Bill Z Bubba

I haven't missed one yet.

Don't know if it was intentional, but yes it crossed my mind as well and I chuckled at it.

Oh.. so that's what this thread is about.

General consensus in the thread is that "type-r" probably meant hardcore or highly knowledgeable. Hopefully that's true, but it makes me even more curious as to what's happening and what impact that will have on our rigs' performance.

Oh, here's Positron's quote:
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We're sitting in a meeting and our Development Director said "We've contracted some Type R programmers".

I had never heard this term before, so I jotted it down on my notepad, so I could inquire about it later.

Just then our Lead Engineer asks "What is Type R?"

Our Dev Director looked stumped. "What do you mean?"

"You said 'Type R Programmers'" said the Lead Engineer.

"No, I said 'High Powered'." said the Dev Director.

"No you didn't. You said 'Type R.' See I wrote it down." I said, and showed him my notepad that said "Type R?".

So now, everything high powered and awesome in the office is "Type R".

I am now on a crusade to get it used outside our offices. I should add it to urban dictionary or something.

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So yea.... so who are the new coders? Can we interr... umm, talk to them? Get secret messages back and forth? Get some tidbits on what, if anything, is being changed?

Twisted_Toon,

There is no right or wrong. However, if you're not capable of fighting non-stop with an attack/buff/debuff/control animating every moment that a enemy is within range, then you're not contributing to the team effort as much as I would want you to.

OTOH, I've been told before that the pace I run at is "excessive."

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CoHGO

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CHVR is easier

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What does CHVR stand for?

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Id caution a guess as 'City of Heroes, Villains and Rouges'

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A winner is you!

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negative...milk

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kidney stones are evil. drink more cranberry juice when you're not drinking milk.

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BillZBubba wrote:

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There's a huge difference between sideswitching or fallen/redemption and creating a brute and entering Atlas Park from the character creation screen.

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You sure we won't be able to enter Praetorian Atlas as a brute and shift over after running to the new portal corp building there at level 1?

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Pretty sure. I'm guessing you'll have to run the Praetoria missions and make "choices" that affect your alignment. Only once you've moved your alignment to the appropriate heroic or good level, only then will you be able to enter blueside.

--NT

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I'm not sure of that at all. It makes sense for existing characters, yes, but I see no reason that we won't be able to start characters in the alternate dimension and bring them over. May not be the case, but I hope it is.

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Whip Control/Pain Domination!

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In this game, I wouldn't bet too much of my own money against that one.

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<sigh>

You heard it here first, folks. Whip Control in I-17.

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CoHGO

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CHVR is easier

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There's a huge difference between sideswitching or fallen/redemption and creating a brute and entering Atlas Park from the character creation screen.

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You sure we won't be able to enter Praetorian Atlas as a brute and shift over after running to the new portal corp building there at level 1?

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Turn off Water Effects, Bloom, and Depth of Field. ATI don't play that game (with those effect enabled).

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And Desaturation FX. Same problem as the rest.

OP has a point. If I'm a good brute at level 40, why would I go back to the rogue isles to work for one of the patrons to unlock the PPPs?

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I concur. I've long wanted a dual pistols/* cor and I can easily use the demon summoning to finally play a mastermind I can tolerate and tie it into my hellish hierarchy.

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New Power: Demon Summoning (Master Minds/ Controllers)


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I think it would be tough to match those 2 primaries as in it would just MM getting a summon pet class...or dom/trollers geting the single pet summon at 32

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Which is why I thought demon summoning was only going to be an MM class.

With the introduction of the two new characters and Positron all but confirming it during the anniversary shindig on test, dual pistols and demon summoning can be considered a go.

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New Power: Demon Summoning (Master Minds/ Controllers)

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Lie.

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Huh? Why say you this?

Has anyone come across any data concerning what kind of graphics updates we should be expecting with the Going Rogue expansion?

Should we be hopeful for performance increases?

Or should we be fearful of a rehash of what occurred with CoV when it came up when the zones were filled with more stuff for us to process without any streamlining of the engine itself?

Will there be an official update to the minimum specifications or will we continue with the standard "Please ignore the posted minimum specifications because they are abjectly ridiculous" line?

If you come across hard quotes, please post them here.

I don't recall who all may have proposed it, but I am more and more sliding into the opinion that doing away with TOs and DOs completely is the answer.

Then there would be no need of the current Beginner's Luck function, nor would there be any need for an endurance version of it. There would be no need for inherent health/stamina. No further changes would need to be made to the game engine at all.

Would it mean a lot of work anyway? Oh absolutely. Drop tables would need to be fixed, all the stores would as well. Something else would have to be done with Mr. Yin's(?) store in Faultline.

But what would it fix? Well, everything that sucks about the low game. The question would be whether we'd become too powerful.

I don't believe so. We'd still be very limited in our slots. We'd still have all of the various AT mods and Level mods in place to keep us in some semblance of check. EDIT: Granted, low level enemies may need to be adjusted accordingly as well, and that may be the killing point.

I honestly believe that this course of action should be considered by the devs.

Before hooking up with my wife (no she doesn't game at all) I was barfly. A really bad one. As soon as I bought a house for my wife, her son and I, I stopped being a barfly. Literally overnight.

But my comfort level remained geared toward the drunks. It's by nothing but chance that my brother and two other players chose Pinnacle to create our supergroup and it was only out of boredom that I let him talk me into playing this, my first and only MMO.

It was all the drunk freaks that kept me comfortable, kept me amused and kept me around.

Life changing? No, I gave up one addiction for another. Healthier lifestyle? Yes.

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Again, they are currently Pinnacle's Top 13 out of 100 SG. How anyone doesn't know them, yeah, thats odd.

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Because the rankings have never meant anything beyond X group farms more than Y?

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OK BillZ, looks like 833 for your latest incarnation. That would shoot through the roof with Aid Self, you know.

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I've got followup, shockwave, spin, repeat. I don't need no stinkin aid self!!!!

And are you taking into account the passive scaling dam-res? I'm kinda surprised it's so low. Ahh, nm.. I see that you are.

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ClawsandEffect, how come some people won't post their build? I'm not trying to change anybody's mind or anything. Just asking because of pure curiosity.

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Folks like to hide things from Castle. However, my build is posted in the Pylon thread right now. Werner, I'd dig it if you'd slap it into your spreadsheet if you find the time.

Well now I'm curious what Bill's Wernerscore is. Werner, what's the easiest format for you to use? Just totals for defense, dam-res, regen, hp?


heh... Wernerscore
Arcanatime

Wonder what's next?

... I don't recognize any of you freaks.

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I like like 2D and 3D and the animations. And if I knew how to make avatars like the one I currently have, I'd like to make those.

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Your avatar is gorgeous. What is that from?

Game nerfs? Have we had any since ED and the GDN?