Bleakend

Failed to Connect to Global Server.... I see the numbers dropping... slowly....

Can someone close or lock this topic? lol

Please don't let the vrix obliterate earth! I just got a low rent apartment with adequate sunlight!

No reason to expand it, don't see why you couldn't do the CL leveling first and then go for the explore afterwards. Alternation for the win!

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They would just go back to internal development, I guess thats the reason they don't rely on the player donators to donate directly to the project costs . As of now we are just here to test the content they have developed, exactly like canaries in a coal mine-- canaries keep dying-- time to get out of the coal mine (those birds are really sensitive to methane ), so between the server crashes, bugs, broken missions, improperly functioning mob AI and overall structure of the game, the coal mine just isn't ready yet. I saw kyp mention that once they release the client people who are so inclined can start up and run their own servers-- does that mean the server we play on now will cease to exist? Or will this current server be up and running along with other possible servers that others will most likely set up? As a side note, I see this whole "we're gonna stop donating if you guys do x,y,z" as a failed powergrab, like if a child asked for a cookie and the parent says "no" so the child goes, "well I'm gonna hold my breath until i get a cookie then!", but I guess people are always looking for ways to hold the sword over the heads of those who they think are "oppressing" them or who have more power. Players in the emu don't really have much power at all, which is a good thing... lol... the height of it is really posting bug reports/ testing game mechanics, and taking any other problems we encounter to a dev/gm for a possible fix. Otherwise we're here for the ride, and yes alot of people party like its 1999... or play like its live status, I'm one of em.. until this thread started and a few other things that made me realize that "being in it to win it" isn't the purpose of a Test.... but thats a hard sell to people who have worked hard to get where they are at over the past year-- myself included-- but like was said in my first post on this thread, true love doesn't end with a wipe, if anything it gives us a chance to start fresh in a better version of the game we all love so much. Is it gonna suck? Yeah, having my cookie...characters taken away sucks, but if it needs to be done then so beeazlebub it... -End Transmission-

And now, a song: "Turrrrn around.. everytime I use google scholar I prooove the news wrong and my eyes ooopen wideerrrr/ Turrn around, everytime I do some actual research the facts invalidate the status quoooo.../ Once upon time I was a college student/ Now I'm unemployed with a degree... What can I say? A total eclipse of the systeeeem..." Adapted from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by that artist no one cares about.

That sounds good Kyp, thank you for the response .

Thank you Blacklung/Tienbau

server down.

Would like to see some new stuff after the wipe... if not I'll still be playing. True love doesn't end after a player wipe, and if its in the interest of a finer functioning game then I'm all for it. Over and out...

Thank you Cdel! Much obliged.

Its all good . No offense taken, and I meant no offense either lol. Just boredom, thought I'd spice things up with some light hearted mangling of the english language on the topic of Nesshix, which I think is fine atm save for the stragglers.

That was Billy Joe, my alter ego, he struggles with english. Sir Baron Von English Proper here now, and what he meant was, those minions might serve to make it a little longer, even so, a full group can take down the fishbowl in a little over an hour the way the current wave is set up (that is with minimal stragglers). , I dunno, maybe the minions will be changed, have their cap lowered, but it just doesn't seem like a huge hinderance. Right now the main problem is just these runaway fish, they need tracking collars or something...

Confermed, server went splat, brightside is there was an update! Oooo shiny... hopefully back up soon, until then its time to bust out the yarn and youtube knitting until the tea is ready.

Yeah they've been at that shield cap for awhile now i think, and nesshix always seems to be the wave where the minions/life stealers start going way deep into the boundaries after they spawn. Seems hit or miss as far as the wave spawns go, sometimes they are bunched up together in a neat group around the boss and other times its the opposite of that. If i had a quess id say it was 1.9 mil shield cap for dem dere minions befferr. Bert i curd be wrerng. Kinda gives you a sense of accomplishment when ya kill one a dem der tings, insted of finishing the fishbowl in half an hour it takes you lil longerr, makes ya feel like ya did samting.

Was wondering why I kept getting frozen at the sector load screen every time i tried logging the JD in.... sort of a sigh of relief in a way, and thank you black lung .

Somebody's account get hacked? ^

Yes tienbau, destroy the robots with a paradox! It worked on futurama.... at least... will it work on santa as well? j/k. As far as the Fishbowl goes it seems that U'thatch/Kish-Nethresh 4th/5th waves spawn as a condensed group, along with the Master's wave spawn. Nesshix/Zethren-ti/Ximaz/Bizaeth seem to be hit or miss with one to two stragglers for Biz/Xi (one or two fish go out of bounds) with Zeth/Nesshix being completely scattered all over the map. So for the group make-up we always bring 2-3 healers just in case the waves are spawned as a tight group, but a this moment it seems like its hit or miss. I wonder if the controller spawn can be made so the PA's are his close friends/ much like the gobb formation where the guardians cannot be separated from the CL 66, so when controller is pulled the two PA's come with him... that would certainly make things a little more difficult.

Welcome to 1984.... scary stuff. There is also a bunch of info about it on craigslist.

Shield Energy Converter- does not work at all but when left-clicked/hot key is pushed for it the timer (little clock) starts turning away but nothing happens. This device looks exactly the same as the Martyr's Heart, and both of these level 7 devices drop from Raman the Polisher. The MH works just fine but the shield energy converter does nothing at all. Cannot log in right now to check but i think the effect of the device is to reroute 43% of your shield recharge (cap?) to 23% of your reactor recharge (cap?).

Tienbau is the man!

Thank you.

What Klyde said, "Reloading Missions..." then my engines stopped working .