Lemur Lad

Any specific NPCs we're talking about here? I know I saw a raft of patch notes recently that they've gone back and made sure a bunch of foes are truly capped at 95% resistance, so that they are at least theoretically killable during a godmode.

They don't know their naming policy requires a purge that they've been neglecting. There's one big overriding factor that you haven't considered.

The initial name purge was specifically tied to the launch of CoV. They did it because there were quite a lot of villainous names tied to inactive hero characters made in the first year+ of the game when villains weren't an option. Since there hasn't been any sort of "demographic shift" like that since then, there's less reason to run the script.

The second name purge came after WoW came out and there was a big drop in subscribers also a big run of free trials offered through various gaming magazines and sites. The motivation there was a lot of names had been taken up by peeps that had just been using this game as stopping point until WoW came out. We've seen nothing like the numbers drop that happened then, and there haven't been any big rushes of free trials either, since they found out that led to a lot of added INF peddlers flooding the game. Yes we've had drops when CO and DCUO came out, but nothing like the numbers lost to WoW, and honestly from what I've seen, a significant number of those later departures came back.

Saying there's no good reason not to run the script over and over doesn't make your statement true. Nor does it mean there are real, overriding reasons to run it, like there were when they ran it before.

Like I said in channel Sunday, I'd be excited about having Redside raids on the off-weeks. I can't promise to be at every raid every week of course, but I'd sure like to raid in the Abyss just as often as the Hive.

We'll keep that name in mind , but we didn't have access to the command that purges inactive names before, and Tsugaru has been very careful about having too many mods this time around.

Ran this again last night. My advice still holds. When you get to the Durays, make sure everyone knows the plan before you aggro. Buff up, stock up on insps, etc.

Ignore Praetorian Duray completely. Focus solely on Primal, chase him through every teleport, just hammer him as hard as you can until he's done. If Praetorian Duray takes no damage, he doesn't summon anything.

For a little while last night we set PB private because of someone who didn't understand No means No. The channel is now back to Public, but silent on Join. Feel free to ask someone with a star to get unsilenced.

If no one with a star is online at the time you are, leave a message here and we'll get it sorted out.

When I lead Lambdas, I try to keep instructions to a minimum except when I know someone who has never done it before is on the League. Usually I ask, and if there is, then the vets are going to have to see a lot of chatter they know already. It keeps people on the same page and educates the new people.

When it comes to opening the doors, I'm an advocate of I don't care. But I go with the instructions of the league leader. If they want me to jump the wall, I happily do it. Then inevitably I see someone who wasn't paying attention open the door anyway, and get a small chuckle.

I just posted some tips to Following during the Sabotage phase in another thread, and will repost them here. I just offer them as things that help me stay alive, not as mandatory instructions or anything.

As a squishie, particularly one who is completely unprepared to solo in this trial, you need to learn something very important. How to FOLLOW.

NPCs go after the first thing they see. If you're doing things right, that's a big tough melee type, not you. The second key to following is, when the guy you're following stops you keep going a little bit until you're just past him. That way if anything is mad at you and not him, they run into him before they run into you, instead of shooting you in the back.

"But I know how to follow!" is inevitable at this point. Clearly you do, but you don't know the best ways.

Here are some tips to make it easier, particularly on Lambda:

1) Before the trial even starts, open your minimap, and disconnect it from your Nav bar and move it to the side of your screen. You don't need it all the time, but during the Sabotage phase it helps a lot.

2) When the raid leader tells the teams which side to go on, and WHO TO FOLLOW, you click on that name in your League window, right click, and Set as Waypoint. This gives you a yellow beacon so it's easier to see when the move, and it works through walls.

3) when you get to the minimap your team is on, open your map and zoom it out all the way. The game has a bad habit of zooming the map in partway. Zoomed out and you can easily see where you should be at all times.

Those are the tips for following. IF you die, buy some more purples in the hospital and get back, and use the minimap to find your group again.

Between those tips and obviously smart things like not firing off AoEs or staying to fight when everyone leaves, you should be fine.

This is about learning, and clearly you're sort of trying to do the incorrect things and not getting it quickly.

My advice is, you shouldnt have gone after Praetorian Duray first.

Like Bill said, I see a lot more people calling out people with high post counts and claiming they're being bullied by them, than I do people actually get bullied by folks with a ton of posts.

Anyway though this is about titles, less than post counts. I kinda miss the days there were more titles beyond Cartel, and when the community team could give out special titles to contest winners and people who made notable contributions to the community. It not only made something essentially useless a bit more fun, it actually cut down on the animosity since the "ranks" were less cut and dried.

Hi folks, just wanted to let everyone know that the PinnBadges mods used one of the handy (and well hidden) operator commands to purge a bunch of inactive globals.

If you got removed in error, please don't be offended, it wasn't personal! Just rejoin the channel and scroll through the list until you see someone with a star. Send a tell and they'll unsilence you posthaste.

For people that didn't know about us, now's your chance! PinnBadges is one of the most active channels on Pinnacle (or in the game) for grouping, asking questions, getting badges (duh), or just chatting.

Right clicking on your chat window and find us! or I think /chanjoin PinnBadges works too.

Eden Trial got patched recently so you no longer need to have someone within range to start it, and it will be the WST this month. Abandoned Sewer Trial got the same issue fixed and the contact and pre-missions adjusted not too long ago as well. Not sure I'd call that orphaned.

But I get you're calling for a revamp of the trials themselves, to which I say, they work pretty well now with proper exemping, and if people choose not to run them, that's their loss. I ran AST just last week and had a blast.

There's a lot of things need fixing before these two do. Some even made your list. Two I can think of that didn't would be Cavern of Transcendence and the Blue Side respec trial.

Getting 8 people and ghost porting them without killing anything has become the preferred way to do that trial, and while amusing I don't think it should be a race to keep 8 people connected and awake long enough to click a glowie. I know a specced character can run people through in under 10 minutes. That's part of the problem.

Spending a mandatory 30 minutes in the reactor room while slow spawning ambushes pop up every so often is almost an exercise in enforced boredom.

Basically I think with the addition of Incarnate Trials, all earlier trials should be a training ground leading up to the skills you need. Abandoned Sewer, Villain Respec, and even Eden in it's somewhat broken form, come the closest to meeting that goal. The rest need help.

I don't care how long you choose to take for the whole TF. I don't care how many parts you break it into. But in those two cases, the power is granted at the end of one mission and used in the very next one.

Anyone with enough foresight to plan for a 2 night run can plan to stop before they get the power or after they use it, and not in essence put their own foot in the bear trap by stopping the run right at that point.

Every TF/SF added since Striga (which now means the majority of them), is designed to be run in under 2 hours when the team is the recommended size. I'm really not seeing why they need to account for statistical outliers in this case.

Invite someone to your SG that doesn't mind going to Ship Raids. We ran one last week, got no issues with running one sometime this week or next. You don't even need to join the raid league. Just wait until you see the pylons go down and get your badge.

Besides, it's not like the SG port for RWZ is more convenient than using any of the other 3 entrance locations. Distance from the tram/ferry to the RWZ entrance is shorter than the distance from SG port-in location to the Vanguard base, in pretty much every case I can think of.

Anything you find in City of Data should be considered Use at your own risk.
If the page is correct it was last updated for version 1800.201003300904.10T4r
We're currently on 2010.201105250125.1.0
It was a great tool for its time, but I'm afraid that time has moved on.

I have no advice on how to find NPCs in there. I used to know, but it's been years and have forgotten.