Zombie Man

Ebil-o FTL June-21 & Feb-22-2010
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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    It doesn't work that way. Once you get access to a costume part, the technology doesn't exist to take it back. You can drop to Premium and still make new costumes using the Celestial Armor if you bought it while VIP.
    Ah, thanks for that correction. Never tested it myself.
  2. Zombie Man

    Sanptooth?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    this never happened for the toons i ran, i was introduced to the dj to get the valentine tips immediatly after completing the scratch or ganymede arc i never had to do both to get the valentine tips

    my main who already had run both arcs from previous years also never got snaptooth mishs
    I was mainly giving the instructions for how to get the costumes and threw in how to get the V-Tips. But, you're right, #4 can be done right after #1.

    Did you do all 10 Snaptooth missions from last year?
  3. Zombie Man

    Sanptooth?

    Assume you're a hero:

    1. Do Ganymede's two-mission arc. To complete the second mission, you'll need a Villain (or Rogue or Loyalist) to click on the box at the end.

    2. Find a Villain (or Rogue or Loyalist) who will run Scratch's arc with you as the helper who clicks the final cauldron. This will give you the Badge and unlock DJ Zero.

    3. Talk to DJ Zero for Snaptooth missions. The reward table for these missions has the costume unlocks.

    4. Talk to Ganymede again and he'll tell you to talk to DJ Zero. DJ Zero will then attune you to Valentine Tips.
  4. Zombie Man

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Benchpresser View Post
    OK.. this just killed the entire event for me. Apparently there's a bug.. if you log off.. the damn debuff stacks. I logged off 3 times on my 1 character.. my endurance is now NEGATIVE 20!!!!!!!!!! Who was stupid enough to design this? Seriously.. Major fail.. and yet no patch to fix it.. typical.
    I'm sure when it was presented, "And if they log out, it stacks until they get *NEGATIVE ENDURANCE!!!*" was unanimously approved by all the Developers.

    There is no such thing as bugs, just Developers being purposely and intentionally meanies.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    Also strangely virtually all my temp rewards were Arrows of Jealousy. I only got one Arrow of Romance out of 14 drops. If they are supposed to be 50/50, that's a very uncommon skew.
    You have to think happy thoughts to get the Arrow of Romance to drop. Try singing "And They Called It Puppy Love" while doing the Tip mission.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
    Yeah I had assumed that the temp that drop was based on your choice, to sync up with the effects of your actions, as in, delivering it correctly causes romance, misdelivering it causes jealousy. Definitely not the case, since a number of romantic endings gave me arrows of jealousy >>
    Yeah, I bugged that in Beta and was told by a redname WAI. The drops are random.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by roodawg View Post
    i have a strange icon too! 2 of my costume slot have a "lock" icon!?!?
    but there not locked i can choose them!
    It means there are costume pieces on those toons that are 'missing' or locked in the Tailor. Either because the piece was removed or moved in the selection list. Or you dropped down to Premium and can't access those pieces anymore (but you can still wear what you have, but if you go to the Tailor, you might lose access to them).
  7. Doctor, what is it?

    Spock, what is that thing?

    Doctor, what is it?

    Scottie, what is that thing?

    Doctor, what is it?

    Bones, what is that thing?
  8. Looks like the GFX of a Defense Buff icon (the shields that circle you when Maneuvers is running) bled through the character snapshot. We've seen other bits of the world bleed through in the costume selector or the head shot windows before. A harmless bug... so far!
  9. I was hoping this was a thread to *spread* rumors of Cole's resurrection.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    You keep missing or outright ignoring the point. It doesn't matter WHO Countess Crey really is so much as that she's a MURDERER.
    Crey is unsubtly portrayed as the evil corporation overlord right from the get-go. Murder is the least of their sins that I would be expecting of them or the ones running the show. And whether it's done by the real Countess Crey whom I can't touch because lack of evidence (as if that should ever stops a licensed vigilante... but this is the whole Lex Luthor schtick going on here), or by an impostor whom I can't touch because of lack of evidence -- her identity becomes a non-issue and a surprise which registers no emotional investment.

    But that lack of emotional investment is my point which you keep missing or outright ignore. Without emotional investment, a supposed surprise is just a new bit of information, like, it didn't rain even though it was forecast.
  11. I've updated Zombie Skins to compensate.

    Mostly by just reducing the size of the font of the author's name.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    The aliens don't exactly say where this evidence is, but they hint at it: they ask what would we think if we examined the digits of pi, and discovered that trillions of digits into pi was an encoded message from someone.
    And that message? Ironically, "Bring more pie."
  13. I updated the skins to reduce the size of the author's name in listings of thread topics since the last forum update made them bold, which caused them to visually get in the way of scanning the topics.

    There's no way for the skins to unembolden them since bad htlm hacking by Seattle keeps putting the formatting code right next to each and every name rather than using styles for them.

    I added the code to reduce the font size to 9 pixels in this section of the coding. I also made the color of the name for the Villain skin a bit brighter to compensate for names that aren't emboldened.


    /* Thread-List Page */
    /* Render authors in a darker color */
    #threadslist .alt1 .smallfont > span[style],
    #threadslist .alt2 .smallfont > br + span,
    #threadslist .alt2 .smallfont > span > a {
    color: #b49559 !important;
    font-size: 9px !important;
    }
  14. Not if the person who drew that scene is the artist for it.

    If Rory is steadying himself for one of those regular bridge-shakes-when-attacked, then Amy should be falling down for striking that I'm-peeved stance directed at... the reader? Poor photoshop layering there.

    The displays in the background are slightly out of focus as if reproducing a camera's depth of field for a cinematic effect... but the bulkhead panels above it are not.

    Judging by the relative size of The Doctor's hands, they are about 15 feet apart. Talk about relative dimensions in space...
  15. Looks like she also got reduction surgery.

    Next costume the pendulum will swing in the other direction: completely covered except the areolas.
  16. Zombie Man

    Issue 22

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
    Looking back at the last 3 years:
    -i14 "AE" April 8th 2009
    -i17 "Dark Mirror" April 28th 2010
    -i20 "Incarnates" April 5th 2011
    I'd say April 9th 2012.
    Simply cause April 2nd would be too obvious for a April fools joke weekend.

    Never has there been an issue in February or March.

    ps: 2009 and 2010 saw 3 issues, and they want 3 issues this year too. Reason 2011 only got 2 issues was cause i21 was such a huge makeover.
    2008 saw 2 issues too... i12 in May, i13 in Dec.
    It's hard to count by Issue now that there are 'half issues' such as 21.5. Is that a full issue? Do two of them count as one Issue?
  17. And like past hacks to the web code, this one is horrible because it makes each name bold and white in the coding rather than define a style for the name. So, no easy player-created hacks to fix it.

    Not only that, but when browsing the forums, the list makes every name white and bold, but, when searching, then only the Premium names get the white and bold treatment.

    NCSoft Seattle HQ Web Services needs to get their act together.
  18. Zombie Man

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei View Post
    I see what you are doing here
    So, you've been able to discern I disagree with your opinion. Good for you!

    Quote:
    and its not cute just like I told GG when she starts doing this very thing. At least you didn't try to change the subject to puzzles again, oh you tried to change it to debt nice try. Pfft...

    20 minutes is fine 20 hours is absurd..now spin away...
    Ok, 20 hours is absurd... in your opinion.

    In my opinion, 20 hours is not absurd.
  19. Zombie Man

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei View Post
    Turns out what I was taking about (the 20 hours being a horrible decision),
    In your opinion.

    In my opinion, it's a fair penalty.

    What else are they going to use for a penalty? Debt? Which is jokingly inconsequential and immaterial for a level 50?
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Culex View Post
    No, I did the Scratch/Ganymede stuff.

    I kill enemies.

    I receive valentine tips. I got my maximum (?) loadout of 3.

    I have no tip tab in my Contacts with which to look at the tips to see if they're in Praetoria/First Ward (I am 23).
    Hmmm... forgot about that. Praetorians are presumed to go red or blue at 20. Tips are only for 20+ toons. Therefore, Praetorians don't get a Tip Tab until they go red/blue.

    First Ward allowed Praetorians to continue as goldsiders until they finished up there... but didn't revisit the whole Tip tab thing.

    Now see, if were up to me, since Goldsiders will never get zones from 30 to 50 in order to create a full-on Incarnate Praetorian, I'd do away with any goldsider going past 20 and remaining gold. I'd force a red/blue choice and then all the mechanics would work as normal and there'd be no need for hacking goldsiders to work past 20.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by jacktar View Post
    Hi Guys,

    another little but niggling problem, seem to have a few of these lately, must be a carry over from my xbox360 Skyrim playtime

    My vet award power "Self Destruct" is showing normal on some alts ie with the orange centre and on others it is just plain old grey!

    Any clues on how I get them back to the normal version?

    Thanks

    Edit: Typo's
    Did you ever install the player-created icon replacement overlay packs?
  22. Zombie Man

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
    20 hours is WORSE than anything you posted.

    Also I have a feeling it was a decimal error and shouldn't last 20 hours.

    As others have said there is chance for it to BUG OUT and last MORE than 20 hours.

    With the bug noted i have feeling it was actually meant to be 20 minutes.
    I thought the very same thing and bugged it in Beta (the internal code actually had 27 hours). But a redname said, no, it was meant to be 20 hours. Those who got botched! in Beta reported that it did go away the next day. No one reported doubled up or indefinitely long botches.
  23. Zombie Man

    Botched ritual.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei View Post
    ZM in my opinion what? I was not a horrible decision? Ok, I'll bite, you think it was a good decision I take? You guys will take crap and make a crap sandwich and say yes this is good in my opinion. Wonderfully brilliant mate, just bloody wonderful.
    In my opinion, I enjoyed a mission with a light puzzle. In my opinion, the debuff is not that onerous nor the duration intolerable.

    In my opinion, you're confusing you're opinion with what everyone else thinks and thus creating an objective reality which is actually very subjective. In my opinion, your confusing intensity of anger with reality.

    Cause you know -- speaking of sandwiches -- there are people in the world who like haggis and Vegemite. Really!