Well, then maybe it was an hour. What is the point? It's too long either ways. Besides that there is no need for Flag when you're in a 25 or lower gas.
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THIS ^ is much more in FunCom spirit than anything else :) And what does a "free" ATE 3 mean ???
It means you won't have to waste 3 perks to be able to equip AI armors, when most Alien perklines are 10 perks long with the greatest benefits in the last 3 perks. There was a suggestion years ago to do the same thing with free ATE1 at AI10, ATE2 at AI20, etc that would have worked equally well.
Free AI3 will not happen. Bazzit library is in-game shop. Abandon idea ! Next ...
Is there a set date the anniversary events start btw?
Its not that bad if you plan in advance your 200/30/70 twink :)
I already have 5 such characters and from my experience its more difficult to get AI30 than all level 10 research.
For AI 30 the key is to do alien daily mission every day (that you can log). If I had very little time on a certain day then the No.1 priority was always alien daily mission.
As for research you should stop leveling at level 199 until you finish all level 9 research, then ding 200 and for level 10 research do inf old missions.
If you go 80%+ research at lvl190, then each inf old = 1 lvl8 research complete.
By the time your last lvl8 is done you're 70% done on your first old and ±192.
From there, keeping, or raising that research % and doing dailies + Inf olds you'll hit 200 with 1~2 lvl9s incomplete.
There's no compelling reason to stay at 199 unless you want to power through those 9 levels essentially ignoring all research, and then wasting potential SK going into your pool if you ever wish to level your 200 char to 220.
There are 2 reasons:
1. Any daily at level 199 will give you more XP towards research level 9 than the same daily at level 200.
2. If you plan level 200/30/70 twink you will not want to level it to 220 and even if you decide to do so no SK is wasted because it is stored in pool (some of my level 200 twinks have over 15m SK in pool)
I really must ultimately applaud the AO staff - the financial statements of FC say plenty, and having been involved with corporate restructuring and quasi-redirection, realize they are not FC's priority (and by resource-neglected consequence, cannot deliver fixes equitable to player demands.) While attention to some unduly difficult mechanics would be awesome, keeping the game fresh (whatever that might entail) and out of /permadeath is priority and appreciated. Happy birthday, AO, you magnificently monstrous siren.
Awi talking about *SK* you start to pool once you hit 200 and answer yes for "SK question".
I'm normally stop leveling at 200 for week (or 2) and farm my 300 OFAB from 200 BS which usually active and much more fun for me than 215+ one.
In such way I'm usually have some solid SK pool which let me ding ~205 at same day when I'm decide to continue leveling to 220 and ~210-212 within 2-3 days from just doing dailies and few inf missions.
As for "loosing" all XP pooled at 199 while you finishing LE9 researches and less SK/daily you get at 200 comparing to 201-205 - it's still n/p when yours time to play AO quite limited.
- Mantis ravagers/queen elite daily give almost x2 more research at 199 than prisoner one at 200+
- Farming dark ruins DOJA chip takes 3-5 easy kills normally, while Alappaa/Inf doesn't worth efforts at all - with bad luck you can easily can spend whole hour for nothing
- 201-214 BS almost never run - so no SK/research from BS dailies till you hit 215 at all
As result - it's much more time-efficient to finish LE9 researches at 199 and do 2-3-4 LE10 at 200 while pooling SK for next 8-10 levels.
Waki,
Candle is closer to truth as Mantis daily gives almost 2 times as much research at level 199 than Prisoner at level 200.
When you do Prisoner at level 200 your SK reward that is added for research (if you do 100% research) is already capped and you only kill 1 mob.
Mantis daily gives XP for each stage of mission and while those small rewards are not capped and smaller than reward for Prisoner they all add up.
When you do Mantis daily you also get some XP reward for each mob killed and you kill at least 5 of each mantis type + Queen so if you add all that XP together it is almost 2 x bigger than reward for Prisoner.
Are there any updates coming soon for the new client? Some more stability would be nice.
so when does the free week start? 20th? (sry didnt read the whole thread)