GM Crumpet

Movies need to make roughly twice to two and a half times their budget to break even. Cinemas take half the box office for themselves so if a film cost 100 million to make, add another 50 million for advertising (being on the low side) a film needs to make around 350 million just to break even. Movie budgets are often under reported as the cost of reshoots can double the stated budget. In the case of Madam Web all the dialogue was redone (badly) and sometimes you can see the lips move out of synch to the dialogue. Personally I would double the movies stated budget so 500 to 600 million would be needed to break even.

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Well from next month I won't be an old 50 any more 😛 I'll be a young 60 🙂

I'll preface this by saying I have no idea what the devs plan to do to khelds. I do know they consider them weaker than they should be, and understand that the changeling exploit is for a lot of people the only way to make them comparable with other AT's. It's why they walked back the exploit fix they had in place because extensive playtesting showed it nerfed khelds to an unacceptable degree. Whatever changes they make they want to make sure khelds are better, and not make any changes that are going to screw up the AT for people. As relative newcomer to khelds I find them endless fun. I'm busier than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs and I'm fully aware that I'm not playing mine to their full potential. Lauci helped me to get a playstyle and sort out my slotting, and I do feel really powerful against most enemies now I'm level 50 incarnate. I personally prefer WS to PB, but I'm not knocking PB's, they are just a different feel and I prefer the concept and powers of a WS. There are some really good suggestions on here and even the ones I'm not a fan of are well thought out. I do hope the devs pay attention to the kheld players, it's obvious a lot of thought has gone into the reasoning behind the suggestions

Don't worry, April is round the corner and unless they decide not to run it this year the devs will turn the mapserver event on..... Prepare for 5 seconds per frame......

I have around 50 fully incarnated tier 4 alts. I organise them by AT and have far too many blasters. I also have around 15 or so at various levels including 7 or 8 I'm working on getting the vet levels.

I play farmville

People will find exploits sadly. Then those exploits will get fixed. At least you have to work for Scrapyard rather than sit there AFK

You beat me to it. Just delete all the old files and it works perfectly

I always found it an absolute pain to download and install vidiotmaps. I'm not very good with modding and stuff. The modder is so easy, and does all the work for you. You do have to make sure to delete any old files first though.

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Did you report some stuff missing in the recent database kerfuffle? The admins are emailing stuff to players to restore or to rebuy things that went missing I don't know the details, or who is getting what, I just know things are being sent out

People use the macro/binds because they don't like the popup power trays. I don't care. It saves me worrying about extra trays. I just bind the two shapechanges to a button using the keymapping page in options. I am left handed so have them on the right hand number keys as I have my mouse on the left and use the arrow keys to move around. But you can bind them to anything. I hit 1 and squid, and the nova powers appear in the top tray. 1 again and I'm human. 2 is dwarf, and if i click between the 2 I go squid to lobster instantly. I also have the teleports on number pad keys.

I've got some level 50 builds in this section that work for me. They are tri-form and it's a really fun AT to play, but it can be complicated. I run or tp into a group. cast shadow slip to group them up, then eclipse, mire. swap to dwarf, mire again, human and nuke, then dwarf to mop up the survivors and nova to catch the runners. Self rez if I miscalculate.

I've never spent more than about 700 million on a level 50 build. I do buy standard ATO's and use catalysts on them to turn them purple though. Anything that costs over 20 million is best purchased with merits. Hami O's and D-Synchs are best left for those people with more inf than they can ever spend. I'm kind of useless with builds. If I'm building for myself I'll just shove the entire set into the power rather than frankenslot for every possible advantage. Procs I tend to use are the recharge ones (luck of the gambler). healing ones in health and end mod ones in stamina. Other than that, if I have a power I don't use with an empty slot I'll shove the appropriate proc in there as I have the inf and it won't hurt. Some of them are really helpful like blessing of the zephyr 4 points of knockback resistance. It's not always about the raw damage.

I don't!!

Nicely put and I can't think of anything to add as you seem to have covered all the bases 🙂

I use shareX, but the snipping tool is now surprisingly helpful. It saves screenshots in pictures now instead of the clipboard and I don't need to go into paint to save it 🙂

Any of the GM's will be more than happy to discuss concepts and idea with you on Discord. We aren't monsters. You can always DM me with a costume or name and go "Is this OK?" and I'll give you my honest opinion. As many long time players will tell you, I'm not overly diplomatic. But I'm reasonable 🙂

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At some point, in the fullness of time, eventually. But that's a conservative estimate so don't quote me 😛

Speaking as a GM of long standing I can't imagine our policy ever changing. We often get accused by people of GM overreach and we have a very hands off approach to most things unless it's a breach of the code of conduct. We can argue with people, and we can both disagree, but that's passion and love for the game. I'm sure @PeregrineFalcon will agree that we've had very different ideas about things in the past and will again in the future, but have we banned them because we don't always agree? Of course not. I value players like them for standing up for what they believe, even if sometimes their passion gets the best of them. I actually agree with them a lot of the time and value their input. I've also changed my stance once or twice because their argument has been persuasive. I've had a lot of players over the years argue with me about names they had on live and my answer is always the same. I can't help. If they want to contact the player directly and ask them if they will surrender the name to them then that's fine, but if they don't then that's their prerogative. The only time I would step in is if the player asking was rude about it and tried to involve me in some way. "GM Crumpet said..." better be a direct quote with a source or you'll find the limits of my reasonableness 🙂

We kind of need a GM Pumpkin now 😛

I don't know the amount of data all those unused alts take up, I can't imaging it's that high. If I need to search the database for a character it's pretty easy and depending on how loose my search criteria is depends on how many results it throws out. It's not the number of names and alts that are a problem.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. And I'm a he 🙂 I can't go into details of names on accounts, or say how many are name camping due to confidentiality, but you are correct in the lack of null names that nobody would want or care about. There are names I'm panting to get my grubby mitts on 😛