Memphis_Bill

XP bonus, no.

Something like a badge, sure.

The Vampyri have absolutely nothing to do with N-fragments, though. Nosferatu was toying with the idea of using them at one point, but decided against it. (IIRC, because of a fight with the PCs.) The vampyri are purely mad science.

War Wolves are (or were retconned to be) failed Galaxy troops. Those *are* listed as using N-fragments. That may need to be re-retconned as a "The war wolves started showing up before the Nictus were revealed...." bit.

I'm not sure what exactly to do with the Center. I don't want to get a three-way war going, and I can't see him just turning a blind eye to the Nictus "Make Earth a new Nictus homeworld" plan. It's a bit of a mess.

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There are lore issues with the Council and Column.

The biggest issue is Requiem, though it spills over into the War Wolves. we're talking specifically at the Nictus split. If the War Wolves are failed N-fragment implementations, the Fifth Column would get rid of them. If Requiem is "defeated" and telling the troops to "stay loyal, we'll be back," then running the Column again... or going back in time..

An issue that develops a good break here would be ideal. Essentially solidify Reichsman being THE head of the Column (he 'sort of' seems to be,) and make sure he's seen to defeat and cast out Requiem (and his "alien masters,") then purge his troops.

Requiem heads off to control the Council, deposing the Center, the Nictus become more visible in their manipulations. The 'bots get split between the two factions (cheap disposable soldiers, both factions would have been making them anyway, so, sure, keep them but change armament slightly.) The Galaxy soldiers grow more Nictus-like as you go up in levels. The Void Hunters get folded in to the Council officially. The Ascendants get new ranks, so some of the shielding tech gets spread out. The "full time" War Wolves are Council only, the ... I'm forgetting the name, but the transforming ones stay with the Column (either as Council spies or science experiments.) Countering these, the Vampyri stay with the Fifth Column.

Both sides keep a hate-on for Kheldians, the Council because they're Nictus-led, the Column because they're more of "those damn aliens."

One way or another, the plot-thread spaghetti needs untangling.

Yeah, that'd be useful (and it exists on a few other things - like multi-build or costume changes.)

The leader was a twit. One star him, note why, and laugh at him. I *have* seen this in the past - a little more frequently back before AE and the like. It was ridiculous then, it's ridiculous now.

And "There's no spawn camping, no line of people to get the one spawn you need to kill 100000 of for 10 something to drop."

Working, both days.

Oooh. Z, throwing himself to the wolves... Wouldn't have seen it had a friend not pointed this out.

Let's see. While I'm not typically arena or even one of the "hardcore" PVP folks (no PVP builds, etc,) I've still had fun at times.

- Very early on. Had my first Peacebringer running around Bloody Bay, grabbing shards. A Brute came up and attacked - got a good first stun in. Got out of that, healed, swapped to Dwarf to prevent further stuns. Brute's reaction: "Mommy...." We beat on each other for a while, me staying in Dwarf because he'd land stuns frequently enough that human form wasn't really an option (and we didn't have the "Dwarf as breakfree" yet.) Ended up as a draw - I'd get him down, he'd heal, he'd get me down, I'd heal. But it was still fun, overall.

- Same PB. Ended up in a (good natured) rivalry with a Stalker on Pinnacle named PeekABoo for a while. Regardless of what happened elsewhere in zone, if one of us was in when the other came in, instant fight.

- Same PB. Ended up eating 3 ASes and holding off a team of villains for a good few minutes. Finally killed (teleported myself away too late, heal wasn't up yet.)

- Same peacebringer chasing after a brute. Especially watching one of the Nova blasts chase them across the zone almost the entire way.

- Went into Siren's with my Fire/Kinetics Corruptor. PUGged at least two other corrs (don't recall now if our group was four Corrs or three and a Dom.) Held the zone for probably a good 20 minutes until heroside reinforcements showed up and we were just overwhelmed by numbers.

- Numerous Siren's battles going from one side of the zone to the other, multi-team. Typically on Pinnacle or Victory. General unspoken rule that if one side held the hospital/base for more than several minutes, we'd back off, let them regroup - just to get good fights as opposed to many-vs-1 or 2 slaughters going.

- My EnM/EnA brute had far too many good moments, between people insisting (after we had TP Foe protection put in) on trying to TP her for a good half hour straight, being called more than once "that (#*74# Stalker!" and hearing people get warned in broadcast about my stuns - not a PVP build (this was, IIRC, pre-dual-builds anyway,) but I did have it slotted in a few attacks. (This, of course, is generally pointless now.)

- Losing on said brute to... I think it was a pair of Mind/Kins. Just for the *insane* amount of mezzes they'd put out. They worked quite well together, too. I seem to recall a good three rows of just mez icons....

- MA/Regen stalker taking on a Stone tank while two Blasters watched (agreed to a duel, basically, because he kept mouthing off.) Yes, it took a while to kill the guy, but even the blasters were going "Look, just give up, she got you" to the tank. Took on the blasters later. It was a good series of fights, both wins and losses.

- Same stalker taking on an MA/Regen Scrapper. It was a draw after a good five minutes.

- Same stalker, RV. Just for being used to call out the other villains who were completely ignoring the heroes at the base by someone else. ("One of the worst combos for a PVP stalker and she's STILL here fighting, where are you?!")

- Numerous times on various characters pointing things out to others (AR blaster - lowbie - vs my Thugs MM, no AOEs, pointed out a few things that could help and how bodyguard worked. Or my Warshade teaching a newbie Mastermind how to use Bodyguard to not die so fast - long back and forth there. Or another MM of mine fighting AlienOne, spur of the moment, to help him figure out how to fight one - such as "get farther away from the pets and have a mez ready" - pre I13, of course.)

- Don't know that this can be necessarily called "PVP," but I enjoy hunting. Winter event? I'll find winter horde and, if the person's hidden, try to track them down. Or go into BB and try to pick up whoever's been activating the shards and hunt them down. Far more fun when they're on /hide too, so I don't have early intel on if it's friend or foe.

I tend to enjoy fighting "long odds," being a distraction (which a stalker certainly will do - tends to get attention away, for non-league types, from, say, the buffer keeping everyone else alive,) or fighting 2v1 (with me at the 1.) Not to mention running battles.

Non-COH PVP:

- APB. There was one parking garage structure that one group (which played together regularly) was holding - just trying to find a way TO it to attack was a challenge, as it was open around most sides (and they had high quality/highly modded weapons.) Still managed a (hard earned) kill. Watching their tactics was educational.

- Netmech/DOS. (Yeah, old.) Had a clan in the Registry (Black Sheep.) Give me a maze to fight in, and I'd take a 'mech loaded with ("low damage") machine guns and avoid the (open) center to gun down your 70 ton missileboat. Seemed to frustrate some of them. Also an early introduction to "Pick your weapons well." Nobody would use PPCs - huge damage, sure, but slow and highly visible (so easily avoided.) Useful things like missile lock tones came in handy.

- Another netmech moment - one map, Spire (2k straight up.) Took an elemental - person in power armor, really - versus a 100 ton somethingorother. Kills? (a) Run between their legs, let them shoot them off (win for me.) (b) Climb/jet to the top of the building and drop *straight* down. Yes, I died. So did they as I plunged through the 'mech's cockpit. Lots of damage.


Memorable in a negative way - Diablo and Diablo II. Homing arrows from off screen, "training" enemies to spawn points (so they weren't PVP flagged but you'd get insta-killed,) and just attitude of the people in general turned me off PVP for a while.

Annnnd... the final of Home Guard showed up, as well. 'tis Art-day.

Had another finish up (had to commission him after seeing what he did for a friend of mine's birthday) - separino on DA. Character's my sonic/sonic Defender, Harmonic Convergence

Epic = tied to a storyline. You've been around long enough to know that.