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In addition, and mainly what I meant, is that if your resistance is high, say 54%, and adding this one IO puts it to, say 57%, then the 46% that was getting through turns into 43% -- that's an 6.5% reduction of incoming damage. The closer you are to your cap, the more each single percentage increase relatively reduces the incoming damage. And then, even if you are at the cap, your resistance to debuff still increases. And using the formula from Ukase, above, if your health was down to say, 25%, it's adding 10.4% resistance. And in that same scenario of a 54% base resistance, it's increasing it to 64.4, which reduces the incoming damage by 22.6% compared to not having it. IMO, that's nice amount.

It's more valuable if you already have lots of resistance, but are short of the hard cap for your AT.

IMO, it's a low effort, low return activity. I doubt anyone is a trillionaire from a flipping focus.

Chaos Rift.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Chaos Rift", a song about the "Mapserver Madness" event. Chaos Rift.m4a

The Wiki only briefly mentions the Mapserver event https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/April_Fools'_Day It would ne nice to have more extensive documentation of it, how it works, the enemies in it, the rewards structure, etc.

I wanted a song about the discovering Ouroboros and the Menders, and thought, in-character, the songwriter would not just come out and sing about them by name -- she's been entrusted with the secret, after all. So a song that obliquely goes after it would be the goal. River of Time.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "River of Time." River of Time.m4a

Dam Breaker.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Dam Breaker", a song about the Positron Part Two Task Force. Dam Breaker.m4a

I would distinguish between work to increase the story content and relevance of a zone, and work to represent a zone as being reconstructed in-game. In the former, the zone can stay destroyed and filled with rubble. In Galaxy City's case, the former would be to restructure the zone as a visit-able destroyed zone. This could even rebuild it as a higher level hazard zone (I'm not saying we should, just that it would make sense). Then, later, after further game events, maybe it is shown as being rebuilt (similarly to Faultline). But what many people seem to want is a nostalgic restoration and retcon of Galaxy City pre-shivan-game-intro. I understand that desire, but I just don't see it happening.

I'm generally okay with the idea, so long as it isn't strictly tied to veteran levels alone. They're too easy to get doing the same thing over and over. I prefer a more accolade badge style approach, which could include progressively higher vet badges, since this encourages a variety of content and often increases teaming.

Add new (modest) stat accolade badges that have as one part of the requirements a veteran level badge. Hit different stats than just health or stamina.

Even if you get past the technical hurdles, an issue is in the fidelity of the translations, which won't be reviewed and verified, to the text they purport to translate. It may be excellent almost all the time, but the few times they're not, they'll cause problems.

I read it, and I feel dumber afterwards. Example, this bit: "They too pay a higher cost because they earn less from the same sale." They paid more because they were paid less.

A song about Countess Crey & Crey Corporation. Empire of Lies.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Empire of Lies", a song about Countess Crey and Crey Corporation. Empire of Lies.m4a

I would love to see all these documented, if they are not already: And probably the resistance code-speech too.

You can hide from it, but it can still see you, and won't go away.

Make the top pane of the email resizable, so I can find my emails. And save my aching fingers with a claim 10 option for claiming stuff from it (ctrl-claim, maybe?). Probably help the youngsters out, too.

Meltdown.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform a song about the Terra Volta Respecification Trial. Meltdown.m4a

I had so much fun in Hess TF I had my character write a song about it!

The story making sense and being clear to regular team members and not just the leader (who gets the mission briefing from the contact) is a factor to me as well. Yin's very good at this, the npc's you encounter during it say things everyone sees that make it pretty clear.

"Ghost Ship of Talos Island", by Black Viper and the Midnight Choir. (My lyrics, AI performance) Ghost Ship of Talos Island.m4a