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Amen brother! I think they should have monsters spawning in every zone. Even if its like once an hour. In random placesso theres no camping. It's just a lot more fun.
Only ones I know of right now are
1)Kraken in PP
2)Adamastor in DA
3) Babbage in Boom<soon>
4)Jurasic in Eden
5)Big Malta Mech in either PI or FF<can't remember>
Feel free to update this if I'm wrong and post any others that I might have missed
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Honestly, as much as I hate dying and debt (I think my level 16 controller has died twice in her lifespan... I'm quick to throw up Personal Force Field run when the [censored] hits the fan {trust me though, i do try my best, but any idiot can tell when you've entered into a loosing fight}).
But I would LOVE to see some of these monsters roll through Atlas Park or Steel Canyon. Just be sitting there in Blyde Square with friends when you see someone run by and just a second later you see Babbage running after him. Hilarity! Maybe have the city versions of these monsters not agro on anything less than level 14 unless provoked (you have a travel power, use it if you don't want to fight).
I've been laid out by Rikti while afk in Blyde. It happens. Anyone knows that if you're not near police drones, you CAN die. And even then, you're really only safe inside buildings while afk'ing.
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Oddly enough, I've never seen Babbage in Boomtown, but have seen him in Skyway at least a dozen times (appearing as part of the Synapse TF).
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Is the Babbage supposed to spawn in Boomtown?
In short, the answer is yes.
Does the Babbage currently spawn in Boomtown?
No this is a bug. Were working on it.
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Oddly enough, I've never seen Babbage in Boomtown, but have seen him in Skyway at least a dozen times (appearing as part of the Synapse TF).
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Ummm....
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Is the Babbage supposed to spawn in Boomtown?
In short, the answer is yes.
Does the Babbage currently spawn in Boomtown?
No this is a bug. Were working on it.
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No I didn't miss it. I am quite aware of it.
Are you aware that Babbage, until recently, has spawned in Boomtown for months?
Let me repeat. Babbage used to spawn in Boomtown.
My teammates have screenshots of Babbage in Boomtown that prove this.
This is the point of my comment. I have been playing since the 3 day headstart. I've taken a dozen different characters into Boomtown over the last 5 months and spent the equivalent of days there. And I have never seen Babbage in Boomtown (where he was supposed to spawn all the time). And yet I have seen him in Skyway many times where he only spawns for a Synapse task force. Hence the irony.
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Quite finished having a rant Nowaki? Perhaps you may not realize this, but it's sort of difficult to grasp your situation when you don't actually mention what it is. Sorry, forgot to take the "Telepathy" power set.
P.S. I don't know of anyone that's ever seen Babbage in Boomtown, and I know of a _lot_ of people that have gone looking for him.
P.P.S. To belabor the point: the times you see him in Skyway are when he never makes it to the people he's supposed to be ambushing as part of their TF.
P.P.P.S Lighten up, you'll give yourself an aneurism.
I killed Babbage alongside my Task Force and got no badge.
THey all got badges. I am a healer, so I didn't do any damage to it.
At least that's my theory.
Character Name: Lady Ariel
Server: Justice
Time: 20:00 CST (On the dot, maybe 19:59)
DATE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 (3 days after the update)
Location: Skyway
Occasion: Synapse TF
Event: Babbage
Other characters present: Cryptobioticman, Lushoto,
Electric Chaos, some others
TF Leader: Me
Earned Babbage Badge: Everyone else but me
Here is a thread where I whine about it:
My Babbage thread
I used to hang out in a level 34 character (who flies) for hours, looking for Babbage in Boomtown, during Beta test. Been playing the game since February. I know he used to spawn in Boomtown, but very rare. That ;ed to a lot of people camping Babbage in Skyway and ksing a TF out of theirs.
I hope they can put in a Babbage that spawns in Boomtown similar to how Kraken and Adamastor have been, if for no other reason than to not ruin the fun of people on Synapse's TF.
And my client is untouched and DA is foggy, and you can see Adamastor from about 200 yards away. He's huge.
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I have a level 33 blaster, Addy was yellow to me. It took lots of heal insps, and the monster hits hard, bring a friend.
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Adamastor was trivially easy, though a VERY long kill, as a 31 tanker. I had the support of an END-battery in the form of a empathy healer, which helped, but didn't appear to be necessary. Stamina is suffcient.
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Given most blasters glass jaws I would recommend taking an empathy with you also. But the main thing for dealing with him is just stay off the ground. His main attack is the foot stomp and if your airborn it wont hit you. If you dont have fly - 
Monsters need to spawn more often for god's sake! At least a few or so in high level trial/hazard zones, and not so many in lowers but still enough that you at least SEE them.
I have never seen a spawn zoned monster aside from when they accidently or intentionally increased spawn rate of the kraken and adamaster recently. And you know what...? That is waaaaay too rare.
Monsters used to spawn in eden, what happened to that? I was greatly looking forward to taking a team to hunt some monsters and the high mobs in eden, major let down for me.
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Oddly enough, I've never seen Babbage in Boomtown, but have seen him in Skyway at least a dozen times (appearing as part of the Synapse TF).
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Ummm....
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Is the Babbage supposed to spawn in Boomtown?
In short, the answer is yes.
Does the Babbage currently spawn in Boomtown?
No this is a bug. Were working on it.
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Did you miss that?
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No I didn't miss it. I am quite aware of it.
Are you aware that Babbage, until recently, has spawned in Boomtown for months?
Let me repeat. Babbage used to spawn in Boomtown.
My teammates have screenshots of Babbage in Boomtown that prove this.
This is the point of my comment. I have been playing since the 3 day headstart. I've taken a dozen different characters into Boomtown over the last 5 months and spent the equivalent of days there. And I have never seen Babbage in Boomtown (where he was supposed to spawn all the time). And yet I have seen him in Skyway many times where he only spawns for a Synapse task force. Hence the irony.
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Can we see this screenshot? I've never been able to find him and need something to give me hope.
So much for me re-doing the Task Force this weekend.
First did the task force about a month ago, never saw Babbage anywhere.
And yeah, I'll admit it, now that I know there is a badge for Babbage, I want it!
I got the badge last night for rescuing a task force who nearly got wiped out. They thanked me for saving them aswell.
Thats a bummer Ariel1.
You didnt do ANY damage to Babbage during the fight?
Not sure thats a bug, seems to follow a lot of the rules for badges, if you're grouped and you touch a plaque you dont both get the credit for fulfilling that requirement. (Not commenting on right or wrong, just an observation)
I guess on a lower level team a healer could be kept pretty busy keeping an inexperienced group alive, but sneak in a shot once in awhile would be my advice. 
yeah, for two weeks now. HOW CAN THEY LET SUCH THINGS HAPPEN FOR 14 days?!! DAMN THEM!! DAMN THEM ALL!!!
RELAX, its a bug, it will get squashed. Now, here,......... catch this lit torch,.... you troll.
Anybody see this yet?
Recently Added To The Training Room: 9/24/04:
<stuff not relevant to current thread deleted>
Boomtown: the Monster Babbage is now spawning correctly in this zone.
Off to the test server to hunt Babbage!
(I dont call him THE Babbage anymore, we know each other well enough that we address each other informally now) 
Not sure if this is by design or a bug, but a few days ago we killed Babbage as part of a portal mission ( I believe it was called 'Find the biggest Clockwork' ) but none in the team got the badge. Does only the low lvl Babbage count, since the one we killed was lvl 48 ?
I think that's the Psychic Babbage or something, it's not THE Babbage that is in Boomtown/Skyways.
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Wasn't that Doc Vahz ... ? Close enough the two are I suppose, but both are equally FUN!
Honest question: Do you think we have enough post patch Babbage Threads? 
Thsi seems a very simple fix. What's taking so long?
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Take a drive on over to Cryptic's studios and poke that code fix in there will ya? I mean, very simple, right? Go for it. Please.
ok i don't get it, so in the patch notes it states clearly babage is now spawning in boomtown so i go to boomtown and recruit 7 other searchers and we comb the area for 90 min with no success. About 50 min into our search i send a general help petetion asking if he is indeed spawning since the timeframe was getting alittle ridiculous if he is there. So no answer to petetion until i check my email in which the helper said he is spawning now but no it is random. What does that mean random? SO i reply that i understand his spawn location is random but if they can please tell me the frequency of his spawns approximately. TO which i get a response indicating that is information that cannot be released at this time. Is this the cia we are talking about? Anyway i don't think he is spawning. Just my 2 cents.
I'm thinking either the server needs a reset or Babbage can't spawn while the TF babbage is running around?!? Many of us Have been rotating hunting shifts for the Robot
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Someone once posted about two different TFs' Babbages spawning at virtually the same time resulting in a TF team fighting both (They jumped the first one, the second one jumped them). If this is true, then the Boomtown Babbage should be able to spawn independently.
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After they put the Babbage spawn back in, I vote that they put it in 3-4 other places as well, and keep 'em spawning all night. Personally, I'd LOVE to see an army of 10 of them rampaging through Boomtown. Hell, rampage a force of like 200 Clocks, lead by 10 Babbages and a CLockwork King down the streets of Steel some evening. You know... just to spice things up.
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Amen brother! I think they should have monsters spawning in every zone. Even if its like once an hour. In random placesso theres no camping. It's just a lot more fun.
Only ones I know of right now are
1)Kraken in PP
2)Adamastor in DA
3) Babbage in Boom<soon>
4)Jurasic in Eden
5)Big Malta Mech in either PI or FF<can't remember>
Feel free to update this if I'm wrong and post any others that I might have missed
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First, let me preface by saying that this game is EXTREMLY fun... but our recent "invasion" fell a little flat. I would love to see this kinda thing. Super group chat channels would light up. "HEY, ALT MONKEY! LOG ON YOUR MAIN!!! QUICK! WE'VE GOT INCOMING!!"
Oh, and I haven't heard about Kronos spawning before...