Lemur Lad

The guy who doesn't realize they added a whole new trial today, calls us crazy.

/win

It disappeared not because everyone turned it off, but because no companies were willing to spend money on adspace just to get seen by a few thousand gamers. Thus, no additional revenue.

When they made Going Rogue, they decided the first time someone ran it to make a character, they would direct them to the new content and automatically make that character a Praetorian. The experience in Praetoria is a lot more morally ambiguous and nuanced. As Kat said, you play there until level 20 when you make the decision of whether to go to Paragon City, or the Rogue Isles.

Any characters you make after the first can be Hero, Praetorian, or Villain from the start, and you can play through the low level areas in Paragon or RI instead.

That'll teach me to talk about Praetoria when I've only been up through level 8 there, or sped through badge hunting. Thanks for the corrections, I knew I should have double checked before I said that, because even I didnt think I was right.

1) Missions are instances. You mean Task Forces, which are really just a string of missions, designed to do with a team. Apart from that, yes it is possible to level that way. You will spend more time getting teams than you will playing, at least in the long run, unless you get a reliable group of friends to run with consistently.

Aside- This game relies very little on healing and direct heals. Even the pools with multiple healing powers devote more of their design to buffs and/or debuffs. You won't find a dedicated healing Class or Power pool in this game (even Empathy). If you team with people as a focused healer, you will accomplish more than you would trying to solo with such a build, but you will also be putting more burden on them for your progress than you would with a more balanced outlook.

2) As I said, missions are instances. Most of the game's population is in those instances at a given time, thus you don't see them. If you seek out some global chat channels on your server, you will be in touch with more people, regardless of where you are and they are, and the game will rapidly feel more alive to you.

3) As far as I know, there are no Auction Houses in Praetoria where you are. I think there are banks, but I'm not sure. I do know there are vendors (not Merit Vendors) marked on your map that you can sell to. To sell Salvage and recipes to them, use the slider on to move the left side of your window down to see them.

4) there is something you can do. Stop thinking of yourself as weak. Unfortunately there isn't any way to change your difficulty settings in Praetoria, but you can start a character as a hero or villain and get some more control over the settings in missions (and get some overall easier missions). But really, you're not weak unless you ignore parts of the character pools available to you (overfocusing on heals early on). Another good way to handle over hard missions is to kill things on the streets that are easy for you until you get a level or two above the missions you have trouble with.

My last advice to you is to find a friend. Someone who likes to do the combat thing more than you do and doesn't mind letting you focus on support as long as you do a good job supporting them.

Isn't this why they made Stalkers?

Let one come along with you, set him as waypoint, and let him stand next to whatever you want to know how far away it is.

I'd say your definition of average needs updating then. You chide someone for making assumptions, then pepper your own posts with them. Unusual.

Last night around midnight eastern time on Pinnacle, there were 2 full BAF groups running, and a full LRSF. And those are just the groups that come immediately to mind, and were formed from one channel (PinnBadges).

Red Side Events

One thing you haven't hit yet is events in the Rogue Isles. I think in keeping with the morally ambiguous and chaotic nature of the Isles, all of these events should be defined by choice.

Mercy Isle- Snake Swarm should be a nearly zone wide event where the snakes charge from their holes in attempt to drive the humans out. Participants then get the choice to side with the humans and drive them back, or side with the snakes and cause more chaos. Players can then either have fun with a monster stomp or a mayhem style event where they get to smash property and start fires.

Sharkhead- The existing Miner's strike is a good start, but is too random. Players should be able to stick it to The Man, and help the miners if they want. Protect the Ghost of Scrapyard and his men as they proceed along their route, facing down Cage Guards, then Arachnos, then help Scrappy get vengeance on Mako himself. Alternatively, they can repress the uprising by defeating the strikers, defeating the ghost that comes to their aid, and then going around the isle to the sites where workers are causing trouble until they are cowed and go back to work.

St Martial- I don't have a particular idea, other than it should involve some kind of Carnie parade that faces off with the Family.

These are some good ideas, I'd like to say in addition that one of my favorite aspects of the events in Praetoria, is the multi stage feel. I think the events in Paragon (and the Rogue Isles) should meet the same standards.

For Fires in SC, start by putting out the blaze, proceed to going inside and rescuing civilians, and then either chase the arsonists to their lair as part of the event, or "win" a mission for that, to be completed at your convenience.

For Supatrolls, make it like you said but a little different. Stop the Supas from destroying property. Work your way back to the rave site and help the PPD drive off the waiting Trolls. Then go inside and shut down the operation and "party"

with regard to your point about "this is supposed to be a rave?" I agree. I think something all the non zone-wide events we have is lacking in, are visual cues from a distance. Troll Raves should make use of the tech similar to the Talos spotlights, to light up the site and make it visible from the distance. The fires should apply a lighting effect to the whole neighborhood, and the smoke plume should be visible anywhere in the zone. Hell, if they ever add a Fire Department, they could come up with firetrucks that travel to the site of the fire as well.

I prefer the much simpler alternative of making friends and joining channels filled with people who don't spend all their time in AE, instead of trying to force the people that want to stay in the AE to stay.

By the technical definition, we only have one currency in the game. Everything else is nontradeable token systems. I don't see keeping track of what's out there as particularly daunting either. I have a harder time remembering which alts got which drops and where my salvage and recipes are, than keeping track of who has how many tokens.