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Ade Lucas

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  1. In fairness, a lot of companies changed the system so you have to put the full year in the box.
  2. I was quite lucky with my first few incarnates, someone was running iTrials almost constantly every night and it was quite possible to jump from one to another without a break. I have no idea which ones, but some of them seem to have a much higher chance of a rare or very rare drop than normal. Unfortunately, as is normal, the novelty wore off and the superbly run iTrials have tailed off and it's very hard to find one being run. On Reunion Peak ran a wide variety of different trials and TF's, with a smattering of MSR and Hami for good measure. His leagues were always run like a military operation and very well blocked out before we started. There was never a chance of not getting whatever result or badge needed unless someone failed to pay attention and listen to extremely clear instructions. I assume the holidays have got in the way and normal service will be resumed soon, but it's just a shame there are only a handful, probably less than ten people, who are willing and able to run the incarnate content as well and as clearly. I've had a couple of runs which were so badly done I've quit halfway through. Being called an idiot publicly for doing exactly what everyone else has done for dozens of runs because the team leader wants to run it as quickly as possible despite at least half the league wanting to get the badges isn't fun. Team leader, team leader rules. Team member doesn't like team leader rules, team member quits team. Aaaaaanyway up, Heather is a good and quick way of getting emp merits and salvage. The majority of times I get common salvage, but sometimes I get a higher reward. One thing to remember is that enemy level doesn't affect reward. The drop rates for each enemy and rewards table doesn't change on -1 or +4. If you drop it to -1/1 you can literally run from one end to the other in around 15-20 minutes, if you only defeat the absolute minimum enemies required. So first mission just the assassin at the end of the map, second mission three mobs with an ambush at the end, third mission click three glowies and one mob, final mission a timed fight at the end. You may need to clear a few bunched up enemies while trying to click the glowies, but you can run past almost everything. so for 15 to 20 minutes work you can get either 1 emp merit, a guaranteed random common and a roll on the reward table, or 2 emp merits and a common.
  3. It's always the problem with something that does well but doesn't get <other massively popular thing> figures. WoW is an anomaly, and expecting something like CoX to get those sort of player numbers when it didn't have the public perception is stupid. WoW advertised and sponsored massively popular shows like the Simpsons (another show that killed other fun shows because they were successful, but not Simpsons successful) while other MMORPG's never took advantage in the same way. Even now, when superhero interest has been at it's peak for the last decade there has been no concerted effort to cash in on it's popularity. If they had brought back an updated CoX, or DCO or Champions had pulled their fingers out then they could have had a licence to print money. The player base is out there, the trick is to recognise and cash in when it's booming. Now the whole Thanos thing is over it's going to be interesting to see if Marvel can keep going with the new set of movies. In a way they shot themselves in the foot with the success of Avengers: Endgame. It made TOO much money and executives and investors aren't going to be happy to settle for less than that going forward. They aren't going to accept something making less than a billion a time and will almost certainly kill any interesting but obscure properties going forward. To comics fans Doctor Strange and Thor were no-brainers, to the general public it was "who?". Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant Man were serious gambles, but good writing, casting and budget lifted them up to top tier properties. If the ones coming forward like Shang Chi and Eternals don't catch the imagination then it will be a closing in and endless guardians, Spiderman and Black Panther sequels. CoX was never going to get WoW numbers but it didn't do well in the asian markets so they cancelled it without a moments hesitation and even though the games they concentrated on were all massive in the east, they never got a foothold in the west in the same way CoX did. IP owners are often very shortsighted. They chase the potential money they don't have instead of concentrating on the money they do have. Ignoring the existing audience for a mythical potential new audience has recently crashed and burned several franchises. Terminator, Star Wars, Charlies Angels, Ghostbusters. All told the existing audience these properties aren't for you. We want a new audience. They changed them up and filled them with SJW nonsense because Twitter told them to then made surprised Pikachu faces when the existing audience took them at their word and left, and the potential new audience never materialised.
  4. I can run my own toons any time I like, I also like company and the banter between people with nothing better to do than chat makes the farming fly by a lot quicker. It's like everyone says though, team leaders mission, team leaders rules. If I drop my own toon to allow someone else in it's my decision. There isn't anything for someone else to feel terrible about 🙂 At the end of the day I enjoy farming, but I also enjoy the satisfaction of helping someone else, be it levelling past the early levels till they hit IO level, making that little extra xp to hit 50 or open an incarnate slot, or to help gather inf for those more expensive sets. We all play the game the way we want to play it. I have around 30 different alts at various levels, almost all of them were levelled the old fashioned way, in teams or solo doing missions. I farm more for the inf than anything else. It doesn't make a massive difference if someone else wants to come along for the ride.
  5. I have to agree. Whenever I put out a call that I'm forming a team there are always more people reply than I have room for. Someone doing this is taking a spot from a genuine person. I do run fire farms though, and I prefer people who door sit, so unless I have lots of people wanting to join in then that's the only time I would allow a dual box to happen. I ran one this morning and had way more people ask to join than I had room for so dropped my own dual box toon to let a real person join. If I won't dual box on my own farm due to demand then I won't let someone else do it either.
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