SerialBeggar

Tangent:
Early last year, I happened to notice that there was a lot of Terlingua, TX land being offered on eBay. I wondered why. There isn't much now, by the way.

Maybe the GM didn't enable seeing enemy chat?

The low level ones are also expensive because they allow you to slot them earlier. For example: so your Fire Tank isn't bounced around like a ping pong ball for the next 40 levels, so that you can actually tank.

Like Mental_Maiden says, I don't use the Reward Merits often. Meanwhile, I join TFs a lot. Most of my characters have several hundred Reward Merits and a few have 1K+ saved. But that's really not impressive compared to others who I've heard maxed out their Rewards Merits inventory. In addition to the TFs, I don't make new characters often, so I don't have a steady need for a lot of Set IOs all at once. Like I've mentioned, I've pre-bought stacks of most of the Sets IOs that I've found that I like to use, years in advance. So even when I do have a new build to assemble, I'm not in a pinch.

Not in NYC. I got selected for Grand Jury a few years ago. The term was a flat 20 days (4 weeks) unless there was a case still open, then we'd be held until it was done.

Grand Jury duty was actually pretty fun. If you have the time to spare and an employer who's willing to pay you for the month, I'd recommend that you let yourself get selected. Unlike a "real" jury, there's no pressure to make a permanent life affecting decision. You're basically just prescreening the Asst Dist Attorney's evidence, witnesses, etc. to see if his/her case has merit to proceed to court.

During the course of the month, we heard a lot of cases. Most were broken up in to several presentations. I guess it depended on scheduling of the witnesses and experts. After the first couple, I had to jot down some generic notes to keep track of them. It's allowed, but you can't make any case-identifiable notes or take them home.

By the way, some of my fellow jurors were concerned about the friends of the accused brought in as witnesses and even the accused who wanted to speak brought in, might try to memorize their faces for retaliatory purposes (like in the movies). If you are also concern, then I suggest that you volunteer to be the jury foreman or assistant foreman. I was picked to be the foreman and from what I observed, even if the presentation lasted an hour or two, the most the accused or friends of the accused saw my face was 3 times for a total of less than 30 secs. They'll look at me when they come in because I'm sitting at the big desk, but the bailiffs usher them to the witness stand chair immediately. They'll look at me when I'm reading the honesty oath, but I'm reading it off a much photocopied sheet of paper in a bored sort of way. And if I happen to have a question for the accused, I'd have to come down and around whisper it to the ADA (who if they think the question is relevant would do the asking to the accused). That's it. Whereas the rest of my fellow jurors are all sitting in front of the accused for the whole hour or so.

If you can't get the foreman or assistant foreman position (who does nothing except sub for the foreman in case the foreman is out sick), then I suggest volunteering for the secretary and assistant secretary positions. They just log the cases into the journal, ie copy the info from the slip of paper from the ADA into the book. They do still sit in front of the witness stand, but off to the side a bit.

But the big plus to taking one of these 4 positions is that you automatically have a table to eat your lunch at! Unlike the others who need to share/crowd around the supplies table or eat at their chair.

This happens to me all the time, to the point where I don't even bother using Insps during a fight. I believe the cause, for my own case, is due to me waiting until I'm down to 1/4th health before I decide that yeah, maybe I'm not going to be able to clear all these bad guys before I get defeated. So I'm running backwards and hopping (to get over obstacles) while desperately clicking away at a green Insp. The Insp typically never activates for me and I die. Thus I've come to the same conclusion as Mr_Morbid: Insp are on the same queue as other actions, but lower priority. Nowadays, when the going gets rough, I just focus on to getting my butt around a corner, before I use an Insp.

Why Pylons? Am I correct in assuming because they don't regen?

Those are Orgnica's shill bids that were put up to create the illusion of demand.