Ankh was kind enough to help me out with this yesterday, and I mentioned it in-channel, but Welcome to Vanguard, via Ouroboros, _was_ exploitable.

It is no longer. The mission-completion-level bonusses have been removed from the initial 'talking to people' portion of the mish, rendering it
completely unsuitable for repeated use.

I'm aware that The Legendary isn't exactly fertile ground for farming/farming discussion, but I bring this up as in intellectual exercise.

Running the mish solo at 50, I was receiving approximately 17,313 xp and inf per click, times 7 available during the arc. A Good Team could run the arc in
approximately 60 seconds, giving us 121k/minute.

This is _well_ beyond what can be done in a conventional, or even a farming team. 1.2mil inf in _ten minutes_ is absurd. The extended 7.2 mil inf/hour is also
impressive.

Ankh joined me for a run, and at 45, with me exemplared down, reported 9500xp per click, for a total of 66500xp/minute, or 665k/ten minutes, or just shy of
4mil xp/hour.

I don't think you can meet those numbers in normal gameplay. You _may_ be able to come close in a farm team.

The whole discussion has been rendered moot, however, by today's patch, which removes these XP and INF bonusses, changing the Welcome to Vanguard from a
mission-chain into a single mission... In my opinion, this was a very brute-force method of preventing this exploit, but I cannot decry it, as I cannot suggest
a better method.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Like the subject implies, there's a thread about updating the IST setting going on over on the Steve Jackson Games forums. I've posted pointers there to a couple of threads here, and suggested anyone with IST questions give us a visit...

 
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Sunday, appraently of complications from smoking. Comic Book Resources News obit

I remember his work from the '70s, and remember thinking he wrote some of the rare readable comic stories of the time. And now he's gone...
 
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Well, I know Acyl got Space Mage up to 50 and Wiregeek was a maniac with Pooky, did anyone else hit milestones with 2XP weekend?

I got two levels on Morgan, he's 47 now. And thanks to everyone who we teamed with, those were so great teams.

-Cindy

Anyone know a good mailing list server/site? Someone at my work needs to email 5000+ people since we're hosting a major conference here, and we don't
want it coming out of our server. We have enough trouble with spammers without getting blacklisted again.

Superheroes and reality television: http://americanhero.wildcardsbooks.com/

It is a promotional site for the new Wild Cards novel, Inside Straight. The actual novel's website is located at: http://www.wildcardsbooks.com/
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"Anyone can be a winner if their definition of victory is flexible enough." - The DM of the Rings XXXV

If you can justify spending over $50 on a single figure, http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.htm ... EOSL-12546]this meido just might be the one to get. (Order it quickly if you want it; it might not be available in June...)

 
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

A version of Legend of the Galactic Heroes with modern computer muscle behind it would be jaw-dropping, I think. Even if just a highlights reel...
So, what old show would you like to see reanimated?
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."

Star - The Dub Trailer

 
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

"In 1901, twenty-one year old college student Helen Keller, with the aid of a fantastical device invented
by her friend and mentor Alexander Graham Bell, regains her sight and hearing as well as near super-human strength and agility. Helen is enlisted by the Secret
Service to protect President William McKinley, who has been targeted for assassination by anarchists."

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =311082465

I would totally buy it.

Edit: still not used to Yuku. urgh. Anyway, additional links to cleaner pages:

http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2008/02/ ... iller.html

http://lohcacb.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-just-in.html

And a more detailed summary.

Blind and deaf since contracting a fever at the age of two, Helen was
eventually taught to communicate by Anne Sullivan. She was accepted to Radcliffe University (now a part of Harvard) in 1900. When we pick up our story, Helen
is a sophomore in college, enjoying the rigors of University life and her budding fame as a lecturer and author.

What the public doesn't know is that she has secretly agreed to test a device developed by her lifelong friend and mentor
Alexander Graham Bell, which allows the blind and deaf to see and hear. The device is a success, however along with restoring Helen's lost senses, when the
device is active she is endowed with superhuman strength and agility. In addition, she can see into a man's soul and determine if he intends to commit
violence. When her abilities come to the attention of the secret service, Helen is enlisted by the Secret Service to protect President McKinley from
assassination by Anarchists. Fearless and patriotic, Helen quickly signs on for the mission.

But the true danger may come from within Helen herself. The black secret of the Omnicle is while it does grant Helen with
amazing powers, it also increases her rage and violent tendencies. If unchecked, Helen could become a danger to those around her. Her struggle to maintain
control is at the heart of her journey. With or without her enhanced powers, Helen is an amazing young woman, beautiful, intelligent, brave and funny.