Gamera

Good deeds often follow good deeds. I'm happy to see that your neighbor found some way of showing his appreciation for all you do. Me personally, this reminded me of a story. Ever read Leaf by Niggle? You'd like it.

Think more along the lines of a "do-over" skill or "run silent, run deep". Back in live I had my own playstyle which made great use of it. Especially when roving bands of CL56 Vrix would come screaming by without warning. Hit the button, they'd sniff at me and then keep moving.

Above post is me. Sorry.

Sometimes there are roaming patrols of NPCs you want to not engage. Powerdown is the way to disappear from their radar until they leave. I haven't had as much success with dropping aggro mid-combat in here as I did in live. Back then it was godly when it was maxed -- as long as there was no damage ticking on a mob or you weren't being damaged right that second (You couldn't use repulsor with it) you could shut down, let your reactor/shields recharge and then resume the fight. The NPC would heal a bit as well, but not at anything resembling your recovery. You could do this over and over, until said mob was dead. It just took a little time, but I killed a ton of critters I would have had no business fighting otherwise this way.

All I know is that I'm gonna start a TS in ST4, and put points toward Build Engines so people coming in behind me will have my build skill going for them. We've rebuilt before, we can rebuild again. Levelling characters is half the fun.

Either they're gathering some crazy cease and desist evidence to blitzkrieg us out of existence, or they've weighed the positives against the negatives and just decided to let it slide. We're a pretty vocal minority and they neither gain nor lose money by letting what is all but abandonware continue to be enjoyed by those that were happy to pay for it when they offered it to them. As they've said, so long as we don't flaunt it or aim to profit from their intellectual property they might just aim to look the other way.

I found PD immensely useful for soloing. The trick was to not have damage or debuffs active on enemies aggroing you when you dropped. As most progens used plasma or chem that meant that they'd have to wait for the damage to stop ticking away before they could shut down successfully. Most didn't know this. I found it perfect for soloing Arduinne mobs. Do some damage, take more damage. PD, let the shields regen. Pop back up, finish them off.

For those of you who remember, I was Setoh/Gamera on Andromeda. For those that don't, just 'hi'. I've finally taken the time to dig up my old CDs and look around. You guys have done a great job so far. Everything is downloading as we speak. I missed this game. It really gets in your blood, doesn't it? EDIT: I'm also really, really sorry if this is in the wrong area. I'm terrible at forum navigation.