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Quote:You don't have to make five of the same Moral Choice, you just have to make five Moral Choices.PS: See my second question above. Does picking Hero or Villian when you leave Prae have a specific relationship to Resistance or Loyalist? I would hate to pick Hero and it not count as my fifth Resistance pick. Thanks again!
But to answer part of your question, Resistance are considered to be Heroes, Loyalists are Villains. But then there's a wibbly-wobbly thing where Resistance Crusaders are Villains (storywise) and Loyalist Responsibility are Heroes (storywise), and even then it all comes down to how you roleplay your character, if at all. But the game engine seems to view Resistance as Heroes, Loyalists as Villains (the same way Vigilantes are Heroes and Rogues are Villains). -
Quote:It's also an instant "go to tailor" button, although with trainers becoming tailors in I21 this will be slightly less important.It comes in handy sometimes. Especially on task forces that have you traveling all over creation, it's possible to cut out time using it. Besides, it goes to zones not directly reachable by the Ouroboros portal, like Kings Row. It's not so useful that it's a must-have by any stretch, but there have been a few instances where I've been like, "Aw, I've got to run all the way to Oh wait, I can just using my Pocket Teleport..."
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Quote:Then why make it even easier? How many new players are just going to go looking for glints randomly versus finding out what badges are, finding out there's an entire list with exact locations available, then finding out that they can download map mods to make finding the exact locations double easy?How is it hard to find when you can just wiki it or vidiot it? It isn't a challenge, it's annoying and bars newer players almost entirely. Imagine a new player who sees a glint in the distance, goes over to it, gets a badge, then decides to look for more of those glints. Current system is, you get a badge for no reason as far as you can tell.
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Robert Denby, finally we've found him!
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Leaving Praetoria counts as your 5th choice.
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Quote:/off-topic Suddenly I'm imagining a Weeping Angels-esque primary set for Masterminds...First, there's been a lot of odd "teleporting" behavior with both my henchmen and the goons they're fighting... It's difficult to describe, but the avatar in question will start to move at Position A, vanish, instantly re-appear at Position B (which is occasionally under the floor or otherwise inside the map geometry based on the position of the targeting box), then vanish again before finally popping back in at Position C, which seems to be where they were heading when they started to move.
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Quote:I actually plotted it out once based on the ages of the actors when they started and although that is the general trend, it doesn't quite hold (Colin Baker after Davison, McCoy after Baker, Eccleston after McGann).The one thing that always bothered me is that the Doctor always seems to be younger than his previous regeneration.
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What's the point of having something be hard to find if it lights up with a bright shiny sign telling you exactly where it is?
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This maintenance is to facilitate hardware upgrades for all the Live City of Heroes servers.
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Looks like they're finally making that Nic Cage version of Superman after all.
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Quote:Based on this thread, I certainly wouldn't say computers are less forgiving of grammatical errors, at least not their own.Question : What is less forgiving about grammar - a computer (programing/giving instructions, etc), or an English Student?
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Quote:I thought the entire point was that being conceived within a Time Vortex made you a Time Lord regardless of your genetic origin.Spoilery stuff below.
Well yeah, but River isn't a full on Time Lord, she's Human+. So maybe there was a limit to the number of regenerations she had. Alternatively, they could've said she used up all of her regenerations as a simpler way of saying that she poured all of her regenerative energy (or however that works) into the Doctor, and now has none left and can no longer regenerate.
And I don't think "I'm giving you all my regenerations (but what I actually mean is my ability to regenerate" is simpler than "I'm giving you my ability to regenerate". I think if they had meant that they would have just said it, but then it could just end up being a plot hole if they ever decide to address the Doctor's throw-away line from SJA on the main show. -
Quote:No, it's not Quantum Leap. Technically (in a wibbly-wobbly sort of way) the Eleventh Doctor has the same body as the First Doctor, just in a different form. Kinda-sorta. The new body isn't appearing out of nowhere, it's the existing body repairing and reforming itself. Basically think of it as a one-way shape shift that can (usually) only be performed at the moment of death.So when they do the Regen or Renewal thing are they jumping into somebody elses body, who was already walking around and had a life, or do they just appear fully formed in a new body out of nowhere?
If having that info is a spoiler thing feel free to say so and I will wait till I see it on the shows. Think I will pick up the first season of 05 today.
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Quote:Superbatch!New shots of Cavill as Superman with a better look at the costume. Costumes quite a bit from the norm but, with the upcoming reboot, fitting in well with the "new" mythos. Least his hair looks right in these...not all poofy.
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Quote:Eleven said that a Time Lord can regenerate indefinitely, but this was in The Sarah Jane Adventures. However, something that occurred in last week's episode (don't want to spoil it) strongly suggests otherwise.The new series (post-2005) has never mentioned a regeneration limit, and I believe one of the new Doctors outright stated that he can regenerate an arbitrary number of times. So I've been assuming they are ignoring the "you only get 12" (which, AIR, was said by Dr #4 in the 1970's, and the BBC probably never imagined the show would last long enough for it to be an issue).
The best semi-cannon reason for the change I've seen: Assume that Rassilon removed the 12-regeneration limit as a desperation move during the Dalek war.
Oh wait, somebody already spoiled it a couple posts up. Anyway, I don't see how [WHY HELLO SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS]River could have given the Doctor all of her regenerations if she can do it indefinitely. -
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Quote:Only if it looks like this.How appropriate...it used to be that narwhal horns were commonly mistaken for or passed off as unicorn horns.
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Quote:In reverse order:First of all, earning Infamy is already not a huge deal for veterans. Many of them have to come up with tricks to store all of their infamy because they have such and excess over and above the cap. Furthermore, I am not suggesting gating it behind real world money. Gating would imply that you would be FORCED to buy it. That is not what I am suggesting at all. I am simply suggesting that this could be a way to take away the market from the RMTers.
Finally, as I said, I don't necessarily think this is a good idea. I clearly stated that I have mixed feelings about it, personally.
One more question, if I am a "Newbie" and I have been here 2 years longer than you, what does that make YOU exactly?
1. Try clicking the link I so helpfully included in "my" rant and you'll see the "Newbie" line was incidental and not even personal. Also, I'm sure you, as a veteran, realize that forum join date is not necessarily indicative of when someone started playing the game, right? Because otherwise you might look astoundingly silly.
2. I guess I don't understand why you would bother to post about an idea you don't even think is good. When I have a stupid idea (oh god it happens so often) I call myself an idiot and move on (or continue to call myself an idiot until I get it into my thick skull, depending on whether or not I'm having a good day).
3. You're right, gating was a poor choice of word. Regardless, selling inf on the Paragon Market would only exacerbate the already-bad inflation problem for the in-game economy, as I pointed out before, and also like I pointed out before would invalidate the point of earning inf at all. The RMTers might go away, but we would just get problems in return, and I don't really think that's a worthwhile trade-off just to get rid of spam that barely even exists anymore. (Seriously, I don't think I've seen RMT spam since 2008.)
Think about it this way. The devs have already shown that they hate "money for nothing", hence the fixes to the popular farms of the old days (Dreck, etc.), hence the patching of the innumerable exploits of AE (it doesn't seem like non-exploit farms are getting banned anymore but that may have more to do with them giving up on AE entirely and letting it hang open like a rotting wound). Do you really think they'd try to beat RMTers at their own game? For the game's sake, I hope not. -
Yes, I'm sure effectively nullifying a large portion of the game (having to earn inf through gameplay) and gating it behind real-world money would be an excellent idea and not run at all contrary to one of the several reasons RMTers are banned to begin with.
And I can only imagine what this would do to the already inflation-ridden in-game economy. How's 50 million for a Nevermelting Ice sound?
Good god in heaven, Newbie, there are just so very many ways for me to say this to you: never, not in a million years, absolutely not, no way José, no chance Lance, nyeh, negatory, mm-mm, neh-eh, uh-uh, and of course my own personal favorite of all time, man falling off of a cliff -- NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................. .............................
...pfft!
EDIT: But why stop there? AE farms are still a massive problem, why not put XP up on the Paragon Market? Buy a level 50, only 1600 points! Between this and purchasable inf, farming would disappear overnight. -
Quote:A couple of the newer arcs actually do reference your Praetorian heritage, but yeah, it would be nice to see more of that. Maybe the next zone revamp will be one of the 20+ zones and its content can be written to account for that.Wasn't he was talking about at all.
He's talking about when you take your Praetorian into Primal Earth they're Praetorian background is pretty much completely gone, and they're treated by everyone like they've been in Primal Earth their whole lives. OP just wants at least some reference to your past career as a Praetorian after you cross over.