Ridiculous Girl

this is what i was going to ask and you already beat me to it!

truthfully, i think the reward for forming a TF/SF is that they can do the TF/SF when they want, how they want. i often see people, myself included, waiting around for someone to form a specific TF. they are not waiting for enough people, they are waiting for that one person to take charge. they will sit around for ages, hovering around penny yin or waiting in cimerora for an ITF, for example. i've seen people call out on LFG for hours, waiting for that one brave person. all the while it is there and all it takes is the gumption to form a team and start it, at minimum. the reward for being the leader is that they chose when and how, it's their team and their rules. that's their benefit and their reward.

what some people do not seem to understand is that the your list price is the minimum price that you will accept for the sale. so if you list sometihng that has 300 for sale, 1000 bids, and last 5 selling prices for 1mil, you are not going to get more than that and most likely will get lot less if listed with a very low selling price. certain people will list for 1 inf, to get around paying the fee, but if they list more than one, they will most like lose again, and get less than if they listed at a reasonable going price. i do a lot of high volume selling of IO set enhancements, i've pased 60,000 IOs sold. i have a general feel what something is worth. but i know, that if i list 70 enhancement and they are not gone in 24 hours, that i have listed too high. if it takes too long, i will take them down, take the loss and sell for a lower price, but that truthfully very rarely happens. i also know that anything end/rec does not sell, ever, at a reason price or speed. certain proc encs, etc, are glutted in the market, because people have come to believe that the converter roulette is best and procs are the best too. but the rest have a reasonably stable market price with flucuations varying weekends vs weekdays, night/day cycles, etc. people that list exclusively for 1inf, for anything other than common/uncommon items, is a personal pet peeve, since they are not helping anyone really. they can quickly tank the market, and only help people that have funds to let sit for long periods of time for a lucky off chance that someone will low ball their sale of a valuable recipe/enc. it really irks me...

i have a dom alt named Evil Stepmother, she went mind control/psionic assault with psionic mastery (for world of confusion) and taking presence pool, for provoke, invoke panic, and intimidate. fully leaning into the concept of spreading fear, panic and confusion. for a character meant to be hiding in the shadows, i would make a costume that is all full spectrum black, with the banished pantheon spirit of death aura, all black, and the black clouds running aura. this will leave you with mostly a silhouette in a dark cloud. horns can be added, though alternately you could a use head detail 1, with something like death googles and the eyes a bright colour. the problem is with certain concepts compromises need to be made to get as close as possible. so either the horns or the glowing eyes, in this case. this is what i quickly whipped up...

are you in a task force, a ouro flashboack, or an AE mission? i tried a flashback with a power limit to alpha only, and it would only display the alpha power, none of the others. if you look at your level 50, the 50 has some thing around it, like you are in a AE mission, maybe one that limits you somehow? if so, go to your team window and quit whatever you are in.

can we let this thread die so i can get this song out of my head every time i see it??? 🤪

I just finished a Yin tf, run by a lvl 22 leader. I quit before the final mission was called in, the leader quit before officially ending the tf. I went to the trainer in PI for my level 39, and slotted in the enhancements I needed. i went to the mutant store(?), the one near the north train in PI, and wanted to look at the stats of my zombies. when i summoned them (the lich, the two grave knights, and the zombies) i noticed that only one zombie appeared. i realeased them all and resummoned them all, and i only got the 1st zombie, but not numbers 2 and 3. someone on help suggested /quitteaminternal, which i tried and releasing/resummoning only the zombies. only one zombie appeared, zombie 1. following the advice from help i changed zones, i used the LFG tp to positron in steel canyon, and upon arriving all three zombies appeared. to clarify, when i summoned before there was only one zombie present and visible, and only one showing in the pet window. but in changing zones they all appeared, like when normally changing zones. never have i had this problem before. 🙂

usually if i am crafting in my tree, with my portable worktable, i'll leave the crafting window open. i can continue crafting long after the crafting table has exploded. i think it is working as intended though... if a worktable is summoned and someone comes up to it in the last 30 seconds, and it explodes, what should happen? i suppose there could be a timer, a countdown for a couple of minutes. the same with the table floating away, following the owner. what if the owner is playing jokes, dropping a table and then running away with it, breaking what ever crafting routine that someone has started, closing the crafting window because of a distance limit and no fault of the person using it? i think that there is just no good, simple solution, so the devs are just leaving it as is... 🙂

the most useful temp power that i never use because i feel that it must be to be hoarded and saved for special occasions is Peebles wedding band, 30% +res (all), and i never use it! it used to be that if you do the ouro arc to recharge it, it only gave you 5 additional minutes, as opposed to the original 2 hours. i cannot remember if they changed it or not, but that is probably part of the reason i never use it. it's too valuable to ever use! there is a temp power, i forget its name, that has 5 charges and will detoggle an opponent, and one of thee days i am going to use it in a PVP zone, if i ever get to one. i want to use it on a PVPer, just to see, figuratively, their face when they lose all their toggles and get held and burned down. 😄

what was the macro that you were trying to use? the editor is sometimes screwy too because it will insert hidden strings in spaces after you have edited, as well as when you paste them, and you can't see the error until the macro fails and you open up the editor again. drives me crazy! that is what that "&nbs" is... it's an error insertion of unknown text. i don't know the technical details, but it's wonky and annoying. it might be due to you copying and pasting the macro? i don't have any solutions, but knowing your macro would help... 🙂

oh believe me, i have no insider knowlege here. but an entirely new group with backstory, level range of 29 to 54, minions to AVs, and no place to go... KW seems the most logical place to me. 🙂

we already have a new villain group set up and ready to be released, most likely in KW. the freaklok. as far as i know they have not been set out in the wild yet, outside of buzzsaw's arc, but i am sure they will be soon.

i had to look it up, but Metronome is not an existing AV, and the EBs are called Metronome MK I, II, III... IV, or something like that it's a good name. i have a friend that is gnome themed, so they have a metrognome. so, i think they are safe. but if the devs ever decide to evolve that Praetorian story line and upgrade Metronome to an AV, those others that have the name may run into problems.

uhhhhh... if you are selling boosters, you will never lose inf, not unless you trying to buy low and sell high. if you are buying them with merits, you will always win, it is just a matter of by how much. 😉

the next time you experience this same room/bug, type /whereami to get the exact coordinates and map number from your global tab. it helps to debug the problem. 🙂

i am sure, especially after i loaded your pockets full with 70 lvl 5 TOs... 😅

as GP pointed out, it goes against the rules. that is why they normally make them inaceessible for players. but i have found about 40 names that should be blocked out and since i was poking around, i just took them out myself and am publically posting that i did it. so one day they'll probably go through and permanently block them. no skin off my nose, i made the alts with possible combo sets that i may want to revisit in the future, with a different name of course. 🙂 besides there seems to be some leeway, with the "creating copies of existing characters", some names could be possibly be used, but they would need to show that they are not a copy/knockoff. but it is all up to GM discretion. if i ran around with "Echo of Statesman" i would get genericked pretty fast i am sure, regardless of what he looked like or his backstory. 😄

i would like to add to this a towel around the waist shorts option for that just out of the shower look... for female models, the large towel around the torso/upper body costume would be pleasing to me too. 😁

i made alts 616 and 617, on excelsior, Ouroboros Pool Boy and Ouroboros Lifeguard, respectively, because who know the last time that pool was cleaned or properly supervised??? but what these pool oriented characters really need to make them perfect is an over the shoulders towel. you can do a towel cape look with just a standard cape, but that is not what i am looking for here. i want a towel draped over the shoulders, hanging off of their neck. maybe a shoulders option? should be easy to do! someone please make it happen! we, i, need this especially with the marine affinity out now, we need towels! 😎

well, since i have started, i figured i might as well finish... i think i have thoroughly plumbed the depths of the lists of available names for all of the AV classes. down as far as to AVs that are not even available yet. i even found names of an OG dev alt, as well as an AV developed but never got beyond concept stage, that were available, though i did not bother to name block them since they were boring. i am going to put a list up of all that i have made of the AV/GM/Heroes and name blocked, for easy search, because there is always the amusing, but remote, chance that they may actually have a game play effect. i mean what happens if Nega-Pendragon meets his doppleganger, or at least is in game and making commentary on General while the Magi trial is going on? or if the devs want to make the Selenops Main Cannon AV and find that i have taken the name already? 😁 Names that were available and should probably be GM blocked: Giant Monster: Arachnos Flier Arachnos Flyer (though technically not the GM the two names were available) AV (Incarnate): Nega-Pendragon Echo of Lord Recluse Echo of Imperious Echo of Ghost Widow Echo of Glacia Echo of Hro'Dtohz Echo of Minotaur Echo of the Honoree Echo of Statesman Echo of Requiem Echo of Positron Echo of Reichsman Penelope Mayhem Mother Yin (old AV name for Penelope Mayhem) Mother Malaise Weakened Honoree AV/Hero (Task Force/trial): Mary Maccomber Katie's Spirit Aspect of Rularuu Laranu the Crazed Aloore the Watcher Eye of the Leviathan Koago Shivan Obliterator King Midas? Marigold Langston Princess Zoe Nemesis Monstrosity Mr. DuBois Sylvia Rexson Magus Mu Drakhan (spelled Magus Mu'Drakhan in-game, but listed in City of Data as Magus Mu Drakhan) Weakened Hamidon (Elite boss) AV/Hero (Mission arc): Kadabra Kill Johnny Sonata's Soul Lucan v0.65 (listed as AV in CoD) Marcus Stribbling (both AV and EB) P3454035522 (display name for a Cabal witch named cabal_Annah) P3647553403 (display name for an Emobdiment of Mot Sentinal) AV (Random): Mek Man Gigantique (no idea where this appears, no information) AV (Object): Mold Wall Shadow Cyst Power Transfer Tower Selenops Main Cannon Ethereal Shard Faathim's Prison Labyrinth of Fog related (non-AV): Gladiator in the Fog Malevolent Fog i think that is the complete list... there are a few like Hatched Kraken and Miss Thystle that are notable EBs, but those EB types are probably far more numerous than i care to catalogue. but i think i am going to stop with this thread, since i think i have gotten as far as i can/want for now. 😎 I have made numerous alts based on NPCs, objects, powers, mostly as experiments... some of them i may actually level up. but i swear i am not going to impersonate anyone in general, deliberately. i do not seriously think that any GM is going to care about Large Head, Doctor Generic, Defender Hero, Malfuntioning Unit, or 000testmob, unless they do and then they can generic me. (all actual named characters in-game) 😄

not exactly a typo, but imagine my surprise when i read that i now had access to military epaulets from the tailor, from the task force commander accolade, after visiting null the gull for a quick switch... (i switched from rogue to vigilante, btw, so viewed from vigilante) i am sure it has been reported before, since it has been 5 years... but a cursory search for epaulets did not yield much. 🙂

yeah, i know, but i did not know where to put it or report it. almost all important NPCs are already blocked, these are not, so it is more of an oversight. but for lack of a better place, i put it here, until it is adressed by a GM. i'm just reporting it, while looking for a bug, and basically seeing what happens when i am trying things out. at least i am trying to be transparent about it. 🙂

i am still working on this... actually i have been doing a deep dive into in-game names, (NPCs, objects, powers, etc.) looking for something, and i have been continually finding surprising things, fun things. though no bugs yet. 😞 but i do keep finding AV/hero/GM names that are available that probably should be blocked off. so i made random alts on excelsior, name blocking them, and just putting it out there that they are there in my character list. most commonly encountered NPCs/GMs/AVs are typically, already blocked, these bafflingly are not. 😎 (is bafflingly even a word??? 🤪) there are a number, read 20-30, that i have also made, but mostly named after NPCs, etc., that i may actually use. i might also use one or two of the more obscure GM/AV names, though not to impersonate or decieve, but just because they would be fun. 🙂 at least until someone stops me...😁 PS. don't take away Malfunctioning Unit from me please, he's just a Praetorian NPC, but the name is glorious! 😄