Pyber

Probably the most you could get for them in Inf is a couple million. Almost not worth the effort in my opinion. Maybe consider giving them to newbies interested in starting a VG as a starter base?

You won't need much prestige if you just want it for storage and crafting.

Summary of items:

2x2 Workshop (9 storage, 2 workshop, 1 empowerment) = 100k
Invention Crafting Table = 25k
IO Storage Bin = 95k (holds 100 crafted IO's)
Salvage Storage Bin = 15k (holds 25 salvage items)

If you plan on needing a Personal Storage Vault (100k, uses 5 Energy & 5 Control), you will need at least the Oversight Center (50k, 3x3, 1 workshop item, 1 storage item, Combo Unit) and a Combo Unit (25k, produces 125 Energy & 75 Control, only 1 per base) to provide Energy and Control.

All told, you'd be looking at around 600k prestige, depending on what you drop into the base. The total would be a little higher if you cram the rooms to their limits for storage items, but 600k is enough for the Oversight Center, Combo Unit, one 2x2 Workshop, Personal Storage Vault, Invention Crafting Table, and several storage items.

The total is obviously quite a bit lower if you don't need/want the Vault item.

Pepsi found a new pet, hehe.

O_O

Pepsi's secret is out!

It didn't, heh. We had only 9 or 10 people show up, in large part due to the number of TF's and SF's that were going at the time (at least six that I know of, probably more). With the winter event launching soon, and the christmas holidays coming up as well, any further attempts will probably have to wait until after New Years.

ooo...more shiny stuffs ^_^

It may be pretty much dead, but that doesn't mean it can't be revived somewhat. Most of the PvP vets have moved on, either to other servers or out of the game entirely, but there's still a small crop of new people and a couple of vets left.

CriticalKat, if you have no luck getting one of the more "senior" PvP'ers left on Guardian, I'd perhaps be willing to step up. Unlike some, I've got no interest in moving to another server for PvP, and I wouldn't mind trying to get some new people on Guardian into it. Drop me a line if you like.

Heard and witnessed!


o_o

Fair enough, hehe. Thankies!

Quick question if I may. What are the rules on multiple entries? For instance, would one person be allowed to enter both a Hero and a Villain or both a Male and a Female? I would understand if this could be considered unfair or so, but for those of us on the lower population servers it could help to bring a few more costumes to be judged. Thanks!

Personally, I'd say take everything. Anguishing Cry is a bit situational I'll admit, but its -Def debuff is quite useful in helping your pets kill faster. If you solo, I guess you could skip the rez, but even that's useful due to its self-buff when used.

Now can I haz free bacon?

o_o

Congrats on turning five!

I'll see about turning up to join the party provided I'm not working. If not, have a great evening!

Sorry for the late post, but I ought to thank everyone that came out Saturday evening to give the Hami a try. We had 36-40 people that came, so numbers were sufficient, but a few more couldn't have hurt, hehe. Due to horrendous lag issues suffered by many, the need for a few more taunters (3-4 more perhaps would have been very nice), and most particularly, a lack of solid explanation from me (sorry guys! ), we called it after the third attempt with the jello.

I would like to try this again the weekend of the 5-6th of December. This time before we start I'll do my best to outline everyone's roll and answer any questions i can. I'll be giving my Willpower Brute a respec between now and then to include a taunt, as I wasn't too comfortable on the Fire/Kin and to give us another taunter. If we don't get quite enough taunting Brutes to control aggro, and considering the turnout of MM's we had, I would like to try using some of the MM's to fill in as aggro magnets with their pets.

I hope I can get at least as good a turnout as this past weekend next time, and with a little luck and some better leadership from me hopefully we can squish Hami. It's possible elsewhere, so why not here!

I too had an issue with Amy's Ward on Saturday (Nov 21st) on my Defender while exemplared down from 50 to 9 or 10 (can't recall which, but was on "Break up the Clockwork and Skulls" mission via Ouroboros Hero-side). Mid-mission, I used up a charge of Amy's Ward, the summon effect went off, but it was a dud. Didn't want to waste another charge on the chance that it was buggy so it only occured once. Not sure if this is the same problem as you drogo, but this was the best recent thread to mention it in.

I neglected to bug it at the time but may as well mention it here in case this turns out to be a persistent issue or so that may need to be addressed.

Sucky Jets

If all goes well this evening, hopefully there will be future chances for you to get some Villain-flavored jello.

After a little superficial search-fu, I couldn't come up with the post from Sunstorm that turned up on the Base forum a while ago, but I recall him saying that for the foreseeable future there will be no changes coming to bases. We can always hope for new items, revamped design engine or raiding, but personally, I wouldn't count on anything new until after Going Rogue has hit full release.

Quick note before I head to the land of the Sandman. Thanks to the team that joined me on Monster Island this evening to collect up some EoE's. I've got a stash of 50+ now that I can draw from should they be needed this weekend or for future Raids.

And before Saturday, I'd like to get a solid idea of who will be leading each team. Ariel, I believe you volunteered to lead one, and I'd welcome that as I know you've participated in many of Wulfs raids (I know you've got your MoITF beforehand, but hopefully you'll be there!). I'll be picking up one of the Yellow Teams on my Fire/Kin, so that leaves three teams that I'd like solid leaders for (or four should there be a large enough turnout for a sixth team). So if anyone that's willing to take on this mantle and do their best to lead a team, drop me a line here or in-game.

Until Saturday then folks! Remember, 6pm PST/9pm EST

Thanks much Wulf

The extra details will be of great help, and hopefully some people will have a glance at this thread and read through your post to see where they fit in. The less people I have to explain to, the faster we can get down serving jello, heh.

As for EoE's, this evening I'm going to see about organizing a team to collect some extras in The Abyss to ensure that we have extras in case of shoddy drops while attempting to spawn Hami on Saturday, and of course for future use.

I know Guardian's rather low population of regular Villain players could affect the numbers we get, but I'm truly hopeful that we can get at least enough for the primary five teams. After seeing how many showed up to a last minute call for help during the aborted attempt several months ago (as Blood Beret mentioned earlier), I'm reasonably sure we should be able to get enough, especially with the advance notice this time around.

Grats Ulli!

*gives Ulli 50 cookies for each 50 of each AT*

So, now that I know when I'll have time this coming weekend I've settled on a time for the first Raid.

Saturday, Nov 21st @ 6pm PST / 9pm EST

This will allow for plenty of time before the Rikti Raid later that night, and will hopefully be early enough to catch as many people as possible. As for the strategy we'll be using, what I'd like to do is try something similar to what Wulf and TA do on Pinnacle, which is a somewhat altered version of his Hero-side Hami Raids. Should we be successful this weekend, the following Saturday I'd like to try the strategy that Southern linked me to. After that, we'll decide which is easier to accomplish and stick with it.

I haven't confirmed any of the details with Wulf on his strategy yet (I'll talk to him in the next couple days when I have more time), but from what I understand it is similar to how he runs the Hero-side Hami Raids. Wulf, if I'm wrong about whats below, please let me know.

- Taunting Brutes in place of Tankers
- Yellow team would be all other Brutes and Stalkers
- Blue team would consist of Corruptors and some Dominators
- Green team would consist of Dominators, MM's and any Corruptors not filling the Blue team.
- VEATs would be placed according to their powersets (ranged or melee)
- As with Hero-side, each team will need someone with TP Friend to pull corpses out of the jello when it pops
- MM's can be spread around a little depending on their Secondary. All I'd ask is that when Hami pops, the MM's leave their pets when they run since we don't need aggro-happy pets bringing Hami aggro back to the gather point.

The general idea will obviously be along the same lines as the Hero-side Raids, with the taunting Brutes going in first after buffing up, and then followed by each of the Mito teams. TP'ers leave the jello first before Hami pops, followed by as many as can survive the pop, breaking aggro before gathering again for the next stage.

I'll see what I can do to gather a small stockpile of EoE's in case we don't get many while killing the monsters to spawn Hami. There aren't many available on Villain-side, but I'll grab what I can during the week running up to Saturday, perhaps leading a couple of monster hunting teams to build up said stockpile.

As mentioned, I'll chat with Wulf about the finer points of running his Pinnacle Raids in the next couple days hopefully, and I hope to see as close to a full zone as possible in The Abyss on Saturday evening!

Okay, well by the looks of this thread and what inquiries I've fielded in game, I'd say its a good bet that at least a trial run should go ahead. I am aware of Turkey Day in the States coming up in the near future, so I'd like to aim for the weekend prior (21-22 Nov) and hopefully catch as many as possible for the Raid before people start heading out of town and such to visit family for the holiday.

I'll have one of the Level 50 mods place an announcement in the MotD closer to that weekend once a tentative time is set for the Raid. I rarely catch either of the Guardian Channel mods online (or at least not afk), so if someone has them on their friends list or so, please ask if they'd drop me a line so I can ask about possibly hijacking that channels MotD as well to get the word out as much as possible that way. I will of course also post the particulars here as well.

One last note, anyone that has prior experience leading Hami Raid teams (not necessarily the raid itself, but the teams that compose the Raid), I'd welcome them as team leaders for the Villain Raid. The more experienced hands we can get to help lead this thing, the better the chance for success in my opinion.

Before this becomes an unsurmountable wall of text, I'll stop here for now. Feel free to drop me a line here or in-game @pyber

Hehe...4 hours is a fast room for me as well. My biggest project (Stargate Command complete with Stargate) took over 20 hours of construction, and that's not even counting most of the detail work I've put in since designing the bare bones of the project, and its still not 100% done. Wish I could use the big CoT portal that spawns all those Behemoths for the Stargate though. Would look so much better than the ring of floor safes I currently have.