Eric Nelson

What I've seen people saying is that Scrappy doesn't spawn AFTER the WL is out; not that they can't be out at the same time (i.e., Scrappy spawns prior to the WL).

In my experience, and to the best of my knowledge, Scrapyard is NOT spawned by defeats, but is on a timer (as mentioned earlier).

To the OP: keep in mind that during the current Winter Event, it appears that if the Winter Lord has spawned in a zone, GM events such as Scrapyard seem to be "on hold" until he's defeated. Some people from various servers have reported that a Sharkhead version of the WL may sit unmolested in the zone for a day or two, and during that time it doesn't seem that Scrapyard spawned.

I'm thinking you'll start seeing him back to his "up almost as much as Lusca" frequency come the end of the Winter Event.

There, fixed that for ya, GP.

Ah, didn't realize that. Thanks Panz!

If they are online and on the team, yes. Otherwise, no.

Thank you, Joey Tribbiani.

Um...what? Sure we are.

/r nop

::waits for lightning bolts to rain down from Posi::

Nope, must be okay to type binds verbatim on the forums. Where did you get the idea it's not allowed? Go look at the "Compiled List of Binds" thread sometime.

And OP, some people choose to remove the "auto-run" feature from their "R" key in this way, but others don't. Make sure you want to do it before you remove the pre-bound function (it's not impossible to re-bind the key to auto-run, but if you don't want it unbound you might as well not have to fix it).

Yeah, I'm with UberGuy. I don't see that as a believable reason, and I do almost EXCLUSIVELY speed TF runs on my server (Victory, so other servers could certainly vary in their approaches, I suppose). In speed runs, team members die. I've NEVER run into anyone wanting to keep the team faction-specific to allow for the one small addition of being able to give one or a few toons inspirations.

/shrug YMMV

What makes you think I didn't do that too?

In fact I did have to -- when I started playing in March/April of 2005, I had never played an MMO before, and had no idea what a "badge" was. So doing the tutorial with my original (and badge) toon, I didn't have any idea there even WAS a badge, and even if I HAD known, it probably wouldn't have mattered.

So I was very pleased when they added the lone Contaminated in RV. I just parked my toon in the tram station and logged in every so often to check. I even started a tracking spreadsheet (since this of course pre-dated the progress counters in-game, and I'm too dense to use HeroStats for anything other than badge-verifying ), and it didn't take all that long to get the required defeats.

Yes, and if you re-read my posts, you'll see that I addressed that necessity (I *NEVER* stated that the tech "as-is" is the solution I'm suggesting).

If I'm not mistaken, fire has proven as useless as all other measures in combating this awful threat.

Even cancellation hasn't managed to fully put this beast down!!! The syndication rez inspiration keeps bringing it back to threaten the world again and again and again.

Yes, which is why my suggestion covered only RAISING the difficulty level of TFs, not LOWERING it.

Yeah, me too -- the paragraph nearly PERFECTLY described CoX badge-hunting, which IS pretty much a game unto itself in many ways.

Hmpf. Poopy-head stoopid writer-person!

Agree with Cat -- it SHOULD work that way (hopefully it does). If I'm not mistaken, Ouroboros grants 4x inf during 2XP (Ouro bonus + 2XP bonus).

I'd have to agree, this has been my exact experience as well. Between the LGTF and co-op RWZ missions (both VERY popular) on top of the mothership raiding Agge refers to, the RWZ is a bustling hive of activity whenever I'm there (which is often). And the same goes for Faultline -- many players seem to agree that the compelling storyline that was added during that zone's revamp is STILL one of the best blue-side has to offer.

As a reason for keeping a team "pure" blue or red? Sorry, went back and re-read GG's response again and I don't read it that way at all.

Exactly (thanks Agge! ).

And my alternate suggestion doesn't delve into all the nuances and details that would/could go into building the tech for use with the TFs -- I just gave a general idea for a possible approach that could conceivably go a ways toward making something more challenging for stronger level 50 characters.

And that apostrophe denotes...what is missing? Your grammar education?

This is what we used to have to do back in the day, in Bloody Bay.

And we had to walk uphill both ways to get to the zone! In the snow!

...wait, what are we talking about here, again? Get offa my lawn you kids!!!

Seems to me another fairly simple possibility is giving the players (back) the ability to affect the difficulty in TFs/SFs (being able to increase it -- for purposes of this discussion I'm ignoring any possibility of lowering the difficulty, which obviously doesn't address GG's question about TF challenge levels).

The tech already (at least partially) exists, and was even applicable to TFs/SFs for a short period. Being able to crank a TF/SF up to various "insane" levels (perhaps even higher than the system currently in use for regular content) might be able to compensate somehow for the additional power given by whatever will boost level 50s (such as "universal enhancement slots" or whatever form the mechanic takes).