces etc... Badge/Tf creation has priority. Default server Union (remnants of the old UBH), but it is possible to start another server badgehunt from it.
Union Chat: The channel to talk about everything and anything or nothing in particular.
Union Task Force: Helps creating taskforces and events.

Truth be told the recent years have been making us dwindle a little, so my hope is that we get as many players into the most used channels ASAP so that we have a communication network.

Welcome back to the game Miss Appear.
Well there are a few new things. The 5'th Column are back (Thus a new Task Force), I DO recommend the new storyarcs in Talos and Sharkhead (issue 17 stuff for lvl 25-29, higher lvls must go via Oroboros).
Else there are a few new booster packs.
Another thing that was changed was that now you can send influence and loot to your self via e-mail.
Lets say your sending something to your low hero. Rich hero sends to your global name, log off Rich Hero. Log in with the low hero and claim the money. A villain cannot take what was sent by a good char to your global, though.

Oh yes.. and ULTRA mode. With a few good settings the game looks pretty good. However the more ultra go you, the more you increase the possibility of having some lag (Unless you got a very beefed up computer that is). So be a little careful with the settings and experiment.

Just hope to see something done for advertising in the EU shortly.
OP's question could easily have been said about the EU community.
(Insert cheeky smiley here.. if it had not been so sad)

Reason I gave the "What if" scenario was that yes, I did remember Red Alert.
I've seen the series Warlords and the analysis of the interaction between Hitler/Stalin, Churchill/Stalin, Churchill/Roosevelt and Roosevelt/Stalin. The world we live in now was a world shaped through the these 4 people, according to that series. 4 different people, 4 different visions/interests etc.

Now GG does evade the What IF scenario, well she does not as much evade as refuse to participate in the yes/no question. I'm not fuzzed about it, I am used to it.
I wanted to give a scenario that had happened. Now since our characters live in a superhero world where access to alternate realities exists and time travel is possible; I'd thought I'd give such a scenario (Like was done in Red Alert).
Myself I do wonder and I guess I'd say that time then is linear. We live x amount of time in the future from Hitler Germany and the event transpired like they did.
Thus with the possibility of a time machine, to save millions of people you can go back in time to the trenches of the first world war. It is war, so sides will shoot on each other. You have come to the other sides aid, disguised as a soldier, you have a rifle and you know that Hitler will soon be in view. You have him in your view of your rifle. He is a german soldier, he is the enemy, yes your not of this time... will you fire.
Its not the Batman has defeated the Joker, odds are Hitler will not even see you (if he did he would have ducked and never showed up)... but it is a thought scenario.
Myself I do not know if I would have pulled the trigger (it is almost sad to say so). Even though I chose Hitler as the opponent due to his infamous personality, beliefs and actions.
The premise is that actions that has taken place are fixed (how else will our reality remain?). Hitler will after 1 world war become the dictator Hitler and make his Nazi Germany... From knowing this road, will you shoot?
Will you sacrifice the world you now know, for a world that you do not know how will end up? The alternate world could be better, more perfect or it could be the Red Alert scenario where Stalin fights the allies.

Myself I have doubts that if Hitler was killed it would have averted a big war. It would hopefully have stopped the slaughter of 6 million jews, but Churchill and Roosevelt might have had to fight the Soviet Union instead. But again, since this did not happen, but Nazi Germany happened, it will only be speculation.

GG did not want to play this scenario. Instead I get the idea that GG would rather have had tried to go earlier in his life and hopefully tried making Hitler into a painter and someone who did not write Main Kampf.
(Which is a good thought by the way a pity it it did not happen.)

@GG
Going to make an absurd example. Its a for the greater good question and as i'm writing i'm not quite sure if I would. But here is the question.
Think of a world without Hitler. Suppose you or your character GG (I do remember that you have stated that your avatar GG is pretty much yourself, but i'll give the possibility of separate)...
Suppose you or your character was able to go back in time, maybe even to the first world war when Hitler was just a corporal, you had a chance to take down Hitler... would you have done so. Even if you took the guise of a soldier for the other side, would you have taken a rifle or anything.. aimed it at Hitler for a killing shot and pulled the trigger?
In the hope that the Nazi movement would be halted and maybe the second world war and Holocaust might never have happened.
Would you have pulled the trigger for this greater good to save 6 million from the death-camps and countless more who died on the battlefield?

(Ok, it may not have worked out, due to another major player... Stalin, but lets just think of Hitler? And Europe as we know it today would most likely have been different.)
It is a What If scenario, but thought I'd ask.

My Arc (63175) is atm unable to be played. A recent patch has I guess lowered the amount of encounters in one or more maps. The weird thing is that I do not get any error notifications. Currently working on fixing it.

Edit:
Hopefully its fixed now. Had to remove an encounter in the third mission.

No access here either. Tried most of what you did as well Seph, getting the same error message.
Was hoping to get in to fix my MA arc (seems a patch borked it... again).

Do so Turjan.
Well atleast now we do not need to pay an absurd amount of upkeep any longer, so even paying each 4 week is not a big loss. (It is the principle of the thing though... pay until the lights are out! ;D)

... Okay.. that is scary. One stroke is all it takes to take that final leeeeaaaaaaap.

But talking about water as long as they either add water element to the base builder (or can fix that slow field bug! The "water" now is ewww so dirty.) then I'd be happy.

Thanks everyone for a successful Hami Raid. We began a little slow, but then things became smoother.
And to know that there were a few players who had not battled Hamidon before amongst us, makes the success even sweeter.

All is now ready for the raid, so see you all later. Hopefully we will be alot of players during the spawning (the more we are there that are going to raid, the quicker the raid will be)

ooo Lord Goat
*quickly snatches the linky for future use* (Thanks)