Ironblade

Okay, CONGO refers to a place. (Well, multiple places, Congo Basin, Republic of the Congo, Congo River, etc).

CONGA is a dance. (Also a type of music and a drum.)


On a side note, the lead rat is wearing a hat with fruit, presumably a reference to Carmen Miranda. However, she was more associated with a style of music called samba. FYI, at the height of her career, she was the highest-paid entertainer in the U.S. for several years and also, at one point, the highest-paid woman in the country (earning $200,000 in 1945).

As Fleeting Whisper said, you can earn the Day Job POWERS for two at once. What you can no longer do is earn Day Job BADGE PROGRESS on two at once. (Previously you could, but all such locations have been fixed.)

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Earth/rad gives you FOUR powers that can take hold sets.

This is a good option for any crafting (if you don't have an SG with the worktables) since you can get here from Atlas Park, Founders Falls and Peregrine Island.

The Atlas Park connection is useful at low level since you don't have to set foot outside the Vanguard base. The portal from Atlas takes you right inside the base, there are no enemies in there, and you can return to Atlas via the same portal.

Please note, though, there are TWO KINDS of worktables in the Vanguard base. The small ones are the Invention Worktables. The larger ones are only used for crafting items purchased with Vanguard Merits.

Ya know, they also registered the domain badge-hunter.com to avoid exactly that sort of problem.


Anyway, for my main toon, I track badges with badge-hunter.com and use an Excel spreadsheet to track his merit earnings and expenditures. Also in Excel, I track what task forces and trials I do, plus influence on any characters with a lot (over a quarter billion).

I don't track any other stuff for any characters.

He could also have come from another tower. The repairmen are not 'bound' to a particular tower. If you're fighting one tower and knock a repairman over to a previously destroyed tower, he can rebuild it from scratch.

If they are buying the cool IO's with merits then they are not impacting the market positively or negatively. They are market-neutral. Then when they start selling, they will have a positive impact.

Additional tip: They cut the power EXACTLY six weeks after your payment, to the MINUTE.

If you make a note of when you pay it, you can predict precisely when the power will be cut. If I'm online when it's going to happen, I go to Atlas Park and enter the base and wait for the power to go off. Then I exit and pay the rent.

Actually, they are. Prestige earning was specifically designed to be relatively uniform so that low level characters can contribute effectively. Having said that, a level 50 will have more and better powers so they can defeat the enemies faster. So you're still better off using a 50. Just not DRAMATICALLY so.

And if you're fighting Cimerorans and they manage to hit, you are HOSED.

When I tank them on a resistance based tank, they quickly get my base defense to -100. Once, I took my shield tank on the ITF to get the Roman shields and see just how effective the debuff resistance was. Unfortunately, (well, unfortunate for testing the debuff resistance) the team had a lot of buffs and my defense was over 100% most of the time. Even when they got a couple of hits in, I'd still be 40+ points above the soft cap. This is why we do not aim for the soft cap. We want as much defense as we can possibly get.

Well, for starters, let me say that getting an SG up to 100 members at all is a notable accomplishment. I think my SG never got above 35 or so. Still, we ended up in the top 40 on Infinity without any farming and we're still there.

From what you describe, I'm guessing you had a relatively high turnover rate and it required constant attention/recruiting on your part to maintain the population. Clearly you were the key man in building and maintaining that population. The next step would be to make it self-sustaining such that the other members get involved in recruiting/retaining members. Unfortunately, while I can see WHAT needs to happen, I can't really say HOW to manage it.


Two words: global channels. Find the right channels and you will never have trouble getting teams. Make a point of teaming and chatting with the people on a channel and they won't just announce teams/task forces on the channel - they'll start sending tells to you when they see you're online. I'm on a badge channel, a farming channel, a general team channel and 4 private SG channels and there's always something going on.

FYI, I find the server friend list pretty much useless. People have too many alts. I have too many alts. The only time I use it is when on a team and someone DC's. I immediately friend them so it will tell me when they are back on.

From his 'Introduction' section:
Right off, CoH is NOT a zero-sum game.
My getting to 50 does not hinder your getting to 50.
Me getting a full set of purples does not hinder you in getting a full set of purples.
Me amassing a billion influence does not mean there is less for you.

Poker is a zero-sum game. Every dollar that one person wins means someone had to lose a dollar.

Dasher) I said don't make lists.
Dancer) Seriously, see rule Dasher.
Donner) If you must make a silly list, the planets don't have enough humor value.
Blitzen) Anyway, see rule Dasher again.

EASILY.
I didn't slot for defense at all. My invuln has Tough but no Weave and is IO'ed for 300% regen. He also has the Medicine pool for Aid Self but, after IO'ing for all that regen, I never touched Aid Self again until tanking Lord Recluse. So, yeah, with all that defense you'll be in fine shape.