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I think this is predicated on the assumption that they will release exactly the same amount of "durable" items in the first year after Freedom launches as they did in the past year.

Say that in your calibration period, you bought N packs (where N is all of them, I suppose) and spent £50 on them.

If, in the first year after Freedom launches, they release a sum of goodies (costume pieces, emotes, prestige powers, etc) into the store that is equivalent to N+1 packs, and you come up £5 worth of points short of buying everything, is it really costing you more in proportion to what you're getting?

Conversely, if they only stock N-1 packs' worth of stuff in the store, and you exactly use up all your points in the store, you're paying an equal amount for less.

Sure, in absolute terms, to buy N+1 stuff, you'd be spending more, or buying N-1 stuff for the same price. If that's what you want to demonstrate, that's fine--your experiment will accomplish that. I'm not sure it's really a valid comparison, though.

This gives rise to a question:

Can you delete a character that is in a locked slot without first unlocking the slot?

Here's the weird scenario:

Let's say Bob was completely obsessed with MMs during his 3 months, and all of his friends play exclusively on Victory, so he only wants to play there. He was flush with cash during those three months, and bought a bunch of slots. In fact, he's filled every possible slot on Victory with a MM. (What? I said he was obsessed.)

For whatever reason, he has to let his subscription lapse. Fortunately, Freedom comes along, and he can play again. The time away dampened his enthusiasm for MMs, so he doesn't want to pay to unlock the AT, but he still only wants to play on Victory. He's got plenty of Slot Tokens...but every slot has a MM in it, so he can't unlock any of them.

So, can he clear the MMs out of the slots without unlocking them, or is he stuck?

(I do software testing. Coming up with oddball corner cases is kind of a habit.)

The filename of the image appears to bear that out.

Looks like the Warners are using theirs. You can borrow mine* instead, Z. I have a spare.

*Okay, fine. Technically, it's a Wheel of Death, not Morality. I'm sure you can improvise.

No need. The radiation takes care of that.

That was my first thought, but Rajani Isa has a point--the waiting room is probably too small if we want everyone to be in one instance.

It could be the foyer, though. Maybe they could have copies of other small maps or map sections linked to it via little glow-spot portals like the ones in the Shard zones. Use distinctive map sections, so people can specify which "room" they're gathering in, and add a few amenities in there. You could have the Library (a copy of the university or the library section of the Midnighter map), the Mole Point, and the Rave (the old Paragon Dance Party map), for instance.

Jay dropped in to threaten the T rating of the marathon Ustream while the servers were down, so he's still lurking about.

The jetpack and its trail alone strike me as quite a sign of things to come (besides being very cool in their own right).

Huh. I don't remember performing any dark rites this morning....

Seriously, I clicked a link on the first page of the forum to read the last page of the thread, then replied without noticing the date on Ice_Wall's post. At least, I thought I did. But there's nothing between Sam's old post and my new one.

How did I get here, and why am I wearing this lampshade?

Quite the opposite. Prometheus currently advises us to fight the Praetorians, and claims that there's no point in even discussing the Coming Storm until Cole is dealt with.

Well, Eiko-chan and warden_de_dios at least got part of what they wanted--Clarion can provide squishies with perma mez protection. Even near the end of the duration, it's still fairly effective.

Yeah, "pontificate" would be wanting to make himself Pope, I think. Or would that be "pontifficate"?

Especially since my homemade burgers are better than any I've ever bought anywhere--not to mention being quicker than waiting in that line. I mean, I knew I lived among crazy people, but it's still disconcerting to have my nose rubbed in it like that video does.

This fix does not sound like a general lag fix (which may not even be possible). It's a fix for a specific thing (or a number of related things) that are causing extreme lag in league events. I would not expect it to improve things in relation to pre-league lag; I don't know that anything short of a major engine overhaul or replacement could do so, and maybe not even that.

Seriously? With all the drooling that goes on in relation to Ghost Widow? Posi is, at worst, late to the party.

I have the impression that removing your Alpha power from the slot, then re-slotting it reactivates it, but I need to check that more carefully. If it does, it might also be useful to try re-slotting it after dying, but before reviving, to narrow down exactly when the power is nullified. I suspect that it's on revival (and that other buffs like Mystic Fortune and Secondary Mutation are being stripped at the same time).

In other news, I'm also getting frequent crashes when exiting a trial instance.

How about jumping on the "You don't know what irony is!" bandwagon by chiding someone for jumping on the "You don't know what irony is!" bandwagon, when they appear to actually be agreeing that an ironic circumstance is, in fact, ironic? Is that ironic, do you think?

(This post brought to you by Anti-Literary-Anemia National Irony Society.)

The power must be called "Oops" and inflict minor damage and a brief -Fly on the Jet Freak in addition to its primary effects.

Besides, when he's Unstoppable, my main only has one power that does more than 1 point of damage to him. If Dominate is recharging, and all my buffs are recharging, and no one needs a heal at the moment, why not put up a light show?