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... for a team of +3s. As Eco has proven that for naughty-50s; it's impossible.

The other problem (for me) is the reputation of old Keyes, Underground and TPN have soured my expectation for these newer ones and even if DD is as 'easy' as claimed; I won't give it a chance.

The model already is, just needs the pet hook.

It would be nice to see the old Hami-bud in-game again and it means "half the work is done".

I think you need to ask Posi about the first month of AE and then think whether a 'high adoption rate' is actually a reflection of how fun or popular it is in good terms.

It's a trial starting at level 1 and it's a very basic "go here, smash this" unless you're going for badges and the only alternative is the new Atlas and Mercy stuff which is fine once or twice but then it's the frankly awful Shining Stars or Dr. Graves 'extended tutorial' arcs. A case of the devil you know is better than the shoe-horned plot. It also means they can log in to Atlas/Mercy and coast up to 50. Funnily enough I was just reading about "Content Locusts".

Most people are coasting it in beta too because they need to get their alts up to the high enough levels since there's no level shifts being given out atm. Wink-wink

I wish a select amount of players who've played the content could become a focus group for this. Now that "Revamp can also mean 'New'" has sunk in it would be nice if some players who are more engaged with the content could point towards things. In this case: Boomtown.

Anyone who's played Redside content will know there's an arc in the 15-20 range that features a Baumtown restoration project where the few entrance buildings are being given a makeover similar to what happened with Faultline. Of course given the arc is about as old as mayhems the original model stock may not be available but there is some groundwork to build off (pardon the pun).

It's also a zone filled with conflict and upheaval so it would be similarly small scale building till the 'zone' could be fully reclaimed. They don't all have to be Atlas Park scale revamps because in the real world there aren't that many size restorations that go on. There are several housing developments in the town where I live but they've bulldozed the entire plot and started building them in sectors. One sector is finished and then they move to the next. Even the Arenas had building sites before they were put in the game proper as did the long-lost travel method for the moon zone. They're still working on that wall in Steel (despite the GvE box coming with a map showing the expanded Steel Canyon).

There's been plenty of other small scale changes from the University innerds to Wentworths and the Black Market and even the AE buildings. Small changes do get noticed.

And this is where most of our ire stems from Eco and why some of us were vehemently against having the DD trial where it was 'suggested' on beta at the level it is.

Some of the NPC ones for general use like Longbow and Crey Paragon Protector patterns. Lot of us make Longbow and PP characters; the patterns would add variety. I know that crosses into NPC outfits but those two have spandex uniforms I'd like to have access to. Same for the Arachnos (widow)patterns on non-villain epics.


On this note: I made an awesome suit. It's currently my favourite blend of parts; a classic spandex uniform torso which use plain tights with the Stripe 3 pattern, Valkyrie 3 shoulders, Justice w/plate gloves, Alpha belt and Vanguard w/plate boots:


Then out came the Defense 'tights' set and when I had a look I realised it was the same pattern as Stripe 4 for males so my awesome suit had a new movie-style variation:


So there's room for both but the tights can be a basis for new outfits with more detail.


As for the loose-fitting: would be nice especially the aforementioned geo-fit where it stretches across protrusions rather than literally skin-bonded. Espcially after seeing the dress from the D-pack.

Oh and also: I'd make the w/skin tights be consistant with the fulltops ie. no tinting that make a white t-shirt look like my females have been in a wet contest of the same name.

"It's never that easy" or trivial when programming. If you're imaginging bugs already then it's a good reason not to change it in the first place. The original reason it wasn't the maximum 32-bit integer was this returned a negative value once it was exceeded making people instantly broke

It also won't change anything as it'll just mean being able to store that much more on an individual alt. Sales would only reflect the sales which could be on the market up to the new cap and there'd still be black market Market sales of IOs.

No more salvage.

Pretty much that. He's long been the guy above us all and only comes to us directly for help because his long-standing rival has forced him to stay away (see STF).

I remember going through the tutorial of Champions and I was already fighting side-by-side with Defender. We battled through the facility and completed the objective and I still got to be the big hero.

I think I would've made Statesman the first guy we saw in Paragon Instead of being one of the last, the one we never saw till we had to do the old Praetorian Tyrant mission. The original premise was that heroes were coming to Paragon to 'answer the call' so I would've had him inducting the new arrivals and then move into their origin-specific stuff with a hearty goodbye, going off to fight whatever world-ending threat may cross his path at that point and perhaps charging you with defending the city in his absense.

2.3%? I remember it quite clearly being 3% and the wiki still says 3% so I'm wondering what's going on?

Yeah, not a big deal, 0.7% decrease. I'm just curious as to why it was reduced (or even if it was)?

And then the devs wonder why there's more BAFs and Lambdas run....

"I see what you did there."

Or... remove the shifts from AVs in the Praetorian trials until we have more than the current five slots open. If the coming storm is supposed to be the dealiest entity we'll face then add it when we have to face their AVs, whatever form they take since they will most likely be gating the biggest trials behind the current Incarnate system.

This would mean 50s could contribute in the same way as on the Apex/Tin Mage Alpha TFs except they'd also earn ixp towards the rest of their slots.

Let me tell you about something that happened a long while ago: the team reward channel. It was a channel that told everyone exactly who got what in drops on your team and it was abandoned too.... because of the possible negative repercussions from having obnoxious team leaders demanding salvage and kicking players.

As with 1; removing the AV shifts for the Praetorian iTrials would counteract any mentor-roulette needed.

Honestly? I'm glad "Second Measure cries when we don't use it" because it's a horrible system for joining Trials and it will only get worse as more get added. It's fine for Holiday stuff and DFB because they are run consistantly.

It reminds me of matchmaking in the worst way: you get matched up with random players to do Trials which with the later ones require you to have level shifts and other iPowers to make any meaningful contribution.

What we need is a listing system like the Arena menu with all the open trials listed so we can join them as we see fit. Anyone who has an open league with space can then have spots refilled or filled in after the start which still doesn't happen.

I tried using it for iTrials. I once waited two seperate nights (I have two clients so I could base build on one while waiting on the main client) and nothing. I tried again one night, got on an iTrial and without a word being spoken I was kicked off the league. So I vowed never to use it again for the Incarnate trials.

The 'waiting times' are woefully inaccurate (average waiting time) for what people want in this game.

And nothing's stopping them now except obnoxious "requirements" for later trials made by other players; trial leaders.

Good leaders can make use of what they have and still come out winners.
Bad ones can have all the +3s in the league they want and still fail.

Now you will/should notice I didn't mention gimmicks anywhere in that besides the AV-shifts, the gimmicks that I have seen are certainly challenging enough on their own that they don't need extra help. Marauder is a handful to a fresh league, Siege and Nightstar can be tough to beat while stopping their bossfarm assistance AND synchronising their health at the end, Keyes is very punishing without healing/regen auras on your side but the assumption by the Incarnate system devs is that everyone has all the shifts on all their alts that they take through which is why we're getting (+1) and (+2) AVs on the newer trials which leaves two choices: leech off the veterans while they try and cover your lack of shifts (and try not to let the pancake hit the fan in the meantime) or farm the 'easier' trials to get all your shifts first and then move on to the later stuff so you can't pancake it up simply by being on the trial in the firstplace.

They are exactly that.

Ignore the smilies one, you can play them in any order. Keyes makes the same wide generalisation as anyone. When he says he watched as "you" defeated Neuron (Tin Mage MkII TF), "you" destroyed the BAF, "you" ransacked Lambda Sector; he's addressing the generic "you" in the same way any maniacal supervillain would address the 24 heroes about to come kick his *** and steal his pancake.

The raving lunatic that he is, he's cheesed off all the primals have come to steal Pratoria's stuff.

Villains get to talk to Infernia in the RWZ for part 7 as well. Spoiler alert

When Chuck Norris and Blue Steel walked into a bar: Rory Williams was already waiting for them.

Because the Mission Architect forum isn't ALL-ACCESS:Mission Architect.

It's also still an alternate route to take for new subs and Freems who purchase the Praetorian starter pack (what Going Rogue is now essentially).

It's the middle ground sweet spot of content for me. Engaging enough to be fun (if somewhat teeth-gnashing on a solo-unfriendly AT) but not as invasive as the newer Atlas Park/Mercy Island stuff which makes major assumptions on your character being human, vulnerable, stupid and the most tolerant being in the world for not saying 'pancake this pancake' and walking out the moment wannabes 'let you join them'.

I'd be playing it more often if I hadn't done my Full Content Run.



Yeah, AE. It makes for a good blurb on the website about how much "content" it has but given my US counterpart at the time left his arcs just as I left mine and all the hundreds of other uplayed and unrated arcs, not accounting for ones broken by various nerfs and changes as well as the pancake word filter that ravaged stories and made it difficult to create them and then there's the farms in the Hall of Fame...

It's something I never wanted for fear of getting terribly named mobs. Boy was I naive

I'd have to agree with that.

Sideshow Bob as an ally and Lisa being wrong. There was only one stain on it when they were discussing how Frank Grimes Jr. was conceived - "But he wasn't married". I mean really, 1997 and they still pegged the whole marriage before children?

Still one of the best. Steamed gentile not withstanding