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Random "O.o" moment of the day brought to you by the following:

Beta

Not sure you really can without the swift hammer of whatever putting the cabash on it. Anyone can read the regular sections of the forum, but only people logged in can see (and play) with the information. *shrug*

Haven't played it yet, but the info sure does give me embarrasing feelings down below reading about it.

Having been on a couple of actual badge attempts now, I'd like to throw out an idea:

Avoiding the green stuff *really* shouldn't be hard at all, but I think it's happening because there is a lot going on to pay attention to.....with the real factor(s) being either lag or animation time. What I've not seen on the few badge runs I've been on is someone warning about an incoming Green splat; the timer is there, but actively engaging AM and paying atteniton to green fields and not being disintegrated is going to affect a lot of people where they fire off something that will just take too long (and probably travel suppression is in play too). If people are using Vent for this, all the power to them, but there will be people not getting that extra warning (like me )

So while not an original idea, I'd like to see a dedicated caller for the Oblit beam. "~10 seconds till splash down" (especially if people are sitting in the hospital), get in a *quick* attack, and then everyone completely disengage until the green field shows up, allowing people to move out of the way first, and then fire off their Destiny and other long-animation powers. Take that long run on sentence rule! If given time, the idea would be that everyone, save a taunter, would actually group TOGETHER so that there will only be 2 possible places the green will splash down; where the taunter is or where the group is.

Personally, I've only been caught in the green once because I fired off Destiny, but a) I only did it because we already failed the green badge and b) I got caught on the edge of a box as I hopped away. *shrug*

Now questions:
* Has anyone tested the height of the green splash affected area? In Apex, there is a definite height limit of where it will affect you; when I'm on a flyer, if I stay ~40 feet up and I get a blue swirl, any and all melee can happily play underneath it without worry. I'll go higher if my attacks/debuffs have the range, but about 40 seems to be completly safe. If the same applies with the green stuff, flying would actually help *IF* the fliers pay extra attention to the details.

* Is there a displayed timer for Disintegration? I've only done this on my scrapper and he has yet to die during the AV fight regardless of 2, 3, FOUR! disintegrations in a row. For others, the extra warning might be useful?

* Disintegration targetting: Is there an "X is being targetted for disintegration" message? I could have sworn I've seen it SEPARATE of the oblit message, but the last run I did, I never got disintegrated, so am not sure.

I may be talking to myself with others having this aspect already mastered, but my lack of play time keeps me from getting more attempts in with random people who do their own thing anyway

Couple of things (seriousness need not apply):

* What a horrible article simply for the fact that there is no reporting on how the children are doing now. Almost doesn't seem "real".

* Gaming sites / services should take responsibility and limit how much time their patrons can use their services >.>

* People who are that into gaming never had time, nor the skillz needed, to perform the certain duties necessary to produce a child. Much less 3 of them.

* Equal rights supporters are up in arms over this; their motto "if you are going to sell your children, sell them for the same damn price!"

* This is a prime example of why pay-to-play is a bad idea <.<

No fancy splash with the badge which is annoying; I only even saw it because I had to check something on a recent badge and happened to see it there already.

And yeah, what Turg said.

I got it by the time I logged on last night. Is indeed the /vault ability; semi useful but not as much as /ah IMO.

It's a good 10 days before I "normally" would have gotten it, but it's actually on par with what I *should* have always gotten them I believe.

RE: CoT costumes

Massive thread about it with more pictures and Posi commenting. The one picture here is "ok", I guess, but the others shown make them look like Power Rangers to me. I didn't realize how bad, and unnecessary, this particular change is going to be.

I hate you..........now I have more to watch