Snow Globe

I understand:
It is easier than to try to keep track of the plaques with pen & paper.

Actually, base raiding wasn't that great. It was easy to spawn-camp the enemy, the developers made (wrong) assumptions as to how many people were in groups of 24+ people, raid pathing sucked, and the whole thing was a huge mess.

The central issue was the assumption that the larger (24+ people) groups far outnumber the smaller groups. This assumption somehow persisted with the developers until around Issue 13. It might still exist with the developers, but I think that is wishful thinking.

Well you could have clicked on a plaque, logged out and came back to having a "tick" of the appropriate badge meter. Easy enough to check.

Since at least Issue 13 (Dec 2, 2008), I believe.

Yeah, they went out of the way to make it clear. However if you looked at the history tab with unfinished badges, it would have been obvious.

Note that the above still doesn't apply to gladiators, the red-headed stepchild of the badge system.

There was a recent nVidia patch that ran the risk of overheating the graphics cards.

Link to thread.

Yes.

I have no idea what gave you that idea. It flies in the face of evidence of the badge progress meters.

This is the current solution. Personally, I do one of two things: either get all the explore plaques for a specific badge in one session or just grab all the explore plaques in a zone during one session (ie. all the Atlas Park, Galaxy City, Kings Row, etc).

This, indeed, will enable the advanced editor.

Thankfully I found a version of Avatar that wasn't in 3D. Guess what? I not only enjoyed it, but I didn't suffer a headache or get fleeced another $3-$8 (depending on the theatre). The last movies I watched in 3D were "Up!" and "Monsters Vs Aliens". I didn't see the point to spending that kind of money again. Especially since I've worn prescription glasses for the last 27 years. Not one of the glasses option is comfortable over them, and I end up with a massive headache by the end of the movie due to the glasses constantly shifting.

I can't agree with you more on this subject.

Yes, but with the title & poster name all the threads above that still exist (some don't) can be searched for. I'm working on a version 2, but RL seems to be more distracting.

Grats and how much longer till you have all your characters that existed before Issue 13 with all the day job badges?

Same rules apply to the hero respec trials, by the way.

You can get merits for all the respec trials no matter what, subject to diminishing returns.

You can claim 1 respec from the trial after level 24, an additional respec after level 34, and a final respec from the trials after 44.

Note that they are not the same type of arms that the original poster means:

At any rate the arachnids are NPC-only, there are also wolf spider bosses, and I doubt that anyone would consider Lord Recluse as a player character. As to the VEAT spiders, that is a weapon backpack, thus they are extending from that. Just like Dr. Octopus' "legs". They are not like Goro from "Mortal Kombat":



What I'm saying is that the skeletons that CoH players are based on is the "standard" humanoid. Requesting player models that break that standard is unlikely to ever be fruitful.

They didn't have to shut off XP (though that would certainly account for it), other things like stealthing missions, level pacts (I've done this with another account to slow, but not stop levelling of one character), or just keeping oneself in perma-debt (either deliberately or by play style). Even without running flashbacks you can get a sizable amount of reward merits.

In the 1-15 mission range you can get 39 merits from the Hollows, 4 merits from the 2 badge missions (2 each), 21 from The Vahzilok Pollutant Plot, and 14 from Bonefire. 78 merits. The missions don't even have to give xp for defeats, so get the 2 regular arcs + Talshak before running Positron for 66 merits. If the xp has been slowed/stopped, you can add 13 more for clockwork captive. If a Warshade or Peacebringer, even more can be achieved.

In the 16-19 range: 17 Tsoo Shenanigans, 11 for the first couple Faultline arcs, 14 from The Mind of a King. 42 reward merits. +58 for Synapse. An additional 13 from the Vahzilok arc and badge mission.

Without the additional arcs available, that 244 merits by the low 20s.

I think that without a huge amount of effort, it is entirely possible to get 600 merits before level 30 without completely shutting down XP.

Sad, isn't it? Especially since there are plenty of hero arcs under 25 with 18-35 merits each.

You have completely ignored the fact you can get reward merits for completing story arcs, in addition to task forces and trials.

"They Live" came out in 1988, well before Duke Nukem. Though the radio host that DN stole all the quotes from might have used it before then. DN also took a lot of quotes from Bruce Campbell.

Yes, this game goes out of its way to make you aware of what happens in a PVP zone: Contacts outside the zone, missions to said contacts, the PVP-free timer, drones around the bases, etc.

I'm luckier than most it seems. However even I've found some bad teams.

I tried to grab you, but you went AFK. I got the badge, with @Sayaki, @Elimist, @Azile, @Mintmiki, @Leo Yo-sha, @Maya Redhand, and @Cold Pizza.

I'm willing to run again to help you out. I could bring another character to get the badge.

Yeah, I know. However I've had some players ignore that warning, especially the second mission.