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Agreed. How about a mission where you have to get a collection of items non-manu/looted-only from Chavez but of different levels. Like you need 10 of component A lvl 2 (looted from chavez lvl 5-10) and 10 of component B lvl 3(looted from chavez lvl 12), etc. You would still have people farming all of these locations to get these comps, but at least they would be moving around to get all of them and grouping would be ok, so toons can share loot (since you can't share faction right now)

I haven't done combat jobs in a long time, mostly because they are not combat jobs. They are explore/combat jobs. One thing I have never understood is why you should have to warp just as far to complete a combat job as you do to complete an explore job. Isn't the difficulty of completing a combat job supposed to be the lvl of the mob you have to take down? Why wouldn't you just spawn that mob in the same sector as where you picked up the job? Let me put it like this. Say you lived in a city that was 100 square blocks that is broken up in to 10 different neighborhoods. You live on the east side of the city, but the city dump is on the west side of the city. So a job is offered in your neighborhood to take garbage from your neighborhood to the other side of city to dispose. This job pays x amount of money. There is another neighborhood closer to the middle of the city that offers a similar job but only pays about 80% of that because they are much closer and it doesn't take as much effort. Those are your explore jobs and that is how that works now in the game which makes sense. However for combat jobs, in your neighborhood, you are offered a job to take out bullies that are causing problems 2 or 3 neighborhoods away. And the higher paying jobs are bullies farther away from your neighborhood. Does not make sense. Why would jobs to take out mobs in VT be offered in Somerled? Shouldn't they be offered in Aragoth Station?

???..........ummmm....... You mean like just an executable file that can't be uncompiled but when you click on it still allows you to play the game? Something like e&b.exe?

+1 to Fuulish I agree with another faction bump, however iirc the chavez you are mentioning cl50-52 are only in Paramis. Someone could probably correct me on that, right now the highest level chavez that I have been able to farm is in Rag (well me and usually 3-5 other toons racing to see who can kill them first) I have already done the 2k RD mission, it is extremely disappointing to hear that mission has been removed if that is true.

<--Grandson of two proud WWII vets Thanks to all of those that fight to protect the freedom of the rest of us that can't.

Just to be clear, I am not wanting the gates re-opened, I prefer to have them factioned. I would like to see more mob spawns to help get there. Especially since group faction is not working, it is difficult to find a spawn point that is not being camped by one or more toons and since whoever gets the kill gets the faction, if I am sitting on a spawn point and a bigger ship comes in and starts farming, I get nothing. I don't mind grinding for several hours to gain faction, but I do mind spending the couple of hours that I have available to play this game, just warping around trying to find a spawn point that isn't already being camped and come up empty. (I wouldn't be so annoyed, but I am half-way through a mission I picked up in Paramis before the gates got factioned and would like to finish it) So my suggestions are A) fix the group faction or B ) add some more spawns for people to get RD faction or C) more static RD faction gain missions. CDel, you are right, my original post was just going to be about the opcode error and getting stuck on the map screen, the game was acting like it does when the server drops, and it kind of morphed into this other subject, so if someone has the ability, please move these posts into a separate thread.

Good News: Was just in Muspelheim behind Surti Alpha bombing away on some insta-spawn Chavez (thx Tien) Bad News: After I got about 3 of them, I got one bad opcode and game froze and now stuck on Map screen after logging in again. Worse News: I come back after about 20 min, spawn is completely cleared out, I have an 18k xp debt, and only gained about 15 faction points. This faction grind has officially gone from annoying to %$##ing me off. I am now officially beating a dead horse, but it does not make any sense to stress test faction grinding when not everything that will be available to gain RD faction when the game goes live is not currently in the game.

Are there plans to get the repository back up and running again? I haven't made my PS yet, but with call forward in game now and if the repository gets put back in, I think I will really need to get one going.

Do what I did, start a few different ones that do different things and see what gets you going. I am starting to find now that my PP is closing in on 150, that I am in need of a JE (or other mining toon) to get ores to make comps to make ammo and stuff at higher levels so I am glad that I have a JE on their way to max prospect skill soon.

Oh please, please, pretty please put in an EA CEO mob. Make it a job mob or something, lvl 135 or lvl 150 job. (BTW John Riccitiello is the current CEO of Electronic Arts, but putting his name in directly may draw the ire of the EA's scumba....er... legal staff. Even using the the name EA might not be good, but maybe a variation of it. Make it like a jenquai name E'Ace'O)

Hmm, I kinda see your point, but with lvl 8 available for all the classes for every weapon....I wonder what the difference in DPS is between a PW with 6 lvl 8 ML's versus a TE with 5 lvl 9 ML's. My guess would be that is still a pretty vicious tank/kiter.

I vaguely remember a conversation with one of the original GM's in Live who said they had discussed it and they didn't want to attempt to create a post-apocalyptic Earth planetary setting so they just adjusted the storyline to make it so that Earth was considered un-inhabitable.

I wonder if that was Westwood's original design and then EA changed her outfit so they could claim her to themselves. They probably have Megan locked up in some warehouse somewhere endlessly repeating "I'm sorry it appears your login information is incorrect, please try again" Sign the petition!!! Free Megan!!!! *I think I have had too much caffeine today

I think even hidden characters can be found using the "/t playername" command. If you send a tell and the player is offline you get a message coming back saying so. If you get no message coming back, that means they are online, they are just ignoring you. (Should note that there are people who log in and stay logged in even when they are away from their computer, so just because they are online, doesn't mean they are there)

I have a bunch of AA in my vault on my JE along with a bunch of proto stuff (going to have to create a vault toon soon I think). Last I heard it was going to be awhile before the NPC's that analyze these things get put back into the game. On another note is Merlin still around?

Anybody else have an issue just getting on to the forum or the net-7.org site? I tried around noon central time and kept getting a server time out just trying to get to the web pages.

I found a couple 6/7 hulk fields (with some very sparce 8's) and was still dropping proto stuff, only manu stuff is ammo and comps, and of course still plenty of slag, half-eaten suits and mah-jong tiles.

Sorry CDel, I just have a big issue with some guy who's very first post on these forums starts with accusing Mimir of posting a fake.

Slayerman could possibly speak to this better than I can, but I thought I saw an option on the enbdatabase website where you can have your name listed as a builder to a particular item?

some of us that are still on are having fun targeting the gates that we are afraid to try to gate through until we see people log back on. I see Hexergirl is watching I C U!!

This server outage seems to be more annoying because its hard to tell that the server is down without coming here.

Running Win7 64 bit Professional, did the Windows Live 2011 update and game still runs fine. To be truthful I didn't do the full update, it gave me the option to download the full windows live 2011, or to download the update just for the programs I already had installed and I chose the latter option and I didn't take the time to see how many applications I actually have installed but I'm guessing not many.

Based on the 420* in your name and the avatar pic, I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say you are either a programming student at some community college who was able to create a version of pong for your android, thus calling yourself a "professional", or somebody just yankin Mimir's chain to see what you can get started on the forums. *google "420" and see what you come up with

I guess its true what they say, you can't miss what you never had. I can only prospect about up to lvl 6 right now, and the lvl 4,5,6 hulks were always gone or had crap in them by the time I got to them, I got a bunch of lvl 2 proto stuff, but never had a need for that and frankly haven't even checked to see if that has been taken away (doesn't really matter to me one way or the other). I was happy to find a new roid field in Inverness with a few new guardians. I guess I'm getting accustomed to the fact that we are a loooooong way off from any significant new content (ie: V'rix, Mordana, Der Tode, etc), so I'm just going to be content with what's out there right now, remember this is still a stress test, and roll with the punches.