Coyotedancer

*nods* I assassinate any Crey snipers I pass when I'm crossing Founders. That's the legacy of an unlucky DB Scrap I had in the Live days. When I was leveling Ashirion, a cruel contact in Indy sent him to a door mission in the middle of the brownstones in Founders. This was prior to the random-door-picking revamp that made being sent to a zone that would murder you unlikely, so he was way, way underlevel for the place... and as he landed at the door, he instantly got caught in the crossfire of the MULTIPLE snipers on the rooftops on either side. 'Killed the poor bird dead on the spot. I had zero chance to do anything about it. Needless to say, Ash and I sort of held a grudge after that. When he was a finished 50 (and later a full-Incarnate nightmare XD ) I would occasionally take him back out to Founders and murder Every. Single. Sniper. I could find. Ash considered it a public service. Every other character of mine takes them out opportunistically. Call it... continuing vengeance in Ash's name. XD

I do that, too. Window colors MUST match the color scheme of the character or it just bugs the heck out of me. Also, when I'm slotting enhancements in a power... Any specials or procs MUST be in the first slot. Then singles, doubles, triples or quads in that order. I'm not so picky about rather the Acc/Damage or the Damage/Rech comes before the Rech/End or whatever... But they all have to come before the Acc/Dam/End. I'm not sure WHY I do it that way... But I have for as long as the IO sets have existed. Also, while it's not something I do with any of my gang currently... Back-in-the-day I had a few characters that I insisted on parking in particular spots when I logged them. Palrah was always in the Vanguard base near Lady Grey... Chanter was always in the Grandville tower with G-Dub... and both Kestrel and the player-character version of Cardinal had to be across the room with Scir. That was just where they belonged, and so by the game gods that's where I was going to leave them when they were "off duty". XD

Word.

Confirmed! General Hammond in Firebase Zulu is also a "walk up" contact. You don't need an introduction to him, just come through the portal and click on the guy... That said, his missions are pretty dull and I'm reminded how much the underuse of the Shard's potential hurts a little piece of my soul. It's such a gorgeous place... It deserves batter. 😞

Team NerfHerder: "But, but... WE CAN'T, Titanman! We just can't. Don't you understand? Thing X is POPULAR! Thing X also WORKS WELL! We can't possibly allow that! It has to be nerfed! Don't you see? Popular and useful powers will ruin the game!" Yeah. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting very, very weary of all the nerfherders that have come out of the woodwork lately. It's starting to get ridiculous. <_<

Good to know. The last one I took through the Hollows picked up Wincott from the Contact Finder. When I'm on this afternoon, I'll take one of the higher-levels out to the Shard to see about Hammond.

'Not sure about Wincott and Hammond and Jimmy and the rest these days, but you don't actually NEED an outside introduction to Peebles. She's a "walk-up" contact that will hand out missions to anyone in the right level range. Just head to Striga and click on her.

None off-hand, I'm afraid. It still seems like a very silly thing to do to me... But... People have done stranger things just for the absurdity of it, so you never know.

There's a whole thread on this somewhere... Uncommon salvage prices have been on the up-swing lately. It may be a natural "market forces" thing, or it might be intentional manipulation. No one's quite sure at this point. We do know it'll never go over 100k, though. That's the seeded price.

*laughing* As I was saying on the OOC channel this morning, after seeing some of these others... I have regrets about having entered my own. Even looking at it is a total waste of the judges' time in comparison to the competition. There are some absolutely freakin' FABULOUS entries here. XD

Eh. Just pointing out that a potential team-lead ought to mention what flavor of TF they're putting together... rather it's a speed run, a smash-all, a Master run or whatever... doesn't really amount to "telling someone what to do" in a restrictive, OMGNOYOU kind of way. It's just pointing out that adding some detail is usually wise. It's the best way we have to keep misunderstandings and potential team conflicts to a minimum.... Better to set your expectations *before* you start a run, instead of having to stop half-way through the first mission. look at each other and say "Wait. What are we doing here again?" and all that.

Dark Armor is a miserable set. Between the ridiculous visual FX and being an utter END-hog, it pretty quickly became my least favorite choice 'back in the day' and somehow has never managed to get any better. Even with IOs, it still manages to be annoying in small ways. And large ones, if you're not into looking like a dust-bunny caught in an explosion at Hot Topic on Halloween. <_<

I dual-box with Harry (my farmer) pretty often, especially when I'm working on unlocking another member of my gang's iToys, and yeah... Having both halves of a pair in an AE farm mission, this issue becomes pretty obvious. The pair's INF totals are always on par with each other, so there doesn't seem to be an issue there, but the difference in recipe drops is noticeable. Salvage I pay a lot less attention to, so no idea if it applies there. Harry's XP is still turned off to keep him at vet level 100, so I can't speak to any XP differences, either. Enhancements are odd. Sometimes enhancement drops seem pretty even, sometimes it slightly favors the second character. It varies enough that it could just be RNG silliness. The recipe drop difference is way too consistent to just blame on the fickleness of the RNG, though. [Dev Gang, if you want to pull my logs server-side to see for yourselves, most recently I've been running AE Arc#2551 on Everlasting, with Haroeris (My farmer, on the @Laughingcrow account-) and Oreviel (my Rad Defender, on my main @Coyotedancer account). It's not unusual for Harry, as leader, to end up with somewhere between half and two-thirds the recipe drops Rev ends up with. If it's helpful, I can start keeping a log of exactly who-gets-what.]

There are at least two of us... Mine is a Nature/Water Defender on Everlasting, named after this gorgeous thing. Alas, her "usual" costume is nothing special. She's one of my Oranbegans; my Life Mage... So, spikey armor in green. XD Her Avatar of Gaia outfit is a little more interesting. If slightly... scandalous, let's say. It just embarrasses the heck out of her brother Andris when she wears this get-up around in public. XD

MIGHTY! You just don't get to do that kind of thing unless you're playing City of Heroes. ^_^

Obviously, spamming all of the individual shard boards with this JUST WASN'T ENOUGH...

I want a "to the horizon"/max-draw-distance sized water plate. That way my islands can look like actual islands and I won't need to make the next Midnight Sea base inside a flooded volcanic crater. XD A larger than max-draw-distance sized plot might solve that issue, too, though. Just build in the center and cover the rest in water.

I still say Cim needs one, too.

Mighty Radial is still my favorite, purely for the giggle-fits I get when my harmless-looking little teenaged stalker-girl hops into the middle of a huge cluster of goons and sends the whole lot bouncing off the ceiling. That said... There's also something just wickedly fun about walking in and KICKING THE ENTIRE ROOM. XD

I went with a Scrapper for my own Titan character... But back in the Live days my absolute favorite Brute was a guy named Anigan. He was WP/Street, and an absolute delight to play. I went for damage with him rather than defense, so he played more like a heavy Scrap than a Tank, but he could still hold his own. It was a solid combination.

I love the NPC Companion idea... Even if they were only ornamental rather than combat pets, it would be pretty awesome to actually have both halves of a pair like Mordred and Merlin (both mine, so impossible as-is) tagging along together. I'd burn a chunk of INF gleefully to be able to do that, just for roleplay purposes.

Also more people doing the Merits-to-Converters thing, maybe. I never sell my converters... They're too useful... SO I haven't kept up with the usual sale prices on those.

I toss a lot of the recipe drops I get with Harry onto the AH as a matter of principle (I feel like keeping the recipe supply healthy is one of the jobs we farmers have in the City ecosystem-), and it's been interesting watching what some of the uncommons sell for now. I've definitely gotten more for some of the converter-fodder "usual suspects" recently. It's almost as if all this talk about marketeering has increased interest in the conversion game... Go figure. XD

That would annoy me enough to actually make me leave Homecoming, I suspect. Not the farming bit... I'm strictly an active farmer... but the leveling. At this point, I've played the low-level game so many times... red side, gold side and blue... that I have absolutely ZERO desire to ever do it again. I still have alts I want to make and play, though. As a mostly-solo player, dual-boxing and tossing a new toon into the ant-hill with Harry (my farmer) to get them to 32 is how I get around my lowbie-game burnout. Take that ability away and I'm just... done. So call me a /jranger on that idea, even if I do sort-of agree that AFK farming feels a little cheaty.

Hmm. I guess there are a fair few of us who have to be deemed serious Nobodies, then. Because, yes... There do exist people who, believe it or not, farm FOR FUN. Active farmers who actually enjoy jumping into those maps and going to town on a bunch of goons are real. We're not Bigfoot. XD