Ms. Mesmer

The funny part is that the Mirror Spock, the one who had the goatee, really wasn't evil. He was still logical, not motivated by ambition to kill his superior and usurp his position, and was receptive to "standard" Kirk's reasoning when Kirk attempted to persuade him to work for change.

No AVs, and Freakshow as opponents? I can bring another Tanker and not feel bad.

Add Sentinel to the list of words that are still forbidden. I can see why Sentinel by itself would be forbidden, but as a part of a multi-word name, it's ridiculous. I assure you that my Azure Sentinel is not in any way a giant mutant-hunting robot.

So, I went and got purposely held by a Master Illusionist on my Sonic/Energy Blaster and the first 2 ranged attacks worked fine. I wasn't close enough when held to use the Tier 1 Secondary.

I did much the same. Taking my badge total, everything a hero should be able to get minus Passport, and added Passport to get the the total possible, then went through the various pages on Badge-hunter subtracting villain and alignment stuff, and ignoring the Praet-only Accomplishments, Achievements and Accolades, as well as Bug Hunter, Passport, Celebrant, and 8 Veteran badges. However, I think I forgot to carry over a total from one of those pages, as a second look gave me about 32 more to exclude.

I'd now put the total at approximately 998 for GATE-keeper.

A rough estimate of what my next-highest character, one who has never touched any Vigilante or other tip missions, could possibly obtain, who has those 8 Veteran badges, but doesn't have 2 CoH Anniversary badges or the CoV Anniversary badge that GATE-keeper could have, puts her total possible at about 1009 without touching the alignment system beyond Hero tips and Morality missions. It's close, I'd expect 1003, given the above estimate and qualifiers.

Rough estimate is 1030 total for you, removing things like Bug Hunter and Passport, as well as taking away the first Anniversary badge and at least 8 Veteran Rewards. I might have slipped and added in a couple of Mayhem side objective badges. Assumptions include that you never went even to Vigilante, or even did a single Vigilante tip, even with another player, and that your account hasn't lapsed since you first got it. It does include VIP, so you can subtract 1 for that if you don't have it. Confidence level is +/- 3 badges for the total.

Dick became Robin at 12, and Nightwing at 19. As far as I know, he was a college dropout, which was part of the reason for the estrangement from Bruce. That already takes away at least 7 of your estimated Batman years.

Edit: It's a fool's errand to try and nail down these times. Editorial and writing staff at DC don't even agree about a lot of them, and disregard established facts on a pretty regular basis. One of the people in charge of current continuity wrote a story a few years ago that stated, by the transitive property, that Crisis on Infinite Earths was within the last 5 years, for example.

Probably a simple design limitation. My guess is that the gold star goes to the leader of whichever team the first person to load in is on.

We had another failed run tonight, after a couple of really scarily-close calls on Escapees. This one wasn't so much a problem of tactics as it was of damage. It was just taking us forever to whittle down the AVs. This time they respawned because our collective DPS was lower than anyone was used to, it seems. and it was so low that we simply didn't have enough time to take them down again.

It depends, MISH. I joined a League that should have been able to handily beat the BAF last night, but it failed. A leader who wouldn't speak up, and when he did he had some ideas that weren't the greatest. People who seem to be afraid of some debt from the towers at level 50, for whatever reason, running around and dragging the AVs with them. We almost recovered but then dropped Siege down way too fast, so he died while Nightstar was still at 6%, so we missed getting her down in time, and he respawned. This was a normal run, no fancy Separated attempts, no specific instructions to go after Strong and Pretty, even. It was just disorganized at a level that I haven't seen in weeks.

Yes, that was the one that they premiered on Disney XD today.

What those publishing companies excel at is promotion. No writer is going to be able to self-promote at near the level that Random House is. If you want your book to be read, you need to get people to notice it among the myriad other books that come out every week.

For some media, you probably need a corporate backer to even afford to make the end product palatable. This is especially true for certain genres of movies and music. A low-budget indie film or album will work fine in certain genres, but only the major corporations have the kind of money necessary for effects-heavy movies, or for the more advanced recording studio technology, and trained personnel to operate it well, that a lot of Top 40 music requires.

I have that IO on my Controller, and get no error.

Don't look at me. I've never even attempted to lead a Separated run. I tend to like lower than full membership, and I find that that particular badge actually goes better with a full League.

It sounds like your leader didn't explain his strategy for Escapees well enough. I've been guilty of this. People are very used to door camping for that phase, while I prefer the Gauntlet method that Big has dubbed Zone D. I have forgotten to make this absolutely clear prior to starting one and came close to failing that phase as a result of the confusion. Door camping brings to mind the Trick or Treat part of Halloween too much, and having had to do that about 4 separate times on Ms. Mesmer and some other older alts, due to them adding new shinies to it over the years, I'm pretty-well sick of it.

Edit: And TsumijuZero snuck in while I was posting, so I have to give credit here to his (assumption) thread, where Ammon's Gauntlet strategy appeared, and thus spread to me, and onto Infinity for the first time.

All I know is that I'm going to have to take a break from trials at some point to go try and meet Damz.

I have this as well, and I'm an 84 month vet. the Character that I found it on has never switched sides.