Eiko-chan

I apologise for trying to give feedback. I'll leave it to the super-posters from now on.

500% is 5.0. They are literally the same thing. 500 parts per hundred = 500/100 = 5, the same way 75 parts per hundred = 75/100 = 0.75.

I forget which mission in the chain it is (third, I think?), but one mission sends you to a Circle of Thorns cave on Thorn Isle, but the mission door is not on Thorn Isle. Given that other door missions with specific locations do spawn at that location, you might want to move the mission or change the dialogue to not mention Thorn Isle.

Are these badges mutually exclusive, or can you get both by repeating the arc in Ouroboros?

This isn't feedback, this is a bug report: I just tested in a very long (20+ minute) fight against an AV, and Rage is crashing regardless of whether I have it stacked or not.

First and foremost, I would like to see the fundamentals that have been running for months remain. Same database, same code base, etc. I'm pretty sure I couldn't take starting over yet again; three times would be too many times. After that, new content would be nice. Having the incarnate system finished and the storylines that were going to go with them could be fun, so long as it wasn't all locked behind Raids (the PS team saw the wisdom in doing otherwise eventually). New costumes and powersets also count as content. 😄 If the servers could continue to be funded by community donations, rather than subscriptions and microtransactions, that would also be nice. The community seems to have been able to provide more than enough without having to cut off people who can't afford anything.

Since Web Grenade is the same power in Traps and Devices, can Traps users expect this change as well?

I wonder how hard it would be to give the makeup face skins a two-colour option, with one being the eye makeup and the other being the lip makeup?

These powers are, by and large, acquired from the P2W vendors in the tutorial zones, Atlas Park, Mercy Island, Grandville and Firebase Zulu. They appear as a $ on the map labelled "P2W". In Nova Praetoria, the vendor is "T4V".

It's because Praetorians remain locked out of content - like access to red/blue zones, Ouroboros, tips - until they do the transition. I do not know whether the transition can be delayed or not. (Interestingly, Praetorians do not seem to be locked out of Super Groups, though that may be related to the fact that Super Groups no longer care about side/alignment. The only access to a base they have would be through Pocket D, however.)

/altinvite <character name>

Since most of the posts thus far have been from people objecting to the name policy, allow me to post in favour of it. It is extraordinarily fair; if you can't log in your level 1 name reservation character once a month, you really ought to have the common decency to let someone who would be more invested in the name use it instead. "I got here first" is a really poor reason to allow resources to lay fallow.

Probably not much hyperbole, actually. Unless you don't want to trust the guy that ran a server for six years:

VirtueVerse is up and supported. Ransim is currently looking at upgrading it to the newest version of MediaWiki, though real life is making the process slower. You can't upload images right now because the server is almost out of space, so uploads were disabled. Another thing being worked on. If you check the site (It's virtueverse.net now), there's a link to a Discord if you need support.

Not entirely true. Positron was completely against full tailor customisation because he was afraid of people running around as Mastermind pimp and hoes. (Yes, seriously that exact example.) There was talk of maybe letting MMs "customise" their pets in a power customisation way, picking different skins for their pets instead of the default, but that never came to any fruition and was probably way way low on their priority list.

I feel like everyone reading this thread should also be aware of this fact: The missionserver, as its called, is a separate piece of software that stores the mission data as created by players. It does use some resources, but that part is not a big deal. Once you start an AE mission, it's loaded in a mapserver, like any other mission. They are not treated any differently. The problem is that players can build missions that are a lot more resource-intensive than normal missions from the game. When enemies spawn in normal missions, most of them have their AI in an "idle" state until they are aggroed, which doesn't require much processing power. But most AE farms rely heavily on ambushes or patrols, which spawn the critters with fully active AI. And that's the problem. Missions are run on 9 servers with a total of 224 cores. For the most part you can run lots of zones and missions on a single core without a problem; but AE farms tend to max out a core all for themselves. If there's just 100 AE AI-intensive farms running, that eats half of the mapserver processing power for all 4 shards. Farmers are not harmless. Farming actively robs resources from the other players.

Since server stability is iffy right now, is it possible to somehow remove the 3-day timer on mission autocomplete? It would help people out from having to repeat long kill-all missions and whatnot that crash just before mission completion, and might also help out with other mission bugs I've been seeing in the Help chat and on the forums.

Didn't we have this exact same fight on the live servers? And didn't the Paragon Studio devs eventually nerf AE rewards and force arcs to get dev approval before being viewed as "regular" content? We had this fight. And the farmers lost then, too, because of the technical limitation of the game code. The game simply cannot take AE farms being run at any appreciable level.

Now that we know one individual AE farm mission can use up an entire server core by itself, I view anyone that still wants to do AE farm missions as extremely selfish. You are not entitled to use up that much power just for your own personal use unless you are the one paying for these servers. As a compromise, since I can sympathise with the desire to get to 50 and get back to Incarnate stuff or PvP stuff, perhaps every account should get 1 (and only one) token that would allow them to jump to level 50 immediately. I'm not sure how hard this would be to design, but I imagine it could be stuck into the P2W vendor or the merit vendors?

Servers are not officially back up. Mapservers are still down.

It means the bulk of the PvP players have decided as a group to play on that server instead of others. It's not official because there are no server changes or policies from the admins to support it - it is just a community decision, so that PvPers can find each other easier.

There was a problem discovered with the mapservers while doing the update. They are working on resolving the issue; servers are still down. The Discord will have updates when they're up. I understand that AE runs on a separate Mapserver from the rest of the game. So all AE is piled together on a single server, while the rest of the game has the content spread out over several mapservers. This is a technological limitation and they HAVE to disincentivise it until demand lowers. These people are running these servers for free at great personal cost to themselves. Try to be less of a dick about the free stuff they're giving you. You are not a paying customer.

The bonuses are additive, not multiplicative. +100% + 50% = +150%, for a total of 250%.

While there are no server transfers, I just wanted to post to let people know, to ease the pain of transferring to another server, that you CAN send items (inf, salvage, merits, enhancements, recipes) between servers. It is, unfortunately, limited to one item at a time (yes, that means mailing 50 reward merits requires 50 emails), but it's possible. Just use the Email tab above the chat box, and send the email to your global handle (including the @). If you just turn everything to inf, you can send that all in one big chunk if you want. You can find your global handle by going to the Menu and picking the option that is "Chat Handle". You're still starting at level 1, but at least you don't have to start at 0.