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Why? What's the gain? And do I have to give my email to do so?

I don't really pay enough attention to Lore. What has sunk in, has only done so through sheer repetition. I do appreciate the humor in Aeon SF, though. There is one other thing that the Aeon SF does that I hope will become a pattern. When higher notoriety is chosen, the NPCs within the map should present additional attacks or defenses to overcome. That said, I would prefer that most, but not all new story arcs and missions follow the Praetorian model, in that they are all in the same zone, and they are never more than 4-5 missions long. And I don't mean like the last couple of missions in Aeon either, where they squeeze multiple objectives across different maps and call them all the same mission. The Ripples in Aeon - those are essentially 3 different missions, all within that one mission. The same with the last mission. If a new story arc were to follow this model, that one mission could be an entire arc. In Aeon's case, much of that may be sped through, but if not, it certainly adds to the time involved. And, seeing as how these challenges all but require additional teammates, it's helpful to be able to run these in a single hour long session, or less. What might be very compelling is to have "smart" notoriety settings. The game should have some internal mechanism to determine what AT and powersets are present in the map. It would be interesting to see a different set of challenges as far as defenses, attacks depending on team composition. No idea how that would specifically be accomplished, but that would certainly make every mission as close to different as possible. Did the fire/dark tank leave the team, replaced by an ice tank? Don't look now, but the mobs in this mission seem more resistant to slows and cold. Something along those lines. Or use "Untyped" damage. I've no idea, but to have the same Frostfire mission, where the challenges encountered vary with team composition automatically - beyond spawn size & level, that'd be interesting.

It would. But it's not notation I use daily. So, when I see 1.5e+14, is there really any information conveyed to the average reader? Not likely. 150,000,000,000,000 probably gives the meaning far more clearly than Scientific Notation. And, well, candidly, I don't think in Scientific notation. I think in numbers. So, it's 15 followed by a lot of damn zeroes.

Eh, I probably could have worded things better.

I have now completed this a number of times with groups of folks that I would consider "better than average" and "average". My experience with it was specifically for Master. I see no reason to do it for any other purpose, other than perhaps to farm for the defeat badges within. The last mission is ...interesting...at least I think it's the last mission. It's rather like 3 small missions. You zone in and Becky's there (if you bothered to do the dialogue) and the building seems to be sideways. Very interesting look. Then we go through a blue portal - very small, tiny blue portal that if others didn't see it, I never would. It should be about 3 to 5x bigger than it is. We go through, and find some objects and then go through another portal, also very tiny...and I wouldn't see this one either, if I hadn't seen a teammate pop through it. It's strange - I use my map, and I see none of my teammates are on the map with me. They've gone through the portal, I haven't, and it's a bit off-setting. Yet, on my team list, we're all still on the same map, effectively. Anyway, I go through the portal, we beat up a couple more AVs in this odd Mother Mayhem mind-space like place, and eventually go through another door, to the last part. So, there are blue patches we have to avoid - if we're going for a badge. Avoid the blue stuff. Great. (yes, that's sarcasm) Fortunately, there's a different targeting mechanic..that I'm told is now currently glitched on occasion. Well, before shut down, patches hit that weren't perfect as well. It's a solid story. It's interesting that on different difficulty levels, that npcs have different abilities to account for. I have died more from Brickernauts exploding than from any other NPC in the game, ever. I really wish the graphics for this were more visible on my system. Damned hard for me to see them. If I'm not on Discord, they'll get me 4 out of 5 times because I don't see them. The best part is the first mission though. The tired scientist that's sleeping next to the glowing object that we have to take Becky to...after that, it's all downhill for enjoyment.

Um...I don't see any difference between the ice melee here and the one in the video.

The thing about pre-made rigs and pricing is that it's entirely too easy to compare apples to oranges. One may have an SSD that's 1 TB, and the other may be an HDD that's 1/2 TB. One might have Dimm ram, and another may have an entirely different type of ram. One may be upgradeable - as in, you could opt to increase your memory, upgrade to the next gen of CPUs, so many damn differences between one rig and the next. My gut says, yeah, certain components, if you're buying them as an individual will be cheaper in a year or so. But the pre-made rigs...you're getting the cards (typically) at the manufacturer's suggest retail price. Over time, it's very rare for prices to go down. The manufacturers of these cards will undoubtedly look at sales and say, "Well, sales to non-crypto-currency miners has gone down, but we made 2x as much!" (I have no idea if that's what the case actually is - that's just what I think they'll say, to justify an increase of their MSRP. In short, for a pre-made rig, buy it now, maybe catch something on sale for the holiday.

All the dude needs is a new hair cut...and a damn lot of therapy.

Now you see the purpose of my post in the first place. Per the AH - Running and Sprints are a different category than Running, yet they convert to each other, but they don't all slot in the same powers. A bit dizzying (for me) until you take a step back and have another look.

It's just pure conjecture on my part. If you look at the bottom right corner of each "card", you'll see a fraction. Some number over 218. So, that leads me to assume there are 218 different things we can get.

I can't say with certainty - not a "Pigg Diver" by any stretch. But, I spoke with @Voltor, who given his thorough affinity for all things badging, and he stated if you don't see them, clear the room of nearby mobs, back out of draw distance, and either log off, or wait a couple minutes, come back and see if anything changes. After 3-4 times clearing mobs, they're likely to appear. So, I did just this, and was rewarded appropriately with the spawns I was looking for.

Well, Christmas is coming up! Wonder if my stocking is big enough for three....

My converter stash is like a gas tank on a '69 Plymouth Fury; if I don't have close to full, I feel like I'm gonna run out. I like to start each day off with 9999 on each farmer.

Background: A level 30 character that started as a praetorian and still hasn't gone through the Rift to choose Hero or Villain. This is a "Crawl Team", where we endeavor to do all the gold side content. After running the two winter event missions in Pocket D, we opted to tackle the three Praetorian zone events. The second one, in Imperial City requires us to clobber some Syndicate, take down 3 named bosses and then a final boss. At the completion of the event, some got the Takedown Artist badge, and some did not. The ones that got it were not Praetorian. The two that didn't were Praetorian. I had thought this was a Praetorian badge, but Hero/vig/rogue/villains could get it. In any event, my character didn't get the badge, so I opted for No Reward, as the badge was the only reason to do it. Seems like a bug to me.

Hmm...so the no-brainer conversion from Quickfoot to Celerity now has another potential outcome. So...beginning marketers may need a few more converters, but may also expect to make a few hundred inf more for there trouble..or not. Time will tell. I wonder why they make Sprint, Swift & Hurdle so finicky as to not accept such things.

So...a little puzzled on this. This is more of a feedback than a suggestion. But, I'm not sure I get why this conversion can happen. In the AH, there is a Running category that only has thrust. And a Running & Sprints category that has Quickfoot & Celerity. My farmer had a Quickfoot that converted within the Running category, which I didn't notice it didn't say "Running & Sprints". Prior to Thrust being intro'd, there were only Quickfoot & Celerity, so in my head, it's either in category or out. Never paid mind to what category that was. Since I neglected to take a screenshot of the actual conversion, I just kept crafting, figuring it would show up again. Celerity into Thrust. (Yeah, I burned the converters when I would normally just convert the rare out of category to something worthwhile. But, for the sake of illustration, I did this) Can we not just lump Thrust in with the other two on the AH? Or, if they are indeed two distinct categories (as in Thrust will slot into some running power that the other two would not) Is this as intended? Seems odd to me, but there's plenty of precedence for that.

Now, sometimes, I ask a question, not really seeking an answer, but a response comes up with something that DOES make sense to me - just a perspective I hadn't thought about. It had never occurred to me to consider how other folks approach various in-game challenges in a video. I usually just come to the forums or just wing it. So, a player could actually stream a video of how any player might go from a level 1 new character and make their way to a billion influence in short order. I suppose some folks who prefer not to read such things might watch this, rather than read about it. So, yeah, I can be quite obtuse, so well done, Techwright. I now change my position on this. Now, I can see why. Thanks.

I wonder if anyone knows the spawn rate of these 3 pair of Vahz. On an alt, I found one pair, but the other two sites are vacant. I've logged in a few hundred feet away every 15 minutes, and so far no dice. Maybe next hour...

It's more to illustrate the point that I have no idea why anyone would do it. It just doesn't make any sense at all. (to me) But, I apologize to everyone. I'm coming off as antagonistic as I read it, I think, and that's not my intent. It's more of a bewilderment. I just don't get it.

It would do absolutely nothing for me. A complete waste of my time. I'm sure if I had interest in it, it would have come across my radar by now. I mean, I shop for tires 18 months ago, and I still see the damn ads for them whenever I surf the web. I'm guessing the reason I had to play CoH to discover what Twitch was is because it's outside my areas of interest. I get no thrill in watching people do stuff when I could just as easily do it myself. An exception might be football, but I can't really easily do that myself. At least, not anymore. They'll get no clicks from me, nope!

If you wait too long, I will buy them all! Just kidding. Did the math, and I would need like 100 trillion inf. Just not there yet, lol. Or whatever 10M *15,000,000 is. Something with a lot of damn zeroes. 14, I think. Not enough fingers and toes to get it accurately.

Used to be, but I think it was this past April when HC authorized it. They never did really say why..but it's allowed now. It cost me three global friends, them shutting down streaming. Three of my favorite folks don't play anymore because of that. And, while they know it's now allowed, they still haven't returned. This is what happens when you change stuff. Life in the big city and all that.

I keep hearing that...but I don't buy it. I realize my thoughts aren't necessarily typical, but what kind of person goes to YouTube and searches for video games to watch? That just seems really, really strange. Or any other site for that matter? Is it a case of, "gee, getting tired of this game. If only I could see what XYZ game is like." ? The answer doesn't really matter, of course. I guess someone is looking at that stuff. I just can't imagine why. The game is free, easy to download and set up.

Clearly, it's time to revamp a number of these missions and change them from Escort to a simple rescue. Our devs, who supposedly play and love this game can't enjoy this part any more than the rest of us.

I'd personally like the inf cap raised to 1 trillion. But I have never, ever clamored for such.