Ironblade

The best-laid plans of mice and men. We also weren't supposed to be able to get the Really Hard Way badge until additional Incarnate slots were released.

It was. I forget the details, but it involved a horrible bug in slotting kheldians. Basically, you were able to put all the build slots into one power. So, by slotting for range and damage, you could snipe Hamidon to death from the 'safe rock'.

I had two accounts, both of which were subscribed in order to get the rewards. Also, I bought pretty much every update and costume pack for at least my main account. During the time the game was running, I spent just under $1900. Spreading that out over about 7 years, I feel that was pretty cheap entertainment. By this point, I imagine that figure would have been around $4000. Or maybe higher. I have a lot more money now. I've got close to $1000 put into various crowdfunded games that haven't even released yet. On 'live', we were initially limited to 12 characters per shard. I had filled those slots on Infinity so I got the second account just a couple years into the gam. Then they gave us the ability to purchase additional character slots, up to a limit of 36 per shard. That was plenty for me. At shutdown, I had 37 level 50's (35 of them on Infinity) and an additional 4-6 characters leveling up. I probably would not have double that many by now as I continued to play characters after they reached 50. So, with more and more 50's, I would have less time to level new characters. Also, part of my early push was to get at least one of every AT to level 50. Then I took every tank armor set to 50 at least once. After that, I didn't have any goals that involved large numbers of 50's. FYI, the 'secret server' continued issuing anniversary badges and you can buy them for merits each year, during the anniversary month (May). I plan to do so on my badger. I was here when the first anniversary badge was issued.

It wasn't too bad. My SG was consistently around #37-38 on Infinity and we had a max plot, dimensional vortex for energy, two orbits of control, max storage, etc. It was the RENT that was an onerous system.

Cytoskeletons are awesome in Invincibility. I just recently for the 4th one I needed (two each for my two invuln tanks).

I'm in the game now and it's daylight.

What's your point? You're describing things that, as you correctly state, do not require skill. We were talking about about something that does require skill - in both planning and execution.

Back in the day, it was hard for a lot of SG's to build a decent base so the devs did a 'one-time' grant of free prestige per character in the SG. I forget how much prestige it was. However, since it was done without warning, people screamed bloody murder. So the devs said they would do a second grant of prestige per character and announced it in advance. So, people made filler characters to pad people's SG's up to the maximum size. I made a spreadsheet to track the 'trades' (I'll put 12 characters in your SG on Pinnacle if you put 12 in mine on Infinity). I still have the spreadsheet It looks like I created around 690 characters to fill people's SG's.

On the other hand: 1. Involving people in research without their consent is generally considered unethical and requires review by the university's ethics board which may or may not have occurred. 2. What he referred to as "violating social norms", most people would call "being an asshole". It's all about perspective. Was he a dedicated researcher just doing his work or was he skirting the rules of academia and engaging in online harassment?

Well, here's my entirely subjective take on the subject. Some servers are trying all kinds of gimmicks to try to get more players or just for the fun of experimenting. This server is planning for the long haul and currently working on infrastructure, software mechanics and an agreement with NCSoft.

One of my favorite places was way back before the revamp of Faultline. If you recall, the entire back of the zone was sealed off by a war wall and 'inaccessible'. However, if you could fly and teleport you could use the camdist command to position your viewpoint above the war wall and teleport behind it.

Just noticed this exchange. His name was Nikola, not Nikolai. Groucho, not Grouch. Now get off my lawn.

My next alt has nothing to do with the update. Back on live, I had taken every tank armor to 50. I currently have a rad armor tank at level 36. When one of my current tanks (I have 4 below 50) gets to 50, then I'll do a bio armor tank as it will be the only set left. I already made him to hold the name - Alabama Slammer - bio armor/war mace (baseball bat). I have no idea what the two after that will be.

Also, there's a TARDIS sitting on the roof of Pocket D. Seems like a waste unless we were expected to find our way out here since it's not visible from inside the building.

Apparently I have way too much time on my hands. I PL'ed this guy so that I'd be able to give tours out there. Sadly, it seems that Recall Friend does not function out there. I was unable to teleport teammates from inside Pocket D, even when I moved closer to the building.

Good luck with that. He can ask me to jump off a bridge, too. 😛

The reward for Dr Q is 122 merits. I think it was 144 at some point, but it isn't now. It would seem that what you consider "a reasonable time" is where the issue lies. Since the devs and most of the players see it differently, you probably shouldn't ever expect this to get changed back.

Okay, turned out to be an amusing problem. She also noted that her video was not performing as well as she expected it to. She asked, "Could I have plugged the monitor in the wrong place?" Sure enough. She had the monitor plugged into the motherboard's video and not the graphics card. Shut down, plug the monitor into the graphics card, and the game works fine. It gave an error message about being unable to load a library. Apparently the motherboard video drivers aren't sophisticated enough to handle this antique game. Our graphics cards handle it fine.

Same for me and my brother's family. His wife made Particle Woman in CoH.

Morale improved to the point where we put the beatings on hold.

50/50 here. Just built two new computers and my game works fine after moving to the new system. My girlfriend's game won't run. What's weird is that our systems are IDENTICAL - all the same hardware, same video drivers, same anti-virus, etc. I have a few things to try. I'll post here for assistance if I can't get it to work.

I just logged in and out, while watching the directory structure, to test this. It looks like the data for all maps for that character is written to the new directory when you log out of the character. I'm showing file sizes as follows: 61K for Ironblade, who has every exploration badge 28K for a fully incarnate tank that has done a good chunk of content 2K for a mid level blaster who has mostly done TF content 0K for a new character that has not moved from the start point in Atlas Park I did not observe any delays in loading or exiting each character. As I currently back up the visited map files nightly, it looks like I need to log in and out of every character to update them to the new file system so I can change my back-up. Overall, looks like a good change and it seems to be working smoothy.

A glitch maybe? Or it got posted too early? At any rate, the thread is not locked and I just posted in it.

Overall, I like it a lot. Ironblade is broadsword/regen and he was the first character I made when I started playing just before the 1st anniversary. He has remained my favorite and most-played character. My only gripe would be that Resilience has such low numbers that it's basically useless. So much so that I have never even considered taking the power - on Ironblade. I DID take it on another scrapper to see if it was as useless as I thought and I decided it was.