Master-Blade

I just checked my Villain Group and I do not show any progress on that third badge, despite running the TF recently. On the other hand, that toon is a Vigilante and couldn't have been in SG mode at the time anyway, so I'll run it this week on a Rogue to find out... unless somebody else already tried and chimes in with their results. Now I'm interested to find out too. lol

It might be mixed. I know for sure there are Malta ambushes. It's been a common tactic of mine to keep one of the Engineer's AutoTurrets alive to prevent more ambushes from coming.

Can you say with certainty that it took your team more than 3 minutes to deal with the "intermission"? If not, then you wouldn't necessarily have met the 15 minute requirement anyway.

I'm not going to pretend that I know how the game deals with it's timers, or how this specific timer works behind the scenes, or how much of a "waste" it would be one way or another. If somebody wanted to program it to work a certain way, they'd do what they had to do.

Fact is, you have your data sets, and we have ours. There is no point arguing that it works a specific way or not because there is apparently something broken about it. The only thing to figure out now is "what is it's specific intended mechanic?", and "what is causing it to not work that way for some people?".

For now, I have my opinion about it, and you have yours. I'm not trying trying to change anybody's opinion. I'm simply stating my experience in hopes that it eventually leads to the "problem" being resolved, either by the mechanic being specifically explained to us completely, and/or by it being fixed and explaining why we're having mixed results right now.

I'm certain many of us came to that conclusion a while ago. The only verification we really need at this point is whether or not the Devs have it on their list of things to fix. It seems a few of us have already sent reports in about it in the past, but nothing has apparently been done yet. As you have noticed, it does cause a bit of confusion.

I'm sure you already saw this, but Ill quote myself from the other thread for the benefit of other the people who don't feel like sifting though the other discussion...

Like I said before, you shouldn't have to burn through claimed Vetspecs. In my experience, those are redeemed last.

Were you a Villain or Rogue? I don't think it would work if you were still Vigilante.

Besides that, we mentioned the badge text changes when you use your respec. What does the badge text on your current badges say?

To put this into perspective..
- I actually play my main badge toons regardless if I'm waiting on a dayjob badge or not. I just make sure to log off in the correct locations.
- I had all the day jobs before side switching started (as did many other people, so that creates an even playing field for this comparison).
- Some people have finished the 6 "new" dayjobs already, but my main character still has 325 hours to go (13½ days).

13 days is a long time to be behind, and that's if I don't actually play that character for the next two weeks. That is unlikely. Even if I play that toon for only 2 hours a day, that will set him back another full day or so... but I usually run TFs and Raids that will probably put him online much longer than that.

I'm not saying I'm upset about it taking longer or anything. I'm simply adding data to the argument.

Didn't you know? The servers have already been merged. (Well, their resources anyway.) lol

What if I use a gun instead of a punch? lol j.k

That'll be pretty useful for future testing though, (and to buff up the team before the fight in a more organized way). It does kinda make sense too... It counts only the time it actually takes you to defeat her (from first loss of HP.. to the "last").

But the way people commonly rush her as soon as they can, I doubt it significantly changes the numbers people have already reported. If the Devs thought ahead and decided not to count the time she is spawned and waiting for the fight to begin, it's possible they wouldn't count the time she disappears too. (You can't defeat her if she isn't there.) haha

For now, I'm going to stick with what I said before. The timer may start when she is first hit, and end when she dies, but I believe it is part of BM's "state" that is on pause while she is not on the map.

There isn't really a precise pattern there, but it does seem we are "due" for one.

Not for nothing, but the dots are not necessarily an indication of population. They are an indication of server load. The new location the servers were moved to in July 2010 seem to be a bit more unstable than the old ones and have shown a relatively higher load since the change (even on the lowest population servers)... so it's not really a clear comparison.

Once you initialize it, you wont have to manually run it again (except to initialize it on other characters). Each time you press the key it will load the appropriate files, even after you relog, close the client, or whatever. Just make sure you keep the files there and transfer them to any other computer you may use to play the game, or the rotation will stop working.

Except I've seen several accounts of people getting the badge after 20 minutes or so as well, and the only way to account for that is that the time she is not on the map does not count. Considering she doesn't seem to regen or anything while she is gone, it seems that her "state" is simply saved until she returns. It's not far fetched to think that the timer is part of that.

I've ran this several times myself and kept track of the timer that way, and in all cases so far, it seemed to have been an accurate measure. I don't know for sure if I've gone over the 15 minutes total and still earned the badge because I didn't measure it, but in at least one case it took us about 13 minutes of time she was on the map and were still awarded the badge. With that team, I'm pretty sure she was gone for more than just 120s... but I really can't say for sure.

I guess more testing is still necessary... but Paragon Wiki already says "Timer only counts while she is on the map", so that's what I've gone by.

Agreed. Though he may be harder than before, it's still possible to kill each clone before he fully regenerates, and repeat until he is eventually dead. I'll agree that not all toons will be able to accomplish this, but like Tyranny_NA said, that's what teams are for. If you want to do everything solo, then you should already be on a toon that can actually solo... so there should be no problem.

Yes. Mostly power leveling, influence, or prestige farming.

That's because before i12, most of the old RMT spam came the way of Tells and broadcast chat instead.

Not only did i9 bring about the market and invention system, but the influence trade cap was raised, which may or may not have made such RMT transactions faster and easier and caused more "companies" to get involved.

Either way, I've certainly seen spam in one way or another since I started playing in 2006 (Issue 7).

For clarification, you can still pull him into the corridor.. but that extra range and/or lack of LoS no longer has any effect on his increased regeneration because the range on his Bifurcations was increased.

You can use it on characters that don't use CJ or Hover as well. Simply substitute in "powexectoggleoff Ninja Run" instead of the CJ activation in File2. Then it just becomes a toggle key for your "NR/Sprint mode" and still gets rid of the need for the separate reset key (G).

On a side note, I'm sure you realize that you can use any file names you want. If you have more than one thing that requires rotating bind files, then the file#.txt format might not necessarily be the best for you. I'd probably rename them SprintNR#.txt or something instead, unless you put each of your rotating bind sets in separate folders. That actually sounds better to keep them organized anyway. The new path examples would look like this:
C:\binds\SprintNR\file0.txt
C:\binds\SprintNR\file1.txt
C:\binds\SprintNR\file2.txt

Each file would have to be modified appropriately of course.

I hope you get it working the way you want it. If you've got any other projects for me to work on, feel free to ask. I love doing this stuff.