Lady Arete

I heard and read of players not being able to log in on the channel anymore and with the sudden increase of players, coupled with the fact that we have not had a name purge on Sals ... since.. ever?

We did the following (SPREAD the WORD):

Make certain you and your friends are logged into the game and in the channel with in the next 14 days.
When those 14 days are over all inactive names will be purged (not by any OP's but the game).
After those days the timer will be set to a much longer amount of time (or nullified).
For those who had an inactive account, just log in to the game and do the /chan_join Sals Badgehunters



The command used was /chan_timeout "Sals Badgehunters" 14
(if you are interested)
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Chan_tim...ash_Command%29

Thats... both great and sad.
Going to ask Sal about this and (now if i only remembered the command to purge inactive globals based on a timer)
Angel, be sure to be on union taskforce. If sals is full, then we need to use UTF as a big back up.
Thus every member that are in sals and also in UTF, please announce TFs in both channels.

Edit: Did a little timeout command on the channel. In 14 days there will be freed up names. In the meantime do use UTF (and if your hosting tfs etc, say it on UTF as well).
If you find yourself "kicked" from Sals just do the
/chan_join "Sals Badgehunters" again

*Applaud*
Yes, finally we are one. Thank you War Witch and everyone who made this happen.

It did come at a little cost to those globals, account names and global channels that was affected. (Some maybe due to griefing)
Some of us (like me) were our own enemies accountwise and felt it.

But finally the lists are merged, we are one community. It felt good standing in Atlas Park and welcome new entrepid explorers and to help them find likeminded players. (Mostly by announcing the 4 main channels of Union).

Thank you for integrating the entire community into one community.

Ouch FF

I was there from the start to finish. (Felt it in my hands by all that clicking and activating powers )
Anyway the first hour or so for me was not that bad. It was not before they spawned down at the Docks that I got a pigg error. Had to do a complete restart of pc for that one.
Then got back and started fighting again, took some time before the pigg error happened (que 1 more)
However it was in the last hour that I began feeling the power lag and at the end it was bad. When the announcement that a rift is opening came up, I could not see any and we fought at that place for some time. I did another scan around and computer froze. (Must have been too many buffs and one tired little pc)

Thanks for mentioning it Ransim.
I think i'll stay clear of the League system for Hami on those I will lead.

Did get 3-4 Piggs error that sent me crashing, while I was in Peregrine.

I loved the comments in-char like made by Fritag on villain side. I just wished we had more of those on hero side. Even comments by the spawned villains (to give more atmosphere).

Yea Fritag did an excellent job in bringing atmosphere.
I was in Peregrine and was not getting the feel proper.
So I went for the obvious target. OFC the Praetorians want to get the Portal corp building and made that into my mind.
At the end there was some kind of Rift thing mentioned, but had they just made some kind of good story there. Maybe even made some dialogue... It would have been much more fun.
For me the invasion was a non stop 3 hour battle of giant monsters (and missile spewing soldiers)

Is it so that the badge will be awarded immidatly as you log in or are in the time frame?
Wonders since 4pm would be 01am for me (and I'd be tired)

In the library of the NHU base the light of the candles flickered constantly. The light it self changed colors several times due to the crystal ball on top of a table.
Infront of it the Lady stood, focusing all her power on it.
She went through her past encounters with enemy groups that could use portals.
The Circle? Summoning demons from netherrealms or making portals to elsewhere. This was portals she knew how worked, knew how to stop.
The Rikti? She had never thought she would be fighting the Rikti, ever. Not after the Omega team went through the portal based on the tecks from Portal corp. The Omega team had used their magic to seal the Rikti off, however somehow the Rikti was back again. They used tecknology.

From what she remembered from her dealings with Portal Corp, same principle as magic, just different tools. Unlike magic, long preperation, formula making and making strange artifacts...
She mused and made a slight grin. No, not unlike magic, but like magic. Was not science just a different kind of magic, the magic of the human mind, made manifest in items?
But it was anyway a different world for her.
'Focus', she said to herself. She wanted to add "girl" but did not.

Soon the world was going to be invaded... again. This time by Praetorians. What new tricks did Tyrant and his Cohort bring this time? What strength?
Their goal was simple, just like the Rikti. Take out the heroes... anyone with power and the rest is simple! And Paragon City and the Rogues Isles did hold the largest amount of super powered beings.

So girl, how will a Praetorian invasion be stopped? How do you stop them portals from pumping out invaders? She asked herself.
She answered herself equally quickly. You cannot, not alone!

The why was simple. From the past encounters the Praetorians had managed to get into the city secretly. They had even managed to keep a low profile.
'We simply have no idea how they will enter. Have they managed to make a stationary portal powered from our own world or theirs?' she spoke to herself.
Another question was would the portals be stationary or smaller ones? She had no idea.
In any event each portal if stationary would need the combined force of many heroes, to repel the invaders and destroy. Again... that was if stationary.

----
Several hours had passed and the light flickered still, yet with less intensity.
The Lady was no nearer any conclusion. She had looked at a few rikti artifacts, asked some contacts from Portal Corp and talked to Vanguard.
In the end there was nothing conclusive. She might be able to close or keep one from appearing, but that was it. Maybe a drop in the ocean.

Had she been able to devote an entire year or more then she might have barred them entry? Yes if you where a God she replied to that thought. You'r not! Your lineage is old, your blood is powerful and your knowledge of magic is... considerable. That is truth. But protecting an entire planet was far, far out of anyones reach.
'Lots of power and yet for this... useless!'

She gave a sight and looked at her pendant. It was a simple ornament, a gift from her mother once. Funny she mused. I've not thought about her in... so long. She sat there looking at the pendant for some time.

In the end she put the pendant around her neck again a determined look in her face. No she was not useless, she would do what she could, aid those she could and do her part in defeating any invader that trespassed!

The lights began to flicker strongly.

Doh White Warlock, well there is one way around mail problems.
Send an e-mail to yourself and when your sending stuff simply click reply on said e-mail. Thus you loose no stuff

Well made my main char on Virtue (atleast to keep my name ).
Hmm to make a fire/fire blaster again or maybe a new set up of skills... I wonder?

Welcome to you who are about to join us

Damz did explain the reason about the name of Sals. Yes it was a back up channel while we had some troubles on UBH So when it got too much of trouble we simply moved to that channel.
Also Sals badgehunters is by the default a Union channel, unless said otherwise. (A few badgehunts have been made on Defiant this way)

Incarnate trials are usually made around DJ Zero. If you use D to rp, then I would strongly suggest that you turn broadcast off.
Reason for this I think is its so easy to get to D, rather then RWZ or any other zone. Since most of us I think have the Pocket D teleport aswell
A trial simply begins with one player inviting others near him and if in need of more players he or she uses the union channels.

@Denji, yes there are a few. Sadly I cannot remember all of them, but mention the word in Union roleplayers and I think you will get quite the list.

Very true Omega.

The Lady had some concerns (Did not know how much about the wards around the world was common knowledge, so I just kept the Lady in the dark.) about the date of this invasion and how close to the Omega teams insertion to the Rikti world it was.
Other then that she is going to do some continous research on portals and try her best to:
1: Identify the portals when they come
2: Get the word out about them
3: Make certain she has some nice small explosives (Since behind the portal there certainly is a military staging area)
4: Make certain the explosives (most likely of magical origin) was thrown in... and close the door.. I mean portal.

Result, less portals and less Praetorian reenforcements.

Wicked Wendy
Well it seems that channel is very controlled (maybe a bit too much for my liking).
I'm a mod of a badge channel myself and we have (in my opinion) a more relaxed feel. Badge talk and taskforce/trials etc have precedence.
Other chat and discussions can take place as long as it don't drown badge and tf chat.
If it becomes too much excessive chat, then we politely ask the convo to be taken to an other channel (which was created as a channel to talk about everything) or in tells.

Heya Jasra, well the most popular channels are:
Sals badgehunters - Mainly for getting Taskforces and badges. Its default is Union, but from time to time defiant badgehunting takes place. Its the main badge channel for Union.
Union Taskforce - Getting together Taskforces and events.

Now both Sals and Union Taskforce do overlap each other from time to time, but not everyone in sals are in union taskforce and vice versa.

Third:
Union Chat - The channel to talk about everything else, ask question, joke around and generally getting to know other players.

If you roleplay then i'd advice
Union Roleplayers
In here you can ask questions, task forces and mission are made (out of character and in character).

or..
The event is dubbed "Freedom", which means its not the server named Freedom (would have been hard for players on the EU to join said server)

So I imagine that there will be a Rikti kind of invasion (just with Praetorian stuff) happening on the 27'th.
(I hope to be wrong though, cause a full blown invasion with Praetorians taking and holding a game zone or parts of every zone would be great.
And then we would have to remove them or prevent them of taking new places of the town.

Indeed FF.
From what it seemed so far was a 3 hour invasion on each server... and maybe something (most likely) the 27'th as the protection is at its lowest.
Now though it was retracted (back to the drawing board).

I guess the best way is to make an ingame apperance where we do all up to the point of the invasion. Talking (I expect Vanguard have gotten the news from Posi) we do a council of how to best prepare or what-not) put a summary of it on a thread so that we have our background and then when we get more info about the invasion we can jump into action (if its a set date etc for union).

(And no they do not hate roleplayers However badge related wise this would be an unoptainable badge that if you where not present during the 3 hours then you could not get the badge. - Meaning ARRRGH! So i'm glad they are relooking at it)

edit: Yes I agree Fea. I suspect skirmishes etc up to the date of where the wards are the weakest.
It would have been great though that on the invasion, it would happen like normal war. They spawn in one zone and begin to take it over. Marching in the streets, fliers popping up for bombardment etc.
(The weak bit of the invasion is that Emperor Cole with his one city empire (as far as we know) makes an army to fight at one city and one island... What about the rest of our world? From what I understood of the Rikti the Rikti made a full blown invasion all over the world)

Just got a little reply and as I can understand it...
I'm my own worst enemy.
I have two accounts under my global. The one is my paid EU account and the other is a trial NA account.
From what I got told: An account once made cannot be renamed or removed apperantly.

Remember we are talking of 7 years programming.
I was hoping there would be possible to have a script running (since one script will be running anyway, namely the tag script), saying something like: If both accounts are under same global account AND if NA account is Trial Then tag Trial account with Trial. (Problem should be solved)

Oh well at least we will no longer be segregated on server status, just feels sour that some of us gets the rename due to our own trial accounts.
But hey, we will be one big community then (instead of two).

Sounds great Positron, the less lag the better.
Just came out from a Molambda attempt (2 in a row). All went well until we faced Marauder. It was not him, nor the enemy that was the problem, it was the powerlag and general lag with delayed power usage

Looking forward for the fix

Steelclaw you have a good solution there and several good suggestions has been given to you (I do NOT want you to restart your tournament).

It was said: Two of the european servers are on german and french, if you do not speak either of those two, then for the sake of your tournament, do not make chars there.
Treat the 2-4 new servers as a tournament of their own.
or since they are late comers into your tournament...
Give them some bonus (I'm sure the rest of your tournament league would say: "IT is FAIR") so that they come up to par with the rest of your teams.
Also, I'm sure they would not be happy with restarting it themselves... "soo close... to lvl 50!"


Also I do like the suggestion of making a new tornament, it was mentioned as Incarnate league. How about the high levels team and their track to lvl 50 and incarnates?

You could have the little toddlers league (the normal tournament you have now) and since a few of your chars have reached highness, they are the representatives for the high tournament.

Tossing in suggestions here so that you can experience some of the incarnate and high lvl stuff too Steelclaw. (oh nice suggestion Electric)

Sadly have to say that v 1.9.1 became a non-issue, due to me changing pc. So they did thusly not exist. That means there may be a ghost badge in there somewhere, but I have no idea of its name)

Version 2.0
With Issue 20 came some new incarnate badges. I've included the new weekly strike badges and the colorcoding.
See Changes for details.

Heya, yes I do.
The girl is having a local dialect which comes from the northern part of Norway.
Its a roadmovie of a young man from the southern part (city man kind of thing), finding out that he has a son up north so he heads up north. On his way a few things happen...
From the clip he makes it quite up north, to Finnmark (the most northern county in Norway).

Think I'm free for this.
(Just have to figure out again what time 7pm bst is for my time )