Clobbertime

Group Name: The Majestics

Server: Virtue

Side: Villain

Approximate Size/Cost: 8x8 Around 6 million

Anything else peritnent: A small base for my one man group (+alts). Designed with function over form so no fancy floating like what will be seen in other bases. Of course that will likely change after I13 when I can upgrade and have more room to be more creative in.

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Q. Base Pathing issues, why was pathing changed?

A. The base pathing was never intended to be changed. The fix for it was not simple though, so it took some time for the programming team to get the fix in. We are actively looking at ways to make the pathing system easier for base builders, however, in the future there may be pathing requirements for raiding.

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We've been told that when the pathing rules are put back in that it will be optional to use them or keep the no pathing setup that's currently on test. However, your statement sounds more like the current test setup people are excited about coming to live may be removed in the future for raid pathing's return. Will people that have no intention of base raiding be able to keep the no pathing option or will we once more be forced into having to design around a system we have no use for?

I doubt there will be a flood of rares. With dual builds coming any rares not used for base building will find a home making IOs.

Use whatever graphics program you might have to color the backgrounds white then save them as a gif.

Ask Agent Ruby:
Who is your greatest nemesis? The Static Charger, Major Meltdown, Operative Overclock, or perhaps the Diabolical Dust Bunny?

Base Repricing
1) How will the repricing of bases affect you personally?

It will allow my one man (+alts) VG to upgrade to a larger plot and have more creativity in designing a proper lair. I'll use the 12x16 secure plot so I can have weapons in the base, like any villainous lair should, but no raiding so I can enjoy designing without the draconian pathing rules.

2) Will you dismantle your base to gain the additional prestige from the repricing?

For the most part, except for items that have no price change in I13. I'll have to in order to afford upgrading the plot and using the lower item prices to increase prestige enough to fill the larger base.

3) How long would this process take you if you were to engage in this practice?

Since I'm a casual gamer and my weekday playtime is restricted by my work schedule, it could take several weeks to get it back up to fully functional and presentable.

4) What are the positive and negative concerns regarding repricing?

Positive would be the larger base I can have. Negative will be the astronomical high prices there is going to be for invention salvage in the markets. I fear the savings in prestige will be more than replaced in influence/infamy costs.

5) How will this feature affect you long term and short term?

Long term, not much I'd say. Short term, a lot of time spent re-building, playing the market, hoping to afford the needed salvage. You know, typical comic book type superhero stuff like that.

Base Salvage Exchange to Invention Salvage
1) What is the negative effect on your base for this feature implementation?

Base being inoperative for as long as it takes me to get it upgraded and rebuilt.

2) What is the positive effect on your base for this feature implementation?

A larger base with the same fuctionality but more aesthetically pleasing design and ambience since I won't be limited to the 8x8 plot anymore.

3) How long will it take you to adjust to learning this new system?

System not really that much different, just the ingredients changing. Not long.

4) What side effects to this system do you currently see from transitioning the old to new system?

Lots of influence/infamy and time spent at the market. Lousy storage capacity meaning even more time at market to replenish supplies.

5) What security concerns do you have regarding this change?

For myself, none, since I'm a solo group. But I can see a problem ahead with people stealing salvage to sell at the market for thier own gains in regular groups. I'm sure they're thanking you for thier future headaches this change will cause them.

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Apparently, it's this: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...umber=12548411

Wich doesn't explain much...

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Her comment about winning the war has me wondering if the scheduled Rikti invasions may be coming to an end. I tend to see more than a few posts about them being a nuisence whenever they are going on so maybe they are thinking players have gotten tired of them.

I'd like to be able to put things, like light sources and banners, inside the hallways now that pathing has been removed.

To see items I'd like added all they have to do is look inside the universities and various tech maps, The ramps and platforms in these that can actually have objects placed on them, as well as the windows and wooden staircases with handrails are things I've always wanted to see us able to use. Maybe even the submarine from the CoV missions so we can have underwater bases too.

Might as well let them ignore this one again too.

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Personally I hope you have a wonderful life and a great new job. "or have found one already"

I can not say I am sorrry to see you go. I feel that the forums have been handled poorly by you for 2 years now and I look forward to hopfully someone taking control that can turn around all the hogwash you have allowed to go on for far to long. And I am sorry but I feel you leaving will be a step in the right direction to solving a lot of the problems the forums have.

Anyways nothing personal. I wish you all the luck in the world.

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You couldn't have sent this in a PM to Lighthouse? Classy.

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He doesn't have to put it in a PM. He has as much right to voice his opinion on the open forums as anybody else.


Best of luck LH. Hope to be playing a Lighthouse brand player made mission someday.

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NOTICE TO ALL SUPER POWERED BEINGS:

CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM OMEGA TEAM:
OPERATIVE--AJAX

Be advised. Incoming attack inevitable! Evacuation orders for all civilians. Call all available Super Powered Beings. Rikti Alien Invasion NOW!!

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name:
Global Contact:
Level of Classification:
Origin:
Super Rank & Super Group:

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The message had stirred disquiting feelings within the otherwise easygoing ursine. Inside the gardner's shack he puts away the implements of his chosen trade and takes up those of his chosen duty. Memories flood his thoughts with the long months of torment he withstood at the hands of the Rikti scientists as they performed thier experiments. They had sought to take Earth's fauna and twist it into a weapon of war to be used against against the many meta beings thier scouts had reported. The experiments had turned a number of animals into twisted humanoid versions of themselves, to enable them to use Rikti weaponry. But in spite of thier best attempts they could not override the beats' instincts, and they could all sense the danger these beings represented. The captives rebelled and were summarily discharged from the ship that held them during the experiments. The fall from the extreme altitude had taken seemingly forever, with air currents scattering the beasts due to size and weight. To this day, Panda has not seen any of his fellow would be Rikti super soldiers, and to his knowledge is the only one to have survived the ordeal.

He now exits the shack and takes a defiant stance as he looks toward the heavens.
"Let them come!"

.Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Panda Monium
Global Contact:@Clobbertime
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Science
Super Rank & Super Group: Groundskeeper of Maggie's Rock


Bishop stares at the message on the screen long after having read it. He remembers the first time the Rikti invaded. He and members of his medical unit, including his fiance, were in Paragon City to attend a joint military seminar on the role of metas in the armed forces. When the invasion started those of his unit combined with others attending the seminar and set triage and MASH centers throughout the city to aid those combatting the invaders. Then Statesman makes his glorious entrance, to the collective cheers of the citizenry. Cheers that soon turned to screams as the greatest of heroes exhibited his stupidity by sending no less than 3 of the massive ships crashing into the city before finally realizing that an object knocked out of the sky over a city will fall into the city. One of the vessels crashed near the MASH center his unit had established, killing hundreds, including his fiance, and leaving thousands of others to wither from effects of radiation poisoning for years to come when it's power core ruptured and flooded the area with massive levels of radiation. He survived, aided by the healing abilities he was born with when they reacted to the influx by furthing altering his genetic makeup, leaving him now able to generate and control several typs of radiation in addition the abilities he was born with. He has sworn vengeance on all those who conspired to take from him the only thing that had given his life meaning, the woman he loved. Statesman, the Rikti, and Nemesis. All will feel his wrath.

The message is intriguing inasmuch that the Rikti have indeed already invaded again since that day. Smaller and more disorganized, and now only in scattered areas. Could this merely be some delayed broadcast, lost in time from the Rikti homeworld or perhaps a harbinger of a new, perhaps global, campain being readied? Whichever, it matters not. When they come they will find him standing ready to dispense with his own form of justice for thier actions.

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: The Bishop of Battle
Global Contact:@Clobbertime
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Mutant
Super Rank & Super Group: His Imminence founder and leader of The Majestics.

Not sure about scary but I have been told this one is disturbing.
The Mad Butcher

This one is fun to play. A scrawny little guy in a black suit and skull mask, has an affinity for fire and feeding off despair and sorrow,
Deacon Doom

Just because the majority of players may not have taken the same epp/ppp power that I did I'm going to have it taken away from me because somebody else didn't choose it for thier character? Bad idea. Instead of kicking a player in the nads for not following the herd in what is considered good or bad, why not just add those other powers to the pools so players can have more to choose from? Still only have the same amount of powers from the pool they currently get, but have more choices so people that may like that little used power won't have to feel like they were stabbed in the back because other people don't like it. More choices would seem like a better way than just telling us that we can't have a power anymore because other people didn't want it for themselves.

Is Vitue, as seen in the events listing, a new server? Why no fan art? That's the only reason I look at it, to be honest.

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Never understood why the fly emotes couldn't just be toggles like the different sprint powers.

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They would rather you go to the trouble of finding a guide on Binds and Macros and doing it that way. I'm still too busy looking for my perfect Cyborg combo though so it will have to wait. By the time I've typed in the emote I've run into a building. LOL. It's the comedy channel version of CoH when I do it.

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When they announced them I was hoping that when you pick fly as a power you would get a drop down list to choose which you wanted for the default pose for that character. Don't care much for the emote path they took with them.

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Dear Positron,

Good afternoon. Thank you for responding to our questions for more information about Issue 13.

And on a side note. Please fix the store so that I can purchase Booster Packs for other players as gifts. I'd like to purchase 10 or so of these for my friends that also play. Plus I'd like to give you my money to help with the development of my favorite game. However, since I only have 1 account and I can't very well purchase 10 Cyborg Packs for 1 account then I guess that I'll have to keep the money that I would have liked to have given to your company.

P.S. Rocket Pack costume items please.

Thank You.

- Peregrine Falcon

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Dear Peregrine Falcon,

Thank you for your feedback. We would LOVE to come up with a way for players to "gift" our Super Boosters to other players. The real problem with this lies in credit card fraud. It may seem like a simple problem, but it's really very complex. Once we have a workable solution that Billing and Customer Service can sign off on, we will allow players to gift Microtransactions post haste.


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I know SOMEONE probably thought of it already, but couldn't the micro's be turned into a "code" Like I used when i did my normal -> GvE upgrade(for the extras and time).
That way , people would buy the CODE, and apply to WHICHEVER account they wanted(upto and including sending it in-game as a reward to someone?)

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They have mentioned that they are looking into possible ways for people to be able to gift the packs to others.

Seemed like a natural enough theme for my DB/SR scrapper. He learned swordplay from his pirate father while his ninja mother taught him elusiveness and stealth. An ill fated trip through the Bermuda Triangle left him stranded in our time.
Piratical

I can't decide if it's sad or funny that people are willing to pay for something they know will vanish after 30 days. It makes me remember a couple of old sayings.

"There's a sucker born every minute."- P.T. Barnum
"A fool and his money are soon parted." -Thomas Tusser

Relax people. It's just a bit of a delay while they break it into it's individual features so each can be sold as a 9.99 booster pack.

Mynx portrayed badly in the comics? The whole friggin Phalanx are portrayed as...insert language the filters would censor! I remember reading them and thinking,'These are the heroes we're supposed to be looking up to as role models for our characters?'.

Here.

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Perhaps I used the wrong term? I meant that we would not be able to - say - grab a neighborhood from Galaxy City and use that as part of our mission map.

If "instanced" is not the correct term for this, what is?

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I don't see why we wouldn't be able to use the same outdoor mission maps that are currently in game, though I doubt we would be able to choose any areas that aren't already mission ready. They did say that npcs could be customized with around a dozen options, so we might can alter an existing group's look and rename them. A very limited way of making a new npc group, but a start that can be expanded later on.

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why is it nsfw? she isnt showing anything bad.....

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Maybe because most employers expect thier wage slaves to be working and not looking at pics on the internet, regardless of what the pics show?

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Any truth to this rumor from the base construction forum?

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Decent poster, I doubt she's made it up. Could be someone ELSE made it up, though, but I'm inclined to believe it.

The original invention system was created a LONG time ago, tested in-house and COMPLETELY thrown out. There is precedent.

And I'd rather they threw it all out then gave us a crappy experience system.

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But if they did then they should have the kehones to tell us they did instead of letting people spend time posting in 'what you want to see in base improvement' type threads only to find out all they get is a 'new way to buy things.' If it's just a rumor going around then they should let us know it's not true. Either way, they should let us know something.

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One recently based on the number of members in your SG

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Actually there were two of these, but the second one was accidental.