Ad Astra

Mine doesn't split them off - it must be something on your end.

Isn't there one in the Magisterium? I seem to recall getting the Day Jobs Location message when entering the plaza a couple of times (different characters) although I can't recall exactly where.

Most likely, it was entering the Magisterium near Praetor White.

It flashed across the screen, but I wasn't paying close attention, so it may have been on another part of the Magisterium. Couldn't tell you the name of the day job, either.

Add me to the list of folks without stereoscopic vision. I'm glad to see I'm not alone (though my sympathies to those who share my "view").

I absolutely hate the hype surrounding 3-D these days - those fancy-schmancy glasses don't do anything to enhance my movie (or gaming) experience at all.

Pass the "boo-boo-profen" down this way, please.

We have had several very long involved discussions about that very topic. I'm not telling you that you should have searched first, but I bring it up because I can't remember all the legal niceties. My general memory of the topic is something to the effect of:

"If you are concerned about losing a trademark or copyright by creating the character, then don't do it."

Intellectual property law (which governs the issue) is pretty complex and I have seen strong arguments about both sides of the issue (whether or not your friend's use of his characters transfers some element of ownership of the trademark/copyright to NCSoft).

If your friend has published to a wide distribution, it's somewhat likely that another player will petition the name and the character will get generic'd - GMs do not have discretion to investigate further than checking to see if there is a known trademark/copyright.

Firefly

Brisco

Hoping the Bruce will take it all

My employers are sending me to a week-long class in Boston from 8/16 - 8/20.

But I can take my personal laptop for entertainment in the evenings.

Some tough ones here, but here goes!

1. Space: Above & Beyond

The hardest pick, IMHO. I was playing Vampire: Masquerade at the time, so I had high hopes for Kindred, which it only somewhat fulfilled. While S:A&B was military fiction, not my usual cup of tea, but it had very nice effects for TV and it didn't sugarcoat anything.

2. Crusade

I loved B5, I would have loved this (I hope) if they had been allowed to flesh it out more.

3. The Prisoner

Don't care much here, but it has the cult following.

4. Man from Atlantis

The cheesy vote, but Patrick Duffy went shirtless most of the time.

5. The Dresden Files

Even though the TV series had little in common with the book series. My PnP gaming group just started playing the RPG based on the book series, looks fun so far.

6. Threshhold

I flipped a coin.

7. Brisco County

Every time and forever - Bruce is da man!

8. Harsh Realm

Didn't care much either way, but I'm not a big Eliza Dushku fan.

The Closed Beta (which BTW, you are NOT supposed to talk about or even acknowledge you are in it) expanded by a bunch of players on Tuesday (see the Announcement above) - so I would imagine that there are lots of players over in the CB to see the new shiny stuffs.

Plus it's the usual slump that seems to happen before a new issue release.

Now, before anyone jumps on my head - yes, subs are down over what they were a couple of years ago, we have had a gradual decline throughout the history of the game, waddaya gonna do?

But we are still getting new players and returning players, so we seem to be fine for now.

Welcome back - I do recognize the name, but never played in game with you.

If we still want to run it, I have Agoniste, a level 39 fire/rad controller who can start it for one team.

Or if not, I'm sure we can find something else to do.

So I've been hanging around on these forums for a few years now...

When did we have the massive outpouring and demand for "clowns"? I remember seeing a request for Carnie-themed costumes and such, and one or two suggestions of a clown powerset for MMs, but not much else.

But since this thread is here - customizing the power pools is on the list of things to do - but it isn't very close to the top of the list.

Check for posts from Back Alley Brawler on the topic of customizing pool powers, either here or in the Dev Digest. They aren't all that recent, since we got the ability to customize Pri/Sec powers some time ago (sheesh, time flies), but that's the definitive answer since he is the animations guy.

I could do the searching and link to this thread, but it's late and I'm heading for bed.

I rarely /hide, even though I am at least as introverted as others here.

If I'm feeling really, really introverted to the point that I don't want to deal with people, I don't log in - I read a book (with a cat curled up beside me) or I just do some FaceBook games (I'm on FB to see what my circle of acquantainces is up to from reaidng their posts, not to post much myself).

Then, I also play on low-pop servers (of 60+ characters, exactly 2 are on Virtue, low level, and zero are on Freedom, which was too exhausting) so the occasional /tell invite is not a problem, and I can get a team when I wnat one by using the globals.

I concur with Eiko about wishing it was more understood that true introverts find dealing with extroverts an effort most of the time. The funny thing is, I've seen a study or two that show that introversion isn't that much in the minority compared with extroversion - we just don't talk about it

Forensics - what is your native language?

If you are having difficulty understanding anything we have posted here, you may want to try the French or German forums further down the page if you are more comfortable in either of those langauges.

Or if we have already helped you get what you need, I'm happy to hear it - welcome to the game!