Demobot

This isn't an airport. No need to announce your departure.

Not really. Player numbers seem pretty steady. We saw a big spike with the licence announcement, followed by a steady drop-off, but the numbers now are a bit better than before that point. You can see for yourself here.

I remember when Hover was the slowest way to get anywhere. Standing still might have been a bit faster! Capes at level 20, auras at level 30! Seperate monorail lines! That caused some headaches. For a brief time there was a bug that caused single-target Tank attacks to have a tiny AoE. If you had enough aggro enemies would bunch up and occupy the same space. You could hit dozens of enemies with a single attack. Every now and then someone would drag some monsters from the islands in the north part of Peregrine Island down to Portal Corps (quite a lot of powerleveling was done at Portal Corps and some folks took it upon themselves to police player behavior). It wasn't too long before the devs added police drones to the plaza. Speaking of powerleveling, there was a time when there were no aggro limits and no target limits on AoEs. A good Fire Tank could herd dozens of enemies into a dumpster, drop Burn and massacre lots and lots of Warwolves. Changes were eventually made to wolves in particular to make this less viable, and then eventually aggro and target caps were implemented. Man, things were very wild west back in the day.

21 years! Hard to believe it's been that long! I started playing maybe a month after launch, when Issue 1 was being teased. Proud to be a part of the most passionate MMO community. Here's to 21 more years!

Larger storage per salvage/enhancement rack in bases. Access to the AH in bases.

Looks like the villain side of Khallisti Wharf.

"B EABFIKMER!!!" is what I say every time I drink a refreshing Enriche!

Performance Shifter and Panacea are standard on any character I plan to invest time in. You can slot Panacea really early on too. I'll slot Gladiator's Armor and Steadfast Protection on characters with defense-based powersets (e.g., Shield Defense), but I don't bother otherwise unless I'm working on and endgame build. There are some nice ATO procs, like the Stalker and Scrapper procs, that do have a noticeable impact on how they play and I find worth the investment. Others are going to depend on the quirks of a particular powerset (Theft of Essence in Dark Armor's Dark Regeneration is mandatory). I tend not to bother with most other procs while leveling a character because I feel like you get the most bang for your buck when they're used alongside IO sets in pursuit of particular build goals. Maybe an extra bit of damage or recharge would be useful, but it's not like the game is difficult to the point where the benefit derived is necessary for leveling up.

I had a lot of fun! Got to hang out with cool folks and now I have 5 new 50s to tinker around with.

Bloodywood ft. @BABYMETAL - Bekhauf I've had this song stuck in my head for the past two weeks.

Look, if that Hellion didn't want to suffer a slow, agonizing death from cancer, he shouldn't have been an accessory to minor vandalism. He made his choices.

The only sensible solution is to ban costumes. Replace all player models with cubes of equal size. Costume contests will be replaced with Cube Compliance Inspections. Any player found not being perfectly cubical will have their access to the third dimension permanently revoked.

It's simple: Max hax.

Holy crap. That was definitely the best episode of the season so far, maybe of the whole dang show. This season has been a little uneven up to this point, but this more than made up for any criticisms I've had.