GM ColdSpark

*Cries slightly at the thought of having to write-up all these great ideas somehow* Only joking of course - I'm loving the different ideas you're throwing around here folks - keep it up!

I'm a fan of Kheldians myself - Quants are the key enemy to watch for - you'll see them with their void rifles and learn to hate that sound. It's worth setting up a key bind to a) search for that mob type and b) alert your team to their presence so they can focus-fire / control it as a priority target. Kheldian game-play I think is fun, it's an interesting mix of frenetic and tactical as you have to work a bit to get them to their best - but there are some awesome abilities that look and sound pretty cool too! Enjoy!

Happy Sunday everyone! Last week you had a good old chat about Assault Rifle Sets that feel underpowered and are in need of an emergency buff... Writeup is here This week I thought lets break away from current sets and let our creative juices go wild... Weekly discussion 77 Week 15th Nov till 21st Nov 2020 YOU VOTED: Let's talk about - Designing an Epic Archetype for Praetorian Earth Things you could consider: The lore The look The powerset(s) How you'd balance it whilst giving it its own unique-ness (Any of the artists out there that want to throw a sketch up I'd love to see those too!) Remember if you have suggestions for future topics to go into the next vote pool, pop me a direct message and I'll add it to the list. People who offer up a suggestion that is subsequently chosen will receive an in game title for the character of their choice And with that - lets chat! 🙂

Best make up two beds, I think @GM Smol wanted to move in too...

Righto folks, we seem to be way off topic now so I'll lock this one down.

I see this thread has been necro'd somewhat. I don't really see any new views or opinions coming in here folks. I'll leave it be for now but I suspect this may have run its course (or be close to having done so). Thanks all.

Hey folks, last week we had a vote to give us a new set of discussions for the next few weeks. Weekly discussion 76 Week 8th Nov till 14th Nov 2020 YOU VOTED: Let's talk about - Noticeably underpowered sets. What needs an emergency buff? As always - I will capture the essence of the disussion at the end of the week, please be respectful of other peoples views. One persons weak set could be one that another finds very strong because you all have different playstyles. Remember if you have suggestions for future topics to go into the next vote pool, pop me a direct message and I'll add it to the list. People who offer up a suggestion that is subsequently chosen will receive an in game title for the character of their choice (4 of the next 5 weeks were player suggestions, just so you know). And with that - lets chat! 🙂

Thanks for all the votes folks, I'll lock this now and get the new Weekly Discussion topic up shortly once I've collated the Discord and Forum votes...

Huge apologies @JelloMold, I've fixed that up for you.

Hmm is working for me - I've just edited and re-populated the link... maybe that'll do the trick. Importantly though you've got the basecode handy. I'd certainly encourage folks to go visit the bases, don't just vote using the screenshots submitted - I want folks to be able to really see what the bases are about!

So here are some of our "Wow" moments! GM Goodnyght really likes the creative ways you guys merge items together to form something unique, like this food truck! GM Miss loved Rat City, she's asked if she can move in please. GM Mr Conviction loved the clever touches here, with the light streaming in from the windows And for me, the aesthetic beauty of places like this, hidden away in a base are really inspiring. There were so many more - we just wanted to offer up a small sample - once again, on behalf of the team huge congratulations to our winners and indeed all our entrants for your amazing creations!

Hello all, So the other GM's on the judging team and I have reviewed the bases, and whilst deliberations are ongoing to decide the final winner and the runners up, we thought it would be fun for you to be involved too. So we have pulled out 5 amazing bases, which are not now in the running for the final winner or runners up spots but which we thought are more than deserving of being our "Honourable Mentions". We'd like to invite you to take a look at these 5 over the next week and vote using the poll to tell us which one you think is worthy of being our "Community Choice" winner. The winning base designers will be awarded 5000 merits to be split between them in the event there's more than one designer, and a golden title in game. I'm putting the details below, with the links to the forum post of their specific entries along with the base codes so you can hop in for a little look-around. So.... as they say on X-Factor.... in no particular order (actually it's alphabetical!) here are our 5 Honourable Mentions! Honourable Mentions Supergroup Name Server Link to Entry Base Code Aegis House Everlasting Post Aegis-10808 Anti Unwise Council Torchbearer Post Pizza-2544 Deep Star Everlasting Post DEEP-16353 Hallowed Grounds Everlasting Post GHOST-1471 The Divine Excelsior Post Divine-1512 Voting is open NOW and will be open until November 11th.

Homecoming Base Contest Results Hello everyone, We have been BLOWN AWAY by the entries to the contest. The community's creativity is evident every time we log in and see your amazing heroes (and villains) zipping around the city and we get reminded of it again at the costume contests - I think it's a cast iron fact that we have the most creative and amazing player-base out there... but..... Oh my goodness, the base builders... the things you can do... you are like the McGyvers of the game, if I gave you each a paperclip, a carton of egg fried rice and a rocking chair I have no doubt you could craft me a true-to-scale replica of the Golden Gate bridge in no time... Hopefully people have enjoyed looking at the entries as much as we have - and if you haven't, then take the time to head to the original thread and peruse them because I challenge your collective jaws to not hit the floor. The ingenuity and diversity of thought processes, the different styles and techniques, I loved every second of being involved with this competition, as did all the other members of the GM team who were part of the judging team, or who just went on a tour because they were intrigued! I'm going to get to the winners, don't worry - but I wanted first to highlight that we were not looking for any particular theme or style, this was simply an open definition of "the best base" - which of course is subjective. But what was quite telling was the level of consensus between all our judges was pretty high. I was interested to see that when we got to our top 5, we had 5 very different types of base, each sharing a high quality of design and attention to detail as well as a theme that was consistent and well done. We also each saw different things as we viewed the bases that really made us go wow. I've invited the review team to call some of those out and you can see those in the post below. As you'll have seen from our post last week for the community vote, we also had 5 bases we felt worthy of being Honourable Mentions. You've been voting on which of those should get an additional prize - and the results from that are now in meaning we have all of our winners. The Results! Firstly - the winner of the Honourable Mention Community Vote: And now for our Runners Up! Finally, our overall Winner of the first Homecoming Base Contest is.... Massive Congratulations to all our winners, a huge thank you to all who entered and to the judging team. It was a very difficult task the community gave us to choose these winners and we hope you agree they're all extremely deserving! Can I ask each of the winners (just the submitters please in the case of multiple builders) to reach out to me on Discord to arrange for me to get your prizes to you.

Folks - just done a little tidying here of the overly attack-y posts. Keep it civil and respect each others views. I suspect the thread may have run it's course but I'll leave it open for now - any more unpleasantness and I'll lock it down though ok? Thanks.

Folks - feedback only please - less of the personal attacks and poking holes at one another. I've done some tidying on the last couple of pages, if you feel that any nuggets of genuine feedback were lost in there, feel free to repost them but without the calling out this time please. Thanks.

OK dokes folks, we don't seem to be adding anything new to what's already been said so I'm going to lock this one down. @Summerspark was quite correct with the slightly controversial views this would bring out (which, of course, is not a reason to avoid the discussion). But bottom line is, some people would like to have the option to have more "grindy" goals to work towards, others feel differently... and that... is OK.

I'm hiding posts that are off topic or not being respectful to one another folks. Warnings will follow if it continues. Thanks.

Preferably, yes please. It's an anonymous poll so I'd have no way to know - but you're all very honourable heroes (except for those dastardly villains!) so I'll trust you to collectively behave. Consider this a trial run of having the poll in the forums as well as discord, as CrudeVileTerror suggested, I'm up for it being accessible for all so long as it's not wildly abused.

There's a lot of drifting from the topic and general mud-flinging at one another going on here folks. Get it back on track please. No personal attacks, respect one another's views even if they differ from yours. Thanks.

Now with added polli-ness

Thanks @Zepp. I will see if I can get the forum poll setup but meanwhile feel free to reply with whichever letters you want to cast a vote for and I'll combine at the end of the week.

Hey folks! There is a poll on discord in the #weekly-discussion channel where you can vote on future topics for the next few months. Alternatively use the poll here. I'll consolidate the results. https://discordapp.com/channels/572090223115239444/583043822624309249/772141483159584830 If you have topic ideas, please post them here for future polls or send me a message with them, thank you! (If your topic is picked you get a golden title in game "Weekly Discussion MVP" on a character of your choice)

Hello Folks!! I'll start a new post here to pickup the logging of the weekly discussion outputs (I'll make a minor edit to Miss' post to point folks to this one going forwards). I'll do my best to capture the common thoughts that came up, obviously for the full discussion you can refer to the forum discussion link for each week (in the spoiler) or search back in discord. Weekly Discussion 74: UI Suggestions Weekly Discussion 75: Vote! Weekly Discussion 76: Noticeably Underpowered sets. What needs an emergency buff? Weekly Discussion 77: Designing an Epic Archetype for Praetorian Earth Weekly Discussion 78: Incarnate Powers - a review of ultimate power! Weekly Discussion 79: Mercenaries. Discuss! Weekly Discussion 80: More Hard Mode or New Zones & Missions? Weekly Discussion 81: The Player-Market Weekly Discussion 82: Vote! Weekly Discussion 83: Task/Strike Force Revamps Weekly Discussion 84: Kinetic Melee Weekly Discussion 85: T1 Immobilises in Control Sets Weekly Discussion 86: Base Building

Thanks - I'll ask some of our more technical types to take a look at this thread and see what thoughts they have.

Hi there, sorry you're having some trouble. I just recently this weekend setup the new Launcher on my Mac using Method 2 from @Manga and it worked fine though my Bitdefender did have a little wobble at one of the files it seemed to get over itself and I can say once working it's great. It sounds like you're very nearly there though - what anti-virus are you running and can you screenshot this error as it different from the original one (progress - you'll get there). Also just help us out which what version of Mac OS you're currently running and the age of the iMac. Thank you!!