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It would still mechanically be Energy Blast. Asking for force bubbles as an alternate animation option would work better.

Only if the player uses it and it already states that in the temp power. No reason to further complicate this.

Your response is flawed. Level 50s can also go get more patrol xp by grabbing exploration badges. (The change to patrol xp still aggravates me.) So the description is still wrong. The only way for the description to be correct as is, is for the player to actively go hunting the explores before level 50. I still lack explores on some of my 50s. Either way, the text is not correct. You yourself just admitted it is incomplete, even ignoring that level 50s can still grab explores they didn't get through regular play or intentional pursuit prior. Edit: Here you go: Earn 30 bars of Patrol Experience to obtain this badge. (NOTE: Characters earn this badge by spending time logged off or finding exploration badges. No more than 10 bars may be accumulated at one time.)

Yes and maybe. In that order. The 'Ballista' is only a Longbow Officer. And there apparently are Arachnos forces on the map, but they aren't numerous and I don't believe they normally spawn anywhere near the officer. Not saying they can't, but while there was a notice of a Bane Spider Commando taking out a Longbow Minigun in the mission for me, I still haven't seen the commando or any other Arachnos. (And I was just flying around as fast as I could to find the officer. So other Arachnos fighting should have been visible.)) Unless the author is running at like x8 and all the Arachnos spawned at the officer and just shot him/her/them and not any of the other Longbow that are part of that spawn, the author's outcome isn't likely. So I'm not sure what happened to the author.

If your character does not have the Patroller badge and checks it on the badge list, it says: Earn 30 bars of Patrol Experience to obtain this badge. (NOTE: Level 50 characters earn this badge by spending time logged off.) The only way to earn bars of Patrol XP is to be logged off on that character. My request is to remove the "Level 50" part of the statement and add further clarification so it instead reads as: Earn 30 bars of Patrol Experience to obtain this badge. (NOTE: Characters earn this badge by spending time logged off. No more than 10 bars may be accumulated at one time.)

On the "Infiltrate the 5th Column Base" from Laura Lockhart, the computer... erm... I mean communications terminal... is sitting partially over empty space on the balcony/catwalk through the guardrail. Zone/Mission: Abandoned_Warehouse_30_Layout_02_01 Position: [-179.5 32.0 361.2]

By the way, how are you combining Mind Control (only available to Controllers and Dominators, neither of which get blast sets) with Psychic Blast?

No, you're reading it correctly -- a fast snipe with its 'bonus' damage capped from 22% ToHit gets you up to about 75% of the damage a slow snipe will do, with the slow snipe having the addition of the greater range. Unless you're living and dying on the extra time of the slow snipe as your lead when you enter combat, it's (at least in my opinion) not a good tradeoff to slot the Experienced Marksman Range/Fast Snipe IO. I'm just chalking it up to a matter of personal preference. I don't have any use for the Experienced Marksman Range/Fast Snipe IO personally, but neither will I tell anyone not to use it. If I wanted my snipe to be a fast snipe and I wasn't concerned about range, then I would just use another attack to open and my snipe is now a fast snipe I can fit into the chain. I personally prefer to keep my slow snipe since I prefer to open fights with my ranged characters at as much distance as I can manage. There is also the consideration that the enhancements I slot into a snipe to get that 22% ToHit to improve a fast snipe's damage can also have the damage improved by simply slotting damage instead, which will also improve my slow snipe damage. (I still build ToHit/Accuracy into my snipes, but not any more than I build into my other attacks. And I can squeeze in some global accuracy or ToHit buffs from special IOs and set bonuses.)

I'm not seeing the same thing. Maybe wipe your cache data and try again?

Energy Blast. It does the knock a force blast would do and it is unnamed/untyped energy as a set so you can define what the energy type is.

I think that was looked into before? Anyway, unless the swinging works in the way it does on Champions Online (which does not require anything to swing off or from), how would it even work in this game? (I'm not a fan of how swinging works in CO in case it isn't clear.)

That is more fair than my understanding of the matter. I have to wonder why it took me so long to get one in Imperial City then.

Excelsior has 821 players online right now at the time I am typing this up. Of those 821 players, not more than 33 can get the badge in any given hour. Once the suspicious present spawns, it is first to the present gets the badge no matter how much time any of the players spent trying to get it just to spawn. It took me an hour to get it today in a zone I had to myself. You are completely missing the point of my comment. The only way this is better than the lone Contaminated in Recluse's Victory is that there are more zones to try in. For that matter, who said anyone wasn't using the resources available to them? You are making an unsubstantiated claim, for what? Edit: It doesn't matter if I got it on my main badger. It doesn't matter if you got it on your main or only badger. The game isn't just played by you or me. It is played by lots of people, at the same time, with who knows how many of those players having multiple characters they want the badge on for any reason. "Completionists will get the badge eventually"? That is a rather optimistic statement and disregards anyone you may not consider a completionist that is pursuing the badge for any reason as well as the people on these forums that have already previously stated how little time they get to play any given day. But hey, I guess they should just go without or hope to find a suspicious present others have been putting the effort into spawning and take it from them. Your 27,000 requires the players to be getting the present as soon as it spawns playing 24 hours a day. Sure, there will be some players playing at any given time, but how many players don't get that luxury?

I am aware it is attached to the character. Though maybe its interval should be shortened rather than be every few seconds? Every few seconds makes for some odd weather in the game.

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/33-badges/ Use badger or the tracker spreadsheet. Badger is very handy because it does everything you are asking for.

Random mob in Imperial City: [NPC] Pistol Adept: Well, hello, there... There shouldn't be a comma between "hello" and "there".

I find myself in agreement with the sentiment even if not necessarily the idea. Very Naughty is only available during the winter event, only obtainable from a single, specific, unique present in the zone, is apparently not team credit awarded, and only spawns once per hour after the existing Winter Lord has been defeated. That is 5 Praetorian zones, 16 hero zones if the Shadow Shard also has presents, 4 PvP zones if they have presents, and 8 villain zones. (I have no intention of popping into a PvP zone or the Shadow Shard to check for presents.) So that is a max total of 33 characters that can get the badge per hour on any given server. That is a Jack Emmert level of Fuck You to badgers.

I'm not sure if this belongs here or somewhere else since it isn't an objective spawning at a bad location issue, but the objective and attacking mob spawning at the same location. So I apologize if this is the wrong location for this report. In the "Stop the Destruction" mission from Jake Kim to save at least 1 of 3 display cases in the warehouse being attacked by the Freakshow, all 3 display cases had one of the Freakshow spawn inside the display case. In one of the three instances at Zone/Mission: Warehouse_30_Layout_06_02 Position: [397.7 0.0 241.8], the Mad Freak Gunner did not pop out of the display case and simply shot it up from inside. From memory, this is a relatively common thing that happens, but it would be appreciated if it stopped. The provided map is the current offender. Edit: If it helps, the other display locations where at least the Freakshow jumped out of them when I attacked are Position: [428.1 0.0 -52.3] and Position: [-1.5 0.0 7.9].

Or his Minister of Finance is. Or they are continuing to follow the 1,000 year budget plan Doom set out when he took the country. (You know how Doom is when it comes to managing things.) Or one of his many Doom Bots. *shrug* Anyway, I still think you are missing what it entails to be both a national ruler/leader and a superhero or supervillain at the same time. You have ministers and generals and other subordinates, each of which have their own subordinates who also have their own subordinates and so on to deal with the various minutiae and assorted tasks that our characters routinely deal with. Why deliver an item to Azuria in MAGI when you can send a competent subordinate of a subordinate of a subordinate to make the delivery instead? For that matter, why even bother with such a no-name contact (as far as you as a ruler and the international community are concerned) when you can have various operatives getting all that done for you while you deal with much more important, and grand, issues? The questions players already have for Masterminds doing various in game tasks scaled up with the added insult to the country in question of the insolence of Paragon City to make their leader do mundane tasks. You will never see Aquaman or the Submariner, let alone Doctor Doom, running errands for anyone. If they are involved in something, it is because it impacts their country and they are having a say in the matter, whether verbally or forcefully. To the chagrin, consternation, fear, or concern of the other nations of the world and any international political body. Just food for thought. Not looking for an argument, so I'm not taking this any further.

Not for Duelist. Arena stations are there, but no dayjob. My mistake then. Thanks.

Some logical... issues?... with a ruler day job other than location. Superheroes/villains that are also rulers like Aquaman, Submariner, and Doctor Doom are diplomatic problems for all countries involved. (There is a reason why Doctor Doom will never face arrest for his actions for instance and why the UN is always worried about war with Atlantis whenever Aquaman and the Submariner are involved unless they are standing with an internationally recognized super group saving the world at the time.) And then there is also the question of why a ruler would subject himself/herself/themselves to such menial tasks as running errands for contacts or street hunting random mobs or even taking orders in general from most of the contacts in the game. My opinion is that things like being a ruler are best left in the bio. *shrug* (Edit: Or just grab one of the ruler/king/queen badges already in the game.)

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There are contacts that stand within the tram's day job radius and we can't get credit for more than one day job. (Patroller doesn't count because you get credit for that no matter where you are or what you do.) I would say make this a news station location like WSPDR, but the only such location I can think of for that is WSPDR. Being a ruler isn't a day job. Even for those supers that are rulers in the various comics it isn't their day job. Just put it in your bio. Universities already give the Professor day job. You can't get credit for more than one day job at any location. (And the only schools in the game I am aware of are the universities.) And where would these day jobs be considering any housing areas are not on the map and the only mansion is an instance mission or the Midnighter's which already has its own day job. (Does Croatoa count as a housing area?) And what would be the day job location? I would recommend just making this part of your character's bio. Construction worker should be fine as I don't believe any of the construction areas fall under any existing day jobs. What would count as a military facility for soldier though? I think all the Arachnos, Longbow, and Vanguard areas already get their own day job badges. I'm going to leave Pro Athlete alone other than they would probably be dropped for unfair advantage having super powers and all.

Others have already told you why.

Then use it instead. No one is going to hold a gun to your head and demand you play every set in the game and be happy with them all.