Rescheduling Silver Mantis

Let's try this again this weekend. I'm thinking Sunday late afternoon or early evening (ie, at or after 4:00 EDT), but a Saturday afternoon time should also be fine. Any preferences?

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Proposal: Badge Hunting Contest

As part of our profile-raising campaign, I'd like to propose that Team Evil run a badge hunting contest for the server, perhaps in conjunction with CIT. Seeing how we're a villain group, this would be a villain-only contest for simplicity.

Here's how I see it working:

1) The contest is announced a few days before its start time. Contestants should create a new character and meet a TE player in Breakout at the appointed time, who will verify their badge-free status. This is to prevent people starting ahead of time. Players who wish to start late can join a specified global channel and link a screenshot on the blog with their character in Breakout and the MOTD of that channel.

2) Players will have some specified time frame (probably either 7 or 10 days) to gather as many badges as possible. Badges should be tracked on CIT, which will also allow players to see how they're doing compared to everybody else. (Perhaps a fake server could be used to classify people for this event?) Players are allowed to gather badges using any means available.

3) Points will be awarded based on the type of badge. For example: exploration = 1 pt each, history = 5 pts each, tier 1 mission badges = 10 points each, etc. Whoever has the most points at the end of the contest wins. We would use the CIT info to easily go through the contestants and verify the winning character's badges in-game. I could use some input on what a reasonable point assignment would be.

4) As prizes, I'm able to put up 2 million influence/infamy and pick of an HO (or possibly two) from my collection. However, since this could entail a fair amount of work on the part of the contestants, it'd be cool if we could up the prize pool with other donations. Maybe CIT would donate a small space on their home page for a headshot of the winning character and an appropriate caption?

5) It'd be cool to publicize this using the PinnacleBadges MOTD, too -- anybody know the mods there?

So, any thoughts?

Edit: Current prize pool:

1 million infamy from Grave Sorcerer
2 dmg/acc HOs from Mie
1 buff/end and 3 million infamy from OC
1 buff/end, 1 resist/end and 3 million infamy from me

That's 5 HOs and 5 million infamy total, so far. Since I7 is likely to hit test this week, let's try to schedule this to start when I7 goes live, so people can badge-hunt with their new alts.

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Silver Mantis SF

We'll be running the Silver Mantis SF at 4pm EDT on Sunday. There are 6 door missions based on some of the "unique" missions from CoH -- plan for 3-4 hours for this one. Please post in the comments if this time doesn't work out for you.

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Monster Hunting Team

Any interest in pulling together a team to hit Deathsurge, Ghost of Scrapyarder, and Caleb later this week? I'd like to get a couple of people to help (they each require defeating a certain number of mobs around the zone) and open it up to the forums/PinnBadges channel to help raise the profile of our group.

Plus, badges! Mmm...badges...

Edit: Looks like we're tentatively scheduling this for 7pm EDT on Friday, with the 2nd respec trial afterwards. Feel free to post feedback on the schedule in the comments, and we'll try to find a good time for everybody.

Edit 2: Success! Deathsurge, Ghost of Scrapyarder, and Caleb all spawned and went down very easily. Respec went very smoothly, except for the +3 Greater Devoured one-shotting me.

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This week

Anyone have any events planned this week? I'm looking for some TE love! =]

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Congrats to Mie!

A very well done to Mie, who just hit 40 with Capio tonight!

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Base Rent

Our base rent of 100,618 is due on 4/19, which means that it should be paid on 5/2. Seeing how we have more than that banked already, this means that any prestige earned between now and then goes into the I7 fund. Look forward to storage for salvage, enhancements, and inspirations, plus powerup stations for craftable buffs.

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Lyttle Lytton Contest

I'm running a Lyttle Lytton contest on the Pinnacle forums in the VG's name. Check it out here

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Ice Mistral SF

Okay, let's try to set a time to reschedule this. How does Wednesday, 8pm EDT sound to you all?

Update: Looks like we're aiming for 8pm EDT on Friday. I doubt we'll fill up the team, so I'll post an invitation on the Pinnacle forums Friday morning and see if we get any more bites. If anybody besides OC and GS wants me to save them a spot, please reply in the comments before Friday morning.

Update 2: Mission successful! Siccerro will be pleased.



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