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"Zen and Nao"?

As to the question of the thread, may I suggest "Bucket Dropping". As in, the crafting costs are a drop in the bucket compared to the item's true sales potential. Ex, "I bucket dropped a handful of __________s the other day and used the profits to completely outfit my entire server with SOs."

Alternate terms may include "Bucket Crafting," "Bucketeering," or simply "Bucketing".

This is yet another hidden branch of Vanguard, a fundraising division that they call The Wallet. It consists largely of interdimensional telemarketing campaigns. And bingo.

Alphabet is the reason for that. B / C / E / I / Sa / Sp

I'd love to be able to organize the tabs in whatever order I prefer. Or at least merge Base and Component to the same tab, and Special and Event to a shared tab as well.

Lately whenever the game shuts down for server maintenance there's a chance it also causes the mail server to rollback to a slightly older state, like a day or two earlier. It's caused many a valuable item to get eaten by grues, and also caused things that had already been claimed to show up once again. It may have been fixed by now, I haven't been keeping up. The second time I lost something from it i just stopped exiting the client with anything left in there.

Huh, okay then. Good to know for the future! Thank you

Except a Lieutenant spawns behind you long before you reach that point

Also, it isn't only about how the numbers scale. Someone brought up a good point in another thread about encountering Zeus Titans in tip missions when you're level 20. Those are bosses meant for level 40+ characters; they have a lot more powers to fight with. Attacks that a level 20 has insufficient defense against, and defenses that a level 20 can't really penetrate yet. The numbers for those powers might be scaled down, but the fact remains that characters at lower levels aren't properly equipped to stand up against higher level powers, period.

As to the OP's point, I agree that it's pretty careless to leave things lying around that can endanger other players. (I feel the same way about ambushes that trigger on mission exits.) It *really* bothered me during last year's event, but this year I'm leaning more towards "they're big and bright white, you can see them a mile away". Because unfortunately with most annoying behavior in games, you can't really stop the inconsiderate people without also penalizing the ones who were playing considerately.

I usually clean up my messes anyway, grey or not. Although if the zone seems mostly empty I'll leave ones that spawn in out-of-the-way corners, where players not participating in the event don't typically reach. Or if they're on a roof. I figure any character that manages to aggro something on a rooftop obviously (A) can handle themselves just fine, or (B) needs to learn a lesson anyway.

Dark Melee gives out -ToHit debuffs like candy at Halloween. She can debuff your Defense all she likes, even on autohit, but if her own ToHit is in the toilet she still won't land very many attacks. I took down the ice queen on my DM/Regen scrapper in about 2 minutes, and I only needed 3 purples. One at the start to go with Dull Pain and Instant Healing, and the other two (probably an overreaction) when her hits finally started to hurt.

Don't forget shooting off ledges and skidding into the next spawn.

Sure, but the citizens *need* that. Every day of their lives is a treacherous nightmare and they don't know if they're gonna survive it. They're constantly getting mugged, kidnapped, experimented on, having their souls sucked out, being mutated, and getting possessed by demons. They clearly can't look after themselves; half the time these poor people can't even figure out how to operate a flight of stairs. They need a grand, iconic symbol that they can point to and say "We have protectors too."

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What? I play on Virtue. I'm used to rationalizing things in-character.

Mono...

Doh!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for adding in new badges. I just think that power-granting ones should be available to those who don't want to switch at any point, 'cause there are plenty of people who don't. But now, a little something extra for the grey-siders on top of what villains or heroes get... that's cool

Really? Aww, sucky...

I like it! I'd call the hero version "Stone Slinger" and the villain version "Goliath". And I'd wear them with pride

Except the part about requiring a character to switch sides. There could always be a third, non-power accolade for getting both red and blue versions, but I don't think anything with a stat boost as its reward should require you to switch sides.

If the accolade gave a power boost, I'd suggest that it apply exclusively when fighting Monsters and Giant Monsters. Thematically speaking, fighting them isn't the same as fighting things that are close to your own size. It requires different tactics. (Not that I'd mind GM hunting teams forming more often, by people looking for the accolade. I love me a good monster mash )

Dang. And I started playing shortly before Issue 14 went live.

Missed it by thaaaat much...

Some people don't use an actual word for their password, they use a string of numbers and letters. It's a MUCH stronger password than anything resembling an actual word, but it can be difficult to remember and type correctly.

Also, a lot of people use copy-paste to enter their passwords, and taking screenshots erases whatever else was in the clipboard. If you play fullscreen or on a less-than-high-end computer, it can take a while to switch over to whatever file you keep your password in, if it's manageable at all.

Maybe not issues everyone faces, but severely annoying to those who do.

Now that sounds like a fun Ouro mission or Coming Storm TF. You travel back in time to the day when the Alpha and Omega teams began their attack, and the city still looked like it did at launch. Mysterious invaders have aimed a surgical strike directly at the heart of the devastated city while its heroes and villains are distracted with the Rikti. They too can travel in time, and ruthlessly chose the point when the city was at its weakest.

I'm thinking it's not that simple. Alpha abilities have two parts to them. The part that's not affected by ED should act the same way as a global bonus, since those ignore ED as well. However the part that is affected by ED is different. It has to apply itself to every power, but also factor in how much of a boost each power has from its own enhancements.

Which isn't to say that the Mids team can't do it, 'cause they're very good. It'll just take them a little longer.

Welcome back to the city!

I won't pretend to be an expert on powers or builds, but the program you're looking for is called Mids' Hero Designer. Look for it at cohplanner.com.

Personally I never put more than 2 slots in Health or Stamina, unless I'm adding certain procs. I find the extra little bit you can squeeze out from a 3rd or 4th slot aren't as much of a benefit as using them to boost another power. But hey if it works for you, go for it!

Well if I'm understanding that right, then...

Huh. Y'know, maybe there's just some conversations I should stay out of

Thanks for the info anyway! But I'm gonna think on that one a bit more before I pretend to have a grasp on it again.

Would there be an animation that makes the fire flare up whenever someone actually threw inf into it? Because I think for that I'd do it

Great points all. For example, I completely agree on making use of the alternate means. I have learned enough about the markets in the last few months to be able to bring in substantial inf when I need it, but I spent a long time relying almost solely on what came from defeats. So I tend to be in the same boat as the alt-heavy players you mentioned. Trip herself maintains around 200-300mil on average, while a wide selection of other characters just take life as it comes. And that suits me fine. There are plenty of options for getting things I want, no complaints here.

I'm not going to stand here and insist that everything I said was absolutely true, especially when I was pretty much just paraphrasing what I had read on the subject over in the Market section. What I said earlier is my understanding of why inf sinks are considered important. But I know I'm more than capable of being wrong

If my reasoning is off though, then Wendy's question stands: Why do some people feel it's so important that we remove influence from the game?