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I am trying to level up .. Of course I kill every mob on the map. LOL I want every drop of XP, every bit of potential salvage and every single recipes that ,MAY be attached to a mob in every mission.

And if you think that's silly I did an ITF once and we completed the TF taking down Rommi. About 3 or 4 of the members immediately disappeared outside while the rest of us cleaned up the remaining mobs near the plaza. I got a Purple drop during that short time that I sold for 300 million. Of course by that time the quick to run teammates were gone but don't you think they'd be kicking themselves wondering.. "If I'd stayed inside I might have gotten that!" LOL

Definately agree and also I am a Trek fan from WAY back and the first to admit that if it were not for the cult popularity of the original none of the spin offs would have ever existed. Still in my own opinion Star Trek Next Generation was a much better show. Obviously the ability to create better graphics helped a lot .. come one let's face it in some of the old TOS shows you could practically see the string holding up the model of the Enterprise. More than that though the character develpoement was far superior. Kirk was the main focal point of most of the original shows and the running joke was.. which alien female will he sleep with this week and how long before his shirt get ripped off. STNG was much more of an emsemble show with episodes highlighting various members of the crew.. including some personal favorites that were not even in every episode.. Q for one and Lt. Barkley for another.


I was happy to see Farscape made the list. I loved that show and am still angry that SciFy removed it from their line up not because it wasn't popular but mainly because it cost too much to do. Yeah there's a great way to increase your veiwers keep the crappy made-for-TV movies you run on Saturdays but drop the highly popular, funny and interesting show that has people staying home on Friday nights to see. DUHHHHH

X-files is number 7 behind LOST Was the person that came up with this list on drugs.

Yep! Like I said there is no real right or wrong answer. We could even use the word as a adjective to define any of them as aliens. The Rikti do not look like us, they do not talk like us and they have decidedly different values than we do. In other words their appearance, manner of speaking and actions are ALIEN to our own. hehehe Obviously one look at a Shivan, Hydra or Soldier of Rularuu and we can see that their appearance is decidedly alien to what we generally percieve as humanoid.

Now Praetorians are a little more difficult to classify in that manner since they do look and even talk like we do. We can't even really say their society is totally alien to out own since throughout the history of earth, well portions of it anyway, we have had more than our fair share of emperors that ruled and abused power. Guess we have to stick with the legal definition to term them as alien.

Ahh beat me to it Narkor. There is nothing preventing you from shutting off the xp for 2 missions so you can complete an arc. You will stil earn influence needed to buy or craft emhancements, still get recipe and salvage drops.. the only thing you lose is the xp that got you to 15 and made you outlevel the contact to begin with.

Personally I used this same method to ensure a character I had that was rapidly approaching level 10 in KR didn't out level the Atlas Bank mission and the chance to obtain a raptor pack.

Another way to slow down and allow yourself to experience more content would be to go to a field rep and reduce the level of the enemies you battle to -1. You will still earn xp but at a lesser rate.

Of course both methods are only stop gaps that would let you complete an arc.. aside from that why would you want to shut or or turn down xp. The idea is to level up .. not stagnate.

I tend to agree with DarkGob on this.. In defining alien ask one simple question.... Did I have anyone in my high school graduation class that looked like , talked like , or originated from there. LOL

Yes at some point the Rikti were humanoids just like us but they were altered a long time ago and it required a dimensional portal for them to arrive bent on destroying us. The Hydra .... same thing If I recall correctly, based on the abandoned sewer trial, the Rikti imported the Hydra from some other dimension and brought them to our earth. The fact that both those dimensions technically were alternate versions or our PRIMAL earth still doesn't change the fact that they don't come from here but are here now causing problems. Along those same lines yeah I would consider the Praetorians to be aliens. Again they come from another variation of earth in another dimension but just because they look and sound like us doesn't change the fact that they didn't take a quick airline ride to arrive here.. they used transdimesional portals to arrive. Would we be more inclined to think of them as aliens if the Hamidon had achieved total victory on THAT earth and it was bunch of Devouring Earth pouring through a hole in the sky to attack us

Now if we want to get really technical while the Rularuu are alien in nature since, I believe, there was only one brief period in game where they invaded earth when they were first introduced (Sorry that was before I began so I am not sure but I seem to recall reading about it). We are the ones now that constantly travel to their world and even have established various bases and outposts (Firebase Zula, etc), Technically WE are the alien race in their universe not the other way around LOL

So my list would look like this

Kheldans we know for a fact they arrived from outer space

Shivan They appeared here after Astroids from SPACE hit the planet

Rikti/Hydra Don't care if their planet looks a lot like ours they didn't originate here and they are invading us

Praetorian See explanations for Rikti/Hydra only they do look like us

Now to expand into the magical worlds

As Bill mentioned COT Demons .. last I checked there was no zip code or area codes to the nether world. They may not be from outer space but they are definately alien to us.

Croatoa's Fir Bolg, Red Caps and Tautha certainly fall into the same sort of other wordly area as the COT demons... not sure about the Cabal they are witches but real or imagined we have myths dating back centuries about witches here. As for the ghosts... well I believe they are former residence of Salamanca so while they may no longer be among the living they are certainly not aliens. Same goes for the ones on the ghost ship.. they didn't appear from out of a dimensional rift or emerge from a space ship.. they rose from their earthly graves to haunt us.


Okay now for some real controversy.. Giant mosters

Kraken is tied to the Hydra so he would be an alien

Babbage is really just a bunch of scrap metal that the Clockwork King and his metallic minions created so he's not an alien

Adamastor is a sea creature banished from the ocean depths for attacking the sea godess Thetis. He wasn't originally a part of the Banished Pantheon but they somehow found and control him.. Born right here on THIS planet he is not an alien just REALLY ugly lol

Jurassic is associated with the Devouring Earth and the theroy is he was somehow created by all of the toxic chemicals dumped in Crey's Folly.. he's home grown. No alien and we can all thank Countess Crey for having him to deal with. That sedan on the end of his club HURTS

Jack in Irons and Eochia.. one's the Red Cap boss the other the Fir Bolg so if we buy into beings from the nether world being aliens.. that's what they are

Sally .. No sorry she, like the Loch Ness monster, is probably just a left over dinosaur too stubborn to be extinct. hehehe She's a home grown gal and defiantely no alien

Kronos Titan is just a giant robot built by the Malta group right here. Just like Babbage just a lot of wires and circuits not alien

and of course .. Lusca. Really just a giant octopus that, at least according to Paragon Wiki, may have grown to her huge size as a result of pollution from Crey Industries. I am sure the longshoremen in IP are thrilled to death with Countess Crey over that. non alien as well

Caleb is a COT demon so again we are back to is the nether world, spirit world or whatever part of our planet or not. Tied to magic and the COT i vote for alien

Deathsurge. supposedly appeared sometime after Dr. Aeon fired up the PTS and at least one theory is he's a demon released when the Arachnos tapped in Mount Diablo .. depending on exactly HOW he came to exist .. he could be non alien if its simply a result of Aeon's flawed science ( The man has taken way too many hits in the head) or if he's a demon then we are back to that spirit world dilemma again LOL

Ghost of Scrapyard is just another ghost.. a very powerful one but still at one point prior to Mako killing him he lived and worked in Sharkhead so he is no alien

The Arachnos Flyer Okay I am still not sure how aircraft got classified as a GM but it did. since it was built by Arachnos and requires human pilots to work it is by no means alien

which, at present, leaves us with Lord Winter. He appears in our realm every winter, since 2009, and attacks. Recently we have begun attacking him in his realm as well (which looks very suspiciously like Croatoa). He's got a sort of mystical magical feel about him so I'd say he'd fall in with the demons and such.. The giant snowball has his own realm/dimension.. he's a alien.

Is there a right or wrong answer to this question.. not really. My grandfather arrived in the USA in 1917 and processed through Ellis Island along with a lot of other ALIENS from European countries coming to settle in American for the chance at a better life. The word has a lot of different meanings:

• Alien (law), a non-citizen inhabitant of a country
• Extraterrestrial life, defined as life that does not originate from Earth
• List of alleged alien beings (ufology)
• Any introduced species, a species living outside its native distributional range

So as you can see even a type of animal native to say the western United States that suddenly migrated to the Eastern portion could be considered an alien using the introduced species defination. Using the introduced species defination we can certainly define Hydra as aliens. With just a bit of a stretch we can also include the Rikti and the Praetorians. They may come from AN EARTH but they don't come from this one. Besides they never applied for a green card and they are both determined to defeat and enslave us.

Not to pick on you in any way Je_saist but I cant say I agree with you. First off we have a lot of Task forces and Trials that require a minimum number of players TO START. But once they begin if a player leaves for Real World Issues or simply disconnects and never returns I have never seen a message on a Statesman TF, or an ITF saying the Task Force failed simply because I didn't have the required number of team mates. As we all know there are players that have soloed or duoed the ITF alomg with many of the other 45-50 level Task Forces. So the example has long been set that while you need a set number to start something as long as you have the ability to finish it.. you are allowed to do so.

Now it sounded like Leandro's team wasn't having any problems when those players disappeared.. They managed to take out 2 of 3 Reactors without them so it was hardly a case of "We are sorry but your team cant possibly continue you dont have enough people.. Trial Failed!"

It's been mentioned that IF the Devs were going to institute something like this it should happen in a reasonable amount of time. By that I mean it should not be a matter of the moment the team drops below the limit POOF they are done.. People do dc and come back so lets say they made it 5 minutes. If a player isnt back by then chances are he or she isn't coming back. But allowing the league to get half way through the trial after a member disappears and then out of the blue failing the thing is just wrong. As Leandro mentioned those players had 30 minutes invested in that trial and sounds likes they were doing quite well. So there was no reason to suddenly boot them all and force them to recruit again and start all over.

Frankly the whole idea seems silly to me. It was not a case of trying to start the trial under the limits and doesn't even sound like a case of purposely dropping someone to be able to brag we did it with 11. Add the fact the on other things there are players bragging they soloed a TF designed for 8 players and no one fromN Soft seemed to care about that so why suddenly start caring NOW

Bill is totally correct. I sort of tested the coversion from threads to IXP on BETA when they were giving away astrals and emps. To go for absolute zero % to open .. Judgement and Interface require 30 threads/ 30 million INF each. To do the same with Lore and Destiny it required 45 threads/45 million in INF a piece.

Now if you have run a few trials and earned say 10 or 20% of that total obviously you use less but at most a portion of 1 thread and a portion of 1 million INF is the most you are wasting to finish opening any power slot. If it's Judgement or Interface it isn't even being wasted .. simply transfers and begins the process of opening Destiny or Lore. So at most you are wasting a total of 2 threads and 2 million in INF to have all 4 powers opened up. well to be totally correct you are WASTING part of that 2 threads/2 million... the other part was used to buy whatever percentage of IXP you still needed to be done.

And yes folks if you just did the math that means you need 150 threads and 150 million in Inf to open up all 4 powers without ever doin a trial..

So if you are doing TFs and earning shards.. you can convert 10 shards a day to 10 threads for 2.5 million You need to EARN 10 shard a day and convert daily and in only 15 days you will have what you need at a cost of 37.5 million INF. Then convert all those shards to threads and you have 4 brand new open powers with nothing slotted in them and it cost you another 150 million.

Each tier one power required three common components at a cost of 20 threads each or 60 total and each tier two power require an umcommon (60 threads) and two more commons (40 threads). So to get all 4 powers to tier 2 you will now need another 640 threads 60 threads + 100 threads X 4 powers. thats another 64 days of converting shards to threads and an additional cost of 160 million INF.

At that point you have gone through 347.5 million in influence and still don't have one addition level shift. To get one power (LORE or Destiny if you want a level shift) to tier three you will now need to make 4 uncommons and gather an additional 100 threads... 4 x 60 = 240 for the uncommons plus the 100 so JUST to craft a rare requires another 340 threads and then you need another 2 commons to actually craft a rare(tier 3) power for a total cost per power of 380 threads.. That's another 34 days of converting 10 shards to ten threads at an additional cost of 85 million. Do that twice and you now have al three level shifts! Lets total that all up for you shall we

In all its going to take you 147 days ( or almost 5 months) to convert shards to threads and open and slot judgement to tier 2, Lore to tier 3, interface to tier 2 and Destiny to teir 3. You will spend roughly 517.5 million in Influence to achieve that. You could cut costs by only slotting Judement and Interface to tier one or not slotting them at all but JUDGEMENT is actually a good power ( a mini nuke that recovers fast and doesn't use up all you end) and INTERFACE allows any AT to debuff enemies and do added damage over time.

That's what anyone trying to gain incarnate powers without doing trials faces at the moment so wasting part of 1 thread and a portion of million in INF to finish opening a power seems like a small price to pay to me.

EXACTLY you win an all expenses paid trip to Kings Row. LOL sorry our budget is pretty small.

The only players that can even enter any of the trials are 50 levels.. There is no reason to worry about dying anymore since you are at the highest level you can ever attain. Now I am not saying you shouldn't resist death as much as possible since a live team mate that can fire off attacks, buffs, debuffs, etc is much more useful than one laying face down of the floor. But an attitude of "I won't even try that part cause I'll just end up dead" in my opinion STINKS.

There were plenty of Defenders, Controllers and other "Squishy" AT on the league in question but they all headed inside and did the best they could. As I mentioned the Tank I was playing was on her first ever Lambda and only her 2nd Trial .. Not a single level shift so she was at a -4 disadvantage and died 3 or 4 times during that same trial but as soon as i rezzed in the hospital i rushed back, passing the MM that refused to help, on the way. I never decided I'll just hang around out here while you +3 types finsih up in there.. I went back and added my damage to the mix until we had all the acids and grenades.

The MM in question was nothing more than a leech, as one of the other team members pointed out, happy to stand around outside waiting to dance in the cut scene rather while the rest of us did the work. I loved his comment after he managed to make the trial fail...

"I had NO idea!" Really? You didn't see any of the warnings about the trial failing if Maurader leaves the compound? On ANY of the Lamdbas you have been on? And Since you knew exactly where to stand so you'd be in the cut scene don't even think about saying you never did one before. He's on any number of peoples lists at this point and I am sure word will spread and he wont have to worry about dying on the Lambda anymore.. cause he'll be hard pressed to find anyone that will invite him to join one.

Sadly, at least for now, no there is not. A long time ago I noticed another player that kept a list of the one's he'd defeated in his bio and I started doing that. If you can remember which one's you have battled THAT is about the best you can do right now. All the badge tracker will say is 5 of 14 but has no way of telling you which are the 9 you still require.

Thanks Devil.. Like I said it was something I was thinking about and then someone else on the Keyes island trial mentioned the same thing so I decided to post it.

Now ... I have posted this before as well but "The squeeky wheel gets the grease!" so:

I still feel that players should be given a token or whatever and allowed a ONE time only chance to switch LORE pets. I realize there is nothing preventing anyone from have as many types as they want but..

People started asking for more types of pets, besides Praetorian, back when the new powers were still in beta. Very few players were willing to hold off on slotting LORE to at least tier 3 becasue the Devs made that power one of the two that grants an additional level shift during trials. *I could have all 4 different judgement powers too but frankly I have over a dozen differnet characters working on incarnate stuff and am not about to waste threads and components on spare powers. I thin you'll find most players probably feel the same.

I;m not asking for us to be able to constantly break down our powers and start over just give us one "respec" for lack of a better term and allow us to switch from Seers to Longbow at the same tier. Again this is an idea I have heard other players talking about in game so I am not alone and the idea in business is to keep the customer happy.

I'm really disappointed about the Animated Atlas Statue NC Pet but does this mean we still have a shot at the Animated M-1 Statue NC Pet? After all the man has even more statues scattered around than Atlas .. even though no one has a clue exactly what he did to earn them.

Come on Steel do we really need a GPS system to locate Fushionette? Just knock on the door of any villain lair and ask tobe escorted to the "Kidnapped Heroines Room" .. Most of them have a plaque dedicating the room to her.

Dang and I was so hoping I could get Rythm at the store.. My characters all just keep doing the shuffle.

HEHEHE