Clave Dark 5

That 41 level character is ready to play the Market Crash TF - ru8n that, instant purple, even the cheap ones go for like 15million. Most teams you get on you can even coast and let others do the big work, if you're underslotted or something.

Agree with the general sentiment in this thread, to hell with snark or feeling bad for taking something seriously - that's the new frontier past the "you're not a man if you show emotion" era.

Seeing how the IOs and Incarnates came after, that would seem to suggest that logically they are the problem. The problem didn't exist until them.

Yes that was you, and you called him a twit, a direct insult on someone you admit that you don't know, not just disagreeing with an opinion. It refl4ects poorly on you, and I say that as someone who's generally happy to see you posting. I'm not even just talking about you either, I mean, look at this thread. I believe some mod just the other day posted something in a thread that was "getting out of hand" to the effect of "if you disagree, just shrug and move on"? I'm not so foolish as to pretend that's not how the modern day internet in general operates however, but I keep having hope...

So you'll tell us where the author's ideas come from based on what and then assure us that's only a small loud subsection? Meanwhile, our famously friendly community is insulting the author in the fifth post of this thread.

There's also "speed of mob clearing" which the devs do indeed seem to love encouraging via giving us Fold Space, more of the anti-repel powers to draw them together the rush to 50, so we can T4 out our toons quickly "and then start playing the game." Both of those help out with farming because we rush to have all the shiny bits now "to play the game." Seems to me to be a fairly valid read of the general assumptions behind how a majority of players play - and what the devs aim for. A hit dog holler as they say, and I expect to hear a lot of hollering, judging by what's already been posted in this wonderfully accepting and friendly community of ours. 😏

But since Doms are now playable as heroes and controllers villains, this doesn't really make any sense. I mean, y'all can just go ahead and say "because we wanted it this way, tough," we can't stop you.

I like the old "baffle them with BS", so I'm joining the bull moose party.

Is this happening this year too?

Woo, all of my AE dreams have been granted...

I had a feeling that was going to be your answer ha ha... Hope it clears up.

Drop your graphics settings is my first thought.

To update my earlier posts on this topic, I did actually finally bite the bullet and lead some people through one of my two AE Radios arcs. It was about 5:30 am local, so I was probably lucky to get anyone. I was running a very durable scrapper so if I got nothing but level 2s we'd still be ok. Overall things went fine with a team of 5, but one thing I noted was that despite whatever silliness was in the arc no one batted an eye... BUT.... the fourth mission was in a cave, and two players quit right after that one. It wasn't even a cake cave, the babies! I swear, it's no wonder that asteroid map farming is so stupid popular, so many players are just lazy, reminds how you'll be on a steamrolling team one after ONE near-team wipe at least one player will quit right there without a message.

Having looked into all the patron arcs for the badge to access patron pools, I think they're all about the same and all of them have a good mission to skip to save time- running them all on 0/1 is also a good idea (Mako's last mish is cake on this setting).

"But we have such a good community!" Agreed. And awaiting downvotes for saying so.

I play in the mornings and overnight hours as I'm a night shift worker, and have definitely seen a drop off during those times. I'll pop by Excel's Atlas at say three am and there's maybe two people standing around Ms. Liberty. Often times when there's just one DfB trying to fill or another speed run for whatever spamming the chat every 30 seconds for ten+minutes. I usually end up using such times to work on an AE arc, or just not play, I should read more books anyway. There does often feel a lull as people wait for a big update to drop, maybe that's part of what's going on here too. ETA: forgot to add that as a "mature gaming experience" here and now, we all fall into the same patterns and behaviors, which could slowly peel away people who don't care to play following those behaviors (speedrunning for example, I didn't join that guy's group) as well as burning out those who do after awhile by boredom of repeating the same ol thing.

Damn you, I knew that was going to be your answer! 😄 My time's limited right now (and interest is flagging tbh) but I'll try and get to it ... some day...

Hm, do tell!

And thank you for such a helpful reply.

So are there any other powers like this I need to know about? I've poked around a little both here and the wiki but couldn't seem to find a decent explanation of the leveling/respecing thing for VEATS.

That seems to have been it, thanks!

I've never messed around with a VEAT in Mids until now and I clearly don't understand the leveling/respecing thing with them. I'm starting from a Night Widow build I found on the forums and looking to swap out a couple of powers here and there for personal taste. What I'm seeing happen is I drop one power to make room for Follow Up, and no matter where I then place FU, the power gets the red text telling me it's been placed in a way that wouldn't be allowed in the game. I'm assuming there's something about the order of respecing/placing that I don't understand here...

I got it to work thanks everyone! Now more annoying questions, will it stay after I log out, turn off the computer? Will it do that now for every character I play or just this one I put it on?

How do you do that that thing where when you start typing in the chat window that you get the little grey bubble above your character's head with some witty message like "hey I'm typin' ovah heah!" that stays there long as you type until you hit enter? Can that be done via macro? And does anyone know if there's like a generalized library of macros (other than for MMs ha ha)? I know all about the pages on the wiki, but that's not the same thing for someone without much of a programmer's mind.

It's been a long time since I made an arc for that low, but yes, it is difficult. One good bit of advice I've seen, possibly from @ZamuelNow? was to skip using any armor and just assign them attacks; also a good idea to skip confuses, various other mezzes, etc. You can also play around with giving them relatively few melee attacks and setting them for melee, and vice versa with ranged attacks - apparently they will favor their setting over the number of opposite type attacks? It's always a great big tinkering and experimentation project, nothing in the AE works right your first try, ha ha