Clave Dark 5

Ah, OK, got it. I can see your place on all this, I too have blocked a few forum regulars for reasons, and have been very off in my playing as of late (my usual pattern of over-indulging in Halloween leads me to playing less for awhile); after finally finishing up another frankly brilliant masterpiece for the AE (see sig) I was about to take a break myself... until upon a whim I decided to maker said scrapper and apparently have caught the bug for a bit again. I mistook you for a different kind of poster. My apologies and Merry Christmas!... ...until our paths cross on these forums again!

Happy Holidays of any stripe to everyone!* *unless you're a jerk who doesn't deserve it

Yeah, I remember that and have enjoyed it myself. This, like the Halloween windows, is a small, fun little bit of frippery given to us once (or maybe twice?) that then got lost somewhere and is sorely missed by those who liked it. IMHO

I am currently leveling up a scrapper redside, so mostly solo. It was slow going, a bit, until the time I hit about 12; by that point I had three attacks, a couple of my Invul armors, and a Nem staff, along with my unslotted brawl and taser. That's enough attacks! I was and am having a fine time. My guess here is maybe this is just not the game for you as so much of it was designed to be played sub-50. Also, there is much truth in this:

Clave Dark 5, in the living room, with a wrench! At my desk, possibly a cat in my lap, perhaps some music playing. Sometimes headphones, but I prefer not to if I can avoid it. Because of time constraints, I'm usually only playing for an hour, two tops; partly this is because I'm playing overnight hours and the population is starting to really thin out.

I'm sorry OP that you got fed the farmfarmfarm mindset, ignore it. That aside, here's what you can do to fund characters if you can't wait and feel you should get them all funded asap: take a fifty, any fifty, slotted with even just SOs, or even worse with gaps where you couldn't afford to slot anything at all, and go to PI and join the frequent radio teams that pop up, or maybe the MJ arc runs; you can also run any one of the Yin runs which apparently are popular merit farms because they never stop. Run these, do them again. Once you're at fifty, drops and Inf all starts to roll in, and you'll get better at it as you go and can slot; meanwhile, those farm-y teams will easily carry you along until then. I never play the market, and I have always been able to fund all my toons once I hit 50 on one and kept playing them for a bit. And then for the love of god go find your fun in this game instead of the endless farming that "everyone" will tell you is the point of the game (see the advice about the 2Xxp), that'll bore and burn you out faster than even running around only half-slotted.

Agreed, it's the Halloween window decorations all over again. 😕

But people go rabid if you use/embrace/abuse) KB ha ha! But yeah, that's often what I do with them, target them first and keep them bouncing/flopping.

Inside Pocket D there';s a door on the villain's side to go to the ski lodge area. Inside that building is an elf near the fire pit, IIRC, who is a vendor and can take them off your hands for some various stuff, like a badge or two, etc. I generally save mine up and get some of the Slow Resist recipes to craft and sell. It's not like a gold mine, but it's something to do with them. The other stuff the elf sells probably isn't of too much interest to most of the numbers-obsessed in the game. IIRC, I haven't spoken to the elf much lately, cashing out canes is a sometimes-only task for me.

You obviously don't know me. 😃

Just made a toon based on an NPC I put in an MA arc back on live, Rabbitual Criminal. He's redside, yes.

You don't have to breeze through relentless-set to breeze through the normal version and still get bored. Those and 50 PI radio missions against Council, an endless parade of Yins and whatever has the high number of merits this week, people breeze those all the time.

Seconded. I don't want to sounds like a crank or that I'm hatin' on the Mods, but I feel more smaller-releases updates would be better than "one giant one" every... however many months it's going to be. The population's really been down as of late, and my conspiracy theory is that everyone's had enough time with all the toys in the toy box that they're burning out and leaving; one of the only good ways to keep people is with newer stuff. Even all that aside, still: newer stuff should be a constant drip-drip rather than occasional deluge - just ask my houseplants!

This is Port Oakes, but close enough. So which one was it, the one on the left or right?

I think I saw one of the other big servers was already doing contests for this. Sounds fun, sure.

I mainly just PUG, and I've been on a team or two that use it for that. Even though I don't use it much, I'm glad it's there, in case some people will look up from yet another Yin speed-run and think "is this all there is to this game?" 😃

Agreed in the Invader talk above, but more importantly: these aren't high numbers! Are you going to turn this game into boring OMG what a slog homework for a few extra points that'll you'll probably never notice (at best what, once or thrice?), or go have fun?! Yeesh! You are FREE, go be that!

Self: +5% Max Health Feh, you don't like doing it? Then don't! Ha ha, you're free, free I tell you!! You'll live, I promise. 😃

People have been asking for this since day one, and for good reason, it'd be awesome! I'm guessing there must be a good reason we still haven't seen much of it, such as "it's a heck of a lot more work than we can commit to" or something.

Seems like a lot of work for little pay-out. I mean, making new new-power sets is perhaps harder due to the lack of new animations, but just mixing a couple together doesn't seem exciting to me, really. Subjective I suppose.

I'd completely forgotten they were a thing until I was working on an MA story and wanted to make sure they were dropping right. At first I had ZERO souvenir clue on it, then was all like "oh yeah, may need something there." So that should answer this question.

Was there? I logged in on a character I made last winter season and got nothing.

I want to say it was a webpage??? But yeah, I don't think it lasted long.

Nowhere (unless you count throwing my hat into the City of Titans project, and you can see how well that went). I thought of trying one or two others out there, but just couldn't get myself to really care enough to.