Lothic

My Electric Blaster's basic defense/strategy for soloing anything (especially EBs or AVs) relies on her core ability to sap all the END from the MOBs she faces. If she couldn't do that she'd be nearly helpless.

As the others have said you have to be able to sap them down to zero END before you completely stop them from attacking you, but it's not terribly hard to do that if you have an AT/powerset fundamentally designed to do that.

Yes I was actually aware that the Devs have been dropping free codes for this pack since last week.

If you guys want to get super-picky about it the software updates for this have probably been ready and in the live build for WEEKS now because the Devs usually work that far in advance for the Booster Packs. Just because I said it was ready as of yesterday does not mean it could not have been ready earlier as well.

And you automatically assume there will never be a "Steampunk" Booster Pack? Obviously I have no idea if it'll ever happen, but I think since there was -any- artwork done along these lines that the chances for something like that has to be greater than 0%.

So to be clear are you saying this is a problem for villains-turned-hero or for everyone?

When I was running through Mayhems for my main badging character after I18 I noticed that got shared team credit for most of the activities except (notably) arson credits for the Firebug badge. I ended up having to farm the PI Mayhem like 6 times in a row just to get credit for that one badge. According to the Pargonwiki page on Firebug that how it was supposed to work.

Basically I didn't see anything that wasn't WAI as of a couple of months ago.
Are you suggesting these things are broken right now or that Safeguards specifically are broken?

People have been wanting some kind of offline costume viewer/editor for years but the Devs will likely never provide one (at least not one that's a legal, non-Korean version at any rate - you old timers might remember what I'm talking about).

There are some tricky legal issues involved and NcSoft was actually involved in some lawsuits over it. Bottomline in order to control costumes the Devs have made things so the only way you can edit/view costumes is by being logged into the game. Short of screenshots anything "offline" will probably never happen at this point.

Like Ms. Mesmer I didn't simply move the alt from one side to the other. The Halloween Tip (like every other Tip) vanished from my list the second I choose to switch alignments at the end of a morality mission.

I suppose it's possible that if I choose to switch back to the old alignment that the Halloween Tip would reappear but I highly doubt that based on my experience with alignment switching. When you change alignments the game permanently wipes any leftover Tip missions or progress on Tips. The Halloween Tip might work differently but I figure that's unlikely.

The only way I beleive the game keeps Tips in "escrow" as you put it is when you hop back and forth between redside and blueside without changing alignments.

I think the theme of this thread is that for the most uber-awesome IOs you can easily spend billions but you can still get IO-based improvements for well within 400 million if you're smart/careful about it.

I think some people get caught up in the idea that slotting IOs isn't worth the effort unless you spend billions on it. They forget that you can be 95% as effective without having to spend a fortune on it.

Based on what I've seen in the markets I figure maybe 90% of all IO recipes available are relatively cheap to buy. It's only the other 10% that'll cost you billions to get if you want them. As long as you don't bother trying to get the few hyper-expensive ones you can fully load up a build with IOs very easily with 400 million or less.

Yep this happened to one of mine as well: the moment you switch alignments in a morality mission the Halloween Tip is deleted.

So now that we know Halloween Tips survived after the end of the event but they are deleted upon alignment changes one has to wonder if people are going to try to hang on to them into the coming months. Maybe some people will even try to offer them up to the highest bidders for badges until next Halloween comes around...

I don't mind being wrong on a prediction like this when the net effect was that we could have very well guilted the Devs into fixing this quickly just so that they could prove us "negative Nellys" wrong.

So that would seem to answer the "Do the Halloween Tips stay around after the end of the Event" question.

The real problem I think people are going to have is that the only way to gain the badges from these Tips is to "complete" the mission.
This presumably means they'll only be usable once before they're wiped away until next Halloween.

Good luck to anyone who still wants those badges before next Halloween.
I think you'll have to convince people to burn their Tips for that.

Obviously we as players want to get as much new content as possible without having to pay extra for it.
That pretty much goes without saying.

But if it came down to the Devs deciding the only way they could afford to spend the time and effort on something like these new travel animations was to charge extra for it via a booster pack I'd rather have the OPTION to pay extra for it rather than never get them at all.

With the economy the way it is people have to get the "silver spoon" out of our mouths and realize we are still pretty lucky to get -anything- new for free any more. We can't keep expecting to think we are entitled to having everything given to us without having to pay extra for at least some of it. To believe we "deserve" it is wishfully naive.

That's why I said it had a "chance" to be good.
Then again I guess it's fair to say any movie has some chance for that.

Well then ironically you must have caught the ONLY episodes that featured the teenagers a lot. There were many episodes of Caprica which barely gave any screentime to those characters. Several eps didn't have them in them at all. Like I said the show had a lot of problems, but being pegged as a show "only teenagers would care about" was never one of them.

Oh I know how the system works and that they somehow manage to make money tossing out crap like this.
That's why I was hoping their consciences will at least make them feel bad about how they make their living someday. *shrugs*

There are plenty of reasons Caprica failed as a show.
But at least one of those reasons WASN'T that it was geared towards 15-20 year olds.
A few teenagers in a show does not automatically make that show a "teenaged" oriented show.

Disliking a show like this is fine, but at least dislike it for non-silly reasons. *shrugs*

My guess (assuming they weren't able to do any episodes to bring Caprica to some kind of reasonable conclusion) is that they'll try to work some bits and pieces of what Caprica tried develop into the new series to give it some overall continuity.