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Originally Posted by mercykilling

...that thinks that with all the long standing bugs in this game....adding a few furry NPC's to the club 55 and Pocket D maps and fixing one veteran power bug is kinda a slap in the face?

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Well, Zwillinger posted in the official discussion thread today that the Devs will be looking into player suggestions regarding concerns raised over the naming conflicts and other issues.

The only problem with appending NA or EU to every account is that it might be non-trivial to add more characters to the account name field to accommodate names already at the maximum length.

Since they know of the concerns about names and have said they're looking into it i would suggest having a little patience for the moment.

Originally Posted by Venture

I've been complimented on my costume designs more times than I could count, but even I have a hard time coming up with five different designs per character. A lot of them don't even need more than one.

Originally Posted by Lothic

It's a fairly straightforward business decision all things considered. The Devs looked at the situation and said, "What's the way we can do this that'll impact the fewest number of people?" Letting the EU players take the hit on this obviously sucks for the players involved, but overall it minimizes the total number of people affected. If you can think of a way that would result in less of an impact than that I'm sure the Devs would love to hear how to do it. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by Lastjustice

The fighting was stiffer than Frankenstein and a robot in a dance contest.

Originally Posted by Veritech

If i had any confidence in hollywood to do it right, i would prefer to see a reboot of the series. One where there actually is a tangible benefit to the quickening. Not to mention something that erases the stain of the more horrible parts of the franchise. Now i dug the TV show, and was fond of the 1st movie, but looking back, the 1st movie wasn't even all that great. The story was alright and you cant beat the soundtrack (which of course, you NEED for a reboot ), but the parts of the story taking place in 'present day' was more crap than not. And Lambert was damn near blind back then, it'd be nice to get someone who could go through a nice swordfight and not make it look like the other guy was purposefully holding back because he knew his opponent couldnt see him.

Would also be nice to see stuff like the Watchers incorporated from the get go. But that's me.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Gaining the skills is one thing, practicing said skills is another.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

Speaking as a Villain, I'm sick and tired of having to team up with Heroes all the time.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

This is your inference. There is no evidence for it and given that we actually go back to Praetoria with Apex and Tin Mage to thwart his plans, it's highly unlikely we get to ever assist him.

Originally Posted by Ice_Wall

Leave it to Fox News to make the argument that it's a good thing for horrible sugar saturated snacks to be marketed to kids and that the White House should get the hell out of Big Business's way of growing the dietary issues of this nation.

Of course if the White House encouraged people to buy CC Fox would probably talk about how they are having death panels trying to kill kids.

Honestly, I haven't had CC in years, and it's certainly not healthy. The nostalgic part of me would hate to see it go, but the part of me that knows there is no nutritionally redeeming value to the cereal which is marketed pretty exclusively to kids, thinks it might be time for some change.

I'd love to see Quaker or whoever Makes CC pull out the sugar content, give the Captain a healthy make over and make it more nutritional. Ride the Green\Health wave to higher profits.

Originally Posted by Samothrake

The question that always pops up in my head is what's the difference between cutting off the head, and shooting them in the head with a large enough calibur bullet so that it effectively obliterates the head?

The only thing I can think of is that one would have to be close enough so that one could recieve the quickening.

And speaking of the quickening, in the first movie, Ramirez decribed it entirely differently from what was shown in the series. Even the whole lightning storm, floating cars and breaking windows in the movie wasn't actually called or referred to as a quickening. I don't think even movie 2 or 3 acutally called that event a quickening. We were just led to belive that this is how immortals passed their power from on to another.

Originally Posted by EU_Damz

Hollows trial is sadly Anything that requires you to have a full team otherwise you fail is very bad

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I've always wanted to have dual origins, to be honest, or at least to have a less prominent and functionally irrelevant "secondary origin," if I so chose. The reasons for this is pretty much what you explained: Some concepts just dabble in multiple fields. I can think up a few off the top of my head right here on the spot:

Demon who is created from magic and is alive because of magic, but who takes up technology as his weapon of choice just because he wanted to be different.

A mutant who was born different and much stronger, but then underwent scientific experimentation to make him even stronger. In other words - Wolverine.

A regular person who was turned into a supermutant by super soldier serum, then fitted with high-tech cybernetics on top of that. In other words - Noble Savage.

Or how about one of my very own: Samuel Tow's most direct power source is scientific experimentation, in the shape of a sentient cancerous implant which slowly replaces his tissues and organs with better ones as the old ones get damage. This gives him, among other things, instant thought and reflexes, as well as the strong body to respond to them. However, the bulk of his offence comes from an unbreakable sword that can cut through anything, self-reloading firearms of infinite ammo and unnecessarily high caliblre, as well as a techno suit to put Grey Fox to shame. So which origin is he?

Originally Posted by Amazing_Guy

What do you think would happen if the game went back to being like pre-ae times and they just removed AE entirely from content. Other than the fact the market would most likely crash, and MANY noobs (no offense), would leave the game because they would have to venture outside Atlas Park for the first time in their lives, Any comments?

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

And we only get one of those two options.

For people citing 'motivation', I guess the following character shouldnt exist;

-Mindwiped Loyalist pawns
-Semi-controlled Imperial Agents
-Those who are as blindly loyal to Coles rule as Arachnos soldiers are to Recluse (We get to play one of them, after all)
-Clockwork. ANY Clockwork that are still obeying original programming.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

I don't get that. I have not seen where he says "fight with me" even relayed by his minions. I won't say it doesn't exist but I haven't experienced it personally and I've looked for it. Which is the whole premise of this thread



I totally agree. Even in the comics they were one-dimensional (there's irony for you) and Statesman comes across mostly as a self-righteous git

Originally Posted by The_Coming_Storm

So is Cap au D.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Quite true. But....Ramirez did explain that one day they would feel an irresistible pull to a far away land to fight for the Prize. So presuming that is true then hiding in Holy Ground may not be viable.

Now the Watchers in Highlander 4 Endgame seemed to circumvent that with the Sanctuary by keeping immortals in drug induced comas. Talk about a gross violation of the non interference oaths of the Watchers. Too bad that Endgame suffered from sloppy editing as well as a weak script. There are I think three versions of Endgame and I'm not sure which is considered accurate, but I think they all failed to properly convey if Sanctuary was on Holy Ground considering that Kell came in and destroyed the place and all but Connor. The movie doesn't show if Kell took them all outside or not or just killed them inside so if it WAS holy ground then he broke the prime rule of the immortals.

Also I think we are to presume that IF it indeed comes down to the last two, and one walks away with the Prize that no new immortals can ever be born again.

Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed

Nope, when you leave as a loyalist and go red side, the text states that you might well side with cole in the Invasion.

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Even the Hero loyalist text states that your goal is to help make Cole see that the Invasion isnt nescessary. Doesn't mention anything about fighting against your own government or armed forces.

But sadly, as with all choices made in Praetoria, none of that actually has any effect on your characters story after level 20.

Originally Posted by Nericus

The Third Movie expanded the Holy Ground rule a bit: Kane confronts Connor in a Buddhist Monastery in New York aka Holy Ground. Connor reminds him of the rule, Kane doesn't care and the fight begins. Kane goes for the kill, Connor blocks but his sword shatters and the shrine starts glowing this rather ominous red glow....Kane then says "After 400 years, patience IS a virtue" and flees with Connor also fleeing the scene as neither wanted to be there for what may have been coming.

Season 5 of the series, episode Little Tin God. Villain of the week has a messiah complex and is killing pre immortals and pretending to be God as they wake up as immortals. He teaches them a twisted version of the rules and tells them Duncan is the personification of the devil. He's chased into a cemetary where they still tried to kill him until one remembered that they were told not to kill in holy ground. Joe Dawson of the Watchers later tells Duncan of a legend in their Chronicles of two immortals fighting in a temple right before Mt. Vesuvius wiped out Pompeii. Villain of the week is beheaded off holy ground but near the old church he based out of and a lightning bolt struck the cross on the church which glowed ominously. Duncan sees it and decides its a good idea to leave the area......

Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano

"Bob's your uncle."

Usually used after the reveal of a plan, "So we do this and, bob's your uncle, we score ourselves some nice loot."

The full phrase, atleast in my area is usually, "as sure as Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt."

Fanny being an old english name here...not what you filthy, filthy Americans use it for.

Filthy!

Originally Posted by TerribleTank

I saw this idea of a mechanical exoskeleton where it something that could one day increase speed dexterity and defense with armor on it. It be an odd power set but I was thinking it be a cool idea for scrapers as a secondary power set. Any takers or suggestions on this idea?

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

The problem is that the whole 'can be only one' is just a really stupid premise when you think about 'why?'. The first movie's explanation was a hand-waving non-explanation which amounted to 'that's just the way it is with us.' Which is stupid. But, can be good entertainment if you put that aside and see what would happen if that were the case.

To extend the story past a single movie means either an extended refusal to explain why, which will only make the lack of explanation more and more glaring, or, you'll try to explain it and just appear really stupid. Not to mention that 'only one' precludes sequels unless you want to continually go "oops, there's really just one more!"

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Surely not?