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Oh yes, some of the storytelling directions things went is just bad. Spoilers for some! And of course, the brutal abuse of Galaxy City for a not-that-great new Tutorial ?!? I look forward to something being done about that design crime. All these events rammed changes into the early Levels that just make things confusing. And why isn't Back Alley Brawler in Echo:Galaxy City as a Trainer ?!? Ms. Libery is in Echo:Atlas Park. And why not SG Portals in both? Or a working Arena in Echo: Galaxy City? The Incarnate Powers, maybe a bit too much. I can see why the remaining 4 Powers haven't been released, as there's not a challenge of the scale of them. But how to adjust this big bump to power without a lot of drama...?

I store my Inf mostly in Global Emails, values 800million, 400million, 200million, what's left, or some combination similar. I also keep at least 1million Inf on each Toon. This is enough pocket change for trivial expenses. When their Inf drops under 1million or they need more, I claim the smallest Inf email to get more, then mail the remainder back to my Global. I also usually spend ~36million Inf on a new Toon. Even at a low level of activity I'm at now, I earn more Inf faster than I spend it. There's also apparently a bug in the new version of our game causing emails to your own Global to (sometimes?) fail to send. Hopefully that will get hotfixed soon.

Most Pets don't benefit from Global Buffs of their Caster (Global Accuracy, Global ToHit, Level Shifts). Thus, the need to ideally slot any Pet Summons with ED-capped Accuracy. As well, if the Pets have critical Powers that have less than 1.2 Base Accuracy, there should be ways to apply +ToHit (Tactics) to Pets or -Def to the targets. This is to get final ToHit against targets on +4 content to 95% or as close as practical.

As I posted on Discord back in 2022: 🤡

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I don't expect this to be possible. Perhaps technically, certainly power balance-wise. I was surprised at the change back in Issue 27 Page 5 of what Levels which Power Tiers are available. However, the existing system had the ground work set up for this in the changes to the system back in Issue 12 when VEATs were added. Using something similar allowed the Secondary Tier 1 Power to be available at L1 rather than L2 and other changes. Getting all those Powers at earlier Levels did change the potential power balance of Toons when they are Exemplared. But that's a marginal change. Exchanging passed-over Power Picks for more Extra Slot Picks is rather more transformative. The Powers devs know Players would like more Extra Slots, even just a couple, because good builds are tight on all resources. So far, they've not done so. I imagine this is because even added a couple of more Extra Slots would be significant in changing how things are.

Back in the day, before XP could be turned off, the creator of the original City of Data, Red Tomax, to get the thorough information on the various arcs he compiled, had to resort to massive debt to not outlevel contacts. So even without the various XP multipliers available today, it would still be possible to outlevel contacts. I've run a Blueside+Redside Completist Toon into the low 20's and I had to turn off XP to not outlevel contacts.

I just want the Body and other Sliders to be calibrated. Give us some numbers in the editor, please!

Here's a handy macro to toggle XP off and on. /macro oXP "optiontoggle noxp"

I've been on a few runs on the Labyrinth on Closed Beta. Though the Raid Zone has changed quite a bit over the last few weeks, I think my experience still applies. Running the Labyrinth will evolve like the other Raids to match how it performs at the moment. I think it's best run by keeping the League mostly together. The Mobs are much tougher that usual, especially with Level Shifts, and even a Team may not have all the tools to survive while avoiding losing a lot of members. There can be Players with good stealth and skilled at avoiding or moving quickly past Mobs who ignore stealth (Rikti Drones, Rularuu Sentries) or with longer Perception (Snipers, Turrets) to hunt down the Malevolent Fog and either defeat them themselves or call in some more to do so. Follow Through the Fog is set up just to aid getting back with the League or going to assist particular League Members. In certain key spots, it will be vital for the League to work together to put down the Minotaur as expeditiously as possible. Knowing when things are right for this is key, otherwise it's best for the League to run away and regroup. When going after the Minotaur, there are a few special roles that will get added to the tactics.

@Glacier Peak, you might also want to add to the Goliath War Walker that defeating 100 regular Council War Walkers awards the "War Torn" Badge.

Most of my Toons with either Fly or Mystic Flight I've changed the Power to be 2-slotted (usually with 2-set of Attuned Hypersonic, Flyspeed and Flyspeed/+Fly Prot. At L50, will be at the Flyspeed Cap and the increase in flightspeed is rather enjoyable.

There's also the temporary range boost from using a Sniper attack.

I don't think the aggro system is set up it can be massively transformed like toggling a switch. There's also the impact of such a change. May be hard in its impact on the Players. Especially as more mobs may be able to fight back. And then there's the practical side of things: Where are the trash cans in Perez Park? 😺

Damn. Now I'm imagining a Co-Op Task Force that has its mission doors alternate between Nerva Archipelago and Independence Port. With all doors being "out of the way". Just imagined that travel layout. Nothing else.

Not only that, but when a Player lists an item, they're charged the 5% listing fee of the reserve price (minimum fee 5 Inf). If the item sells, that listing fee is deduced from the 10% transaction fee. But if they remove the item before it sells, they lose that listing fee and have to pay a new listing fee to put the item up for sale again. When the range of price fluctuations of particular items drops and items posted for sale are now at too high a reserve price to move even over weeks, it's necessary to remove and relist the items, suffering the loss of the previous listing fee. These changes happen and these costs of marketing will happen. It's why it's important to either keep notes or restrict most items sold to a few, so that the Player remembers what the price ranges were. Patience is important, but eventually some items will have to be relisted.

I'm one of the Closed Beta/Closed Alpha testers. It's being worked on. There's things being developed for Kallisti Wharf and more coming I imagine, but not enough mature enough to advance to Open Beta.

tidge, was it more fun than a barrel of Rikti Monkeys? 😺 (Which you can now get in Adv Mode LGTF.)

But Flea, it sounds like an AH-1 Huey helicopter. 😺

I currently grind out Inf these days mostly by crafting some IOs and selling them in the AH. I've got way less experience than the Market Giants like @Yomo Kimyata, but I do know a thing or two. It would help if there was a good simple, detailed, and exacting definition of AH Binning. With Binning of related enhancements in the Market, if there's a Buy Order for one of them, the Market will look at all of items in its Bin and if necessary, convert one other item in the Bin to that needed to fulfill the Buy Order. The Last 5 Sale Price Record is even for the Bin. That Last 5 Sale Price is very little information to go on. If you're trying to make Inf on the AH, it helps to focus on a few items, so you have a feel beyond that. I mostly craft and sell a few IOs and I know the price point I need to roughly meet in order to make a profit. I have a feel for the Reserve Prices to post at to get that price point I want. However, things also change. The range of usual selling prices for items will change. When there's enough change, I have to adapt the Reserve Prices I post at. Or wait out a time of low prices on the items I'm selling. I hope my thoughts here help. Welp, to keep the costs of equipping my Toons as low as possible, I tend to craft all the IOs I need for builds. I'd prefer to get non-crafted enhancements from the cheapest sources, but in the short run, I will buy them off of the AH. To keep those prices down, I will usually craft an IO at the lowest Level it comes at. For some, that's what I want (pure Globals or Procs with no enhancement aspects). Otherwise, I will Market-convert the IOs to highest Level or more often Attuned. To keep my costs down on Catalysts, I try to make do with just the drops I get on my L50s and only use them for making Superior enhancements. Here's another place where having a 2nd Account helps a lot. I have only a few Toons there, just an Anchor Toon and a Farmer ATM, who both are where I stockpile a lot of stuff, like Catalysts. Helps to know to go to just them. The 2nd Account also helps a lot when using the Market to convert IOs from one Level form to another, as I probe the Market to get a feel for the best price to use, then post the Buy Order on one Account and then put the IO for sale on the other. That way, the cost to me is just about 10% of the Sale Price for Market Fees.

Just because they're not doing a timed speed run doesn't mean there's no end to other Players' tolerance for things that cause delays and frustrations. Players are generally tolerant. They're usually not on a tight timer. That doesn't mean they won't get irritated by actions that keep delaying things or otherwise frustrate them. Like excessive and massive KB. Keep pushing the envelop and discover there's soft limits that will become hard, with consequences. Okay everyone, time to roll, level, and slot those unrestrained Energy/Energy Blasters. In fact, boost that KB! Let's see how long UltraAlt lasts. 😺 You're the one claiming an absolute. I'm saying there's a limit to how much screwing around other Players will put up, like massive amounts of KB. Which Task Force is "WTF" ? 😺 I look at the general speed at which content in City is now run and I rue that I can't fit Vengeance into every build and need Radiation Emission for Fallout. Because a lot of them are run like I was back with Faithful Fans of Fallout and we pushed it hard in a crazed manner because we knew that when defeated we become the next Nuke to go off. ☢️ It's one thing to say that Players aren't doing a timed speed run and will tolerate some delays. And quite another they will put up with endless stream of frustration that uncontrolled KB will produce. The logic of social situations is very fuzzy and inexact. You can go on thinking you can continue to frustrate and slow down the Team. You will eventually become enlightened.

As @ScarySai says, that's darn near self evident. As well concerning KB, everyone dislikes having their targets knocked out of range, out of patches, ie., screwing up their gameplay and causing delays. Because sometimes Players care about getting more XP + Inf / Time and their Toons can take more Notoriety than that. -1x1 is only for when the non-XP/non-Inf goals are foremost and keeping time to an absolute minimum is desired.

I've not read all of the posts here, but I do think about KB. I try to fit in one of the two KB->KD IOs in AoE attacks with significant chance of significant KB. But I don't do it in all such attacks, especially ST ones with well under 100% chance of KB, due to needing certain enhancement sets and not having room for a KB->KD IO. I'm contemplating making an Energy Blast Toon sometime in the future. That Powerset has 100% chance for significant KB in all of its attacks. Maybe I could afford the KB->KD tax on AoE attacks, but on all of the ST attacks ?!? I figure I'd better make an Energy Blast Blaster, inclining more to staying at range, with a Secondary who's Tier 1 Immobilization attack actually suppresses KB to KD.... Ie. has an effect in CoD2 saying something like "+10000% Knockup, Knockback Resistance (all affected targets) for 15s ". That's only 8 of the 15 current Blaster Secondaries (with only some of them also having -Fly): Atomic Manipulation Devices Earth Manipulation Electricity Manipulation Fire Manipulation Ice Manipulation Plant Manipulation Tactical Arrow I've got a number of Devices Blasters already. And I only pair Tactical Arrow with Archery (which I already have). Going for the fastest Cast Arcanatime of 1.32s cuts out Earth and Plant as well. So that's down to 4: Atomic, Electricity, Fire, and Ice. I'm inclined to go with an Energy/Atomic Blaster, with Atomic having 2 Buff/Debuff Toggles (one of them being the zero-cost Sustain) and 2 ST Ranged attacks, with using both ST attacks producing a secondary effect of more ranged AoE damage. With its version of Build Up (Ionize), that's 5 Secondary Powers, leaving more room for flexibility in the rest of the build. If the KB power doesn't have a -Fly effect, the flying target spins around and stays flying, but still loses the same amount of time as if on the ground and KB'ed. This applies to both Toons and Mobs.

@Bionic_Flea again getting a good bite into the situation. 😺 The devs do gather data to help them see where the game is going and some of the details on how changes are affecting the game. Some of that analysis affects which things should be considered for changes in the future. When looking up data that's been shared on these forums, we have to be careful not to read too much into the data. Especially if that data is even a couple years old, because the game is changing in significant ways. (Example: I've yet to make up new builds for all my Toons for the big changes in Issue 27 Page 5, because those changes affected all Toons.) BTW, the Apex and Tin Mage II Task Forces are also locked at Notoriety +4. I asked about this and was told this was to allow them to keep their current rewards. I highly suggest having at least a Tier 3 Alpha Boost slotted so it's only effectively +3 to a Toon (but virtually all Pets don't inherent the Castor's Global Buffs, so it'll still be +4 or worse to them).