The Avengers of Justice--new static team on Virtue

Ghost Wrath will not be there tomorrow night as I am out of town, have fun guys

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Ghost Wrath will not be there tomorrow night as I am out of town, have fun guys

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Lightson will be there, but Liberty-Flame will not. See you guys at the University in Steel Canyon at 7pm. Looking forward to it.

Good run last night all.

Quick question for all of us, is there any chance of getting another night into our play schedule like Thursday? or
maybe one Sunday a month or something along those lines.
Comments, suggestions, what-knots..

I dont want to overdo it, and I think that it's better to have a lighter schedule that's more likely for everyone to be able to attend. I don't want to exclude people who couldn't make a second night.

That said, I would be up for a second night if everyone could agree. My schedule is flexible enough to do anything but Sundays.

One alternative: I've been thinking of what to do when we're done, and your question got me to thinking about how many of us would be interesting in picking a different night and starting up a Villain static team? True there aren't the task forces but story arcs and scheduled teaming is really what I'm digging.

If three or four of us were interested, we might be able to recruit a few more to make up for those Avengers who couldn't manage it.

Just a thought.

First, I forgot to mention last night that Liberty-Flame and Lightson will be out next Tuesday because we are hosting a pre-Thanksgiving dinner for a few people.

Please feel free to finish the Midnighter arc without us--we can duo it ourselves some other time. Just let us know what you decided to do.

As for a second night, I would lean towards keeping one night a week. One of the reasons I was looking for a static group was because real life was pretty busy and without a static team I'd probably be PUG'ing or soloing (or duoing with Liberty I guess) all the time. Having said that, depending on how often we added the extra session (and what night it was) Liberty and I would fall in the "maybe" category.

About the future, I've thought of this some as well. I guess question one is: when will this team be "done"? When we all hit 50? When we've done every TF? Do we use the Flashback system or otherwise go back and do some story arcs/TF's we've leveled past (i.e. Striga, Respec TF's, Moonfire, ect.)? Do we want to go back and redo some TF's so that every current team member gets the badge and/or potential accolade? I don't have any strong convictions about any of these questions, so I'm very curious to hear what everyone else thinks.

After we decide when this team will be "done", I'm open to everything that was previously suggested. I'm much more of a blue sider, so my preference would be to play musical chairs with the AT's, but I could be convinced to go red side. There's a lot of content over there I haven't seen if I could get over a villain. Heck, assuming we get the ability to do so--which I've been hearing hints we might--it might be fun to have a static team that goes through the "side switching" process together (but I'm getting ahead of myself there really). As far as another night, that would be fine, but me and Liberty don't have a ton of flexibility with other nights that are open.

Interested to hear what the rest of you think.

To be honest all I want to do is get IC to 50, what we do when we get there I am open, flashbacks, old TF's, Shard TFs or whatever I'm game.
This team is a ton of fun to run with. The only reason I suggested starting another night, it seems to me just when we get on a roll we stop for the night.
As for red-side, I have no desire to start up a villian again, everytime I start one with a group of people something happens and we stop playing them, and I end up deleting him. I would not want us to start a villian static team untill we hit 50 blue side.

That's my 2 cents worth.

I mentioned Red Side because that's my persnal preference. I think the main point was that I would argue that a different night should be a different team, but that doesn't solve your issue.

I suppose we could make everyone happy simply by scheduling any additional meet ups one at a time to make sure we dont exclude anyone.

In any case, my two primary inputs are:

1. Would like to avoid Sundays, otherwise open.
2. Would like more regular scheduled play, but would rather skip playtime than exclude team members if possible.

I absolutely love our tuesday night thing. Just ask my housemates how jazzed I am after we get done, telling stories about our wild adventures while they grind away at another, more popular but much less fun MMO.

First, Pliska, I like your avatar pic. thats cool I dont know if youve always had it, but i just noticed

My thoughts regarding more play:
Well, My schedule currently has room for more time, but that may change in unknown ways in the near future.
Scheduling extra days one at a time might be the best suggestion because I dont want to leave anyone out either. I would even be ok with moveing the day of the week when someone cant attend (im always a little bit bummed when someone isnt there).
I have no preference regarding when we are 'done'. I would even be ok with starting a brand new group at any time. (nothing against our team, I just like making new heroes)
I do prefer blue side tho. Ive never made it past the 20s redside due to a lack of interest. A regular team like this would probly keep me going, but still, my preference is blueside.

I probly forgot something. Ill check back later.

Just a note that I'm having some pretty annoying computer problems. Normal operation works fine but anything that requires Direct3D lasts 10-30 min and then the whole system shuts down suddenly with no indication of the error.

Lot of ideas what it might be (from tech support's idea that I needed to buy some RAM---which just happened to be on sale---and reinstall windows to a friend's thought that it's the power supply), and I'm working on it, but I'm not too confident about having it going by Tuesday. SO FRUSTRATING! I've spent all day today on this and made no progress.

Finally, thanks RE: the avatar. I just made it this last week. To be totally up-front I got the idea from someone else on these boards who has something similar. It may mkae more sense to know that the character Pliska (who I consider my main) is a female dominator.

UPDATE: Fixt. Ended up being a burned-out graphics card.

I guess one good thing about not being able to play any games is you have time to get something constructive done, like fixing your computer so that you CAN play games.

Just a quick reminder that my wife and I will be out tomorrow--please go ahead and finish the midnighter arc without us. If its okay with you guys, let's plan on starting the Numina TF the week after that (Dec. 2).

As for the rest here are my thoughts/observations:

1) Based on what other people have said, if we finish a Tuesday night session and we are still mid-task force (or story arc) let's try to set up another time (before our next regularly scheduled run) to finish what we are working on. If we can't get the scheduling to work out, no biggee, we'll just wait until the next Tuesday. If even one person can't make the "bonus session" that week, we won't do it. But we can at least start trying to set up "extra runs" to finish things up.

2) At the very least let's get the currently team members to level 50 before we start any new team. At 50, let's assess whether we want to do a few more things with these toons or move on to some new toons. We can also assess at that time whether we need to change the night of our "regular" sessions.

3) Either way, it sounds like we are interested in keeping this going even after we are "finished" with our current toons. Cool!

4) Sounds like there is a preference to stay Blue side when we re-roll. However, the consistency that comes with a static team may make red-side more attractive. This is another thing we can assess at level 50, but for now it looks like we are leaning towards staying blue side. I'm already getting excited thinking about what alt I will roll up!!

5) Finally, I haven't given up on writing up our adventures. Been busy with real life stuff (and things will stay busy through the holidays), but at some point I'll try to get something new out

Let me know if you guys are okay with all this--we'll miss running with you tomorrow!

Sorry I have been away everyone but my staff have really let me down and my best employee is leaving in January so I now have to hire and re-train someone and pray that they can live up to my expectations. As of right now I am unsure if I can make tomorrow night's session but I will try my hardest.

As for other nights, I'm not sure I could make a regularly scheduled one but a random one from time to time could be feasible.

As for the future, I too prefer blue side but that because I've only gotten as high as 10 on red side. I wouldn't be oppossed to going evil afterwards but am fine with starting fresh on blue as I have a ton of toon just waiting for some love.

I am in support of everything in Lightson's post.

I am in support of everything in Pliska's post.

and I support every ones post . Glad you guys are still having fun doing this. I may be able to make a random appearance again if ya need an extra hand, going into busy time in my line of work but finally finished training all the new little LP helpers so that should free up some game time for me.

Doc M

Good to hear from ya Doc!

Well as far as extra play sessions, I'm open to anything really. My GF practically works Mon-Fri until about 9 or 10, so I am always in game, however working on different things (currently Working ona Perma Fire/Psi Dom on Freedom).

I've always had a hard time playing redside, but with a constant group of people around it's alot easier, so if we did do a Redside static team, I'm sure it could work out alot better then playing by yourself and trying to PuG it.

But whatever everyone decides is cool with me! I'll be around.
Also if only a few of us will be around tonite, I am ok with taking a night off, I can work on my Dom a bit, or run my Fire/MM on liberty even.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

Shoot guys, Im sorry I wasnt able to make it Something came up a couple hours right beffore and I wasnt able to get to my computer untill now. I feel like a jerk for not at least posting ahead of time. How did It go?

So we were just talking about possible extra days... any chance of that this week?

Another UPDATE: Nevermind, I guess I didn't have my computer problem fixed. About an hour after we quit last night the CPU literally blew up, sparks and all.
Good news its still on warranty so they're sending me a full replacement.
Bad news is I wasn't backed up and it will take about 5 business days. That means I likely wont have it by next Tuesday, and I have to do a lot of reinstalling when I do get it.

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Shoot guys, Im sorry I wasnt able to make it Something came up a couple hours right beffore and I wasnt able to get to my computer untill now. I feel like a jerk for not at least posting ahead of time. How did It go?

So we were just talking about possible extra days... any chance of that this week?

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So, how did things go last night?

With the holiday it will be hard to me and Liberty Flame to know for certain when we would be available for an "extra session" before next Tuesday. Since we have a long weekend, we will probably be online some. However since we will also be hanging out with a family a lot it will be hard to know exactly when we will be playing.

With Thanksgiving I would say lets just wait until next Tuesday to do anything formal.

Speaking of next Tuesday, let's wait and see how D's computer issues are going before we decide what to do next--I don't really want to start Numina TF without her.

Happy Thanksgiving, team!

Last night was fun, it was only Mutie, IC, and D so we did my cape & aura mishes, then the 5th column O TF. We rocked that thing hard. The only problem I see with Numi is that we'd all have to be at least 35 and I don't see myself doing that, and I know DX and IC were 33 when we logged so we might need to put that off regardless. We can try a respec trail next week, xp until lvl 34 for the first one, and being closer to 34 makes it alot easier. We could also do Philipa Meraux's arc, its a Crey story line so that could be cool too, really good story, but it tops out at 34, so we may want to make sure no one lvls too high, or we can ouro it when everyone is able to get on.

Done rambling, gotta get back to work!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

Happy Thanks giveing team!

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Last night was fun, it was only Mutie, IC, and D so we did my cape & aura mishes, then the 5th column O TF. We rocked that thing hard. The only problem I see with Numi is that we'd all have to be at least 35 and I don't see myself doing that, and I know DX and IC were 33 when we logged so we might need to put that off regardless. We can try a respec trail next week, xp until lvl 34 for the first one, and being closer to 34 makes it alot easier. We could also do Philipa Meraux's arc, its a Crey story line so that could be cool too, really good story, but it tops out at 34, so we may want to make sure no one lvls too high, or we can ouro it when everyone is able to get on.

Done rambling, gotta get back to work!

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Given that we aren't high enough level just yet to do the Numina TF, let me throw out a few options:

1) Continue working on the Midnighter arc
2) Katie Hannon TF (caps at level 34--we would need 6 to be present)
3) Moonfire TF (caps at level 28--would need 6)
4) Story arc to unlock Ernesto Hess TF (would have to Flashback it)
5)Respec trial

I will be there tomorrow night, unfortunately Liberty is still really busy with work stuff and will likely be out.

What's the consensus? Looking forward to whatever we decide to do.

I've arranged to use a friend's computer tonight since they've changed it from "5 business days" to "10-14 days". I don't foresee a problem, except that I won't be able to start on downloading any issue 13 patches until I get off work. That leaves an hour, though, so I expect to be there.

I'm up for anything, and of Lightson's list I've never done any except the Midnighter arc.

I probably will not make it tonite, I've been sick since last week and took yesterday off of work, and now that I'm halfway done with work today, I may need to get to bed early to be ok for tomorrow. As long as your not doing anything that will lock you into a double play session, I think I will bank on sitting tonite out.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Sure, the devs are supposed to listen to their customers, mister business 101 out there. And if I decide to start suggesting that the devs change the game from being about superheroes and supervillains to being about clowns that is my right as well, and technically Paragon Studios is supposed to pay attention to me. But I hope strongly that they assume a meth-head somehow managed to hack into my forum account and make paper airplanes out of my posts, because I hope they recognize stupid when they see it. I assume they will recognize futile just as accurately.

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I probably will not make it tonite, I've been sick since last week and took yesterday off of work, and now that I'm halfway done with work today, I may need to get to bed early to be ok for tomorrow. As long as your not doing anything that will lock you into a double play session, I think I will bank on sitting tonite out.

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Since we might be a little short tonight, lets just plan to finish the Midnighter arc and then go from there.

Hope you feel better soon MX!