Bubbawheat

Welcome back! The new Envisionaries (kinda) is the 606 channel. /chanjoin forum 606 (I think... or just search 606) and join us on Virtue.

Other places if you haven't checked them yet:

Excellent Arcs

2010 Player's Choice Awards

March Player's Choice Awards

2009 Player's Choice Awars (which includes January's Player's Choice results)

I also ran one in February, but it didn't come up through search. I wonder if that's one of the threads that got purged before this forum got marked 'do not purge'.

Another piece of gift art from Caemgen by Dingodile24 on deviantArt. It's my blaster on Virtue who spends most of her playtime on the 606 Friday TFs, and this is something nice to show their appreciation for my commitment to the team being there almost every week for quite a while now. Loads of fun! (PS. thanks Caemgen for reminding me about this, for some reason I was thinking I already had posted it here)

I could be wrong, but I thought I had gotten an emp merit in the middle of a trial after earning one of the Mo badge requirements. I did not have any of the other Mo badges. It could be that there is a random chance any time you complete one of the badge requirements.

Note (which many people seem to forget): You have to have the Going Rogue expansion pack.

Just adding another data point here:

On my fire/fire/fire tanker (with no incarnate slotting whatsoever yet) I was on a BAF run where I was dieing a *lot* during the final Siege + Nightstar fight. So much so that I was sure I was hurting my drop chances. We dropped Nightstar the very second that Siege rezzed, so we had to defeat them both twice. And I got a rare at the end. And most people that responded got a rare or very rare.

On my previous 2 trials with this character, I've gotten uncommons.

I just ran the SF last night, and it's not flat out said. It's possible that it's vaguely hinted at. But I think it's just as easily interpreted that they are close friends and supergroup-mates. Just because one's a man and the other's a woman automatically creates sexual tension in people's minds.

Well, unfortunately I found out what some people have probably been telling me. I tried again today on Pinnacle to form an LFG Lambda. It formed us together shortly after we hit 8 members, and would not let anyone else on our trial even though shortly afterwards there were 3 more people waiting in the LFG queue. I know this because 1: I talked to one of them and confirmed it. And 2: after about 5 mins of waiting at the start of the trial, we decided to re-form in RWZ and I found out that after we dropped below 8 members, it added those 3 to our trial.

My question: Is it working as intended that it only fills from the "in-progress" queue if you drop below the minimum, or is this a bug? I would hope that this is a bug, so that you can form an LFG team and wait at the start of the trial to fill to the maximum instead of using RWZ or Pocket D. I think I'm not quite done with this yet, but it's not looking good even from someone who sees this as a good idea, it's just not working well enough to use at all at this point in time.

I might be a little late, have to make a quick groceries run, but I'll be there!

No worries, you can't please everyone all the time. A few more quick suggestions based on what you wanted to accomplish.

If the betrayal is supposed to be obvious. Either make it so obvious that it's a joke, or have something in there to show that the player's character knows they will be betrayed, but they have something to gain by "playing along" to the end.

And as far as Proto-Vahzilok's brainpower, if he's not done yet have a line in Lobotomy's dialog (or clue) commenting on this fact. I'll also PM you my original twitter notes I made during my first playthrough.

FYI - last day to submit to get Early Bird points.

I'm rather surprised that the LFG tool hasn't gotten much use, so I thought I'd take it upon myself to champion it... for whatever reason that may be, and I thought I'd post my experiences so far in a thread on the forums.

Attempt #1: My first attempt was on Virtue with my fire blaster. Since it is the most populated server, I had ran a pre-formed Lambda as my first trial and wanted to try out the BAF. I wasn't timing it exactly, but if I had to guess I'd say it took about 15-20 mins to put me into a BAF. Things ran smoothly for the most part, even though we weren't full. I think we were pretty close to the minimum. We made it to the end, but a couple people either quit or disconnected and we didn't have the manpower or firepower to take out Nightstar, Seige, and the reinforcements at the same time. We were at 10 members at that point.

My conclusion: a completely random LFG is not a great idea. Note: This was also only a few days after launch, so no one was +3 or even +2.

Attempt #2: Technically attempt #3 somewhere in there too probably. I realized that the LFG is probably not used at all on the lower populated servers since everyone I can see is making pre-formed teams. I also see complaints about having to navigate between RWZ1 and RWZ2 and any other zone to get everyone together before starting. So I thought I'd try to recruit people on Pinnacle, more or less what I consider my home server. Specifically [Pinnbadges]. Unfortunately, I was met by naysayers telling me that it can't work that way. You have to have at least the minimum and it will fill the rest from the LFG queue. Even after directly quoting the patch notes, I was still met with resistance and arguing. So I figured I wouldn't get enough interest and decided to try again later.

Attempt #3: Since I was met with resistance on Pinnacle, I moved onto Liberty, and the [LB] global channel. I sold the heck out of a "LFG Lambda" and even started sending out team /search /tells. I was getting a little bit of interest, about 5 or 6 people. After about 15 minutes I was starting to think it wasn't going to work when I saw the popup saying 0 out of 16 people have entered. It worked! Although it did hang for a long time on 15 out of 16, we eventually all zoned in. I asked if everyone there was from [LB] and got one person saying they were not (and he possibly could have been the 1 response I got out of the team /search) There were 2 empty spots in the League after I had zoned in. One of them filled after a minute or so, but the last spot never filled, even though I recieved a /tell from someone saying they were in the queue, but not in the trial, and definitely had the "willing to join in-progress events" checked.

I plan on continuing to try these on the servers I have 50s on and reporting my successes and failures here.

Some things I've noticed so far:

Plus side: You don't have to all be in the same zone, you can market while waiting if that's your thing.

Down side: You have no idea how many people are in the queue. I was asking for tells, but my count was at 6 when I got the popup saying that 16 were ready to go.

Down side: You have no control over who is going to be the leader. I'm pretty sure I would have been the first person in the queue, unless people are randomly entering the queue on a whim, but I was not the leader of either team.

Down side: We had an empty spot that wouldn't fill. I'm not sure if it was someone that managed to get into the league and DC'd on purpose, but the game held the spot for them, or if it was something else. More data is needed on this one.

Right now, it seems like there are more down sides than up sides. We'll see how that goes.

Just formed a successful Lambda on Liberty LB channel using the LFG tool. Took about 10-15 mins to form from start to finish, and had 1 spot that it didn't want to fill for some reason.

I would put 3 people on problem #1, 1 person on problem #3, then when problem #1 is solved, I would move them onto something new to announce and allow the players to soon forget about #2.

Working on this month's F-Art battle. The theme is "Off Duty".


(note: already fixed the feet being on the same level, saw that right after I uploaded it)

Inspired by this bio:

Whoo, sounds like fun. I know I wasn't interested in the trials at first. But after trying them out a few times, I really enjoy them. Oh, and here's the Sutter TF screenshot.

That's awesome, thanks for making it this month!

Update: Last night I was running Positron Part 2 on Pinnacle with my Burnt Matchstick tanker, and she reached level 50, and got task force commander!

I watched this early this morning and considered posting it here. Loved it.

Nice, I don't have anything at the moment, but would you be willing to let me use any of these for my CoH videos I've been making? http://tinyurl.com/OnYourMArc for my current vids.