lemming

I've been cycling thru characters, mostly 50s and the time spent to get the Prismatic badges have been wildly different. Anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. The longer times seem to be when there's some AFK MMs hanging out, but it really depends on what your team is doing to contribute. Fastest times seem to be my AOE blasters, followed by AOE melee, last place with my least DPS chars. Though the numbers change if my team has a DPS type blasting everything. Only six more to go!

I think the reason that the bug existed that long is that they didn't really care about the farming XP, but wanted to rein it in a bit. First change seemed to cut XP, and then much later, the weird math popped out and got fixed.

I think I need to do some research first

I've been building machines since the 80s. I'm not sure if I have found a laptop that I didn't curse at some design decisions. Though I'm glad I don't have to play with jumpers anymore. (Or solder in my own stuff, but that was some early gen AIX boxes...) On the other hand, I haven't built a system for years (huh, think my system from 2016 was originally done in 2006, but upgraded a lot) Going to be ordering bits next week, though I should get another laptop for supplemental purposed. (And everything gets Linux anyway)

Costumes show on that sort of thing in a lot of the personal arcs, but they can be fairly entertaining. That bit where combat starts when all your toggles are off is pretty hectic. It would be nice if everything suppressed instead. In the meantime, we had better success if the mission holder went to the end by themselves and got teleported back at the start of combat. Another option would be to fire off incan which creates a safe zone for a little bit.

I'm not sure if I could muster that much salvage if I pooled all 100 50s I have. On second thought, not even close. 😄

Yep. It's a better example of feature creep. I think a better designed selling system might be in order, but I do wonder how much of the code is shared between player trades, auction house, vendors, etc... I think the ability to check off a bunch of items and then hit "Sell all clicked items" with a verification OK might be the way to go, but it's a lot more complicated to code currently.

It's been awhile, but my Seismic Blaster was knocking the Mino & Cyclops around. I'll have to check to see if it still does. I did see that Meteor has the same KB with Sentinals that the Blasters have, so could be interesting.

I don't tend to build maxed out characters, so ROP isn't often taken for my characters. The melee types normally hit caps easily enough. My blasters tend to go for defense if they're going for any sort of survival, but I tend to just lean into damage for them. Defenders that need to go into the scrum such as kinetics, they sometimes pick it up. And it's usually only if it thematically fits.

Just checked that the Seismic blast in Sentinal has the same KB as a Blaster. So, just as yeetable

I'm liking the buff to my fire melee tank. I'll get around to modifying my fire farm at some point, but so far I haven't been prevented from farming. Granted, it's a little slower than before, but still quicker than running missions outside AE.

HP Systems took a huge dip in quality about when they bought Compaq. I used to like the HP offerings, but there was a noticeable change then. (Probably due to management decisions than anything else)

Ok, this patch is getting me to go thru all my alts to get the PAs from the EB badges. And this is primarily level 50s, all 102 of them. That's letting me recheck what status I'm filing them under: Mothballed: Stripped for parts, but put to the side if I want to maybe figure out an active build. Usually because I have another similar character I'm much happier with playing. Might populate with level 50 IOs Deleted: Normally a char I just don't find fun to play or doesn't fit a niche, or completely redundant Respec: Ok, let's rebuild to current standards and fill in sets. Normally they are populated with generic 50 IOs, but might have lower level ones Done: Doesn't need much attention, and I'll play them when that char seems to fit best in. They might need to respec with patch changes, but for the most part won't change much. Looking at mothballing about 40 at this point, deleting a dozen, another dozen are in the Done, with respecs on the rest. (Which may push them toward another column)

Let's just say, I've pulled enough out of various fans that compressed air just doesn't do the job. I do a lot with animal rescue, but with my heavy IT background, I fixed a lot of systems for coworkers, etc... There's a reason I'm having my new system have a couple steps of filtered air for it.

Unless you have cats. 😛

I have a seismic/nature blaster that I put a KB set into meteor. We were able to note hellions in perez would go over 500 yards. Had to have a spotter to find them.

Yea, I just went thru all the bases I have edit ability on. Ones with more solid objects, you get stuck in. The one base I used a teleport bay (? not sure of name since I closed HC before checking forum...) with openings worked fine since you can run thru it.

My guess is something with the PvP base raid code. <joke>PvP ruins everything!</joke>

Yes, zap has edit access to that particular base. Can't remember if his base moved the portal to not have the menu popup for anyone with edit privilege

/editbase 1 works well for that You can also swap to another base by using the passcode

Amusing that I saw this and went "Gee, I should check my bases since I put Tardis' in many" and then only later note zapdevil is in my SG....

Yea, that's going to screw up some bases. For those with editing permissions, using the "/editbase 1" and then removing or moving the tardis out of the field fixes it for now

This simple trick will keep you slim

So far, 79 of my alts of which 34 have all the other Halloween badges. ~31 to go. But yea, the AOE chars tend to get those 5 badges quick