Militia Thursdays

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Great - I will keep an eye out,

Should we assume IC-wise that these new "reserve"-members also got a letter asking them to join the Militia?

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I'm gonna have Derek call Drummond instead, probably ordered by the militia though. Will make it easier for Drummond to do a friend a favor then heeding to some "stupid anonymous brown letter from some [censored]-headed goverment agency" as he would probably put it.

Hi Guys...

We certainly desperately need tanks, and I would suggest an extra few controllers/defenders...

I have no slots left on Union, but If all else failed, I could have Cryotherapy, my lvl 25 Tank / Psychiatrist fill in the gaps (Hey, he could even be treating Force Commander)!

As far as new toons, My feeling is that character concept should be the prime concern. However, I would strongly advise any one to seriously consider if they could make the concept a tank instead of a scrapper or a defender instead of a blaster if possible, otherwise the groups will be hard work...

Im not saying DONT roll a scrapper or blaster, just think twice. As Dragonfly has said - the personality of rush in heedless (like DFly) actually suits a tank better. A superstrength/invun tank-brawler instead of a martialart/reflexes scrapper for instance.

Similraly if thinking about a tech blaster, consider a radation/electric defender for instance.

Again, play what you want, but I do forsee the lack of tanks (and to a lesser degree controllers or defenders) being a significant problem. FC had a devil of a job yesterday in a team of 8 with one defender, one controller and no tank

Oh, sorry an extra thought

Scrappers have always been the most solo-freindly AT, and thus are a little underpowered in groups (well, fairs fair!). I would point out that as the Militia is a team based organisation, it really is the perfect oppurtunity to play team based characters, particularly ones that are viewed a "gimped" like Trick Archery - And for the reference I think Trick Archery is great (better than empathy by far) in big teams...

Anyway, just a point I tought I aught to bring up - Its a TEAM, and the chance to play very team orientated toons. Force Commander cant solo for toffee for instance, but he's extremely valuable to the militia (If i say so myself

FC ftw!

Hmm.. maybe I'm optimistic, but it looks like AT problem is now solved.

All wee needed was one or two active tankers since Diamondskin is away.

Leygran, Blitz, FC and Hawkshaw are excellent team support.. and are active in the SG.

With not one, but three new tankers in the basket. Mer'de will certainly be in tanking-shape by next week.

Well, confession time, I'm a chronic altaholic and so I have a collection of toons from levels 6 - 17 (Hey, I get bored ok?), hardly any of which are in supergroups. I've rolled just about every AT out there so if we do need a particular skill, I'm happy to add any of them to the party.

IC, they all sort of know each other anyway. Amber's cousin, the "expert" on Vahzilok, Unit 29, they all know each other in some way. So if we do want to introduce any of them, I'm quite happy to bring them in.

I guess we'll just see what works out. I think we're fairly even as it is, the only thing missing may be....

(can't believe I'm about to say this....)

is possibly a healer. Don't hit me!

We are become a Justice league unlimited then? Where every week has a guest hero lol

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We are become a Justice league unlimited then? Where every week has a guest hero lol

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It is an Theme then

I feel awful to keep spamming scrappers on the Militia, but the way Lady C's story ties in with the COV-plot, she would simply not work as anything other than an MA

On another note, the download timer for COV on my new PC now says 2:41 hours left, so it's nowhere near as bad as I had feared - of course there will be some more time to apply once the download is finished, but I had feared I would be looking at 20+ hours

hehe. guess we'll be meeting your new scrapper tonight?

It sure looks like it - unless something goes really wrong, application of the new patch should be finished in 5 minutes - that really was fast compared to what I had feared

Okay. I'ts been very on-off play today due to life being hectic here at mumz. Hope I can play uninterupted.

I'm logging in now.. whats ur srapper called again?

Yay! On-line and just taking Lady C for a spin

Healers? Pffft!

Seriously, although healers appear fantastic at levels 1-20, at levels 30+ (i.e. expereinced teams) they are pretty low down the list... Tanks are first priority, and then you are looking at good buffers/debuffers like TA, Kinetics, Rad, Dark etc... Most empaths I know at level 30+ are mainly valuable for their buffs like clear mind and fortitude, not their heals!

Anyway thats bye the bye... We should all play the characters and the concepts we want Id just point out that we dont "need" a healer

As to rolling a scrapper, that fine, but clearly some scrapper sets (like all sets) are more team orientated than others - The more AoE powers a set has the more valuable to a large team. Hence, spines is great in big teams (lot sof AoE), martial arts is a single target god (only one AoE). Again, we should all play the toons we want but just something to think about.

FUN FTW!!!

Couldn't agree more. This is fun so we should play whatever archetype appeals to us. I was just offering a few alternatives should we need them.

And as for healers, yes, "We need a healer" is one of my most hated terms too...

Since theres no real heirachy in the group, could we maybe use the ranking system for say.. status ID?

I mean Leader could be 'Moderators'

Commander and Captain ranks for 'Active' or main RP chars.

Lietenant rank for the 'Reserve' chars and other alts.

and Member rank to identify those who are 'Away' like Diamondskin and soon, 'Dragonfly.

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Since theres no real heirachy in the group, could we maybe use the ranking system for say.. status ID?

I mean Leader could be 'Moderators'

Commander and Captain ranks for 'Active' or main RP chars.

Lietenant rank for the 'Reserve' chars and other alts.

and Member rank to identify those who are 'Away' like Diamondskin and soon, 'Dragonfly.

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Id braodly agree with this.. but whats a moderator?

I would say...

Founder (Leave as is, a reference of honour to our creators!)

Leader (Old guard, organiser type)

Captain (Deputies to Leaders)

Member (Most of us)

Reservist (Non-active characters)

I'm thinking Out Of Character. Using to ranks to identify who's who and what status they're currently at.

Moderators would be base designers, plot registrers, basically the OOC person organizing the SG.

Members would be active or main RP chars.

Reservist would be our other alts.

Away would be for those who are away..

*shrugs* I dunno if the idea's popular.. just a suggestion.

About Saffrons performance live on stage. Did you all really attend "The Ship"? Is there souch a place in Paragon? If that is so I'm very sorry I missed it I was planning on coming but knew no time or place. Otherwise if the performance exists only on textform, Derek was most definately there. I'll prolly post something about it later.

You can consider it "off stage" as the RPGers say.
It happened but it was not played out.

I'm not aware of any place in the city called that, it was pulled out of thin air. If you read the IC thread, you'll see that it's left deliberately ambiguous so that certain people could be there or not. I leave it entirely up to yourselves whether people's characters attended or not. Thanks for the clarification DB.

IM sad to say that im leaving th game for a few months (computer is screwed gettin a new one in that time) i will miss the thursdays, but i have no choice, ill try to check up on the story when i cna and hopefully ill see you all around issue 8

Bah and

Sad to see you go dude but hope to see you back some time. We'll still be going, I'm sure.

Hi people. It looks like there might be a fair few new characters wandering around tonight so I think I'm going to leave Unit 29 at home unless others think we need him? There may be some new people coming as well so I will stand out by the statue just in case but I will pop into the base for a little while too. Hope to see you all there.

Mer'de will be there. Unfortunately, Dragonfly will not.

This *does* give Amber and Angel the flexibily to discuss the situation without worry of Dragonfly knowing.