I’m late to the party, but I just installed and started playing today. It’s been, what, 8 years since I last played? A lot of getting used to the UI.
Global handle is, surprisingly, @Raza; I sent gfriend requests to several of you.
@CandidGamera is back with Shadow Stranger. Sent friend reqs to Balanced, Thermocline and Dangerosa.
So that’s a new trick the Sky Raiders pulled on me… In addition to the six bombs I needed to disarm, there were also three fake bombs.
Man, it feels good to be back in this game. I remember most of the controls like it was yesterday…
OK, I had a mission to kill Council in Boomtown, and one of the ones I killed was a War Walker… and I got a popup saying “1 of 20 War Walkers destroyed”. That got me curious, so I looked around for more, and eventually killed 20 of them, at which point a giant monster called a Goliath War Walker spawned.
But wait… Boomtown is also where Babbage spawns, right? Is it possible to spawn them both at once, lead them to each other, and set up a Battle of the Giant Robots? Because if not, it totally should be.
I just realized, I saved my old costumes, for the most part… and the little maps that show where badges are. I kept all that stuff, and now it’s all useful again. 
Still don’t have a 50; my highest is 42. But I have gotten to 22 (and thus the “good” enhancements) on 5 or so characters now, which is nice. Of course I’m still making alts! Got a restart of my old Fire/Fire/Fire Tanker, Oriflamme, up to 10. Latest whim is a Sentinel, Cricket Girl, a Sonic/Super Reflexes baby at 12 I think. Still not sold on Sentinels, but the concept requires SR, and I like variety.
I’ve occasionally popped up on the SDMB server as Airacobra, but haven’t tried very hard to look for folks, I must admit.
So, I’ve been thinking, whenever we have several of us online, we ought to take advantage of it to do team content, like task forces or giant monsters or something. Right now, our only interactions as a team seem to be occasionally swapping inspirations in the base storage.
I hit 50 this afternoon. Now I guess I need to figure out something called an Alpha Slot and Incarnate Thread?
Mothership Raid using a double XP boost was insane. I gained three levels in an hour.
And I’d be down for task forces, trials, etc…
I’d love to team up on some Task Forces and Story Arcs with some other CECIL folks, but I think I’ve only ever seen three of us online at once. Shadow Stranger has scrabbled his way up to 18th level, so far, and I got Doc Salvage to 6.
I’ve sort of been waiting for people to catch up with my main (while busy with/obsessing over other things), and I see that Oak has pulled ahead now. I’d be down for team content; we’d probably need to plan a time for it to get enough people on at once, although we could always resort to recruiting randoms to fill gaps. Maybe we should look at the Weekly Strike Targets and see if we want to tackle one of them as a group?
My highest is 28ish, but doesn’t sidekicking still make a lot of team content viable?
Four of us teamed up for the Citadel Task Force. We joined in with four other players to make a full team of eight. It was great fun, of course! The auto-sidekick function makes it easy to play together no matter what everyone’s levels are.
I had just reach level 49 before we started, and at the completion of the task force, I dinged 50. My first ever! I’ve been working on Ouroboros missions–where you go back in time to solve cases you missed earlier. You get auto-sidekicked down to the appropriate level, getting some challenge and more experience. I got enough to fill my Alpha Incarnate slot.
That ended up being a lot more fun than I expected! I’d been kinda avoiding doing group content because WoW had soured me on the idea. But this was a much more enjoyable experience. I was taken a bit off guard by the repeated traveling back and forth between zones - I didn’t have any idea that’s how TFs worked.
I was Roentgen Bull, the SS/Rad brute (origin: “Science” - overconsumption of energy drinks caused him to develop superpowers). He advanced from 28 to 31.
Yeah…that dinging 50 thing? Apparently it triggered an AV ambush. Gall Bladder jumped me from behind, laid me low. Emergency surgery, pain meds, antibiotics…all in all a thoroughly miserable experience. 0/10. Would not fight Gall Bladder again. He’s a sneaky bastard.
On the up side, I’m not dead–and apparently I could have been, so there’s that. Might get to do something in game today or tomorrow…will be the first time in a couple weeks.
Been working on a baby Sentinel, which is just like a Blaster but weaker…until I got the level where my status protection opened up. I am starting to see the appeal.
It’s my second task force (my first was Penelope Yin the previous week, with several different characters). Yin’s was entirely in Independence Port, though there was still a bit of running(/flying/bouncing/bamfing) around within the zone. I think Yin was a later addition to the game, after they realized how annoying ones like Citadel are. I don’t know which sort is more common overall.
Still no 50s, but the character I ran in that one hit 32, and so opened up the last of my primary-set powers.
I’ve added a fourth toon to my CECIL stable - Hellfury, a Rad/Fire Brute whose purpose will be farming. My other characters are just too influence-hungry. Of course, I have to get her up to 50 before she can really start to shine, so I will be happy to team her up for various content.
Two Brutes, Two Defenders… I really should branch out more.
Whereas I have a science controller, a magic blaster, a magic scrapper, a magic tank, a natural mastermind, and a mutant widow. I like variety.
From what I’ve heard, the quickest path to 50 is Architect Entertainment. Apparently some folks have made AE missions that are just pure XP farms. I’m guessing they’re high-level melee-only enemies kept at a safe distance from the player?
That used to be the case but they got nerfed hard.
That being said, they still might be the fastest way to level. I haven’t experimented yet. They’re just not the “farm until you max out really fast” like they used to be.