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Beat me to it. The pet powers are listed in the table underneath each of the summon powers, showing you what they do with each upgrade.

There hasn't been any XP in the tutorial (Outbreak/Breakout) since I've been playing, which was around the fall of 2007. I've run a little over 80 characters through those and it's always the same (except on double XP weekends ). A couple chunks as you complete missions, no XP for defeats, and you always get juuuust enough to hit level 2 when you complete it.

The toggles don't drop anymore, but I'm pretty sure they do suppress. Which means that while you're stunned, you'll be completely defenseless. Hope you have fast reflexes (and don't run out of BFs).

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A little more detail: You can do up to 5 tip missions within a 20 hour window. If you do all 5, then do 5 more the next day, you can get your morality mission on the second day. So it's a two day minimum to change alignments, but you can spread it out longer if you want. Just look at the tip window and see if all 5 icons are lit up to tell if you've hit the limit.

I'll say this, the drop rate on tips seems to be fairly high. Doing tip missions, if I fight my way through (i.e. don't stealth it), I've yet to complete the mission without getting at least 1 more tip. You can have up to 3 at a time, so chances are you won't have a shortage of tips.

No drop timer that I'm aware of. I know I've gotten 2 tips in the same mission, and may have even gotten them in quick succession.

There's no decay on loyalty points -- that's a cooldown timer. It's telling you that you have to wait at least 20 hours before any further tip missions will count for alignment points.

It's actually set up to reward casual play in short spurts, not punish it.

I usually hide from searches when I'm leading a team. I have to wonder if the "Send message to team leader" option in the right-click menu will bypass that

The beauty of it is, since Praetorians can't be members of supergroups anyway (something they need to fix IMO, but anyway), you're not missing out on any prestige or base access.

Awesomest costume piece in the game.

(it's an option for the Baron jacket from the magic pack)

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The Dragon jacket was in I17 but got pulled in a minor patch sometime after. My character who was using it still had it, but couldn't go to the tailor or it would disappear.

It looks like it's back in I18, however. Not sure if it's supposed to be locked to Magic+GR or not (or if they can even do multiple required unlocks like that). Either way, I'll finally be able to do my alternate costume for slot 2

/agree

Many people on low-pop servers tend to be quite social, at least within their groups / global channels.

The anti-social ones all run to Freedom where they can sit around and wait for others to do all the work for them.

And it looks like freedom has a login queue now, so if you're trying to transfer to/from there I'd expect it to take a while as well.

I really think at the very least, set IOs should be made to only drop on 5-level increments like the generics do. There's just way too many different levels with very little difference between them diluting the supply pool.

I agree that it's even worse with merits, since merit rolls always come at the max level, and since most people hoard merits while leveling, you don't see as many non-max level recipes out there as when you just got whatever dropped at the end of the TF.

I'm not sure if something like having a level slider for merit rolls would be enough, or if it would take something more drastic like your idea of having it be selectable while crafting (effectively eliminating levels from recipes altogether).

It's a little more annoying for CoP than a normal TF though, since you have to enter it from an SG base. vigilantes can't get into villain bases, so if it's a redside CoP you have to be either villain or rogue.

One interesting consequence, is that if somebody DOES find that worthwhile (say for one of the PvP procs that sell over the cap), or is just converting reward merits + inf to make LoTG and Miracle specials, that Inf goes to a vendor, not another player. It's GONE, out of the system.

I don't know if that will be enough to counter the currency inflation that's been happening, but I'm curious to see.

Currently existing characters can't get into Praetoria. The devs have said that this will change at some point, but we don't know exactly when. It's highly likely you'll be able to get those badges eventually, just not at launch.

I'm not sure how you're seeing graphics slowdown from the slow fields. If it's the bad in the base, surely it would be far worse in Independence Port or any of the Rogue Isles.

The only thing I can think of is perhaps you have many overlapping slow fields, but wouldn't the pre-I13 raid pathing rules have prohibited that arrangement in an actual raid?

Just making sure you're aware of the fight you'll have on your hands if some of the folks in the base building section notice this thread

I know I've seen the Stealth Suppression defense item used decoratively as a "disco light". I'll have to see if I can find anyone who currently is and what they had to do to avoid it shutting off.

Honestly some of those items are so buggy and have never worked right, that it's difficult to say what the intended behavior really is.

I'm not so certain that we can assume that slow fields are intended to be hidden. Certainly not as visible as a reflective surface, but the distortion effect from pre-I17 was subtle, but still visible to a keen eye. Since it's a "field" rather than a "trap", it makes perfect logical sense to me to be always on.

I still believe that the old "water effect" was intended and not a bug, as it only sort of looked like water. It was very slow moving, and distorted the area around it in much the way I would expect a time-and-space altering field to do.

I think it's quite likely that your second statement applies. The slow fields used the old "high quality water" shader introduced in issue 6, but modified a bit to look more like a gravity field -- slower moving and higher distorting. Probably when they added ultra-mode water they just did a global replace for anything using that shader, and fixed any individual issues as they arose. That would explain why the slow fields look so horrible now -- the parameters for them are scaled way up and were never designed to have reflections applied.

I also believe that to be the case simply because the devs haven't done any base-related work in a long time, so why would they bother doing it in I17 for an admittedly edge-case item?