srmalloy

Numina used to be much longer, back really early in the game when people would run the defeat [group] missions as a team, taking the whole team to the zone under the more-or-less mistaken premise that, as a group, you'd clear the defeat count faster -- which ignored the travel time. Of course, it did have the advantage of the old Faultline, so finding the Vahzilok there was enormously easier, but that's only one zone.

Showing what a rat's nest of trivia my mind can be sometimes, I already knew both of those words, which was what drew my eye.

The forums still have a quirk where, if you are replying to a thread and quoting text from a page that's not the last page, the reply form will open on the page where the post you're quoting is on -- and then, when you hit the 'Submit' button, it will briefly change to suggest that it's sending your reply to the server, then revert to 'Submit' with no indication that the reply actually was submitted, encouraging people to click it again, causing double posting. When someone submits a reply on a thread, they should get taken to their reply even if it's on a later page in the thread -- or at least get a visual confirmation that their reply was accepted.

If they're such a trivial matter, why don't you just skip them, since you seem to believe that they're not worth the effort to acquire unless the requirements for them are dumbed down to the point where you don't have to make any real effort to get them?

You would think that, as a machine, he would be able to optimize the TF, and have you do all the missions in IP, then all the missions in Talos. Having the Council bases spread between the two zones is not improbable, but the current pattern is... inefficient.

I'm pretty sure that I reported this quite some time ago -- and it's really curious that Athletic Run has a protracted 'movement suppression' effect on flight, because if you look at the detailed information for the power, it has no effect on your flying -- it increases jump speed, jump height, and run speed, but not flying or teleportation. The protracted movement suppression for run and jump could just be an improper entry in the power characteristics, but applying suppression to a movement type it has no effect on is just broken.

It doesn't really affect gameplay, so it would be really far down on the list of things to fix -- if it's even a fixable issue -- but hostages sink in water... and don't notice. I was running the "Rescue the Caldwell heirs" mission from Laura Brunetti, and was dragging the last of the heirs out of the cave, when I went through a room where there is a pool of water deep enough for your character to go into the 'swimming' animation. The hostage, though, followed me, running along the bottom of the pool with no change in speed or apparent recognition that their head was underwater. It doesn't affect how you complete the mission, it's just disturbing to watch them stop if you stop, completely underwater, oblivious to the fact that they shouldn't be able to breathe.

Tell that to the character tooling around, say, Founder's Falls with their shield on their back -- and therefore all of their Shield Defense armor powers turned off -- when they eat a couple of sniper shots. If there were going to be an external mechanism to make your character put their shield on their back, I would fold it into, say, the 'Only Affects Self' power from the S.T.A.R.T. vendor, special-casing the Shield Defense set to put your shield on your back when the power is active. It would be somewhat complicated by the fact that some of the Shield types have an animated 'power up' sequence, and would have a different appearance when shut down than when active -- for example, the energy shield starts as a small disk on the character's wrist that extends two bars that spin up to form the energy barrier of the shield; why would you have the deactivated form on your back where you wouldn't have it immediately available if you needed it? This would create two types of 'inactive shield' appearances -- one, for a shield whose appearance was essentially static, and another one (or more) for shields that went through some sort of animation when a shield armor power was activated, and so wouldn't be stored on your back. This complicates things, and I'm not the one who gets to make the decision whether putting in the work to make it happen is worthwhile.

See the power description for Air Superiority: "This two-handed overhead melee attack can knock a flying target to the ground."

Perhaps the OP should go over to the Account wide accolade badges thread and post their support for that thread, since only having to run each TF once and then automatically getting the badges awarded on each alt on the account would address their gripe about the TFs taking too long. Take the Synapse TF; people see it as just a string of defeat-all missions against the Clockwork. The problem is, there is actual story that accompanies Synapse handing out each mission, but a) only the team leader sees Synapse's dialog, and b) even they generally just spacebar/click through to get to the mission. I wonder if there would be more engagement in the TF storyline if the dialog with the TF giver was echoed to all of the members of the team -- they wouldn't get any actual interaction, but they'd 'hear' the TF giver explaining why they're being sent out on the next mission.

That's fascinating, because I had him refer me to Tobias Hansen at 27, but I got his referral before I finished his story arc.

I have two — a Fire/Plant named Pozharnaya Sornyak ('Fire Weed') and a Dark/Plant named Toksichniy Podlesok ('Toxic Undergrowth') with the Dark blasts recolored to look like she's shooting plant toxins.

And the 'collect one of each legacy salvage to bump the chance of spawning Bladehook' seems to be overrated; I got him to spawn on the third chest I'd opened with a character that previously hadn't opened any, when they only had a ring from the legacy salvage.

There are tailor/facemaker missions for costume slots on both redside and blueside at levels 20, 30, and 40; blueside they're in Steel Canyon, Independence Port, and Founder's Falls. If you just do the tailor/facemaker missions, though, that will only get you to nine costume slots; you have to turn in Halloween salvage to get the last one.

I'm not sure whether it's an actual bug or not, but I was running through the exploration badges and plaques for Imperial City and received the 'Emperor for a Day' accolade prior to my acquiring the 'Going Rouge' exploration badge. Is this last outside of the requirement for the accolade, or is this a case of the accolate being awarded wrong? [Help] Salty Showerer: do you permanently miss any content? Congratulations! You earned the Park Ranger badge. Congratulations! You earned the Emperor for a Day badge. You received 5 units of Reward Merit. [NPC] PPD Suppressor: This place has a different feel than Nova Praetoria. It's more real. There's more action. Congratulations! You earned the Going Rouge badge. [Help] Nuke-Fiste: I miss Galaxy 😞

It's not a new bug -- it's been around back to Live, IIRC, but in the "FInd the estate manager" mission from Laura Brunetti, part of the 'Scroll of Tielekku' arc, you have to rescue seven people, one of whom is the estate manager -- except that several of them are usually the estate manager.

The 'Santa Boots' and 'Barbarian Rugged' boots both have a fur 'cuff' on them, and they're available for both male and female characters; there doesn't appear to be a boot style that is entirely fur, though.

We have always been at war with EastAsia.

I think this was deliberate due to the surprise nature of the event, so that people who couldn't log in to the game during the event wouldn't get shut out of badges without knowing that it would occur — with there being no badge for defeating Bladehook as another example. Next year, when people know about it in advance, we'll likely see a badge for Bladehook as well as the chest spawns counting for the Pirate badge.

People with infinite belief that the salvage will be worth something in the future, or usable to purchase something... another "Line Goes Up" belief...

The vendor is Annah -- go to Croatoa via the tram, then exit and go down the ramp to your right, and she's just around the wall to your right on the grass to the south of the tram. There is another Halloween salvage vendor in Nerva for redside characters -- Granny Beldam, at {2692.5 11 6050.5).

You get two types of salvage from the chests -- Legacy drops and the 'piratical' Invention salvage -- Diamond, Sapphire, Gold, and Ruby. The legacy drops, if you have a full set, increases the chance of Bladehook spawning as a GM when you get an ambush opening a chest (and can even spawn when you're opening chests solo, so don't feel safe if your running around by yourself opening them) who will take your legacy salvage if he defeats you, or you can sell the Legacy salvage for 100 inf each at a vendor.

The vendor in an SG base (and presumably the regular vendors as well) will buy the legacy salvage for 100 inf per item, too, so you can divest yourself of them if you want to cut your chances of him spawning.

The timed mission from Janice Pennington and the guy inside the IP hospital (I forget his name off the top of my head) where you rescue Senator Farnsworth and his aides I've run enough that I just go around and check all the locations where hostages can spawn on the map; there are only twenty-eight, which doesn't take that long to check.

Despite showing as belonging to the 'Spectral Pirates' group, the ghost pirates spawned from the chests apparently don't count toward the badge for defeating spectral pirates -- I ran a chest route on a recently-new character who's never been to Port Oakes, and despite whacking at least a hundred of the ghost pirates, no badge progress shows up in the badge list.