ZacKing

Eternals, nuff said.

As @Lunar Ronin mentioned, unfortunately this can't be made into a command. As an alternative, I'd suggest making the couple of options (not all) Null has available through trainers as well. In the case of your Yin TF, people could walk the 10 feet over to Aurora Borealis and ask her to disable Group Fly affecting them. It would also allow players to do this first thing when they speak to Miss Liberty right from the start. Saves them a trip to PD at least.

Given the latest meta of Fold Space overuse, I can totally see people not wanting CC on a team.

Funny how these same things were said about the character name release policy, yet here we are. I totally agree on both counts by the way. With that said, I do think the SG rosters aon all server need to be reviewed for trademark violations. There are tons of X-Men, X-Force, Justice League, Avengers, Teen Titans, you name it all over the place. Those should get cleared out at some point.

IIRC personal items were either a specific set of base workshop crafted items and the existing trophy items and such we already have in the editor (Jack's Club, Stateman's helmet, Nemesis and Rikti rifles etc.) and unlocking those were tied to Vet rewards. All the craftable stuff is in the editor now too. I don't think the personal base items permissions option even exists anymore because there's no Vet rewards system and everything is already in the editor. Permission to add personal items used to be a setting under the SG permissions, but it's not there anymore. I know the button for adding a personal item still exists, but it's always disabled.

Not going to lie, the only thing I am somewhat interested in is Daredevil. I enjoyed the Netflix series, but I don't have a lot of faith that now that Disney is involved, it's going to be anywhere near as good as it was. I'm cautiously optimistic. As for the rest, meh. I'll pass. Zero interest in it.

There's already an item like this in game - the Candy Cauldron that is unlocked at Annah in Croatoa. Just need either enough Halloween salvage or getting all of the Dr. Kane's badges to unlock it. I wouldn't mind more stuff getting unlocked by running bits of content. With that said, I wouldn't be holding my breath for it. Bases aren't something this current team looks to be interested in or wants to focus on. I doubt we'll ever see anything getting added to or improving the editor.

LOL! Ok. You keep telling yourself that. Yes, GMs do have some leeway. It may be a player generated event and not intended to cause problems for others, but that doesn't change the fact that it can (and does) cause lag issues in the zone while its taking place. That means its impacting others who aren't interested in the event. I see you keep avoiding that. I guess for you "being courteous" is only ok when its other people bending to what you want. How exactly are you going to prove that people are bringing the Kronos to your event just to troll? Especially after others have been permitted to do it without question. Are players causing Rikti Invasions and/or Zombi Invasions every week in the same place lagging the entire zone? So no, they're not the same thing. I'm not your dog. Honestly, with the poor attitude you're displaying here, it's no wonder people aren't listening to you. I said I'd do what I can to help. If you want to take that as some sort of insult, so be it. That's on you.

And yet, here you are doing just that... Funny memes from an excellent movie aside, it certainly seems (at least to me) there's some entitlement surrounding the event here. Yes, it's Kali's event. No, it isn't her server and no, she doesn't own the entirety of the Skyway City map. I noticed you've missed a question I asked earlier - So is the SNS more important because it's your friend running it? Or do people running content in Skyway City who may be negatively impacted by all the lag caused by the SNS not matter? Honestly, I'm not sure what you're on about or what you're so angry over. I've said I've no problem following the request. From what I can tell, everyone else here has said the same thing. I'm also not seeing anyone here saying they're bringing the Kronos and are going to continue to keep doing it whether you want them to or not. You all seem to think that it's being done out of malice or to be a troll and I don't think that's the case. I think it's just simple miscommunication or people not having all of the facts. I just asked a question here since I saw it's causing a lot of other people grief during what's supposed to be a fun community event. Thankfully people from HC graciously responded. I've said a few times now I did this to help clear up any confusion since it should be crystal clear to you or anyone else that there are people out there who don't know this is a problem, or don't understand what the problem is. That's a lack of communication. Not everyone is in your inner circle of friends. Not everyone is on Discord. Not everyone comes to the forums. Not everyone is always going to believe what others tell them. Not everyone is getting the same message. You may not realize, but not everyone playing has the chat window active. Not everyone will have broadcast chat enabled on their chat tab. Seeing all the silly nonsense chatter about squirrels and Don Knotts and speedo shorts every week, I can't say I blame them either. Not everyone is present in the zone while the league is being formed. Some people see in broadcast that it's a problem and don't do it. Others say it's fine and have seen other people doing it and getting thanked for it. That's confusing to some people. Thankfully, Kali did stop in the thread here and shared her perspective and reasoning. I think that's been important and very helpful. It's also fantastic that Number Six and GooglyMoogly helped and shared some technical insights. That's great information. I'll certainly be doing what I can to pass the word along to everyone I know and direct them to this thread if there's any further questions. A lot of people has said that it isn't a problem either, so it's a moot point. Without knowing what GPUs people have or what PCs they have and whether or not their drivers are all up-to-date, we're all just guessing. You may want to do the same - "While it is an open zone for all players, you should also be courteous and considerate to each other." So when another player or players come along and ask that the SNS be paused or reduced in scale because it's lagging the entire zone for them, you're going to be courteous and considerate to them, right? I'd like to repeat, I am perfectly fine following the No Kronos rule (its not me anyway) and now that I understand the issue better, I will do what I can to help spread the word about it. I can also totally understand the frustration around people not abiding by requests. It is an open zone event that everyone is invited to, so good or bad there's going to be some disagreement unfortunately. There's not much anyone can do about that.

Great information. Thank you as always!

Hello Kalikamata. I'm glad you found this thread and took the time to post here. I hope you can see that there's been a lot of confusion about this. I'm hoping that perhaps this thread will help clear up any of that confusion for others. It's here now and people with questions can be directed to it where we have some more definitive information from the source, not just hyperbole and hearsay. The Kronos itself causing a problem for you does sound like a driver or hardware issue. I'm not sure how you could go about diagnosing that and possibly fixing it, but I'm happy to help in some way if I am able. Sorry to hear you get vitriol from players. I know you put a lot into herding cats every week. I hope you know there are those of us who appreciate it, so thank you.

You're quoting me extending a thank you and appreciation to the organizer of the event. How you arrived at that being a bad thing or some kind of insult is beyond me. Might want to check your entitlement and read the whole discussion. And before you start repeating yourself, I don't have any problem following instructions either as it's not me who is bringing the Kronos Titans. I understand that you feel your friend is being attacked somehow (they aren't) and have the need to jump in and white knight for them. Again, read the entire discussion. There is a lot of confusion for a lot of people over this subject and the purpose of the thread is to provide clarification and insight. I'll answer your question with a question for you - what gives you and your event the right to disrupt and lag out an entire zone for an hour (or more) every week when there are people there not interested in or participating in the SNS? Maybe they aren't important to you, but your event is disruptive to players who are in Skyway doing missions or street sweeping or whatever due to the lag this event causes. Or is that ok and respect for the fellow players only go one way here? @Excraft brought up a good point - Fusion Force (and others) have brought Titans to the mix before and there was never any argument over it. In fact, they were thanked for it.

I don't disagree at all. The whole thing is just silly and it's a shame it's leading to such bad behavior from some.

I didn't suggest you were. Apologies if that's what you're thinking. It certainly wasn't the intent. Regardless, thank you so much for your replies and for helping to shed some light on the topic. It's greatly appreciated, so thank you.

The question of whether or not the Kronos causes Babbages to run does come up. Were that true, Babbages wouldn't be running off and scattering when there's no Kronos Titan at all. We've all seen Babbages running off and see the calls in broadcast for "runners" going in all directions each week. This happens whether there's a Kronos there or not, and anyone who says otherwise is being dishonest. So that claim is debunked if you ask me based on repeatably demonstrated evidence we've all seen many times. Same as with the lag, the supposed evidence for the claim that the Kronos causes Babbages to scatter is no more than heresay that amounts to "my friend told me they heard from someone who remembers hearing from someone who heard it from a Dev" or something like that. There's never any hard proof of it, and again, Babbages wander whether there's a Kronos or not. Whether the Kronos causing Babbbage to run is maybe something @Number Six or @GM_GooglyMoogly can shed some light on. That I can understand and empathize with, however we can't control what others do. I'd also add that people bringing a Kronos Titan from time to time aren't breaking any game rules. They're not doing anything different than the people participating in the SNS are. I could be wrong, so take this for what its worth, but maybe this feeling you're talking about is in part due to a sense of entitlement surrounding the event along the lines of what @tidge had mentioned. People need to understand that they don't own the game or the server, so they're going to have to deal with others. I also think its wrong to assume others are bringing Kronos Titans to the mix to "stir up trouble". With that said, there was one person there last week definitely trying to stir up trouble. They were upset that they couldn't fill a Synapse TF and had blamed the SNS league for that, even going to the extreme and using extremely foul and offensive and abusive language in broadcast. I'm sure whoever that was got reported into oblivion lol.

If you're referring to the new Royal Flush TFO, I very seriously doubt you're flying to each area, turning on the AFK console and wiping everything out before others even get to the objective. There's no question the Jellyfish led to a huge increase in AFKing in TFOs. Sounds like that's what some are looking to do with FS here.

Not that I'm suggesting anyone here is doing this, but this seems like a great way for someone to set up a bot and just AFK farm all day. Stand in one spot, click the macro, AoE everything that exits.

Thank you for posting this. Yes, quite a few people share this slash command each week and I believe it does help somewhat.

Might want to read the entire thread. 😉

Yes, I understand that. If you read the rest of my posts here, you'll note that I never suspected a single Kronos is causing of all the lag issues and problems during a player run event. There are some who seem to believe a single Kronos GM causes all the lag along with a whole host of other issues, which led to some very rude behavior by some people. Perhaps take a second read through the thread again. You're not saying anything we didn't already know and has been graciously confirmed.

@Number Six and @GM_GooglyMoogly thank you both very much for your replies and for clarification. I appreciate it and thank you as this will (hopefully) help clear up any further confusion on the topic. As I understand it based on what people have been saying in broadcast during the event, the slowdown and slideshow effect and powers not recharging are what most are experiencing. The question is always over what's causing it and there seems to be a few people who think that it's the Kronos causing all of the lag. For me, I get the lag and slow recharging powers whether there's a Kronos there or not. It's safe to say based on @Number Six posted here is that it isn't the Kronos alone causing all of the problem, it's the combination of everyone and everything. I don't know any of the people who organize this personally so I can't say for sure. I will say after last week where it was exceptionally bad, I think you're right in that there's a lot of entitlement surrounding the event. That's sad because this is a fun event. Totally agree. Every so often if you check the info for some of the players on their tanks trying to corral Babbages, you'll see they don't even have Taunt, and a few that do I would bet they don't even have it slotted. Most seem to be relying on taunt auras or punchvoke. That's not always going to cut it. Again, big thank you to @Number Six and @GM_GooglyMoogly for taking the time to respond. It's much appreciated!

Haha! Good one! I edited the post title for clarity there. All joking aside, would you be kind enough to ask one of the HC folk about this? Would be great to have an answer. Thank you!

It means that player completed whatever the badge required on that character, whether through their own skill/work or being carried by others. That's it.

You mean kind of like your demonizing me for having a different opinion? Like I said, you do you and play how you like.

Hoping someone from HC can chime in on this or maybe one of the GMs can ask around and post a definitive answer here. There seems to be a lot of confusion every week during the weekly Saturday Night Synapse league over on Torchbearer where arguments start over whether or not people bringing a Kronos Titan is a good or bad thing. Some people seem to think a solitary Kronos Titan "causes significant lag" and/or causes the Babbages to scatter and run off from the main pile where they're being herded to in Skyway. Others think its fun to bring them into the mix as its a fun to fight different GMs at the same time and a quick way to grab the Master of Olympus badge. Plus its more merits and monstrous aethers for everyone to enjoy. So can anyone from the HC team confirm whether or not the Kronos (or GMs in general) is or is not a "cause" of lag? Or is the lag which some experience more due to the 20+ Babbages herded together in one spot spawning Sprockets with at least 3 or 4 full leagues of players on the map firing off every power they have including Incarnate pets/shields/AoEs in a confined area? Are there GMs that are more or less "problematic"? I can't speak for everyone, however for me personally, I can get quite a lot of lag whether there's a Kronos or not. There have been times where teams have coordinated at least 20 Kronos Titan spawns on the hill in Talos and there wasn't any significant lag. I've also seen Babbages run off from the main pile regularly when there's not a Kronos Titan in sight. From what I can tell, they run off when there aren't enough taunters in the main pile or MM pets in the periphery of the pile start pulling aggro, or the random player just wanting to tag a Babbage for fun pulls it off the pile. I admit I don't know for sure if the Kronos is indeed a factor or not, so I wanted to ask in the hopes of preventing any future confusion and argument. Lastly, I'd like to give a huge shout out and big thank you to @Kalikamatafor graciously hosting this very fun event every week. Your efforts don't go unnoticed and are appreciated by a whole lot of us. Thank you.