Nostromo21

Indomitable seems crapola. I feel like I'm def doing less damage than on Excelsior and certainly not levelling twice as fast. Does the double XP from the p2w vendor not stack with the server double xp boost or something...? Bleh. I'm goin back if this doesn't get any better. Server is a wasteland, especially in our prime time down under. 5-10min wait is worth it if all those negatives are the alternative. Yes, yes, I know Snarky, there is only Excelsior! ;-p

I just started a new hero on Indomitable (dark/dark stalker), and I called her...wait for it... Excelsior.! (had to add the dot at the end :). (it was good to find out emails are shared account-wide too, but sadly not SG membership) Been getting a lot of stares and challenges to duels, not sure why... 8-/

Crackers?

Ooooh, did not know that - I'm going to load up my current main I'm levelling with Inf and migrate over for a week to see how the other half lives! I'm only really after the double XP...call me a stinkin mercenary traitor if you will ;).

If you are a bookworm, I highly recommend Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort. One of the best spins on vampires imho in modern literature. Necroscope was a damn good series, at least the first three, back in the 80s (very gorey from memory). There is also a great, not so well known gothic horror series The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson, one of which was made into an excellent gothic horror movie - The Keep (there are 5 or 6 versions unfortunately, only 1 or 2 are relatively complete & worth watching). The book is quite different to the movie & very vampir-esque...for a while :). This later spawned the entire Repairman Jack series which I also enjoyed. Children of the Night is another fantastic one from him, for a different look at Dracula's/Count Vlad's origin story. Song of Kali is a different but just as great horror of his. And I'm not even into horror normally. Even more odd, as everyone remembers him for Hyperion, which although I'm a huge sci-fi nut I wasn't a big fan of and stopped half way, eh. I was also a huge fan of True Blood back in the day, for all the wrong reasons.

Yeah, I can get all the info on sets say, but which are best to use for my build, and in which powers...? I have to go to the SnarkyMIDsDB for those answers!

I feel guilty when I put my third in. But hey, you know how all those one percenters get...enough is never enough!

Depends...Twilight faux-vamps, Underworld uber vamps, Interview WTV new age vamps, or Bram's originals...? ;)

If the number is > 100, is there a support group location for that...?

Yeah devs, how hard would it be to have a pop-up (while you hover an enhancement over an empty power slot) showing the actual bonuses you will get if you slot it there...before you drop it in. Just sayin... ;)

You should be able to challenge the current owner to a PvP duel for the name!

Ok, so we just need a complete rebuild in Unreal Engine 5, with modern distributed, decentralised and properly virtualised architecture, running in all the data centres around the globe. How hard could that be...?

I just landed Incontinentia Buttocks!!! Here's an idea: just allow duplicate character names already. The global handle is unique anyway, so surely it won't take Cryptic level devs to program this (last famous words).

Necro/Dark(or any secondary) MM. With recent changes, you can do your nails (hands and feet), while watching your undead horde fly through mobs at relativistic speeds. You will just need a fast travel power to keep up with them is all. ;)

Dwayne Johnson has Erectile Dysfunction? Who would've thunk it...

Excuse me Mr Devs, can we please have an Indomitable for down under, so we too can have 10 players in peak hour and no AH economy, but really low pings? We love a challenge here ya know! ;) Seriously, if you are using Azure or AWS hosting, we have those in Aus - unlike those NZ sheep who are still doing 80s data centre hosting!

And it's always 20-40 in prime time. How hard can it be to up a server from 2000 users let's say, but another 50 or so...? 8-/

And yet another queue, just wanted to have a quick bash (on Excelsior) before lunch, and all you swarming yanks are overloading the server in your Sat night prime-time, bleh. If I transfer my current main to Indomitable, can I then transfer it back once the devs get this under control, or the traffic dies down again??? Surely there's a better way to load-balance virtual servers via instances and whatnot, than having hard-coded server architecture with hard player limits in 2024...

LEGAL! LEGAL! LEGAL! We want stats, stats and more stats PLEASE!!! ;)

Cheers, but that's total server characters - did it have AT/primary/secondary breakdowns, do you remember by any chance...? --- Nm - found it! It's way back in 2020 so hopefully they update it soon with the new influx of players. No surprise - Arachnos and Kheldians are bottom of the list, with Widows right at the bottom. And my Dark/Ninja blaster is almost the least played blaster combo heh. Which boggles as it's so much damn fun, to solo anyway.

I wonder what the least played AT and primary/secondary combos would likely be...? I imagine every single combo of powersets on every AT has been played, but I'm sure there must be a lowest number that have been levelled to 50, whether due to being very weak, just a bad combo (too much crossover/redundancy, no synergy, painful gameplay, super-weak spots, etc). I couldn't even hazard a guess, as I just don't have enough play time and only 62 toons and counting, due to my rampant alt-o-holism, but I'm sure some of you vets and experts will have some idea! ;)

What are the most played/popular ATs (and powersets to a lesser extent) online overall? Would the HC guys have that info I assume...?

Wow! My first ever hero on live, Kelvin Ator - got him to mid 40s on live I think. Nice to finally find a kindred GoT soul, long before that even came out he he.

For therapy...?