Darkbridger

Maybe he thought that was your best side.

Well, by that example, I'd have to say anyone that has played the game for more than a year fits that description. They may say they create something for "concept" (something I could claim as well), but even within that concept, people will do the analysis you described above. Once you play the game long enough, that analysis becomes subconscious... we may not all be making the "right" decisions (all depends on who you ask ) in that analysis, but we all probably do it.

So in summary, yes... the server is probably full of min/maxers... but a bunch of them will probably be surprised that you would call them such.

And so begins Neutra's long planned take over of Paragon Studios...

Whoops, was I not supposed to give that away?

Seriously though, hope you find somewhere fun to work. If you're ever in the Phoenix area to check out one of the few developers around (especially the one I'm at), let me know... I'll buy you a... whatever your drink of choice is.

I'm still not entirely sure how much the PvP changes have impacted this. The last time I did this was before all of that went in and we didn't have any issues.

It definitely never hurts to have the utility of those temp powers just in case they are needed.

Sorry about that. I updated the original post with the times. 1pm eastern time is when I usually try to start this. Depending on where in Australia you are, that would be anywhere from 4am to 7am for you I believe.

One of the few times I was in a PvP zone I ran in to this. I think it's Siren's Call where you get bounties for players in-zone. I missed the /broadcast announcement by a couple of people that were dueling or rep farming (this was before the fix for that) or whatever it was they were doing in the corner. Being clueless to what was going on I defeated my bounty and was promptly subjected to all sorts of nasty /tells about it. This was followed by drone teleporting and other fun things before I finally managed to get out of the zone. Is still the only bounty kill I've ever managed to do though I think, but then, I'm not a PvPer... was just curious how the bounty thing worked.

Two teams man... two teams. Ice Mistral only requires 4. The follow up ITF on the other hand, we might have to get a few more to get two teams for that.

Sure you wanna do that during DXP? Double the influence I guess... but even if you bring a 40 something you'll still get xp now... I think.

Yep, that's the problem right there. I'm sure they have some reason for it, but I find it questionable that whatever reason it is, it is more important the inconvenience of their customers. EU Servers should go through maintenance on an EU time frame. Sadly, the Australian players get left out in this no matter what, as they don't have a dedicated server to get the schedule changed for.

Hopefully this whole process will go through further restructuring.

I readily admit I am one of these players. The purples I've gotten as drops I still have as I haven't decided whether I might want them on some character somewhere. I think I have 6 or so amongst all my characters. Mostly, it's time. I don't consider myself overly casual, but I just don't enjoy logging in and "farming" a mission for several hours. It gets boring and tedious fairly quickly. I'm also not a marketeer... it's just not how I want to spend my time in the game.

This is pretty much the only reason I'd want purples or even heavy IO builds. The vast majority of my characters are outfitted with regular L35 IOs.

I have no problem with such a tier of the game existing. The fact that this game is not tuned to that tier is why I am still playing it. I still have a fair amount of fun creating alts and tinkering with powersets I haven't tried. Unlike another game I played (*cough*WoW*cough*) where the end game was a cycle of run content to get gear to run higher tier content. If content here starts to drift toward tuning around IO builds, or worse, purple builds, I will probably eventually lose interest in the game. Such a progression would do nothing but cater to a minority of the audience.

I applaud the market gurus and the purple farmers, because you have far more patience than I do for such things. The more of you out there doing it, the slightly more likely it is that I might someday have a purple or two to rub together on a character.

You misunderstand... it's not that she won't fall in line, it's that the artists are on her payroll too. If the two of you were to have a falling out, an artist civil war could very well erupt, endangering the entire server in the process.

Not quite... I said I needed to do my second RV event first, which I am hoping will be in October. It may be a few more months before I can put one of these together, but we'll see.

Fixed apparently... or will be soon... from the test server patch notes:

Level 54 Archvillains / Heroes should now appear in Task / Strike Forces again.
Added restrictions to prevent player difficulty from affecting Task / Strike Forces