BlackSun17

Grats and HBD!

The 5th Anniversary badge put me at 600 as well! I had to hold off on a MA test run yesterday as I wanted number 600 to be this badge.

Got mine at GameStop in Hingham, MA. They only received one copy of the game.

Is there a list of the new costume pieces somewhere?

First (I think)...

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Wow, that reminds me of a game I used to play when I was just a little girl. I forget the name of it. I just remember you started in this park and couldn't walk on the grass (but had to cross it). I finally figured out that you had to get in a baby carriage (that you found), open an umbrella (that you stole), and the wind would carry you across the grass.

Geez, what *was that called? Kinda miss the games when you had to actually think and figure something out to move yourself along.

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Trinity, by Infocom. Very dark game, that. One of my personal favorite stories about the nuclear threat.

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The exact opposite game would be Infocom's versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

>Feed cheese sandwich to dog

Awesome - so is it wrong for me to infer that Issue 14 will go live on 4/7/09?

Thanks for the info and the nice write-ups!

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My search fu may be weak, so this may be mentioned elsewhere, but Architect Edition shows up at Amazon now with April 14 release date.

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LOL I had the same idea this morning - I just checked Amazon and found the same availability date (price $19.99). I know that Amazon can change these dates, but it is usually a good indicator of availability.

If I recall correctly, Issue 14 will be live before the release of the new box. My guess is a release date of April 7th.

LOL @ Amaan_Khan for asking Karl to pull out his gun!

Wait....let me get this right....

1) It sure sounds like Brain Storms ----> Invention Salvage will not count towards the crafting badges going forward

2) I need to sell off my pre Issue 13 AES, then recraft it and reattach it to get the benefit of attaching more than one aux control item - and while this may be changed in a future update, nothing is guaranteed. I need to check to see what the new crafting requirement is for an AES...

I understand that things will slip through the TEST server to LIVE. My reaction is more to the commentary that we are being given surrounding these two items.

Not a good idea to tick off the badge and base community on the day that one of your biggest marketing events kicks off...

Can a villain run the different respec trials without the diminishing returns kicking in?

That is, are the first, second and third treespecs seen as different trials by the system and are not subject to the 24 hour timer?

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Wrong place for this, sorry.

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The original question related to a gap between hero content to generate merits and villain content to generate merits. The question even mentions taskforces. The answer focused on running missions from level 1-50 and did not answer the question that was asked.

EDIT: no need for me to be snarky here - sorry!

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Poster: Lemur_Lad
Q: Will villains get more villain only options for earning chunks of merits to balance out the larger number of hero trials and TFs?

A: We will be monitoring this. We want to make sure that a villain doing missions from 1 to 50 will be earning roughly the same amount of merits a hero can earn. If we find a serious imbalance between heroes and villains in the number of earnable merits, we’ll look at ways of improving this.

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Would you please expand your answer to cover the disparity between the amount of Hero trials/task forces and Villain trials/strike forces? Specifically, is there something that will be done to narrow the content gap?

And welcome to the forums...enjoy your stay!

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Doomsday Chicken
Global Contact: @Black Sun 17
Level Classification: 50
Origin: Mutant
Super Rank & Super Group: Overlord, C.H.A.O.S.

Good luck Lighthouse.

I enjoyed seeing you at the Pocket D events on Triumph, and I was hoping to meet you in New York City in 2009. Hopefully this change suits you well.

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Ok, we know.

We should have had said something more by now, about Issue 13. But… like all great architectural endeavors, Issue 13 is taking on a life of its own and we’re not quite ready to spill forth all the information.

So, just a quick note to say thanks for your patience, even though we know you may not really be patient. Trust us, it’s coming; we’re working on it – and there’s more great stuff coming (like you haven’t heard that before, but really, we mean it!)



Thanks!

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Thank you for the update. Fortunately the Halloween event is right around the corner for me. It looks like you and your team knocked this year's version of that event one out of the park!

However, it really is becoming easier to find other things to do as the last Issue was released 4 months ago...

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Something in Boston maybe? That would be "wicked pissaaaa"

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Correction: Wicked Pissaaaah

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Hey Gang,

We aren't doing the in game exclusive item to upset anyone that cannot make the event. We are part of the show and this is part of our giveaway to our supporters that will be at the show.

Someone mentioned the in game wedding, and that by and large was also an exclusive event because not every player got the chance to attend. We will never be able to keep everyone happy, but we do like to take the opportunities that are presented to us to do what we can when we can.

If you have concerns you would like to discuss you can always contact me via email at exlibris@ncsoft.com or here on the boards via PM.

Regards,

Ex Libris

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What rubs me the wrong way about this is that the NY Comic Con was (paraphrasing Lighthouse) not in the NC budget AND not a good marketing opportunity. I can understand NC staying on the left coast for this con, but to give away an in-game item at just this con is just, well, wrong to me.

Not being able to attend the in-game wedding is really not comparable to getting an exclusive in-game item by spending money to go to a real life event. I agree that you can not please everyone, but this comparison is just not a good one to hang your hat on.

But that is just my opinion....

Just out of curiousity, what is the in game item that is being given away? And is there any other way to obtain it after the con?

I still find this useful - thanks again!

I seriously hope that the "debate" over fixing the Posi TF or creating villain SFs was a tongue-in-cheek answer.

Cause the lvl 10 - 15 SF seriously needs some love and attention . . .

And thanks Jules and Slug for the awesome work.

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SECTION 4: obtain the Level 20 to 24 badges:

Contact Name: Lt. Chalmers
Arc Name: Operation Skyhook
Mission 1: get glowie, not a kill all
Mission 2: visit Dr. Percy
Mission 3: kill all and get glowie


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Nice work!

Operation SkyHook has 4 missions - there is a Kidnap the Council Defector after mission 2. Not too hard, just some Wyvren in a cave setting. The last mission is not a kill all - two glowies to find in a Council base.

Thanks - this was very helpful.

Sorry to see that you have the same lousy phones in your office as I do in mine. Always fun to change someone's ringer to the male/female voice and crank up the volume on it.

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Lets get some discussion going on in here.

I am really looking to leverage some community ideas, so lets get some PVP Community focus going and see what as a community will be your prioritized list.

For me:

PVE & PVP build that I can toggle.
Using the kiosks in game for PVP status.
More built in, in game rewards for PVP content.

Oh and an automatic "I win" button because I don't foresee that ever happening, remembers back to one of the PVPEC events where the whole team I was grouped with was there just to make sure I didn't die a hundred times.

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PvE and PvP toggle builds would be great.

I steer away from PvP as my PvE build is soooooooo not suited for PvP. I can only get my rear handed to me so many times in a row before I decide to get out of the zone.

I finished up her first story arc just 2k short of lvl 31. All of the missions I did had lvl 31-32 baddies in them.

Before I hit 31, I was able to get her second story arc. Hit lvl 31 during the first part of it, and she is giving me the rest of the arc. All baddies in it are 32-33 (prob based on my mission difficulty slider).

All in all, a nice surprise that this is working out for me.