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The final winner was Too Many Tacos! (I ain't never heard of such a thing, but whatevs) Thanks to everyone who participated! Happy Holidays!

I'm not paying a lot of attention, but I think is pretty much every case it's been someone who was actively attacking the Drop Ship.

Witchstrike won today! Final run tomorrow, then we're back to the measly 100 million inf reward. 🙂

This thread went a little better than I expected. It may be best to think of the whole concept as "Collectable Cards" rather than "Business Cards" - people get hung up on words sometimes. And the quote part of that can go if we fear people being juvenile with it, though they're still going to be juvenile in their bio, character name, and chat. So, you know all those untouchable things you can summon right now that do nothing, like mini-pets? I'm suggesting a temp power sorta like that. When you click it, you get a popup selection for all the "business cards" you've received from other characters. You select one, and that card is displayed in front of you - your character does the same animation as though you were summoning a mini-pet, and poof - a hologram of that player appears with the costume they selected and probably just their name (since the quote part seems to be a problem). As for the "card" - think of an Oscars statue (that's your character in the costume you selected for your card), with the character name circling around the midsection like the Universal logo circles around the equator. That's sort of what I had in mind, but again people smarter and more artistic than me might have some better ideas. That's it. If you move, the business card goes away. You can't interact with it, it doesn't do anything for you. It just sits there and looks pretty. It's just to look at. As for the why? Well, we've have 2 locked threads now on how to do a memorial for fallen heroes, and that's what sparked this idea. Maybe I don't want @Snarky in charge of creating my memorial in AE or whatever else, for... reasons. I love Snarky, but come on. 😄But, I can give him (and others) my business card and when there's a bunch of people /e torch'ing in Ouro one or more of them can summon my business card so we know why they are all /e torch'ing to begin with. Or, it can be just a fun thing to show off. While waiting for an MSR to start, maybe I summon Snarky's business card to show off how cool I am because in a moment of poor decision making Snarky gave me their business card. And, yeah, people may bug you for your business card. That could get annoying. Maybe someone smarter than me can come up with a way to fix that. I can't imagine it being more annoying than someone hounding you to be global friends - at some point maybe you just put them on /gignore, I guess.

As has been pointed out by others, the forums really have become ugly - this suggestions forum doubly so, in my opinion. But I had an idea sparked by the 2 now-closed threads regarding memorials, so I thought I'd throw it out against my better judgement. Basically, everyone can get 2 temp powers: Give Business Card, and Business Cards. Give Business Card is a temp power you get by visiting an Icon tailor. You select which costume slot you want to appear on your business card and whatever quote you want associated with the card. For example mine might use my 1st costume slot and have the quote "Be Excellent To Each Other." When you select a player and click your Give Business Card temp power, that card gets added to the other players list of Business Cards. A player can then click their Business Cards temp power and get a list of all the cards they have received. When they select a card from that list they place a hologram generator on the ground that displays the business card. Sort of like a pet, I guess. It doesn't do anything other than just show the business card. It's not a permanent fixture in the game, which I know is what some would like. But, I could see where it would be useful beyond just memorials. And it would give you, as a player, discretion over who you wanted to give a business card to. I could see it creating a more social aspect, too, as players look to collect business cards from other players. From there, maybe, we could someday make an option to give your business card to a supergroup, for them to use in a base in a more permanent fashion. That's a Phase 2 sort of thing that I don't have thought out too much.

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Magixs got the kill shot today! One final set of rounds next weekend.

Today's winner was Unflushable, who said... absolutely nothing during the entire raid. There's a non-zero chance they don't know they've won anything. 🙂 Hope they check their in-game email. Another run tomorrow! EDIT: Today (12/17) I got the following message from him: "WOW! Thanks for the reward! I didn't even know I got the killshot. I was just playing to smash stuff and wasn't really paying attention to the global chat at the moment! This is a really cool suprise!"

I'd butcher his name since I don't have access to my game logs here at work, but there's a player who routinely helps people on Excelsior simply get all their Long Range Teleporter options unlocked. That's some good old fashioned "TaxiBot-In-The-Hollows-Back-On-Live" level of service to the community right there. EDIT: Okuri Okami, the Escorting Wolf 🙂

Great minds think alike, and so do ours!

The winner today was F R E E Z F R A M E! Gratz! Another set of runs next weekend.

Automatic Jack won it today! Next run is tomorrow at High Noon (central).

In keeping with the theme of this thread, I didn't actually watch the video but just from the thumbnail I can tell you I have been in the presence of a cow like that and it stinks to high heaven when they open that up. They have (at least) one at the Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine.