Snow Globe

Not once in my life, and more to the point I totally disagree with that phrase.

No, I'm seeing posts like I quoted from Noxilicious as being vitriol. I also see the criticisms as pushing an agenda that would see free speech being curtailed. Some group perceiving themselves as victims will always come out of the woodwork and claim whatever they need to do to silence others.

You haven't been reading the posts I've been quoting, it seems:
That post contains other examples of the caustic criticism I'm speaking of.

Because that is what art, and especially comic book superhero art, does. It exaggerates poses to give a sense of movement and action. You never show the moment at the beginning (start of the swing, or the sky about to fall) or end of a pose (unless it is an explosion, but rarely someone curled up in a ball), but something just after the impact.

Grats on the badge, however I doubt anyone will be able to get it on PUG groups.

Considering that is what I can count on getting (PUGs), I'm not sure that I'll be able to get the badges needed for this.

Um, no. You'll get a rare component though, and an Astral Merit. Not an extra Empyrean Merit.

And I seem to find a lot of people that seem to be unable to complete the BAF trial...

Yeah, before the change I was getting 3-4 Astral merits from Lambda. These days I'm lucky if I get 3. Most of the time I get two.

Well, it isn't as bad as a Liefeld drawing.

Is it the best art? No. Is it a cause for a rant on social issues? No. The vitriol is coming from those that are treating this AS a racist or sexist issue. If all you have to complain about is the pose, then my comments are not directed at you.

And in the picture, Sister Psyche is turning around, and seeing something that is shocking her. She is probably getting a mind-full of panic from everyone in the area.

See, I can understand what YOU are saying here. On the other hand, those that are comparing this with racism, sexism, and prejudice against those with disabilities are the people that I'm disgusted with. I'm hoping that clears things up.

Edit:
Ok, this picture is hiding her head. I see a good amount of fear in her body. I don't see her "thrusting her breasts" at the viewer. That she is twisting her torso explains everything going on below the neckline. It is an action pose.

Null the Gull in Pocket D will tell you who you are missing.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Null_the_Gull

The green door is not included for the Bunker Buster badge. Only the red doors count (or so I gather, as I've not been able to get the badge myself). Still training the server I play on (Triumph), on how to run the trial before attempting badges . The green door is for those characters with high stealth (Stalkers, Illusion Controllers) to sneak in the back door.

/macro DIS "b HELP! I'M BEING DISINTEGRATED, Y'ALL!$$em whistle"
/macro Cells "targetcustomnear terminal$$powexecname power cell"

BABs is, and will always be, a racial caricature. I'm sure that if the game had a R rating that his dialogue would be littered with f-bombs, black slang, and ethnic slurs from blaxploitation films in the 70s.



The woman has a similar pose. Though she is looking ahead, not behind her. The object of her terror is less than the destruction of the city. She doesn't have a super hero comic book figure, but if she did she would look similar to Sister Psyche.

Partly, though I think your own prejudices are playing a greater role in your criticism of the piece.

My opinion posts are almost always aimed at getting people to think about what they are posting about. Obviously I have to work harder at that.

Rebuttal:

They could make Astral and Empyrean merits available to the in-game store (like respecs, server transfers, and renames), but only on the test and beta servers. With the test/beta servers not connected to the billing servers, that would be a way to bypass this limitation.

Or the players can copy the same character multiple times to the test server and buy what that character can, claim the items, and proceed to the next copy. Even a character that only has 6 empyrean merits can, with multiple copies, buy everything. At that point everything will be unlocked globally on the test server.

To put it in perspective, I have gotten under 5% on a successful BAF run before issue 20.5, and under 4% on a successful Lambda before 20.5.

On the other hand, before 20.5, players on the same team got different amounts of incarnate XP for the same kill. I wonder if that is still the case.

The key you are thinking of is F8.

Hopefully Positron remembers the comment he made about players buying badges.

So you are saying that you deliberately made an inflammatory thread in order to bait other users into responding?

Details can be found here:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Article:_City_Of_Heroes_Announc es_Visual_Sounds.21

Also, I found the source image that VoodooGirl used. It can be found here:
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-70866412/stock-photo-patriotic-vote-button-badge-election-politics-symbol.html

They can be found here at the quoted post and link.

Note, I didn't mention either of the level 30+ hunts in the Numina TF. There is absolutely no challenge to the first 14 hunt missions in the Numina TF.

If you want to spend 20-30 minutes (more if an Invasion/Banner Event happens in the hunt zone(s)) hunting greys, feel free to do it on your own time.

So, only 1 of the 16 hunts goes?

How about removing the following additional pointless hunts too:

2.5.1 Defeat villains in Perez Park
2.5.2 Defeat 10 Clockwork in Atlas Park
2.5.3 Defeat 10 Outcasts in Steel Canyon
2.5.5 Defeat 10 Skulls in Kings Row
2.5.6 Defeat 10 Trolls in Skyway
2.5.7 Defeat 20 Vahzilok in Faultline
2.5.8 Defeat 20 Crey in Brickstown
2.5.9 Defeat 20 Freakshow in Crey's Folly
2.5.10 Defeat 20 Sky Raiders in Terra Volta
2.5.11 Defeat 10 Family and 10 Tsoo in Independence Port
2.5.12 Defeat 20 Council in 'Boomtown'
2.5.13 Defeat 30 Warriors in Talos Island
2.5.14 Defeat 30 Banished Pantheon in Dark Astoria

Your question is fully based on the notion that higher participation = higher rewards. In my first post in this thread, I told you that is not the case. What I've been attempting to do is to make every player that reads this thread aware of the fact that higher participation does not mean that they will get a higher reward.

It was a question that, at its core, is leads the reader to think that higher participation means that they will get a higher reward. That is not the case.

You might not see it that way, but it is what you are doing. If you had stopped and considered what you were being told instead of objecting, you might have realized that.

Yes, you hit a lucky streak. Like I said, random is random.