Vega_Bond

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Hey, I'm as big a badge-ho as the next guy, but I was surprised to see a badge for debt in the first place. Frankly, those are the badges I would NEVER want to earn.

[/ QUOTE ]I think of Debt Badges as permanent wounds.

So yeah, me too.

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Two points. One, if you're a villain, debt badges are part of the High Pain Threshold accolade... 10% health bonus. I'll happily take a few scars for that prize, and the sooner the better. Its like 10,000,000 paid off though, so gotta actually work at it if you want it before 50. Hey, if you want to snub a very useful accolade... go right ahead.

Second, you've really got to get over your debt fear. Debt is nothing. It pays off so fast even from max, its a joke that they're offering a debt wipe in the first place. The only way to get to 50 without a lot of debt is to be powerleveled by other people (or solo... *snore*)... I'd rather show my scars as someone who worked for it.

Plus some of the most fun in the game involves large amounts of inevitable debt, I don't care what your AT is. Raids drop players like flies, but its so fun, its such a blast and a rush... I mean, heck, if you're sitting there worrying about debt... I can only feel sorry for you, you're missing out.

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The debt badges only accrue for debt paid off and no, the debt wipe won't count toward that. While we understand that some may not like to have their debt to be wiped, our feeling is that well, it's not too hard to bounce into some bad guys and take a fall to get it back.

Hopefully this isn't too much of an inconvenience for anyone.

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Aw, its ok, I've become expert at getting myself back to maximum debt. Just jump into a crowd with a purple, and try to beat them using only brawl. Repeat as necessary.

Aw man, I liked the lag in those big battles. It was like... hazzah... you can't move! Am I held? Maybe, maybe not, that's not the point!

Oh already, less lag would be nice, but was having fun anyway.

Edit: By the way, why am I a trainee at 180 posts? You'd think I'd at least have gotten to n00b rank by now.

On that note, Orion Labs, Deimos Innovations, and Exarch Industries are also research organizations. They make tech and science enhancements to aid super heroes, and it would be an easy assumption that they are therefore at least on our side, and that they do research to enhance the abilities of superheroes. Perhaps for one of them the ultimate experiment for their research would be creating one by enhancing an ordinary human through science and technology.

Another approach is that you were actually created which would suggest a biological research center of some sort like Biotechnix or Subgenetics. I would call a created super human to be a Science background, rather than true mutant background... even though their basically the same thing (altered human genetics = super powers).

Anyway, these are commercial science/tech laboritories, but they are working for the good guys, and could easily be used as an alternative. Just a couple pennies.

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Auxiliary Power Pools - levels 40 up -------cool
Kheldians - level 50--------------------------kinda cool
Council - all levels----------------------------so sad
Striga Isle - levels 20 - 30-------------------eh
Mission Customization - all levels-----------yawn
Global Chat - all levels----------------------worthless

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I like pie.

Mostly excellent!

Having relied entirely on a combination of taunt and invincibility to draw aggro, I'll be very happy when people stop thinking I'm not a team oriented tanker because I chose taunt instead of provoke. To think of all the tankers who took neither and still manage to get onto teams... it kinda irks me that people act that way (btw a tanker with neither isn't a tanker at all, it's just a low damage scrapper that doesn't die... in other words, a leech).

Vega

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And since everyone who complains likes to list his or her personal time management situation here's mine:
I'm not a power-gamer. I work full time and go to school.

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You kinda have to if you're even half-way competent at playing the game, people who suck at it will call you a powergamer unless you specifically state otherwise (of course, that assumes they bothered to read what you said and didn't start writing their retarded rebuttal based on the first three words of your reply... a popular trend on the internet).

Vega

Hm... that's funny, I just soloed my way to level 12 doing exclusively missions.

Only once did I duo a mission, and that was just for the "two bombs at the same time" mission. Yeah, I've gotten some debt along the way, but debt at low levels is a joke, work it off so fast it's ridiculous.

Just arrested Frostfire about 5 minutes ago by the way, solo. I did get one more "pk by devs" returning from the mission (being chain immobilized by a group of mobs that spawned in front of me as I was running counts as a pk by devs to me), but I'll work that debt off just as quick...

I guess you're right, the low level game is too hard

[energy/electricity blaster, not a powergamer, been working on this alt character a few hours a day for several days, but frankly... even casual gamers should use their fricking brains when approaching difficult battles... if you don't do that blame yourselves not the devs]

Vega

The Hollows really is one scary place, but it is a hazard zone, and I feel that justifies it. Hazard zones should not be soloable unless you're 2-3 levels above the mobs you're fighting, in my opinion. In other words, I like it scarey. Running through the hollows at mid-level for the zone feels like running through a war zone. You have to pay attention, you have to be on your toes, in a phrase, you have to actively playing... put away the snacks, turn off the TV, and put down the phone. You're in a hazard zone!

That's how it should be...

Vega