PuceNonagon

It came up... I don't remember the response.

Fo' sho. I can't wait to run a ton of Apexs this week. What a great TF, and now with spectacular WST rewards. Sign me up.

This.

I have no 50s with very rares, because I used the Sister Psyche WST week to get all my lowbies some progress toward the TFC and catch up the few toons that were behind from the weeks before. By the end of this Apex week, I should have 9 toons with very rare, and other one with enough Notices but not enough shards because I only recently unlocked alpha on him.

Running fast may not drop as many shards (but I don't think the difference is as extreme as people are making it out to be. Hell, last night on a 23-minute ITF, one of us got 7 shards!), but I have three of just about every component on all my active 50s. I rarely have to craft anything out of shards. And I don't do this out of planning out what each toon needs. I just run it ALL, quickly, and I end up with what I need when I need it.

Run slow if you want to go slow, but saying that there is no reason to run quickly is missing the point.

So.... if I feel the same way about, say, the Sister Psyche TF, that it's "endlessly repetitive" and that it's "cool to skip a bit here and shorten something there" does that make me "dumb"?

Or do I have to evaluate each TF exactly as you do to avoid being considered "dumb"?

This is totally crazy. Merms has only 4 cats.

Yes, but what if Marvel Studios paid you $100 every time you finished the movie? Would you watch it faster the next time, skipping parts so that you could get to the end more quickly? Would you, at least, be more understanding why your fellow movie watchers would like to skip to the exciting parts and get to the $100?

I guess I can't speak for every server, but I'm on both of Justice's "main" global channels and I think that just about every single TF hail includes information that one can use to discern whether it's a speed run or a slow run. They use words like "non-speed," "kill-most," "shard run." I team often with Uberguy and, like he says, when we send out invites to fill our team, it always reads something like: "Fast ITF, one spot avail, pst" or "speedy LGTF, 1 spot, pst."

The only times you won't see that are on TFs that are not really speedable like the Posis, Citadel, Synapse, and the like.

Where did you find the "automatically renew" option? I just want to make sure I have no disruption in servcie.

Yeah. We are definitely doing different Speed Runs. A regular Speed Run of LGTF takes about 25 minutes, about 3 minutes of which I'm waiting around if I have a toon that can't make the runs on the first and last missions. I get about two shards per run, on average.

So, "LGTF Speed Run" to me means about 30 minutes (including time to form), 37 merits, two shards, a Hero 1 DNA component.

I can understand why you don't like speed runs if that is all you are getting for your time. However, many of us "speeders" are getting a lot more than that.

We always joke about the Dr. Q, but truth is with a 244 merit/Notice/shards reward schedule, a team of level-shifted toons may be able to make it a very attractive and efficacious use of time.

You are not alone, but keep this in mind: You have been playing this game for just over six months. Many of us have played just over six years. I don't hate kill-most TFs, especially if I'm leveling a toon or scraping for shards, but just how many times do you think you could run the LGTF the long way and not get bored? After a while, you just want the rewards and get the damn thing over with.

Speed TFs make it more fun for people who have experienced the content over and over and the only way to keep it fresh is to try and get a good time. My guess if that if you are still playing this game in six years from now, you will much prefer the speed-run LGTF.

He has downloaded .NET 2.0. Whether its corrupt or not, I don't know, but things are working the same as before he downloaded it.

That's what I thought originally, but we tried that and it didn't work. I'm not sure about insufficient resources. You'd think that a computer that could run CoX shouldn't have any problem with Mid's. I'm at a loss.

It's the same whether he's running CoH or not. That screenshot does look like what he has described to me. He can usually only see the Power button, but there are spaces for the other buttons.

The buttons are there. He just can't see them. He can click on the blank area and get reaction. He's downloaded a dozen times trying to get it to work.