_Ryxx_

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  1. _Ryxx_

    Taking a break

    I've been pseudo-breaking since I found Minecraft a month ago. Also no BaB makes me a sad Ryxx :[

    See you soon, MG
  2. _Ryxx_

    Happy Birfday!

    Thanks guys I indeed have been / will be spending the majority of today going to school and programming a text-based simple poker system in java, but it's still a happy day for me.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lanna_Su View Post
    This was my first MMO and I had no idea what to name my first toon. I wanted something unique, not often thought of, ethereal, and Star Wars related.

    I thought of those really cool, long, tall creatures at the cloning facility on the rain planet. When the creature met Obi Wan at the door she (he?) introduced her (him) self and it sounded like Lanna Su. The real name never mattered enough to me to look it up. Lanna is one of my faorite characters to play and I like the sound of it.

    I feel like Lanna suits me and people seem to know me that way. I wouldn't change it.
    I almost **** my pants when I randomly rewatched Episode II a while back and heard your name pop up. I knew your name sounded familiar before that point, but I never placed it beforehand.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by galadiman View Post
    (esp. running with MP's bunch of hooligans , they're always SB/AM/etc.-ing me. (Oh yeah, and thanks, hooligans!)
    This is likely to often be me, in MP's bunch of hooligans. The funny thing is I really enjoy IOing out characters to their optimum performance, but my main Kin def (or any kin really) doesn't require hardly any IOs to be as awesome for teams as it is. I don't know what I'ma do with HIM after the fitness change.. probably pick up repel ... maybe assault? grant invis? shrug.
  5. *post redacted because I prefer to think before I speak
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainMoodswing View Post
    Well, I wonder. When everyone gets Fitness, does that mean Fighting will fill the "you must have this or you are gimped" void?
    In some aspects, I believe this to be true. Although it will certainly make end use a problem for lots of people, and lots of them will not seem to know why they have end problems, I'm sure. "I have stamina, why do I keep running out of end??? /stupid"

    *edit* although my vote would be for stealth and recall friend, or just recall if the pools are still tight, and maybe a utility power like confront on scrappers or that random 'lol' power that nobody takes, like repel [usually] or whirlwind
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    Ninja Run

    I've tried forgoing travel powers in favor of ninja run, and it works fine for most lower levels, (especially before you'd have the option for regular travel powers, it's probably worth buying for levels 4-14 alone) but I never make it out of the 30s without taking at least super speed. It IS viable to help you move around from place to place, especially with hurdle, but it is a little limited.

    The only high level character I regularly use Ninja run on is one of my kins. I usually switch between SS and ninja run until there's a point I need to get to that's too high (like hopping over the mountains in the third mission of ITF) then I fire Inertial Reduction. Otherwise I can't stand that limitation.

    Also a note to keep in mind is that you lose it when you disable temp powers in masters runs, if you ever do that sort of thing.
  8. Reasons I love Peril: He is hilariously the most evil player I have ever met.

    Reasons I hate Peril: He is hilariously the most evil player I have ever met.
  9. I was gonna say something like that. Like Peril can't participate.
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    Box Collecting

    At this point, I think my fiance has thrown out my old heroclix with my other junk, so I'm not worried about it, I'm not old enough to start collecting things anyways. Maybe I'll ask in a couple years from now

    I did find another box, however; I apparently also bought a Good vs Evil edition box at some point, I don't even know if I ever used the game time card in it. Would upload a newer complete photo but I am just too lazy.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master View Post
    the only thing im wondering about is how they are gonna do the change, jsut moving them into inherents will leave lvl 50s with 3 empty powers, or will we have to respec to get out of the fitness pool we have now?
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...23#post3178723
    Which means Shamster was right, the biggest downside is having to respec dozens of characters. fun time!

    am I the only person who reads dev digest? I open it every time I open Vic forums..
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by OmnipotentMerlin View Post
    Um you might want to think of it like sprint or rest or brawl those are inherents. Most likely there won't be a change to what you can slot in them and how you can give them slots. Just details like what lvl we get them and stuff like that.
    This is more along the lines of what I was thinking. I'd imagine we'd just have them at level 1 (or 4 or some later level like ninja run) and be able to slot them like sprint or rest. I originally thought of this as more like superior conditioning of VEATs, but that would be silly and a nerf, since most people would no longer have a place to slot numinas, miracles, or performance shifters (or panaceas if they like to blow money on things like that >.> <.<). If they left the base values and the enhanced values the same, and let us slot it, it should be nothing but good for us.

    As far as pools go, I won't have to hear "I don't have enough pools to take recall friend!" quite as often :P With fitness out of the way, you could take Speed AND leaping and still have enough pools for stealth and recall. That even leaves you with one more power of your choice that you would have been using for stamina. Other than those, (to answer voodoo) I can't say I use any pool powers, other than the occasional fighting pool for scrappers or MAYBE leadership.

    as far as emotion goes...

    YAY
  13. _Ryxx_

    Box Collecting

    Oh I see a bunch of titles that make me nostalgic for old now crashed Hard drives and long lost CDs like the original Baldour's Gates
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    Box Collecting

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Masque View Post
    What exactly do you want from the CoV DVD edition Ryxx? I might be willing to send it to you.... MIGHT!
    Just the box itself I have more than enough maps and outdated game manuals by now.
  15. _Ryxx_

    Box Collecting

    You make conversational type community threads? Wasn't intended in a negative way at all.
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    Box Collecting

    Viv usually starts these threads, and we might have pseudo-covered this topic before, but my aim is different than what I think has been discussed.

    I wonder how many of us actually bought this game in a retail store.. Where did you first hear about it? Did you see it on a shelf and decide to try it? Did you buy the expansions the same way?

    My oldest brother showed me the game back in Fall of 05, I don't know how he first came across it. I was too busy with my last year of high school, work, and my girls for an mmo (especially with only dialup at home) so I initially shared an account with Elegost, which we only played when we visited him at his apartment. Ele had more free time than me in those days, so he wound up having more stake in that account. Once I graduated High school and went off to College, I ended up with a whole new computer, lots of free time, and most importantly, HIGH SPEED INTERNET!

    Long story short, I got my own account then (his has 9 vet badges over me even though we technically have identical playtime, which weren't introduced to the game till later... grrr), from a box of BRAND NEW CITY OF VILLIANS (this was just after i6 or i7 iirc) which I bought at some retail store soon after. However, in those days, this alone wouldn't get you access to both sides, and I didn't have much interest in CoV at the time, so I used the included 15-day City of Heroes trial immediately and started rolling my first toons. After quite a bit of scrambling, I eventually found an old copy of CoH at a re-retail games shop.


    Browsing at a Discount retailer some time later (are we allowed to even mention retail names under the new rules?) I happened across TWO copies of CoH DVD edition marked down to 10$! Obviously the store didn't know what they really had, so I quickly snagged both copies.
    Similar story with Architect edition a few months back.
    I am not the collecting sort of nerd but I really do want a copy of CoV DVD edition now to complete my collection.



    also, even though I've had all these boxed sets, I've only ever gotten Statesman and Mako Heroclix While Mako is pretty cool, I started playing while Emmert was still here (one of the reasons I've never been a huge Statesman fan). Has anyone else ever gotten anything else?
  17. Werner is right, but for more reasons than just that he IS Werner..
  18. Controller or Corrupter would be a good thing to point our here; I've seen separate superteam instances of both before.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zamuel View Post
    A lot of the time, anything more complex than point and shoot collapses spectacularly.
    Actually, this is mostly what the coordination requires at most players' level. "Stop attacking that, attack this instead!" or "Follow me to the glowie thing that just popped up on your map!" or "everyone buff now!" are pretty much the only directions that are needed. It's simpler in process than a RWZ raid imo, but a lot harder because of all the timing requirements.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Grey Pilgrim View Post
    Do you really need prescribed teams this much? Seems a bit annoying if you need to have that many spots for colds and rads only.
    If you want to complete and don't want EVERYONE to have to bring ALL nukes, heavies and shivans, then yes. 2 colds per team might be a bit overkill but we'll surely tweak the roster a bit. The slow run was probably because we didn't have ENOUGH rads, he was strong as hell, even with all 24 of us beating on him at the same time.
    I recorded a rough video with fraps, if I get pretty bored tomorrow, I may do a little editing and make a little video out of it. Will probably have to get a song to cover all my breathing and swearing though >.>

    Also Saturdays are out for us unfortunately, we're busier on weekends than weekdays.
  21. It took a little longer than expected but we did it. Didn't get a final time either since we started a little late, but it's 7:45 now so I'd say it was around a half hour. Probably would have gone faster if we had more HVAS but I didn't have one either so I can't point fingers.

    Good job to all that came! Now that I've run one, we won't necessarily have to piggyback on Masque to run them (although he still has to come when we do).
  22. Why is Coz not colding for us?


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zamuel View Post
    Well, my Storm/Ice defender is in range but he's lvl 36.
    >.> <.< I may know a guy who knows a guy who might be able to raise the levels of your characters; namely defenders...