Lothic

What do you mean you're not upset about the methods available to soloers to get shards? I thought that was your whole point. Didn't you just say you didn't like having to be at the mercy of the RNG for shards when every other thing is purchasable via merits?

Like I said I figure if enough people whine about this the Devs will allow us to buy shards via "merits" just like anything else. The Devs are never going to "fix" the RNG - at best they'll give us the merit purchase alternative as you're suggesting.

I19 has only been live for just over 2 days now. Give it a break.

The game will evolve if the Devs' deem there is a need for it. Frankly based on people like you who are "upset" about this I have no doubt that we'll eventually see some kind of general "merits for shards" update. The Devs already cracked open that door with the ability to buy Gr'ai Matter for 150 Vanguard Merits.

Give it a chance to work itself out. *shrugs*

When it comes to things like the extra Explore badges in the hazard zones it does seem a little bit like "adding badges just to add badges" at this point. I have the feeling if these badges existed back when these zones were first created then nobody would really think it was "weird" for them to be there. Waiting years after the fact is a bit anticlimactic to say the least.

Awesomeness!!! Big thanks to all involved in getting this done.

What I said does not prevent a soloer from earning shards via the current default methods available (i.e. drops from critters). They may not get them as quickly as someone who teams a lot in TFs/SFs/raids, but then again how is that different from any other aspect of this game related to soloer vs. teamer?

The fact that we see fundamental rules of science are "redefinable" gives me hope that other nagging rules like "can't go faster than the speed of light" will also be overcome at some point. We simply need to build engines that run on Dark Energy/Matter.

I realize there are some people who despise team play. I don't really understand that mentality in a MMO, but I can accept it. The real irony of course is that, as you say, just about the only content you really need to be an Incarnate for involves team play. Go figure.

The real trick of this (getting back to the OP's original question) is that oftentimes you can buy large orange and yellow inspirations fairly cheaply (like say for only 5k each). If you buy three of them for like 15k then you can combine them into a single large purple or wakie (which tend to go for like 200k or more) and actually make some decent INF that way.

Personally I use this "trick" all the time to restock my inspiration trays with large inspirations fairly cheaply.

This might just be a quibble but since the Praetorian Tourist badge and the "morality reinforcement" badges don't currently exist as live badges in the game technically no one can get these badges at the moment, not just Primals. I prefer not to lump potential "found only in the .pigg files" badges in with live badges. Basically we don't know if badges like these will EVER become real badges so there's not much point to worrying about them right now.

Yeah the "tourist respec" badge issue does need to be dealt with one way or the other.

I think it would be very crummy if the ability to earn a badge permanently rested on whether or not I chose to use a respec token years ago. The most logical thing to do would be to allow anyone to earn all 6 badges (3 hero and 3 villain) even if that meant we could have 6 respec tokens racked up. It's not like having lots of respec tokens would break the game - I have alts who have access to like 10 Vet respec tokens right now.

Hopefully the Devs will sort this problem out in a timely fashion.

Well I haven't even tried this arc yet so thanks to this thread I won't have to be totally clueless about it regardless of how vague the wording is.

Maybe, assuming you don't ascribe to urban legend that if you ever mention Bug Hunter in relation to reporting a bug you'll automatically never get it.

But actually with the recent favorable changes to how epic badges can be earned (i.e. the fix to the age-old problem of having to overcome any power related HP boosts before damage credit is registered for the damage badges) I almost think the Devs might not care if you could use Trapdoor for a heal target. Frankly it'd be pretty cumbersome to set that mission up for a heal farm over multiple sessions considering there are still easier ways to accomplish heal farming.

So while this is an interesting bit of trivia it's doubtful it'll ever be fixed as a "bug" or otherwise. *shrugs*

I got the tantrum emote last night on my second run at this but I don't think I've seen the flex emote you mentioned. I assume it's a new flex emote unlike the few other flexes we already have correct?

Seems strange the mission text didn't give any hints about going to talk to that guy.
Thanks for letting us know about it regardless.

Thanks for the walkthrough. I've yet to attempt this arc but it was probably something I was going try in the next day or two anyway.

I have nothing against the idea of the Devs coming up with new mission mechanics or even the idea of getting hard missions to do, but frankly this sounds (just based on this thread) a tad bit overly-frustrating. I'll obviously be a better judge of it when I try it. *shrugs*

Whew! Finally we'd have a way to get rid of our excess arsenic...
I'll bet if the bacteria eat arsenic and excrete something useful like Vigara we'd be building 100 new spaceships to get there.

To be clear your Vigilante can now go to the RI and get a Tip mission that enables him to behave more like a Vigilante. But that Tip is still technically going to be a Villain Tip because that's the only choice you have when you start the mission as a tourist.

Again I think it's cool we have new Tip missions that let Vigilantes "act" like Vigilantes (and Rogues act like Rogues) as tourists. I just think if I want my tourist Vigilante to act like a Vigilante I should be able to specifically CHOOSE that kind of mission and get Vigilante credit for it. It's the lack of player choice that's the real problem here.

Actually I believe the salvage cap for the Halloween salvages is only 99.
I'm sure the cap for Incarnate salvages will be at least that many if not more like 999 or 9999.

This reminds me of the complaint about people who look at the number of Veteran badges a player has and uses that as a excuse to boot people off teams if they are deemed a "noob" player. While I'm sure that happens (because there are always a handful of idiotic e-peen elitists out there) I'm also quite sure it happens so infrequently across the entire playerbase that it's hardly worth getting that upset about.

There will always be people who will be prejudiced against other players for any silly reason you can imagine so that's not a good enough justification for hiding information that could be POTENTIALLY used for that purpose. I don't want to play a game that tries to keep me too "safe" from that kind of thing because that kind of protection will only get in the way far more often than it ever helps anything.

This would be the main reason I would /sign against this idea.

I understand the concern the Stormfront_NA is talking about, but frankly in the several years Ouroboros has been around I've only seen the area congested by AFK people a few times. I'd rather preserve the speedy travel capability of the way it works now than to try to "solve" a problem (or really a slight annoyance) that only happens once in a very long while.

This basically seems like a solution looking for a big enough problem to justify it.

Well one would hope if someone was dumb enough to slot 50 "tiny debt protection" type IOs that it would be pretty quickly obvious that they were a goof in general via other means.