Oklahoman

I don't know the answer, but I'm going to weigh in anyway because that's sort of what I do. You can earn a Master of BAF badge through 2 runs (Keep em Separated and then Strong & Pretty), or you can do it all through 1 run. Obviously, the 1 run is preferable time-wise, but it is riskier. Just 1 misstep here or there and you miss one or more badges. We're at a point where the vast majority of the time a single run approach is successful, but I still run it both ways so everyone can choose what works best for them. The zerg approach is a little quicker (as you mention), but riskier. I know we get complacent sometimes, but those of us who lead it know all too well how easily things can go south. It may look easy, but trust me - just a few disengaged people, or a few people bringing in low damage, and things can get uglier than truck stop sushi. And, we all dread the annual Trick or Treat event and people showing up with their brand new 50s to do a zerg - that's when we tend to see more failures than normal. I rarely attend the Hive raids, but that's mostly because I'm old and decrepit and need to be in bed by that time. But I am glad that - much like Master of BAF - we have people offering the player base some different options. I'm told a diversified portfolio (whatever that is) is a good thing.

Speed LAM MSR Dilemma Diabolique and lastly, a BAF. I had hoped to do a TPN today too but need to save that for another Monday. FWIW I think I enjoyed the DD the most. 😀

I guess it depends… is your Sentinel a Mastermind? 😂 im sure you get similar stuff with a Kheld only MSR. But maybe not, I haven’t run one of these in a few years now.

Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'm planning to run a few Mastermind ONLY things on Labor Day. We're gonna try a Mastermind ONLY MSR at noon central time. Keep in mind that a MM only MSR generally does not net a lot of rewards. Level 50s can help pull by running to the top, dropping a JUDGEMENT, and running back into the bowl. FOLD SPACE helps. Beyond that, we're mostly complaining about the fps and making jokes. A common question I get for MM only MSRs is "Can I bring my {archetype that's not a mastermind}?" The answer is NO. Hence, mastermind ONLY. After (and possibly before) I hope to run MM only BAFs, LAMs, and TPNs. No badge runs.

I did a Twitch today and talked a lot about the different team 1 roles, so if it helps you can check the video here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2231195483 I think the video will roll off after 7 days or something like that.

I'm famously anti-Discord, though we do have one primarily for the league leaders and regulars to coordinate who is running which raid on which day. In-game, everything is coordinated on the /team channel. The good news is that really, once you know your role, there's not a lot of communicating to be done. For instance, if you are assigned Hami Taunt, there's really just a couple of times you need to type on the /team channel: Confirming your role - for example "<- Hami Taunt" or "I got it" or "I'm on it like white on rice" or whatever During the phase where we hunt GMs, announcing when your herd is clear - for example "Clear" or "Go {next taunter in the rotation}" The trick is really that very first run when you are doing a role for the first time and may have questions. That's why I posted this to maybe answer some of those questions up front. There's other chatter that happens on the /team channel, as well, but it's not necessarily required for the raid to be successful. If you are curious I can try plugging you into that observer role for a raid so you can see how it goes down. I may even try doing a Twitch stream and save it, just for educational purposes.

I'm taking the week off work, so the likelihood of a daily MSR at High Noon (Central time) and early Hami in Abyss (3pm Central time) went WAY up. BTW - been great to have some new people in the Team 1 Hami lately, and there will be a greater need for taunters and incanners in the early run as the week goes on. If that's something you want to help out with, be sure to read this thread and let me know in-game you are ready to go if needed.

I don't support server consolidation right now, but shortguy did make me think - what if on the server select screen it had a live window under each server name showing LFG on that server? If you were flexible with moving characters around and you might see that something is forming you want to join and transfer a toon to that server. My luck it will be full before I complete the transfer.

I'm all for adding to the incarnate stuff, but I don't want to create any more items I need to click, which I think is what you are suggesting. I think what I would prefer to see is something like each power getting bushed out more at the top level, possibly unlocking at certain vet levels. Just as an example (pardon the crude Microsoft Paint mockup): So, maybe the new item at the yellow arrow level unlocks at vet level 50, and the red at vet level 100 - whatever, pick a number. Maybe they require Transcendents rather than components because who wants to chase components at this stage in the game. As for what they do? No clue - maybe one of them carries a minor, scaling version of the power when you are exemped? Anyway, just a thought.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'd like to see us get rid of TOs (are those still around?) and DOs, and the simple act of adding a slot to a power will inherently boost the power a little. For example, if you 2 slot Fly but don't put any enhancements in it, you get a small boost in flight speed and endurance reduction to help offset the absence of TOs and DOs to fill it. That boost gets overridden when you put an enhancement in it.

I'm not super interested in playing the game on my phone. However, it'd be cool if I could get tells, monitor LFG, etc. from a cell phone app. I don't have a clue what that would looks like, and I bet it'd be a PITA to create, but I think that'd be cool.

It looks like a statement of fact, so maybe it should be moved to the wiki page.

Someone commented in a Hami run yesterday that you have it down to a science already. I was going to join your run yesterday but was at the tail end of an MSR and by the time I got out, you were gone. Hopefully I'll catch one of your runs soon.

If nothing else, if I could send stacks of items (up to 10) in a single email, that would help A LOT.

The whole thing shouldn't work anymore, as OP pointed out, "emailsendattachment" was removed with the Page released yesterday.

This sort of idea gets kicked around in various forms a lot. It would be nice if a character could belong to multiple supergroups. It would also be nice if base storage had Coalition permissions - and I'd also like an "Everyone" permission level for base storage, while we're at it.

Why is a costume contest on one server worthy of an everything, everywhere, all at once message, but a costume contest elsewhere is not? Is it just because of who is leading it?

I've said before that I don't like it when a staff-led costume contest on another server gets to send out an admin message across all channels ahead of the event while I'm trying to form my MSR or Hami or DFB or whatever. It seems to imply that staff-led events are inherently better/more important/etc. than community-led events. This feels to me like a further step in that same direction. With all due appreciation to what staff do (seen and unseen), I would really rather see an "all or nothing" sort of calendar that places community-led and staff-led events on the same footing and gives them the same respect. I think if @Laucianna is running an all-Kheld MSR that deserves the same level of promotion as a costume contest on Indom. (No offense to 3 people playing on Indom.)

Gratz! Have you decided which of Paragon's politicians you are going to buy first? (Also, new mini-pet idea)

You obviously haven't heard Yoda's cover of Frank Sinatra's hit "My Way, I Did It"

I feel your pain - every time I run a LAM and get stopped by a BOX it makes me wish those were destructible. Or when you get stuck in that one room with the weapon cache and can't get out rather than maybe just busting through a window. But, yeah, my guess is that if that were simple it would have happened a long time ago.

OKIE HAMI RAIDS - In The Abyss on Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm Central, plus on random other days at this time if I am home for whatever reason. OKIE OVERFLOW HAMI RAIDS - In The Abyss 2 on Saturdays and Sundays (sometimes Fridays) at about 5pm Central if Abyss 1 fills up early for the regular raid that's been kicking off around 4:30pm Central. If Abyss 1 is not full before they start forming the league, I usually assume there's not enough interest that day for an overflow raid. OKIE MSRs - Trying to shoehorn in an instanced MSR at High Noon (central) on Saturdays and Sundays in RWZ. If I am free, I also try to run an instanced MSR following the evening Hami raid in The Hive around 9:30pm Central 1-2 times weekly. Okie MSRs always have at least a 100 million inf prize for getting the kill shot on the Drop Ship, so bring a jetpack if you are a non-flyer, and maybe clear out before the ship blows up if you're rich already. Everything else I run is not scheduled, though I do take requests.

Cool, where'd you find that?

To be honest, I always thought the calendar's days were numbered.

I'm wondering if anyone has a creative way to make a portal look like a tornado? Obviously, in my Oklahoma themed base, that would be great. The best I can do so far is just a standard swirling portal. I tried turning it horizontal, thinking maybe I could add some SFX under it, but then the portal didn't seem to work at all. Thanks!