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Love this and I'm very excited to learn more obscure slash commands! There are just so many!

Perhaps something else was at play but I have experienced Talshak refusing to give me his last mission when I hit 16 in Atta and preventing me from getting the merits for the arc. I had to repeat the arc through the crystal to get my merits.

At level 15 you gain access to the crystal in Oro (pillar of ice and flame?). I like to use the crystal to complete story arcs because you can't outlevel the contact this way. Otherwise you could find yourself in a situation where you've done 4 out of 5 mission in an arc but you leveled up in that last mission and now the contact won't give you the last mission. The crystal locks your level and the enemy level until the arc is over so you can't outlevel it. A personal SG base is easy to make and so so useful! It doesn't need to be pretty, just get some teleporters and storage bins in there and you'll be golden! Install Vidiotmaps and grab at least 1 exploration badge in each zone you visit to unlock that zone in your long range teleporter. (Also get all 8 badges in a zone for 5 reward merits) There are free attacks in the start vendor in pocket D. Black Wand, Nem Staff, Sands of Mu & Ghost slaying axe. You can have 3 of the 4, I usually skip the axe. These attacks will give you a fairly solid attack chain at level 1 and make your early levels much smoother. The start vendor offers 5 free procs, 4 damage and 1 knockdown and they don't expire til level 21. This is another way to pack some extra damage into those early attacks. If you want to use the Amplifiers from the START vendor (strong buffs you rent by the hour, not required for anything but a nice leg up on those early levels), then buy the max qty at level 1 when they only cost 1000 inf per hour. The price goes up every time you level and they get pricey pretty quick. Don't rush to 50, I have much more fun in the leveling up process than I do in the Incarnate grind. I'm sure there are a million more but thats all I've got for now. Welcome and have fun!

Sure, sounds like fun! The animations are always the sticking point for any potential new set but if they can work around that I'd be happy to live in Tombstone for a while. I hear there's some character down at the saloon who twirls a shot glass around like a pistol. btw, who's my huckleberry?

I have a couple Hami Toons, a toon whose sole purpose in life is to hold the Antimatter mish, a crafter (who I should have just combined with the Hami toon but too late now) and an "Invader" toon (though after the V-Day event I have many toons I can use to get Invader but I still go back to this guy every time) side note: I'll never delete a 50, it costs me nothing for them to sit there and patches happen that can change ones perspective on a toon.

I'd rather see instanced Hami raids where the leader could kick habitual offenders. MSRs already have this and leaders should be using it where applicable. I haven't messed with Labrinth since it was on test so I can't speak to that. I don't like the thought of short afk/kick timers in Abyss because one often must arrive up to 30 min early if you want to guarantee yourself a spot in the zone. That just leaves too many opportunities for someone who took the initiative to arrive early to lose track of time and get kicked from the zone which then fills and prevents that person from getting back in. I do see the afk leeches occasionally so I understand where you're coming from but I don't support this proposed solution.

Had to add a tab to my spreadsheet for 50s with food names... Surprising to learn that I have not 1 but TWO toons using "Porkchop" in their name. When I was little I had a hamster named Porkchop too. Do I love porkchops? It's actually pretty rare that I eat porkchops, why do I keep naming things after porkchops??? ~PorkchopGoat

Perhaps an account wide defeat badge after 10x the required number of defeats is achieved? I still don't love that but it seems reasonable. And as with all things, options are good so allow ppl to opt out should they desire.

Ultimately I'm not on board for account wide, free or purchasable badges or accolades. Maybe I'm a weirdo but I like that I have to earn them on each toon and learn the ins and outs of my toon to do so efficiently. I may discover that a badge or accolade is trivial to acquire on a Super Strength Brute but is much more difficult to acquire on a Mind Troller. I would never know that and I'd never have to develop a new strategy to be successful if the badge I got on the Brute counted for my other 120+ toons. If pressed I could probably get on board with account wide History badges though even then, that particular toon hasn't read those plaques so they would be ignorant of the lore contained within unless I RP that all my toons are a Borg Collective with a shared consciousness. If this came to fruition it wouldn't drive me out of the game but it would be somewhat diminished in my eyes.

That would be nice! Display it as current/max so you know at a glance that if you're at 980/1002, 1 more badge will cap you out and you won't get the full value out of that last badge.

Yes please! I'd also love a one in Galaxy City if we're doin a trainer pass!

I don't think we should be able to buy permanent stat buffs for our toons at any price. Make it 10 million per hour per accolade so you get 10 hours of all 4 accolades for 400 million. That would still be trivial for anyone with more money than time and since the buffs aren't permanent it wouldn't devalue the effort to get those accolades for those who would acquire/have acquired them the traditional way.

Update: Last night I completed the Percy arc, no bonus merits. Then I went back and did the arc with "Stop the Fir Bog" and completed it and BOOM! Bonus Merits! I think in the Fir Bog mission you have to kill 100 Fir Bog for it to end so it took a while! I've done that mission on teams before but somehow never realized that 100 kills was the goal.

I appreciate you calm logic and that's a fair assumption but imo, not a valid reason. It just doesn't make any sense to me that HC allows other unrelated servers to dictate what HC can develop. HCs approach to other servers should be that of Don Draper in the elevator, "I don't think about you at all". I don't expect anything to change but the whole concept really chaps my hide.

Oh! Son of a gun! Yes, I failed the Fir Bog mission! Dang, gotta re-do that one.