Ad Astra

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

I am currently paying Golden Girl to powerlevel my forum post count.

Originally Posted by MisterD

So I wondered if it worked similar for other ATs. Almost totally sure Fury does not scale, for brutes. And scourge..not sure how to check that. Domination only does in the amount of mez prot it gives. (I think) Blasters get the same +damage from attacks, regardless of level to I assume.
Anyone know if this is WAI? And if so..why? It seems to make no sense.

Originally Posted by Gemini_2099

+1.

Not only that, but as time progresses it becomes a worse deal for VIP's.

Originally Posted by LegionAlpha

Question and suggestion, is it possible to make the females less heroic in stance and more feminine with legs closed and hands more to the side? If so, I would like to suggest this. I am sure the triumphant pose is cool to some, but it loses it's luster after a few years.

Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl

I think you're *entirely* missing the point, "Fista" (and let's hope that name isn't meaning what I hope it doesn't mean).

This *event*, which is what it is, not an invasion, was suggested by a player as a way to celebrate the Discovery Channel's annual "Shark Week" of shark-themed programming that's become a bit of a big deal over the years in the US. It's not an actual holiday, as some (non-American, I assume) players have believed.

It was suggested to the community reps, and the community reps wrote the backstory (mostly for fun, making fun of Shark Week's TV programming) and the community reps are manning the enemies. Zwil and Co. decided Arachnos bosses, Corolax and Lusca were natural fits for the fun of "What would happen if Mako did decide to go nuts in Paragon?" and Zwil himself actually played the NPC of Captain Mako. On Pinnacle, anyway, the banter was hysterical, the challenge was real, and not EVERYTHING in this game has to be about badges and xp. There wasn't a badge because badges require programming and coding, and the community reps don't really do that.

This was just a fun event, to get together as a server and do something completely unique and have a fun time, and the special temporary titles and Dark Matter aura codes were just icing on the cake. It was an opportunity to directly interact with Zwil and Co. in-game, which is rare, and serves to bolster the relationship between the player community and the community reps.

If all of that is completely unimportant to you, then yes, I'm sure you were disappointed. It's a good thing the event wasn't designed for people like you.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

You think he should take Castle out? What about poz? He's been gone even longer.

I believe Shannon Posniewski is still at Cryptic Studios and the last I heard his title was Principal Programmer.

He came to work on the game around the time they were doing their reboot in early 2003 and finishing the game before launch. He's responsible for designing and implementing the combat system, chief designer of the UI interface as well as some of the side systems in the game such as vendors, rewards, badges, plaques and more. (I'm not sure what all he worked on for CO but I believe his title on that was Executive Producer. I'm sure he had a lot of input on the code in that game as well.)

Actually, I'd say neither Castle nor poz should be removed from the flowchart as they probably have as deep of an understanding of the game code as anyone currently working at the studio.

Especially when it comes to determining the difficulty of a change to the game code.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

So are you going to do the whole "this is sparta" routine in a few more posts?

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

This is about the nicest way to put it.



The devs have SPECIFICALLY pointed out the base system as THE ur-example of something that's so fragile and badly documented that they're actually afraid to touch it anymore, lest they destroy it utterly.

Originally Posted by AngelicaVenger

I wuv that song and "Every breath you take........."