AngryRedHerring

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Wasn't CCCP the cyrillic initials for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

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CCCP1! Moscow Television!

Uzbeks. Don't give them money or matches.

Great State sponsored programming like "Hey Giorgy!"

...Where the heck is Lemonlass? Has no recent posts, and would go gaga over this whole thing...

No point listing them, really-- just going to start with character #1 on Freedom, then work my way through four servers of alts.

More are getting new colors than not, that's for sure.

GAAAAHH! CAN- NOT- ...WAIT! LO-SING... Con... cious... ness...

What about Monkey Steals the Peach? (Not Safe For Sanity)

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Power Customization

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Yeah, me too! That's the one I want too.



...Wait, what?



/still dancing
/I16's gonna be like Christmas, except a Christmas that only comes in leap years

So, are the alternate animations available on a per-power basis, or is the choice between one whole set or the other?

LOVE more fist attacks in MA.

Level 8 Blaster

Level 50 Mastermind

...1152 x 864. One of these days I gotta upgrade this dinosaur monitor.

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I do not give a damn about what other players thinked about a story and how they rated it....
...because almost every arcs i played were not that much impressive or that much bad.


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With grammar like this, I can barely give this post 2 stars.

...Seriously, "thinked"?

...That's an awfully unsteady high horse you're on...

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To my understanding, there's a new option to force your arc to a specified level with appropriate forced scaling of the enemies in range.

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Yeah, but as best as I can tell, you can't scale anything up, only down. I've got a 54 high arc, and with I15 I wanted to add to one mission a group that only spawns 40-44, and bring them up to the mission level. But as long as the mission level is 54 high, you still only get those enemies at 44 and below.

It's one mission out of five, and it's really meant to be an endgame style arc. I don't want to drop the whole arc 10 levels just to accommodate this group, even though I'd really like them in there. And since I hate it when arcs randomly exemp you to various levels mission to mission, I'm loath to go that route.

Now, if I'm wrong, someone PLEASE correct me. I'd love to be wrong about this.

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I actually re-tested my story-arc for I15 last night. My flying critters actually flew rather nicely...

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It's not flying critters in general. Enemies fly. Allied patrols fly. Allied ambushes fly. But plain allies-- the ones who follow you around-- do not fly. If yours do, I'd really like to know what you're doing to make it happen. I can't get them to fly with regular flight or reflections-effects.

Allies have not flown since the first live patch to I14. The best I've ever been able to do is get them to activate flight for a second, by flying out of their follow range, then edging back into it from above; they activate fly for half a second, then abandon it.

Bugged this a long time ago, and was really hoping this was fixed in I15. Sadly not.

Here's a thread from back in early May (sigh) discussing the same issue.

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Saying Jay is #$%*&@y...

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I actually had someone complain because my contact "cursed" just like that.

Fixing my broken links ("Check... and Mate" and "Invasion on Earth BX1132!").
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Genres A-L

AE System
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5th Anniversary Flashback Smackdown (126896) -- Neutral
Bare Knuckles of Rage (9304)
Death for Dollars! -- Neutral
Mission Architect Playable Tutorial (28470)
Signal to Noise (67277) -- Neutral
Welcome to Architect Entertainment -- Neutral

Allegory
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Who is Kidnapping the World's Great Philosophers? (86347) -- Neutral

Character/Supergroup Origins
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A Hero is made, Not Born (20863) -- Heroic
A Mother's Nightmare (6955) -- Heroic
A Rose's Thorns (113224) -- Heroic
Birth of a Fossil -- Heroic
Jumping in Feet First (1345) -- Heroic
Midnight Bells Toll -- Villainous
New Flame Rising (161066) -- Heroic
Noah Reborn (2370) -- Heroic
Polar Emergence Neutral Government User Interface Network (PENGUIN) (29205) -- Heroic
Secret Origins(Tech) The Snake Women of Epsilon V (42221) -- Heroic

Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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A Crusher Crimewave #1 : Crisis at The Citadel (50271)
A Crusher Crimewave #2 : Escape from The Zig! (83458)
A Crusher Crimewave #3 : The Fall of Mocker (123613)
A Show to Die For! (30645) -- Heroic
Check... and Mate (15095) -- Heroic
Deadly Sins! (99366)
In The Shadow of Statesman (1160) -- Neutral
Marketing Opportunity (83747) -- Villainous
Paradox Paradox (69221) -- Heroic
Sidekicks Can Be A Pain In The Cape (28430)
Teen Phalanx Forever! (67335) -- Heroic
THE BOMBER (16607) -- Heroic
This Life Immortal (5756) -- Heroic
To Save A Single World (83744) -- Heroic
'Tis Nobler in the Mind -- Heroic

Comedy
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The String Thief (15726) -- Neutral
Mean People (16690) -- Neutral
The Extadine Lab (2595) -- Heroic
MacGuffin Delivery Service (1567) -- Villainous
ParaCon (1684) -- Heroic
The new and improved Lord Recluse Strike Force -- Villainous
The Fire Bunnies - Neutral
You Say It's Your Birthday! (3630) -- Neutral
Trademark Infringement (2220) -- Heroic
Hail to the King (34640) -- Neutral
Walk On the Wild Side (3580) -- Neutral
Shirley You Jest (25474) -- Neutral
The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space! (61013) -- Heroic
Gnomish Madness (30204) -- Heroic
Doctor Nadir and the Hellion Heist (49661) -- Heroic
Laugh? I Thought I'd DIE! -- Heroic
The P.U.G. Strike force (35585) -- Villianous
A Translator is the Wind or the Thunder in Turns (2936) -- Heroic
What's in a Name? -- Villainous
None More Black, Dude! (86312) -- Neutral
Rise of the Drakule -- Neutral
Return of the Revenge of the Son of Drakule Part 2: First Blood -- Neutral
Martian Chimpanzees and the Cyborg Cheerleaders of DOOM! (69947) -- Heroic
Daytime Divas (94504)
Death to Disco! (84420) -- Neutral
Too Many Bunnygirls! (101165) -- Neutral
Invasion on Earth BX1132! (98943) -- Neutral (poster version B)
Ee=Ai-Ee-Ai-Oh! (3662) -- Neutral
The foul-mouthed Handyman! (1076) -- Neutral
City of Norms (132994) -- Neutral
Killing The Meow Farm (141625) -- Neutral
Shortbow - (143566) -- Heroic
Jerk Hackers! (162482) --Heroic

Comedy/Drama
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Kidnapping an Idol (136188) -- Neutral
Fashion Apocalypse (14840) -- Neutral
The Running of the Bulls (29973) -- Heroic
A Super Team is Born -- Heroic
Cause of How Some Silly Stealed My Wings (1481) -- Neutral
How to Survive a Robot Uprising (12669) --
Dr. Duplicate's Dastardly Dare -- Neutral
It's a Nice Day for a White Wedding (9059) -- Neutral
TURG FICTION: Ghost in the Machine, Act I -- Heroic
Rum Runners of Bloody Bay (3691) -- Heroic
Have a Blap, Blap, Blappy Day Kids! (2019)
The Toypocalypse! (49280) -- Heroic
Fishing for Fame with Red Herring (66861) -- Heroic
Putting Out Fires: A Corporate Satire (20100) -- Villainous
The Rise and Refall of Pets'n'Things.com (1061) -- Heroic
The Cat's in the Cradle (8776) -- Villainous
Females for Hire (110723) -- Neutral
The Cathedral of Mild Discomfort (153712) -- Heroic
Freaks, Geeks and Men in Black (161629) -- Heroic

Crime/Gangs
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Bricked Electronics (2180) -- Heroic
The Bravuran Jobs (16809) -- Villainous
The Black Flag Is On The Rise (Pirates!) -- Villainous
Win the 2009 Freak-Lympics (2150) -- Villainous
Ninja Crimewave! (2142) -- Heroic
Whitehawks (Arc 49364) -- Heroic
The Internet is for Crime (53385) -- Villainous
Plastic Pistol Peril (1135) -- Heroic
Friends in Need (Of Body Parts) (31005) -- Villainous
A Little RnR (17523) -- Heroic click for Promotional Poster
Mechanical Mayhem (76712) - -Villainous
Females for Hire (110723) -- Neutral
Battlin' Tom's Murder Extravaganza! (99803) -- Villainous
Meet the Demon Spawn (151099) -- Heroic
Slash DeMento and the Stolen Weapons (100045) -- Heroic
[ZQ] Power Play (187269) -- Villainous

Drama
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A Flame the Burns Bright (112548)
Clonus, Parts 1 & 2 (21499) -- Heroic
Digital Love (3571) -- Neutral
Matchstick Women (3369) -- Heroic
Of Mentors and Legacy (1589) -- Heroic
The Conciliators: Simone (4010) -- Heroic
The Fan Club -- Heroic

Global Domination
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Axis and Allies (1379) -- Villainous

Global Destruction
---
The Twilight of this Blue Orb (98529) -- Villainous

Heist
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Celebrity Kidnapping (1388) -- Villainous
Easy Money (31490) -- Villainous
The Great Diamond Heist (96169) -- Villainous

Historical (Realistic)
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Wrinkle in Time (68920) -- Heroic

Historical (CoH Lore)
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Origins - Volume 1 (57077) -- Heroic
The Consequences of War (212069 and 212073)
The War on Superadine (7959) -- Heroic
[ZQ] The Once and Future King (71601) -- Heroic

Holiday
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City of Ho Ho Ho (18775) -- Heroic
Hectic Holidays (36999) -- Heroic
Santa's Missing List (34961)
Santa's Workshop of Misfit Toys (134140) -- Heroic

Horror
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Astoria in D Minor (41565) -- Heroic
Creepy Crawlers (82553)
Dark Dreams (3615)
D!E COUNT DADDY MACULA D!E! (10119) -- Heroic
Duality (84105) -- Heroic
Don't Play With The Dead (31813) -- Neutral
Hunting the Hunters (93362) -- Villainous
I Will Dance On Your Grave (92630)
Lights, Camera, Scream! (68627)
Movie Monster Madness.. (102058)
Project: Perilous - Into the Chthonian Pit (#3586) -- Neutral
Small Fears -- Heroic
Something Comes to Yarmouth (58812) -- Heroic
The Amulet of J'gara (1709) -- Heroic
The Children of Astoria (217499) (masearch link)
The Zombie Apocalypse Task Force: Something wicked this way comes.

Large-Scale Crisis
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A Warrior's Friend -- Heroic
Alpha and Omega (60015) -- Heroic
Bleed the Freak (6919) -- Heroic
Flight of the Valkyries - Precursor (20272) -- Neutral
Is it Live or is it Memory-X (70210) -- Heroic
The All-Seeing Eye (57352) -- Heroic
The Clockwork War (18672) -- Heroic
This Is War, Part I - the Revenge of Hro'Dtohz -- Neutral
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 1 (15006) -- Neutral
War of the Worlds - The Anakim Invasion - Part 2, The Terran Revolt (46711) -- Neutral
Win the Past, Own the Future -- Heroic

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I don't think I've ever said anything is "hard" to do or even intentionally implied it.

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*cough*powercustomization*cough*

My sixty-odd characters across five or six servers are all simultaneously looking at the OP like this.

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Hook the ambush to an auto-complete captive (set single, no guards.)

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Wouldn't the captive have to be right at the door for this to work?

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No, they don't. Setting a captive with the "Single" for captor group difficulty will spawn the ambush once you enter.. and that ambush will come at you, wherever you are.

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Works for allies set to single too. I didn't realize what I had done until I started getting ambushed at the door. Took me a while to figure out where it was coming from, too. I honestly didn't remember setting up such a thing, but boy, it works.

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2 posters?

HAX!

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OK, this arc deserves two posters.

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...I just got that image in my head, and couldn't get it out any other way.

UPDATE!

"Invasion on Earth BX1132" has now been fully tweaked to work with the latest patch.

One main issue still remains: Allies who are supposed to fly currently do not. This is a bug with the last patch, and I'm just waiting for it to be fixed (along with a lot of other folks).

And thanks to all of you guys who have been playing "Invasion". I'm the proud owner of a shiny new Designer badge thanks to you. I've received so many nice comments; just about every time I log in, somebody makes my day with a fresh tell. You guys rock.

...Also, I am currently working on the sequel, "Revenge of the Vh'kiir: Invasion on Earth BX1132 2!" Coming Soon to an Architect Entertainment building near you.

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I hope this is some sort of bug and not WAI. I fear the Devs gimped any allies because they were being abused in farms and have gone way overboard as usual and made them sucktacular.

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The thing is, allies are little kill-stealers. Only defensive allies truly aid in a farm. I was worried I had created a farm in a particular mission, until I saw they were stealing my xp (which was what I had hoped would happen, actually).

I just got a reply to the in-game support ticket I sent on this issue, and it seemed like they had never heard of it before. I explained it more in depth in my email reply.

I realize support gets a lot of tickets that are not really bugs, or something the player has misunderstood (I myself have submitted a thing or two that I later found to be an error on my part). And I realize they have to have stock responses to weed those out and save time.

But this is a known issue-- at least to anyone who has flying allies in their arcs-- and for them to respond with a "must be your arc" message just sets me to grinding my teeth. And until we get an official response to this, I am going to bug it in-game every time we get a new patch/issue that does not fix this.

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How is this going to be done in 2 hours? It's not like the exploration locations are marked on the map...

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With Vidiotmaps, they will be...

Enjoy.

I'm having problems with flying allies as well. The ally characters fly some in the patrols I'm using them in, but as allies they are suddenly ground-bound since the last patch.

I would have tested this on the Test Server, but the character copy tool was down for days, and when it finally worked, I realized that transferring a current character did not unlock all the stuff I had unlocked on Live, so I had to earn tickets again before I could test the mission as it exists on Live.

By the time I got that accomplished, the patch had gone live, and the player base is now experiencing the new bugs in my arcs at the same time I am.

I'm wondering if this has something to do with the new ranged attacks. Before, my allies would chase guys into the sky, which was cool. Now... it's not.

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I was hesitant to delete it, but I figured if this didn't work I would have to redo everything anyway. I deleted then checked it out in game and my file size is now 77%, woot!

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Anytime you go to do any manual editing, make a copy of the file you want to edit, keep it in the missions folder, and edit that one. That way if you bork it, you've still got that backup... and much less apprehension.

Go to your mission file, in the Missions folder, in your City of Heroes folder. Open the text file for your mission.

Do a Ctrl+F and put in the name of the group you're trying to delete. If it still exists in the file-- and it almost surely does-- this will point you to any places where it still remains. You might also want to check for the names of any characters associated with that group-- if even one guy remains, he brings his entourage. Then you can go back into the editor and attack those details, or if you're comfortable with it, you can delete the detail from the text file itself, though you risk borking it if you don't know what you're doing.

There was some change made to the game that affected manually-edited text files, but I don't know the details. I do know, though, that I have moved details around, edited various things, etc. via the text file, and I haven't had the game complain about it.

I haven't really played with defendable objects, but I can clue you in a bit on the first one:

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1) (I know I'm not going to get the terms exactly right, but here goes) There are entries for "Enemy Unaware" dialogue and "Enemy Aware" dialogue, but in my story, the enemies never say ANYTHING until they are aware of me and then they blurt out both pieces of dialogue at once. That is both confusing and counter-productive to the story I'm telling because when they realize someone is there, they contradict what they were saying when they thought no one was listening, so it's like "There are major flaws in this new gizmo. Attack before they get our ultimate weapon!"

So my question is - what exactly triggers "Enemy Unaware" dialogue?

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Apparently the triggers on Object groups and Hostage groups are just bugged right now. It's been annoying the heck out of me, too.

It works properly on Bosses-- there are supposed to be two ranges for those two dialogue triggers, and if you try it with a Boss detail, you'll see how it's actually supposed to work. The first one is as you approach the boss, but before you get close enough to alert them, the second is right as they see you.

It's something I've just gotten used to and have started to write with that in mind. It'll be interesting to see how my dialogue looks/feels once they actually fix this.

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As far as why there haven't been any recent Dev's Choice missions added, there could be any number of reasons....

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Add to that that the thing isn't even out a month yet and there's a gigajillion of arcs. A month ago the devs were talking about how cute the Tribbles are... now they're raining out of the Quadrotriticale bins.

Yeah, I wanted to run my arcs on test with those new power tier changes. Besides, except for maintenance, isn't the Test Server always running with the latest build?