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I remember back when people considered BAFs and LAMs to be semi-impossible. Now the idea of -failing- them seems semi-impossible.

I figure these new trials will take a week or two before most people learn how to do them and they become "easy". Besides we don't even have the next batch of Incarnate powers available - I'm sure by the time we have those these new trials will be considered fairly routine.

The OP actually mentioned that one - Preemptive.

I could see where Cognitive would be really useful for those maximizing any Confuse effects and maybe Spectral for people interested in Immobilizing enemies. Beyond that I'd really have to consider what would work best for the character versus the character concept. Ultimately I could see just about any of them being the "best" given the proper circumstances.

Perhaps the email was transmitted out to Pluto and then back around the Sun a few times first.
I figure that would equal about one Light-week's worth of time.

Machiavellian foes are a Nemesis plot.

Yeah this was the first thing I thought of too.
Damn those Devs for giving us too much to play with.

I realize that dealing with figuring out discount percentages is like 3rd grade math but getting a simple 150 additional points per month is like 1st grade math. Since there seems to be a question about how the generic math works in this case anyway it might be prudent to let the game stick to the "Keep It Simple Stupid" principle and avoid what appears to be the extra confusion here. *shrugs*

Why do you think Paragon Studios has finally decided to sell these codes themselves.

At any rate it's cool The_Masque actually wants to trade these instead of wanting to know what the "market" for them is.
That was probably something that should not have been asked about in the first place...

Well ideally I'd tell my friends to give me a dose of the zombie virus cure we found at Fort Benning.

But if I got attacked before we had the cure then I guess I'd want to strap some dynamite to my vest and wade into a huge group of walkers and blow them all away. At least that would spare my friends from having to take the personal responsibility of having to pull the trigger on me themselves.

Coming up with a fun catch phrase is fine enough. But the problem with claiming EVERYTHING in a TV show is the epitome of lazy storytelling and lazy parenting is that you quickly neuter the meaning of the word "epitome". It's sort of like how some people say everything is "awesome" - if everything was described as being awesome then what would you call something that was -really- awesome.

The irony in this case is that there are some truly legitimate examples of lazy storytelling and lazy parenting in this TV show. But when you try to gloss over the good parts pretending that it's ALL bad then I think you're doing a disservice to what makes the TV show worthwhile. Especially when you consider the comic book itself is far from being the epitome of great storytelling. In fact the more of the comic I manage to read the more I'm realizing it's got plenty of those failings of its own. Basically neither the TV show nor the comic are "that much better" than the other in these regards. They both ultimately have their own strengths and weaknesses and always will.

Even though I learned the lesson years ago of "getting badges while they are hot" sometimes you can't take advantage of that.

My main badger is currently lacking several MoKeyes badges simply because when the Keyes trial first went live I was serving aboard a Navy ship as a government contractor. There was literally no way I could play the game for several months during that timeframe because I had no access to the Internet (or at least not the kind of access that would have allowed me to play a MMO while at sea). This basically means that since the few dozen people who would care about getting those badges already have them it's proven fairly difficult to organize any kind of a group that wants to bother with them now.

I'll probably eventually get them, especially once the next wave of Incarnate powers are released which'll make that trial even easier, but for the moment it's relatively frustrating. I don't mind hard badges but it sucks to have to rely on like a dozen or more other people wanting to work on them too. Oh well...

I think some are still missing the point with the "Carl takes the tools from the corpse" scene. I still contend (like I mentioned several weeks ago) that it was an obvious homage to the "Conan taking the Atlantan sword from Crom" scene. If you watch this video I linked to from the Conan movie I'd focus in on the last 2 minutes of it and compare it to the way Carl takes the tools from the truck-corpse. They're similar right down to the body shifting after the item in question is taken.

Now of course this scene was a bit hamfistedly translated to the Walking Dead, but it's unmistakable that it's a point in Carl's character development where we see that he's willing to face his fears and take what he wants from this messed up ZA world. Sure if you were to apply current non-ZA hyper-anal parenting to this scene then yes you could ask "why the hell would Rick and Lori let Carl wander off like that in the first place?" But honestly as silly as a lot of the writting for this show has been this was hardly the worst "doesn't make any sense" moment and it served the purpose of giving Carl a nice character building moment.

Eh, I still know people who accidentally got Passport years ago when they never transferred to any other server much less the EU servers. They just logged in one day and had it. The real irony is that most of those people are -not- badge collectors and couldn't care less about it. I even had one of them tell me they'd give me theirs if they could.

For that reason alone I consider Passport an "oddball" that doesn't technically exist (or at least shouldn't count on the major tracking sites) because I almost think more people have it by accident rather than on purpose. That's one bug I wish I got hit with at any rate.

Sure they can serve as an in-game features to help people RP their characters. I really don't have a problem with that.

I'm just saying from a metagame "what the Day Jobs give us in terms of benefits" point of view you usually only really get the most out of them if you let the offline time build up on a given Day Job. This means people who tend to cycle though multiple alts every few days or so will get the most continual benefit from alt to alt. Nothing really wrong with that either.

I was mostly just trying to explain to the OP what the situation was and why the Day Job benefit wasn't really helping the way he/she was trying to use it.

Eh, I'm sure some people really like them for the bonuses they provide.
I just look at them as off-line badges that are secondarily related to semi-pointless in-game effects I barely care about.

Well the difference between Mortimer Kal and the original Posi is a least 6 or 7 years between when they were made. Same could be said for the Sister Psyche TF so clearly the newer ones have many improvements.

But the self-res power of the Freakshow is just a quality that actually makes them a little bit challenging. I wouldn't consider it a specific "failure" of the Sister Psyche TF just because there's a bunch of Freakshow in it.

Sure but you can't really use most of them like the OP wants to. You get so relatively little credit day-to-day that you really have to rack up multiple days of off-line real time to get significant benefits. That was my point.

I realize many people hate the idea of yet -another- currency and to be honest I'm hoping that doesn't happen either.

But there are people out there right now sitting on hundreds (if not thousands) of astral and empyrean merits already. If the Devs based the next batch of Incarnate powers on the same types of merits/XP we have now then there will be people who'll be able to unlock everything almost instantaneously and it's fairly clear the Devs have never wanted us being able to do that kind of thing. That's the whole reason they dreamt up things like Threads and Prestige as "replacements" for Shards and Influence.

My guess (like DumpleBerry said) is that we'll get something new to prevent the people who've been hording from insta-unlock everything. Not sure exactly what that form of control will be, but it's pretty safe to assume there will be one.

The really bad thing about the original Positron TF was that for most new players that was the first taste of what a Task Force was like. It was sadly ironic that one of the arguably worst TFs the game has ever had was the -first- one you were likely to try. I knew players who outright refused to try any of the later Sig TFs because they had such a horrible experience on their first Posi. It was not a good way for the game to sell the concept at all.

So yes I fully agree that the other original TFs are long overdue for a revamp. The difference between the old Posi and the new version was impressive and I think the others could greatly benefit from the same kind of treatment.