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Originally Posted by KILLA_G

I was in Fort Trident last night for the first time. I had seen a mention about A-merits and wanted to check them out. So I think I understand how to acquire them. Basically by reaffirming my alignment as hero/villain through morality missions (which can be done doing tip missions for two days) I am rewarded with 1 A-merit.

I was looking at the price of some of the stuff and thought "cool I can get a LoTG +7.5 in 4 days". Its worth 2 merits. Or the random rolls, you get 5 recipes for 1 A-merit.

Then I looked at the PVP and Purples and thought OMFG 35 and 20 A-merits respectively. Seems like a huge grind to try to get those. Some were 35 A-merits for PVP and 20 A-merits for purples. Thats 40 days just for a purple, which can be cut down by upconverting 50 merits (from TF/SF) as well as doing morality missions.

So this is how I broke it down for myself;

week 1:
Mon-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Tue-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Wed-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Thur-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Fri-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Sat-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Sun-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit

Week 2
Mon-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Tue-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Wed-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Thur-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Fri-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits
Sat-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions---reward 1 A-merit
Sun-50 merits from TF;5 tip missions, 1 morality mish---reward 2 A-merits

In two weeks I will have 21 A-merits enough for the ONE purple. At a cost of 700 TF/SF merits and 280 million INF (from upconverting). IS THIS CORRECT?

I could probably buy that ONE purple from just the INF spent. This doesnt seem right. AM I MISSING SOMETHING or doing something wrong?

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

Given that I was voted as "Person most likely to go off the deep end and do a 'Falling Down'" by my friends I guess I'd have to be a Vigilante. Although chances are I'd use my powers against the terminally dim and annoying.

It's probably best if I'm kept away from Super Powers, unless they're exceptionally trivial and harmless : "The power to conjure small helpless animals but not control them in any way" for example should be fine.

"Eat Vole evil-doer... No, wait. Not that way you stupid mammal, this way, attack him..."

Originally Posted by QuietAmerican

Bah, that guy should thank Bruce Campbell.

Originally Posted by Granite Agent

cool thanks.

so basically 1 morality mission as hero/villain is worth about 50 regular merits, but you get 1 A-merit

1 morality mission as rogue/vigilante nets you 60 regular merits

Originally Posted by BlackArachnia

I liked Hardcase actually.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

I thought this was the whole explanation right here. Cole allows certain levels of in-fighting (a la Lord Recluse), and PPD hates Power Division.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

City of Villains has a lot of storylines where the arc ends "And because you are a blackhearted and despicable villain, you will walk this path of loneliness forever..."

As a blanket statement, everyone of those could do with a Going Rogue overhaul.

I want the options both to be convinced by Hardcase that my ways are sinful... as well as to look at Westin Phipps and say "Why are you holding back? Let me do show you how it's done."

Originally Posted by BlackArachnia

Kelly and Westin Phipps... I so wish we could kill those two contacts.

I like Becky the Tarantula though.

Originally Posted by Oneirohero

I was curious to know how population was counted in City of Heroes, thanks for the tip! At one point Virtue was the most populated, followed by Freedom and Protector was the least populated. And to my pleasant surprise, Victory was smack-dab in the middle!

Originally Posted by Catastrophe

From the wiki (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Nemesis_Staff), says it could be from Neal Kendrick or Tina Chung, 30-34, but definitely "Find out who's supplying the Freakshow with the new weapons" mission.

For some reason I'm skeptical about earning such temp powers via Ouroboros Flashbacks... but I can't find anything to confirm nor deny that.

Originally Posted by DevilYouKnow

Using my level capped 35 to run these should let me build an awesome second exemp build for my 50's. I think I will give that a try!

Originally Posted by LiquidX

...Don't you even JOKE about that, you son of a [censored]!

Originally Posted by Divus

However Praetoria takes things to a rather ludicrous extreme...but then again, people in Russia miss the Soviet Union.

I think in the end I'm "On Primal's Side." Get your damn dirty Praetorian fingers offa my Urth.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

Had the issue right now as I tried to put the game on and leave the updater up while I worked.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

His girlfriend Praetoria slept with the casting director.


I'm still trying to figure out why the maitre d's in the Pizza Huts in Vancouver don't wear pants.

Originally Posted by gec72

If anything, it's slowing down the leveling on my new characters as I feel like I "need" to get my 5 tips per night in on a 50...

Originally Posted by Peacemoon

Funny you say that Divus, because I started wondering about the possibility that Calvin Scott is actually working for Cole. Surely Cole knows you can never completely squash opposition, but you can effectively monitor it if you set up an outlet for it.

Also about what I said earlier, I meant that the Resistance only seem to see Loyalists as evil. I've done the Warden arcs where you have to actively stop the Crusader's from committing mass murder. Although I did note, the contacts seemed much more worried about the bad publicity it would have created then the innocent lives it would have cost. ;-)

Originally Posted by Hundred_Nations

A few thoughts on this, in no particular order: First, I disagree that an act needs to have ill intent behind it to be labeled "evil." Second, I don't think it's merely a philosophy that's being labeled evil here, it's the deeds done in its interest. Third, I don't think that using the word evil to describe some acts means that we must then label everything we find disagreeable as evil; that's asking us to employ the black-and-white thinking that we criticized a page or two back.

Originally Posted by Obsidius

And thus the entire population of the Triumph server became roguish outlaws.