Caleb Spawned!

This was pretty much a non-event. Over 200 villains (and one level 50 CuppaJoe hero) gathered in Nerva for this hunt, spawning multiple instances of the zone. We spread out and cleared out all the spectral demons we could find. At dusk, Caleb spawned in the water north of Thorn Island. Villains swarmed, and he was down before half of us could even fire a shot.

I didn't get any screenshots of him (I was only there about 10 seconds before he was defeated), but I did pull his demo tag (Nerva_Caleb) out of the demo I recorded. If you want to see what he looks like, try grabbing this editted demo file. To play it, create a copy of your game shortcut, add -demoplay in the command line (outside of any quotes, separated from what's there by a space), and drag-and-drop the demo file onto it. He's not that impressive -- basically looks like a spec demon lord with some crystal things sticking out of him.

All in all, that was the most anti-climactic thing that we'll see in this game until the Anniversary raid on Sunday. :)

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CaD SF success!

Team Evil successfully completed the Cap au Diable strike force in two hours and fifteen minutes. The team consisted of:

Omicron Cypher
Towering Inferno
Jeedai
DeathBone
Admiral Voltron
Bray
- and -
Voltaic Bot, although he couldn't stay the whole time

Unfortunately, I forgot to get a team screenshot at the end, but you all know what you look like anyway.

Well done!

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On Test: Updated Paragon Dance Party...and more!

The most recent update to the test server revamped the Paragon Dance Party -- it's now accessible to both heroes and villains, allowing them to team up inside and hang out together. There's a thread on the official forums if you want to chat about it. There's speculation that the presence of portals and reclaimators in the PDP indicate that there will be a joint hero/villain strike force located there in the future.

I've poked around a bit in the game files, and it appears that they've also added a few badges. It's uncertain what is required to get them or whether they're even active, but here they are:

Never Seen
Heart of Light / Heart of Darkness
Toothbreaker
Red Cap
Snowbeast
Handsome / Beautiful

My guess? "Never Seen" is a badge you get for hanging out in the PDP for a sufficiently long time (ie, you're never seen in the real world), which unlocks a contact there. The Heart of Light/Darkness badges are the rewards for completing the task force. No clue about the others.

Update: Here are the Handsome/Beautiful, Heart of Light/Darkness, and what I think is the Toothbreaker (Snaptooth) badge. The icons indicate that HoL/D is probably for a SF and Toothbreaker is probably a kill badge. I'm guessing that Red Cap and Snowbeast are new gladiators, and I have no clue what Never Seen looks like.







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Weekend Strike Force

Sorry I haven't been on much -- with the semester starting up again, things have been pretty busy. Fortunately, I just got a grader today, so I will hopefully be able to spend more time in game and less time disappointing students with grades.

Anybody up for a Strike Force this weekend? I nominate Saturday 4pm EST as our target time. I'll bring Bray if you want to do CaD (my preference if there are no objections) or Palcioz for any of the others. Thoughts?

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Raids

Hey all, i was wondering when we are doing a raid?

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Base Upgrade In Progress

Congrats and thanks to all of you who helped us save more than 1.6 million prestige for the base upgrade. We're currently in the process of putting the upgraded base together, but the teleporters and med bay should still be functional during the upgrade. Any feedback on how you'd like the base decorated would be welcome and appreciated.

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Base Update

First, a quick reminder: don't place any personal items in the base unless you're willing to have them deleted. We don't really need any of the personal items currently available, and we're saving up our prestige for the next base expansion.

We're less than 100k short of our base expansion target. We'll be upgrading the plot to the 8x12 size, then rearranging some rooms in order to free up some additional prestige. (For example, we can save 150k by purchasing three smaller teleport rooms instead of the large secure one we currently have.) We'll also be upgrading the energy room in preparation for eventually purchasing the turbine generator and eventually adding an additional workshop and the remaining two arcane tables.

This expansion is the last step in completing the non-raid portion of the base. As base raiding seems to be a rather unattractive proposition at the moment (loss of prestige/salvage, poor balance, etc), my current thoughts are to put future prestige earnings to decorative and social rooms. If people are interested in base raids, we can either arrange instant raids with other SGs or upgrade the base later for IoPs and such.

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Respec Update

Okay, since the 16th is too soon, i have decided to make it Friday, January 20, at 8pm. i am leaving the door open to all lvls (i dont know the respec ranges), so anyone is welcome to join to whoever wants to have a respec on hand. i would like a lvl 40 to come with just for some help in the mishes (and also i dont know where the respec person is) so palcoiz, OC u r welcome to join us. the meeting place of the respec is near the ferry in Nerva, ill be there from 7:45 to 8:00 to start recruiting. i will announce when we are recruiting and so i can give people a heads up so they can finish a mish they started or for any other reason. please post if u r interested in joining.

PS Palcoiz, please put on the SG message of the day, the date, time and meeting place of the respec.

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Respec Trial

Hey all, i was think of host a respec trial sometime soon. i dont know when a good date is so ill take to the leaders and see when is good. also i would like to know the level requirement fot he joint SF.

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Joint SF with Chaos Legion

Some of the Jagged Legion villains are interested in doing a strike force with us next weekend. Ice Mistral was our initial thought, but as we've done a couple of them over the past few days, suggestions for a different SF are welcome. Any thoughts on which strike force and when?

Edit: Sunday, Jan 15, 7pm EST, Cap au Diable. Meet at the portal in the hills on the east side of Cap au Diable. Level range is 15-20.

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Base Rent Payed

Our current rent is 76,105 prestige. We're still #7 on the rankings, but the rankings are currently a bit borked right now, so it doesn't really mean anything. We have just over 1.2 million prestige banked, putting us less than a half-million away from our plot upgrade.

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Recruiting, Inactivity, and Silver Mantis

The supergroup is currently at the 75 member maximum, but quite a few of these players have 3 weeks or more of inactivity. So, on Thursday, I will be removing the following characters from the group:

Magma Phoenix (42 days without logging on)
Winny (37)
Hell Flame (37)
Wayne Statik (35)
Judicator Jones (31)
Bari (30)
Sarah Kerwyn (30)

The criteria for this list was the cannon fodders with over 30 days of inactivity, plus Magma Phoenix who will have over 45 days of inactivity by Thursday.

This will free up 7 slots for new members, and I will be holding a recruiting Silver Mantis SF on Friday at 8pm EST. Ideally, I'd like to see 4 SG members and 4 potential recruits, although if we get more people interested, we can always run two teams in parallel. I'll announce the event on the Pinnacle boards on Wednesday and see who bites.

If anybody has a reason why I should not remove any of the inactive characters, would like to come on the SF on Friday, or has other ideas about how we could recruit members, please feel free to reply in the comments.

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Ice Mistral SF Completed!

This was a fun and relatively short SF. Seven missions total (including one hunt), with a unique map (and quite an AV battle) for the final mission. Time to completion: approximately 2 hours, 45 minutes.

We'll be doing this again Monday night at 7:30 PM, EST for those interested.

The Victorious Strike Force Squall

from left to right, Prox, OC, Palcioz, and Mie (in alternate form)

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Hidden Evil Report

Hidden Evil night was its usual success. We only hit a tough spot once or twice where two or three groups were overlapping.

Official stalker level is 14. We only made it to 13, but we think it'd be good to hit travel powers before the jetpacks completely die. Does Wednesday continue to be a good night for people, or are there any preferences for a different night next week? If nobody has another opinion by Friday, I'll go ahead and schedule for next Wednesday the 11th.

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