Zortel

After playing around with the pack... well, it has issues for me.

Female Heads:

1: Detail 2 'Victorian Steampunk 01' I feel needs a version without the broach.
2: Hair 'Victorian Steampunk 01' does not take a blending second colour, so my character who usually has White/Pale Yellow hair for a very light blonde can't use it, as I can only have white or straw coloured hair.
3: Hat 'Classic Steampunk 01' needs a version sans goggles, and I would love to see the ringlets hairstyle without a hat.
4: Face Classic Steampunk has make-up, which means that applying lip colour does not work properly. Same goes for Victorian Steampunk face.

Female Upper Body:

1: No Sleeveless Jackets option.
2: Classic and Victorian Jackets don't have the same texture as the Classic Steampunk Sleeve, making it look slightly off.
3: There really needs to be a Wrist Victorian Steampunk option to go with the Victorian Steampunk Sleeves. Or even a longer Victorian Steampunk Sleeve to compensate. Also, a version without the lace.
4: Chest Detail Classic Steampunk 01 could do with a version with a longer corset part.
5: Gloves Classic Steampunk really needs a Victorian Steampunk counter part, with the rows of buttons that the boots have.
6: Belt Classic Steampunk 01 and 02 need a version without the timepiece.

Female Lower Body:

1: A Classic Steampunk dress is not present, leaving only the not quite suitable Victorian Steampunk dress for an outfit. Something with ruffles and thigh-concealment would be nice.
2: There is no option to colour the inside of Victorian Steampunk Dress, which is odd considering there is no other colour option to it.
3: No Boots Smooth/Classic Steampunk option, or a knee high Victorian Boots option.

Male Head:

1: The secondary colour affects the colour of the Detail 2/Classic Steampunk Beard.
2: The Classic and Victorian Steampunk facial hair do not accept a second colour, thus no blending.
3: There is no hair colour change option on Hats/Classic Steampunk 1 or Victorian Steampunk 1.
4: Hats/Classic Steampunk 1's components look glued on, with no rhyme or reason for why they are there. It seems to be take hat texture and stick on bits.

Male Upper Body:

1: No Sleeveless Jacket options.
2: The Sleeve options do not match the Jacket options texture.
3: Mandatory bow Tie on Classic Steampunk 1 jacket that can't be colour changed.
4: Mandatory crevat on Victorian Steampunk 3 jacket that cannot be colour changed.
5: Victorian Steampunk Jacket 1 and 2 are colour locke in the gold edging. Secondary colour on Steampunk 1 jacket does nothing.
6: Victorian Steampunk 01 Sleeves do not have an option to change the gold edging. Secondary colour does nothing.
7: No Time Belt Option for Male characters.
8: No victorian glove option.
9: No smooth/Victorian or Classic Steampunk Glove option.

Male Lower Body:

1: Classic Steampunk Boots have no option to change gold or silver parts. Secondary colour does nothing.
2: Victorian Steampunk boots have no otpion to change gold part, secondary colour does nothing.
3: CLassic and Victorian Steampunk options only exist for tucked in trousers, none for pants.

I have not noticed any differing issues with the Huge options, so they apply to Male as well.

Would like to have:

An end to the jacket gender divide. Long jackets (Victorian and Baron) for female characters, bolero and the short victorian/classic jacket options for male. They'd work, they could be used. I can get a martial artist outfit for a male character in mind using the female jacket, almost a little Foreshadow style.

Is there any way to do it without redownloading the entire client, like we were able to before? Because I currently want to tear the new launcher up as it made something apparently simple a whole lot more complicated and bothersome.

ETA: Downloading it anyway, but trying to make it use the EU Test Folder (now deleted in rage) resulted in it throwing errors at me saying that there was already one in there, so it couldn't install it.

*Takes off Roleplayer hat* *Puts on Zombie Survivor Hat*

Kids, let ol' Auntie Zortel teach you a few things about Zed killing and chainsaws.

Don't do it.

While you're gibbing the deadheads, think of all those droplets and chunks, that may be teaming with biohazards of all sorts. You're putting yourself and your fellow survivors at risk.

Chainsaws are noisy, use energy that would be better used elsewhere, and you could hurt yourself in the commotion.

Auntie Z's Recommendation:

You want to fight in close range? Motorcycle leathers to protect from bites, and something with a good heft and point to it. A simple hammer would do. Use the weight of it to knock ol' zack back, drive the narrowest point into the forebrain. Use goggles and facial protection to minimize risk of infection, and scrub up afterwards ASAP.

Better yet, keep at a distance, or don't engage at all. And only fight solo as a last resort, you could easily be overwhelmed during the fracas.

Auntie Z's tip: If the gloves are good for heavy duty work, from stoking steam engine fires to preventing animal bites, it'll afford you some protection.

Auntie Z's tip: Working in pairs, sweep and spike. Have one taking the zack out by the legs, with the other keeping watch, then switch roles to deliver the final blow.

Auntie Z's tip: Breaking and Entering, even in the zombie apocalypse, is a good way to get yourself:

Shot by the property owner
Shot by looters
Shot by Law Enforcement Officers

Play it safe, break into zed skulls, not homes. Get supplies now, for whatever emergency might fall upon you, be it natural, man-made, or a zombie/robot uprising.

So Sayeth Auntie Z, prepper, health and safety aficionado + fan of Apocalyptic Fiction.

Little bug I've noticed:

Dual Pistols Blasters: I can't seem to toggle Incendiary Ammo on, the other two work, Incendiary just won't click. Tried this is 4, 3 and 2 column view modes.
Dual Pistols Defenders: There is no Incendiary Ammo button.

It does however, work with Dual Pistols Corruptors.

Damn Matt Smith's trembling bottom lip. Damn it.

Energy Melee + Energy Manipulation's 'Stun':

Give it the Clobber/Cobra Strike treatment, to up the damage it does.

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Regeneration:

A WP character can out-regen a Regen with a certain number of enemies in proximity. Regens have to use a 600 second recharge click power to get ahead, that lasts for only 90 seconds. It also has very little mitigation other than heaiing.

Give Reconstruction the 40 second recharge of Fire's Healing Flames, than it's current 60 second one.

Give Resilience Res to All and +Max HP.

Bring IH's recharge time down to... 450 seconds? 400?

Give Quick Recovery a small +Recharge bonus (a la SR's Quickness and EA's Lightning Reflexes) to distinguish it from WP's Quick Recovery.

Maybe tweak Fast Healing a little, to give a chance for healing as well as the regen component.

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Traps/Devices 'Time Bomb'

What about giving it the SoA's 'Omega Manoeuvre' treatment, where it is placed to attract enemies to it as it counts down, before exploding.

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/signed

Doesn't need much more than that.

/chan_timeout <channel name> <days> - Sets the number of days a member of a global channel must go without logging in before being automatically kicked from the channel.

With thanks to Paragon Wiki.

Hello, dear roleplaying tourists! So, you're thinking of visiting Union, the EU's unofficial RP server since 2005?

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It's a little mad at times, it sometimes gets a little heated, but we're passionate, and that's what happens when passions clash. Still, it's rare that everything blows up, so it should be fine! If you're looking for laughs, RP, teaming and a good time with a veritable feast of people, this is the right place!

Welcome to Union. I hope you have a ball.

The new Launcher (That's the NC Launcher) updates your games much more quickly, and applies patches faster as well.

The NC Launcher can be found here: http://us.ncsoft.com/en/launcher/ncsoft-launcher.html

You also get the Wisps aura for using it.

Current Synergy Gaps in Hero EPP's (That currently are represented in other power pools):

Scrappers:
Electric Mastery

Blasters:
Psychic Mastery

Controllers:
Electric Mastery

Defender:
Ice Mastery

Tanker:
Electric Mastery
Dark Mastery

Ones I would like to see:

Scrappers:
Kinetic Mastery, a set that carries on the look already present in Kinetic Melee, with an AoE bolt (Like Focused Burst that delivers a Targetted AoE of Burst) a self buff of something neat (Maybe Speed/REcharge, a Quickness Lite?), a scrappery version of Siphon Power and Siphon Speed, and maybe a stunning Cone AoE?

Spines Mastery, with Spines version of Fling Thorns, Thornatrops, Thorn Barrage, and two other things.

Blaster:

Archery, Sonic, Radiation and Pistols Mastery.

My brain has turned to mush now, but these sets would also find place in the Villain power pool choices.

I've tried everything, but the slots just won't go to Union! I've coaxed them with chocolate, little teddy bears, kittens, but they stay on their own servers and don't add their emptiness to my 36-character filled server of choice. :<

Any thoughts yet on as to whether we're going to focus the attack in fiction taking place in Atlas and Peregrine only, or maybe expanding it a little?

A laggy mess that I've logged out of. Just not fun, waiting up many magnitudes of time than usual for my powers to come back up. And this was in Peregrine Island, rather than the chock-a-block full Atlas Park.