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What about sending the darn things back in time? The rockets have made their way into the distant past to hit Romulus from time to time.

Go to any map edge that doesn't lead to the rest of the city (far north/south on all overground maps, east of Nova Praetoria, west of Neutropolis). When you get closer to the edges you should see these huge gun-like objects and get a warning. Ignore the warning.

/optionset noxp 1

To turn it back on:
/optionset noxp 0

Or go to menu->options, in the general tab scroll down until you get to "earn xp" and you can toggle it there.

Sorry, I didn't intend for that to be anything other than a jest. I removed it.

I do disagree with this somewhat. The game doesn't give players the tools to "stay organized".

What selective reading. You only posted this:
You implied that this was "cake" at some point.

Care to say where you posted this? Not that I don't believe that you actually posted this account, but it wasn't in this thread.

I quoted you fully, and I quoted you again in this post. You seem to have said something somewhere else, but I wasn't commenting on anything other than your post in THIS thread.

Hmm. The last I seen on the subject was Castle saying that they couldn't replicate the AV shooting through the Only Affects Self shield. The only non-beta post he made on the subject was back in April.

I think the developers are fixing the wrong things:

These are the right things to fix.

The rockets do three things:

Biological Payload: Maxes most/all of the player's regen rate to survive the damage that the AV+combined spawns can dish out and increases damage output. (PBAoE, Ally +Regeneration, +Dam)

Chemical Payload: Floors the AV's defences so the nukes deal full damage. (Ranged AoE Foe -Res(All), -DEF)

Nuclear Payload: Deals a whole bunch of direct damage in a single burst and reduces the AV's End and Recovery. (Ranged AoE, Extreme DoT(Energy), Foe -End, -Recovery)

Note that these could be considered to be working as Intended, but not when the developer's pet is getting its butt whipped. I hate GMs that have tantrums that their "baby" was taken out too easily.

Absolutely positive. Castle posted that the AV's shields were "Only Affects Self". When a developer posts something like that, I tend to take his word. The only reason I'm not linking to that post is that it was in the Beta section. If you want confirmation, you can ask him yourself.

You forgot the insane regen rate that the AV has. Players have 45 seconds of "damage time" and while he is in the PFF hax he has a good chance to heal half his hit points even if the shields are brought down again quickly. The trial was never "cake", except for a tiny while in Beta. Most beta testers didn't get to see those 2-3 runs.

Current rewards (as of last week) were 10 merits or 6 merits plus a 7 day temp power. I don't know where you get the 20 merit reward from, but it isn't the case.

While !COX.FIX; DEV.TSK = FIX.COX

Can the AVs get their regen rates cut in half to compensate for this? I'd like to say more, but I think I'd be banned from posting for a while if I said what I wanted to about this.

If the Incarnate System remains the same for drops/rewards, then the CoP will award a specific piece of salvage for a successful completion of the trial:

Or you could save up four Incarnate Shards from drops. Personally, I'd just team a lot and get shards for any Penumbras I needed.

APPs came with Issue 18, and it isn't -all- pools.

See this page for who gets what:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Epic_Powerset_Proliferation

Yes, I have. At this point they've lost a developer on the site (SaintNicster), and are doing some catchup work. I'm not sure what is taking so long, but they might be untangling the "hero/villain" only badge lists.

Well one player tested it out in Beta: All you have to do is have one player in the group (sgmode or not) in the CoP instance when the timer runs out. This counts as an attempt for the badge. I didn't test it out personally due to the lack-luster reward.

I suspect when you failed that you left the instance and did other things while the timer expired.

I don't mind. And 1-on-1 I held my own against you.

But I really wished that the PVPers would have waited about 5 minutes. The badge group I was helping had nearly defeated Positron and Manticore/BABs would have been done quick. After that I would have been more than happy to stick around and PVP. However after being blindsided and losing the Hero badges for the group, I wasn't about to stick around and reward the PVPers by PVPing.

This brings the fact home again that if PVPers and Badgers want to co-exist in the PVP zones, there has to be a bit of compromise. Until both sides learn this PVP will remain dead.

If it helps any the players don't have to be in sgmode and up to 22 groups (the hosting group + (24-3 groups)) can get that one point of credit each. The runs don't have to be successful.

The result is the same though: a lame pvp base item and a supergroup badge.

Other than historical purposes does it really matter?

Actually Beef may very well be right. I was going by memory on the amount for that badge.