Greycat

I think I'd prefer "No 'No hosp/base setting'," personally. There's challenge, and then there's just intentional annoyance.

... did you talk to Gordon or go straight to Kelly Nemmers? I know Gordon and Skippy won't talk, but I've picked up Kelly without ouro when I hit 30 and gotten her arcs.

Have too many alts to have a main. ;) Have to say this is one thing I have a hard time doing with characters. I see characters with playlists, I've had characters inspired by songs (or even just their titles - like Deadly Diana being inspired, namewise, by Dirty Diana) but "what is their song/songs" just escapes me, frequently. About the only thing I've had kind of click with a character is the Umbrella Corporation Theme for one Robert Addison. Amoral, arms dealer, maker and seller of clones, manipulator and backroom dealer, it just kind of clicked.

You could play through Croatoa. Second half of it's 30-34. Play the whole thing (starting at the mid 20s) and there's a bonus. Usually hands you off to Cadao Kestrel, who's also in that range and does COT. Or play redside. That said, yeah, the range could deserve some attention.

Eh. I'd say having team inspirations is good enough for this.

Click the red "i" on the nav bar next to the mission name.

Windfall's description has needed to be updated for quite some time. I'm fairly sure the +Inf portion, at the very least, was gutted in the SCORE days. I mean, it even talks about being VIP or having the proper reward level - that's a late live thing.

Honestly, this is a longstanding complaint with rescues in general. Ideally (to me) Sister Solaris (and most of the people you rescue) should *want* to be rescued, and thus actually *want* to follow you. If you're kidnapping them or they're otherwise not necessarily willing? THEN they can "accidentally" lose you. Heck, great example of where both can come into play is in Technician Naylor's arc where you're raiding Aeon's lab. One of the hostages thinks "Aeon is a genius!" - he should be trying to get away. The other? Hates working there. They should be more than willing to follow you (with the "Do me a favor and tell everyone I was begging for my life all the way" line at the end.) Probably the worst of all worlds is Warburg, where the scientists you're rescuing from hostile mutated "supersoldier" Arachnoids not only have trouble following you if you have any stealth, but these well-trained scientists have trouble with the advanced concepts of "Stairs," "Ramps" and "Walking in a straight line."

Not sure what's making you think the characters withdrawing would pay anything. Especially when you say it yourself...

This I think I like more. One in Atlas, one in Mercy replacing the arbiter. Goldside, well, the three people playing that regularly can decide between themselves. >.> ;)

How? With the amount of INF floating around out there, it certainly wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't mind seeing this added in any case (and purely optional) - to me, ideally with just an overall "SG interfaces and permissions revamp." There's a lot that could use tweaking.

Reasons to have a SG: - RP. Whether it's your house, a base, a temple, a firepit, you have a setting. - Solo - Convenience. Store your rare salvage, have a crafter to memorize and cheaply build a bunch of recipes (and since they're probably 50 and accumulating otherwise-unused catalysts... catalyzing appropriate IOs.) And of course travel. Buff stations. Nurses, tailors, candlestick makers, trainers, all in a nice one stop shop. - Team - Same thing. It's a nice central hub.

Nope. Different handle here. Kept one of the avatars, though. I should bring the cat back, though apparently it confused people by being orange.

Well, textures can obviously be added (or patterns, whatever you want to call them.) I don't know about the complexity of getting other parts on, or various forms of complexity for some NPC vs other-body-type parts. I will say, shorts-wise, I think I'd prefer to go with something that looks like... well, shorts, rather than the painted on briefs or swim trunks being the only options. (A lot of the 'painted on" options just ...eehhhhh... I wish they had some depth, even on the pieces that currently exist.)

I was going more for "why does the current trainer need replacing," personally. Granted, that wasn't clear. Eh. I'm not against it (the devs have done this for ... I believe as-yet-unreleased content, asking for player submissions,) but I think I'd rather see it for new NPCs or groups.

Why?

Yeah, the whole "battalion" thing was just ... ugh. It was "we need to shoehorn this in," lore wise (Lady Grey was a traitor the whole time! ... never mind there's nothing pointing to it, it's just pulled out o fsomeone's posterior) to keep up the (again, shoehorned in) Incarnate system with *yet more* ("Stay subscribed and keep paying us, please! Love, NCSoft") trees on top of what we have now, with their own salvage and types of XP. And after that you get to deal with Prometheus's sort of people (with yet more trees on top of the incarnate and battalincarnate ones,) and then a level of them past that... Blech.

The body stealing thing (a) is fully appropriate for a Nictus, and (b) while it might be "auto hit," it also has a timer. Tell the team, have them kill the hostless nictus. There's plenty of time to kill it. It's not an instant effect. Shield wall? Why should a single IO nullify an AV? And the IO itself only gives a 20% chance vs teleportation, in any case, as it says in its own description. He finally gets to be a threat again... at *optional* difficulty levels.

... because he's an NPC character only mentioned in lore, perhaps?

Fifes? Pennywhistles? Most flutes (modernish) end up *around* two feet long just because of the range they play in and how they work, which is why modern flutes (and quite a few modern traditional ones) are designed to break apart. Or are you thinking of something like the (end-blown, but generally still called a flute) shakuhachi or nokan? (And as much as I want these in game, mostly as base items, something for NPCs to play and something that can be turned into a player emote, I can't picture these being carried on the back... as someone who's been a flutist since the 70s/early 80s, with a small break.)

"Needed?" I've run across nothing that made AE farming "needed." Desired, yes - I don't care for low level MM play, for instance, and hate wasting 24 levels on VEATs 'til you get the forced respec, so I often farm myself up past that, but those aren't "needed." Helps that a lot of the content I like running is mid-range, from early-mid 20s to around the 40s. And no, I wouldn't call speed TFs making AE farming "needed" either. I see a fair number of kill-all TFs advertised as well (and now hardmode TFs,) so speed runs are hardly the only thing being run. And hey, if you don't want a speed run, you can always start a TF to run the way you want....

I'm pretty sure they are, with that being a power that makes them untouchable. I posted something else months ago about something similar - the fir bolg patrols in croatoa occasionally stopping, tree-ing up to hide, then continuing on the patrol.

Honestly, if we could get them as costume parts (backpacks,) I'd also want to see them as base items - there are enough bars/homes/apartments and such that could use them. Then maybe NPCs playing them and emotes using them, later.

I'd have to second "as a new power set" for an idea like this. I'd also have to question just how fast one would die in something like an MSR or Hami raid. >.>

Given he mentions enjoying an SG with members earning stuff back in the bad old prestige days, I'd say more than likely he'd want *some* interaction. Even if just someone else to talk to in chat.