Oklahoman

But, wouldn't it work better for your cats if that was a toggle?

I've always kicked around the idea that a team/league leader should have some special ability, but never have been quite sure what. I've thought it should probably be a buff of some kind with a long recharge. I wonder if Fold Space would be a good candidate for a team/league leader power? Thinking of DFB (and some of the other examples given, that gives you a way to dislodge a problematic bad guy.

Some of the discussion here looks like it really belongs over here: It's a problem when a DFB is stuck because no one has a way to damage a bad guy stuck in a wall. It's downright infuriating when Tyrant gets taken out too quickly and Baby Tyrant falls out from under the earth. GMs can't do anything about the latter in-game, and my experience is that it's difficult to summon a GM for something like a DFB. For Magisterium, if there could be some kind of "beacon" a player could hit in the bowl once every 5 minutes that would TP Baby Tyrant to them, maybe that would solve that. Or, just remove Baby Tyrant entirely and have everything finish after taking down Tyrant.

I agree, it doesn't help to zoom in on one specific metric then blow that up to something larger than that. Better, with this game right now anyway, to foster an acceptance among the community that knockback is simply part of the game and you may need to chase down flying bad guys that someone else knocked back. In everything I run, there is only 1 badge run (BAF Strong and Pretty) where I specifically ask for one team to not use knockback. I just don't see it as meriting this many threads on the subject.

Yeah, but not since, like, a year ago, right? That horse might be moving again.

People who are just playing the game and not reading chat don't bother me near as much as what was mentioned in the thread here - someone who is obviously sabotaging a run by hanging on to a Pacification Grenade until the last second and using it then. Or running straight out and using a Molecular Acid (seriously, who even uses those these days?). Or sneaking away from the group to destroy either the Containment Chamber or Weapons Cache outside. I don't understand the joy in intentionally sabotaging a badge run.

My signature has a link to where I documented a way to discover who is ruining Lambda badge runs like this, using the demorecord option. I'm sure you can use the demorecord option more broadly for other places in the game where griefing is possible. Best practice in Lambda badge runs is to insist that all temps get passed to the league or team leader after TP out of the munitions depot or training facility, so you know where all of them are. You are then on high alert if you don't get all 10. For griefers, you also have to watch the weapon cache and containment chamber outside, as well - those are pretty easy, but also pretty obvious, for a griefer to prevent a badge run from succeeding. I let it be known to my leagues what the demorecord shows, and let them decide what to do from there. Often, as someone else mentioned, it's not intentional, but when it is you will see them run for the hills.

Found a bug with email and sending influence. If this has already been documented, please include a link below. PLAYER B sends PLAYER A an email with any amount of influence attached to it. PLAYER A sends PLAYER C an email with any amount of influence attached to it. PLAYER A replies to PLAYER B's email before clicking claim. The email to PLAYER B will automatically include the influence amount from step 2 as an attachment. I documented this with pics in a support ticket, but it keeps getting marked as "resolved" with no explanation. Perhaps I was unclear. Thought I would post it here to gain visibility.

I doubt this is the case here, but since you can use a combination of influence and threads to buy incarnate XP, someone with a lot of inf and emps/transcendents to move around could buy their way to a fully open incarnate tree and still be vet level 3 (maybe less?). Absent something like that, I think you're right.

It's Confusion? Not Conflict? And still not sure he has friends. 🙂 I can't commit to be online at any certain point in time. *IF* I am online at 10pm Central, I like to run an MSR, sometimes a Hami, sometimes both. I run iTrials when I can before, and sometimes after, that.

In some cases, you can be moved from the team to a team of your own within the league, and that will work.

First off, how many is a few, and how many messages do each of those few get to contribute to LFG? Agreed, but if it ends a conversation that's been going on in LFG for several minutes, I think it's appropriate. This is the way. The "hockey game" can start by looking like many things - "Healer LFT", "My league leader kicked me for no reason!", "I'll pay 10M for an AE farm", "Why won't anyone join my costume contest? Grand prize 10,000 inf!" Of course, sometimes a hockey game is just a hockey game, too. All that is to say that I agree with you. Bottom line for me - if you are posting non-LFG stuff in LFG, you are not helping people LFG. You are making it harder for them to LFG. You are, in fact, anti-LFG. The occasional exception is quickly moved on from. The conversation drags on and becomes a problem.

/kick @Infinitum

I don't care what everyone says about @PeregrineFalcon, I reckon they ARE fit to sleep with pigs!

Nobody thinks you are always an idiot.

FIFY, and correct.

There, I said it. Let the hate flow. Look, I've played on other servers and I know their LFG channels aren't nearly as busy as ours on Excelsior. Those servers can tolerate that extremely witty reply you absolutely have to make in response to someone else's typo in an LFG post. In fact, it likely will be welcomed as the first time two messages were posted back-to-back to LFG in, what, days? On Excelsior, though, we have numerous posts to LFG per minute, pretty much around the clock as far as I can tell. We are fortunate to have a lot of people trying to form groups. Maybe you don't realize how frustrating it is, then, when a conversation breaks out in LFG and our ad scrolls off the screen immediately. No, I don't "own" any aspect of this game. But asking you to move a conversation to GENERAL or HELP is not some great offense worthy of a nasty /tell. Anyway, that's the burr in my saddle this morning. How are you?

You can convert the shards to threads, too.

"Just curious, which game did you think you were playing right now?"

I generally agree with both @Frozen Burn and @Rudra. Keep in mind we're talking about an adviser, not an enforcer. The NPC could give feedback on certain aspects of your build, but you're in no way required to change anything. I do think there is value in letting you know what bonuses are exceeding Law of Five, for instance, even if you are completely OK with that. Even relatively capable players may be surprised to find that there is a bonus for Recharge Rate (for instance) they did not account for. Ran into that myself recently and was delighted I could go shopping for a new set. I would agree with this, but I don't see this NPC getting into optimizing stuff. For me, that would be very subjective, and I'm proposing a tool that's very objective. For example, they wouldn't say "You should really put that Apocalypse set on this other power" or "You should really slot a KB->KD converter in Gale." That's what the forums are for. Rather, the tool might say "I see you have 6 IO Damages slotted on this power. This power may not be performing as well as you expect. Do you know want to learn more about the benefits of Enhancement Diversification?" I do think we should consider some very, very basic advice, like you probably don't want to put more slots on Rest or Brawl - but the player is still allowed to do that, of course. Maybe they've decided as a joke or something to 6 slot all the inherent powers. Fine, you do you. I wouldn't recommend that it say, for instance, "Why on earth are you 6 slotting Assault? Do you think that power REALLY needs a faster recharge?" That, to me, is subjective - Assault may be perfectly slotted, but I think a lot of us might agree that's at least 3 slots too many to devote to that power, especially since it doesn't take sets. It's OK for players to have bad builds. All I'm saying is let's take some of the outside the game knowledge and put it inside the game, and give a little help for the newer players along the way. I also get the criticism the game changes a lot and this tool would need to get updated as we go. But, really, are there any plans to strike down ED, Lo5, etc? I'm really talking some pretty high level, relatively set in stone type stuff here.

I'm pulling out an idea I had in this thread for a Character Advisor - an NPC you can walk up to and have them evaluate your build for some common hiccups. As @PeregrineFalcon put it: I would imagine it would work somewhat like Null The Gull. Some options would be purely informative (ex: "Tell me about Enhancement Diversification.") but the key feature would be an option to look at your characters build and point out where some broad inefficiencies exist - such as multi-slotting stuff like Rest or Brawl, pointing out where Enhancement Diversification is impacting a power, looking for sets where a bonus isn't being used due to Laws of Fives, and even mentioning stuff like you can convert those 50 Empyreans to a Transcendent at an ATM, etc. These would all be RECOMMENDATIONS only, and would tell the player where to go if they choose to act on it (an ATM, visiting Jack or typing /respec, etc.).

As far as SCHEDULED stuff, yes, the player led event calendar is your best bet, as has been mentioned above. I'm not able to commit to any sort of schedule related to COH. In general, if I run an MSR it is at 10pm Central, and I do that on average maybe 3-4 times a week, more or less. Task Force Junkies is a good group to follow - they have an in-game channel and a (pains me to say this) Discord. They run MSRs infrequently, but they do a lot of Hamis usually around 4pm or 5pm Central (?) especially on the weekends. They've been helping me get the whole Hami thing down, and I know some of their schedules are changing, so I may be helping out with Hamis when I can. If you see one of the regular leaders online you can ask if they plan to run a Hami or MSR soon, or even post that as a question to LFG. I've run MSRs at non-10pm Central times just because I had several people asking me to run one.

Or leading said content. Or joining an active supergroup. Or looking at the player led event calendar on the official forums, which honestly should probably be used more. Or ask in LFG if someone would be interested in running the content. Just off the top of my head.

Much like Enhancement Diversification, the Law of Fives, and the entire Incarnate System. I think most of us regulars forget how much we have had to learn and study stuff outside of the game itself to really succeed. Someone new to the game would be forgiven to just throw up their hands and leave. I support your idea - it's just replacing images in-game with superior versions. I'd also love for us to move to 16x9 images when zoning, just as a simple cosmetic thing. As for the other stuff I mentioned, maybe an NPC in Atlas Park you can walk up to and ask for advice on your build. "I see you six slotted Brawl - maybe those slots could be better used elsewhere?" "I see you slotted all damage on your primary attack power. Do you know about the benefits of Enhancement Diversification?" You can make it a Gull if you want, I don't care.