Chad Gulzow-Man

This. Especially since they can't. It is (or was, according to a recent Ghost Falcon post already quoted up thread) an issue with NCSoft billing, and the Paragon Studios team has zero access to that system.

No matter of complaining or blaming Paragon Studios is going to change the fact that they are completely unable to do anything with the system that is run by their parent company, and a petition to the GMs--NCSoft employees, not Paragon Studios employees--is the only way to get it fixed.

Actually, not to double post, but I wanted to give a little more info on your board; I googled the specs and found that it DOES support PCIe 2.0, but only in the black card slot, not the blue one.

So if the card's in the blue slot, move it down to the black slot and you should hopefully see a performance increase.

Well, we already knew Beast Mastery wasn't from War Witch's producer letter a couple days ago.

... But now we know that not only is Staff Fighting not launching alongside i22, but it's also not going to be out in March.

Probably shortly after you report the bug in the correct place in a more respectful tone, I'd imagine.

You can get them both, just not on the same run... correct?

Doubtful.

I know the purchasable Double XP temp powers that they just started testing on the beta server this week specifically say they do NOT double Incarnate XP...

Sounds like you picked the wrong console if you're a single non-parent looking for a steady stream of games that would interest adults. Nintendo's gaming systems have been called "family consoles" since the original Playstation was released. Don't get me wrong, I love my Wii... but I haven't even turned it on since beating Skyward Sword, and prior to that, New Super Mario Bros (when it first launched in 2009).

As for not liking "multiplayer," I generally don't like competitive multiplayer games either, but I have a great time playing co-op games on Xbox Live with my friends. I certainly don't want to jump on a Halo deathmatch with a bunch of trash-talking preteens, either.

Mario Party 9 is on the 11th. After that, it's Xenoblade Chronicles on April 6th, then there's not really anything coming out until the summer movie game tie-ins in June.

(Did I mention I work part time at GameStop? >_>)

For me, it depends on whether or not I'm working on Tuesday. (I work part time at GameStop currently.)

If I AM working, I won't be able to resist the hype in the crowds; I'm picking up ME3 and CoH will subsequently be ignored for the next 5-10 days depending on how long it takes me to play it.

If I'm NOT working, then I'll likely play CoH until Friday and start ME3 then.

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Other people say that releasing i22 on the "big March release date" was a good idea. I say it's a bad idea--CoH is (largely) a subscription-based product. Releasing i22 this week would have gotten floaters to renew their subs NOW, even if they're intending to primarily play one of March's other big releases during the month.

I sincerely don't think that anyone who actually has to choose between a new release and resubscribing for Issue 22 is going to pick the latter. (Thankfully, I have a yearly sub, so I don't have to choose. )

That's where the devs live. They need the update to be done early-ish in their day so they can spend the rest of the day putting out any fires.

So wait... that isn't a Lord of the Rings image...?

My youngest sister believes them, though. Especially the bit about the "Ancient Aliens" coming back to abduct all of humanity on Dec 21, 2012.

However, she also believes that you catch a cold by going outside when it's cold, while somehow simultaneously understanding that colds are caused by virii which don't like the cold...

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Oh, and, uh, gratz to Melissa on what sounds to be a promotion, and to Nate on heading up the new sooper sekrit prahject.

It can be, but they were really two separate phrases that perhaps meshed together improperly due to my wording. I was really trying to say that GG was being sexist herself by jumping the gun and screaming sexism.

Whether she was proven right or not after making that claim is irrelevant, because she automatically assumed the worst when NDA stated his preferences. 9_9

It literally was.

When the game was still in development, Jack made some comments about how he didn't see a point for heroes to be fighting other heroes. If you were here prior to Cryptic Studios (the original developers) splitting off and selling the game to NCSoft (originally just the publisher), you'll recall that Jack had a "vision" for the game and vetoed damn near everything that came up outside of that vision.

He eventually acquiesced to adding PVP--in arenas--a full year after the game launched in Issue 4. But since the game wasn't developed with PVP in mind, it had a lot of problems that were basically ignored for the next few years.

Inventions came out in Issue 9 and made a definite performance difference between the haves and the have-nots; I really feel that this was the point when PVP became truly unfriendly to new players and created a solidified PVP community (which was good) that was difficult to break into (which was bad).

Castle tried to fix PVP in Issue 13. I respect what he attempted, and actually agree that almost every change he made resulted in a more balanced experience on paper... but he cranked the dial on everything he changed to 11 when a 3 or 4 would have sufficed. Throw some unfriendly dialog in from both sides, and the resulting fiasco drove a wedge between the PVP community (or what was left of it after i13 hit beta--many didn't even stay for it to be released) and the developers; the wedge remains there to this day. Aside from a few bug fixes when new powers misbehave according to the i13 PVP rules, PVP has remained largely unchanged ever since.

But perhaps I've given too much of a history lesson before making my point... Ultimately, I don't think anything "killed" PVP in City of Heroes; I think it was just stillborn as a result of being "tacked on" after the fact.

Yeah, but the dude who ISN'T +1 is on a crappy build that I still haven't respecced since Inherent Fitness came to pass over a year ago.

And sure, I play fairly often... but it's almost always on Chad or Evil G, which is why I only have 5 level 50s. >_>;

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He said he didn't HAVE to do any more. He didn't say he wouldn't.

Ditto.

No, those are NOT Council War Wolves. Those are werewolves created using pieces from the Animal costume bundle. The CoT (or at least, the only one I can find in the bottom left) is using only pieces available in the CoT costume bundle and none of the NPC-only parts. And the "War Works" you mention are NOT War Works--they're Praetorian Clockwork using parts that you must either be a VIP, own a Going Rogue serial number or purchase in the Paragon Market to utilize.

The point is that those outfits can be created by players. All but a handful of unnamed or non-faction NPCs in that image are using costume pieces that require: A) VIP access, B) purchase in the Paragon Market, and/or C) unlocking through the Paragon Rewards table.

It's basically a subtle advertisement to new Free/Premium players hiding behind the overt image of the funeral procession.

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No no, my uncles are monkey's uncles.

In other news, the word "uncle" appears to be one of those words where the more you look at it, the more you're sure it's misspelled.