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I'd like to give thanks to thank Electric Knight for being that awesome, and to thank Avatea for being cool enough to get the EU specific Rikti that he requested. I can't even explain how far my jaw dropped when I got a PM effectively saying "It's not a Rikti AT, but its damn close, enjoy!"
Psi-Scout Ky'Net thanks you two for allowing him to exist as the first EU Rikti
And I think thanks should go to War Witch for starting this thread. To the Devs for putting up with the whining kvetch-fest that these forums can be at times, and still churning out good stuff.
David gets my appreciation for being awesome, and Jay will get some more if and only if he does a decent wolf head for the Animal Booster pack! None of the hideous-ness that are the current monster heads, y'here me?!
Edit: Oh, and FPARN
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Quote:Ok, DAMN YOU; I won't be able to shake that feeling now XDOriginally Posted by PowerStream
Okay am I the only one that imagines Dennis Leary as FrostFire? So his age would be okay with me Techbot! :-P
City of Heroes movie would be so awesome...
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If there is one thing I'd change...
It's actuall the fact he's 40 something in his bio. Like, forty years old. That just...I dunno. It doesn't really sit right for me. Not with that character.
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Quote:No more-Originally Posted by Severe
for god sakes no more revamping zones..faultline and hollows have no one in them already and dont tell me there is cause i just got off the game
2ndly that moon base is still wating to be built in steel fyi
3rd no new zones unless its for lvl 50s. its been 7 years.we need moar stuff for the fiddies!
They revamped TWO zones, and Hollows wasn't one of them. Due to the fact that it had exactly 0% geometry and mapping changes. RWZ and Faultline did, yes. Two zones out of a crapton blueside, a huge number of which are nigh empty.
In fact, y'know what?
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Quote:Naaah...that would, y'know, require too much tolerance and common sense! You're asking people to do that on the internet? What's wrong with you?!Originally Posted by Nihilii
Here's an idea : why don't people who dislike buffing just play other powersets, rather than try to nerf buffing powersets for everyone?
Short version; No. They're fine as they are. If they weren't, they'd have been changed. Don't like it? Well, don't play 'em. Easy. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
What... No picture??
It's like we don't even know who you are anymore, Techbot...
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Quote:^ QFT, is all I can add, really.Originally Posted by arcanaville
i don't believe that contradicts what i said, unless you think i implied the rule only applies to earth-native human beings when i said "people." superman gets his powers because its natural for beings that happen to have his biology to have them, and more importantly superman's backstory implies such abilities are even possible regardless of biology.
By my stated definition of the natural origin, superman is natural as are the peacebringers. Superman is not magic, which places him in the "non-magic umbrella." he's not a mutant, in that he is not a genetic abnormality. He does not derive his powers through technology. He does have powers that did not explicitly require scientific research or inquiry, but are said to be theoretically possible to exist in his reality naturally - without deliberate technological effort or the uncovering of scientific principles that would lead (deliberately or accidentally) to extraordinary ability. Therefore he is natural origin. -
Continued call: Acknowledged
Logical request: Re-affirmed
Rikti AT request: Superior
Minor AT request: Inferior
Lineage of War/Traditionalist war: Will continue
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Quote:^ ThisOriginally Posted by Goliath Bird Eater
<3
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Quote:Fix'tOriginally Posted by Hyperstrike
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Quote:Hardly. At least the Villain side, lackey-locked as it is, has some vague semblance of arc to it. Burke has you doing a simple bugging tsk, moving up to fetching stuff for a client and then going for a bigger pay-cheque at the end. Kalinda has you running general Arachnos grunt work, moving up to a sweep and clear alongside Arachnos troops and such.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Bull****.
Villains have to go to Mercy and decide between Kalinda or Burke. That's it. Oh wait I foprgot Veats. They get 1 mission then must choose between Kalinda or Burke.
Heroes on the other hand get to choose 1 of 10 initial contacts based on origin which are split between Atlas Park and Galaxy City. And if the players are making a Kheld they have complete storylines to follow depending on if they make a WS or a PB which is a hell of a lot more interesting than the unfinished crap VEATS got.
Is the Hero stuff old? Yes.
Is it better than the garbage Villains must suffer thru? HELL YES!!
The main reason people get bored with the same old starting missions heroside is because they refuse to start anywhere other than Atlas Park. That's a personal problem not a problem with the content.
Blueside? The missions have NO coherence. There is absolutely no semblance of any coherent arc there whatsoever.
I'm not saying Villainside couldn't use a revamp too. Hell, you could add two whole new contacts to Mercy and beef out the other two and you wouldn't see the zone suffer.
The stupid thing? The arc in my signature took an evening and one day to make. That arc takes Azuria's junk that they call an arc and replaces it with something with at least some semblance of cohesion and objectives other thatn 'Hunt, defeat all, defeat all, talky'. Now, this is one student using the AE. Why the hell can the Devs, with all their tools, not do something miles better? It really, really wouldn't take that long, and I've proved it. -
Quote:Except it's not. If it was, EVERYONE would be using it. It would feature a lot more in the game world. By the game worlds own canon, magical ability is NOT natural for ALL humans.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
So a human hero who learned magic spells is Natural, because the ability to learn magic is natural to humans?
Every human has the potential to be, say, an MA/WP Scrapper or some such. Not all of them are, sure, but every single human has the capability to do so. That makes it a Natural ability.
The Turtles, were it not for the goop, would have grown up to be just normal turtles/tortoises (since yanks use a different word). They wouldn't have been able to do anything super. They wouldn't have been able to hold their weapons, let alone train how to use them. Ergo, they cannot be considered Natural origin, because they are not natural turtles. They are turtles + toxic goop = Humanoid Turtles. -
Quote:Uhh...no. BaBs said that he sure as hell wouldn't be doing udnerwater stuff. Sadly, he's no longer here to repeat it. I seriously doubt that changes anything, though, because it would still be a metric ton of work.Originally Posted by Colonel-Confederate
Well someone Hacked Back Alley Brawlers acct and called Aquaman lame,and then went and said no to Underwater Content. So now i'm wondering why on Earth they have a Shark man called Capt. Mako in this game but no Content to give him a reason to be in the game at all. That same thing goes for Barracuda and the Coralax. Where's the content to justify them being in the game?
Underwater cities, Sunken Treasure ships is what i'd go for. Old west towns out in a Desert with mountains and maybe make it a pvp zone, for the gunfights in the streets. Revamp parts of the game that noones using like Galaxy City for example. Make them for higher lvl's.
Also, your logic fails. Theres the whole Shaper arc, the Leviathan SF, the new I19 arc...there we go. Justified. The same arguement could go for any NPC.
Also 'No one' using Galaxy is a blatant anecdotal falisy. EU side Galaxy is used frequently, theres a 9pm onwards RP meet under GG statue for one thing. So, by the same coin, you're wrong. That, and the other stuff sounds like a copy-cat of that other Superhero MMO. I for one would rather have something a bit more original.
Uh...what?Quote:Turn the Euro's content into something strictly Euro and have it accessed through Pocket D on an International server. Since Praetoria isn't the Euro content to Paragon. Batman flew to Asia and picked up that runt in the last movie. So how about the NA heroes fly to Europe and team up with Euro's to take out stuff?
That makes less than NO sense. At all. First off, EU and NA are on two wholly seperate servers. They as of yet have no way to link them. Since all the people on the EU servers have all rolled Paragon (IE Heroes in America) what the hell would you do if you made the EU servers set only in the EU? It just....augh. Brain hurts. Failure.
Again, what? Just...what? This sounds like utter gobbledegook.Quote:If the blue side was to work good then maybe put a Euro version of Red side in game. NA players break out of the tutorial and go to Mercy, but Euro's go to a Euro red side and use pocket D to go from one to the other or boat and plain missions to go from one to the other. Just hire a Clockwork for a Translator ,and that takes care of that problem with the language conflict.
Just....ai-ah;
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Quote:Given that without the toxic sludge the turtle would never have turned humanoid and thus been able to learn martial arts, I think it's a safe bet to say Science would trump Natural in that case.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The thing is it depends on a particular person's view of the meaning of origin.
Science: The Turtles were modified by Science to be able to learn martial arts skills
Natural: The Turtles learned martial arts skills
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Quote:Considering Posi pretty much said "People wanting animal parts should wait for the mutant pack" no, actually, it wasn't. Also, if you asked people what they would have expected from a mutant pack, animal parts or wierd quasi-bug-glowy-things, I doubt many would have expected what we got.Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
Neither origin screams animal parts so it was their own fault for expecting animal parts.
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Quote:^ This. Do wantOriginally Posted by Lothic
If the Devs ever got around to expanding the costume system so that we could buy extra costumes slots for characters this would be even less of a non-issue.
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Can't see it either.
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Quote:However; There is Complaining and then there is DOOM.Originally Posted by seebs
I don't get it.
I complain to the devs a fair bit. I file bug reports. I also pay to play the game, because I enjoy playing it -- but I still think it could be better.
Complaints are a sign that people value and appreciate the game; people don't complain loudly like that about something they don't care about.
I complain a lot. Like, quite a helluva lot sometimes. Lack of stuff for RPers, lack of certain fixes that should have been done years ago. I will ***** up a storm about lack of certain costume parts, as David probably knows too well by now
But I also realise that stuff takes time. While they may not produce exaclty what I want right damn now, they are turning out stuff that is of increasingly good quality.
So, if what I do is complain, what then is DOOM?
DOOM would be; "OMFG the Devs don't give me what I want, they aren't making decent costume pieces, I dont like the ones that they've released which means their ****, game is failing, Game X is going to have so much better stuff, CoX is going to fail, you all suck, blaaah!"
Or something along those lines. Nothing constructive or feedback worthy at all. It is basically the worst kind of 'Do Not Want'.
So, I think the OP has a point. That, sadly, doesn't mean anything will change. But, hey, hopes and dreams and all that
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Quote:No they don't.Originally Posted by Mr_Blackmore_EU
Praetoria is a breath of fresh air after repeating the 1-20 villain lack of content (Heroes at least has some variety)
They have one flavour. Old and rusty. -
New Contender!
Von Schaden now has a pure-build ready to test out at clawing the oppositiong up. Wether that works out or not is anyones guess
New Contender!
Oh, and Alpha's gonna try and tear up the fight-floor in the All-Stars, given he's my only IO'd out toon and, hey, I had some ok luck with him in PvP before. Why not? Other than injured pride
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I think that, while certain mobs hit a lot harder than the mobs that Primals face at low levels, the quality of work in Praetoria is simply so much higher I don't actually care. I could faceplant a million times (literally if it was a blaster ) and not care, simply because I don't have to put up with the shite writing and dreary minion work of Blueside and Redside low level respectively.
Lowbie Primal is the equivelant of 'Go fetch me 10 Mangy Doom-chicken feet'.
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Heh, felt appropriate somehow.
But yeah, agreed with the OP. I admit I do kvetch about certain things, but they are things that should be easily fixable, or things that have been broken for an inordinate ammount of time (glitched emotes, etc) rather than 'ZOMG game does not play way I want RAAAAGE!' -
Quote:IF Lady Luck hasn't seen fit to habitually take a dump on you from great height.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
The ITF is great for Shards.
Got five over the whole thing while people were getting rare salvage and shards out the wazoo. Guy on the one I ran the night before to get my Crab to 50 got 12.
I think it's a curse
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Quote:Proof: Where?Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
I'm just going to let everyone know that th booster pack will be containing all of those baddie costume pieces we have been waiting for like the Carnie masks and Hellion T shirts.
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Looks good, very well presented I have to say. Nice to see a set suggestion where someones gone the extra mile. =]
/Signed, I say