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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:33:43 -0700, Darin Johnson <darin.TakeThisOut@usa.net> wrote:

> So *why* did they need one more for the team? They get slightly
> more xp perhaps, but that's easily offset by all the time spent
> trying to recruit more people. I could finish most missions solo
> in the time this person spent trying to recruit.

Generally, I've never had much trouble getting 8 people most times,
though if I can't find that last one or two I'll generally take what I
have on a mission and try again afterward when other people might be
logged in or LFG.

And it really is true that you get significantly more XP on 8-person
teams than alone. I hit 29 in about a week and a half of play, most of
it on 8-teams. Also, there's more variety of powers, more chances that
there will be useful synergies between characters of different
types. (There's also more chance of finding an idiot on your team,
but, well, you can't have everything.)

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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:55:40 -0700, Darin Johnson <darin RemoveThis @usa.net> wrote:

> But I want to do the missions given by contacts.
> Already I feel like I'm levelling faster than it
> feels right to; ie, all the random enemies in zones
> are turning gray long before I'm done with the
> contacts, except maybe for a few outliers. Why
> would one want to be level 10 before being
> introduced to Dr. Creed?

Because one had done it before on half a dozen alts and was totally
bored with it?

> The odds of 8 people all having the same mission to do seems low.
> So after doing one mission, 7 players will likely still have the
> same mission to-do list that they had when they started.

Well, there are zones like Faultline or Croatoa that have their own
contact arcs which require no introduction. If everybody chose to
start Croatoa missions at the same time, in theory they should be able
to complete them all at the same time.

> Is this an RPG, or a tactical simulation where the back story is
> intended to be ignored?

Well, you can't take the backstory at face value because the way it's
set up (the notion that, for the sake of the story, *you* are the only
one who does these missions, and *everybody else* is just wandering
around doing unspecified other stuff that *isn't* those missions) is
so silly that you *have* to ignore at least some of it. You can't have
every single hero in the city be "the one" who hunted down and
arrested Countess Crey, or rescued Statesman from Tyrant; the very
idea is laughable.

> Is "8" a magic number for teams?

It's the number at which you get the most overall XP, so in that sense
yes.

> I see some level 1 players looking for teams too, when you can get
> to level 2 by doing the incredibly easy tutorial mission.

And if they did it on every single one of their alts, it's really
boring and dull. (Though that doesn't stop *me* from doing it, but
that's because it's dumb to pass up the Isolator badge; I never know
who I might want to be a badgehound character.)

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