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If you put Defense Buff Enhancements into those slots, your Henchmen will have better Defense.

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This is not accurate. Adding a defense buff will increase the defense of, for example, protector bot shields, but not the henchman's inherent defense. If the henchman doesn't have a defense power, it won't accept defense buff enh.

-Checksum

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This is why you need to keep in mind that this post is from early beta, when they did accept defense enhancements.

Credit for that link really goes to pilcrow, here is his thread.

Great stuff!

Very awesome. Thanks

idkfa?

iddqd?

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you'd be amazed at how many people simply stand still out in the open (often alone I might add) just begging for a Stalker's attention,

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I prefer to call myself "sucker bait". Leave a little /afk above my head for added effect.

I heard that _Castle_ was the jerk hacker that our prophet spoke of.

What really happened with Chuck and Castle

Good stuff Ace! Just don't tell them about our ubb code profanity trick.....

Hope I don't fall off the wagon...

again.

Not really, but thanks anyway Ace!

How would I go about a two-step bind without self-loading bind files? Meaning I want the key to activate one power upon depression, a second command upon release. This way I can set my own "time-delay" for a cj/sj bind for someone. The idea is to press and hold spacebar, superjump activates and the charecter jumps, upon release combat jumping is toggled back on. I'm not asking for the whole bind, just the [on down] [on release].

Thanks!

Nice backgrounder! One question:

"armor piercing arrows"

Is this something currently pending to buff up archery and AR?

Argh! You're too nice for your own good Neon, but thanks! I put you down in this thread a while ago, but it's lost now. Speaking of which,

When do you want to do eden? I can give you either day this weekend or thursday evening.

NeonAngel is nice people. I've only played with her as stormsiren, but she's a great defender with an absurd amount of patience with dumb team mates. You rule!

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If you're having problems with your Reputation resetting to 0, please PM me as much info as you can about it... how much you had...

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Reputation points, or Scotch?

Johnny Walker has gotten me the first 3 debt badges so far...

Deleted so I don't come off as a smart [censored].

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Get people to put in alts until you've hit the 15 person "worth it" cap.

In fact, let me know which server you're on - if I can, I'll create drones and let you recruit them!

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I already did that before I started complaining about prices.

Sorry, let me clarify. I disagree with that also, but it seems that is the intent. But if you say under/around 15-20 active is a small SG, then absolutely they should be able to get a small raidable base going in a few months.

I am sorry that my group is too small to take advantage of this, it's my own fault for not doing the research on bases before buying CoV. It does appear to me that bases and raids were not intended for <10 person supergroups.

EDIT: RE: DJJester, thanks! Again I didn't do the proper research. This assuages some of my concerns, but I'm still really disappointed that my friends and I cannot have a raidable base.

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Well there's also the question of how many hitpoints it has. If it's a lot, who would bother damaging the supercomputer in a raid?

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Greifers. If they can raid a SG just to force them to spend another 3 million prestiege to replace their crafted items then it's worth it to them just for kicks. Who knows why they do what they do, but they enjoy it and they're good at it. They won't bother with the IoP, they'll just take out your most expensive items for fun so you'll spend thousands of in game hours to "earn" them back.

Keep in mind that you can't put defenses in energy and control rooms with the hidden plots.

EDIT: I know it's not griefing and it's a valid offensive tactic, but there will be groups that do this strictly for greifing purposes. Even legitimate raids may suffer from the "kick him when he's down" factor.

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I'll happily sign your nerf bat!

We'll have giveaways - I can answer questions - David will be doing sketches (I think). I can't wait.

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THIS is why our Dev team rules beyond compare!

I'm going to Philly for this for one reason:

To see if jack will sign a Nerf bat.

Oh, and to get drunk. Pontiacs on South Street! So two reasons...

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That 150k you earned in 2 hours wouldn't buy a generator. Something that in a base raid can be destroyed in six hits by a high damage dealer.

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Wow. If anyone ever gets a raid capable base going, I think I might consider destroying someone else's generator griefing. I understand that it's a viable tactic, but at a quarter million for the bare bones version, 1.5 mil for a quality crafted one destroying it sets the SG back by a huge amount. I couldn't bring myself to do it, that's just harsh. And i would have to think long and hard about not "/petitioning griefing" it if someone did.

Positron said this, which both assuages some of my fears and confirms others.

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Give it a couple weeks of play time. No one should be able to get the "base they want" in the first weekend. There need to be goals you play towards.

Let me know if a month from now you are still in the situation of never affording a base, or are nowhere near close enough. Then we may have a problem, but from the sound of it, your group plays enough that you will be able to get what you want in your base sooner than you'd think.

Keep in mind that prestige is NEVER consumed when building a base. Whatever you buy with it can be sold for 100% refund. The only "Prestige-sink" is base Rent. With the system like this, Prestige comes into the world in great amounts, and leaves it in only small chunks.

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That's great that we can sell everything and modify the base as much as we want/need, but my 4 person RL supergroup is having a [censored] of a time just putting together the basics. So while I see his point of a mostly 1 way cash flow, i do think the initial bonus/prices need to be high enought to get energy, control, and 1 worktable. The bigger stuff can be more expensive, fine. But I want to take advantage of the new crafting system and refuse to disband my small SG.

Shoshara Annwn and Federal.

Two damn nice people, even if Federal is a tank/blaster.

I'm an [censored]. And new.

A n00bhole if you will.