AlwaysAPrice

Knew I'd been forgetting something.

For anyone using uhvu.org to fit mini-URLs in their bios, sigs or elsewhere, the redirect has now been updated to point to the new site (Example: http://uhvu.org/Androgyne ). It can be used with any page on VirtueVerse.

Looks like the pages associated with images didn't come with the files themselves, so if you were using those pages to credit artists or include any additional information on images, be sure to remake them. Recommend doing the former whenever possible, both as a matter of courtesy to the artist and to help others who like it and might want to commission find them.

April Zoonum.

There's also a wiki for player-created content open to players on all servers, run by the ParagonWiki people, at http://ouroportal.com

Option 2.

Older pieces and patterns have a benefit that nearly no costume sets introduced recently have: they can be used to suggest something they are not, and don't always force interpretation on a first glance. They give me more conceptual wiggle room, instead of having a list of defined things to choose from: "Hm, I can put on these leather straps...or a chestplate with none." or "I can put on Valkyrie, Enforcer, Skull, or any largish emblem chest detail and then use any of a variety of low-definition Chest patterns to suggest straps holding it in place." I'm constantly amazed by the little tricks and sleight-of-Icon my friends perform with the simplest and oldest pieces and patterns, and these options shouldn't be taken away.

Everything added in a booster pack and even most free sets we've gotten in the last couple years have overdone geometry/details (the ball ankles & elbows of Cyborg for example, which impair a set that otherwise would be the best power armor option in the game) or wacky unique patterns that suffer from a complete inability to mix-and-match with older patterns without a belt to hide the transition (Trina syndrome). The stuff we have now has the advantage of conceptual versatility, it's not so defined it can't be anything but what it was intended to be.

On the Praetorian lore subject, though not quite language-related, anyone know anything about the Praetorian calendar or where I can look in-game for more information on it? I noticed a plaque in the Magisterium today that referenced a ceremony taking place on such-and-such day in "AU35", I figured that was "after U-something" (Unification?) but going by his Going Rogue site profile Cole's only been Emperor for 25 years so not sure what event defined the start of the Praetorian calendar.

Just started a new Praet, picked these up in a couple of White's missions.

"the deep, dark, dim" - The Underground
two-tone - Powers Divisioner?
tattle - radio broadcast or call for help/to reveal location ("He could have gotten a tattle off at this depth")
"this box just lost its chill" - Situation heating up; said when a Vet aggroed on me.
glimpse - look at/keep eyes peeled for


"Five-alive, whipper!" when aggroed, I've got no clue other than maybe "Look alive, noob!" If whipper's short for whippersnapper, maybe slang for a low-ranking Resistance member?

If that's the day I think it is, this is how it ended.

Started a Pistols/Devices Blaster for the Resistance and got it up to 4 before I had to take off for work. On getting home I'll be either starting a Mind/Emp Loyalist or just getting to work collecting tips for all the characters I want to alignment shift.

The first thing that inexplicably popped into my head is how much I would love to see animations ported from Kinetic Melee (speed adjusted as needed and punchy parts trimmed where called for) to several Support or Control sets that have a focusing/casting feel to their current animations. Dark Miasma especially for entirely selfish reasons.

Interchangeable Shadow Fall, Steamy Mist, World of Confusion, etc.

Soul Storm animation for Howling Twilight.

Non-spherical Force Fields.

I think it would be a great if all Tier 1 attacks had a selection of animations to cycle through like Pistols has, but then I'd also want the option to pick one and stick with it if I like it more than all the other randoms.

Probably too wishlisty for the thread's purpose, but I'd most like to see all existing animations for a given attack type (ranged, PBAoE, melee, etc.) pooled, with trimmed/time-adjusted variants of each necessary length. So I could toss my Neutrino Bolt off with Energy Torrent's sweeping gesture, use a fast Combustion animation for my Irradiate, throw a radioactive Fireball as my Neutron Bomb, Invoke Panic roar as I Atomic Blast, etc.

*blacklists Transhade for doing so*

Yes, no, yes.

Huh, that's a neat thing. I chucked 10 RP stories and a couple chapters of a long-abandoned novel at it, my final count was:

5 James Joyce
3 David Foster Wallace
1 Douglas Adams
1 Margaret Atwood
1 Ursula K. Le Guin
1 Chuck Palahniuk

I think people tend to use them less to commit their style to a certain level than to indicate what they're not looking for.

"Light" I tend to regard as just casual IC banter while missioning. Not in it for storycrafting or character development, just livening up the game a little with some personality and primarily here to play.

"Heavy" would be your in-depth types who have a better idea of the history, personality, and motivations of their character. Extended storylines, developments that may have nothing to do with playable content and are created and resolved entirely through RP, etc.

Medium I don't really see used other than in the sense of "light to medium RP" or "medium to heavy RP", like a way of indicating "I mostly just do a little light RP but I'm open to more involved stories" or "I prefer heavy RP but I'm also fine just IC missioning".

Haven't actually had anyone define their style either of these ways in conversation with me, so I'm pretty much just throwing out my thoughts on how I'd use them. It's also possible some people use light/heavy to refer to the themes they prefer to deal with in their RP: light being more comedic/silly, heavy being darker/realistic.

Spotted this guy at Wentworth's a week or two back, took a screenie but it's on my other computer, so I'll link his wiki instead: Enduring's costume and bio are both excellent.

Then this one time I saw Clown of Cthulhu.

Notified the admin when it started but no ETA yet. This particular error seems to come up every year or so, first the session-data message preventing edits followed by a day or two of the site being offline while the host fixes things.

EDIT: Current ETA is early next week.

Not sure what the problem is but it's happened a time or two before, I popped off a note to the admin a little while ago. If I hear anything as far as an ETA I'll update in the UHVU sticky, but IIRC it should be back to normal by tomorrow.

Are these the IC or OOC principles of the SG?

If the other players object wholesale to dealing with the subject matter, or it's expressed in the group's documentation that "HEY MURDEROUS HEROES ARE NOT THEMATICALLY APPROPRIATE THX" then yes, what the player's doing is disruptive to everyone else's play and they should be asked to leave the group.

If it's strictly that the character is violating the principles expressed by the rest of the characters, then it should be handled IC (apprehension by the non-murderous heroes, or an in-character expulsion from the group for the character while the player remains, or the character could become an outright antagonist for the group, etc.).

The offending character's player shouldn't by any stretch of the imagination expect there to be no consequences, though.

And **** the MedCom.

Whups, look like VV's domain registration has slipped. I've shot off a message to the admin about it, in the meantime you access the site via http://68.178.145.67 , and I've tweaked the http://uhvu.org redirect to point there as well.

Quickest way I've gotten Unveiler recently (though probably dependent on you having either a hard-to-kill character, a bunch of purple insps, or a team) was by setting my difficulty to -1/x8 No Bosses and using Ouroboros to run the first 2 missions of Serpent Drummer's arc over and over again. The first mission has a guaranteed Fake with the group holding Lady Grey hostage and the second has a guaranteed spawn of six Fakes (at that spawn size). Just run through with a "targetcustomnext Nemesis" bind, ignore everything else and kill all the Fakes that pop up in the normal spawns at that size as well as the hard-coded ones. I think I averaged 12-15 per run.