Oklahoman

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!

Not a lot of interest shown here, but I’m going to go for it anyway. If we can’t get a full league we’ll invite others with pets, then fill in as best we can. Pass the word.

OK, misunderstood. The thread is about changing the base entrance direction, so when I read you could rotate the plot I thought that would change the rooms with it. In the case of this particular base it would be a huge PITA to move the rooms around - as I understand it I would need to take everything off the walls. Guess I'll just deal with the minor inconvenience of coming in facing the wrong direction.

What am I doing wrong?

I did search the thread, but I didn't read through 8 pages to see if this has been asked for already. Sorry if it's a duplicate. I'd like NPCs that can cheer, wave fist, victory, etc.

No definite time yet, but I wanted to see if there is interest in doing a MM only Rikti Mothership Raid this coming Friday? Probably around 1pm Central. And, yes, legend tells of servers from the olden days going up in smoke at the mere mention of such a thing. I asked about this previously in a more general setting here: Who is interested?

I replied here: To restate, I misunderstood what you were looking for. Major changes like gender, body build, etc. currently do not have an NPC in place for base use that I am aware of. However, you can adjust some items with your character, which is what I thought were you asking about. Sorry for the confusion.

I think I see where the disconnect is here. I misunderstood what you were wanting to do. Yes, you can make *some* changes to height, body, etc., but not major changes like gender, body build, and so on. I'm uploading a video right now that perhaps helps. Again, it appears to me that Icon and Facemaker do the same thing, they just look different. But neither can provide the cosmetic type of changes you are asking about. Sorry for the confusion.

I just placed a Facemaker NPC in my base to check, and I was, in fact, able to adjust height, body, etc. For what it is worth, I could do the same stuff with an Icon NPC, so I'm guessing these are just interchangeable? Maybe there is some reason your character could not adjust height, body, etc. Level, perhaps?

For what it is worth, I've run several MSRs recently on the 64 bit client with no crashes. If I do back-to-back MSRs I do get much more of a slideshow on the second run, but still no crash.

Have you never participated in a Rikti Mothership Raid before, or has it been a few years? I made a short 5 minute video to familiarize you with the basics of participating in an MSR. Note that your server, or even your individual raid leader, may run things slightly differently, so pay attention to League chat. Make sure to grab a jet pack (if you don't have flight) and your Double XP booster before heading out! Also, if your character is level 35 or above, it's worth your time to visit Levantera in the base to earn the MEMBER OF VANGUARD badge. This will let you earn Vanguard Merits during the raid, which you can convert to Award Merits at a vendor or used for other items. Be safe out there!

Below is a video demonstrating how you can set up a solo supergroup and build a useful base in about 15 minutes. This will allow you to rez to your base; includes NPCs to level up, buy/sell, and Icon; and teleport to a handful of zones. Also includes instructions on how to create a base passcode and use that (until it is removed) to teleport to your base from anywhere within the game. This guide is just meant to get you up and running quickly. I recommend the excellent Base Building Video Guide from @Dacy from here to add to your base.

Could be. I'm on Everlasting. I've been using the 32 bit client just for MSRs the past couple of days with no issues.

I came here to see if anyone else was having the problem I am seeing. I run a lot of MSRs, and I use the 64 bit client. What we have noticed is that before and during the raid we tend to have people crash to desktop "in chunks" - usually several players at once - and the common denominator seems to be the 64 bit client. Yesterday, while running MSRs I crashed to desktop 3 times. Twice was after the pylon phase during the raid, but the other was at PDH as we were recruiting. It "feels" like when this happens the client gets overloaded with chat and/or increased player activity. Yesterday it seemed to be worse than usual - we had several players crashing at about the same time, making it very difficult to assemble teams. Is there a way to capture something that would be helpful with this?