Doctor Roswell

I'll echo this pretty much word-for-word. In general, I like to avoid anything with a "crash" anyway, and my Invuln tank is plenty unstoppable without Unstoppable.

Both Resist [Whatever] powers are well worth taking, but not early on. At later levels, once you've fully shifted from "aw, man, this is a level where all I get is dumb ol' slots" to "geez, another power? But I don't have enough slots for the ones I've already got," that's when you take your passive Resists. Throw one, maybe two slots in there on top of the free one, and you're set.

Very possible. The name sounds familiar, though I can't place it to a specific character. I have a vague recollection of the name being brought up in conversation (something along the lines of, "I was playing Action Monkey earlier but now I'm on an alt") during one of them, but I may be remembering it wrong.

I can't say with 100% certainty that's it happening with all uncontrolled pets, but I've seen a few complaints about it happening with Umbra Beast at least. Saw it happen firsthand on a BAF tonight, too: three Umbra Beasts, one got itself killed charging Siege from clear across the map (but not Nightstar for whatever reason), and two stayed with the group, but sort of... spazzed out. They ran abruptly in random directions from the time the prisoner escape phase ended until Siege was close enough to fight.

Yeah, it's a snag. There's a setting in the options menu (under email, I think) that lets you hide unclaimable items in your inbox, like, say, the Ascension set. "Claim all" works fine if you enable that.

And the theoretical advantages provided by that access outweigh the practical ones by a pretty wide margin.

Much more reasonable! Now there's suddenly a point!

But, um... is that every time, or just the first time every day? And if it's just the first time, are we still looking at that ridiculous "how dare you repeat the repeatable mission" single-thread reward?

This is a great start. The next step, obviously, being to apply this same thinking to everything with a timed reward table -- SSAs, WSTs, etc, etc, etc....

This I think is far more doable. And I still don't understand why numeric representations of scales haven't been a part of the character creator since day one. I want to be able to put my chest slider at 25%, not "this area here that's around halfway between the left end and the center of the bar."

This is the real problem, as I see it. Not "I got this but I don't want it," but literally "I got this and can't use it."

Sure, they might introduce other ATO sets at some point -- but the sets aren't going to come in groups of more than six. How many catalysts will I have by then? Probably more than six.

I'm all for this e-mail voucher solution.

It's likely today to switch double XP on, then again Monday morning to switch double XP back off.

I wouldn't worry.

As I understand it, finalists in the monthly dev-run costume contests are sometimes teleported to an instance of the old PDP for judging. So it's still there, the doors are just locked up tight.

And this one:
I'll usually start an arc/radio mission in whatever zone is convenient, and treat it like a "defeat all" until a tip drops. Then finish it and move on to the tip, treating that as a "defeat all" until I get another, and repeat.

To be fair, a Jewish equivalent of a leprechaun pet wouldn't be a Moses pet, it would be, for example, a golem pet. Moses would be an applicable example if the pet being offered here were... let's say Darby O'Gill.

Now, see, THAT would be worth 800 points.

I think you're misunderstanding. The idea isn't to add someone to an existing team of eight, it's to use the queue to assemble a full team of eight instead of just the minimum required for the event, therefore eliminating, or at least lessening, the need to pre-form teams at all -- the people who pre-form now could instead just queue up in LFG and still know they wouldn't be dumped into a four-man run when they wanted eight, but they could be doing other things while they wait instead of hanging around Ms. Liberty watching the leader paste "DFB has room for 4!" into his chatbox every 45 seconds or so until the team finally fills up.

Using Death From Below as an example:

"First Available" would look for there to be enough people in the queue to start the trial. Once four (or more) people are queued up for the first available DFB, they'll all get a "Death From Below is ready!" pop-up and the big green and red buttons. This is basically how it works now.

"Full Team" wouldn't bother people with the pop-up at all unless the system were able to assemble a full team of eight (or a full league of 16/24/whatever, in the case of incarnate trials). So if there are four people in the LFG queue all looking for a "full team" DFB, they'll all stay in the queue until four more enter it -- or until a pre-formed team of four enters the queue without locking the event for their group. (And if eight totally separate queued people got the pop-up and two of them declined, the event would still be able to start because six is more than the minimum for the trial).

It's still a queue system, so everyone goes into it in a specific order and a pre-formed team of seven could still pick up an eighth man from the queue if they wanted to. All it does is allow people who want to go in with something more than the bare minimum number of people required for an event to have some assurance they'll have a decent-sized group, thus lessening the "need" to pre-form a full eight-man team before ever entering the queue at all (which is what people do now), and making the whole thing more useful for both "LFG" and "LFM" purposes. It would mean less standing around under Atlas waiting for a team to be massed and more time doing radio missions in King's Row, or crafting in Steel Canyon, or otherwise playing the game instead of standing around waiting to play the game.

I ran into this last night:

Now, the average wait time for every single trial being exactly the same, while possible, is ludicrously unlikely, especially given that one of these is the brand-new shiny one that everyone's running right now.

But the average wait time for the first available trial actually being longer than every single one of those individual wait times is flat-out mathematically impossible. Does someone want to take another crack at explaining how these times are supposedly accurate?

(My guess? 6 minutes is an accurate figure, "5 minutes" is what the system spits out when it doesn't have a clue.)

/signed twice. (I only wanted to /sign once, but then it asked again!)