Tyger

I searched, it hasn't been posted that I could reasonably find.

There's three of the Rebirth powers which give this heal credit:
Partial Core Invocation
Total Core Invocation
Core Epiphany

The reason is the +MaxHP component of the power which adds HP to any target and 'heals' them for the amount. I went with Total Core Invocation which has a wider radius and I was healing about 5K while waiting for a trial to start. When we were in the trial and getting damaged it meant I could potentially heal each single target from 354.8 if they were at full health to a maximum of 749.63 if they had taken the difference or more in damage. For fun I also worked out if I could manage to get 255 targets within the radius, I'd get anything from 95,574 to 191,155.65 heals

And if you want to farm the healing badges: Cimerora has a line of Imperious' soldiers on the battlemounts behind him, both above and at ground level. Start a flashback (I used one of the Daedalus arcs and teleported to contact via the crystal), park in the middle of the line and just put the Rebirth power on auto. Took me a week to go from 145K to 10 million heals, most of it overnight.

Okay, calmer now. This struck a few nerves with me (at least three that I could note) so I'll try and say way. And sorry to Zwillinger for being the messenger shot by that bullet.


1. The time.
The time, not the timing, being 4pm Pacific translated to 12am GMT for me and at least 1am for our friends on the continent. After a long day it got my inner conspiracy theorist going about how late the post was. As someone pointed out to me it's about the end of the 9-5 working day in Cali.

2. The wording.
Well the wording as you can see states that this is a MERGER of the server lists and it obviously isn't. It's an INTEGRATION of the EU servers onto the NA listing.

I'll explain: I currently work for a company that bought out the last company I worked for (same place of work, different upper management now). It was a buyout of a private company to one that trades publically. To the day that the old head office shut our formers bosses kept wording it as a merger of our two companies, implying that it was an equal partnership coming together to form a new company and it wasn't. We had been BOUGHT OUT. It's not a merger if one side buys the other outright.

So when I see 'merger' it implies that like the forum merger which was a merger of two seperate forum archives into a new database unlike the announcement which goes on to say over and over that only EU players are being affected by this amalgamation.


3. The EU players second-class treatment.
After so many years, posts and threads about being 'second-class citizens', we finally get something that has met with almost universal praise by everyone and it gets one last back-hand in that we are guaranteed to lose out one last time for the reason that 'it will affect the least amount of players'. I just found it so hard to stomach that we were basically being subverted one last time before we're finally considered equal.



And to those who said 'like it or lump it'; remember the last time it happened? Not on the network itself but on the base price changes? Oh yeah, you remember now? No? Well, let's tell the story.

The decision was made to revisit base prices around i13 and the verdict was that the prices would change and in order to benefit from the change you had to destroy your exisiting bases and reclaim the prestige that way, like it or lump it. And it was lumped, lumped a lot! Post after post about how hard-working base-builders had been here for years, that they deserved to be treated better and that the changes should be retroactive. And then the news came that they were going to be retroactive, once you'd popped into the editor for whatever scripting algorithmn to work its magic.

The decision was 'like it or lump it'. it was lumped and things changed for the better. Long-term vets and new users benefited.


Now, here's the situation I'm in:

Game account wise; I actually HAVE the conflicting US account. I named both my first accounts for each version the same because four years ago when I set it up; I never thought the server lists would ever be merged. EVER! Now they have, I'm paying for a decision I made four years ago when our localisation staff were still around and seperation was 'a good thing'. I would prefer to rename my own account rather than have a prefix 'just because'.

Global wise? Losing out. But I'll expand on that. When the forums were merged, we got lumped with an _EU or _NA for every conflict. I got Tyger_EU. Fair enough, I figure a solution would come later as merging the two together was the priority. Then it did, a first-come, first-served email to the support staff to get it changed back or to an alternative. Which was better than the alternative of 'who'd been here longest' because of Tyger_NA. I would've been beaten by 16 days by someone who'd registered, made one post and never logged in again.

Now I have to compete with Tyger42 except he wins by default because he is on the NA listing. My main is actually called Tyger so when I log in, I'll get @Tyge instead. Tyger42 hasn't logged into the forum since the 3rd of January which might not be an indication of playing habits but given the statistics came back with at least 500 posts in the previous 18 months, he used to be a very frequent poster, at least 20 a month. He may not play anymore, he may have let his account lapse, he may feel his ears burning, log in tomorrow and prove he's still with us, shaking his fists at my daring challenge to 'his' name. Since global chat came in Issue 3 which was the European release and my choice was my main Tyger as well..... he still wins because he's on the NA list (maybe he'll just give me the finger instead ).

And then what about the US players? I notice that it's only EU players that get a rename in cases of conflict but what if the US players wanted to change? Maybe they're sick of having their current (conflicting) global and wouldn't mind a change to something else but no rename token to do it with?

I still think the forum solution would be a better choice; of appending _NA and _EU to conflicting globals and letting us fight it out. At least that's a choice and:

99.9% of us would accept that choice, even if there's a chance we could lose anyway.

Holy Necro Thread, Batman!

I'm also wondering how the listing will affect globals since I have a counterpart in the US with the same handle. My US global is unique but it will be a shame if I lose my name after all this time.

I already had two second homes on Infinity (heroes) and Virtue (villains). This just means I'll be able to invite my own alts on every server now.

I don't since the only friends I know who want to play City already are.

"It makes our 50s stronger" is probably what I'd summarise it, "Like inventions" to clarify it...


... then explain inventions.

Some PMs are getting through but I was unable to reply to one I got.


Someone needs to change the hamsters again.

Actually it was reduced during the great SG Badge adjustment. It now requires only 1 million heal points in SG mode.

See here for Tree of Wonders, unlocked by Auto-Doc Plans. It will buy pretty much everything a vendor will except for special stuff like winter present insps.

I've had fraud issues with my card for purchasing anything City related the FIRST time it happens because NCSoft comes up as an overseas company (since the store is either US or Korean). I've had at least two cards put on hold because of the small booster prices being charged even though it was me both times.


I'd check with your bank/card handler as well, especially if you've had a new card issued recently. Mine tend to reset the 'favourites' when they issue a new one.

The worse part is you now can't target ALLIES during the rez animation either. So popping shields, mez-resist or healing on them is like dancing on a knife edge.

Revamps ARE new content. Faultline, RCS/RWZ and Praetoria (it bled into the old Portal Corp arcs after all). I would welcome going back and fixing a lot of the tedious old content as it would entice me to play it rather than look upon it with scorn.


And there's two/three islands that could be opened up for the missing villain ranges.

It came with Issue 19 along with the set bonus display fix.

You can still get a rough idea what someone's alignment is if they have faction-specific day jobs. Nice that it defaults as off rather than on.

Just checking as I don't want to mess it up again; the level ranges for Nova, Imperial and Neutropolis are 10, 15 and 20 respectively so can you still get the moral choice single-player missions for each zone at these levels?

Kill off a min character each quarter? Not this crap again.