Tyger

Another server stability patch. We go years without one and then three in the space of a few weeks

Boomtown needs to include some of the newer encounters in it like the reconstruction project that villains sabotage around levels 15-20 as well as the rise of the 5th in Boomtown.

Perez needs more damage. I mean it's supposed to be in the hands of the gangs but there's barely any gang-related motifs or drappings anywhere. The buildings and statues still look pristine (6 years olf pristine but still).

Galaxy coulda done with an upgrade too. Those nice shiney buildings in 'Galaxy Destroyed'... nowhere to be found in the Echo of Galaxy, it's the same dated bits we've been looking at for 7 years.

There's already two missions in the game which have Invincibility: Mender Ramiel's "Future Memory" mission on the Alpha unlock arc and Vincent Ross's "Revelation" finalé mission from his arc, both of which are tied to Incarnate powers.

I must admit to wanting to have more arcs like this like another Future Memory type mission but I can't see a purchasable power being a plausable purchase.

Vanguard boots. Something about the design of them I really like. They made part of my main's most-used 'heroic' outfit and getting the Vanguard loyalty pack was a godsend as I can now use them straight out of the costume creator.

They currently are one part of my awesome costume that I've been using one slot of each of my characters.

158 - CUBE, Terrahawks - one of Zelda's cubes that used to cause the good guys no end of trouble. I was sure someone got that already...

142 - M.I.C., Telebugs - just realised who that was, it was the little companion that followed them around

Perhaps the webserver guys got a bit over-zealous when they heard 'the sale's on till the 29th' and added all the unavailale text. Then marketing noticed and said 'No, we don't want to stop selling the game on the 29th, just the sale ends then'. Nice they're keeping the site updated though.

I mean it was a bit odd that they'd stop selling boosters without a concrete date for City:Freedom.

Two weeks to go....

143 - S.A.M.A.N.T.H.A. from Telebugs. - I used to love watching that show
65 - Horde bot from She-Ra - one of Hordak's flying drones.
127 - Robot Boy - from the cartoon of the same name
154 - Sergeant Bash, Robot Wars - amazingly got his name right at random

No, it's still live as of two hours ago (when I logged out).

Happy birthday man!

Here's to many more!

The initial plan: get my DP/en Blaster up the last 5 levels.
What actually happened: Get two of the highest alts on my third account up to 50 since it was the only one without a single 50 on it.

Jennifer Calum, Vigilante: 41-47. Almost there but significantly closer and I have other means to get her up that last mile.

Tyger Prime, Rogue: 40-50. Cha-ching! Most of the time she spent slaughtering Circle of Thorns with my Incarnate-powered MM. I got the itch in the my few waking hours. Hit 47 to match Jen, noticed I was halfway to 48, got to 48, noticed it was fairly quick and decided to try and hit 49, noticed I was two bars into 49 and figured "Who needs sleep?", got 2 bars from 50, started another mission and then fell asleep. Woke up with 30 minutes to spare, continued the mission, both Prime and my MM died, 15 minutes to go, hit that last couple of mobs and finished with Prime finally dinging for that last time, parking her in the Vanguard base just before the server went down

So the same as usual: plan for specific alts to get levels, switch to other alts I felt needed them more

3 weeks to go, that is all.

Here's how I went with mine (she took Soul Mastery as an EPP):

Alpha: Musculature, damage may be 'low' but it also affects other Incarnate powers and there's some nice secondary effects on the Radial Paragon which help some of your dark powers like endmod, immobilize, defence debuff and tohit debuff

Judgement: Ion judgement leading up to the Ion Core Judgement. A nice, devastating attack that has a wider reach on larger team sizes. Very powerful attack.

Lore: Seers Core Superior Ally. Psychic damage and mini dominators. I like them as a concept reason.

Interface: Reactive, naturally. That -res combined with the Fire DoT is lovely, especially as it works on ALL your pets, Seers, Dark Servant and the Thugs. Really stacks up.

Destiny: Ageless. While the recharge doesn't affect pets, it does have a +recovery on the Core side of the tree as well as refilling any end bar within it's range meaning the pets can continue hitting/smashing/firing. More often than not their end drains quickly so the instant refill pays off here.

Since she had these fitted at tier3, she's been a walking death machine, regularly wasting 0x8 with just common 50 IOs slotted (and some leftover SOs). I was also tagging along with a friend doing Maria Jenkins' Praetorian arc (they were running at normal settings then we upped to 0x8). While I was teamed with a fellow Incarnate we had to change the settings so that the Praetorians showed up as AVs to make it remotely challenging. I teamed with the same friend again to help her takedown Siege and while it was a long battle, once the Lore pets recharged, he dropped quickly.

I'm not a min-maxer, most of the stuff was just 'best-fit' to my own experience but I can vouch that the above set really does work wonders.

As I understand it; 'former' subscribers will have things that they paid for like SG which was inclusive of the past subs.

Free players won't be able to access SGs but Premium (former subscribers, players who pay for extra features) will. The info is up on the main site here. So it looks like you can still join and run them but not start new ones.