Diantane

It wouldn't be that hard. Other shards have a population of like 20 or 30. Everlasting about 125. Excelsior is about 450

I play on Excelsior. the population used to be much higher here 2 years ago. If was fast and easy to put teams together for several hours every day. The LFG chat was extremely busy. Today it barely moves. Other mmo's have a lot more players -- in the tens of thousands per shard Because of this I have stopped forming teams (trying to). Today I am soloing a character on the red side. The red side population is extremely tiny.

When I try to fill up a team these days it is extremely hard except for only one hour in prime time on weekdays. They should be merging and eliminating shards. Not adding new ones.

Playing a new villain. Something I haven’t done since COV first came out on October 21, 2005. My mission is to kill Hellions but I can’t find any. Any ideas? Update: NVM -- the mission info said "Oil Spill." Knew where that was and completed the mission.

When you first come to RWZ you go see the npc Levantera. Then she sends you to Borea to do a few introductory missions with her. This is where the problem is. Half the time after those few Borea missions, she will send you back to Levantera to continue the arc. The other half of the time the mission to go to Borea from Levantera breaks and never completes. So you end up doing missions forever with Borea (there are only a handful of missions that are repeated over and over -- grinding). Note: If you want to stay in RWZ and grind these short (10 minute) missions forever, just go to Borea (good name (short for boredom). When it breaks, the only thing you can do to "fix" it is to tell Levantera to "Complete the Mission." Then you can go back to the normal storyline arcs that will eventually move on to the other NPC's.

I liked the electric on sentinels all except for the tier 9 attack. Takes almost three seconds to cast (too much for what you get).

I didn't know that about Blasters - thanks

I tried that when I first came to the emulator and was unsuccessful. Could barely afford training enhancements the the influence I was earning. Then I started to host teams doing arcs and received a lot of merits which were used to buy enhancement boosters and sold for a million each. Its been over 5 years and have saved up 1.2 billion. I get SO's at level 7 and upgrade them in seconds every 5 levels.

Went to MIDS and added up all of attacking powers to get a total to see which did the most damage: 1) Psychic - 951.28 2) Fire - 941.55 3) Energy - 937.21 But then I wondered if a Blaster would be worth it -- Their Psychic was only 1,002.72 50 more damage not worth having with no defense.

Saw two players on my team go to Atlas to train. We told them that there was a trainer in each zone. They said that they thought there was only one 🙂

Whenever I start a new character such as a Sentinel, Scrapper, Brute or other alt with both offensive and defensive slotting, I choose to put three defense or resistance SO's long before I think about adding damage SO's to the offensive powers (I also add two end-redux SO's to each toggle (yes, right way). What good is offensive damage SO's if you're dead or out of endurance? I generally slot up the first defense and add up to three attacks before adding another defense, but I only have an accuracy enhancement in the attacks. I continually add four extra slots (5 total) to defense toggles as a young alt. When leading a young team in mission such as the Hollows, I can easily tell that other characters like myself did the opposite when slotting. As they are have low health or die quickly. While I am still fighting without much of an issue. Now one thing that I will tell the others in my team is if you are a ranged fighter, distance is your friend. If the enemy comes after you, back away from them as far as it takes. I see melee fighters keep attacking with low health. This is a very bad idea. They should back away (don't turn and run) when they are greater than 50% of their health. Then rest in a safe spot before continuing. If you wait too long, you'll be talking with the nurse before you know it. So how do I know all this: Started playing PC games in 1977 with the Apple II. My first MMO was Asherons Call (AC) in 1999. My only AC character that ever reached the max level after the new expansion of 275 did so with quests only (no grinding). Took me almost 5 years of playing nearly every day to get the over 33 million XP. Many friends on AC wanted to quit the game as it was too hard. So I taught them about melee defense, shields, artificial intelligence and how to fight and stay alive to continue fighting.

I prefer skim milk, If they are out and I have to buy two percent, it looks like I'm pouring white gravy on my cereal. Whole milk is even worse (3.25 to 3.5% milk fat). Thanks -- btw... on an early Monday morning the server Excelsior will have between 300 to 450 players online. The more popular mmo's will have about 600,000 online during that same off-peak period. That's where all those players went that used to play this 20 year old mmo.

I've been playing Satisfactory for 5 years. I've also been playing this emulator for 5 years. It is possible to play more than one game as a time.

Well I surely missed out on that one (Heart of Darkness). Because that is an AoE from your position, I thought it was some sort of attack and I rarely casted it (currently level 32). But how am I supposed to cast it? I would have to be in the middle of the mob. Not as friendly as them in front and away from me (as "Psyonico" pointed out).

When LIVE first started everyone just had training, dual origin and single origin enhancements (possibly a HAMI if they did a very tough set of missions). Today many players use special enhancements that give them "sets" of buffs. Since I don't play a toon much past 50 (if I even get there at all), sets are worthless to me. So I always play "old school." Note: I'm 69 years old so I guess I'm an old dog that can't learn new tricks 🙂