Incredible!! Well done and congrats to you!
I don't know if I would have the stamina to do that, however, am willing to give it a go.
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It was actually pretty easy, since I wasn't in a hurry. I saved him for times when my friends were logged off, and made sure I had plenty of Patrol XP. It was fun to roleplay a bit, staking out a "neighborhood" in different zones and trying to keep the streets clear.
I dont really know how long it took in real time, but Solitary has been on patrol for 119 hours. A lot of that was running back and forth to Wentworths to sell, as the drop rates were pretty spectacular.
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That's a solid amount of hours.
Great name too.
I will try that out. You really get to know each zone doing that I would think, which comes in handy for those inevitable hunt mishes.
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Very cool project, gratz to you!
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I have to admit, I find the idea intriguing. I remember early early on when CoH launched that we only street sweeped. I didn't even know what a contact WAS at the time 
And those were some of the most fun I've had, though I did team in Perez park (good times 
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I applaud your accomplishment,
but feel sad 
that street-sweeping has become such an unusual practice, that it warrants a thread about it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the post - I'm saying isn't it sad that street sweeping has all but disappeared from the game.
Some of my most treasured early memories of this game are from PuG street-sweeping teams, or sweeping on the way to a mission, or whatever.
There's an organic...flow...to street-sweeping that's just not found on those same few, tired old mission maps.
But a birdy tells me G-R will introduce a mechanic that may well bring street-sweeping back into vogue! 
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I had a friend back in the first year of CoH who never did missions. He was well on his way to 50, but this was before the experience curve was tweaked. I don't believe he ever made it. He also devoted he power pools to getting a 4 travel powers; an odd fellow.
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Originally Posted by Itomic
Last night Solitary, my fire/wp scrapper on Liberty, hit level 50 by only solo street hunting.
He has never been on a team, talked to a contact (other than trainers and stores), or been on a mission. He simply works alone protecting the streets. The process was much more entertaining and rewarding than I thought it would be. Are there any others who have done something similar? |
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I still street sweep fairly often. Not all the way to 50 to the exclusion of contacts though. And, I do love me some dark astoria sweeps. That place is awesome.
I love watching the glowing runes through the fog.
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So it was your damn fault that I couldn't find any mobs around the street for my hunt mission!
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Originally Posted by Itomic
Last night Solitary, my fire/wp scrapper on Liberty, hit level 50 by only solo street hunting.
He has never been on a team, talked to a contact (other than trainers and stores), or been on a mission. He simply works alone protecting the streets. The process was much more entertaining and rewarding than I thought it would be. Are there any others who have done something similar? |
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Haha maybe! But usually I'd pick a secluded spot in the corner of a zone to avoid being spotted. It seemed appropriate for the character. |
Originally Posted by SPiNE
So it was your damn fault that I couldn't find any mobs around the street for my hunt mission!
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The halloween event made this practice especially interesting.
--@ITNet1
Good on you!
I don't think I did missions or teamed for the first year I played. My first 50, an Elec/Elec Blaster, mostly did solo street sweeping to get there.
The beauty of it was that you face a range of different level enemies while you're doing it. There's a group of 10 even-cons, BLAM! without even thinking. Then you spot a big juicy bag of XP thats a +5 Leiutenant, and wonder if you can...
I have particularly good memopries of hunting aorund the hills in Founders Fall, looking for Fungoids. They could mez me, but gave much more XP than most equivalent leiutenants.
I still street sweep occasionally for badges. When I'm trying to do Family bosses or Fake Nems or whatever, I try to find a good patch where theres a challenge and XP involved.
Wow. I know that I don't have the patience to stick to something like that. . . . kudos to you, good sir. Kudos.
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Okay, that's pretty cool. The closest thing i've done is turning off XP on my Rad/Sonic Defender, Perez Park Predator, at level 12 so that he will never outlevel his namesake territory. Which is actually almost the opposite of what you did. |
Originally Posted by Itomic
Last night Solitary, my fire/wp scrapper on Liberty, hit level 50 by only solo street hunting.
He has never been on a team, talked to a contact (other than trainers and stores), or been on a mission. He simply works alone protecting the streets. The process was much more entertaining and rewarding than I thought it would be. Are there any others who have done something similar? |
Street hunting all the way to 50 is impressive. Especially since you never teamed or talked to contacts while doing it.
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Wow. I know that I don't have the patience to stick to something like that. . . . kudos to you, good sir. Kudos.
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I kid, I kid!
I remember my old SG tried a street-sweeping team, but on a team of 8 the progress really started to slow down in the mid-to-late 20s and we abandoned the project. Kudos to you... I'd been meaning to level something to 50 entirely by sewer teams, but I'm not sure I can spend that much time doing that. 
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LOL, so true, so true. :-)
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Originally Posted by SPiNE
Another way of saying "wow you're such a nerd, go get a life!"
I kid, I kid! |
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My MA-only Virtual Lad (leveling his way up to 50 only in the MA with no farming or PLing) salutes your "outside the box" thinking, Itomic! Congrats!
Dec out.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
My MA-only Virtual Lad (leveling his way up to 50 only in the MA with no farming or PLing) salutes your "outside the box" thinking, Itomic! Congrats!
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I was about to post about the bio I remember reading, about the boy who doesn't have any powers or anything, but spends all his time living out his fantasies in MA?
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Yup, that's my boy! Him and his robot babysitter H.A.R.O.L.D.!
"Donnie Gallager was THRILLED when Dr. Aeon opened Architect Entertainment! Accompanied, at the insistence of his mother, by his "babysitting" robot, H.A.R.O.L.D. (Human Adolescent Restriction Of Liberties Device), every day after school he dons the special virtual reality equipment he just got for his 12th birthday and pretends to live the life of a super-hero!"
Dec out.
That's a really nice project there.
I street sweep at low levels but to do it to 50; incredible.
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I'm currently doing something similar, although I'm only up to level 18. This is with a character that only uses Pool powers, so being able to pick and choose the spawns to tackle outside of a mission makes things a little smoother.
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
Wow. Impressive. Two really cool projects going on here. The OP and Decorum's Virtual Boy.
I don't think I would have the patience for either, but I salute both of you.
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I remember street sweeping back before we had things like mission completion bonuses, patrol xp, ed, agro caps, aoe caps and the purple patch. Used to be the most efficient way to lvl
Spines/ D A lvl 50 Scrap, stone/wm lvl 50 tank, Kat/reg lvl 50 Scrap
Grav/Kin lvl 50 Cont, Fire/Enegry lvl 50 Blast
Warshade lvl 50, PB lvl 39, nightwidow lvl 50, crab lvl 42
plant/thorns lvl 50 dom, ice/fire lvl 40 dom, grav/nrg lvl 41 dom
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I also have an MA-only toon named Mission Architect, but Virtual Lad's origin is way more awesome. How far along on the path is he?
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Originally Posted by Decorum
My MA-only Virtual Lad (leveling his way up to 50 only in the MA with no farming or PLing) salutes your "outside the box" thinking, Itomic! Congrats!
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--@ITNet1
Last night Solitary, my fire/wp scrapper on Liberty, hit level 50 by only solo street hunting.
He has never been on a team, talked to a contact (other than trainers and stores), or been on a mission. He simply works alone protecting the streets. The process was much more entertaining and rewarding than I thought it would be.
Are there any others who have done something similar?
--@ITNet1