Clave Dark 5

The very few who are still hammering away with the incredibly janky system in the AE. (Acknowledgement: I am sometimes in that group, but more often than not, not, because of said janky system.) Some of these creators do it on a regular basis and take the time to discuss them as well, so good on them! Meanwhile, these works are generally ignored, I see many of them out there with the numbers of plays in the single digits after months. Probably because if it's not a farm no one interested, yet will run another Posi 1 for the trillionth time, numbers are king. Can you be an underdog in part of the game no one cares about anyway? Probably not, but they seem like the best to me.

Stupid work schedule that keeps me from playing during popular hours...

When following a build someone else made that has purples in it, I skip them, too costly imho. So what I then do is go to the wiki page for those IOs ("Ranged Damage" in this case) and then compare, as it turns out that most purple sets are "a lot like that other set, but with slightly bigger numbers." Figure out what that other set is, then slot that one instead; it might not be the same +10% Recharge, maybe only 4%, but you've saved yourself a ton for only marginal returns (again, imho). You can also look at the built and figure out what sort of bonus they were chasing (say, Recharge) and then pick the "non-purple set that amps that up. And of course, if it's just your build, you just scan down the list to find the best +Something to work towards you build goal.

I first played redside as a Stalker and appreciated how that freed me to wander about sight-seeing without getting attacked at every street corner, so that's my AT suggestion.

Just as much fun as the other times I've been there, and always sorry when I have to duck out early. Thanks for the hosting!

This was surely intended to be ironic... That said, in the game, I've hardly seen anything toxic, except for maybe AEON runs. Every time I did one, I kept seeing team leaders berating people for not knowing as much as he did, which ha ha sure wasn't as helpful as he thought it would be. Perhaps I was unlucky and just got the worst people each time. Avoid that, or only run it with friends, and you should be golden.

Try looking for any sort of mission your level in AE without stumbling across bushels of poorly conceived, executed, and then abandoned incomplete farms wasting server memory. (Maybe we should have some sort of "name release" program the AE trash, but really that's small potatoes, The AE is only for farming and I know it.) ToT AFK leechers who're farming my playing. Imagine hopping into your favorite AE farm and finding others have invited themselves and you can't get rid of them while they door-sit siphoning off your drops. Any other farmers would be be livid if they coudl do that. Farming is so important that the Devs ignored other directions that they might go in and spent their rare volunteer hours (and yes, I do fully know that they are) to build and refine a whole farm map for 45+ characters, because farming as existed just wasn't enough somehow. Enjoy being the most catered-to players, you've won this battle! Now since every toon can be easily twinked out to the EXTREEEEEEME in a matter of hours, the Devs have to alter the game around us to keep it from being a dull cake-walk. Seems to me that that's some kind of tell, a clue that "something has gone wrong," that was ignored or misunderstood... See my sig, I think Matt was right.

Maybe like a book club, anyone can participate, "over the next two weeks, we're playing another dreary and confusing arc from Clave Dark 5 called, simply, Ugh. You have two weeks to go play and then we'll vote on including it or not." Hm... That voting of course unfortunately leaves room from developing bad blood, so you'd have to vote in private or something, "the board has decided to recommend SuperSteve's This Rocks Rock for [award]," without going into any posting that negative judgement of "we played Clave's and hated it.' So maybe that's a bad idea - book clubs don't hand out awards, just talk about what they did or didn't like about the book. And as a group they generally decide on what book to look at anyways.

I've filed tickets, and left one-star players notes on them, repeatedly. Last year as well. Still seeing them around, yep. Anecdotally, one team that formed yesterday morning remarked on how nice it was to have been lucky enough to fill the server before the MMs showed up, ha ha

Somewhere in the past, maybe near the beginning of the year? Late last? Further back? I ended up being able to directly address a dev her eon the forums to highlight to still-ongoing problem with how everyone on a map speaks their "unaware" line when you zone in; they said they'd look into it... That's about all I have to offer right now. I do certainly hope for more...

This base just gets better and better every time I visit it, thanks for sharing it with us!

I've come to the conclusion that they don't really care. I mean, they just spent who knows how many rare volunteers' hours to create and refine the Fog farming level, I think it's pretty clear where their interests lie.

Farming is boring. See my sig quote and suggestions for how to have more fun in this game than mere farming.

Were the Hallowee GMs also upgraded to match Jack and Eochai in Croatoa? I haven't seen a Pumpkin Patch! notification yet. The GMs now also spawn some themed soldiers (Streng et al for Eocahi, Hooligans for Jack), so do those too need to be cleared to let them respawn, like with the Unseelies? Follow up to that last one, Jack spawns a really large number of Hooligans, is that WAI? Just kind of weird is all. Oh, and bonus question: will the Halloween window decorations be back this year?

I'm not willing to let that slide without corroborating evidence...