Coyotedancer

This is just an ad for the musician buddy's page, isn't it?

I was going to say "Oh look. It's the Troll AT." But Drama Queen works, too.

Some of my magi would be contacts in and around the temple ruins in Primeva on the villain-side... Their missions would probably involve getting artifacts and books back from various heroes, the MIdnighters and the Arachnos goons who've been shamelessly looting them. The Head Librarian has been making a stink about losing bits of his collection for years. They could be introduced by Maros. Kai would have to be a Midnighter contact in Founder's Falls. Her missions would involve Old Magic, the university History department and a few misdirected boxes of mail-order Wailers.

'Still waiting over here for the female model to get the rest of the Oranbegan bits that the male models got years ago... If I have to play the stupid Aether game to get them? So f-ing be it. (No. I'm not going to just "give up and shut up" about that. My lady mages need those pieces! 😅 )

I have a whole flock of white-winged and black-winged characters... But they're neither angels nor demons. My "bird-things" are a non-canon species of Rularuu. They're Faathim's creatures. 🌞

I was ready to Ignore List this poster just for endlessly spamming the forum, but held off thinking that they might eventually have something interesting to say. I'm no longer going to hold on to that illusion.

I still have Win 8.1 on my ancient little second generation SurfacePro. And yes. I've played City on it. 'Ran just fine.

I suspect that's it, yeah. Most of the other Stalker players I run into are solos. Stalkers... The Few. The Proud. The Stabby. 😎 Stalker: 15,033

That's just COLD, dude. So, so cold. 🤣

<_< >_> I call Shivans "Gummy Bears".

If you like bouncing around with Ninja Run, consider making a character with the Super Jump/Super Speed combo. Running those together is just great fun... once you learn how to avoid every bus stop and powerline in the city. 🤣

It's all over the place for me, depending on the character's AT, power sets, level and how they are (or aren't, as the case may be-) built. A leveling Stalker on SOs only? I go with higher level enemies in lower numbers... +2/x2, say. I raised my last brute the other way around, Xi had much higher numbers of goons, but only at +1. "Finished" characters also vary a lot. A good 'cruising speed' setting for my Demons/Time Mastermind is +2/x6. My favorite 'boss fight' Brute is one of those +4/x8-or-bust types. It's go all the way or go home with her. I don't have many like that, but it's fun to rampage with the ones I do have. Most of the gang are much lower key.

I'll never say no to more cool titles, which is really what badges amount to for me these days. I don't chase them for their own sake anymore, but toss out one with a title that I want on some member of the crew? Yeah. I'll jump through pretty much any silly hoops I have to to get the thing. 🤣

My melee characters thank you guys for that. Doubled-up Tar Patches really were a royal pain in the proverbial rump. (And head. And ribs. And spleen. And-)

The player character movement suppression is a hold-over from the Old Days... And given just how **MANY F-ING RUNNERS** the game has amongst the goon-squad, I've been asking for it to die in a fire for literal years. Even back in the retail days. Either make them subject to the same snail-in-glue effect we are... Or set us free. (And no, Chairman. It's in no way limited to Follow. Movement speed suppression hits all of us when our characters are actively in combat. Try taking off after a fleeing Longbow Eagle or a Sky Raider Wing guy when they jet off across the map. That few seconds of moving in slow motion as you watch them run for the far corner of nowhere at top speed? That's what we're talking about.)

I only use Discord to coordinate with the family SG... The nephews are all about it, so we use the voice-chat when we play together.

Dark Watcher's War Zone Arc, if you haven't done it already. The title/objective of the last mission in the arc is "Save the World". 😎

There's one little place in Grandville where you can go underwater as well... Exiting the ferry at the Grandville dock, go left along the outside wall. About half-way up the island coastline there's a grassy rise with a pile of rocks. At the base of the rocks is a small pool... It usually has a coralax swimming in it. You can jump in and swim in that deep little puddle with him.

I just wish they'd stick around when you zone... As fond as I am of Spooky and Spark (Kai's green panther and Arcanus' lantern-), having to resummon them constantly is kind-of a bother. I also wish that our Peacebringers and Warshades could keep their pets active when they're in crab or nova form again. We used to be able to, but that was removed late in the retail days when the old devs revamped the way Kheldian form-shifting and toggles interacted.

Cute little bot is cute. ^_^ I want the Seedling, myself, but getting that one is likely to be... problematic. Going after the Mr. Big Goofy Jello-Whale has never been popular.

Lumi's got a good point, there... The popups (Which, yes, are as annoying as all hell right now-) are only part of the problem. Losing the ability to easily curate our "to do list" tip collection, so to speak, is also an issue. You've removed our ability to potentially get a favorite tip during a mission and say "Yeah. I like that one. I'll run it later." It's likely to have been replaced by the time we're ready to run it. o_0

*has way, way too much fun galumphing around Atlas Park as a giant, blue-green jello-monster*

The one big issue with individuals on a team trying to run their copy of an arc in parallel with their teammates is the random order in which some contacts present those missions... Stephanie Peebles in Striga is probably the most infamous example of that, but she's not the only one who does it. It can take quite a bit of patience and mission abandon-and-retake shenanigans to get everyone on the same mission at the same time. That's fine when you have two or three on a team who are willing to take the time to get everyone "one the same page", but it would get ridiculous fast on an 8-member PUG.... and everyone having the same mission at the same time would be a requirement for any kind of "complete your copy of the arc as your team does" scheme. Now, if we could get rid of "random order" issue and talk Steph and her kind into giving out missions in a regular, non-randomized order? That would be helpful... But for some reason there are always people loudly opposed to that whenever it's been suggested.

Agreed, there. On both points. Introducing "solutions in search of a problem" is definitely one of Homecoming's signature things, though, so none of us should be surprised when they do it at this point.

Oh, the finger thing is just ridiculously annoying... I've had to crack open Photoshop and do so many hand corrections on my "Birds in the 13th Age" images... So, so many. 😖