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I considered that. I'm not thinking the items themselves are "marked" but that one way it could award the badge would be:

1) Did you get all 10 items of type X from the sabotage phase? If yes, go to 2. If no, go to 3.
2) Count number of items of type X on the league after the Marauder fight; If 10 or more than 10, award badge. If less than 10, go to 3.
3) Do not award badge.

If it's done this way it has good and bad implications. Good in that so long as the league held 10 of each after the fight they could use any they collect over 10. Bad in that if a person holding one was to DC at an inopportune time their temps would not be counted and you'd lose the badge. It would also have some serious implications for tactics to use on him (and be a possible reason for the badge failing if those who tried were unlucky enough to have a DC at the wrong point).

I was on one of the trials the OP is talking about.

I have had at least a half dozen instances of the same thing happening on the BaF and Lambda (so it's not confined to just one of them).

Whathappens is, at some point in the trial (it has varied for me from incident to incident, including almost instantly happening as soon as everyone got inside the instance), the screen will switch to the "logo" screen used during loading, the next zone will load and you're back in the zone you originally left from to enter the trial. The chat window will inform you that you quit your team along with a long list of others who also quit. If you open the LFG window, it will give you the option to rejoin or abandon, clicking rejoin does nothing but clear the trial from you.

One is in Crey's Folly, a hunt of 25 Crey I believe, the other is in any zone. So yes, IF there's an event in Crey's Folly it can delay you and if you get stunningly unlucky, several events in the proper zones could effect the other.

Actually, I wrote a MA mission set that would fill the "classic hero cliche" requirements.

It's called "It Had To Happen Sooner or Later" (Arc #1246)

Yeah, it's a plug, but that mission is so mindbendingly crazy of an idea to write I had to.

And yes, the master landed his TARDIS where the Doc was landing his and the Doc's materalized around the Master's (which was disguised as a Police box) In Logopolis. So there's the "TARDIS in the TARDIS" ref for the original series. The effect, while disorienting, doesn't cause much "ohh no we're in it deep now" distress and The Master easily disentangles the two without difficulty.

If you have a Musculature boost, you can equip it in the alpha slot. When it comes time to make the new boost requiring the one you have slotted, it will automaticaly unequip it and use it to make the new boost.

In other words, equip that musculature bost and then no one will say a word to you about running the Apex TF. When you finish the Apex, you will get 2 more shards and a Notice of the Well.

There is a constant field in Oro that acts like an attack for the purposes of Alpha enhancers. leave Oro wait a few minutes, and you can slot it.

Gotta admit though, it would be funny if they added an Accolade Badge for getting them all (Red and Blue) called "How Do I Play Again?" maybe give it an "emote power" where your charactrer just stands around looking a bit confused.

I just want to say I really appreciate this response. A number of things went wrong with the Giveaway, some predictable, some not.

Twitter spazzed out for some and didn't post the image comment for 3 hours, the forums had to be offlined and there just wasn't the manpower or codes to go into all the instances of the D that existed. Facebook was the only one that seemed to actually go off without a hitch.

It is nice to see a fairly rapid response from the powers that be on the matter and a statement they will try to "do better" next time.

Speaking directly to the Live Server events, those things are always a a large "problem" since instances grow fast when a redname of any sort is going to be there, much less giving something with value away. I remember one of the earliest Live Server Dev visits. On Virtue 5 or 6 Pocket Ds sprang up well before the event started and they grew to 10+ once the event time hit. The Devs never visited outside of "D Prime" and a lot of people were extremely disappointed no effort was made to visit all the instances. I know that one event soured some people on Live Events in general and Dev Events in particular (several friends refused to participate in the "Wedding Event" on test because of that one incident). While not as crazy on the numbers this time, this event has a similar feel to that one, loads of instances, only a few visited and given preference in the giveaway of an extremely limited number of vauled items has made some people feel utterly devoid of any joy in the event.

That needed to be addressed, and seeing it get a fairly rapid one does my heart good. It is too bad that some poeple who were disappointed in this won't see the comment because they rarely, if ever, visit the forums.

Much as I like the idea, gotta agree with this.

They've already sold the vast majority of these packs that they're ever going to sell and putting more resources into them outside of the minimum needed is a losing proposition. Unless there is a MASSIVE influx of new people (say, doubling the current population) and something like this was needed to draw attention to the old packs to sell them in numbers comparable to what has already been sold, this is a pipe dream.

That said, they may do a second set of these packs using ideas like these, so you may see them show up in the "Cyborg II Super-Booster" or even the "Travel Super-Booster." That has potential to make money for the resources put into them and are far more likely than any revisits/revamps on what they've already sold.

Okay, I HAVE to ask, did you actually post "they're up" to the forums BEFORE trying to get one?

Yeah, if you're not in in under 60 seconds, you're very likely not goign to get one unless they release two code sets back to back or fire off a "surprise code set" that no one is expecting (I got a corolax costume that way after several minutes delay when they posted a second set when no one was expecting it).

Good on ya. Regardless of if they plan to do anything about it, my curiosity is up as to what went wrong.

Just spitballing here, but it appears the Twitter one was screwed up all sorts of ways for a lot of people. As I said earlier, it just showed after a 3 HOUR delay, so a lot of people who were waiting for it never even had a chance at it.

I really hope a Community person makes some sort of comment on this, because soemthign went very wrong, especially since the (twitter part of the) giveaway is "ruined" for a number of us by that massive delay. If it didn't require split second "twitch typing" it wouldn't have been such a big deal.

Edit: My best bet, if you held a gun to my head and made me put money on it, is someone made a little error and marked it to their subscribers only and this thread alerted them to the problem, which they've corrected way too late.

Completely cleared history and temp files, still not showing. Shutdown the system and brought it up, not showing. Booted up my mom's system that has never even been near twitter (she's still a bit of a luddite), not showing.

That I can see, but the post does NOT show up in their straight feed. The last post on it is:


"Everyone is invited to a sneak peek of the first Incarnate Trial on the NA Beta Server, starting in 40 minutes! http://bit.ly/eVvsrG"

opening the linked page doesn't show the post. However, opening the URL for the image shows the image. Something is a bit hinky.

I don't see them on facebook either.