aye it was good, but i never really found enough teams to milk it to its full potenial
Sorry I couldn't be around for some of the weekend guys - had a berevement (well a pending one actually) in the family and had to rush home to Kent. Back now and taken a couple of weeks off so I shall be around.
See you online later
Spanky
Bit of a base update
Many thanks to Mister for suggesting the Arcane buff generator thing and for his help this afternoon!
What we've done:
Enhancements storage - there are now 3 tables - enhancements have been sorted by origin - Nat/Mag Sci/Tech and Muti - I've tried to put something next to each table to help u guess which is which - best I could do
Tech salvage - 4 bins now - 2 for refined components ONLY and 2 for the unrefined junk (two closest the tables for the unrefined) - just look at whats in there as you deposit basically
Insp Holders - 2 of em - no ordering
Arcane Salvage - 2 bins - one for refined one for unrefined.
AND - one tier 3 temp power generator thingy - yeah they are not amazing - but its a good way to use our arcane salvage so use it at will - I'm liking the fear and confuse resistance myself 
What's next:
Well once u get the lead out and earn bout 6 mio more prestige we'll go for the big plot upgrade - at current rate of earnign thats about 2 months away - a long way I know but we'll get there. Everyone should be in SG mode all the time now - we have enough inf
Oh and Jon lets have some more stories - I like those! Something RSF based perhaps?
While I'm here - checkout this new info on the Cathedral Trial - sounds like for a while at least we can have IoP(s! - I'll investigate how we go plural here!) without fear of raids and base trashing!
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Here is something all you base designers may want to keep in mind:
The Cathedral of Pain is expected to be released prior to Issue 8, and it will be a little different than originally planned. It will be PvE oriented and the trial will remain active for 7 days. During this time you can earn one or more Items of Power for your Supergroup base. Then it will be off for 21 days, after which you will lose the Items of Power and this cycle repeats. Previously, it was scheduled to run only every 5 days, with 25 days off. Scheduled Base Raids are currently non-functional, but we wanted you to at least participate in the Cathedral of Pain and Item of Power portions while we address the Raid functionality internally.
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Cricket Link
Have posted the info in the Base area too but as I know some of you, mentioning no names *cough* kitty *cough* don't seem to notice much happening outside our thread..... 
PS "Its hot, damn hot, hotter than the thing in my shorts!" (100 inf if you can name the film quote)
interesting stuff sparky. i havent been on too much as its too damn hot and i havent been able to get any teams for my rad and its too hot and slow to solo with ;p
as for further stories, we'll see. i'm trying to work on my novel atm but i've been stuck on chapter 2 for a year and a half ;p
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Here is something all you base designers may want to keep in mind:
The Cathedral of Pain is expected to be released prior to Issue 8, and it will be a little different than originally planned. It will be PvE oriented and the trial will remain active for 7 days. During this time you can earn one or more Items of Power for your Supergroup base. Then it will be off for 21 days, after which you will lose the Items of Power and this cycle repeats. Previously, it was scheduled to run only every 5 days, with 25 days off. Scheduled Base Raids are currently non-functional, but we wanted you to at least participate in the Cathedral of Pain and Item of Power portions while we address the Raid functionality internally.
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Well That sucks, My CoH SG almost has the plot uprgade ready for the IoP trial, but it only lasts for 'x' days? Well... we won't have enough members on to take part me thinks. So any VG SFs happenin' soon? Just Dinged 13 so I need tow levels before I can do Cap Au Diable TF... I'm taking bets on how long it takes me to get to level 15... I'm thinking 3-6 months? Any Bets welcome... will pay 100k Inf to who ever gets it right 
well if you get in a team with us we usually level fairly quick ;p
so i say 2 weeks ;p
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I'm taking bets on how long it takes me to get to level 15... I'm thinking 3-6 months? Any Bets welcome... will pay 100k Inf to who ever gets it
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I'll bet - by sunday, when I get back from vacation. Don't fill in my spots yet guys!
@Double
Double Flame 50 fire/devices
Double Shade 50 tri-form warshade
Double Light 50 dwarf-human peacebringer
Double Control 50 earth/rad
Yeah I'm thinking its about time we did some SG SFs. What say we kick off tomorrow with the first one (15-20) and take it from there?
yeah, why not.
I do have the quandry of which toon to bring though, cos I've got Scarlet Ember and Firescar, both at 22. Ember is great - loving her much more than Cobalt, and if I ever took a brute to 50 I think it'd be her.
Firescar is rubbish solo. I've slotted for heal effectiveness up until now (yay! finally have "thaw") so she only has 2 attack powers which are both pretty poo. I'm intentionally avoiding the AoE powers at this point and won't be taking them until later.
The main reason I want to level firescar is cos I have plans for evolving her cossie! but as she heals too (and she carries a bottle of TCP for all you villains that keep falling and grazing your knees) she has her uses.
So, by now, you've probably realised that there's no point to this post, I just wanted to share my quandry with you
From a team perspective I'm guessing I'll bring FireScar - a bit of healing never went amiss, did it?
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Noooooo! I wanna do a SF 
OK Nps - we'll hold off on the first one till you ding 15 - I'm gonna be online most of the day - probably with my new corr - so happy to teamup and get some lvls under the belt!
My poor corr doesn't fancy any tf's as she won't have any travel power... woe is my power selection ;p
besides aren't u stuck doing RSF for the foreseeable mate? 
heh maybe. hopefully not. its just annoying that my first pull brought us just Synapse and Numina and we got neither.... that was a real letdown
If you do the first SF i'm there with Kitty because a) she rocks b) someone needs to fend off the fashion police and c) She hasn't done it yet
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
Gah unlucky mate
OK guys - Recluse SF this weekend - Return of the Fist.
Team Roster is so far:
Black Jon Bludd (Guide and sniper extraordinaire - teaboy)
Scarlet Vengeance (Cannon fodder provider)
Lady Doom (Bringing on the oranges at half time)
Chaos Agent (SMASHer First Class)
Major Helioss (if you don't mind Prot - Personal SBer to Fisty)
Dark Rendition with his Bot/Trap MM (Probable with preference)
Two Fist (Rent Boy)
A.N.Other - we need a strong debuffer - ice/rad would do nicely :P Hurry up and lvl jon!
Kick off is 1pm Saturday with Nuke and Shivan gathering going down tomorrow evening - I'm happy to assist here as needed.
whoopee!! nuke hunting. I hear that's REALLY exciting! :P
I'm there for RSF, natch. Also, you reckon there's any chance we could fit the 3rd respec in this weekend? Or possibly even tonight? that would be lovely, cos not only would I get a shiny I don't yet have, but I can also get rid of my crappy patron powers!
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heh well once the RSF is done i'll be doing an extensive bout of levelling my ice/rad if i can get a team...
what's with the sudden SG-wide (ish) obsession with ice toons?
I feel an ice/dark or an ice/kin coming on
Mind you, an ice character in a red cossie. hmm, that might not work so well :/
Although I must admit, running an RSF at some point in the future with several /dark corrupters does sound like a plan
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Scarlet icecube? Scarlet cornetto? better yet make a plant/ice dom and go for scarlet bush.
These ones are on the house btw, can thank me later
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
By jove they've done it again! Well done to the Reclusers on their victory early this evening - more things learnt and overall a faster time - we're getting the hang of it ... and we're STILL the only SG on Union to have done it as a SG team... twice now!
Have had a muck around with the vid I made - now bear in mind this is my first attempt at video editing and I basically don't have a clue!
Oh this one's quite large I'm afraid - 85 Meg or so - and yes I forgot to turn it on till we were on BaB
RSF
So, overall feelings for how the double xp came in anyone?
If you ask me it didn't seem to make a great deal of difference once you were through the first 15 levels.
Got my new brute to her travel power and beyond though, so that's all good. Finally cleared the debt on Cobalt too!
Mind you, it's a shame the debt cap was dropped, cos I found it was peaking at 110k debt on SV at some points, although I did manage to get it higher by random chance on a couple of occasions, although never higher than 220k.
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