GM Crumpet

Have you tried it with the new launcher and whitelisted the launcher? Tequila is old and cranky and can be annoying. Part of the reason for having the launcher is Tequila has zero security and it's theoretically possible for a bad actor to supply a corrupted manifest. The launcher has some back end features that prevent that plus some useful little tools that solve a lot of the most common launching problems.

Yeah, sorry Necromancy. I kind of forget new players aren't familiar with power sets so swapping the names isn't helpful when someone new is trying to find it 🙂

Hey 🙂 I love Masterminds. Top tier are Beasts, Bots and Undead. Mercs got good, and the others are in the process of being reworked to make them better. They aren't bad, but from my own perspective (other people may disagree) they don't pop like the others. The secondary is what can make a massive difference. Empathy is OK but a bit old school, people have change the way they play and enhancements are more potent now. Something like Pain or Time or Thermal are really good and electric is surprisingly effective. It's all about you though and what you enjoy. There aren't really bad choices, just choices that don't work for you.

You mean there is more to the game than AE farming?? Why did nobody tell me this before??

You know we don't get paid, right?

Tell me about it. I'm still trying to get my head round all the discord and forum changes. I'm mildly Aspergers so change is very uncomfortable. If it makes sense in my mind it's fine, but at the moment it's kind of "aaaaaaargh!!" for me 🙂 "Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should!!" 😛 Edit: The opinions of GM Crumpet don't always reflect the opinions of the rest of the team, and any issues GM Crumpet has is his own problem and he needs to deal with it 😛

Yeah that's definitely not working as intended. Hopefully the devs will take a look.

To be fair, I always tell players to take heals and rez over leadership pool.

maybe hover over browse not activity?

The Tolkien estate isn't going to be happy now his works are heading for public domain. In 20 years it will be in the public domain in every country except the US. They better milk that series hard as soon they won't be able to sue anyone.

I was under the impression it auto ended on the 1st. It might be the scripts for the zones end but the event has to be turned off manually. It's a bit confusing as some things stop and others don't.

The first rule of NDA is you never mention the NDA 😛

The event ended last night, so you were probably just that few minutes too late

Probably for the best. No policy against it, but if someone wants to remain quiet and under the radar then that's their right. And yeah, we lock threads that get out of hand. Sometimes the anonymity of the internet can be a curse as well as a blessing. As my mother always said when I was a child, "just because you can say something doesn't mean you should" 😛

As far as I'm aware there are no live devs about. There certainly aren't any involved on the HC team in any capacity. There may be one or two with player accounts, but we'll never know. A lot of them are still covered by their NDA they signed originally and I know a few of them have gone on to work for other studios and other projects. I vaguely remember ages ago when one of the original devs was asked if they knew about us they seemed not to know as their reaction was along the lines of "Really? That's nice" and they changed the topic.

I work security and do night shifts and day shifts so my play time is all over the place. I'm lucky, my job is such that I have a lot of downtime so can play when I am at work. I have alts on Excel for those tines I want a team or Hami or MSR and I have alts on Reunion for those times I just want a bit of peace and quiet and solo play. I'll have a day off and log onto Excel at 9am my time and find it's 4am EST and still have people running Tinpex. That's the joy of being international, dead on Excel? Reunion is probably humming. Dead on Reunion? Check the live numbers on discord and see where the cool kids are hanging out.

Because I like to annoy the undead

I get why people ask "why don't you?" sometimes, and the simple answer is because it would be an absolute pain to do and wouldn't really solve anything. With the shards we have we have flexibility when casual players return for events or new updates and the load is spread out. Merging shards would just increase the load on the remaining shards and restrict any increase in the player base.

Yeah, I think Number Six explained why it's not happening from an admin point of view, and from a GM point of view it would be a nightmare as so many players would lose names, globals, SG's, bases they have spent years working on etc. I'd never see the end of the tickets about it. As for new channels, we have plenty that cover most things, and players can make their own if they wish. We added the global channel as people tended to use the LFG channel to talk about everything and nothing so it made sense to have an off topic channel. It works well, though it does seem to make people think they can be spicy if a help or LFG conversation dares stray off topic for any reason 😛

I have no idea of the figures except what everyone else sees, but as a player I see events with full leagues on the busier servers, MSR and Hami leagues full, TF's filling quickly and plenty of teams and farming going on. There is the general drop off of players that every game gets, but we do seem to be reasonably stable. As someone else said, there is a new page on the horizon and that always drums up interest, and the event runners don't seem to have much trouble filling their regularly scheduled events so the numbers are still there.

Just remember not to use the name, bio or costume when creating a character. It's sad for us when we see a well recreated character and have to generic it

You mean these options?

It's not powerful enough to be a T8 I agree, but my flytrap has killed me several times. "No Fluffy, not that mob!!!!"

Wait until April and the mapserver event. So much fun, so many alts, So much inf needed to slot them afterwards......

While I understand the OP was typing in frustration and not coming across at their best, please keep this thread civil and try to be a little less judgmental. A lot of games are designed to be a grind to level 50 and the fun stuff start at level cap, where this game isn't. We have the fun stuff in the level 20+ range. A lot of the newer content is from 20 to 40. I understand OP's frustration, I always tell new and returning players not to take the double XP boost initially. Avoid farms, even avoid DFB in the beginning. Learn what you are doing and get used to the system first. Then think about short cuts to levelling.