Bionic_Flea

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I just scanned some of the thread so this is not a reply to anyone in particular.

There are already "min-games" that you can play in the game that are player created using existing resources.

I have seen rock/paper/scissors contests in pocket D for prizes. I have seen screenshots of elaborate bases created to play "Repel Ball" or the boardgame, Clue.

As someone upthread mentioned, we have emotes for cards from 1 - 10 and coin toss and dice. If someone wanted to they could be creative and create a game using one or more of those. In fact, the Clue game I mentioned used the dice emote as part of the game to determine spaces to move, just like the real game.

The arena also had matches that could be scheduled with an entry fee, with the winner taking the prize. I'm not sure whether that ever worked or if it's been removed, but it would be an example of the types of things the OP is requesting.

I always thought that there should be an instance of the arena in the monkey cage with obsevers being able to wager and emote but not cast powers, as 2 or more combatants fought it out. I would happily do that.

And finally, there have been costume contests in Atlas Park for as long as I can remember. I was never a fan of those, but they never really bothered me either. That's a classic example of things that players can do as an alternative to "the grind" that still gives out rewards.

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Well done everyone!

Thanks for hosting Sylph.

GoMakeAHappyBirthdayBot

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Full Registered Teams
Team 1: Farm Mac D
@Sid, @Sid Jr.
@Mr. Imp
@Total Focus

Team 2: Brother's Chrome
@Galactic Blaze @ Galactic Revolution
@Chrome Munchkin @Chrome Family
@Mac D @Mac D-

Team 3: Team i12 PvP
@Troken
@Bionic Flea
@rakin

Team 4: Our Team Goes To Eleven
@Ba'alat/@zizka
@Heryddan/@Heryddon
@macskull/@Not Mac

Team 5: Team LoJ
1. @Lite of Paragon @Dark Daimyo
2. @Cassie
3. @Dethwing @Dethwing Remix

Team 6: Random team 1 (Please send team name)
@Majick King
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@Ice Knight, @DJ Brainfreeze, @Tenebrous Havo

Team7: Random team 2 (Please send team name)
@FJustice
@Bloodrock
@Toxic Troll

Team 8: Random team 3 (please send team name)
@Positronbot
@Damos @Argyris
@Solo One

Team 9: Random Team 4 (Please send team name)
@Ishkur
@Killer Wail
@Monfuzzy


Sub Pool
@Quatermain
@Parthenogenesis
@frostigy
Ignicity
@X Razor X
@Tempered Torch

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Round 2 today. 9 Team Schedule

Week 2
Officials start at 8pm EST Pocket D. [u]Teams have until next sunday to complete there match.[u]

Team 1 (Farm Mac D) vs Team 7 (Fjustice, Bloodrock, Toxic Troll)
Team 2 (Brother's Chrome) vs Team 6 (Majick, Ice knight)
Team 3 (Team i12 PvP) vs Team 5 (Team LoJ)
Team 8 (Positronbot, Damos, Solo) vs Team 9 (Ishkur, Killer wail, Moon)
Team 4 (Our team goes to Eleven) - Bye

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I fully plan to farm lvl 47 mobs set to 8 player-difficulty for the purples.

I further maintain that this is precisely why the devs are doing this.

Prove me wrong.

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You're wrong!

I know because I read it on the Internet.

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OCR?

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I read that as 'OCD' myself.

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Hah! I read it as "Optical Character Recognition."

-d

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OMG! They can see your characters through Twitter! Could it be . . . . CITY VAULT!!

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As to what is being discussed, it's the only thing I actually don't like about I16. I've never thought that the ability to modify what level and what size the game sees you as would be a good thing. It discourages actually filling out teams.

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If you're only filling out a team because you have to, you aren't doing the game or anyone any favors when you fill those spots. Meanwhile, if you're the kind of person who teams because that's what you enjoy about playing an MMO, you're not going to stop doing that because of the ability to pad your own teams.

Yes, there are some edge cases to consider where someone who didn't want more teammates might meet someone they liked because they were required to have more teammates. To me, that's a far too intangible benefit for me to not prefer this option to it.

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Uber, would you ever team with me if you didn't have to?

Or make the Shard have constant rikti raids, zombie apocalypses, and all the GMs show up randomly. Make the shard a place that is out of touch with time and reality, where anything can happen at any time.

I would love to hang in such a chaotic place.

P.S. I would pay real money to see and battle a full sized Lusca floating between shard islands.

Lord help the person who picks up the phone when LHF misdials 40 years from now.

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Team Name: Team GTF

@Fjustice, Finall Justice

@Bloodrock,

@Toxic Troll,

Sorry haven't had the time to log in and do all this stuff. Still kind of sketchy on how some of this works. I guess we need to schedule a match with someone. So who wants to fight us?

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You are supposed to fight the Brother's Chrome team before this Sunday.

The price of purples will be severly influenced on whether the team size slider will apply to MA or not.

Some farmers will leave MA regardless, but if it also works in MA, being able to pad YOUR map with YOUR hand picked enemies in any amount YOU want is hard to pass up, especially since you can also pick your rewards with tickets.

If the team size slider is excluded from MA, then I believe many more farmers will exit MA and return to Dev-created missions resulting in an increased supply of purples (and many other rare recipe drops).

WB.

What are your toon names? Maybe some of us remember you from back in the day.

I'm travelin' down the road,
I'm flirtin' with disaster.
I've got the pedal to the floor,
My life is running faster.
I'm out of money, I'm out of hope,
It looks like self destruction.
Well how much more can we take,
With all of this corruption.

Been flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
And the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you want to be - YEAH.
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
I'm travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Yeah! I've tried to turn my head away,
Feels about the same most every day.

Speeding down the fast lane,
Playin' from town to town.
The boys and I have been burnin' it up,
Can't seem to slow it down.
I've got the pedal to the floor,
Our lives are runnin' faster,
Got our sights set straight ahead,
But ain't sure what we're after.

Flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - Yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! We're travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Don't try to turn my head away,
I'm flirtin' with disaster every day.

Flirtin' with disaster, baby,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - Yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! We're travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Don't try to turn my head away,
I'm flirtin' with disaster every day.

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In I16, you will be able to set your AE mission to spawn as if you had a full team of 8.

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You are jumping to a huge conclusion there. It is just as likely that this feature will not work in AE at all.

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Which might entice farmers away from AE and back to PI and Grandville. All done with a carrot and not a stick. I agree, this may be a work of genius.

As I mentioned in the official thread:
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Enhanced Difficulty Options - Players can now fine-tune their difficulty levels by telling the game exactly how they want to be treated. They can choose to be regarded as a specific size team (even if they are soloing), and even have control over the level they are detected to be when it comes to the dynamic spawn system. So if you ever wanted to see if your Scrapper could take on a map that is populated for an 8 person team, four levels higher than your own, now you can! The difficulty settings of the mission owner dictate how the mission is handled, just as before, and you can change your difficulty settings at any Hero Corp.'s Representative in Paragon City or Fateweaver in the Rogue Isles.

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I wonder if this wil only apply to NON-MA missions. If so, I can see a large percentage of farmers going back to Dev-Created missions for their farming needs for a chance at purple drops and no need to pad. In one fell swoop they could satisfy story tellers and farmers.

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If they limit the team-size adjustment to only dev-created missions they might just entice farmers and PLs away from MA and back to PI and Grandville. Both farmers and anti-farmers might see this as a good thing.

Airman, when this is all over, could you let us know the ultimate decision (ban or unban)?

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Ritsa, Fyre Goddess, Fyre Demoness., Mystic Lass, Maliciousness, Evil Avalon Illusion, lcicle, Bad Ritsa, Bad Bad Ritsa, Ritza, Ice Ritsa, ItsyBitsy Spider, ItsyBitsy Widow, ItsyBitsy Ritsa, Calamitee Jane, PetitePoint, Makani, Nurse Ratchett, Dot Com, Sea Kitten

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There's something missing from this list . . . but I can't quite put my finger on it.

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It depends. Do you consider yourself more frigid or bubbly? Once you answer that, you will know which way to go.

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Ice Knight? Majick?

When you want to do this?

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Looks like we have a small window between 11:00 p.m. and midnight Eastern during the week that Team I12 PvP can all be present and accounted for. Weekends vary.

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Im leaving it in your hands to talk wtih them because I'm never on when they are.

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Tonight would work.

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I spoke to Majick this morning and he says he might have a friend that can sub for their missing 3rd. He and Ice Knight are both good with weekdays between 11pm and midnite eastern so maybe tomorrow or Friday we can get it done.

Does anyone have any idea what the salary ranges for these jobs are? Just curious.

It really can be as simple as Missy says.

A week or two ago I started a nice PUG by announcing on JFA/Chrome that I was going to start running the Praetorian AV arc. I started with 2 players and ended with six or seven.

A few nights ago I announced that I was doing scanners in PI to get safeguard missions in an attempt to get the side mission badges and earned two of those badges with a small team that fluctuated between 3 -5 players.

Last night I announced that I was running level 15ish hero missions with a friend and got one more to join. I only said it once and only ran one mission before I had to leave. I'm sure that team could have grown as well over time.

Just announcing your intentions over global channels CAN build a team. Try it.

Airman,

I'm sorry you had your arc banned an even more sorry you were pounced on by some forumites when you just wanted a symphatetic ear for your venting.

But, as stated above, please ask for a GM review and you should get your arc back.

Good luck!

What happened to it?

Can we start anew? Or is merely speaking about farming now a bannable offense?

Round up the usual suspects and throw them in a cake for interrogation later!

Happy birthday, Kaiser!