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And the description of the new badge is just: "Defeat the new boss encounter in the Imperious Task Force on Advanced Difficulty." Question: When it says 'Advanced', does that mean ALL FOUR advanced difficulty levels spawn the new boss and badge opportunity?

Well, bummer. 😞 I'm guessing you know they are run on the weekend also, including the afternoon. Not being able to play in 'prime time' must make a lot of badges harder to obtain.

Unless one zigs and the other six zag. In that case, the first guy gets to die. 😉

Ugh. I don't let them accumulate like that. I make new characters infrequently enough that I only need to run Synapse once, or RARELY twice, when it comes around in the rotation. um, the Buddy badge is for the buds so why didn't you just do regular Hami raids? It takes about 20-25 minutes for a double raid and that's a lot of buds if you're tossing AoE. If you don't have AoE, buy a temp AoE power or use pets. Edit: To answer the original question - I will run just about ALL of the task forces myself when they're the weekly. My favorites are Posi 1 and 2, Penny Yin, Katie Hannon, Ernesto Hess, Moonfire and the ITF. I'll solo Dr. Q when it comes around because it's so many merits. I'll log in 3 accounts and solo it so that's 732 merits.

SPOON!!!

Basically, yes. There is a listing of ALL zone events and you would need to read the description of each one to see if players can trigger it. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Category:Zone_Events

I only run at +0 for Positron and Synapse because we're so low level (and Synapse is torture). Other than that, I run at +1 and as fast as possible when it's a weekly since I'm there for the Notice or the extra merits. On the ITF, most people run at +3 or +4.

1) The promotions aren't a free action. It requires 'retiring' (removing) the general. 2) Not just the military. *ALL* units get the extra movement. Also, using a promotion does not end their turn.

Was playing today as Simon Bolivar, leader of Gran Colombia. Every time a new era starts, I get a special leader called a Comandante General. The most recent one was named Gregor MacGregor. Sounds odd, but I'm guessing it's a reference to this guy: General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule as "Cazique". At one point, he led Venezuelan troops against the Spanish with the rank of general.

As usual, really beautiful work.

I expect it to come all the way back down eventually. It's around 5000 now and I have my usual stacks of bids at 1400 just waiting. I've still been buying, though. Spending an extra 10,000 per yellow salvage is irrelevant when I'm selling the converted results for multiple millions.

I wouldn't say that I "track" supply and demand. I would say I briefly observe it. Most of my money comes from buying trash recipes and converting to something useful. A couple weeks ago, I noticed someone was buying my usual recipes at about 2-3x what I had been paying, so I just stopped. I could have bid higher or moved to some other recipes but that would have been too much effort. I spend VERY LITTLE time working on making influence. In the past couple days, it seems back to normal so I'm buying again. Regarding the LotG +recharge, I never even look at those. I buy cheap recipes and convert to get the ones I need and stop once I have 15-20 to put in base storage.

Pretty much. I wanted to do a 'high end' tank build and used both ATO sets and four purple sets, including six-slotting Boxing with Hecatomb. He also has Absolute Amazement, Armageddon and Apocalypse (in Laser Beam Eyes). My goal is to see how well he can tank the Avatar of Hamidon in the Underground I-Trial. So I wanted a lot of +regen, +recover, +recharge and extra hit points. On a side note, this was a relatively expensive build for me and I had the character self-fund. At around level 30, he started buying trash recipes, crafting and converting them. He has bought all his IO's (not slotted yet), and has 800 million inf extra at level 48.

Unless there's an open bar. There's your problem. No booze in the next arc. You think those are ice slides for playing on? Nope. They're ice sculptures to pour vodka into your mouth. Back on live, I would create a character and run him thru Atlas Park and The Hollows to meet new players to recruit for my SG. Then I would delete and recreate the same character to do it again. He was MA/regen and was named Dr. Smacky.

Missed opportunity. You have misspelled 'misspellings' and then edited to correct it. 🙂

I contend it's not trivial since we failed last week, with a core of highly experienced players. For some reason, our damage output seemed way below par despite having six corrupters.

No. Well, perhaps the curiosity is natural but don't expect an answer. And you certainly have zero right to demand an answer. Any negotiations are confidential. If you don't like how the server is being run, you don't have to donate. It is 100% voluntary. Me? I donate on a regular basis.

That link is broken. If you mouse over it, you can see that .jpg appears twice with a lot of seemingly extraneous numbers in there. Maybe it's supposed to look like that, but it still doesn't work.

Hmm. Just checked and the last five prices are 5.25 million.

As I already observed, most characters are not going to use exactly the same IO's so this is, in your own words, "a contrived nonsense scenario". Yep. Not playing 'optimally' ON PURPOSE. Way too many people playing cookie cutter builds where every character has to have capped defense, Hasten, etc. If I wanted that, I can afford it. But I prefer goofing around. I have characters with multiple travel powers. I built one named 'Toggle Man' whose reason for existence is to run toggles - just because. I'm playing a game where people do crazy stuff for entertainment value. (shrug) I built one character, leveled to 50 and got all incarnates to tier 4 JUST TO HELP WITH ONE SPECIFIC BADGE. I play this character on Really Hard Way badge runs every week and it's not even my badger. I'm having FUN. If you can't grasp that then yeah, we're NOT playing the same game. Toodles.

It's certainly possible. Some SG's will absolutely do this as an SG event and spawn a crowd of GM's. I participated in such events back on live and have seen it advertised on Homecoming. Specifically, "I seriously doubt that somehow 10 players could all coordinate getting to the right point in the Crimson arc simultaneously, and then have all their groups exit in Talos." Why would you have ANY doubt that could be done? That's *EASY*. I could EASILY manage three myself with my three accounts. Solo the arc until you get to the end of the correct mission, then just wait there. Solo on another account and wait. Etc. Then, one right after the other, exit the mission direct to Ouroboros - WHERE GIANT MONSTERS CAN NOT SPAWN - and proceed to Talos. Just like any other ambush in the game, the Titan will proceed to Talos.

Yes. This is a factor with all of the giant monsters. You (or your team) must do at least 10% of the total damage. So, if there's two teams fighting a GM and you're solo, you probably won't get the badge. This is also what causes a problem with Eochai and Jack in Irons. When they spawn TOGETHER and start fighting each other, if they have been fighting a while they do so much damage to each other that NO ONE can get the badge for killing them.

Well, I put a lot of thought into mine. I originally came up with the idea back on live but never got around to writing it up in AE (OMG the AE system is annoying to use). I wrote an origin story for Mark IV (the technology contact in Founders Falls). You can just search for 'Origin of Mark IV' or the ID is 48002.

And there is a completely understandable reason for that - badgers. In order to get all the crafting badges, you have to craft some of every type of enhancement in various level ranges. So people are crafting enhancement that they don't need and dumping them on the market to recoup some of their costs. No, that is COMPLETELY misleading and not at all comparable to the previous example. In order to craft that item you must have the recipe. There is NO OPTION to buy the recipe at the crafting table. You have to buy it from the AH in the 10-12 million range. These two examples have NO bearing on each other.

Ouch. Talk about throwing someone into the deep end. That's some of the hardest content in the entire game. 😛 Anyway, @Akalabeth I'm also a member of Cosmic Council even though my personal SG is on Everlasting. My girlfriend was already a member and I was always commenting how funny Ukase and Snarky were on the forums and she said they're in CC and always play on Friday night so I joined. I play on Excelsior every Friday evening and occasionally at other times. It's a well-run SG.