lemming

Someone did not put finish typing in the variable name for her is my guess. You were still on the Ouro arc, yes?

Yea, I knew it wasn't a lack of badges. My first character got the intro,

I've gone thru a few chars now and all get introduced to Alexandra after Valeria first mission. Doubt it's lack of badges that's the issue since Voltor would have ALL the badges other than maybe the brand new ones. My guess is there's an Ouro arc (maybe some other task?) that somehow turns off whatever flag gets set to not introduce her. Which arc? Not sure and with my potato of a system, will take a long time to hunt down. This theory based on Cobalt's mention of the Ouro arc not introducing contacts as expected, but for some reason it's not for certain live chars. If someone hasn't by the time I can check, I'll try running an Ouro arc, then going to Val right after. My suspicion would be Sister Solaris arc, since that one helps intro Val. Though I know one of my chars did do Sister via Ouro at least once and still got the intro from Val. edit add: Hmm, RipRend kinda kiboshes the theory right there.

Oh, and I had to re-install yesterday and noted, oh yea, the glowie sound mod is required for me.

25 sometimes, but that's if the system is set more quiet. Right now, I have sound off because my laptop isn't playing well with sounds & wine.

I know of TFJ (pretty sure they're in my discord channels), but hardly interact with them directly. On Excelsior, there's a few people that run good incarnate trials. Oklahoma seems to be the most frequent and consistent. And certainly not toxic in my experience. You can also try one of the other servers. I've recently started hanging out on Everlasting because of a friend joining HC and he had some previous contacts there. I haven't sussed out the usual culture there (other than all the RPG peeps existing), but there is a TF channel that's very active.

Could it be linked to doing the Senator's missions? I'll have to run thru my chars and see if any have the issue.

I have a few chars that would benefit from the mini costume. My Badger will eventually get all the badges, but since I'm not rushing on any of them, I'll let them accumulate. (I mean, I don't even have a couple of the damage badges yet...) I second Bionic's opinion on having them drop for under-50s on WTF

You can fight yourself for the Army of Me badge in Leonard's arc (red) : https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Leonard Blue Side: Keith Nance has missions: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Field_Agent_Keith_Nance

New set: Pants Manipulation You can shrink them to cause mobs to at least be slowed Embiggen them so they fall down to the ankles causing mobs to trip.

From a few weeks back, I had two of Silver Mantis, Riptide, and Alec parsons

I'm from California. I've called my toaster Dude.

Looks like my main reply email will turn 3 on Oct 8. Mostly, my email just has a bunch of wakies, but I do have a running chunk of influence for new chars.

Currently running a Rad/Rad Corrupter thru all of Praetoria. Just finished up in Nova. It's all about the Proton Volley

Gah! Now I know why I never paid attention to this. Why does it go B,A,C,D in order of strength. My CDO brain can't handle this... edit: no real opinion otherwise.

Maybe he has a lot of fingers that he picked up from woodshop teachers?

Nope. you have the current state of the patch. And as a dev pointed out, this was to address the cycling chars up to a certain vet level for their Emp Merits. Apparently enough of a strain on resources, that there were a couple different ways to address. I think the non-convert is a better solution, since no Vet levels in AE would just get circumvented, though I'm guessing it had more to do with AFK farms anyway. In answer to the OP. I'll still be using them to boost alts

I might have to roll up "Mitzi Panoramic"

My current potato takes 30-60 seconds to zone. 2012 Dell laptop via Wifi. Though I'm all for less swapping between IP & Talos even if I had a fast connection

My Fire/Bio tank did terrible and I had to do a lot of running. My Elec/MA Blaster did alright. Kept at range and wore them down. Less incoming damage that way.

good point. I'll go check that now. I can throw a few different chars at it

I've run it a few times since the change. yes, they're tougher, but worked Ok as long as I wasn't leroy jenkins. (Twice with melee, once with a blaster. Blaster was T3, and I ran it at +3/1)

I will sometimes just buy a stack and sell the scattered ones to consolidate. Would be nice to stack inspirations like salvage though.

Probably worth popping into a base and get a KB protection from the empowerment station

Drat. I noted that after the first beta release. Hadn't had a chance to recheck