Clave Dark 5

= "some folks choose min/maxing" Tons of other people here are theme players, RPers, etc., not just the "not-many"s 😃

I was just about to say this too!

You know how you're like standing in Atlas Park and one of those low-rez citizens walks by and goes: "Wow, that Clave Dark 5 is amazing, he saved my cousin in Galaxy City!" More of those, double, triple their occurrence. If the current renaissance in AI and social media has taught us nothing else, being told you're awesome motives people.

I often don't bother unless I'm making a new Dom (which happens a lot). I often start my new builds by taking others' posted here on the forums, and then start pulling out stuff I don't want, like the usual Boxing/Tough/Weave cookie-cutter choices. The "meta" of a lot of players here (or at least those who post on the forums ha ha) are all about squeezing out a fraction of an extra percent in any area they possible can. More power to 'em, I've learned some good stuff from them; not my idea of fun though, that's like studying spreadsheets at work or doing homework. And not one you have to follow, define your own fun!

Sure, but following the pattern the police reference was probably the starting point; the secondary layer was, well, secondary. Probably. We should ask some Devs!

Welcome to the city! See my sig for my advice to the game for you, have fun!

Pretty sure I took both of those on a toon once, they can't both be used though, you pick only one or the other, the one one seems to follow the same timer.

Have to admit I often don't bother wit those, or use it for a throw-away joke

Just whatever looks good. Never bothered to get a T4 with any toon, it's a lot of cost and work for a few extra percentage points, really, and because I level instead of insta-farm them, I usually bored of them by T2 or so and moving on.

I haven't finished leveling him (stalled out around 40-something), but my most recent Emp toon was actually very usual, often, to my teams, even those times I played with teams with 50s on them. Like with Rezz powers, forumites like to say it's pointless these days, but they're a small percentage of the population of actual players.

People enjoy camping Bot MMs in areas where people ToT (like the PI murder hotel) to leech XP and drops. People now dual-box to run "AFK farms" where they run to the back of a map, rescue someone which spawns the map full of foes, then set themselves on "follow" as the someone walks back out through the mobs while their AoEs (or, again,Bots; Bots MMs are one of the most popular toons apparently) do all the killing while they actually play on the other acount. Seriously. And then boast about how fast they got it over with. 😄

I'm wondering if the messages for say a boss defeat are only going to the person the system figures out landed the killing blow points or something. But yes, like the Drop Ship defeat on an MSR, it should be shown team-wide, not just to the one player.

So show 'em all how to do it right on your toons! I'm generally with you, I usually just stick to one adjective. That said, I like what @Harlequin565 said, it can generate some good humor. I have one 90's inspired toon named: The Extreme Extreme CAT Beam Because what's more extreme than more etxreeeeme?!

Update: so I was randomly hopping into the AE with a new stalker (who couldn't handle it :P) and (re)discovered a published story with a perfect "dead body" in it. The title is "Murder on 34th Street," it was one of the Christmas contest winners (rightly so), and you find a body in the first mission. The dead guy didn't burble about when you get close, didn't stand up, anything - perfect execution. I have no idea how they did that 😄 I think it was a Boss set as ally, something something, but I dunno. I don't know if the author is still hanging around, but you could track the name down and send them a comment and see what they say. And please report back!

I mean, that's kind of my point: if you ever find parts of the game a slog, imho it's time to stop playing. Losing at blackjack in Vegas might be a slog too, but that doesn't mean the solution is to let me pick my cards when I play, that's not playing the game. Just rifling thru the deck so I can pull out an ace and a face card every time would get awfully boring awfully quickly.

Cheating at the game to make it too easy is a Homecoming tradition though! (was surprised to see this thread got unlocked... and that it was locked in the first place???)

Probably not too difficult, but the current devs aren't too keen to do too much work with the AE.

I'm sure these are still popular because they're still completely attention free rewards, seems to me - you can multi-box it while actually playing the game elsewhere, or even (as it says) AFK. Probably only seconded to ToT leeching.

The AE System Still, thanks for the hack info!

Not stand up, remain on the ground. I'd be happy enough to see the AE, you know, actually work as instructed to and let us place a dead (or even just unconscious!) character. 😃 ETA: Here's what I mean... Me: "Will you lay down already GEEZ!" AE: You can't make me!

I have a mission with some dead NPCs in it. I set them as Allies and to "do nothing" when they are acquired so to speak. I want to say I can remember sometimes they might shift about but stay on the floor in their "Unconscious" animation, but most of the time they will stand up and then remain there; I just ran it again and that's what they did this time anyway. This is another case of having to try and fit your story around the weird systems and sometimes glitches of the AE. In my story I could allow for it as they're sort of zombies, and @UltraAlt option isn't a bad idea either. I would have prefered they not do that of course but...

What's that, "they crashed Dennis' record player into a cold preserver"???? I'll never understand how computers really work!

Do some teaming with strangers, mention that you're hard up for IOs, you will be given in-game cash. Get one toon to 50 and keep playing them, the in-game cash will roll in. Many folks here'll tell ya ya need to do some boring farms, play the market or whatever... that's BS don't listen, you don't need to bore yourself to be able to PLAY. See my sig. And feel free to use the block feature on anyone.

That's not hacky, unless you meant it in a sort of metaphorical "sneaky way around existing problems" way. That's a decent trick, I'll have to keep that in mind. Excel. The population size would probably help you get more players, sure.