Zombie Man

Lest somewhat take what you say in jest as gospel, let me point out, for those who don't know, that when GMs (Game Masters) enter the game, they have to chose a Hero or Villain avatar just like everyone else. Only, they have the special GM/Dev/Mod flag that allows them to enter the zone of any faction/alignment. That's been in place since CoV and is not new.

Usually, a GM will take on the avatar of a Police Drone, this way it's apparent that this is a GM. Also, only GMs/Devs/Mods can have PCs in the game with an underscore, so any real GM will have a name that beings with "GM_". If someone say's they're a GM and they don't have that underscore, it's a player spoofing them and that player should be /petitioned immediately.

A funny/frustrating thing about GMs taking on a hero or villain PC is that if the GM is not that familiar with CoH (NCSoft has a GM 'pool' that provides GM services for all their games such as Guild Wars and Aion), they may not realize that you have to enable cross-alignment chat for a hero to speak to a villain (as what needs to be done in Co-Op zones or PvP zones). So, it's been known for a GM to show up in a villain's mission after being summoned by /petition, and not 'hear' what you're saying since they don't have villain chat enabled. And they think they're being ignored and leave. If that ever happens to you, get on your global or help channel and ask someone playing a hero to send that GM a /tell to enable their villain chat.

That's the important part. Lieutenants have a higher chance-to-drop than minions, bosses higher still.

The relative level of the foe is irrelevant as long as they con green or better. While grey conning foes can still give xp and prestige (down to -2 or -3 depending on their rank), greys don't give drops. Ever. Those who dispute that need to provide a screen capture as proof, which has yet to happen whenever this comes up.

Also the type of recipe drop depends on rank. Minions can drop Pool E and Bosses can drop Pool C+D; while all ranks can drop Pool A.

Underlings, pets, and spawned entities (portals and death shaman's zombies, e.g.) never give drops to prevent them from being farmed.

Nope.

It depends on how many attempts of a TF (that doesn't give a reward screen) you've done in the past 18 hours. Take that number, and then take the inverse of that number and then multiply that by the full reward.

paragonwiki.com/wiki/Merit_Reward#Diminishing_Returns

For TF/Trials that have a Reward screen, Merits cap out at half of the full reward.

It's been known to happen that abandoned missions don't get immediately wiped from the servers. Sometimes it takes 5 minutes and, rarely, 10 minutes to reset.

That would cause quite a row.

If a foe is defeated, the game asks itself, should there be drops and of what kind? It then 'rolls' on a 'table' to see if each of those possible drops happen. With a few exceptions, all drops are separate rolls from each other.

So, if you defeat some minion and it cons green or better to you there will be a roll for an inspiration, a roll for salvage, a roll for a recipe, etc.... If one of those rewards isn't granted because the inventory slots for that kind of reward is full, then that does *not* affect the other rolls.

Exceptions to the rule are 'bonus drops' such as what happens when defeating giant-sized Devouring Earth (they're actually AVs with the hp of Giant Monsters). When you get an inspiration drop from a DE, you have a chance to get an additional Essence of Earth inspiration (used in Hamidon Raids). If you only have one slot open in inspirations, you'll never get the EoE, because that's in addition to the regular inspiration. But the pairing of two rewards like this is rare in the game.

It is possible to get 5 drops at once, and maybe more.

Yes, but not all the time. Obviously there's an FX Script pointing error happening. It would help the Devs if we could narrow down which FX is the culprit.

So, next time this happens to you (i.e., all of you), note which toggles and buffs are running and write them all down and post them here!

Try here to update them: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx

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But... 'rococo' is funny... especially in how you say it <wink, wink>.

No one has made up words in this thread, until you.

Hie thee to a dictionary.

I explained why you get that with Trick or Treating. I've offered suggestions to the Devs for altering that. So, I'm not disagreeing with you in this specific case.

But in this thread you're constantly mixing up different situations and saying it's all broken, but it's not. ToT is an outlier case for a specific reason, but it's not the situation everywhere. Stop muddying things.