Placta

Happy birthday, Amily

Back in November I was going to start running Incarnate component TFs on Sundays, but real life intervened to make Sunday playtime erratic. Things have settled down for me now, so let's try again. To celebrate my blaster's impending rogue-to-hero turn, I thought I'd run the two SFs one last time (at least, last time before I get my mastermind to 50, which shouldn't be too much longer).

Also, BigMoneyHustla's making Master of... attempts at both SFs Tuesday evening. Here's the thread for details.

Lord Recluse Strike Force - Sunday, Jan 23 at 3 PM EST
8 characters, level 45+
1. @Placta - blaster
2. @BigMoneyHustla - Ice/Fire Blaster
3. @nightchick - Fire/Kin Controller
4. Tamerlayne
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Barracuda Strike Force - Sunday, Jan 23 at 5 PM EST or 10 minutes after the LRSF
4-8 characters, level 45+
1. @Placta - blaster (if needed and someone else volunteers to lead, I can bring my mastermind)
2. @BigMoneyHustla - Ice/Fire Blaster
3. @nightchick - Fire/Kin Controller
4. Tamerlayne
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I'd like to join, but I won't get home from work until 9:30 Central (10:30 Eastern). If you can delay it until then, I'll be there. If not, I understand.

I don't need the badges, and after Sunday I won't have a 50 with access to redside for a little while, but if you need help and I'm around, I've got a 48 mastermind (almost there!) who can help out.

Also, I'm planning to run both SFs Sunday afternoon (one last time before my blaster goes back to being a hero; I'll be posting an announcement/sign-up thread soon) if you want a practice run.

Doing an AFK damage farm tonight on Champion, got plenty of notices about the Ghost Ship and Scrapyard, one about the Flyer, and a Rikti invasion, but no fire alarms or superadine raids.

I deleted a SG because no one was earning prestige.

Okay, it was a one-character SG and the decision was driven by practicality instead of true anger/frustration.

One of the nice things about solo SGs is if members start fighting, you've got bigger things to worry about than the SG.

Had some rough going early, but after getting some help from BMT, I'm pretty sure everyone who was around when we got Manti got all the badges they needed.

Congrats on the badges, and thanks to everyone who came out to help.

Black Scorpion's official list.

It's not on that list, but full villain status is required for Jail Bird because it can only be gained in the villain tutorial or through redside Ouro.

Also, getting badges for mission/arc completion without fully switching sides requires teaming with someone else who has the mission. If the badge requires you to be the mission holder, you can't even do that and will have to fully switch to get the badge. Badges I know to require you to be the mission holder:
* Efficiency Expert
* Bloodletter/Mirage/Spider's Kiss/The Stinger, plus the associated gladiator
* Usurper

I've sent a PM to everyone who's expressed interest; if I missed you, let me know and I'll forward it to you. And there's still plenty of room if you want to join.

Completing a villain morality mission today pushed my total from 1086 to 1112. Waiting until I had all the day jobs done before making the switch was worth it for that string of Gladiator Unlocked!/Badge Earned!/etc. messages.

Early next week I'm finally switching my main over to a villain for a little while. Before going back to being a hero, I'd like to try to get the badges for defeating the heroes in RV.

If you want these badges, want to work on the pillbox/heavy badges, and/or just want to help, let me know. (No time set yet; once I get a few signups I'll try to find a time that works for everyone.)

Placta - elec/elec blaster, also my first 50 and still my main.
Second character was Plactina - nin/ff mastermind, deleted and rerolled as the nin/ta who's my villain main, to the extent such exists.
I created eight more characters that first day, giving me one of each AT. I rerolled a couple, but otherwise still have them all; the heroes are all 50, the villains... well, one is level 14.

I had two or three abortive attempts at creating solo SGs in the early going. Then, after my main hit 50, I had enough incentive to take it seriously and made building a functional base one of my goals for the summer. I spent a lot of time in edit mode that summer; I remember swapping out teleport beacons a lot so I could get where I was going. Then they lowered base costs and suddenly that prestige that wasn't enough to buy anything was enough to buy everything I wanted. With enough left over to pay rent for the next few hundred years.

At this point, I occassionally think of leaving it to join a larger SG with actual people, but everything that led me to make a solo SG in the first place, plus the work I've put into said SG, keeps me from doing it. Besides...

From a clue in one of Crimson's missions:

"Oh, to have fallen to such a sorry state due to the incompetence of others! I must use your vulgar modern vernacular to properly compound insult upon indignity and state: This blows."

Running Vincent Ross's arc on my mastermind today, I didn't get the temp power for the last mission with the huge groups of Legacy Chain. Needless to say, I gave that up as "not likely to succeed without extreme frustration" and reset the mission. This time, I entered the mission without my henchmen and got the temp power, and the mission was considerably easier (a little long to be fighting enemies that don't really pose any threat to me, and I got to resummon henchmen a bunch because they didn't have the temp, but easy). Only thing I can figure regarding the first try is that one of my henchmen got the temp power instead of me.

Has anyone else experienced this?

The only two I know of are "An Unstable Trigger," (Hero/Vigilante 40-50) and "Recruitment Flyer" (Hero/Vigilante 20-29). I know both versions of the former let you fight Maelstrom, and I think both versions of the latter do as well but I wouldn't swear to that.

Thanks Amily for setting this up, and everyone else for two very easy Master badges.

Finally able to play on Sunday again, at least for this week. I'd like to join on my elec/elec blaster, with the caveat that I may have to leave between the SFs.