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This made my day.


People, can we please stop quoting Evil_Legacy? Quotes defeat my /ignore setting. Better yet, can we just stop replying to her at all?

Save your time and effort. Responses like these should be reserved for someone who will make use of them.

...yet.

And who says Star Trek stuff isn't real? We have personal computers, flip phones, flash drives, tablet computers, transparent aluminum, bluetooth headsets, GPS, wall-mounted big-screen flat-panel displays, voice-controlled computers, biometrics, language translators (currently limited to text translations, AFAIK), 3D printers akin to (crude) replicators, etc.

Of course, this is ignoring stuff that's currently being researched/developed like portable scanning equipment (tricorder-like), anti-grav tech (like Star Trek's cargo movers), teleportation, and the aforementioned warp travel.

I mean, clearly this stuff isn't exactly like Star Trek, but it translates very well. Personally, I'd be pursuing transporter and replicator technology. Unlocking the necessary ability to convert matter into energy (and vice-versa) would also provide a huge source of usable energy. Shoot, transporters could power themselves by stealing an atom or two from the matter being transported.

As I understood the plot and setup, it appeared that the device in Contact created something akin to a wormhole. It was much more like an artifically-generated wormhole than a controllably-propelled craft, at least.

From my reading of the articles, I was under the impression that the thing being "moved" wouldn't technically be moving. Since it is essentially shrinking space "in front" of the thing and expanding it "behind" the thing, space is the thing that is moving. It's just that from an outside perspective it would have traveled enough distance in such time as to be "clocked" at ~10c. There shouldn't be any kinetic repercussions on the thing being moved from such a method of transportation.

I think it's technically, "nothing can accelerate past 1c in normal space-time."

I'm thinking this is the likely outcome. Fire up the space-warping engine. Maybe experience some vibrations (in all likelihood, not), power down the engine and *pop* you're where you want to be. Or close to it.


My main concern would be how much of a spatial shock wave would be generated by all this compression. What effect would spatial compression have on interstellar matter? On planets? On stars? What would the range of the effect be? Could a vessel "warp" into a solar system without causing damage? Could a vessel "warp" to/from within a close orbit or would the spatial shock waves devastate the planet?

In short, would we arrive at Mars/Alpha Centauri/Wherever only to find it obliterated by our engine's wake?

Still farming.

Granted, it's not as amazing as it once was, but it beats doing Twinshot's arc (which, admittedly, is pretty good) with each. new. alt. That, and I don't like DFB.

Although, quite honestly, I think DFB did more to discourage farming in AE than any AE-related nerfs ever did.

The devs are not against farming (see: iTrials, DFB, Summer Blockbuster Event, etc.), just crazy-xp-exploit farming.

While I'd agree that "No news is good news," it does NOT imply that they are "taking their time to make a careful, measured response." They could simply be ignoring us.

However, at this point there is no reason to give up hope that CoH can be saved.

But I feel pretty strongly that NCSoft won't be doing the rescuing.

Of course, if any of the various efforts to save CoH pull out a victory, I'll be there celebrating instead.

I had the strange sensation that I should check the forums. Now I know why.

How are you, gentlemen?

They can take our (virtual) lives, but they'll never take...OUR STRONG AND PRETTY!


Edit: You know, it occurs to me that this meme will probably outlive City of Heroes (even if this isn't the end). And one day, as this meme spreads to other games and other forums, people will ask, "What is STRONG and PRETTY? What does that even mean?" I hope to be there. If I'm not, I hope one of you will stand in for MrPlayskool and say, "omg War Mace + Energy Aura so strong!"

It's the least we can do.

Well, there's this pic, showing my favorite costume glitch (Can you say Rayman?), along with the mysterious floating plank in Perez behind the lake house. Thing's been there forever, don't know how many times I reported it. EDIT: And this pic is from today, so it's still around.



And, of course, this thread from forever ago that ended up being a graphics driver problem, not a true bug. Still, it was pretty funny.

I never could develop a "main" and I don't have a namesake, but of the 200+ characters I've made and deleted over the last 8 1/2 years I have plans for two of them on the last day:

My "best" character is my Elec/SS tank (edit: this tank is now my avatar) who, in order to spend these last days with my best RL friend, has been transferred from Triumph to Guardian. I plan to log him out in Ouroboros; remembering the past, looking to the future.

My oldest character (will hit 3000 days offline in about a week) will be standing in front of City Hall as the world crashes around him, holding a torch in remembrance of all those who came after him, and who shall never see the skies of Paragon again.

Well, I managed to get four purple drops while trying to get my son's character to 50 (not there yet). Crafted four and sold three, total profit: 450M, setting a new total-on-one-character-at-one-time record of 605M.

If the third purple sells, I'll reach nearly 700M. Prices really have dropped lately. Never made it to the 1B club.

Oh well. It isn't like I tried all that hard.

I personally know at least four players that would disagree with you. I'm sure many other players have purchased one or both Kheldians but not an Invention License.

Probably because Peacebringers and Warshades are purchased ATs, so they are not accessible to a 100% free player.

I have dealt with a lot of people like the OP, and have yet to see one actually make this connection. There's a mental disconnect somewhere between other people's actions and consequences and one's own actions and consequences.

In most cases, I have found the only useful solution is to ignore the person. As I have recently discovered (after 7+ years; yeah, I'm smart), these forums have an ignore feature.


Oh, and Dechs: I lost The Game because of your sig.