ColdSpark

Nah was a quiet one - managed to rack up a bit of debt as I just couldn't concentrate. Here's hoping for a slightly cooler w/e of double XP niceness.

Oh btw - expect next Monday evening to be quiet - Hami Raid on - I'm going (think I'm running the second Rad team)

Doubs I'm gonna respec Group Fly into Sync's build too - not sure if we're doing the whole AM the PA guys again but figure just in case I'll take it anyway.

Can also ferry our team safely in of course.

Sure Jon sign up fisty again. The big guy will happily be your meatshield. May want to avoid this w/e though due to the impending XP fest I have toons to lvl as I'm sure a lot of us do. Can do any evening this week (believe double XP starts 9am Friday). Will need to rearm first but doesn't take me too long.

Some vids of our final battle (was with Jon) just posted on the end of our D&VS thread in case ur interested chaps.

Well guys - congrats to us as I believe we were officially the first all-SG group to complete the Recluse SF. Grats to Jon on his third sucessful run too!

Took a few vids along the way - didn't quite get our moment of glory (must upgrade to full Fraps version )

They're WMV files again so should work OK and are not too big

Here's to what was a very challenging and fun SF - we can be quite pleased with the time too - actual time doing things was less than 7 hours - reckon we can get that down to 4 easy. Especially enjoyed the last epic fight once we had it down to States, Posi and Citadel - taking all 3 at once felt properly epic.

My, that's a big one

The Brawler should really have stayed in his back alley

Last Man Standing (briefly)

Statesman Starts to feel the pinch

Syncline is all urs mate - have withdrawn from holding team so as not to cause confusion. Have all the prerequisites - except the respec into Primal but I'll do that over this w/e

Just been asked to look after the second Rad team so I must regretfully withdraw from the holders but I'll be throwing sneaky holds in anyways

Just a slight expansion on the plan for tomorrow:

The key is we only get one shot at a clean pull - once we aggro the mob its apparently not possible to pull them apart.

So our best chance is with a nice slow long distance snipe - and that's where Moonbeam comes in.

So we clear a nice area around atlas - probably to the right as you look at his face. Once we're set we'll all summon our shivans in a nice, out of line of sight place. We also get our selves out of sight.

Kitty (who conveniently has moonbeam) will then snipe Numi - immediately getting out of line of sight with us where we stay absolutely still till she arrives - most likely with synapse in tow. At which point we all pop 6 purps, 6 reds and get stuck in - we'll have about a minute to take her out. After that its back to the base/arena to restock and start on the rest.

The Nukes (try and get at least chemical - the others are a bonus) are our plan B.

We may also use Snakes-B-Gone in place of moonbeam - see how we go.

Either way - 2pm kick off (if all can make it) - will try and confirm with those of you I've not spoken with yet a bit later - try and be stocked up on Shivans and Nukes beforehand

Lol thanks guys - think you missed a 0 off the end of my age though Scar at least I feel about that old.

Tell you what - as a pressie you can get me one of those Hammi-O things tomorrow - and each have one too of course

Kick off at 2pm OK for everyone? Jon assures us of complete victory this time - Shivans a must, nukes a nice to have. Right - I'm heading back online - DAMN this flight is dragging.

Farm missions in Warburg for some of it mate - rad pistols etc are there - 1 in 4 chance of getting one (there's 2 rare tech and 2 rare arcane types awared in wburg) so get a SG team in there (in sg mode of course) and grind away.

Oh and Dr Death - re the 3rd generator type - I've seen it in US bases so I don't think its bugged (but the awarding of it could well be).. but I sent in a petition a couple of weeks ago to find out how close our SG is to getting it as we've done way more than the 50 hours believed to be the requirement - will let you know when I get a response.

Lol damn u server maintenance - damn you to hell!

Oh well - time for an inflight movie methinks - was nice to get a brief fix at least and I'll be back on asap!

Yay - Singapore Airlines ftw! Now cruising at 35,000 feet with wireless firing nicely - on my way home!!

Lets get the ball rolling for you then mate - Signing up Syncline my Earth/Rad/Primal 50 Troller. Will watch the thread for slotting tips as I have that lovely freespec to use up

All I can say is grrr - just logged on at the hotel lounge and the game is firing up - I think the provider at the hotel must have had a needed port blocked - last time I stay there then!

Still - so long as the plane has its wireless engaged then with luck I'll be online shortly.

TTFN


oooo Just noticed our post has a flame now - flame-gratz to us all!

Hi Kin,

IMO for those of us with less than about 100 million prestige the best way to get defenses in on the cheap is use the secure tp rooms - they're very reasonably priced - the largest is 1.35mio iirc and allows 4 defensive objects - we have 2 of those in our base, plus the upgraded vault which allows 1 for a total of 9 defenses (didn't stop the violators from doing us over mind )

You can also pop lots of extra walls in these large tp rooms to make them into meeting rooms etc as you only need one to hold all the pads you need (inc the raid one)

Hope this helps
Sparky

Ahh thanks Hammer must have gotten my numbers muddled - so its the table %s we need.

I agree raids have a lot of potential - tbh I think the "rent" we pay should act as insurance as well - possibly (shudder) have a SMALL optional addon to your rent (say 5-10%) which gives you 100% chance to recover items.

As for do items buff once destroyed - I don't think you can destroy tables in a raid - not sure about fabricators.

consider my stoney [censored] available for any and all attempts from this Friday evening (late) onwards over the w/e. I owe States a damn good fisting and I'm not one to fail to deliver.

All I'd say is that I don't know if Int redux drops anim time - I know my tp seemed to be firing off faster (and yes that's the only thing that fires off fast ) but might want to do some scientific tests (labcoats optional) to test this out a bit...

Other than that.... DAMN YOU Updater - CONNECT!!! Sorry I'm having... issues with my laptop only wanting to talk to the US servers.... hoping to fix it before tomorrow morning so I can play on the plane back - other than that I'll hopefully be on late tomorrow evening....

As for the RSF - lets try and go for an early PM kick off this time so time is less of a factor for us - and what day we doing? I'm easy (and I can do either sat or sun )

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Not at all.

I seriously doubt my VG will ever take part in IOP raids because of the potential to have months of prestige earning wiped out from one raid.

It took us 2 months to get the prestige needed for a turbine generator and even if there's only a 5% chance it can get trashed and even though objects are now a LOT more durable in I7, I'm not going to risk that for a 1% buff for just 30 days.

So, even though the requiremtns have been scaled up to the same as the IOP raid requiremetns, instant raids are still the only sort of raiding my VG will take part in.

TBH, my VG will probably do the IOP TF just because it's new content but I think we'll all be subbing into our alt VG for it where it doesn't matter as much if it get's trashed from a following hostile raid as everything in there is 'bare minimum'

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Your point is well made Kin - D&VS are quite concerned about this too and I'm sure that you (like us) have put plenty of thoughts into "workarounds" for it.

Something I'd like confirmation on is the workbenches - it was rumoured (though I didn't see any redname action here) that each bench gives a base 10% chance to recover your base and that each robotic repair thingy you attach adds a further x% for a maximum (give you can attach 2 per table) of 6 * 10% + 12 * x% = ?? - now IF each robotic repair thing gave say 5% then you'd have a 120% chance of a destroyed item coming back.... that is of course a big IF. What we really need is a lot more detail on IoP and how the raid and repair system will work so that we can all gain the confidence we need to be able to indulge in what should be quite a fun element of the game.

Till we do my opinion is its just too risky. Unless there's a BIG reward for the Trial (again - more info needed).

Here's hoping we get some!

So from that can I take it that nukes are not needed (Shivans I have no prob getting but the nukes are SOOOO boring)

So what were we doing wrong mate? Oh and yes I'm still alive - its not a connection issue so much as an install becoming corrupt on my laptop issue... grrrrr... And I might have partaken of one or two Singapore Slings but purely for medicinal purposes you understand - course I don't know what it is I'm suffering from yet....

Yup - the not being able to raid is referring to non-instant raids.

Well our first attempt at the RSF didn't quite go to plan - we did an awesome job of the first few missions - stormed our way to the last one with only one wipe.

Then we had a bit of bad luck on our nuke attack and after that it was basically a lost cause....

As if to rub salt in the wound - here's a link to a US group doing the last mish in 9 minutes... gits

Linky

your censored's are more stable? you get one of those new wonder-bra's then?

Damnit foiled again! I'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you darned kids!

What's a good place to hunt for these then mate? I see a few dotted around GV...