7PM will do so much better for us GMT+2 - there are planty of us around Union, an entire community - but it isn't a must, i can only stay awake for as long as 10PM. so, if it is possible, 7PM will do a great deal in bringing some GMT+2 folks.
Also, already signed up with either of my 50s, but will PM you right away for some advices
@Double
Double Flame 50 fire/devices
Double Shade 50 tri-form warshade
Double Light 50 dwarf-human peacebringer
Double Control 50 earth/rad
I'd have to agree that 7 pm would probably be better for most non-UK persons (myself included). Of course you can count on stage during the raid. Well, real life permitting of course, if something comes up ill let ya know in advance 
"god, how many devs did hami have to sleep with to get ED?"
Total Cat @Stagefright
What are the rules on Christmas Jetpacks? Is there a ruling from the leader on whether the lag caused by their graphic sparkliness outweighs the benefit of all Melee character being able to reach the Mitos easily?
Hey guys,a 7pm start for me is a no no unfortunately,I may be able to make 7.30pm but being a dad hinders my start time.Failing that if it is apparent that most would prefer a 7pm start then someone else would have to take control till 8pm.
With regards to jet pack I would hope only those Heroes without flight or hover or even SJ would use it.But again if everyones follows the rules for no aura's and basic costumes then I can't see it grinding the server to a halt.
For plan B I'm thinking of the withdrawl from the jelly and leaving just the hami tank team and a crack blaster team with Defender support tactic only have everyone on the Blaster team and a few more people if we can have the Warburg Rad temp power.If we can get enough of these then we may be able to debuff him enough so the blasters can take him below 50% and keep him below while the rest moves back in.Needs a bit more planning but this tactic has been niggling away for ages now and I truly beleive it could work,wether having loads of rockets going off would lag the server to bits is another thing,.maybe try and get some system for launching them in a staggered fashion?
Anyway I'll keep you's updated
Well, it DOES take about an hour to set the teams, so someone, maybe the orginizing leader, can take over while the teams are forming, and you can jump along
@Double
Double Flame 50 fire/devices
Double Shade 50 tri-form warshade
Double Light 50 dwarf-human peacebringer
Double Control 50 earth/rad
My PA bomber team leader just pulled out and I need another,anyone up for the task?
I've also decided to have a go being official targetter myself,I have a pretty powerfull pc,but if anyone else would like to do it then let me know...Electro Mag,Jeresey?I'm only asking incase it does start at 7pm and I'm not there 
volountering my defender for duty not a team leader just for duty, rad/rad/dark if you want me
Hi guys,put me down for the raid please
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i think it won't generate THAT much more amounts of graphic lag, if u compare it to the "smoke" emitted from sprint & fly graphics
oh, and ... Battle Medic will be able to attend
i presume i'll be assisting the Hami tank?
If Hobo or Stage don't turn up I will gladly lead the PA drop team DK!
Tera Storm will be there again for blasting and backup-holding duties - let's see if we can actually kick Hami's ar- (...er, no wait, he's a gelatinous blob, that won't work) ...er, I mean, kick whatever passes for Hami's backside...
I will be in, hoping my tanker can be useful, at least to protect mito phase from monsters and, hopefully, in the final stage.
About Jetpacks, I think they have too many graphical effects and can increase too much the lag to use them during mito phase, anyway the mito phase went very well last time, so i think it's not necessary to change something that works well.
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I've also decided to have a go being official targetter myself,I have a pretty powerfull pc,but if anyone else would like to do it then let me know...Electro Mag,Jeresey?
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If you don't want to, which might be understandable if you want view raid progress from a less intimate position, then I'll help out... assuming I'm Jeresey that is.
Scarletta looking forward to it.
Scarletta emp/healer lvl 50
Silver Dove PB lvl 50
Goldie lvl 41
Ebonie WS lvl 23
Red Pain Vill MM lvl 35
i only have too lvl 3 more times and hopefully i will be there one problem i am an inv tank and i could produce alot of lag sorry
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i only have too lvl 3 more times and hopefully i will be there one problem i am an inv tank and i could produce alot of lag sorry
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As long as you don't turn on your toggles your fine dude,your shields are useless so don't even bother
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My PA bomber team leader just pulled out and I need another,anyone up for the task?
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well if I'm able to make it, I'll be more than happy to fill that part
"god, how many devs did hami have to sleep with to get ED?"
Total Cat @Stagefright
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i think it won't generate THAT much more amounts of graphic lag, if u compare it to the "smoke" emitted from sprint & fly graphics
oh, and ... Battle Medic will be able to attend
i presume i'll be assisting the Hami tank?
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Yes. You, Velinia (assuming she can make the date) and some of the other usuals will be in my team. While I like to train in new people on every Raid, I *do* like to have a few old hands around as well. Especially if we go in as early as last time.
The above should make it obvious that I will lead the Hami tank team, as I have done since Bluetrino went on extended vacation. I don't mind the debt, I don't mind the idle-time, and I know the strats.
Do you want to be a Hami-tank?
If so, PM me, but FIRST read this:
The Hami tank team consists of 8 people. Between 3 and 5 of these people are Empathy Defenders. The other 3 are any Tankers or Regen scrappers who want to try and tank the Hamidon core. Only tanks who do not mind
1) Being bored, and
2) Dying. A LOT.
need apply. You must ALSO have Taunt (Tanker) or Confront (Scrapper). On the plus side, you get to keep the Turtle from eating dust, and you can even pose while doing it. If you want
Empaths: Any empaths interested in being part of this team must also pls pm me. Sometimes my usual staff can't make it, and there's room for new people.
Disco: I assume the Raid leaders will have a global channel where we can talk to each other easily, yes? Now we have the feature, let's abuse it for all it's worth
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yeah I think the global channels can be used nicely to circumvent idiots spamming request channel, or shouting orders while not teamleader. If you just pm a channelname to the teamleaders, you can give orders there which the leaders will then relay to their team.
"god, how many devs did hami have to sleep with to get ED?"
Total Cat @Stagefright
I wouldn't mind being a hami tank. I have Dull Pain 3xHeal, 3x Recharge so speed boosts would help that being perma. Taunt is 4 slotted ( 2x taunt 2x recharge ). I have Health 3 slotted. I run Hasten as much as poss. Apart from that I have no other useful anto Hami powers ( unless Combat Jumping and Weave work against Hami which I doubt ).
I'm only level 46 though.
I suspect that Hami raids are boring. But I don't care.
@Unthing ... Mostly on Union.
Noir: i never was in the hami tank team before, but if u are searching a tanker that:
1) will be bored only if raid fails
2) absolutely don't care of dying
then you can count on me, if you want.
Great, you're both welcome. You're both new, and the more I spread the knowledge the happier I am. My empaths are also sorted. I have at least 3 really good ones, probably 4, and I can easily get the 5th.
So that's my entire team.
Its unlikely I'll be able to make this one as I'm at the Out-Laws for Christmas.
OK guys'n'gals I'm sorry for lack of progress on this but this past week and a half have been very hectic for me in RL(poorly daughter,busy workload and a wife who has been nabbing the PC to get her software realeases out on time).Combined with the fact that a couple of players I was relying on can't now make the 22nd has left me in limbo a bit To be more specific PA team leader can't show up and as I was relying on him to sort his team out you can see the pickle I'm in.
So I need volunteers for the PA team.
Jiaozy has volunteered to lead the PA team but again we need players to join him.
Jersey will hopefully be the targetter,if not can you do it again Electro Mag?
Organising a Hami raid is no easy thing,imo,and I really apologise for me not being very good at it.I just haven't had the time to get things done as I wanted too.
The plan is done and I will let each leader know tomorrow.I'm gonna work my socks off from now to get this back on track as I realy want this to work,so bear with me guys
Ok the date has been set for Thursday 22nd December at 8.00pm
If you know of a controller who doesn't read these forums point him this direction or remind them of the date please.
I must apologise for the lack of info prior to this announcement but I've slowly talking to various peeps who don't read these boards and I'm glad to say I've about 15 controllers who don't read these forums say they'll turn up.So with the number of forumite controllers we may have enough,I'm hoping to get at least 35
Ok onto the plan...well I'm going to stick to with tried and trusted holding stratergy with,hopefully,a few new additions to try and make it easier(I'll post these when I've finalised them).
So here's the basic plan for the night:[*]Heroes gather outside the Hive from 7.30pm and sort yourselves into teams[*]The Hami Tank team and PA team move in the Hive 1st at 8.00pm[*]The rest of the Heroes move in once the Hami tank and PA team are in position[*]The Heroes form a turtle and the Mito clearing phase begins[*]Once all Mito's are cleared all Heroes will retreat to Cowards Hill and the Holding phase will begin [*]If holding Hami is succesfull we beat up Hami,if not we move onto plan B[*]Plan B will be announced in a couple of days,there is a couple of things we could try and I'm just trying to work out which one is most viable and trouble free in terms of organising[*]If we manage to take Hami down then the Hami buds spawn,we take care of them and job's a good un
Now that is how it should go but in my experiance it wont go anywhere near as smooth as that,there are however a few thing we can do to make sure it goes ahead as smoothly as possible
[*]Costumes and Aura's
I think most of us know what the crack is concerning costumes and aura's.It makes like so much easier if players actually come in the right costume with no aura's repeat NO AURA'S.For those not in the know check out Jiaozy's Hamidon costume guide
[*]Shields and toggles
Any shields or toggles that give defense bonus or resistance are useless on Hamidon raids and I therefore ask anybody who has such shields not to use them at all.This is primarily aimed at Tanks and Scrappers but also anyone else with an epic shield too.No Sheilds please
[*]Slotting of powers
Ok this one has divided most players I've spoken too but I would appreciate it if everyone who has a hold slot as many hold enhancements as possible..no recharge enhancements pls.The same goes for damage,slot as many damage enhancements as possible please.
I would rather everyone was getting a 105% bonus to their attacks and holds than a 90% bonus and who knows it may prove key in holding Hamidon
[*]The Turtle
For the vast majority of players attending this is where you'll be and if you follow a few simple steps this can go very,very easy indeed.Once the turtle starts to clear the Mito's the easiest way is for everyone to have the official targetter on thier friends list(/friend xxxx)and just follow the targetter,once your following him you'll automatically target thru him too.This means the Turtle will move as one group and will only target whatever the Targetter has targetted.
[*]Chat channels
Plaese,please refrain from using REQUEST chat whilst the raid is ongoing.This channel is reserved for the raid leaders to convey instructions.Also remember to actually add the REQUEST channel to your usual chat tab,ther were some players in the last raid who didn't hear a word during the raid and thus had no idea what was going on,so make sure you have request open in some form or another please
If you have any questions during the raid please ask your team leader,if he doesn't know the answer then try local but plaese leave request alone for the reasons already stated.
Ok thats the basics,I will post more details in the comming days so keep checking this post
I also need raid leaders and volunteers for the Hami tank team and PA drop team,so if you could PM me if your interested that would be great.I have some people already said they would but they would be 1st timers and I'd really like to get some old hands leading the the above teams.
Also with the nice present we have just recieved Group Fly will not be needed
Ok then thats it for now,spread the word people lets bring Hamidon down and be one of the 1st servers to actually do it
We need as many controllers as possible
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