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When the good doctor of jello was spawned, I took my mastermind in there and plopped the Assbot down. I tried using the macro provided but Assbot didn't want to budge. I copied and pasted it, so I shouldn't have any issues, but it just doesn't work for me.

I has plenty of toons, but you know this already. I'm rather indifferent as to which one I play.

If there happens to be a spot open on one of the teams, I might be able to make it tonight. I'm not completely certain since my apartment building is still on generator power (has been that way since about Friday). Every 12 hours or so the generator runs out of diesel and it takes a while to get someone out here to get it running again. If I don't show up, that's probably what happened.

The nerfs to MA with regards to XP can be seen as heavy-handed, but I felt it needed to be done. Being as my primary (and really only) server is Freedom, I saw what MA in its original state had done to the general population. Some people did MA for the story arcs, but there were a lot more that just mindlessly farmed to get as much reward as possible.

When MA first came out, everybody huddled up in Atlas and Cap, and dropped anchor in the AE building. They farmed day and night, regardless of what went on. When the server was going down, people were broadcasting for farms. When the server came back up, they went right back to it. If there were zombies or Rikti invading, they still farmed. People power spammed in the building to the extent that the rest of the zone either lagged or crashed on quite a few occasions.

When Issue 16 was released, both Atlas and Cap became almost a ghost town *that very day*. The farmers went back to PI and Grandville but they were a bit quieter since they didn't need a team of people to increase the spawn sizes. It sucks that the only way to get people to use MA for what it was intended is to change rewards to custom mobs, but such a change was necessary and quite possibly the only way without completely alienating every player and throwing all that work out the window.

Personally, I didn't like the XP changes, but it beats the alternative of playing on a server where the only zone with any semblance of activity is filled with a majority of the server's players. That's just my 2 inf.

Yes, "bio nuke" is Biological Mutagens. It is a +regen and +dmg buff

In between mashing buttons I tried telling people where to go, but they just weren't having any of it.

I'm there on my bad luck charm.

I can be available for this with something.

I'll poke some eyeballs.

I can offer up any of my 50s. Here are the powersets/AT I can offer:

Rad/Ice Defender
Stone/Stone Tanker
Fire/Kin Controller x2
Plant/Rad Controller
Illusion/Storm Controller
Fire/Fire Blaster
Broadsword/Shield Scrapper
Warshade

Most of them are slotted with enhancements, though I know of 2 that aren't (I can always get some SOs)

There were a few times I caught the bad side of some aggro because PA decided to despawn right as they taunted something. Good thing for Ice Mastery and Hibernate.

I can bring my bad luck charm, evil drogoh.

I have a level 50 Broadsword/Shield Scrapper softcapped to all 3 positions. There are few situations in which I will hold back. When I do, I feel I'm not doing what I should be doing, and that is laying waste to whatever is in my way. When I'm in scrapperlock mode, you're under no obligation to keep me alive. If I faceplant, I didn't do it bringing whatever aggro I had back to the rest of the team. I laugh and hit the hospital button.

I also have 2 level 50 Fire/Kinetics Controllers that I've played up to 50. One thing that ruins my having fun is someone demanding that I sit back and buffbot with Speed Boost and Increase Density. I'm typically too busy controlling the mobs with my primary and using those other wonderful Kinetics powers (Fulcrum Shift anybody?) to play buffbot to the point that neither of those powers are in my builds.

Lastly, since this is the Tankers forum, I will mention that I have 3 Tankers, 1 that I leveled exclusively on PuGs (Stone/Stone) and 2 that have either been soloed or played with friends/coalies (WP/SS and Ice/SS). My play style for my Tanks is to keep what I can annoyed at me so it doesn't turn my teammates into mush. I don't herd or sit around until the last minion is dead.

I've played with really good PuGs where we've done radio missions for hours on end, and really horrible PuGs where we've barely entered the door and the entire team bails for any number of excuses. I've teamed with some really great players, and really bad players. I've had the displeasure of teaming with some terrible team leaders, who happened to be playing a Tanker. They would bark orders and demand that everybody do what they say when they say how they say. He was the Tanker and we were to be grateful simply for his presence.

My point is, I have played with many different players, each with their own play style and abilities, or inabilities in some cases. I learned very quickly to deal with both the good and bad, and that egos need to be checked at the door. The only assumption I make of the players of this game is that we all pay for our subscriptions to do one thing: have fun.

If we stop having fun, it's time to move on.

I want to poke some eyeballs.

I was on a team and we were running Operative Renault Strike Force. During the last mission, I got a popup that said something to the effect of "CityOfHeroes.exe would have crashed. Do you want to send a crash report to Cryptic? If you select 'YES', the game will crash out. If you select 'NO', the game might still crash, but it might not." I was still able to play the game and finish the Strike Force, albeit without sound. When we finished, I exited the mission and clicked 'YES' in the dialog window, after which I got the standard crash dialog window.

I did notice that the message window indicated Cryptic, which would make me think that this code has been in the codebase for some time now, just not in current use. In hindsight, I should have grabbed a screenshot, but every time something weird pops up, I never remember to get one.

This doesn't seem to be /bug worthy, to me, but I am curious if this is supposed to happen or if this came about as of the latest patch.

Hmm... I think I have a bots/dark that could work with this SF if there's room.

Will the fixes from 10/5 make it back into this build? I noticed that during the Halloween tests these fixes were missing (Shield Charge damage and Invincibility activation sound looping) and they didn't make it back in when the Halloween code went live.