What a wonderful time that was, goes down in my book as most enjoyable Hami raid yet for me, great teams, great humour throughout, fantastic spectacle to see so many familiar faces!, Vets and relative newcomers all joining forces!, and to think... i forgot it was on this Sunday evening.... So grateful for the invite!, not only because I actually got a Hami this time which fitted and was pretty useful to me, but more than that - I wouldn't of missed it for the world..even if there were no Hami's/Xp/badgeypoos at the end.
Absolute Classic!.
A couple of screenshots.
Hami 1
Hami 2
Hami 3
Hami 4
Hami 5
Hami 6
Hami 7
Hami 8
(Subtitled - Mother gets a migraine mid-battle)
Hami 9
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Action shot of me on the right! Kodak moment!
Great raid guys and very good organisation... heck, it's the most organised raid I've been on. Maybe next time I might even get an invite!
Cheers 
Mark Stabler:
Tea with Hamidon
Thanks Sal & co - an enjoyable raid. Union doing Hami twice in 3 days... we're almost turning American 
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Anyone sold the film rights yet?
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't was an interesting raid
not that many ppl as in a public raid, BUT we prevailed
very high repeat factor 
took a couple of screenshots which can be found here.
hami raid 1
hami raid 2
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First off, thanks to Salacious for organizing it. Good job!
I've been on three Hami raids now. The first was where we didn't clear the Mitos. The second and third was this Friday and Sunday.
I enjoyed the one this Sunday the most, mainly because of the lack of lag. During the Mito clearing I didn't even have to tune the graphics settings. We could concentrate on organisation and fighting the Mitochondria in a far more enjoyable way. My experience was that it took longer than the raid on Friday - still, it was more fun and I suspect it might go quicker in the long run if there is a small but more experienced Mito clearing team as there were a few things to improve on. I'll shortly list my own experiences and reflections...
- There was a tendency for the different damage teams to attack different targets at times. This mainly seemed to be a question of discipline and confusion. On my team there were a few that had not participated in a Hamidon raid before, and needed to be told what to do and what was happening. After 15-30 minutes most people got the idea and efficiency increased.
- For those who had not participated in a raid before, information was very important for morale. The line "Yes, this is going slowly, but that's normal. For such a small raid it's good progress actually." seemed to work wonders.
- The use of a melee damage team meant that the healing turtle had to move up fairly close to the targetted Mito. This improved during the raid, but for Mitos high up the melee team was out of range of the turtle at times. At one particular time it was raining dead Tankers. Which was rather fun to see, just for the novelty value. A possible solution would be that if possible, the Empaths in the turtle should auto-follow the Targetter in order to provide easy and quick relocation of the turtle.
As a last point, I don't mind at all that all the holders that had to be called in at the end got their HO without the "work" of Mito-clearing. Sorry guys, but had you all been there during the clearing we would've had a lagfest and the server would've melted.
I actually consider having holders on standby somewhere outside of the Hive during the clearing phase to be a rather good idea for future raids.
Aye that was good fun, well organised Sal and Co!
It's a pity RL kept me away until nigh-on two hours after the start, but it was still a very enjoyable first raid, and in 4 bars time i'll be able to slot my shiny ne hami-o :P
Count me in pretty much any time we do another!
GeneJack
Sounds liek fun, sign me up for the next mini-hamia raid. have a lvl 50 scrapper katana/regen that doesn´t mind dying now and then.
How long did the friday raid take and the sunday one?
Thanks for organising the raid Sal 
So much more fun than the others I've done!
And the 'cup of tea' emote - ROFLMAO
Looking forward to many more of these.
Ah, I would have liked to join this myself and would have popped online if I'd have known. My controller is finally in the 45+ range and I actually felt useful at last fridays raid!
I can't blame you though for wanting to cut down on the amount of freeloaders/spammers/mavericks/ADS sufferers though. I've been on public raids in the past where people just didn't listen and generally made things far harder than they needed to be!