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This is just a bit of info from Number 6 about moving AE out of atlas.

The elaborate schemes to setup uncover operations does take a lot of work. The expense reports that Longbow make you fill out afterwards...

Actual feedback: If we're staying away from Emp->Reward conversion, the initial reward merit structure works for me. Probably once this is worked out, other arcs that give Emps that currently don't give reward merits should have that option as well. On Cooldowns: I'm indifferent, but one can just cycle thru characters and get plenty of merits that way, so easily worked around. Though I have a builtin cooldown since I rarely like repeating content that often...

Pocket-D P2W will sell to any even if on TF, AE, Flashback.

This happened to me recently. Duplicate Alec Parsons, Riptide, and Silver Mantis. (Both Silver Mantis, and the extra Riptide attacked me) Stale missions, so not nearly as exciting of a fight that it could have been.

I suspect there's some economy of scale going on. Technically two alts, but occasionally I've seen groups of over that who are all named similar and in the same costume going into a mission. I don't see the point either. And there was someone who said that they're method was to pump an alt up to vet 50, strip, repeat. (Did not say how many alts at a time)

It's a temp power. It goes away after so much game time. (90 Hours?) I don't think any of the powers granted thru a story can be gotten again. (I would not be adverse to being able to redo them, thru p2w or just rerunning the arc via oro)

Casinos always seem to be made to make it hard to get out. "I can call you a cab for five merits." <=not serious

That will no longer be an option. (It's explained somewhere in the thread why that won't work, but that's the behavior now on Beta. Something with promoting/demoting in a SG and a couple other bits that mess with it)

Since those insta-50s are limited to PvP, hard no on the rest of this.

I have few issues with farmers just generating xp, inf, drops, power levels. I don't like the multi-box, PL a few chars up to whatever, strip them for parts, and delete them. I'm not even sure Crosscut would think that's ethical.

I was just over on Beta and noted that if I delete a character, I couldn't reuse the name right away. I did a variation, then after I logged it off, was able to rename to the old one. I'm guessing a five minute cool off? On the other hand, you can rename a character to something and create a new char with the old name immediately.

I'm annoyed that Heltor Skeletor got generic'd, but it led to a different experience for the character. He's still ain't no dancer.

Yep, glowies are the bane of soundless sessions.

True, though I play a lot of scrappers that get smacked by an AOE if I don't watch it. And with the right composition of team where buffs are happening, it usually works out fine. And a good measuring stick would be the Classic Lord Recluse SF where sets are meaningless.

I'll bet. My good computer decided to die, so I'm running on a 2012 Dell laptop. Something about wine not dealing well horks sound to a horrific degree where I need to just turn off the volume. I don't like playing without sound.

I feel a project that might be worthwhile is a SO build list. A lot of the usual builds with a SO only one (which can be boosted with Basic IOs...) I tend to respec at 50 and put in generic IOs. Normally a smattering of End Procs since running out of endurance to me is worse than running out of health. 😄 Eventually, they'll get a spec'd out build if I want to put them thru rougher content. (Out of 100+ chars, 7 are tuned with maybe another dozen with some sets) The basic build tends to do fine for most content unless I'm trying to do +4/x8 stuff, but you can still contribute to a team doing such. And usually the non-close combat chars can skate by just fine.

Ah. I don't like that I have to check with a new char to see if I can rename a current character to the name they always wanted, but livable. (Scanning my 100+ names, looks like there are only two I'd be checking this on, so no big deal)

Looking at a lot of this thread: People farming for Emp merits for conversion to inf will be negatively affected. More casual players will miss out on the conversion to reward merits when they need a few reward merits to purchase something via them. (Anniversary badges, or some other vended item) People like me who spend a lot of time playing, but not much on maximizing profit will benefit from extra reward merits. I've only recently been going on daily Hami raids and that's boosted the amount of reward merits more than anything else lately for that character. Speculation: Vet Rewards were initially put in so that the character getting the rewards would then kit out their incarnate abilities quicker than having to do every trial. Not to have a character PL'd up to Vet 50 and then stripped for parts in a farm. This patch seems to crimp the farmer ability a bit while not having as negative of an impact on the non-farmer. And the extra reward merits from itrials will offset that a bit. (Hopefully the DA and other arcs will get a 2-4 reward merit bonus as well. I'd probably go with 1 reward for Heather, up to six maybe for Beltrano (sp) and Number 6, but no cooldown, so not sure.)

While it's true you can load a character fully formed onto brainstorm with some handy tools, it's still a bit of a pain. You also lose out on any base, etc... thing and we've got people complaining about needing to login low level characters to keep names after 30 days. My opinion is Brainstorm is great for testing out stuff, not for actual play. I copy characters all the time to test concepts, but it's not for long term.

Beware the undead!

Ah ha! Had to double check since I didn't know which one of us was right, but the On the Shoulder of Giants was put into the game on Nov 24, 2020. Several months after the thread was posted. Now we just need to get the other seven badges added.

Was just going to mention that it does not seem to after I just tested it on Brainstorm.

So my Praetorian filled up my bar, but since she's "Heroic", no badge. On the other hand, she does have the Commuter badge which is close enough, so this allows each side of the Praetorians to get this. (And the tram is still available in the Atlas Park map via Null)

I like this more than the lack of vet levels from AE. I think I may have converted Emps to Reward long time in the past, but I think I was funding buying all the anniversary badges and was a little short. Couple years in, I'm rarely in need of reward merits and only occasionally have moved some Emps around to boost a character's incarnate stats. I also assumed the vet level bonus threads and emp merits was for building up the incarnate area of a character. Didn't really think to monetize it.