srmalloy

With the invasion of Kings' Row, there are enough bits of Praetorian Clockwork and War Walkers around that I'd expect the Freakshow to scavenge parts -- a Monster-class Freakshow made from parts scaveneged from destroyed War Walkers, Freakshow with Victoria blades, etc.

The "powers show recharged when they're not" is an artifact of a design decision for the game and server load.

Your client will, assuming that no information to the contrary is sent from the server, display powers recharging at the normal rates for each power. When you're slowed, the server sends a packet telling your client to slow the rate at which the recharge is displayed. But when the server starts getting loaded because of lots of players, lots of AI transactions, or lots of combat effects, its internal clock gets slow, because it's taking longer to process each slice of time. Since the server isn't running in real-time any more, your powers take longer on the server to recharge. But the server doesn't pass recharge percentage for each of your powers with every update packet, so your client will continue to draw the recharge happening at normal speed, taking, say, ten seconds to get back to recharged, while on the server, only five seconds worth of game time has processed, and the server thinks that power is only half recharged. Sometimes attempting to use a power that the server doesn't think is recharged yet will make the server send a 'recharge status' for that power in its update packet, which is why powers will sometimes jump from the 'recharged' full size to the 'charging' shrunk size after you try to use them and discover they're not recharged yet.

Or Rain of Arrows on a TF. By the time a) the animation finishes, and b) the delay before the arrows land, expires, the fight has either moved or all the mobs in the beaten zone are down. @whee.

An exhibition of the Most Common Superpower... Also a Cleavage Window. Given the character, she's unlikely to have a Victoria's Secret Compartment, though...

No, they're just dumb iron bombs; the key is that they don't just drop them, they Fedex them to you to guarantee delivery.

The point being made is that this is the sop that was thrown to the players who complained about the Notice of the Well awards from the WTF as 'forcing teaming'.

A hundred parsecs out on a ship quite second-rate,
The engineer, McQuillin, sent the word up to the mate.
"Our engine's out of steam," he said, "And soon our ship must die,
If we can't find a planet with fuel to feed the drive."

Now, our ship's a noble lady, and our captain, she is, too.
But our engineer is none too bright, the dimwit of our crew.
The captain said, "I thought you filled the tanks on Vega Five."
McQuillin just looked sheepish, he forgot to feed the drive.

Can curses stir the gods of space, who dwell beyond the stars?
If so, they surely woke up then, for we used up most of ours.
We thought we'd drift forever, lost between the stars we'd die
And all because Mcquillin bought no fuel to feed the drive.

But then the captain's eyes grew bright. She said, "It seems to me
That a fusion drive burns H20." McQuillin turned to flee.
"Grab him, boys, and hold him, he's no good to us alive,
But two hundred pounds of water will feed our dying drive."

So, once again, we fly through space, avoiding all the stars.
Who knows what ruin may take us, and what evil fate is ours?
We didn't find our planet, but we'll all but one survive,
As long as we are granted some fool to feed the drive.

("Fool to Feed the Drive, lyrics ©1982 by Jordin Kare, 'Fuel to Feed the Drive' melody ©1982 by Cynthia McQuillin)

Not being able to get missions is sort of a 'meh' thing, particularly since you outlevel the content fairly quickly. That you disappear from the memories of your contacts is annoying; it would increase the background flavor if you could, while in Praetoria, talk to the contacts that you spoke with before leaving for Primal Earth and have them recognize you and comment on how your actions on Primal Earth will help their situation.

It would probably take an engine rework before it could be done, but it would be unutterably cool to have zones where gravity was relative, so you could have maps where you could be standing on the floor and see people standing on their 'floor', which is at a 90° angle to your floor. It could be either magic-based (i.e., time-travel missions to the most secret inner recesses of Oranbega or Mu before they fell) or technology-based (gravity generators on a space station). Or just a handwaved temporary power that players get when they enter the mission that allows them to stick to the walls and ceiling.

Just go and check the Two Brains One Jar website.

I have a bind with my TA/Arch Defender that I use occasionally when we're steamrollering missions to have him say "I'm not getting much of an End discount; could you all suck a bit more?" Generally gets a laugh out of about half the team.

Oh, yes; it's mostly harmless. And, unless it has been seriously improved from when I was using it to launch Aion, mostly useless as well. I had a roughly 35% success rate at getting it to start, when it downloaded an update to itself I would generally spend a half hour going through a repeated cycle of 'NCLauncher finds an update for itself, do you want to download the update, update downloads, installs, restarts NCLauncher, go back to step 1' looping that could take a half hour or more to break out of the loop (and unless NCSoft routinely stacks half a dozen or more identically-sized updates that must be applied separately, it was just downloading and installing the same update again and again), failures to launch the game after clicking 'Play Game'...

Never done it? No. Tenevoy Ogon, my Fire/Dark Corruptor, started out with a black-and-red costume, and I'll use black or dark grey as a secondary color when I'm using various costume pieces to make them look like armor sections over a base garment (like the Imperial Stormtroopers from Star Wars); some of them have had red for the primary color.

I've noticed that many of the purple sets appear to be arranged so that the maximum utility from the enhancement percentages themselves comes with a number of enhancements below the point at which you get the most useful set bonus, which means that you're paying hugely for inefficient slotting.

That's the thing that continues to bother me about Praetoria; the early levels give you the feeling of "well, maybe it is a benevolent dictatorship", but as you progress through the storylines, you get your nose rubbed harder and harder in "Cole is evil; Cole is only interested in power; Cole cares about his image because a popular uprising would be inconvenient; Cole's lieutenants are monomaniacal, crazy, or both" until you want to escape to Primal Earth before you catch the crazy, too.

They're not Ticonderoga-class CGs, they're Arleigh Burke-class DDGs:

Don't forget that they may also have used inspirations, but filled their tray back out while they were down and the rest of the team defeated mobs.

More accurately, the Family in Sharkhead was leaning on the proprietor of the Monkey Fight Club, and rather than knuckle under to them, he took DJ Zero's offer and moved the club to Pocket D. Rather than just accept the situation, the Family got a new set of monkeys and re-opened the old location under their direct control. Listen to the dialog in each place and you'll hear them talk about it.

Although it took me three tries with my Bots/Dark MM to take him down solo. The first time, I didn't catch my bots before they followed him into the lava, and I got buried under bifurcations before I could get a full set back up. The second time, I had him pinned neatly against the wall of the chamber until my bots managed to knock him back through a gap in the geometry and out of the map entirely, rendering him untouchable.

Has anyone hung onto one and tried to use it on 'Invulnerable Reichsman" in the second mission of a subsequent KTF, or is he hardcoded to be untouchable and nothing you can do will stop him?

Right... Because Cole built each sonic pylon himself and does all the maintenance himself, too, just to make sure that no one else learns the secrets of how they work.

Right. Two rares, a component, and a Notice of the Well to make an ultra-rare.

"When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave."
*grab*
"But you didn't even try to close your hand!"
"You learn wisdom, Grasshopper."