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I was one of the Telepathist spikers, and realized that probably the best strategy for handling the Telepathists might be to assign one person to each civilian group and take out any Telepathists that spawn with that group; that'll cut down on converted citizens. If you have people to spare, let them bounce between telepathists and help people having trouble.

Obviously, we couldn't do this last night because it would have been half our league. But I think it would be efficient.

Edit: Or maybe not.

Grats! Sounds like they took the Underground approach ("A good league has a good chance") to designing badges for MoM (except Dreamwalker, which is "Do it enough and you'll get it eventually") and TPN, which I'm glad to see.

If no one else beats me to it and depending how I'm feeling after Keyesing, I may try to organize MoM/TPN badge runs tonight. (And if I don't, I'm sure someone else will.)

Never tried it, but assuming it works like all the other rewards tables in the game, you can leave the rewards table open and wait for the timer to roll over before claiming a reward; even if you log out, it'll be there when you log back in.

Sure, if I add up the point cost of everything in a Pack, it would probably come out to more than 80. But most of the things in the Packs – everything but the Elemental Order pieces – is, to me, junk. I'm not spending points on junk just because I get it at a discount. And if that means I can't get the costume pieces... so be it.

Earlier in the thread, Sermon suggested not selling them as a set, just individual pieces. I like that idea, and this is another reason why.

Premiums can't use Kheldian or SoA enhancements*.
Tier 4 and below Premiums also can't use Mastermind or Controller enhancements.
Tier 3 and below can't even use the market to sell unusable or unwanted ATOs.

* Yes, they can buy access to the archetypes. But if you're willing to say, "You have to make a separate purchase to use this random thing you bought," you don't need to point out that ATOs can be used without a license.

I'm not particularly comfortable with the idea of things that can resold for inf being sold for real money/Paragon Points, but I like that better than the alternative of a player being stuck with a randomly-selected enhancement they have no use for.

Maybe the specific ATOs in the packs could be replaced by a token redeemable for an account-bound, level-scaling ATO of the player's choosing, but that has marketing implications. I don't know.

I'm a little confused about this one. There are only two 500-point Public Opinion challenges; the other caps at 250 and doesn't require reaching that threshold. So:

• Is the first challenge included in this?
• Do you have to get to 250 Public Opinion for the badge?
• Or did I miss a third challenge at some point?

You can get Not on My Watch (BAF) and Synchronized (Lambda) without completing the trials; they award immediately upon the requirements being met.

As one of the people who asked about this, I feel I should say that I agree. The thought popped into my head when Hawk mentioned possibly applying the Containment flag to new mez-immune enemies, and I hadn't considered the fact that the escapees aren't hard. Heck, my ice/storm controller, as it is, can pretty much lock down a door solo.

Thanks for the writeup, VK.

You're welcome, and thanks to Tabby for guiding us through the TPN trial.

And thanks and congrats to all who helped with both the TPN and the following MoM.

Congrats all on the successful run, all!

You're welcome. And of course, thank you, and everyone else who's come out and stuck with it this long. I can handle failure, especially when we're getting closer every time. I'd have given up months ago if forming was regularly a chore.

I remember the feeling when we finally got Loves a Challenge. Green Stuff's going to be even better, because it's taken longer, and the way we didn't get it last week was particularly cruel. (And because I have it on my emp due to a bugged run with no Green Stuff. WTB badge transfer!)

Sorry if I said something that made you feel singled out. That wasn't my intention, and almost never is; it's why I went with listing one of my mistakes rather than someone else's.

Anyway, pancake happens. And it gave me one more thing to mention in my briefings

Hey, good advice is good advice, and you can't hear it too often. Thank you for offering help

I've currently got the start time set at 4:30 EST. I'll probably be able to start before then, but I'd rather be early than late.

That's WAI; rewards are shared between all episodes of a single arc. However, the first run per episode per character grants the full rewards table. However, there was a slight nerf a few weeks back: You now have to reinforce your alignment as a hero/villain before you can take the alignment merit.

I believe just the ATOs and possibly the Catalysts will be sellable.

But even with they are, I don't want to buy inf from the Market. (I'm still not comfortable with the idea of the Market selling tradable items at all, although I concede it's better for randomly distributed ATOs to be tradeable than for a player to be stuck with an ATO for an archetype they don't enjoy, or worse, can't use. Actually, if they can't use certain archetypes, they may not have market access, either... yeesh, I'm liking this idea less and less...) So, I won't, even if it means I can't have the Elemental Order costume set, which I do want and would buy on its own.

Or the Celestial armor, which is supposed to be VIP-only?

The Super Packs, as currently outlined, have nothing to do with being VIP. Premiums can buy them. (Free players, strictly speaking, cannot, but only because in buying the points for the packs they'd be upgraded to premium.)

I'm willing to spend points on the Elemental Order costume pieces. Heck, I want to spend points on the pieces. However, I refuse to spend points on a pack that that might contain one or more pieces and the rest of the slots filled with junk I don't want.

If the Elemental Order costume pieces are offered for sale outside the Super Packs, I will buy them unless they're priced too exorbitantly. I will not buy Super Packs, regardless of whether the expected cost of buying packs until I have the whole set is less than the cost of buying the pieces separately, or even if it's the only way to get the pieces.

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In any case, thank you for the update, Zwillinger. It's encouraging news, and I hope that the costume pieces are made available outside the Super Packs.

Well, I wasn't going to buy them, and still won't, even though the only items in the pack that I care about are still, as of this announcement, exclusive to the pack. I've always been okay with the idea of Super Packs, just not exclusive items.

Hopefully the costume pieces will end up non-exclusive as well.