Clave Dark 5

"Too many players are too mega-Über" anymore. It's a problem, yes! But there's any number of Yins being run right now, so I kinda doubt about "repetition" being a problem... I hope you can see that?

Yet no one seems to be running BBNY much either. I don't think there's so much star aversion (past the "new mechanics that I don't know" thing) going here so much as players just don't seem to care - there's always a constant call for Yins, some for the new TF ("Zoe"-something is it?), DfBs any time of the day or night, etc.... Just little to no Christmas stuff. I've seen one guy running Winter Realms from Ouro twice now, and he's struggling to find 16 people willing to go, even during Excel prime time (I've seen some SBBs struggling too). I have theories as to why but that's neither here nor there. All based upon my own perception of course.

I'm not always in the mental space to be able to manage a league, especially for something with mechanics that I'm unfamiliar with, you know? Otherwise sound enough advice. I was able to run it twice just now (finally! was slow to fill though) so next time hopefully I'll lead one.

This paragraph went off in some oddball directions and I'm not sure I understand why or where it ends up tbh. I think you can chill on your concerns there, no one's out to judge you, play who and what you want. I mean, there's tons of scantily-clad women running around in this game and I'll bet a purple most of them are men and no one cares.

This is why I don't listen to too many "experts" in-game and encourage others to ignore such proclamations too.

Which ones are missing parts?

Yeah, I forgot to include that: I was on Excel, which at the time was in the red-three-dots population even. I've since been back and during prime time again (Monday night maybe?) when it was two-yellow-dots and still didn't see anything after something like 20 minutes. Maybe my timing just sucks, but that's what I've seen; I was so hopeful when I saw the red dots, but it's traditionally always faded quickly from people's interests.

Co-signed.

No worries about the new systems, apparently it's already old hat and no one is running it anymore! I sat in-game for a solid twenty minutes, maybe 25, on Saturday night at 7 pm Mountain time, watching for a shout-out, posted a couple of times in LFG I was looking for it... Nothing. I only saw one BBNY running during that time as well. I know this sort of thing always dies out fast on the Holidays though, everyone rushes their newest toons in for the badges, and then doesn't look back or something.

Never use the stuff, myself, so you could stop whenever you want.

I took them on a Dom recently for theme and changed their names to fit that theme, but yeah, they didn't bring anything else to the table for me.

Awesome! thanks for the info. I'm shocked they got to that so quickly. I've had some personal stuff and burn-out keeping me away from the game for the past few months, but at least I know if/when I make it back I'll be able to return to interminable work on my current AE project.

Ok, thanks. Now we play the waiting game...

Any news on this? Was a bug report filed?

I played a troller up to 50 only to discover I'd made the same power set choices on another toon that bored me by the early 40s, because the costume never worked for me. It;s funny how one reason or another makes a toon really fly for you or not.

Knowing or learning about history doesn't show one's age, it shows one's wisdom.

Port Oakes also holds its... well, OK, they're making no secret about it, but... (this is right across from the abandoned lab... if you're lucky)

Short reply: Nice. (hey, someone hadda do it)

Not at all? VEATs and Squiddy types. I have one near-50 Widow that I just can't bring myself to finally top off, partly because I lost the intended build, and because respeccing them is a nightmare I can't find my way through, I tried once. Close second, Masterminds, I'll like them with the new changes, they just break down too easily, only AT that lose effectiveness as they get more and more wounded.

You clearly do not know me and how often I've said here how I dislike farming and think its boring - which is OK if not of course, but then you also clearly didn't read my sig, which a sin I just cannot ignore

Reading down the list of everything, I see a lot of HC's pet projects getting more attention, which sure, OK. Most of those pet projects just don't float my particular boat though so 🤷‍♂️ Some other scattered bits are fine enough.

Still seems simpler to ask someone ha ha, but I suppose on an empty server that can help.

That reinforced door is genius, and also new to me. But if not that, there's always this destructible if nothing else (as seen and used in a recent story of mine). The rest of what you have planned sounds good to me.

All this goes to show that they need to rejigger these or just remove them all together, kind of like Incarnate shards.

I don't have tons of experience with it yet, but in the times I've tested it, I couldn't even get the winter map to work right for me, or not all the time. I'm still working on a couple of things (slowly... slowly...) and feel I just have to make peace with having the player have to run all over to hell and back to go from one chained objective to the next if they're on outside maps. I get around this being too onerous (in my mind at least) by setting the maps as "empty" of foes, so it doesn't feel quite as time waste-y.