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Originally Posted by EnD_Reitanna

did he really say it? ...wow

Originally Posted by The Second Coming

what do you mean?

Originally Posted by macskull

"Welcome to join" and "guaranteed a spot" aren't the same thing. If nothing else, watch the match and join the next before it gets to 16.

Originally Posted by Supermax

Welcome to competitive PvP. For all the talk you see on here about "getting new players into PvP" or "teaching people" or whatever.....it's all talk.

Originally Posted by B_Witched

some kind of disruption.......

Originally Posted by Psoma

Are you looking to get into competitive or casual team arena?

If you're looking for someone to organize an instructional-type kickball event, then I'd say we have a few people around here that would be good at that kind of thing. Anyone participating, though, would need to be patient and listen to the logic behind effective builds and possible strategies in order to understand what goes into being competitive in the team arena setting.

If you're looking for an experienced PvP'r to spend time doing consistent, non-competitive KB's, however, it goes against the nature of most PvP'rs, and most would likely consider that sort of thing to be non-productive (since competitive PvP'rs are generally focused on getting more competitive PvP'rs involved). Casual PvP can certainly be fun; dUmb does L4 PvP stuff from time to time and it's a hoot...but I personally think you're going to have a hard time getting people to do consistent, casual team arena PvP.

As for hearing "I don't know who these people are" so much during kickballs...that's because captains are trying to pick the best line-up out of the pick pool and are looking to get build/experience info from people on Vent or in-game chat. I captained the other night and initially picked a couple of people that I knew because I was aware of what they had and needed it...but since I'm still learning about a number of PvP'rs on Freedom, I had to rely on those picks to help me make a few of my remaining picks.

At that point I said "I don't know who the rest of these people are" because I was essentially asking everyone on Vent to clue me in so I could make informed picks. If I'm on an emp (which is always) and, for example, need to know what kind of corruptors are left in the pool, asking those on Vent is more informative than asking for build info in the terminal set-up or arena chat, etc.

That beind said, I'm sure teams ended up consisting primarily of "cool kids" because that's the nature of kickball, assuming you're trying to pick the best team you see. When we ran kickball on Infinity, though, we'd take turns sitting out in order for late-comers (both vets and new PvP'rs) to participate. That's pretty easy to do if you have just a handful more than 16. If you have more than that, and you end up not getting picked, I'd suggest starting up a 2nd KB match with the "fat kids." I can see that it might be frustrating to break into the "cool kid club" or whatever, but I'd imagine you'd get a chance if you kept showing up for KB and proving yourself in matches, show up with a good PvP build, and doing stuff like posting on the boards here about trying to better yourself/trying to get into PvP more, etc.

Sorry I went all psypunk there...what max said there is good advice.

Originally Posted by Tidbit

So, let's make it official!

Come join the MLC for a Katie Hannon Task Force this Friday, 2/5/10, at 7 pm Eastern, 4 pm Pacific. Donuts will be served. No charge for admission. See you then!

Originally Posted by black_barrier

i'd go leviathan.
shark jaws is sickly good, you aren't sacrificing perception since you can take tactics, and you have aim and craploads of -def in rad, meaning that focused acc does nothing for you, and finally, the resistance armor is 10 time better than the pretty, ornamental aura you get from black scorpion.


as to PGA, i'd only take it to slot the placate proc. and even then, i bet there's better stuff to take.

Originally Posted by Santorican

I just disagree that rad is over rated. It's arguably the best debuffing set in the game.

Originally Posted by tarrantm

Umm, I'm pretty sure I have Follow Up and Aim on my melee Fort (unless this has changed recently since I haven't played it in ages). It's just NWs that can't get Follow Up and Build Up.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

First off, if this is necromancing the thread, sorry. This is about the only place I could make sure MLC guys would see it. Now, on with the shoe!

Okay, I know that some of the people given base edit rights are busy with stuff. But a "just put stuff down" base makes my fingers itch. And my fingers are VERAH itchy.

So, I hooked our venerable SG super-leader and wrestled him into submission for base edit rights. It went something like this:

Flamin' Trolla: Can I haz base edit rights? Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease?
Protection Racket: Sure!
* You have been promoted to Line Manager
* You have been promoted to Manager
* You have been promoted to Vice President
* You have been promoted to Director
Flamin' Trolla: Thanks!

High-res (1920x1080) versions of these pics can be found here.

Anyhow, the SG had in excess of 2 million prestige. So I had QUITE a bit of wiggle room.

First off, I upgraded to the 8x12 plot.



As you can see, it's really meant to be three functional corridors.



Down the left, the workshop areas.



Down the right, the transport areas. And yes, now now have our own array of teleport bays.








In order from far right (north).

• Steel Canyon
• Talos Island
• Atlas Park
• Pocket D

Essentially all transport hubs (and the ones that were in the teleporter room when I initially found it).

• Skyway City
• Kings Row
• Independence Port
• Peregrine Island

• Founders falls
• Rikti War Zone
• The Hollows
• Faultline

• Brickstown
• Croatoa
• Perez Park
• Dark Astoria

Note: They're not really in any hard-and fast order, and if anyone wants to propose a better setup, lemme know.

Lastly, the main corridor is the Infirmary. Right now it's got a whopping ONE reclaimator in it. But it's right next to the Inspie storage which'll do until we can come up with an Auto-Doc.



And yes, since we had the prestige, I splurged and built us a Turbine generator. We should be more than good for base power for quite a while with this.



Finally, I dropped the supercomputer in for more compact control and finished it off with an Pillar.



As such, MLC is an effectively self-sufficient base now. Thanks largely to the hard work of everyone out there running in SG mode.


Also, you'll note, we're still in more or less the same basic color/style scheme we were originally. I'm not Mr. Super-Schmexy Base Design guy. I'm a "The base works, it's functional, and usable" kinda guy.

I also more or less left the workshops alone as to what storage items went in which room. If there's some over-arching organization that I cannot see, somebody tell me. If not, I'm going to probably clean them up a bit so they're less cluttered and obstructive.

Also, we still have 133K prestige socked away against future rent payments. I've also updated the MOTD. The base isn't really something you could get lost in or anything. But popping in the first time might corn-fuse people if they aren't ready for the changes.

Again, if you have suggestions, let me know here or in-game.
If you hate it and want something different, again, lemme know. I have almost zero pride on this. I just want to make the base something useful for everyone.

In-game, just shoot a tell at @Hyperstrike1.

Originally Posted by tarrantm

Just curious how well an AOE Fortunata fits into this list? Better than a Dom but not as fast as a Brute? I can see it maybe unable to keep up with a high Fury Brute, but it should be going faster than a Dom with 2 Assaults + Follow Up + Aim running.

Originally Posted by MachineSlave

hola, hmm well, ill just start off saying that i have Controller Experience, but i have never touched a Mine Control Set, or let alone, Cold Domination. I just made one last night, hes level 4 now lol. I like him so far, and i think im gunna get along with him very nicely considering what i did today with him. Anyways, since i never rarely play with any Mind controllers, or Cold Domination Def/Trollers, i was wondering how do they work, whats the best, who do i confuse first, who i terrify, etc etc, for the Cold Domination, i know what powers i need and ones i dont, i just need help slotting it, same with Mind, i have no clue how to slot this character. The pool powers im thinking of taking is Fitness, for Hurdle, Health and Stamina. Speed for Hasten, and maybe Superspeed, with Leadership for Manuavers and Tactics. for the 4th, i dunno, between Teleportation for Recall Friend, or Teleport, or go with Fly for Hover/Fly... Im a Team player, but i like to solo, cuz most of the time, i have no one to play with.. I Dont do PVP, only PVE, just throwing that out there.. i be willing to take any suggestions/hints/tiips, anything which would help me be apperciated..thx everyone in advance..

Originally Posted by macskull

Fearsome Stare has a 20% (?) chance to add an extra mag. This is meaningless in PvP, of course, but the roll is still there.

Originally Posted by Psoma

Chance of Psi Damage slotted?

Originally Posted by Psoma

I don't know about FS, but does your MC happen to have Coercive Persuasions slotted-the Contagious Confusion in particular? Unless I'm mistaken, that thing has 33% chance of confusing nearby opponents, which I think would call for another tohit roll. I've never really checked my logs to see for myself. Just a thought.