Hardship

Well played everyone. Although I was never even close, it was a fun game. Thanks to the Homecoming team for running it!

Woot! I was able to donate this time. Happy Halloween!!

I'm hanging on the edge of my seat! What a cliffhanger...

When that bothers me, I usually just go expand the bottom item in the list and "live" with it.

So one thing that I like is having the hit points and end bars right up next to my character. I know that many don't like, this an option to have something like this: I to often don't even LOOK at my health/end bars until my toggles drop or I face plant. I think this shows character bars on the left and target bars on the right, but I'd also be ok with ONLY character bars around my hero. Health on the left and End on right or something like that.

I remember seeing that (and being the flopping team) more than a few times. I had an Ice/Ice blaster that I totally messed up, took Hover and Fly, then combat jumping and Super Jump, and probably Heal Other or something from the Medicine pool as well. By about level 22-23 they released the respec trial. I remember grinding to get him the last level or two needed to be able to run the trial. My team was so gimped that we couldn't complete it. I finally was able to get on a team that was running it for the challenge and they didn't mind dragging me along. It was glorious to be able to respec him in to a "decent" blaster.

Teleport pool looks like it may have just became the pool I've always wanted it to be! Off to test -- yay!!

Maybe it used them all to transfer your characters to the new computer. 😛 I think they renew on Wed, so hopefully you'll get a new batch tomorrow, even if they should be there now.

Just be sure to attach it to the stump afterwards for killing hordes of undead!

I used one a while ago and it seemed like my recipe drops were shifted toward the top end a little. My salvage filled up faster than normal and my inspiration drops had more large inspirations in them. There was no change in influence that I observed. I wasn't watching for threads or shards at all.

I never did try to get the shim working with it. It seemed like a lot of work. When I saw this note, I thought I'd try once more. But now that you've responded, I may have to try to get the shim working so it can be added to the list -- you know, for science!

This didn't work on my Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset video card. Please don't spend time getting this card to work on my account, as it is in a VERY old PC that I was just curious if it would work. I only mention it as a point of interest. At most, I might do a little light AH gaming on it while I played on my main rig.

Instant Healing SHOULD be a toggle again. I remember my son played a regen scrapper, finally got IH was AWESOME for about 2 weeks and then it changed to a click power. He lost interest in the game at that point.

I've tried moving the resume_info.txt file into different directories and that doesn't seem to work. I'm hoping something will still work, as often as I crashed, I liked not having to enter my password every time I logged in.

They should cover their eyes with one hand while doing it.

I also have that same problem. It looks like it appends a 1 on the end of every level on the print out.

Look at all of the hold options in there!! My Illusion controller is jelly.

I don't have access to the game at the moment to verify, but I think you can turn this on / off at Null the Gull in Pocket D.

When I'm leveling, enhancements go in as the slots unlock, in the order of most useful to the character at the time. When I respec, they go in order with proc on the right.

I think that PA is fine the way it is, I like that I can summon them to a spot where I want them to be to take alpha strikes or cause the cone mezzer attack to turn away from because I summon PA behind the group for the first attack. I usually want my PA in FRONT of me, and having them follow along behind me is annoying. If they had full MM controllability, I would be all for them being longer duration, but as it is, I only get a chance to place them when I summon them. Phantom Army is very nearly an "I win" button anyway. They are indestructible, unmezzable, and have high threat to mobs. They should not be a summon and forget kind of power. As for a pet window, Controllers (in fact all characters) do have a pet window: Click "Pets" at the top of the team window and there it is. If the Pets option doesn't show up, then goto Options --> Windows tab, scroll down about 1/2 way to the "Pets" section and make sure it is enabled. Creating a "Release Pets" macro is simple and will dismiss all pets. I use the following: /macro RP "release_pets" That will create a nice RP button on your powers bar that will dismiss all pets when you click it.

Quoted for truth! Made me laugh out loud at how true that is. Illusion pets really are like playing with an inexperienced PUG!

Not needed on Homecoming. Alpha slot will unlock from regular (even AE) play.

Has a Winter Pack sale been confirmed or is it just speculation that it will happen again?

I'm replying 45 minutes later and a lot can change in 45 minutes on the Internet, but I'm not having any problem with Excelsior. Logged right in, first attempt.

It would be nice if there were two ways to complete those missions. The multi-person way done "this" way, or the slightly more troublesome single person way done "that" way. Something like you can deactivate the missile from launching by simultaneously turning the keys on the launch control, OR you can fight down to the launch pad and take out the ignition control device. I know that doesn't do anything for existing missions, but it could allow different play style mechanics in the same mission -- I have no idea if the missions have multiple options for how to complete them. The closest I can think of is the 3 options in at the end of Burden of the Past arc, but even then once you chose the path, that's the way to accomplish it and only one way to succeed -- as far as I know.