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And that's how you win these things. (Maybe instead of red text saying "CHALLENGE FAILED", you should get "**** HAPPENS, BRO." )

FYI: You can "break" and come back to it at any time. Yes, your toon is locked to that TF, but so what? If you're tired, you agree on when to come back, you come back nice and refreshed, and own the run. Wanna do something else? Break team, try again another time. Yes, it can be a time commitment, but have you seen the Shard TFs?

If you have the wrong attitude when you fail, yes, it's frustrating. I quoted those two comments together because ultimately, your problem isn't a mechanics problem: It's a social problem of coping with those mechanics constructively. If you have the right people, with the right attitude, a failure is just that: Whoops, died, my bad, move on and try again next time. If you have some jerk on the team who decides "I hate you all for not following my ideas" and suicides, that's not a mechanics issue, that's a jerkwad issue.

I can write papers on having the right attitude when gaming (Twixt? You there?). Sure, it frustrates you when you fail. You can either let it get to you, or you can turn it into a learning experience for everyone. Do that, and it's not a failure: It's "practice".

Frustrating for you, not for all of us. Again, it's all about approach.

Make the badge, and I'll gun for it. But your definition of challenge there is pretty stupid.

Seriously: I feel for you. I'm lucky that I know a stack of people who are not only game skilled but extraordinarily good natured to boot. (And yeah, I'm on Freedumb, imagine that, haters.) I can't help you find those people, unless you're on my server. But you can certainly step up and try to find those people yourself. Start a signup sheet, "calm people only need apply", then work with 'em. If you're frustrated with the quality of temperaments on your server, I'm sure others are frustrated too. Work on pooling those together and rising to the occasion. I have no instructions on how to find good natured people, other than just "start looking".

Gotta love Anonymous(tm). I'll pass around some rep to make you feel better for when I get the badge this week. (Maybe.)

QFT, and making it a sorta haiku, so it's prettier.

(I know the meter's off. Just run with it, you minmax poets.)

MB summarized the issue, and my general feelings on it, pretty succinctly. I'll just modify it by saying I'm NOT on the fence and that I like running them, but more for the fun factor with "any build out there" rather than minmaxed teams. Freedom's Horde crew is really good about this, and makes it a joy to do the Master runs in general (barring a few bad apples that end up eliminating themselves).

Why do I like the Master runs? Because they're a challenge. Some are certainly painful, but with a team that has their wits about them, the problems are greatly minimized. It IS luck of the draw sometimes with most deaths: Good players realize this, and keep on keepin' on.

At the end of the day, if you treat it as something that MUST be achieved no matter what, you'll hate working towards this badge. If you set up every TF as a Master run (set to no deaths, no temp powers), and just go with it, you may be surprised to find out that one day, you'll get it without having tried very hard at all.

It's a perspective thing, in my book.

The "Radio" part of the name doesn't meant it's just for radio missions. It's just a name for the global channel, like "BMT for Champion" is for Champion server, "Kitty Lovers of America" for Virtue, etc (I keed, I keed...). Feel free to advert anything you want in RF2009 or the other variants listed.

Welcome to Freedom, where Plan A is always "GET 'EM!", and Plan B is "hosp".

Set this up for around 10pm Eastern and I'd be in good position to help.

*tips his hat* Well played, sir. I'll give this an exploratory whirl over the next few weeks (too damn busy right now), but thanks for sharing your victory with the rest of the hopefuls.

I go away for a weekend, and people just go nuts with the LGTF.

Grats to Beef on this. I could sign up for this, although my time for the next few weeks will be somewhat restricted. I definitely can't make this Tuesday (Tu and Th are verboten for evening runs). Fri/Sat would be better in general, and Fri evening ~9-10pm Eastern would be best for me.

Try hooking up with E-Man and the Horde on this? We're all Master addicts here, so that'd be a good pool to sign up with.

GL on organizing this run, Kotchie.

We just do that for the obvious Eurotourists.

(...you saw that? Huh. I suddenly have a new scam idea.)

(Oh, drogoh. Hell. Go to it.)

They're just taking pity on you for rolling a healer in the first place. Don't want you to be bored an' stuff.

Glad you're digging it here. If you feel like chiming in on one of the Horde runs on your day off (they'd be typically 3am for you, if you're GMT), make sure you make some noise about showing up, or hell, we could do something on a weekend afternoon (evening for you) just to be nice.

We do that here. Y'know, make nice to server newbies. No, srsly.

(I'm guessing you hail from Union then?)

You're welcome. FYI, all the "badge missions" in Ouro are like that: They're a tier higher than what the contact is rated for. Check out Paragonwiki.com for more info as well.

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If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

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For the whole TF, or just the Hami mission?

A shot o' penicillin will clear that right up, brother.