Aggro issues were just fine when a new toon did the Positron TF. Only issue was the TF leader was an exemplar'd lvl 41 and when the ambush happened it brought in some lvl 41 CoT's in Steel Canyon that creamed the leader in one shot...POW! I hope nobody else got creamed...the rest of us just ran. Might want to set the ambush spawn a little differently. Cause they kept chasing us til he went to the hospital Otherwise great fun!
I think the exemplar function was a good idea just the way it was implimented is flawwed instead of attaching your exemplar to a player it should be attacked to the team itself likely = to the highest lvl person in the team thats not also an exemplar but make it so you can't have more exemplars than normal folks then no matter who drops the function remains functional to its fullest.
Howabout when joining a TF as exemplar you're exemplared by the TF to the TF's highest level? Can only be undone by quitting or finishing the TF? That way, if your Exemplar buddy has to drop, you don't have to as well?
Or even a group of friends who're in their 20s can go do the Positron TF.. they get deleveled down to 16 to do the TF? That'd work great. 
I have still noticed that if not provoked, in a group, the mobs will pick on me over everyone else. I don't draw unnecessary aggro during battle, but if a mob charges, all the ranged attackers always hit me first. Like they know at any time I could bust out level 30 on their behinds.
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The level 45 mob ambush on Numina's task force isn't exemplar related. When a friend and I duo'ed this tf, we were both 38 and got this exact same ambush. I died, /bugged it and moved on.
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Yah, the family one. I'm guessing it searches for mobs of the right faction at or above the player's level. Since family stop at 30ish from the IP/Talos zone/contacts and then there are 2 missions in the 45-50 range...you get the 45s.
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1) They happen in the wrong zone -- not Exemplar related, but if I have to go kill 20 Sky Raiders in Terra Volta, why are they ambushing me in Crey's Folley, etc.
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Same reason they always do. Ambushes pick a player to go after for some reason and then spawn where that player is. No different than it is with any regular mission.
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For me, that's the real benefit for trading off forward advancement and access to powers: When the mentoring session takes an ugly turn you can unleash your real potential on your foes to protect your student. Especially with the ability to get deeper into debt mentioned further down the thread from your post, forcing characters to be stuck at a low level is basically like punishing them for helping their friends. That nobody really gets any exp for the mobs that drop once you unexemplar is penalty enough for doing so, there's no need to make some arbitrary level lock during missions.
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Spot on. There is no real reward worth thinking about for /exemplaring, so there should be no real penalty. It's just a way to play with friends. Don't make it a huge risk on top of that.
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Where the heck did you dredge this post up from?
Someone's been practicing thread-cromancy.
i finally finished the positron TF last night and if any i'd say i aggro'd a bit less than i'm used to now.
but then i had a good tanker with me.
I've been dropped out of a great TF team when i was exemped on the server down a few days ago and i was really anoyed by it..
but after doing positron i got out of the 230k debt i earned killing 50 malta so meh...
The hardest part about exemping is that you can never leave your pc for the duration of the tf normally i have breaks now and then or with a 4 hours TF i might even want to continue the next day..
but oh well.
This is my nominee for best thread ever.
Not only is it *amazingly* impressive to necro something on a board as crazy as this one that's 5 months old, but it also generated an "I agree" response at that point.
I think we need to keep it alive indefinately at this point, just for history's sake....
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This is my nominee for best thread ever.
Not only is it *amazingly* impressive to necro something on a board as crazy as this one that's 5 months old, but it also generated an "I agree" response at that point.
I think we need to keep it alive indefinately at this point, just for history's sake....
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I could direct you to a thread where Cuppa posted about the manual update coming with Issue 3, if you like...y'all are more than welcome to necro that one too. It's even six months old, just like this one.
Here be the link!
My first "turning point" in this city was during the Rularuu Invasion, and charging in with my BS/Regen Scrapper. Skyway City, at Level 10. It went...poorly.
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Where the heck did you dredge this post up from?
Someone's been practicing thread-cromancy.
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What can I say, my powers are great and terrible. Ive got more evil things, but they would probably be censored.
10 points!~!
It seems funny to me, but I think the solution to the exemplar problem might be to leave you exemplared through a logout like sk's were before. Maybe make this a special case for task forces, but it wouldn't hurt in general. You always have the unsk button in a team, and on a TF you should still get kicked if you unsk. This seems like a simple solution to me. It would allow an exemplar to continue the TF through connection problems. You would still have an issue if your buddy actually left the TF, but that's another story. An RSK timer would fix this, but just seems like more trouble than it would be worth.
Just my 15M inf.