Master of Keyes Island

I suspect xeaon means the ticks of damage from Entanglement.

It totally does 8 points of damage per second PER ENTANGLEMENT. So if you're red and you've got two blue guys next to you, you're taking 16 damage per second.

It was kind of funny to watch the blue dude who didn't pay attention to the league leader ("Only reds go into melee!") have his health plummet as the ten red guys next to him started draining his health with a torrent of "8" popping up over his head.

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Originally Posted by Avatea [*]Entanglement: All players acquire one of two auras which interact negatively with each other. Players who are Alpha Entangled must move 15’ from Beta Entangled players or suffer ill effects (and vice versa). Standing near those of the same entanglement has no effect. Opposing players deal damage and debuff defense, regeneration and recovery to each other. These effects stack, so the more players of the opposite alignment near you, the worse the effect becomes.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Got the Mo Badge last night on my ice/ice dom. so now my 2 badgers have it.

W000t,

Thx everyoen who helped!

on victory so far ive gotten anti antimatter and bunker buster, have made 4 failed attempts at avoids the green stuff and not have had any attempts at loves a challenge

I have to say that these are some of the most frustrating badges I've ever tried to get. And for the final two, it seems that they really come down to chance. I was able to get Avoids the Green Stuff a couple of days ago, but it was after about 20 attempts at it. That amount of trying and failing is just not fun. And I still don't have the Loves a Challenge badge. I've already tried that one 6 times and failed. No other master badge has been this difficult to get.

The problem I see is the time freezes. The badges wouldn't be quite so tough otherwise. It seems unfair that anti-matter can continue to attack players with disintegration and obliteration and the players have literally no defense whatsoever against this while time is frozen. Yes, you can try to pull him to the terminals to minimize the time freeze and time his health to the firing of the beams, but this is exceedingly difficult to do. And the more players you have, the more difficult it is. On the other hand, doing the trial with the minimum number of players can also lead to failure if someone gets mapservered. Not due to time running out or anything, but due to an actual auto-fail condition for too few players. I had it happen last week.

I guess what I don't get about this master badge is why its thematically different from many of the other master badges. Look at Apex, for example. All of the badges there are basically for efficiency. You could even accidentally get the master badge there and not even be trying for it. Most of the BAF badges are the same. But starting with Lambda, and even more so now with Keyes, the badges seem to be more about intentionally crippling yourself and still managing to succeed.

Our group on protector scored "Green Stuff" and the MoKIR badge tonight. We went with a combination of careful management of hitpoints so that time freezes occurred on our terms, and hyper alertness with respect to the Oblit timer and targets. It (green stuff) was easily the toughest of the four badges for us to get, and perhaps the toughest badge any of us have gotten. However, with the pet bug on the docket to being fixed, perhaps it won't be as hard soon.