lemming

Put me down to preferring Storm on Sentinels. I have a Storm/Dark that just hovers in the midst of everything while stuff melts. It's not the fastest, but it works.

Rails are for losers! (or "Schienen sind für Verlierer")

Pretty sure the only renames are via GM petition. I'm not against the concept of this, but I think it would be a mess to implement. Conditions involved: Bases, I'd say if there was nothing in place, easy decision. If built up, more dodgy. Length of time last person of SG logged in would probably be the best metric beyond that.

Technically, I don't think so since the reason the name release doesn't take account activity into consideration would be tied into that. Bump your char up to level six, and then you have at least a year.

I grew up with German and technically, the first words I ever spoke was german. Nowadays, I can piece together the gist, but I suck at speaking it. Then again, my English isn't the best either at times.

I have no idea if the name was always available or not, but last night checked to see if Cutscene was available. (On a few servers, but I grabbed it on Everlasting) Thinking Tanker, Stone/Titan Weapons.

One of my favorite pizzas was Pepperoni, Pineapple, Garlic, and Jalapenos. Great in college because I rarely had to share. 😄 Ok, on farming. I don't mind it. It's hard to balance the effort vs reward. I don't think I can do AFK farming, but I'm heavily into distracted farming. (I think it might just be semantics...)

Croatoa Outdoors found in Unique is pretty huge. Not sure of the menu name, but you have a lot of distance to work with. maps/Missions/Outdoor_Missions/Outdoor_Croatoa/Outdoor_Croatoa_01/Outdoor_Croatoa_01.txt

The way I used is: Create new character and log back to character select Have new char on same screen as char you want the name on. Change new char's name slightly Immediately change old name to the wanted name. Then you can delete the temp char.

I used to have Mr. Bad Example on Excelsior. (Energy Blaster with loads of KB) Right now the only Zevon song char I have is Fistful of Rain.

I fixed my Ice Pirate characters, so I'm happy there. An old Champs char got their name back. Only name that I wish I got on Everlasting that I didn't is "Minimum Wage", so we'll have to figure out how to keep the spirit of the character when I move her from Excelsior. (Named for a TMBG, but they've got an actual backstory involving Manticore, and other stuff) And I checked to see if a name I had tried for in May 2021 was available "Red Herring". I still created the char as "Crimson Herring", and I'm not sure I want to fix her. (I might just have to do Red Herring as a new char then. Just have to work on a different misdirection)

Like Kelika2 said, just adds a number to it. (or increments it.) I had copied one of my chars that qualified as vulnerable to beta. And it added a 1 to the name. (If the name is at max characters, last char becomes a 1) If the last char is a 1, it increments it. (Big -> Big1 -> Big2, etc...) What I don't know is if Big1 thru Big9 exist. Will it create Big10, Big11, or Big91 (or something else)

Heh. I had some names on Everlasting I wanted to open up so I could transfer the charas from Excel.

After I got the names I wanted, I decided to try for the name my very first character on live attempted and have never been able to get. Got it today. 😄

If you log chat, you'll get a line like for Redside "Now entering the Rogue Isles, Crimson Herring"

Well then. Will have to compare the popup to what is on the wiki then. I'm putting a note on there now, but won't check until I get home tonight.

Oh yea. Though I didn't think Windfall increased XP, but increased drop rates and influence. So, up to 3.75 multiple XP while in the the Lab. (it's +25%?)

Should note that the +100% XP when combined with the START vendor's 2 * XP makes for 3 * XP. 3.5 * XP while you have patrol. I did spin up a few new characters that hit 50 moderately faster, but since I've never gone for a speed run of that, I only timed one that I did a duo farm team to get a third farmer up. Took a couple hours, but last time I did something like that, it took, a couple hours... I think if we want more people on the lower population servers, it's just basically mentioning that they're great places for slower less busy experiences.

This can all be done with the switch to turn off XP. The difficult thing is occasionally you forget to turn it back to zero and zip past where you didn't want to outlevel. So while I feel it's low priority, it would be nice to have other options.

No badges should be awarded that one can't go back to get. Plenty of people would hate that. I'm still advocating for a way to set a level to not go past it. So you set a number (via a slider like the sidekick one) via it that you won't hit. Once you hit that, any XP goes to patrol or whatever. Though I think they're still toying around with a way to do content on outleveled contacts, it might be a bit before we see that.

For me, I haven't seen any bumps in days logged off. I tend to check my dayjob progress and run thru anniversary badges on even parked characters, so the longest time most of my characters date back to when I cycled thru the anniversary badge. I also have a few names "reserved" here and there on level 1 chars that I'm cool with people claiming and those numbers have been fine as well. (Couple of them I'm using to see when the name release happens just to double check it's live...) And the simplest way to discount the conspiracy theory of the devs doing that is "why would they?" That would take having to run a script on the DB incrementing logged off times. Sure, lets take time to run something to shortcut a process we're putting in place. Plenty of us would notice a jump

Those were just simulations and crisis actors!

You can boost your KB via the Empowerment station for 90 minutes at a time. (I think it says 60)

My plan for name checks is actually seeing if there are some available on Everlasting or Indom that I have on Excelsior, but would like to transfer to one of those. Which means I'll wind up freeing up names on Excel that are currently held by a 50 that isn't played much currently. Second category are some spellings that I would prefer. All in all, about a dozen names.

That would be a mess to implement since each char would need a new flag, etc... I think any bonus done on the lower population shard regardless of what it would be, has the chance of then being transferred off to a different server. Either via a mule character, just being dropped onto the AH, or being emailed. I think at this point, the XP boost served it's purpose to intro the other servers to some people that wouldn't have tried them out otherwise.