Starry Night

We should probably use one of those free guild website hosting thingies. I think they usually include forums. Anyone have any experience with them?

My tastes are usually not well-aligned with the mainstream, so I'm kind of used to having favorite TV show canceled, radio stations switch format, and brand names disappear. But, man, it does suck.

It was fine when I played it yesterday on live.

OK, all you folks out there who have played with us a few times but think you've fallen behind...first, you've never fallen behind with our group. I was dragging a level 20 through Dark Astoria with the time team.

Second, it's Double XP weekend coming up! Come join us! If you're still in Praetoria, we'll have you out in about fifteen minutes. You'll catch up fast.

Otherwise, probably a Sutter TF this weekend? Since I don't think everyone's had time to go vigilante yet? (And we can help with that, too!)

Well, after two sessions, Water Blast is turning out to be a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Not that I expected to hate it, but the written descriptions of the powers didn't really thrill me. I'm starting to get the hang of the Tidal Power system now, and I like the choices it forces you to make.

Water Blast has a lot of AoE early, too, and that was noticeable (I thought). Add in our wide variety of corruptors, and I think that equals "time to raise the difficulty".

My next character will be named King Ever Friendly Persona Creature.

I'm back from vacation, and Thalatta is waiting in Praetoria.

How would people feel about starting in Praetoria this time around? It's been a while since we did that (when First Ward was introduced, I think).

I've noticed this, too. I was running at the graphics setting just below the top, and I bumped down one notch. Got a lot better, but it's still slow.

Sorry for being logged in but not actually present yesterday...I was afk when the BAF was organized, I abhor the TPN, and by the time the Magisterium trial came along, my overall enthusiasm level had drastically waned.

It should be soon-ish. We've kind-of discussed some themes (some of them listed upthread), but so far, no one's start lobbying heavily for any one idea. If you've got some good ideas, post them or drop by the channel and mention them!

The time team has worked out really well. I know we're going to try for some of the Magisterium trial badges soon.

We have a group on Justice that runs theme teams. We are currently at the tail end of our Time Manipulation team, and soon we'll be voting on a theme for the next team. Watch the Time Manipulation Superteam thread in the Justice forum for an announcement.

Also, feel free to join the "Justice Superteamers" global channel and say hi. We are on regularly Friday and Sunday evenings, but you will catch people on at other times, too.

[edit] scooped by the King!

Hey, if I had a social life, you'd never see me logged in.

On Sunday we made Penelope Yin very confused. First we helped her fight Clamor & the Freaks in IP (PYTF). Then we beat up her and that crowd she's running with now, in the shadow of Atlas (LRSF).

Maybe another trial on Friday? Has anyone run MoM enough to lead it? I've only seen up to part 2.

Oh, yes. Yes. Very much yes. At least, it helped immensely for me, when I was on my older machine.

We did some DA arcs on Sunday (power-leveling my lowbie ice/time). And blew through an ITF (at around +0 for speed) with a half-team of pick-up folks.

Which means it must be time for an MoM or DD trial, right? Right?

I don't mind keeping our focus narrow, but I'm getting cold feet re: single archetype. While discussing it in channel, I've heard a few people say, "sure, as long as it's not archetype X", where X was different for each person.

Maybe a "matched set" of archetypes, like controller/dominator, or corruptor/defender?

Actually, I still like my idea of picking a matched blast and assault set. Widens up the archetypes, but everyone would be doing the same kind of damage.

I'm conflicted among the current choices. I like all-dominator right now, because I don't have a 50 yet and I enjoy the ranges sets. Tanker would be interesting, too. I'm not sure all-Stalker would play out great. It wouldn't to be bad I expect, but Stalker seems to engender a methodical approach with many small decisions along the way. Not sure that would work well in a free-flowing team atmosphere.

Maybe we should start goldside again...add a little challenge at the low levels. The existence of First Ward makes it easier to keep everyone together. If the devs hurry up, we'd even have Night Ward after that.

I can see some good themes farther in the future: Water Blast/Storm, Plant Control/Nature Affinity. Someday I still hope an all-EAT team will become truly viable from level 1.