Snarkhunter

Ahhh...interesting to know that...the ones that I saw, none reached the courtyard...lol

I can't say for certain that is related, but just the other day on Virtue server, I was flying around in northern Peregrine Island when I saw a line of Arachnos Fliers headed in towards the coast by Portal Court. There were at least 6 (I didn't go along the line to count how many for certain), they were able to be targeted & destroyed, and they did not fight back.

That makes me wonder if it was a bad coding that slipped in ahead of time, or just the Devs checking to see if anyone was paying attention. But as a possible "source of invasion troops" I think this is a good sign.

However I have to wonder...is the 3 hours on Virtue simply when to expect Mako himself, or is the entire invasion confined to just those 3 hours? I sure hope not!

Is there a list of badges available from this Event? I've got 10 so far, and I am wondering how many (if any) more of them there are. Very tough to be hunting badges if you have no real idea what you are hunting for....

Just under a month to go, and still no new info? Well, I'm subscribed til sometime in 2013 anyway, so I'm good....but it would still be nice to have some idea of what to expect/look for when we get our reward for patience.

Well, now that they've (at least temporarily, you never know with comics) killed off Sister Psyche, things are more up-in-the-air than ever....

You are right, I did not read your other post....you specifically mentioned Incarnate TP, so I assumed you were not having problems with normal TP....I'm afraid if customer service and whatever else has been said here in the Forum hasn't helped, I have no ideas at all.

Oooohh....if we are going to be getting an option for NON-pretinted costume bits for this set, that moves it from a "meh" to a "gotta have it" for me. I know what I'll be buying when I get home from work tonight!

Overall I like the look of B the most, so I will vote for that. Now that I've gotten this out of the way, I'd like to bring up a different point. I've only seen one other post mentioning it so far, so I'll put in my own comment about my thoughts....can we please, PLEASE, P L E A S E not have that stupid pre-tinting on whatever suit we end up with? It totally spoils the look on every costume option I have seen it on so far, and the thought of seeing yet another costume option ruined by it is not a pleasant one for me.

There are going to have to be a lot of writing changes made to the game if they kill off Statesman permanently...aside from the STF and the LRSF, Maria's arc, and Mender Ramiel's "talk to Statesman" mission for unlocking your Alpha Slot, I am sure there are other missions that mention him as well. For example, I remember a Tip Mission that involves you pretending to be Statesman in a "fight club"...that mission would have to disappear totally due to the fight's promoter saying "States is dead, you're a liar!"

Keep in mind that (as I understand it, anyway) when your current subscription ends and the new bonus one takes effect, THAT date is when your card will be charged. So just because you can afford it NOW, does not guarantee that you will have the money in the bank when it comes up for renewal. Personally I don't think I will have any problem with this when my Holiday Bonus Time comes up this next February, but it's something to think about.

I ran a MoM and a TPN both last night with a PUG, and after a shaky start to the TPN we were succesful both times...the key seems to be having a leader who can give clear directions, and assign players to specific roles....for example: making sure that only Single Target attacks, and no damage auras were used in the outside portion. He gave us a macro for targetting ONLY the Telepathists, which helped a lot for preventing dead civilians. While it was certainly an interesting Trial, having done it once I'm not likely to want to do it again, at least not on the same character...so far as I'm concerned the ONLY reason for doing it is to earn the badges.

I realize that this does not always work...but have you tried asking ingame on various badge channels? As soon as I logged into the game and started wondering about where the contact was, I saw no fewer than 5 people ask and get a response within 10 minutes time.

The first thing that comes to mind is the login security thing they recently started...do you have your cookies enabled on your home computer? If they are being cleared, that might cause the problem you are experiencing....especially if your ISP is one of those "random number generators" meant to stop tracking.

How does the launcher work for this? If I just open the launcher and go off to work, does it check for updates every now and then, or does it check ONLY when first opened?