Myrmydon

Originally Posted by Mighty

Maybe kidney stones. Dude's too old.

Originally Posted by Amygdala

Blasters was suggested to me last night... but I might open it up to Defenders, Corruptors and Dominators as well, since I'm currently lacking a Blaster on this server and I'd like to make it easy for people to be able to participate.

Originally Posted by CyberTaz

Originally Posted by Cobalt_Azurean

I'm pretty sure the primary reason you wanted to have'em replaced is because you had a bad experience with'em, and that mainly had to do with you not willin' to listen.

Originally Posted by GenderPoison

Pics or you lack nerd... or have a really elaborate excuse for not having a pic.

Originally Posted by WittyLibrarian

I had orders to post a Jedi picture here.

What am I missing?

Originally Posted by AgroVader

Alrighty then it seems that as a whole WE WANT hammi raids.
It also seems that people respect your lead and you have a following.
If you want to pass the torch we need to continue raiding and appoint new leaders for future raids.
The new leads need to have your support or the server wont follow.
If I started to broadcast that I was going to run a Raid will I have the outcome that you have had in calling for a raid. No, cause people dont know me as a raid leader. I dont even think they know my emp from the raids.
Champs server has been my home for my tenure in COH. All of you are my neighbors and friends. We are this community.
I wish that all this back and forth would end and we could get on with doin more raids.

Originally Posted by Marut

I think my favorite part was seeing the "PvP?" from AngelsFist in Arena... I felt like I'd just called in an airstrike on Sesame Street... Especially when the responding chat from ESK and VORI started flying. The horror... the horror...

Originally Posted by Marut

I hate to say it, but LS was also responsible for one of my favorite experiences in game. After much huffing and puffing about Daytime raiders and how evening raids not on his schedule were bad for the community, he swore that he’d grief every one of them. To the point where he vowed to cause a yellow dawn at one. However, when the time came to gather for the raid, there was less than a full team with him in the Hive… Not really a real threat, as far as griefing goes.

A couple mins into gathering, though, I got a tell from one of my SG members that there were a LOT of SFers in Warburg, gathering nukes it looked like. Odd, but considering how handy those could be, it wasn’t really concerning. Until, that is, I got two tells out of the blue from SF members, or more specifically, former SF members. Apparantly, LS had called out the SG to gather nukes for the purposes of nuking Hami during the hold phase, specifically to lag the raid out and cause a yellow dawn. They’d never liked the griefing behavior, but they liked the SF group, so they’d tolerated it. Having the SG turn out like that for the purposes of sabotaging a raid that wasn’t his was too much for them – they were out of there, and just wanted to give a heads up.

This was a problem – Bud and PON had turned out in force to provide manpower for the raid, and we had a strong veteran presence as well, but it’s hard to prevent a mechanical lagging of the zone. What do you do about that? Then I got a tell from the same SG member that told me about them being in Warburg, saying that he was taking out as many as he could with his Stalker, but there were just too many of them to stop them getting keys. Light bulb! Looking at who was online, I found Ping, and asked if he could help said Stalker out. Ping replied with something akin to “We’ll see what we can do”, grabbed a few others, departed Eden, and started whacking SF in Warburg.

Unfortunately, a little later, I was informed that it was just slowing them down, not stopping them. There were a LOT of SF in Warburg, and numbers added up; they were killing em left and right, but it actually looked like all that had done was call more SF into the zone to help. So, with about 10 mins to raid time, I put up a Hail Mary, and sent another SGmate to Test. Why Test? Because that was where our at the time almost universally hated coalitionmates were spending all their time.

A few minutes later, I remember seeing “PVP?” pop into Arena chat as a team of HVND loaded into Warburg and began swatting bumblebees with extreme prejudice. And of course, when they showed up, a whole bunch of ESK and VORI dropped whatever they were doing and piled into WB as well to fight them, with more SF collateral damage . I never had the pleasure of seeing it, but I’m told that the carnage in that zone that night was epic.The raid went off without a hitch. Despite LS’s best efforts to taunt Hami (no one steals UMann’s agro), there was no yellow dawn.

Next to the first successful raid on this server, this raid was my favorite. Not because it was a particularly amazing raid, or because of anything I'd done myself, but because it demonstrated just what this server community can do as a whole when differences get put aside. Everyone may have had different reasons for participating, but the end result was the same. It reminded me of the fact that Superman’s greatest power (according to him) isn’t super strength, or invulnerability. It’s his friends. And this community has those in spades No SG, no matter how willful or angry, can beat that.

-M

Originally Posted by Dread_Shinobi

Like... for example random player starts with the flag, opposing team kills the flag, whoever killed the flag becomes the flag, the other team must then kill that player to get the flag back, whoever has flag at the end of the match wins? if i understand that right....

Did you ever try this out? That sounds really /really/ fun.

Originally Posted by Marut

Need new puzzle. This one's broken.

Originally Posted by GenderPoison

Yes and she's 13. I have to get her some time with my artist friend Mike so he can teach her how to master her skills..

Originally Posted by Lascota

Well, I do like Invulnerability and War Mace in the Tanker set... I like Matt Wagner's Kevin Matchstick more than any other hero I can think of, but Batman is probably my favorite hero of all time, as a concept (not necessarily the execution-- although I love how he was written in Kingdom Come). I think the single best comic issue ever written may be The Elementals Vol. 2 Issue 15, a.k.a. The Conversation.

http://www.comicvine.com/elementals-...tion/37-32909/

Originally Posted by Smurphy

I've been away a few days. I do plan on taking Challenge and Provoke on my Emp/Sonic.

Originally Posted by CriticalKat

Skippy has to be added to that list. No "good leaders" list for hami raids is complete without him.