Oklahoman

I know it is short notice, so help spread the word for me as I can't be online until later, but I am planning to run a MMMmmmmSR today (2/22/20) at 4pm Central. As far as I can tell that doesn't conflict with anything scheduled for today, but if I wrong please know I tried to research first. I haven't had success getting a RWZ2 spawned for us in advance, so we'll do our best to fit in RWZ1 and move if absolutely needed. I appreciate those of you who accommodate MSRs by moving smaller groups to RWZ2. Please do not summon pets during the pylon phase, as with that many elements floating around some players report the pylons disappearing. If you are 50+3 and want to lead a team, please be in zone around 3:30pm so we can organize. Don't expect general invites to go out before 4pm.

We'll miss you! Also bumping because tomorrow, Saturday 2/22/20, I think I can plan to be online around 3:30pm or 4pm. I'll update as I can, but we'll try this whole MMMmmmmSR again.

It's difficult for me to schedule a time in advance when I know I can be online, and I know that the timing wasn't perfect for many. Also trying to be mindful of other scheduled events going on, as well. Still, MMs made up most of the league. I'm still playing with my green screen settings, so I have a hole in my head that randomly appears and disappears, plus the sound balance is off, and it's way to long to watch beginning to end - but here is the video: I'm hoping I can find a time to schedule one on a Saturday afternoon soon. Thanks to everyone who DID come out!

Just a note to say that this is set for TOMORROW at 4pm Central on Everlasting. I know it is short notice, so please help me spread the word. Thanks!

In honor of Presidents Day I am planning another MM MSR on Monday. I’ll update with exact time later, but I’m thinking around 5pm 4pm Central. we had no problem getting a full league last time. If time allows we’ll try to do 2 so everyone can do it who wants to.

It seems to me there is a "cost of admission" to some things in the game. If you *really* want to participate in Hami's, you may need to show up ultra early and zone sit. If that part of the game is so appealing to you, and running one yourself seems daunting, that's just the cost of admission for that event right now. Once there is an instanced version maybe that goes away, but maybe it doesn't.

If this has already been suggested elsewhere, sorry. I looked, but I didn't immediately see anything. It looks like the combat log does not record who uses the grenades or acid temp powers in the final battle with Marauder. I would like to recommend it should. Having just run 3 back-to-back LAMs trying to get the group the Looter and Master Of badges, and failing each time because someone used a grenade or acid, it's very frustrating. The first 2 times the person fessed and confessed it was an honest error, and that's fine. But the third run really felt like someone deciding to troll us, and I'd like to be able to know who does that.

As it turns out, because I am a digital pack rat, I have an old COH demo file I used prior to shutdown to capture all of my characters at the time standing with Statesman in front of the Atlas statue. I've attached that demo file here, and you can find instructions about how to run it here: https://cityofheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Demo_Recording I had to capture demos of all of my characters individually, then copy/paste their little sections of code into this demo to make it work. I just checked, and the code and instructions all still work. Hope this is helpful! Combined.cohdemo

I don't really understand what this means, but it sounds pretty cool. Thanks, as always, to everyone who contributed to this update!

When I use /search I can see that "The Hive" is one of the options I can select under Map, but not "The Abyss". Is there a work around?

OK, I just ran an MSR on Excelsior with the normal 6 bomb distribution, and we had just south of 32 mins after U'kon hit the ground. Still, I think the quicker you can go from Shields Down to U'kon Down, the more net time you have in the bowl.

Here's an example where we were left with 31:21 on the clock AFTER U'kon went down. We didn't have everyone on the left side like I asked, and it took us a bit longer to take down U'kon than I would have liked. A player suggested instead of focusing on the 3 left grates to focus on the 2 at the edge of the ship plus one in the middle, leaving the 2 closest to the bowl available for characters who like to anchor stuff on the grates (we call it "Rain Deer Games" because a character named Rain Deer was the first on our server to do it).

Just FYI - I've been experimenting with focusing on the 3 bombs on the left only - 2 teams per bomb - and ignoring the bombs on the right side. The idea being to increase our net time in the bowl itself by going as quickly as we can from SHIELDS DOWN to U'KON DOWN. We've been pretty consistent on Everlasting with this approach and are finding that the timer is often showing 32 or greater AFTER U'Kon falls. I'm not sure where that extra time is coming from, but I will try to record it next time so we can dissect.

It was suggested in a subsequent raid that it would be interesting to do the Ultranox Maneuver, but to mix up the groups at each location to see if the rewards get shared differently. For example, wing 1 would have players 1 & 2 from each team, wing 2 would have players 3 & 4 from each team, and wing 3 would have players 5 and 6 from each team. I guess the remainder (players 7 and 8 from each team) could pull from the bowl to the wings? Something to think about.

Thanks to everyone who came out for this, and thanks to CR Miss and @GM Cyclonefor the kind birthday wishes from the beyond. There was way more interest than I expected, and I hate that several people were ready to go and we just didn't have room. I'll try to find another time we can do this again and advertise it in advance. I'm planning to run a series of MSRs on Tuesday (12/31) afternoon, but they will almost certainly not be limited to MMs. @Cyrious(aka Ultranox) and I will probably want to compare calendars and do a post mortem on this run first. Enjoy this highlight video!

Bumping as a reminder that this will take place TOMORROW, SUNDAY 12/29 at 1pm Central! I'm planning to FIRST call for 50+1/2/3 MMs to serve as Team Leaders, and will call for those maybe 12:30pm or so, just so we can strategize a bit. I'll next open it up to all MMs, and once it seems like we have all we can get I will open it up to everyone with a summonable pet (Lore, whatever). After that we open it up to everyone. I need to start as close to 1pm as possible as I have another obligation shortly after 2pm. I've got a little bit of flexibility there, but would love to be offline by 2pm, if possible. Turn your graphics down, and do the usual suggestions to improve graphic performance (turn off shake, disable buff send/receive, etc.). Make sure you have your Double XP booster, if needed, and your Member of Vanguard badge if you are 35+ so you earn vMerits during the raid. If you can knock that out in advance that will help alot. See you there!

Bumping as a reminder that this will take place a week from today! I've heard from several people in game that they started a MM just so they could participate. Really hoping to fill a complete league with MMs this time. You still have time to start a MM if you want to join!

This will be on Everlasting. Had some questions from Reddit asking if non-MMs with pets can join. As stated above, I'm going to first get as many MMs as we can and when it looks like recruiting has slowed, we'll open it up to others. Last time I did a short phase after MM recruitment where I asked for all others with pets, then opened it up to everyone else. If you don't have a MM already, you have 12 days to create one and pile as many levels on as you can, then you can get in during the first call. I personally recommend Thugs so we can have a bunch of Gang Wars going, too.

Ever since our previous attempt, people have been asking when we will attempt another Mastermind Only (or Mostly) Rikti Mothership Raid. We had 24 MMs in our last attempt, and we want to go lights out this time. So, powerlevel an MM if you need to, set your graphics to "Zork", and join us for our next raid on Sunday, Dec 29, 2019! I'll need to post an exact time later, but my guess would be 1pm Central. The drill will be the same as before - I'll call for Masterminds first, and once it seems like we have everyone we're likely to get I'll invite others to join us. Here's the thread for the previous attempt:

Neat idea! Makes me wonder what other “default” popmenus can be customized like this? Specifically I’ve always wanted to customize the one that pops up when you click on a player name in chat.

I get that, but PDH is relatively controlled and the turrets don't react to the dropship at all. If MSR recruiting took 5 minutes I'd be OK with it, but it usually takes much longer to recruit (which is already not fun) and it's just not fun getting randomly killed. There's a couple of places to hide at PDH, but that doesn't feel especially heroic. And before someone mentions LFG, I know it's there and it's probably not an issue there. I'm in that camp of people who prefers to run MSRs that everyone can participate in.

Was not confident I could spell it correctly when I posted, so I went for the abbreviation. 🤪

Any chance we can remove whatever route the drop ship takes that allows it to zap people waiting at PDH? That's not especially fun.

We got 24 Masterminds together for an MSR today on Everlasting. Will try again on down the road to see if we can get more.

We ended up with 24 MMs in the league of 48, so pretty good, I think. As far as I can tell the servers didn't melt. We may try this again in the future and see if we can get even more MMs!