Turgenev

It's still in there, yep. And yeah, it's just a badge, no "worth" to it beyond ePeenie quantification.

Heya, Cyber:

First, a more appropriate forum for this should be "Mission Architect: Resources, Discussion & Questions", found here:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=583

(The "Stories and Lore" forum is more for the creative process vs technical issues.)

Now, to answer:

Tickets can be used to buy recipes, salvage, enhancers, etc. However, if you have any desire to engage in MA storywriting, I'd strongly suggest getting the various account-based "unlocks" first, since once you get them, they're yours forever. These include special maps, costume pieces, auras, signature heroes/villains, etc. Once these are gotten, then you can consider all future tickets "fluff" and spend it on recipes, salvage, etc.

Making a popular arc is a fantastic way to earn tickets as well, as people who 3-5 star your arc net you 15-25 tickets with each vote.

Set aside a small cupboard for Turgenev when he comes to visit, and stock it with the following:

So there you have it. I should add that I was on an earlier beta account that got me in through March before I got my own account in the 2nd/3rd week of April, 2004.

Five years of goodness. Good times.

It's on my list. Right now, my Bachelor's Crew is voting between NYC for Peter Luger's, DC for convenience, and Atlantic City for pure, unfiltered sin.

Someone found his smirk.

Your choices for the evening:

Bloodseethe: Lvl 33 Night Widow
Blood Supremacy: Lvl 38 Fire/Pain Corruptor

Choose, and perish.

They were saying that before AE too. Farming complete newbies is not a new phenomenon, on any server.

Same. I'd like to see "Dev Week", akin to "Shark Week" from Discovery Channel, but imagine the /tell hell the rednames would be in from all the people asking for teams? INF? XP? Powerleveling? That evasive "I WIN" button?

Still, yeah, I can get behind TonyV's idea. Make the weekend about the players and the developers, rather than the loot harvesting. 2x XP doesn't benefit the most populous servers when there are lockouts (although AFAIK it didn't happen, but I have my own pet theory on that).

Depends on where the fault is. If the issue is a clientside crash bug that's not due to an image inconsistency, having to wait for that reverify to conclude each time isn't necessary. If it's serverside - same deal.

Huh. I wonder if there were trunking issues this weekend?... I don't know where my previous teamies were from though...

We (at least, all the teams I ran on) still had the crashes, and in-game an increased degree of performance degradation, but no lockouts.

I saw a bunch of application crashes this weekend myself, where the GUI didn't even go to the "COH has experienced a crash, please upload a dump file so we can help", it just outright disappeared. Lag was pretty nasty too; my average Freedom ping (and I can DRIVE to the server, I'm close enough) is around 100ms, and this weekend I was seeing pings of 200 to 400ms.

Same. I have two new redside toons I'd like to run for this, depending on what the group needs.

Behind Door #1: Bloodseethe (Level 33 Night Widow)
Behind Door #2: Blood Supremacy (Lvl 31 Fire/Pain Corruptor)

Pardon the intrusion; I was driving by through the UK on my way to France, then back to the US, when I saw this post.

First, great thread name. Sounds like a song by Emo Philips.

Second, on the merit harvesting: On Freedom, we've been able to lock the zone for population count,so we're fielding 5-7 teams easily. With each run, the teams net about 300-500 merits a piece. What makes the big hero/villain count more chaotic is the Rikti spawn count, but if your crews are focused and can follow orders on the Request channel (that's how we do it, at least), you can keep each saucer raid flowing for merits for about an hour a piece, until all the bombs are gone.

When Issue 10 hit, we were walking away with 1000+ merits a piece. Truly the best of times!

Dang, you Brits're needy.

(I'm entertaining one of your nationalist brethren in my office right now. He's needy too. "I need a laptop!" "I need a Blackberry!" "BON BONS! BRING ME BON BONS!!" I swear.)

Do you have a link where that smirk still exists? If so, hyperlink the image.

I'd vote for an American ultra-lounge. Vegas, baby!

(Was supposed to have his bachelor's party in Vegas... can you smell the bitterness?)

This. Don't let game instability stop you from teaming.

I strongly disagree. Sorry to see you go, but me an' my full global list of gaming savants will remain here and continue to have fun on a daily basis.

If you decide you actually want to run with some of us, who are organizing scheduled runs and teams on a daily basis here on the boards, you're welcome to participate.

If you prefer to just leave, well, ciao.

-T.

Ciao!

-T.)