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Have you ever spawned a Shadow Crystal Cyst in PI?

Airborne_Ninja

By Airborne_Ninja,
Posted on: 2009-06-20 20:12 in Kheldians

 

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I've never seen this happen, but tonight as I was in PI, clearing the parking lots near Portal Corp (you know, it's a community service... someone has to take care of those rampant CoT's), I suddenly saw a crowd of several Possessed Scientists around a black and purple object!

Sure enough, as I closed in, I saw the object was in fact... a Shadow Crystal Cyst which happily spawned its lovely fluffy black/purple balls of slow and agonizing death just as I landed in Dwarf form.

Being surrounded by both Possessed Scientists and fluff balls, unaided by anything or anyone, I had to take out the mezzers first, then some fluff balls before concentrating on the Cyst which all the while thought it'd be a wonderful idea to manufacture more fluffies for fun and profit!

Needless to say, the battle ended with one blown-up Cyst and several fluffies leaving the spot in a hurry and disappearing in the PI sky.

Honestly though, I was quite annoyed about the whole thing. I mean, why should my character be responsible for spawning a Cyst in an OPEN ZONE?!

It wasn't great fun taking the Cyst down and in the meantime, others could've been hurt (I saw some lowbie characters who went by and had to taunt some fluffies and Scientists so they'd leave them alone).

Prehaps the code should re-examine to ensure Cysts cannot spawn in open zones, especially not if there's just one Kheldian in the area... what do you guys think?

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Yeah, I do believe I've seen one or two. Not often, though, and it's been long enough I wouldn't swear to it in court.

 

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I think that would be awesome. You mentioned you were in PI? Why would you be concerned about lowbies there? Atlas Park, maybe... But, PI? C'mon.... I LOVE soloing them things him human form on both my PB and my WS....

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I spawned one in the sewers.

 

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Back before the Hollows revamp when I would blow up Trolls in Red River with their bombs on my PB it would spawn a Cyst every once and a while (as well as in other places). It didnt matter though because it just made the explosion even bigger

 

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It's happened to me once before but it was a while ago. I'm pretty sure I was in The Hollows as well. It's hardly terrible considering your ranged attacks can strike from outside the Cyst's aggro radius.

However, it does pose a potentially serious problem for players who don't have experience with the buggers. Unfortunately, the Shadow Cyst spawn code has always had a mind of its own (High-end content only...right ),

 

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I assume you know it would have been better to ignore the fluff balls and just destroy the cyst. But yea, I'm sure many appreciate that.

Given what I just said... If some lowbie is in PI near portal corp... I say let them die the stupid and horrible death they deserve. PLing is for lame ducks who can't figure out "Hey, I could get levels far quicker if I actually went out and did missions instead of standing in PI/Grandville begging to be powerleveled".

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Sure why now?. Makes about as much in game sense to spawn right in downtown PI as they do in regular missions

 

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In regular missions, at least the "responsible" Kheldian can warn their team-mates... when I was in PI and finally noticed the Cyst that spawned in my "hunting-ground", I had already seen several lowbie toons (a Lv25 tank I believe, and some others) who were probably just waiting idely for their PL team to gather around for their next mission.

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In regular missions, at least the "responsible" Kheldian can warn their team-mates... when I was in PI and finally noticed the Cyst that spawned in my "hunting-ground", I had already seen several lowbie toons (a Lv25 tank I believe, and some others) who were probably just waiting idely for their PL team to gather around for their next mission.

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heh, that'll teach them to PL. No, probably didn't. It's nice to dream anyway.

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I've probably caused a Cyst Crystal to spawn in an open zone (though I usually stay in one part of the zone so I'd never know). I always hated spawning them on the KHTF, though - they would always spawn in the second mission, and of course they can see through stealth, so it made ghosting that mission a bit more challenging. My biggest "oh [censored]!" moment was when we were running a KHTF on Invincible and a Cyst Crystal spawned with the last wave of Cabal. So we were dealing with a +5 AV and her spawn, and a large purple cloud of death.

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In regular missions, at least the "responsible" Kheldian can warn their team-mates... when I was in PI and finally noticed the Cyst that spawned in my "hunting-ground", I had already seen several lowbie toons (a Lv25 tank I believe, and some others) who were probably just waiting idely for their PL team to gather around for their next mission.

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In gameplay, that's true, but I was speaking thematically. Cysts are supposed to be the homes and transportation centers of unbound nicti - safe places to keep them from dying. So they're supposed to be, like, semi-precious and worthy of security.

But no, those brilliant nicti put them in the middle of swamps with Hydra, or in wartorn alternate dimensions with Praetori, so why not downtown Peregrine Island - seems like a perfectly safe place as well (note sarcasm)

 

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So we were dealing with a +5 AV and her spawn, and a large purple cloud of death.

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The Scrapper side of me thinks, "Oh my goddess, soooo wish i could have been there for that one!"

 

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I did this a few years back before the police drones were outside portal corps and people used to farm monsters in the courtyard. With so many people in the area the Cyst was geared for an 8 person group and the place just swarmed with Nictus ...it was judged that the Cyst was more dangerous than the Giant monsters.

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...it was judged that the Cyst was more dangerous than the Giant monsters.

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I've never seen a GM that spawns it's own entourage of debuffers... so that's understandable in my opinion...

I believe that a Kheldian Gold Standard should be based on SO's, and for anything above that... there's Platinum!

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