Red_Raccoon

I was confused by the OP's first sentence as well, since obviously all IO sets need to be fully slotted to give the "full" benefits they offer. Perhaps this could have been reworded as "you don't usually need to slot the entire set to get all the worthwhile benefits."

Your friend is not alone, I also slot IO sets purely for the sake of collecting them. For me, it's a game within a game. While I won't deliberately gimp a power with an IO set, and obviously I prefer sets that confer a tangible in-game benefit, I have slotted IO sets that don't much improve my character simply for the sake of slotting the set. Generally I prefer to collect the whole set just for the satisfaction of completion, although in some cases where the cost vs benefit is just too ridiculous, I have settled for incomplete sets.

The AE beam is probably where you should have clicked. When this happened to me (and also in previous instances I've seen reported on these boards) the AE beam replaced the normal mission door for the mission.

This has been happening since right after AE went live, so it's an old bug that has just never gone away.

If you are hidden, your character name is grayed out in the SG window exactly as if you were offline--even when you are looking at the window. This is an easy one you can check for yourself to confirm.

I was going to ask the same question, but I realized that the chances of getting a coherent answer approaches 0.00%.

Based on the info in the OP's post, those two would still only have half the flight time of one regular raptor pack.

The jetpack receipe is recent. I didn't know what was involved in crafting one, but if what the OP says is true, it doesn't seem like the costs of crafting one vs the alternatives make much sense. Does it look different? That could be a factor for some.

See, I can understand players not choosing ice for that reason, or else asking for it to be changed, but I'm not sure why they would demand it be removed. Unless they assumed doing so would cause something else to be added in its place?

The one that surprises me is removing ice from brutes. Why would players request that?

Yeah, but the rates on those long distance calls to ancient Rome are a killer...

Surprisingly enough, this was not the first superhero with detachable limbs. There was also Captain Marvel. No, not the legendary hero published by Fawcett, nor the semi-legendary hero later published by Marvel, but a lame robot hero published by a totally forgettable comic company in the years between the other two Captain Marvels.

This.

Contacts are a good place to buy inspirations, but that's it.

There have been some complaints about emailed inf disappearing when the globals went down. I don't know if that really happened or if those people were able to recover the inf or not, but personally any time I send anything valuable to myself via email, I'm claiming it asap. Might be a viable way to store stuff, but I'm not taking changes.

I'm more nervous about taking the elevator in those dilapidated, abandoned office buildings.

That was it. I guess the badge description works both ways--Protean failed to kill you because you avoided being blown up, or Protean failed to kill you because you survived being blown up.

Anyway, I'm glad I still got the badge.

I did get a badge after I failed to exit in time. I don't remember the name of the badge (can't check at the moment) but I think the badge title was something about being blown up, so I believe it may have been result-specific (meaning I assume that I would have gotten a different badge had I got out in time). I could be wrong, though, so don't quote me on this.

All of these new arcs have instances where you have a choice of how to respond. None of the choices seemed to affect the course of the story arc in any major way, but I definitely get the feeling that this is a taste of how things will work with GR and missions where your choices do have consequences.

Back on topic, I was able to figure out pretty quickly that I needed to find the working elevator, but I had trouble seeing where I was going because of all the fire. Next time I'll try to familiarize myself with the map layout a bit better. Even though I didn't escape in time, it still seemed like I completed the mission successfully. Is there a merit reduction if you don't get out before the timer ends?

I should point out that /stuck doesn't seem to work in this case--least it didn't for me on the 4 occasions I got stuck there. The other solutions work just fine. However, if you are trying to leave Cimerora and get stuck in the crystal at the Midnighters Club (yes, you get stuck going both ways), self destruct will send you to the hospital back in Cimerora. So the only way to get out is to use one of the teleport options.

Anyone who doesn't have access to one of the teleporter options should just stay away from Cimerora for now.

Here's a bug I haven't seen mentioned yet: while the new feature that shows the last mob on your map is a great boon and has helped me out a lot, I've run into two occasions where the last enemy was not where the green arrow indicated he should be. On the first such occasion, it was a defeat all mission and I had to petition a GM to help me finish the mission. The GM teleported me to the location of the last enemy, and it was half way across the map from where the green arrow indicated he was. Weird. Anyone else run into this?

Even with the red star, a leader who is inactive for 45 days (or however long it is set to under settings) will be auto-demoted as soon as another member logs in (and the new member will be auto-promoted to super leader in his/her place). Nothing you can do to prevent that other than to kick all other players out of your group before you go inactive (if no one else logs in, even after 45 days, you retrain super leader status indefinitely)