Stars_and_Stripe

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Well, I would like to say that I appreciate you posting here and giving us some information. I have been watching this thread for a while now. I have to say the lack of response/ answers was quite disconcerting. So I want to thank you for bringing us some information.
My issue is a little different than most of the others here. My ticket was concerning the yearly badges and yearly rewards, not the monthly ones (which I seem to be getting on time.) When I sent in my tickets, they basically said they( support) couldn't fix it, it was an issue effecting everyone and the Development team had to fix it. So they said to watch the forums for an update(That was in November).

I know that you are parroting information, but this is the first information we have had in quite a while. Is there any update on the yearly badges and rewards? I will send in a new ticket today. Again thank you for bringing us some information.

Dink, you just won me over. I was expecting a statement along the lines of clipping being fixed, but this.... this is way better! You are the awesome!

My apologies to Poo Pirate, I somehow through some technical or user issue lost your screenshot. If you would like to post a screenie of your character,please feel free or if would like to email one to me to add to the current graphic, pm me.

The CC's are tonight starting at 10. Tonight will begin with a General unthemed CC and be followed by a formal wear themed CC. Good luck to all!

What side do you pick more than others?
Blue because even though some of red side looks neat. It's hard for me to get around. Even my villains are more "misunderstood" ie doing what they think is best, than being truly evil.

What play style do you prefer?
I love my scrappers, my blasters, my controllers and my dominators

What power set(s) do you favor?
That's tough... I like to feel like my powers are doing something. If I don't feel useful, I don't want to play. I like MA, SJ, and my Elec scrappers. I love my ill rad,my earth fire dom, and my plant kin. The thing that makes or breaks a character for me is if it all works together. The concept, costume, name and powers all have to come together .... or the character will not last long.

What zones do you like the most?
Founders is one of my favorite zones. Bricks and Cim, are on the list too. Praetorian zones look nice, but I don't spend enough time there to "like" them.

Do you usually play as a male or female (word of hatred) ''toon''?
female alts

Views on Role Playing?
I perfer light rp. I like my characters to have a concept and a story. I may be in character, but for the most part I do not rp.

Servers?
Virtue!

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I have been patient, I have been kind, I have put in nice little tickets, and I have accepted the "we are working on it" answer. I have continued to be patient. I should have received my 4 year badge in Sept, but as of yet I have not. But.... has anyone heard anything about a fix for the yearly badges and character slot yet? I'm not losing patience yet, just curious if there's been any word.

A few more hours to go.

One night; two contests!

We will start with a General CC, and follow that with the themed CC. The theme for the second contest is Blue and White, and the Grand prize for the themed one is increased to 150 mil. Grand Prize for the General CC is 100 mil.

Oh.... those...
I have been on those teams before. They are a fly by the seat of your pants tf. Live if you can, if you die, hope you can rez yourself.
I remember the first time i was invited on one. I was told, if you don't think you can make it, just stand by the door. I have been on a few since, but not many. It's not my cup of tea.
Its not that the TF is not challenging. Its that they have built their characters to take the challenge, and probably used some other buffs and empowerments, to make themselves .virtually unstoppable. Another note, they can only aggro 16 (that is aggro cap isn't it?) at a time. So once they have the attention of 16, the others ignore them until one of the ones aggroed ones dies or finds another target.

It is not necessary or wise to always do every tf as fast or as slow as possible. I like tfs to be an efficient use of my time. I want the reward in a reasonable amount of time, I want to feel that my character contributed to the completion of the tf, and mostly I want to have some fun while doing it. For some people fun is RPing along with the story line, for others its seeing if they can take the hit from the exploding nictus on their controller without dying, and a ton of things in between. Sometimes we run speed tfs, sometimes we run kill all tfs, sometimes master runs, sometimes its a all specified AT tf, and sometimes its a normal run. Normal for me is work as a team, stealth and ATT where its helpful.

I remember when the ITF first came out and we went on our very first run, slowly going through each mish, completing everything. Four hours later we finished. Was it fun, yes. Do I want to sit on a TF for 4 hours? No. yes that was a long time, but it was a first run.
As everyone became familiar with the TF, as the devs fixed and players worked around the horrible lag, mapserver disconnecting issues. and as powers in the game changed ( incarnates) the ITF had the potential of getting faster. Normal runs are much faster than that now.

The devs recognized the average time it takes to complete a TF and reward merits are based on that amount of time. (when they started reward merits) The ITF rewards less merits than other longer tfs. Being the WST, gives good incentive to do it quickly.
I don't run all my characters through the WSTs, but if i did that would be 14 50s and probably 8 more above 35. That would be a lot of time, especially if they took more than 2 hours a piece.


My suggestion is similar to some others here. Ask the team leader if its a speed run or not. If you aren't interested in a speed run, find one that isn't, or start your own. There are plenty of people after the drops and xp, etc.