Bull Throttle
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Quote:Which is why I suggested a sliding scale based on time unsubscribed & character level (and a flat out no-limit on trials that haven't been taken up).Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Well, we're all working under the assumption that there IS a large number of names that will be freed by this. The devs noted that previous name purges had little effect on name availability. That's why they were stopped.
Heck, for all we know cross-server name parking could be a much larger obstruction.
I've never been convinced by the sub-level-six 'purge' rule, since I've deleted many characters that I got to 10 or so because I finally decided I didn't like the name; sure there may be lots more unused characters at that level - but the ones with names that people might actually want to use are going to be higher - based on my own experience, YMMV of course.
Heck, I have 30 or so names on my EU account - some of which are pretty good as I was lucky enough to start playing in week one - which are just going to waste now I've moved across the pond.
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Quote:A quick google of Fizz Cider shows that it has nothing in common with the in-game drink in terms of design or manufacturer and this is nothing more than a coincidence with a very common word.Originally Posted by zachary_EU
I'm just wondering are they really advertising Fizz ciders in coh? Because this is rated T or 16 and Fizz is alcohol drink with 4,7%.
Nice over-reaction there!
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Quote:Stopping new players from using names that are locked on accounts that no-one has paid upkeep on for over a year is far sillier imo.Originally Posted by Aurealis
taking away names so people who already probably have a ton of alt characters can have a few more is just silly imo.
Of course unlocking names will inconvenience some players, but I'm playing Vigilante here, I'm willing to sacrifice a few individuals for the greater good.
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Quote:"Judgement" is correct; "Judgment" is AmericanOriginally Posted by CaptHitGuy
Furious Judgement (hmmm coulda sworn that's how you spell judgement, not judgment, guess it must be American)
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/judgement.html
I'd like to see an automatic name purge - if you pick up a trial and don't sub, then after a month or 3 all the names should be available; if you have an inactive sub, then names become freed up gradully depending on how long you've been inactive and the level of the character, e.g.:
Unsubbed for 6 months, all character names up to level 10 are released;
Unsubbed for a year, all characters up to 20;
etc.
(I'd lose a fair few of my EU names under this scheme, but if I was that concerned, I'd pay a month occasionally to protect them)
I don't see why anyone who hasn't played the game since 2005 should expect their names to remain locked to them. -
Quote:To a true vigilante, the legal system is a joke surely?Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Will you, the vigilante, faced with PROOF that you killed/punished a truly innocent man, turn yourself over for murder, or are you, too, turning the legal system into a joke?
I suspect Rorschach would grunt, mark it up to experience, and try to avoid doing it again; he has no respect for the law, no-one outside of his own head has the moral authority to judge him.
I'm seeing a lot of wriggling here about the definition of what a vigilante is. People saying they'd fight crime, but wouldn't be vigilantes.
It was my understanding that a vigilante was someone who worked outside of the law - ie almost every superhero who has been committed to paper. As much as we cheer Batman on when he punches the Joker, what he's doing isn't exactly legal is it? You aren't actually allowed to break a shoplifter's arm, even when Citizen Arresting. They've added a nice get-out in CoH where all heroes are deputised, but even cops get into trouble for beating up suspects - even if they catch them red-handed. -
Quote:What's the difference between a booster and a super-booster?Originally Posted by Orion_Star_EU
So, from the launch day interview we have:
And from the Razer Q&A:
So we have at least two boosters being announced before the end of August, and it seems that they are not 'Super' boosters.
So, any ideas on what they might be?
We did had two rather cool dance emotes in the GR beta, but they were removed (presumably for a future Booster), so they could be part of it.
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Quote:Which, as I said, is 'speculation'; when they put out a press-release saying "we're making CoH2", then it will be news.Originally Posted by Evilanna
Except for the fact that when asked about it, the official NCSoft press release said "we can't talk about CoH2," not "CoH2 does not exist." Second, members of the CoH team have been taken off CoH and put into new, nebulous, positions. i.e. Positron and the art lead before David. They still work at Paragon Studios, just not on City of Heroes (well, Positron is working on the end game, but when he was taken off lead developer he also gained new, nebulous, duties.) Unless Paragon Studios is working on another project that everyone is aware of, I'd say all signs point to "City of Heroes 2."
/edit, dang, too slow - what Claws said
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Quote:Fixed.Originally Posted by Evilanna
Uhh... Someone isn't up on the latest speculation.
Last I'd heard was they'd registered the name - this is just as likely to stop someone else making a game with the name - I've not seen any 'news' announcing CoH2.
..and I just googled to see if I'd missed it, so if you have a link to the announcement, please share! -
Quote:It sounds good, but the problem with that is you're shifting the responsibility to someone else - putting your powers under the control of someone else's judgement.Originally Posted by Lord of Fnord
With Batman/Daredevil level powers, I'd probably go Blue Steel and join the police, or more likely the military. Allows me to use my powers within the law, and at least nominally with 2nd opinions in case I suffer a momentary lapse in judgement. Also provides me with a wage for my do-gooding.
Going back to Rorschach being an example of the vigilante taken to the logical conclusion (the one-man judge, jury, executioner) another character from Watchmen shows the other extreme, the hero who is government sanctioned, working within the law, taking orders - The Comedian; this guy really doesn't have a moral compass, he doesn't need one, someone else tells him what to do, who to kill.
As soon as the powers that be learned of this amazing cop who was bullet-proof, or that soldier who could shoot lasers from his eyes, they'd be re-assigned faster than you could say 'shady government conspiracy'.
I think the government-sanctioned route has the potential to be far worse. -
I'd have to dispute that Rorschach sails blind without a moral compass - he's very moral, he just doesn't let the law get in the way of justice.
Living in a country where a serial burglar was finally jailed after commiting over 600 offences, and convicted murderers & rapists are regularly released only to offend again, I'd have to go vigilante.
What I'd actually do with that would depend on the power level - if I were an average B class cape, I'd be dropping murderers into mine shafts, but if I were A+ 'Superman' level, I'd be confiscating nukes and dropping them into the sun.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Woo! Freeday. And its a beautiful sunny afternoon over here.
Boo! Customer coming in within the next hour to "brainstorm" about something.
Do. Not. Want.
Don't be silly, customers don't have brains....
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Quote:Money is what you use to buy your morning coffee, pay the rent, and enables you to feed your dog.Originally Posted by NuclearToast
So Praetoria is like Star Trek and no one uses money. Fine. Doesn't mean I can't hate it.
Full disclosure: I'm a fanboi and non-RPer. I don't tend to think about RP aspects. All I know is I spend money to buy stuff, and I have to earn money before I can buy stuff.
--NT
Money is the RP stuff.
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Quote:Unbelievable. I got negative rep for this comment "for not being funny"!Originally Posted by Bull Throttle
Global whatnow?
I haven't used that since I left the EU servers.
I just want to point out to the muppet who wrote that, that "it wasn't a joke"; I was saying I haven't seen the button because I don't have reason to use the Global list.
I recently moved to the NA servers because all my friends had left CoH in the EU. I admit to being billy-no-mates and someone decides to punish me by taking almost a quarter of my forum rep off me?
Nice!
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Quote:All of this - and since half the time I'm on I don't know if I'll have to leave any minute, I avoid teaming in those times. Ditching a team 5 minutes into a mission is not cool; the rest of the time I'm desperate for a team!Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
I hide if I'm busy and won't be accepting invites anyway. If I'm locked in an Ouro TF, or doing marketing or an AE arc, or working on an AE arc, there's no point in making people think I'm available to team, because I'm not. I'm busy, and I don't like turning down polite requests to team (I ignore the "r u lft?" and such entirely, but if it's polite and I don't want to join I'll at least respond) so I just preemptively avoid them. I also tend to hide on Freedom because most invites I get there tend to be of the "r u lft?" variety.
If I'm base editing I hide from everything, since I don't keep my chat window up, I'll miss the tell noise if I have my sound turned off to listen to music, and I don't want my friends to think I'm ignoring them.
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Global whatnow?
I haven't used that since I left the EU servers.
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Quote:I don't even know if there's a way of opening the Hide option box without typing "/hide" - I learnt that on the forum - does anything in-game tell you how to do it? It's been years since I read any of the instructions.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
But /hide usage? No, I'm just not seeing it.
I'm probably a 50/50 hider, so statistically meaningless...*sigh* story of my life.
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They look a bit broken to me.
My benchmark for those type of legs has always been Nemesis the Warlock - especially Kev O'Neil's original and Bryan Talbot's slightly more realistic rendering.
I'm having trouble finding a Talbot, but here's a good example of O'Neil:
http://www.2000adonline.com/2000ad/m...iginal/230.jpg
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Still can't find a Talbot image, but I stumbled across this sculpture of the character which seems to capture the essence of what I think works in the legs:
http://i36.tinypic.com/favo0y.jpg
Going back to one of the earlier posts where you show a diagram with the leg split into 3 equal lengths - Nemesis and the image above have it more the way I think of it - with the central section much shorter. The angle looks wrong in the image above though where the lower knee (the ankle) is at the same level as or slightly higher than the upper knee.
It's probably fair to say the thing I like most about the Nemesis legs is the elegance - the tapering - they look like horse legs rather than dog legs (although those do taper a lot in real life too) or traditional over-muscled werewolf legs; if I use the monstrous legs at all, I never use the large ones. -
I just rescued Peter Kent from the Circle of Thorns... I couldn't shake the strange feeling that he didn't really need my help.
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It would be nice if they could apply this 'error' to all NA accounts sitting in the same master account with a EU account.
I miss my base TP vet reward over on Virtue.
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Quote:Those look fine to me - but then I don't mind the @global in Champions Online as you can choose not to show it.Originally Posted by Frosticus
I'd make it so it displays as:
the infamous
Bill Z
Billz Inc. SG
Upon mouse over/highlighting:
the infamous
Bill Z
@BillZBubba
Billz Inc. SG
In the instance where a person has multiples of the same toon with the same global:
the infamous
Bill Z
@BillZBubba
Billz Inc. SG
Pinnacle
In the absence of a CO-style 'you can have any name you like even if someone has taken it' policy (which I like, but I know some people object to because they want to be unique), I'd like to see regular name purges - regular as in automatically applied; something like this:
Didn't activate that trial that lapsed 2 months ago? Name purge
Haven't paid for the last 3 months? Name purge up to level 10
Haven't paid for the last 6 months? Name purge up to level 20
...etc, increasing all the way to level 50.
By 'name purge' I'm thinking more like 'name unlocks/becomes available for someone else' so if you come back after a year or two there's a chance you'll still have it.
As a new player especially, spending the best part of an hour crafting a look only to find the name you wanted and everything you can think of that is similar is long gone, is very frustrating and a turn-off. -
Quote:I assumed you wouldn't be able to visit Praetoria once you'd left...but I've already seen where my assumptions got me in this thread.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, I want to visit Praetoria - maybe decline one of the offical tours and go off on my own to experience the culture first hand for a more authentic picture of the place
Plus, the Incarnate system requires GR to access it.
I'd forgotton all about the Incarnate system; struggling happily in the 20's on Virtue instead of standing around on a 50 on Union or Defiant made the whole end-game thing less pressing I guess.
I'll crawl back under my rock now!
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Quote:Ha, I sort of expected that.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
No
I can't see you switching sides either, so will you buy GR?
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Quote:I have to ask, will you be breaking the habit of a lifetime and rolling an alt?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Also, you'll probably want to play through Praetoria several times anyway, as War Witch has said that the new 1-20 content is much "thicker" than the curent blue and red 1-20 content, as there are multiple paths through it, with multiple contacts for each level band - so it sounds like that instead of having one chain of contacts leading through a zone, there will be multpile contact chains through each zone.
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Quote:Ah okay, that makes perfect sense.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, if some of Tyrant's thugs have been brainwashed into believing that they're heroes protecting Praetoria, then becoming heroes protecting Paragon City would seem like an obvious choice for them to make - plus, they might find the presence of another Marcus Cole there quite reassuring.
But that might alo work the other way around form some of the Resistance - if they've sepnt their lives trying to overthrow one Marcus Cole, they mightn't be too enthusiastic to go to a place where another Marcus Cole has a lot of influence.
Plus the Resistance would be likely to attract some bad types to it anyway.
I didn't realise the 'switching sides' stuff was entirely separate from the 'alternate world' stuff in GR, but that was a pretty good explanation as to why it's so - damn you and your logic!
On the plus side it means I'd be able to enjoy the experience instead of trying to play the system to get a Brute blue-side! -
Quote:Okay...I've been avoiding reading up on it to avoid spoilers.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Yes, you are - see my previous post
All Paretorians are free to choose if they want to go blue side or red side when they leave their home dimension.
It sounds a bit pointless if you can side with Tyrant and then choose to be a Hero.