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My 2 inf on the 'making it optional' part.

I can easily imagine people griefing those who flag PvP off and, when confronted, giving the same response they give when beating up everyone in PvP zones, regardless of what they do.
"If you dont want to, dont go there!"

Well, yeah...thats why PvP is in zones. That way, you know exactly what you are going in for. Like the time when in RV we were trying to hit down on the Hero AVs, and a Blaster kept attacking us and pulling the group apart. Annoying? You bet. Unexepected? Hell no. Well within his rights to do so, annoying though I found it (Personal thing, Im quite high octane in PvP on any console or medium)

If it was in EVERY zone? Can see that doing absolute wonders for my oil pressure...

Might toss a non-competitor piece in next month...Or maybe the month after, Uni is being especially mean with deadlines at the moment.
Some great entries, the cheesecake one made me chuckle on dA, too. Love the digital brushwork.
Someone buy Pyro a tablet, too! Mouse work after having used a tablet is....eeeesh *shudder*

A picture tells a thousand words.
So;

I want to post something. But it would come out as a vent-rant and be rather hostile and not particularly constructive. It'd also be hypoctritical, because I hate destructive critiscism, when constructive critiscism works better.

Just...Read the comments people have put. It's good that you can go through life so permanently positive. I wish I could. But you really need to think about context, audience and other stuff like that.Some of these ideas, bluntly, just dont work. Period.

Wall of text is hurting my brain...

You seen anyone about this, by the way? The obsession with RMT and bank robbing, drugs and...stuff...sounds like a real case of paranoia.
I only wish I was kidding, too.

/signed

I got two purples about half a month ago.
I was on a level 8 Tanker, sk'd on a friends mission in the RWZ. I had, before then, never got a Purple Drop. Or, for that matter, any half-decent rare drops.

I guess that makes me a damn dirty inf farmer, eh?
It's all so much luck. This is why I stick to vanilla IO'ing my characters at 47, and building up slowly when and/or if I ever get the chance.

The market, t'me, is a game for people who have far more time and inclination to grind than I do. More power to them.

Given it was said that DP will be 'in time to level throughout the DXP weekend', I would assume it was on live.

DS, not so sure about.

Note: Do not stay up till that late/early in the morning posting. It's not good for your longterm health.
I know this by personal experience...it makes you tired, not think straight, and do things you regret later...

This thread and others suggest you need to get out more.
I know that sounds harsh. Others have worded it more harshly. But there may be a REASON for the lonliness, in that you spend all your time indoors.

Me? Im a social recluse and happy as larry. The friends I do make are good ones who share my addict- uh, hobbies (gaming, films, animation, art, more gaming) so...yeah.

*shrug* I like the idea itself. I just dont think we can get away with it on this engine and without a fragnatz worth of work.

I think only one phrase sums up my reaction;

Ohgodtherats.

It's not. The A.I. itself is complicated and does wierd things. Ever noticed how Hellion Buckshots and the like still run into melee range? And yet they don't even have brawl?

Taking melee off the of the Assault Bot would certainly be a bad thing, as he can deal one hell of a punch. But I agree that the A.I. itself needs another pass, because it's still got some really bad screw ups in it.

((Story work and character development for my PPD character, SWAT Sergeant Jen Kerringer. Hope you enjoy it too. Please comment or PM with feedback.))


Fire, burning, the scorching, screaming pain as it tore up her body, the dull thwump as the nearby oil drums caught, the resulting explosion sending bent metal and shrapnel everywhere. She felt searing pain in her right arm, before it suddenly stopped, left with a dull, throbbing and wholly unpleasant sensation in its place. She felt like vomiting, but there was no air left in her lungs, no air, no breath...

The physical pain ceased, replaced by a sucking blackness. And then it returned, only this time it was her brain, a scream without sound that made her flesh crawl and her bones try and escape from her own body...except it wasn’t her body; metal caged her, limbs cold, imprisoned, the blackness-

Jen Kerringer awoke with a yell, pistol in her hand and aimed even before she bolted upright. She stopped dead, listening to the hammering sound which, she realised, was her own heart, pounding fit to burst. Her night-wear clung to her, whole body soaked in cold sweat.
She flopped back with a vicious curse, resting her right arm over her face, pistol still clenched. It had taken all her willpower to not pull the trigger by reflex. Eventually, after her heart had stopped trying to erupt from her ribcage, she put the pistol back in its special gap at the head of the bed, before sitting up and hugging her knees to her.
Usually she would have opened the window and had a cigarette to calm her nerves. The problem was, that was the exact same thing she had done two weeks ago. The only difference was the nightmare had been more powerful this time, more vivid. She had no idea why it had chosen to crop up two weeks ago, but the reoccurrence was disturbing, to say the least. She flexed her arm, trying to shake off the déjà vu, and the unsettling sensation that, while her fingers were moving, they were no longer actually there.

Sergeant Jennifer Kerringer didn’t scare easily. She had fought all the scum of Paragon’s criminal underworld, fought an old friend of hers that had become a Supa Troll, and even gone toe-to-toe with a Rikti Chief Soldier and come out alive.
But now, she was scared. Very scared. She was scared she was going to die. And, given the increased potency of the nightmare, she was scared that it would be soon...

Vigilante = Dark Knight
As Jim so rightly put it; They aren't the Heroes the people want. But they are, sometimes, the Heroes the people need.
To do all the darker things that the 'Good Guys' wont, sometimes because someone has to.

*shrug*

Vigilante = Dark Knight
As Jim so rightly put it; They aren't the Heroes the people want. But they are, sometimes, the Heroes the people need.
To do all the darker things that the 'Good Guys' wont, sometimes because someone has to.

*shrug*

We don't know. GG is assuming.
No one knows. I would hedge a bet that it would be early on Live, because it makes little to no sense to have it on test. I may well be wrong.

So, yes. Until we get Red name confirmation, we don't know.

Well...the Arachnos pre-order helmets are 'free' as a Veteran reward.
So...add the cape and sprint in there?

I plan on having that sort of moral conflict break out amongst the Sabre team (Chief, Vixen, Wolf and Fox)
Vix is very much anti-vigilantism, although she does fight in the Warzone (its a war after all, but she is a medical officer too)
Fox is quite destructive at times, but he tends to be more about shock and awe, rather than actual killing, despite how he may come across.
Wolf, on the other hand, has been sniping too long, and is firmly in the grey, now.
Chief is...undecided, and possibly actually gonna be the one caught between this the most.

Its an interesting point, either way.
/Ramble