Good grief, yo.

What challenge? It's just the same fight 45,000 times in a row.

Same boat here. I pugged it with a bunch of folk on my fresh /EA brute, and we were basically all soloing a single door. Our mastermind said "I'mma AFK - if the Rikti aren't taking this seriously, neither am I." If nothing else, I'd appreciate if the timer was 'accelerated' if you killed things quickly enough - each spawn's final kill means there's only a 2-5 second downtime between them.

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I can't make up my mind if I'd be pissed off (for our British friends, that means angry, not drunk) or not. On the one hand, if you're not going to bother playing, I don't really want you on my team since the main thing that makes boring missions like this one tolerable or even fun is interacting with other people. On the other, that is pretty freakin' hilarious.

I think you meant just 'pissed', if your explanation in parenthesis is aimed at us Brits; we already know what 'pissed off' means, since it's BrEng anyway.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

He handled his door just fine, so I'm not going to complain. Honestly, I was happy to have one fewer person interrupting the bits of the event that I was actually enjoying (murdering a spawn of Rikti).

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I'm with these people. I LOVE this mission. I try to run it every time I can, but Mercedes Sheldon is too easy to outlevel (seriously, why not just extend her range to 20-30?). It has no annoying dialogues, no glowies I have to speak with, no cutscenes, no overbooked fights, no miles of empty corridors with nothing to fight, no bosses that I have to speak with after I beat them up. This one and the couple of bigger outdoor cityscape maps are easily my favourites, because they're essentially City of Heroes in its purest form: The plot requires you to go to this location and defeat everything you run across. What's not to like?

I love clearing that mission. Sure, it takes an hour and a half, but so what? I'm only on for a couple of hours, and if I spend most of that time killing stuff, as opposed to spending that time speaking with people or stuck at the market, then that's a win all around. I mean, so what if I get done with the mission in half the time? That just means I'll grab another mission and be killing stuff in an instance for an hour and a half anyway, it'll just be in two small missions instead of one big one.

Frankly, I like huge missions. More than anything else in the game, those give the best feeling of making progress. Sure, it's miles of tunnels, that one, but when I open the map and see I've explored around 3/4 of the map square's total area and I'm already 45 minutes in... That's satisfying. "Man, did I do all that? Awesome!"

CoV and GR's tendency to give me missions that complete in 30 seconds and missions that consist of 90% dialogues is actually really ruining my fun of the game. Overbooked fights are interesting for the end of a long arc (and I LOVE those 25-mission ones), but when every mission is overbooked, it just ruins what would otherwise been a good scrap. Both Atta and Mercedes have the right idea, as far as I'm concerned.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.