RikOz

I posted about this a few months ago, and yeah, it's still not solved. Something weird seems to happen to the permissions on random screenshots that are made with the game's built-in screenshot function and saved to the default Screenshots folder. Just moving them to another folder doesn't seem to fix anything. I've stopped using the in-game screenshot function and now just use the screenshot feature of my Geforce Experience software.

This one made me take notice, because it was the last "Personal Story" I had to do. I had already done all the others, on the same character in the same costume and aura, and it didn't happen with the others. I have noticed what you describe in Matthew Habashy's first arc, where you're disguised as a Hellion.

Now you've reminded me of NPCs in WoW putting out fires by hitting the burning thing with axes and hammers.

And mobs that are guarding a hostage, because the hostage can't be rescued until that last mob goes down. So you have to chase him across the map, or wait and wait for him to come back.

My sister, too - RN at a local nursing home.

I'm wondering if new quotes have been added. I've started seeing Skulls Girlfriends in the Hollows complaining about, "When do things start getting real fun? So far all they do is rip off purses and fight each other."

You too, huh? My whole job revolves around large gatherings (conventions), so my last day of work was March 14, and I haven't left my apartment since, except to take out the trash and check the mail. I've got my wife's caregiver to run errands for us 😄

Stepping into Praetor Duncan's body for her "Personal Story" mission in Dark Astoria, it would seem that my own character's aura (Bio Plasma, Body+Eyes, in this case) remained active on Praetor Duncan's body:

Well, I had this idea for a character name, "Ant Overlord" (Simpson's reference!). I settled on a Savage Melee/Energy Aura scrapper, and got to work fooling with the Insect Armor and Insectoid pieces, but couldn't really come up with anything I felt said "ant". So I started adding pieces that only seemed to get me further away from the "ant" concept, until I decided it made sense to switch from Savage Melee to Katana. The result is this guy, "Katanamushi".

As somebody who is a trained musician and prefers complex, melodic music like prog and metal, it's a nightmare for me at work when it's a coworker's turn to choose the music and he insists on late-90s techno/dance music. You know, the stuff with a kick drum that goes THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP without variation, synths repeating the exact same riff over and over, and a female singer repeating the same four-word phrase over and over and over. It's music that's meant for dancing, and it's perfect for that. It's not designed for listening outside of that context. Unfortunately, as a trained musician and lifelong music fan, it's literally impossible for me to "tune out" music. My ears detect even the faintest music and my brain wants to focus on it, and when it's utterly mindless and repetitive it drives me insane.

Clicked on a random pedestrian the other day and he said, "You'd think that with that gigantic police station in Kings Row, they'd reduce crime. You'd think."

In the Advanced Control window, clicking the Pause button and then clicking the Fold button seems to accomplish the same thing.

Johnson was effectively fired, at least from performing live. Def Leppard responded by noting, "Geez, our drummer lost an arm, and we kept him in the band!" Last I heard, though, the band was back in the studio, with Johnson.

I use Firefox, and the problem I'm having is that it keeps timing out while trying to connect to the app. I'm starting to suspect some Windows security feature is blocking things up. When I set up on my Mac, the Web Control connected immediately on the first try (though it did start going whacko later).

Me, I don't start plugging in basic IOs until level 26, ever since I noticed that the bonus on a level 25 IO is lower than a 25 SO right up to character level 25, but the IO is better as soon as you hit level 26.

A-ha! I hadn't actually played this particular character in a while, but I had her XP turned off at level 22 so that she wouldn't outlevel Agent G before getting to him. When I logged her in, she was holding Doc Delilah's first mission in her mission log, so I assumed that she had already completed Temblor's and Penny's arcs. Looks like she didn't! I've done the whole thing so many times, it can be hard to keep track!

I've only done the Provost Marchand stuff once, on my fire/fire blaster, at around level 35. I recall completing it over the course of several days. It took a very long time to get all the way to the ending, solo.

Maybe I'm thinking of Giant Monsters. I think I got 6 merits for participating in a Frost Lord (?) kill back in December.

I do the complete Faultline story arc, Jim Temblor -> Penelope Yin -> Doc Delilah -> Agent G, on nearly every character. The end rewards for Agent G's portion have always been 25 merits awarded after Penelope Yin destroys the PCM, and then another 20 merits when I do the final turn-in to Agent G. Last night, however, my character "Mother Sun" on the Everlasting server did not receive those last 20 merits. I thought I took a screenshot of my log, but apparently not. Did the reward change, or did something glitch?

I dunno, wasn't 6 merits supposed to be just the standard reward for beating an EB? The Protean arc that starts in Talos (with your mysterious double) is quite long and convoluted, and finishes up with a extremely-difficult-to-solo fight against Protean, all for a measly 6 merits. Meanwhile, Montague Castanella's arc, the last half of which is a series of non-combat, "go talk to this person" missions, awards 13 merits. I've been skipping Protean, and certain other storylines, just because they're not worth the effort. I mean, they're worth doing once, just to see the story, and perhaps the 6 merits were worth it on live when merits were more scarce, but now, with merit rewards greatly boosted for most things, arcs like that one just aren't worth the time and effort.

I had to consult ParagonWiki to finish that mission. I didn't even know that sphere was there! That should have been refunded to you. They refunded any cash purchases made in the 30 days prior to the announcement, though I can't recall if you had to specifically request it. I remember that NCSoft sent me an e-mail about it, and I did indeed receive a refund.

I sure does seem like it takes a while. My #2 computer has made 17 attempts to fetch a new work order since finishing the last one. I guess this is more of that server overload.

It took hours and hours, but mine was in my inbox this morning.

Well, I think it's pretty much a problem unique to Sky Raiders (and perhaps Tsoo) in that these mobs will literally teleport themselves clear across the map. Absent the teleporting, the worst you have to deal with is your "partner" dashing across the room, not the entire map.