i11 stuff and junk

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Hah, no one has posted anything since my i9 post and now i11 is due? NICE!

I've been back semi-casual-regular for the last week, and have finally managed to *drumroll* a) get my 1st villain to 50 and b) get a second alt to 50. Same char of course.

Anyway, I'll be around - most likely hero-side pinnacle, with some villain-side on champion.

Hellgate:London comes out this week though, so I'll be doing that for a while, hopefully i11 gives me at least a month of that before it drops.

Happy Halloween to whomever is still out there!

I9 stuff and junk

I, for one, am really enjoying I9. I've wasted the time (it seems to take 1-2 hours per character) to fully deck out 5 or 6 chars in IOs now, and boy is it worth it efficiency wise. Quick advice: If you're not rich, screw the set bonuses, just got for combining the dual & triple aspect set IOs to maximize your powers - for most you can get 9 slots worth. I usually wind up with 95 dmg, 60% end, 60% acc, 60% recharge.

I've seen a few of you on recently, but haven't managed to connect much. I talked a little with Stagger, and we're going to shoot for trying an STF this weekend, Saturday night I think. Probably after 9pm PST. Nothing written in stone, because my schedule is dictated by the pregnant wife currently, but somewhere around there would be nice. I'll have my 47 fire/ff, recently respecced for vengeance & he's got Helper Monkey. So that's the support...we just need the rest :).


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Inventions / Storage

I just updated the base with the personal invention salvage storage access point (that's a mouthful) and a few inventing stations. Unfortunately, the inventing stations count as worktables and couldn't be placed in the main workshop by the cafe/lounge. I stuffed two stations into the first empty apartment next to the salvage storage room. The vault is in the storage area along with a third inventing station.

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Issue 9

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Dont know if anyone is interested in I9 but I think if the SG is going to get active again that we should try to distribute the recipe memorization so that diff people can make different IO's (ie: One person learns damage, one heal ... etc...)

Checking in

Hey all,

Hows it all going? listen, if any y'all play Battlefield 2142 let me know! we can play together

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Random invite

I was talking with Trin about this the other day, so thought I'd extend the invite to others as well. I put up a little post on my Coh blog with the invite, if anyone ever feels like it, to making a theme build/char, to merge with two of my theme/bot teams.

Short version:
Infinity, hero side, science family heroes - all controller containment exploiting team. Would like a fire/ff and a fire/kin at least.
Protector, villain side: swarm of untouchable undead - all nec/ffs with assault.

Long version.
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Candy Mountian Anyone?

If a pink and blue unicorn ask you to go to Candy Mountain with you, DONT GO! Watch why

http://www.filmcow.com/charlietheunicorn.html

PS: Gonna get back on before holidays
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Happy Thanksgiving to all of TE and its friends

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Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving
Hope all is well with everyone, and make sure you fill your stomachs to the full extent.
Hope to see you guys in some kind of near future.

Staggerlee

Some hero stuff

Patrol earned the "Automonous Expert System" badge tonight and the power is off. I was going to pay rent but we are really slim in the bank. I let mav work that out

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Veteran Rewards

Anyone checking out te veteran rewards

Memories...

This is how I feel about CoH/V these days....

http://www.thenoobcomic.com/daily/strip221.html

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Holloween Event

Hey everyone. They Holloween Event starts today. I'd like to ask a small favor. If anyone has any extra Event Salvage (Back Alley Brawler Gloves, Statesman Mask, Lord Recluce Helmet, or Hamidon Costume), I'm trying to collect some extra for my brothers who are not currently able to play because their accounts are down. If you could meet me in-game, or just drop it off in the base (Team Evil or Patrol for villains or heroes), I would really appreciate it!

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CoP

Since the Cathedral of Pain is on live do we want to try to do it before this cycle closes or do we want to wait until next cycle
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Base Rent

Well, the base power was shut off, so I went to pay it. We were short, so WX converted 5 million inf into enough prestige to JUST BARELY cover rent. In any case, we're back up and running.
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Good vs. Evil

So, who else out there, besides me and the Mrs., picked up the GvE upgrade?

Personally, I think the Justice shoulder pads ALONE were worth the $10, and the other items are just gravy on the cake, or something like that. =]
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TEAM EVIL PLAQUES

Hey all!

I was really bored and decided to make LEGO Team Evil Plaques.

NEED SUGGESTIONS!

Once I'm done, I'll send it out to lego and you can buy it for however much it will be, I will also include the website for the instructions!


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WEEKEND BASH!

Hey all, got the email saying a free play for the weekend.

TIME TO BREAK OUT THE WD40 and grill some hot dogs.

WOOT!

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Halloween stuff

Hya gang,

I have been really off the radar lately due to a major life change. I am now out of the Navy and start work at my shiney new job in October.

I have been trying to stay on top of the forums and I noticed the Halloween stuff is on test right now. The question I have is, has there been any mention about the event period? Start date, length and such? I am real curious because I missed the last one being deployed and REALLY dont want to miss this one for some even more lame reason.

By the way, I am real sorry I have been MIA.
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Lego Star Wars II

Ordered from Amazon yesterday. Showed up today. Shipping was free (free trial of Amazon Prime). See you all in a few days!

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Descended

We have formed a coalition with Descended. Feel free to say hello on coalition chat!

They're also a Fist-logo group, although they went red/purple instead of black/yellow. :P

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Where's Lobster?

Oh, he's still here alright, just on another of his walkabouts.
Maybe he'll be back someday, at random. Probably relatively soon.
He did just get a modded xbox though and is having lots of fun FINALLY playing a hacked English translation of Langrisser 2 (Warsong 2) with the Genesis emulator. So maybe after he finishes with that. ;)

Oh, and he also blogs entirely too often about pointless things.

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Possible retirement (?)

Team Evil-- I think this time card expiration will be the end to my City of X journey. I've got some other things to focus on. I'll probably see on Chaos Force Mage's account if i8 will be enough to bring me back, but I'm going to try to stay away as a test of my will power. Clear me out of the Supergroup to make room if you must, but there's a chance that I'll be back. I wish you all the best of luck with everything, and I want to thank you for a year of great partnerships and strong teamwork. Maybe I'll catch you all later.

Congrats to Droid Master!

He may not look it in the SG roster, but congrats to Droid Master on hitting 50!

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DR-3 badge

Congrats, Team Evil! We earned the Benedict DR-3 turret plans tonight, which is awarded for earning 10 million prestige.

On a side note, our next rent payment is 199516, due 9/23. We'll be paying it two weeks late on 10/7, when the power shuts off, as usual.

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Viridian badge hunt

Tomorrow (Saturday) at 3:30 pm eastern, Omicron Cypher and I will be going for the Infiltrator, Tank Buster, and Tracer badges, which are the three required to unlock Viridian. We'll get Infiltrator (Paragon Protectors) by farming one of Bray's Crey missions (~20 PPs per reset, assuming a full team), and the other two will probably be through street hunting in St. Martial.

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Positron's Top issues

"* "Invisible Players/Enemies on Map" - Again, we think we may have this fixed"

OH SWEET MOTHER tell me it's true! This has been plaguing me for years! I can't wait for this! =]
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Enhancements

I am placing some L53 Tech SO Enhancements in the storage to hold them until I hit L50 please leave them there
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Mie Stuff

EVIL DUDES!!!!
I am leaving the Navy in the next few days and starting my new shiney civilian job. I will not be around too much but will keep an eye out on the blog.

Also, administrative note from the enforcer desk, "Master Timberlake" has just deployed for the next 3 months and has asked not to be kicked while he is gone. I told him that won't be a problem.



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Ice Mistral SF?

Okay, I'm getting a bit tired of pick-up groups and soloing. Who's up for Ice Mistral? The SF is levels 35-40 (for experience, 41+ will be auto-malefactored), and the Crystal Keeper badge is required for the Megalomaniac accolade.

I nominate next Friday at 8pm eastern, but I'm flexible in that regard. The wife will be out of town next weekend, so I'll be available just about anytime.

Anybody interested?

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Private apartments

Since we have exactly 4 active Evil Geniuses (Omicron Cypher, Burning Bush, Voltaic Bot, and me) and 1 active Enforcer (Mie), it seems logical to give the 5 private apartments in the base to them. It also makes base editting permissions easy to assign. If/when we have enough prestige to upgrade the plot again, we'll have room for more personal space -- this will require approximately another 3 million prestige, though.

I've claimed the 2nd room, and OC claimed the last one. I put a big lateral file in the doorway to OC's room to mark it off, and mine is already decorated. Feel free to claim any of the empty rooms.

Here are four basic guidelines that will prevent a lot of headaches later: (In more blunt terms, how to not screw up other parts of the base.)

• Please don't change the lighting or wall/ceiling/trim styles -- they apply to the entire room, not just your apartment. If you want more light in your room, add lights -- I recommend the Tech 2 lights, the torches, or the Shoji lamps. If you don't like the trim, you can put small items on the walls to force it to hide. Whoever gets the first room will almost definitely want to do this, as the ceiling trim was chosen for the storage area, not the apartment area.


• Please don't use the SG banners. Each banner that has something other than the TE logo can only be used once, or else it will revert all other banners of that type back to the TE logo. Basically, it's very easy to screw up the main atrium or the oversight room by using banners, and they don't really fit anyway.


• Please don't spend more than 30k prestige on your room -- I doubt that you'll use that much, since most decorative items only cost 100 prestige each, but we currently have about 120k in the bank, and it'd be good to split it evenly to start. For an idea on how much 30k will buy you, the furnishings in my room cost 5400 prestige (not including the pillars).


• Please don't add any functional items. If you think that the base needs more of some particular functional item, tell me, and I'll stick it somewhere in the public areas. Basically, anything under the "arcane" tab or to the right of it is decorative, anything to the left of the "arcane" tab is functional. Ironically, anything you can craft and add via "Add personal item" is also a functional item, so you can just ignore the whole crafting thing.

If any of you have questions about how to use the editor, feel free to ask.

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Civic Squad

Bray recently picked up the Civic Squad mission, which I'd also like to do with a large team. It's a level 44 mission (boostable to 46, of course), though, so I'm not sure how many of you have characters in that level range -- getting enough mentors for LK/Mal might be difficult. Any interest?

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Invite the Center

Okay, Pal has the last two missions of Viridian's arc, and while I could (probably) solo them, it'd be much more fun to get a big team together. For those who aren't familiar with these, the first one consists of being ambushed by every single Council AV in the game (in sequence, not all at the same time). The second's supposed to be even more fun.

So, who's in? I'm free just about anytime this weekend, so I propose tomorrow at 8pm eastern. Since I'm sure this will be more fun with a big team, I'll plan to fill the group out with pick-ups once we've got the TE people on board.

Missions are at level 50, lower levels are welcome assuming we have the mentors for it.

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Blinkie Finder

After teaming with Bal on two missions that I could only see about a dozen of the guys on (total), we got to talking about Blinkie Finder. This is a utility that I've been using for a while and told Bal I'd post a link to.

Basically, I've created two binds, very similar to the instructions on the website.

F11 (/bind f11 "demorecord demo")
F12 (/bind f12 "demostop")

I just tap those buttons, and away I go!


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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! (well at least me!)

So long team evil! I will probably be dead by wednesday! you can thank Hurricane Ernesto!

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Base Update and Personal Appartments

The base is now mostly-decorated, with only the main teleport chamber left to do. (I'm actually a bit at a loss what to do with it -- there's not really room spacially or thematically to make part of the room another social area, so I'll probably end up just throwing a few desks and LCDs in the room and calling it a day.

The base was redesigned for easy navigation, unlike the previous base, where the teleporters were pushed into the back corner rather far away from the entry. From the entrance, you should turn left for the teleporters and control room and straight for the med bay and inspiration storage. Directly past the med bay is the empowerment station (all buffs are available from the most advanced version, so we don't need the other 2) and the enhancement storage. Our secondary salvage storage is in the basement by the empowerment station -- there's a (much) larger storage room in the back-right corner of the base. Along the right side of the base are various decorative rooms, including a meeting/ceremony hall with banners from our allies (and enemies) and a ballroom/meeting room with an open bar and custom wood floor. Also along the right side of the base is the "CuppaJo Cafe", lounge area, and workshop.

One nice bonus of having extra room is that we have room for 5 2x1 apartments in the back of the base. I was thinking that it'd be cool to divvy them up among the members (either by rank, by prestige earnings, by seniority, or something else), although we'd have to figure something out with the editting permissions to allow people to personalize their space. Any suggestions on how to do all of this? Alternatively, if this would just be a big can of worms, I can just convert them into generic apartments not specifically claimed by anybody or rip out the apartments entirely in favor of more open communal space (although I'm at a loss as to what else to install). To keep with the base design, the "owners" wouldn't be able to adjust the floor/ceiling heights, wall styles, or main room lighting, and they'd be limitted to adding non-functional decorative items, plus no banners (mainly because the banners are in a delicate state in order to maintain our grand hall). However, you can do quite a bit with just the basic decorative times. Any thoughts?

On a side note, I'm temporarily removing the "secret club" beyond the basement to ensure that we can make our rent this week. Any prestige earned beyond our next rent payment will go towards reinstalling that room.

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