Clave Dark 5

Hard to kill an old habit! My first toon was a blaster and I had to learn the very hard way about dodging street mobs.

Hard to kill an old habit! My first toon was a blaster and I had to learn the very hard way about dodging street mobs.

Because I can mute the few annoying people on move on. The Live forums back in the good ol days were chock-a-block with "potentiate-muters" ETA: Also worth noting I've almost never seen the PVE forums or in-game channels descend to "toxic," you guys are generally great.

Seeing as how this is all theoretical... All I know is that no matter which zone I play in, you always have to carefully skirt around mobs on the street. There's no reason they can't be flavored to be one thing or another here, it'll still play the same anyway.

Well, after that, I can recall another reason I was put off by PVP back in the day: the attitude of the people who posted on its forums.

Our selection of animal heads would be much better if I were driving this bus, let me tell you! Like that one that looks like a bat, with the nose? Have you ever seen anyone use it? I did ONCE, and was in fact told I had a really ugly character (which was fitting as he was red side, but still).

Sounds like it wouldn't have to be any worse than the usual game of dodge the perception radius as you cross a zone.

This is from my peeking into the new base contest; dear god there's some amazing work in there. Surely there must be some way to use the creativity and developing skill of the base editor to make new, actual game-playable maps for new missions, or to refurbish old ones? I'm sure this isn't a brand new idea, but after seeing that thread, I feel it needs to be re-suggested.

That's great!

This again all comes down to how you play. The last time I had a chance to play I was on a PUG led by a twinked-out 50+++ brute who was literally racing ahead of the rest of this "all levels welcome" radio team. Needless to say, my level 29 troller did not find these foes easy nor slow-paced. Anyone who wants top play like this can choose to do so (I even stayed around on that team).

Whoa, dude. I knew this part of community was going nuts, but I had no idea just how nuts. There has got to be a way to harness this power for evil... I mean good... I mean for the good of the game. Some way to work these places into actual maps to play on or something. These are just stellar.

AE is still primarily set up for soloing. The contact only speaks to the one player leading the team so no one else gets to see (read) the flavor text, so if you're on a team it's just another "let's go beat up those guys in that warehouse because... of stuff!" like a radio mission. If it's the stories in AE that are supposed to draw people, they need to be shared easily.

I don't have all day to spend scrolling through threads that are 11 pages long, can anyone give me a summary? I expect this on my desk by five or we're all getting pineapple on our pizzas!

Funnily enough I had a devices Blaster that I liked the look of but stopped play right around the time he got Cloaking Device, too; any and all powers that "make you invisible" or "armor" you should have a minimal FX option I have yet to fully level any melee toon this go round as well. I don't know why, I used to do well enough with them in the before times, but now, I have a VEAT that, following a build, was like sleep-walking through foes, yet never bothered to get him past I think 46? Martial Arts scrapper was fun, but... I haven't touched him in a couple of months now maybe, he's in the 30s... Some of this could be COVID burn-out though, I played a LOT when all this started, and my play-rate hasn't returned yet to per-pandemic levels.

The few times I've poked my nose in there it felt awful cliquish. I had no idea what was up and thought I might poke around a little bit on my own. Got ganked by a group of seven? Ten? Twelve? players who then crowed about it (with one posting "how come we never see any new faces in here?" right before I zoned, too, ha ha). I have, since HC, been in there once or twice for a few badges, being chaperoned in with a player who knew what they were doing - and in the middle of the night when there were ZERO villains about to screw up our badge collecting. Goi8ng off of those two extremes, I'd say you need some real community outreach, not hand slapping. Which I do know some are doing, so good on you.

Could just ask a new team when you get on, "anyone need to know when I cast my Forge on them?" Could also ask who on the team may need it most. I often MSR on a healer, and after having to rez someone twice I tend to focus on them for my Fort etc. so they might be able to play less dead, ah ha. But then again, I don't announce myself, no.

We've hashed over this before and the above posters are basically right, a lot of people won't play redside because they don;'t like villains (goldside I would think is because it's tough at lower levels a lot). So be the change you want to see in the 'verse! Go start broadcasting for villain teams and you'll find some players who'll tag along.

Hell, I didn't even know there was a Tardis over there.

That container of left-over Singapore Rice Noodles in the back of my fridge from June says otherwise...

I wrought matter from the Planck Era of the universe, blew my breath into the Expansion Era and have surfed the cosmic background radiation since before this galaxy began to coalesce from the minor fluctuations of gravity. Or it feels like then when I get out of bed in the morning.

I'll toss my worthless name onto the pyre for this as well. My main during the Live days was an EM stalker who got saddled with this change just as I hit 50. I rarely played him after that. Sure would be nice to remake him and be able to actually play him.

OK, thanks

That's funny, the one saved file I had that I sort of once tried to re-upload came up saying the map chosen for the first mish was invalid. I haven't really checked into AE since that one-off attempt though.

Whatever those heroes and villains get up to in their own time is none of my business...

Well I couldn't find a "pets" to click on the team window, but that "/windowtoggle pet" did the trick, so thank you very much!