Clobbertime

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Back alley brawler just spawned..4 kronos titans, 6 adamastors, 5 babbages, Honoree, hro-dothz, Lusca, and a rikti raid among other things in Infinity Atlas.

EPIC WIN.

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lolz heard BABs signed into Infinity AP and said "hello Virtue" >.>

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Now that's cool. He was greeting two servers at once!

I <3 BABs!

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Or maybe he was just dizzy from all that dancing.

Guess I'll toss my helmet into the ring with my main villain, Bishop of Battle, a rad/thermal Corr. Tough to decide on which one to appear with since it would really matter more on what you want from the piece, an adversary or ally. He is the founder and leader of the Majestics, a group of mercenaries, it could be likely he would be working with Jackalynn if hired by the Council for some reason.

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Actually when you look at the world and to the maths... (gasp, shock, horror) 11am - Noon USA EST is about the best time to do anything.

Why?

Most of the world is awake then... well most of the world that thinks it's important is awake.

Its just before lunch on the East Coast of America so those there can just pop on for a moment or two during the lunch break...

Its just before work starts on the West Coast of America so those there can just pop in before they start work or school.

Its just after the work day over in the UK so those just finishing work can relax and pop in and enjoy the festivities....

See? Most of the important world is awake.

What about me? Well, I live in Australia. It works out to be 1AM - 2AM Australian EST. As devote a fan I may be, the docs say I need to be asleep then. Besides, there never anyone important down here... so I'll be there in spirit. (As a side, could any credit (i.e. badges) for attendance be put to one of my characters, as for obvious reasons, I won't be able to attend.)

Shader

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It's 11 AM to midnight, not noon. It'll run for 13 hours, not one. You going to be sleeping for 13 hours?

Maybe you can take your new avatar over to Jay's costume request thread and convince him to make some tattered costume pieces.

Can't call myself a master but I'm willing to try to lend a helping hand. Here's my take on it. Hopefully it'll give you some ideas to play around with until you can come up with something that you like.

In the early days of that big free art thread that Celtic Bolt had going he did a pic of my kat/invul scrapper.
Panda Monium by Celtic Bolt.

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I like the new outfits and will definitely get the booster as I have gotten the others. Two issues I do have though.

1) The announcement mentions robes.. I dont see any actual robe in the screenshots. "A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. A robe is distinguished from a cape or cloak by the fact that it usually has sleeves."
Robes like the Tsoo and CoT. Now, those ARE robes. Folks have been begging for REAL robes and long gowns for YEARS!

2) "Having your fortune read gives a power buff based on the Major Arcana of the Tarot, and can give a positive or negative effect on that character for the next 20 minutes."

Please tell me that I can say no to someone reading my fortune. Drive by Speed Boosts and Bubbling is annoying enough. Now we can get hit with something that has the possibility of debuffing me for 20 minutes? No thanks.

Edit: Ignore issue two as I finally had the chance to read a bizzillion pages into the thread and found castles mention of the confirm action

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Use the Dev Digest, saves lots of time. Still, the popup to accept or turn down fortune readings will quickly become as or more annoying than random invite popups.

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I went on to test for the first time because I was excited by the MA. I have to say, at this point, I am not too impressed with it. We basically re-skin the NPCs and write our own dialogue. Being able to control which NPCs we encounter and where would have been a huge bonus. I am sure the MA will be upgraded in the future but right now....well...it's ok.

It's too bad MA is the only feature in i14. It has great potential but that has yet to be realized.

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I don't really understand what you wanted the MA to do... I see these complaints a lot and I just don't get it. We have the majority of the Dev tools for missions in our hands now. If you haven't noticed, all missions in the game are basically the same thing with different skins on what we kill and different text. The only thing missing really is the ability to make our own maps and create cut scenes.

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I think he's talking about being able to place the npcs and mobs wherever on the map you would want them, which would be nice.

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I feel for the techs on both sides.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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*ok, wich one of you two is the smart one?*

Gawd! that one actually made me laugh so hard I cried! LMAO

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Couldn't have been too bright himself if he had to ask. I wonder if these videos reflect how NC views the game's playerbase.

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*grabs Illia*.. im gonna do her first... *runs off*

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/em Decides not to comment on how that sounds.

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that women that just wears a scarf and mask.. forgot her name..

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That would be Kekko Kamen. If that con will let people cosplay as her then I might have to try and make it out there myself.

The MA looks like it may be better than I was expecting but will have to wait until I can get my hands on it to find out for sure. The video was major suckage, nothing but lame buttons there.

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So power customisation would hint at no more new powersets, cos we could just make ours look however we want?

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I wouldn't think so. Making them look like you want isn't the same thing as making them do what you want. New sets are needed to do new and different things. All I would want from pc would be the ability to change the color. Would be nice if they would at least make the energy blasts look less like water blasts, though.

Was in a hurry to get done before they brought down servers but hopefully it will give you some ideas to work with.
The Electric Patriot.

Curse my lousy work schedule!

Looking good! I foresee an upcoming special on snake chops back at the old butcher shop!

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I hope that for the Mission Architect, one of the datamining tools they use to determine who gets in is a spelling checker.

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They obviously don't use one when making missions so why should we have to?

No, it's not. Certain items unique to major npcs will stay unique to the npcs.

My shot at a minion . You could use different colors on the shoulders/belt buckle to denote rank.

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The worst thing is, Spring Fling is just an advertising gimmick to get the wedding pack?

Thats how I read it... "Hey we arent adding anything new for you guys.. but dress up with the 9.99 wedding pack and do the same stuff you did previous years....."



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I'm thinking it was more of a reminder that the pack exists. Not everyone has been here since the last event.

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Re-read Ex's OP and imagine Billy Mays' voice and you will see it for the commercial it is.

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I don't believe this was a "lapse in service."

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And I don't believe you're in a position to effectively judge.

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But he's right. It's obviously a Nemesis plot!

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Dear newer players,

Your advantage is that you have started playing when the game was in a more advanced state than it was in the beginning.

You didn't have to deal with the same buggy missions, early-level travel issues, the lack of radio/newspapers and the lack of a difficulty slider. You didn't have to wait for the level cap to be raised to 50. You didn't have to wait for capes/auras to be introduced, or or for any number of new costumes/pieces. You didn't have to wait for APPs, PPPs, HEATs, VEATs. You didn't have to wait for respecs, the markets, or IOs. In short, you didn't have to wait for a countless number of quantitative/qualitative changes which have improved the game over time.

Veterans did have to wait for many if not all of those things. Anyone who will be eligible for the 60-month badge any time soon will have waited for every single one. So sure, argue all you like that the fees vets have paid were "for five years of fun, and they would have paid anyway!" Just do keep in mind that the game is a much better product now -- and I don't believe it's a stretch to conclude that the participation of those very vets is a large reason for many of the game's improvements over the last five years.

That's your perk.

The 60-month badge is not as big a deal as some are making it out to be. Travel powers are optional, nowadays, more so than they ever were before -- and at least for some people, the usefulness of the pre-requisites is among the main reasons they take travel powers at all. Temp powers are marginally inferior mechanically, and certainly inferior conceptually, to normal pool travel powers, but they also don't cost power picks (and perhaps more importantly, pool picks).

Saving a power pick or having more flexibility in the early part of a build if they choose to take a travel power is the extremely long-time vets' perk. Take it from someone who's been around awhile; you've gotten the better part of this deal.

Sincerely,

Level Six Flyer.

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Granted, but the underlineing fact is this allows you to bypass not one but two requirements to get a travel power. Im willing to accept one bypass but not two. I dont think this is unreasonable, to be able to get your travel power at 8 with the Tier one requirement at 6.

My point is if this is let slide then what next; Allowing 6 year vets access to tier one and two secondarys at level 1? Giving Vets free Fitness? The point is this sets a standard for potentially imbalanced decisions making, so I implore you all to consider the compromise I have proposed.

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You can buy the Jetpack Booster for 4.99 and have a travel power available at level 1. The pack will expire after 30 days, plenty of time to have earned the permanent travel powers on a number of lowbie alts. Why aren't you whining about how unbalancing that is? Is it because it is available to you while the 60 month reward is not?

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Well Babs, I can only dream of whats in store with i14,15,16. Im certain everyone here would like some <any> kind of feedback on that.

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Don't know about 15 and 16, but I14 is the Mission Architect. Seems odd that adding it into I13 would have 'horrible consequences' when it was originally part of I13, though.

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..plus making sure Statesmans stupid helmit thingy dosent come off looking like a deformed magent stuck to his head

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You mean it's not?

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Of course not. It's a bedpan with eyeholes poked through it.

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Double Xp has not even started yet and on Virtue i am experiencing with any of my characters ( blue and red side ):

1) Chat delay of about 2 seconds between typing and message showing in chat screen once sent.

2) Enemies are sometimes teleporting to me instead of running. Unusual lagspikes i only experienced during special events with full server.

3) Delay with powers showing recharged but still will not fire. Like good old Hami raids used to cause. But it happens now when i am alone in an instance mission. That is bad.

I am on cable modem and it is working just fine. Is anything wrong with the patch or your network?

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<a href="/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=12966444" target="_blank">Ghost Falcon has addressed the Virtue issue here.</a>

Thought that might help shed some light on the situation.

Ex

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They...they...back-ended Virtue!?! The fiends!!