Beerrun

Where these missions at? I've yet to run across them on my PS... unless you mean the ones from Agrippa himself?

Except to me it seems Agrippa is not motivated by Collegia as a faction, seems Agrippa is "for the Progen Republic". It even says on items that they are made to strengthen the republic, which seems like an unbiased organisation faction wise to me. 

So, a cherry picking device basically... 

So what's with the PS missions requiring Collegia faction... seems kind of silly for a Progen of any class to have to do a rep grind for a mission from a Progen source.

I finally got Stage 1 to go through, guessing I don't have enough faction for Stage II however.

As much as I want to agree with your theory on shield recharge, I don't think that's how it was in live..... I don't remember my shield ever recharging during combat. Sure, it sounds logical that it should be constantly recharging due to having a "recharge rate of x per second"....if your shield is recharging, it should be using reactor power to do so, because where does all the power used in weapon systems and the engine come from? The reactor.  The PS role in combat was support and a damage dealer. The purpose of all those "boost shield recharge" buffs was for tank switching. TTs would focus on whoever was main tainking, aggro was exchanged using enrage abilities, and the PS would boost the offtank to help reduce the amount of healers needed.    That's how I remember it anyway, I could be wrong, but that sounds more like the intended class roles in combat.

No one has been able to give me a straight answer on this, but I have a PS at lvl 75 with build skills to level 4, but I can't seem to get any Stage 1 for Shields or Devices. It tells me I need max build skills, which doesn't seem right.... I get some people telling me their PS did Agrippa at lvl 75, and then some telling me you can't do until 100 with max builds. So what is it then?

Yeaaa I can't login either. Finally logged in but can't get past galaxy map on ANY char, ANY account of mine. 

They took the server back down, they said so a couple minutes ago on another post

You just don't get it do you. You're stunting the growth of the Progen playerbase. Read all the posts here, majority is not happy with your content and the route you are choosing to take. ALL WE(well, I) WANT IS HULL RESTRICTIONS COMPLETELY REMOVED ON AGRIPPA. The only true restriction should be for Stage 3 being lvl 135+ and max build skill. It makes no sense to have a long crazy drawn out quest with restrictions throughout the leveling phases, because some of us want to do what you have encouraged us to do in this threat, we WANT TO EXPLORE. I don't want to be tied down to a single "uber" quest from level 50 on, I want to explore the game. 

I read "currently coding" as "mothball your toon until coded"

I broke the server. Not 2 seconds after I said "Yea it's been pretty stable today", it goes poof

Well, I just read most of this threat, just had to input my opinion.   I like builds the way they are, because it's difficult to get 200%. I've been a mechanic, technician, Marine, and a martial arts instructor. I didn't suddenly develop these skills, it came with experience. I didn't suddenly go "Oh, I want to be a Marine today" and then poof I was an elite fighting machine. Nope, took lots of training.   Sure, it kind of sucks getting used to having some non-perfect builds come out, but I'd rather be making crap myself than buy from a vendor.

I'd like him to see it in the game as it is now where it's extremely rare to find anyone who makes Agrippa items (which kind of sucks when some require items made from another class)...kind of forces us all to mothball our char until we either find someone to make that item, or make the class and do the mission on our own.

The blinking message icon would be a cool way to tip off players about missions in an area, maybe along the lines of (Triggered by certain level/class possibly?) "Hey *player name*, I heard you might be interested in some extra work, *NPC name(s)* has been looking for explorers/warriors/traders to assist him/her, you should stop by and see if they still need any assistance"

Anyone that's doing the Holiday mission, I would tread lightly on it, since if you crash while talking to one of the Elfman brothers you may get stuck on the mission with no present....

See, this I did not know. This gives me some motivation to actually play my PP now, and I thank you for it. I remember a small bit in a patch around live where it said some new missions were added, but in general the community is pretty quiet about it or no one has tried them.

Indeed, poof

Hmm ok, so the best option is to completely abandon my progen characters due to one person. Sounds progressive.

I dont want to sound ungrateful, I just thought people developed games based on player feedback. If I could program software, that's what I'd do, but I'm a peon.

Ok, so basically I should stay away from Agrippa until Byakhee is no longer a developer. That's really all I'm gathering from this. Being a developer is about taking majority player feedback and implementing it, not doing what you want because it's not how you want it. It's clear from this forum, majority of us want to see changes to Agrippa because currently it's broken, it's too strenuous, it isn't logical. 

Hamster finally croaked

I don't even want to bother with Agrippa because unless you build up the necessary ores and alts in advance, it takes far too long to complete for a "meh" reward.   Well, that and as I read this whole thread, I'm just extremely confused as to the state of Agrippa right now. So my PP is OL 85, hasn't touched any agrippa missions or started them, does that mean I can't touch the Stage 1 Agrippa because I'm past the 50 HU mark? Maybe I'm too stupid to grasp the restrictions, but this all seems way too confusing and time consuming.

As I killed the last RD for a zieg mission, POOF! I killed the Hamster, he was a Red Dragon pirate :x

disregard, I think I fixed it