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Yes, and no. While not exactly what you're looking for, there are some AE maps where you rescue an NPC. The NPC moves slowly towards the front of the map. The map is the same as the one you fight Atta in; so it's quite large. Not infinite, but large. You can go afk reasonably safe if you have a the proper build for it, but you will need a proper build. So, sure, you can literally take a call while your farmer burns stuff, following the npc to the front of the map. You will need to tab back in and make sure it's not stuck on some geometry. Try searching for Bloodom. You should see 3 options. You want the longest one. I think it says 45 minutes or so. And that's about right, too.

On the lighter side, or perhaps the regrettable side, you just reminded me of an invuln/stone tank I made back in retail days called....wait for it... Tat. The name had 2 purposes. I knew as someone who led teams that if you had some polysyllabic name that was a pain to type out, I probably wasn't going to bother with any /t action. So, I always leaned towards trying to keep the names fairly short. And, of course, in the character bio, Tat was not someone who had tattoos, or wore tattered clothing. He just had a yen for Colostrum. And you know the saying, tit for tat. It seemed funny to me at the time. Of course, in this day and age, I'd never resort to such naming conventions lest I get generic'd.

So, I completely get this perspective. And, the past few months, I think I have to give the benefit of the doubt to at least a couple of the usual nay-sayers. I'm not capable of really grasping how one thing might affect several other aspects of the game. One person pointed out to me in detail things it just hadn't occurred to me to consider. But man, it did seem to me like they slash every fun sounding idea that's posted. Ultimately, even if most ideas don't get used, I think it's still helpful. We never know when there might be something clever the rest of us hadn't thought about.

Alas. I have had so many bitter disagreements with several players on these forums. I did get a warning once to "chill". I can't remember if I chilled, or just proceeded to insult the player in question via DMs. If I did, it was because I honestly felt unreasonably disrespected. I can handle being reasonably disrespected, because I have to be willing to admit I'm wrong, when I'm clearly wrong. But if it's not clear...well, I tend to stick to my guns. The forums can be a fun place to visit...but man, sometimes, it's like a bad game of Risk Online. You think you're doing well, then SMACK. You're dead. Someone got your cards, and did a chain kill and won the game. I will have to send Snarky an in-game message since he only rarely gets on discord, assuming he sticks with his no more forum visitation policy. If anyone has a harsh word to say about Snarky, I promise you, he's really a stand up guy. He only plays a vampire in these forums and in-game. He's a lot like Colin Jost. He's real good at trivia if he knows it. Seriously - Snarky is a renaissance man. He studies German, music, tries to stay in some kind of athletic shape, too. And works a lot to support his feeding habit. Granted, it's probably making him look bad if I've got good things to say about him. So I take it all back. He's an evil vampire. Don't trust him.

I think when you find a group of folks who make things more fun, racking up vet levels is pretty mindless. (easy) I also think afk farmers can easily rack up countless levels while they do something else. But it's pretty simple to tell the difference between someone who really enjoys playing their character outside of the farms, look at their badge count in conjunction with the vet levels. As a general rule, anyway.

This is very cool. I'm happy for the players that get to join us. It's absolutely none of my business, but did they get to keep their SG bases, influence and stuff like that with the transfer? If so, that's really amazing. If not, I'd like to know that, too. I could drop in there and give some inf away.

Forgive the sloppy screen shot - But there are 2 accuracy percentages given, the 101.5 and (48) I assume you're referring to the 101.5. The 48% refers to the base unslotted accuracy? Seems like an odd value, if so.

I'm never going to celebrate NYE in New York City again. They really dropped the ball!

I am more inclined to consider titan/bio scrapper coupled with a fire/natty corruptor. The scrapper is survivable enough; and the damage is far superior to a tanker. And I just prefer the natty buffs to kin. Kin is exceptional, but it's really click heavy, in my experience. You're so busy using the kin secondary, you're not using much of your primary. Whereas, Natty tends to just let the buffs fly initially, and has nice debuffs as well. That said - a couple of exceptional players could likely take any 2 ATs, regardless of primary/secondary, and outshine two others with classic meta AT/powerset combos. Still, skill levels being roughly equivalent, I'd go with my initial suggestion, simply due to the click heavy nature of kin. I have some bias against kin, to be fair. Or maybe it's just bias for natty over any other corr secondary, with cold being a close 2nd.

This shouldn't be too much of an issue when you're teaming. Solo...you'll have to rely on a little inspiration, and of course, your experience. You already know what to expect. The one caveat I will speak of is the leveling of the corruptor, particularly as your secondary isn't something like radiation. Your endurance may be a little tough in the early levels, even with the the miracle and the panacea and the perf shifter. By the time you get to use a numina, if you're so inclined, you'll likely have the endurance handled. That's at least been my biggest struggle leveling the corruptors. The blasters, they have the sweet sustain. The corruptors are left to cheap tricks with START vendor and unique IOs, and the clever slotting for max end and end reduction, and of course, passive accolades.

Not sure if you've been playing enough to realize something about Kronos in Talos... Sometimes (anecdotally, it's rare) it's just one. But I've never been the first one to see one, but when I see the comment in LFG, I head on over, maybe it's dead already maybe not. I turn on the jets and look around on the hill; down the cliff, on top of the buildings surrounding the hill. Generally - at least in the past several months, I've seen as many as 15 of them spawn. Sometimes in pairs. Sometimes, just one. And then...they stop spawning, or a Babbage spawns...and that's usually the end of it. I never saw this on Torch or Indom, only Excelsior. So, blood-thirsty fanged one, I encourage you to just wait a few minutes and see if another appears. And then, remember the $loc command, as it will reveal the /loc coordinates in chat. Example: Kronos here $loc And what shows up is Kronos here 1124.4, -23, 555 that everyone else can link and go right to it to assist. (helps to say what zone for those out of zone) And when those folks arrive and it's already down, you can laugh at your coincidental hypocrisy.

Gonna cut you some slack there. Dealing with file structures and such..it's just not intuitive if you haven't done it more than a few times. And credit to those who painstakingly tried to get you through the process (@michiyo). It can be a challenge trying to explain things when folks typically have accumulated all kinds of stuff in all kinds of places. My own installation of HC:CoH is a mess. The additional installations of a few other flavors of CoH don't make it any easier. Some day in the future, probably when I upgrade my mother board and CPU to adapt to Windows 11 or 12, or whatever the version will be up by the time I have to abandon Win 10, I might endeavor to do fresh installs of everything. Certainly not any time soon!

I have edited my post to adjust them to just being useless to me. I get the jetpack at level 2; And I can level from 1-2 in the time it would take me to travel to pocket d, so yeah, no need for a Jingle Jet when I get a free jet pack.

One of these days, I intend to do a bit of a rabbit hole dive and determine just what this is? CCA? Like Tipper Gore was for records in the late 80's and early 90s? Making sure there's nothing too adult in them? Or is it something more sinister?

Ugh. Canes are largely useless (to me), aside from the recipes from the Candy Keeper. Sure, folks might pay a bit of inf for them - but retrieving them from my email is soooooo tedious. I think I lose inf just by taking the time to pull them out, lol. At least, I would if I were still neck deep in "ebil market" manipulation. But, I've made the big stacks, now is time to just give some away here and there to our favorite vampire on occasion, and maybe to a few of those folks who like to hold the squirt guns and herd kittens lead leagues for various trials/raids. And the occasional noob that thinks 10M is a lot of inf. And, actually play, without tabbing out to check on an afk farmer.