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So they are using a current movie (Prometheus) that directly references a modern movie (Alien) instead of a retro movie to promote the Retro Sci-Fi costume set...

Talk about a wasted opportunity, Black Pebble.

Yes.

Invader, or getting TF Commander then going villain side.

Thanks for continuing to work on this and at least letting us know.

Gee, me saying so before syrusbLiz didn't count as confirmation? I'm hurt.
Yes, I've 1st hand experience with this happening with both Lusca and the Paladin Construction. I've also been on a team that fully took out Lusca and I didn't get the badge as I wasn't close enough to get it. There is a distance factor (it isn't zone wide, especially not in IP), but I don't think I've ever tested the limit.

For Lusca you have to be near the head of when it dies. You don't even need to hit it.

For the Croatoa GMs, if they were damaged before your team arrived it is quite possible that someone else tried & failed OR, even more likely, that the damage they inflicted on each other was such that your team failed to reach the 10% threshold needed for the badge.

The way it works is that as they heal back damage taken the 10% figure goes higher. Basically, the 10% damage threshold is for both its maximum hit points and its recovered hit points. It can eventually get to the point where 10% of the GM's overall health exceeds its maximum hit points.

Example:
Let's say that Jack in Irons has a max of 16,555 HP (level 35 AV, so this isn't his normal HP max, but close enough for an example). Normally your group needs to do 10% of that or 1,655.5 HP. Except Eochai has been beating on him for a while and Jack has healed back all his wounds (quite likely as the GM regen is huge). If left alone long enough, the 10% threshold could reach 17,000 HP, which means if you just beat him to a pulp that you don't get the badge.

According to Hit Streak on UStream, it was Alien/Prometheus. That makes no sense whatsoever. Those are modern Sci-Fi (Alien was 1979, and near the start of the modern Sci-Fi movie area, Star Wars being the start).

Fantastic Voyage:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/...-fi-flicks/10/

"A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew."

This film clearly did the scene before Aliens did.

Okay, even I'm not this pessimistic. At a guess it will be sometime in the next few weeks, but no later than late July.

In case you missed it, there is an "Officially Unofficial" response further up this thread:

The reason why I asked is that I find it strange that this thread is an example of the following:

Spam - this is considered to be repetitive posting of the same topic or text or nonsensical posts that have no substance.

Usually, it is the exact same 3 posts every week.

Thread bumping (posts the sole purpose of which is to keep a thread at the top of a particular forum) is prohibited. To request increased visibility for a thread, please contact a forum moderator.

This is what is happening, and if you needed the increased visibility, then why aren't you contacting a forum moderator?

‘Thread necromancy,’ or ‘necro-posting’ is responding to a thread that has not been active (has had no posts) in at least 30 days. ‘Necro-posting’ is a form of thread ‘bumping’ and as such is prohibited. If you wish to discuss a considerably older topic, create a new post and link to the older discussion.

I can cite sever examples of this, including a gap from Dec 2011 to May 2012.

Other threads are getting locked over these rules and I'm trying to understand why this one isn't, especially with the recent update of the forum rules and the recent hard crackdown on thread necromancy.

And I had thought I'd got around that as well with the screen capture showing 6 active light wells, +3 level shifts (what the character normally runs around with, not the expected +9), and a red-conning Olympian Guard.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?p=4257013

Anyways, I'm just glad it will be fixed.

I've been missing my 7 year vet badge since February.

This likely won't make me any friends with the web staff, but...

Okay, how about this... Does this thread really need to be bumped 3-4 times a week posting the exact same information? Wouldn't it be better to ask the mods to sticky the thread to the top of the section and post the schedule/information once?

I've got 50% Common, 30% Uncommon, 20% Rare, 0% Very Rare from the Magisterium reward tables.

Given that Arcanaville & I tend to have vastly different interpretations of posts, yet we both came to the same conclusions as to what your post stated might mean that you should look at what you said and how you said it.

Given that quote was in direct response to my post quoting Arbiter Hawk saying the entire league was supposed to be getting the buff:
I'm having a hard time interpreting Zombie_Man's quote in the same way you are because of the chain of posts.

Which is why I took Arbiter Hawk's statement as authoritative, and not speculated that 16 targets was possibly WAI.

To be honest there are so many effects, my graphics settings are less than max, and there seems to be a distance limit to the messages that I seem to have missed those warnings. Also, I did look in the trial help for the information as well.

Thank you for the information as to what each does.

If it were working as intended, I doubt that there would be as many trials failed. I agree, they got the upper end right (hardcore or otherwise non-casual players). However that is a far cry from the stated "Goldilocks" intention of being accessible for both hardcore & casual gamers alike.

Again, the problem isn't the hardcore or non-casual groups completing the trials. The problem exists for the casual groups. I think it is time to stop treating casual players so casually.

Funny... What you "called" was that it was possibly working as intended and that Arbiter Hawk may have been mistaken.
In fact, you were saying that it might not be an error that the buff was only affecting 16 entities, not that it was an error that needed to be corrected.

First of all, thank you for clearing up some mis-information. Also thank you for the upcoming fix of #2.

Question: Why the secrecy of what buffs Shadow Hunter, Nega-Pendragon, and Chimera give the others when defeated. So far I've only seen one official statement as to what Shadow Hunter does when defeated:

Additional Question: Is it working as intended that Black Swan will not only remove level shifts, but also additional levels?

During the Black Swan encounter it is variable as to what happens to the player, no matter what distance the player is in relation to her or if there is intervening cover (line of sight blocked):

• "no effect": A player at +3 (all level shifts) staying at +3.
• "stated effect": A player at +3 (all level shifts) being reduced to +0.
• "double effect": A player at +3 (all level shifts) being reduced to -3.

Final Question for now: Should I be getting the following reward table percentages? 50% Common, 30% Uncommon, and 20% Rare, 0% Very Rare. I ask because that is what I've gotten so far (barring failed runs).

That doesn't change the fact that at the very least one mechanic is not working as stated by the developers.

I'll take "Fantastic Voyage" for 500, Andy.

No, you really want to update the status of your petition before 72 hours. Even if you need to just say "this is still a problem" as the system has a nasty tendency of automatically closing petitions after 72 hours (which is kind of stupid).

I have only gotten 2 rares from the Magisterium trial in all the successful trial runs I've had so far (see above table). No Very Rares.