Mjolnerd

They're tricky. If even ONE enemy from the "robbery team" gets by you (and it's easy to miss one), you'll fail as soon as he leaves the map. Sounds to me like a minion slipped through the net.

The game is playable again! That's awesome. Amazing. Seriously, it's incredible; you have no idea how happy it makes me. Of course, not everything is functioning. a lot of non-critical sub-systems don't seem to be working at the moment. Please note I am ABSOLUTELY NOT COMPLAINING about any of this, just asking for informative purposes: What's still down? What's "down-down" and what's "down right now"? - Wentworth's/Black Market? (My understanding is that this is down for the foreseeable future as it needs its own server/shard to work.) - LFG queue/Death From Below? (Seems to be down based on the couple of times I tried it and all the old-school sewer runs people are doing.) - Architect missions: WORKING per jenosyde - PvP zones? - Arena PvP? - Mayhem/Safeguard missions: WORKING per Radionuclide - Incarnate zone(s)? - Incarnate trials? - Incarnate powers/rewards/pets/etc? - Oroborous? (I've seen a few mentions in chat of this being down, but haven't had a chace to try it out myself.) - Inventions/crafting: WORKING per jenosyde - Zone events like Rikti invations, zombie uprisings, giant monster attacks, etc: WORKING per jenosyde - Alignments/side-switching? - That Science Booster ability where we could have different costumes for the same character use different body types (Bruce Banner/Hulk)? - Character renaming: WORKING per jenosyde - Signature story arcs ("Who Will Die?")? - Hamidon/Rikti ship raids? - Supergroup bases? Anything else I'm forgetting? Can anyone confirm whether some/all these are working or not?

As I understand it, the markets require a separate server (or at least shard) to function. I'd expect it to be a while.

A redname posting about server maintenance, with an estimated downtime and everything. Feels like home.

You could always send a /tell (or an in-game email -- is that functioning?) to that name and see if the owner would be willing to give it up. There's a chance they grabbed it on a whim and aren't terribly attached to it yet. /getglobalname Silverback (I think that's the command, anyway; it's been a while) would be even better.

I started on Victory, then eventually migrated over to Virtue and was there for the last... five or so(?) years of the game's original lifespan. I rolled with the American Legion supergroup most of the time. My global was @Doctor Roswell.