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I agree. The best tactic when solo is to get in, poke the blinkies and get out as fast as you can when the ambushes activate.

I've been looking at all of the stuff out there and I think I'll save my doom or cheers for at least beta when I can go test drive this expansion. An alpha preview is way too early to pass judgment on the final product.

If there's room, I'm game. I probably won't have anything going on. If not, it's okay.

So I'm not sure if anyone had already mentioned it, but I noticed a couple of previously patched issues (Shield Charge damage multiplier and Invincibility sound loop -- see http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=194230) appear to have been reverted.

Going off of the numbers I've seen with and without the Shield Charge fix, it does appear to me that this bit was backed out. I also heard, while standing near an Invulnerability Tanker, Invincibility looping its activation sound as more enemies got closer. I went ahead and /bugged them but I'm not sure if it's a known issue or not by now.

Additionally, during the first of the event tests, we noticed the Deadly Apocalypse event had kicked off in a hazard zone (The Hollows, specifically) and provided this in the feedback, as well as during the test itself. I think that's the only bug, other than the issues with powers, that I've noticed.

As far as the event itself, I've enjoyed it. However, it can be a bit disappointing when playing a character and being the only one on your team at one of the banners, not getting credit when the banner you've been attacking falls. My Illusion Control/Storm Summoning Controller is one such character, since the pets always go for the mobs and not the banner itself. With the way the pets react to the advancing mobs, there's no way I'd ever get the 10% damage for badge credit alone.

Bravo to you for the linked image. I was half expecting to see a picture of John McCain doing that bit with his tongue.

Work on capping out your inf, the absolute maximum you can hold. That may take a few days.

A few days ago, on the 10th, I filed a bug report about not being able to summon Amy when exemplared from 50 to 44 (I was on a Dr. Quaterfield TF at the time). I hadn't seen any mentioning in recent patch notes, but my bug report was given the standard "thanks for submitting a bug report!" response. Is this being looked at by anyone, or has it even been brought up as an issue beyond Support?

It sucks that maintenance times in the US screw things up for people around the world, but it has to be done. If it's not at a time that inconveniences you, it'll be at a time that inconveniences others. It's not true that they don't care about your business. Every company cares about the business and revenue its customers provide. Downtime happens for any technology, it's a fact of life that you can't avoid, and it's going to happen during a time that inconveniences some group of people out of everybody in this world. Speaking from experience, I would believe the maintenance times were selected when they were because the graphs show the least amount of users and activity, not to arbitrarily "screw" any one geographical region.

Threatening to ragequit over something that must be done is a bit silly. Yes, the maintenance times do inconvenience me. I am an American but I play during my night, on up through the morning. I do not threaten to cancel my accounts and make a public outcry stating that NCsoft doesn't care about my business because I've dealt with the same issues, and understand that it's a necessary thing.

If you want to have a fit and scream that NCsoft doesn't value your business just because of your geographical location, that's your prerogative. I just don't think it's warranted.

I did encounter one thing that can be classified as a bug.

I was on a team of people that started out in Atlas Park then moved on to Kings Row. I had lingered behind because a few of us were pestering a certain redname in local, so I was a little late to the party. While I was still in the other zone, someone else was invited to the team. I saw the message 'Someone has joined the team' but noticed my team window did not say the new name. Instead, for a minute or so the team window looked as if there were two people of the same name on the team. I mentioned it in team chat and was going to screenshot it when something refreshed and it updated. Still, it seems noteworthy.

At this point, my only change to the process would be the Greater Mystic Aspect distance counter updating faster. Everything else seems to be fine.

Note to self: bumrushing the FP is a bad idea...

However, it was kinda fun throwing caution to the wind, even if it ended in failure.

Generally any sort of advertisements for these attracts unwanted attention from PvP folks looking to get an easy kill. Personally, I like doing any non-PvP activities in those zones at a time which the zone will be devoid of people, like the early morning hours, generally after 3:00 AM CDT and before 7:00 AM CDT.

I can fill the spot of being the bad juju and bring something, probably my Corruptor.

If I'm alert at the time, I can bring something.

Bug: Deadly Apocalypse spawned in The Hollows, which is a hazard zone.

I ran into this back on the 21st, spoke to a GM and followed up with a bug report at their suggestion. The GM mentioned to me, in-game, that it was the mission itself that was bugged.

This seems possibly server-side cache or cookie-related. I usually access the forums by going to 'http://boards.cityofheroes.com/' and when I hit the main page I was logged out. However, when I clicked on Development to go into the Development category, I was logged in as myself.

I opened a ticket with NC support but I don't know if anyone is going to be looking at this anytime this weekend.

To provide further clarification, I highly doubt this is a client-side issue, as I can personally vouch for no changes to my system in at least the last week. My sysadmin sense is tingling that this is either vBulletin being screwy or something else on the back-end.