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Life of Brian FTW!
I force my pupils to watch that one... every year!

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but it includes full-frontal nudity! How disgraceful!!!

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What's more likely is that they'll do a complete engine overhaul and have that slide in, effectively turning City of Heroes into city of heroes 2 without the need for shutting anything down.


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That kind of thing though is much harder to market against new competition (here, come play our 5 year old game! It's shiny now!)

*shrugs*

I hope he's got something really good planned, rather than just a "insert corporate buzzwords and no negative thoughts at all" speech.

They're bastards to write those things - I've got a presentation to do on Thursday and I'm not allowed to get political or negative about a purely negative and politcal subject.

I'm hoping that my opening joke will kill them (literally). Maybe Posi is hoping the same?

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Well, if your opening joke is the Purple joke that should work.

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Sooo... No one seems to have pointed this out...

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Global Anniversary Address From Positron

Also on our anniversary day, be watching around 2am BST (3am CEST) in-game (and shortly thereafter on the website), for a special Anniversary Address from everyone’s favourite Lead Designer, Positron. He will certainly have some fun information to share!


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Is the timing on that right? We have to wait until 2am to find out what Posi has to say?

Why so late? That's 6pm EST which is pretty late even for them...

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All it means is that we don't get the anniversary address on the actual anniversary.

But to those who say we never get anything before the US, we got the anniversary first! Perhaps not the celebrations and events, but we got the actual DATE first. They were still on yesterday when we were going 'yay, anniversary!'*

*or whatever reaction anyone at the time happened to have such as 'man it's late, I'm off to bed'

*spreads out the mousetraps*

Have a cake.

Have a big cake.

Go on, you know you want to.

A good example of this would be arc id: 1444

Although it doesn't currently include the code SFMA, I may well include it as that is exactly what it is. Low arc id and lots of time and effort on many (well, a small number) peoples' parts to iron out all the bugs and spelling mistaikes.

This is in no way a shameless plug.

People who read this kind of thread would also enjoy playing the twisted tongue id: 1444

*cough*

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what?

Thanks for including the EU in this, Projectionist.

Are you aware that if you play an EU mission on the US servers then any feedback you attempt to give via the architect options will not be recieved?

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May or may not do any reviewing today because I feel so sick I'm about to barf my guts out...

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Hmm, has he reviewed my arc yet?

...no...


I hope you get better soon!

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(toddles off humming and was Jerusalem builded here....)

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It most clearly was not!
As for an English National Anthem, I prefer Flanders and Swann's version

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Don't forget to show your patriotic side today/tonight with your cossie design should you feel so inclined.



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My cossie design is always patriotic.

*looks at avatar*


what?



(Happy St. Georges Day)

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With regard to planned events for 28th.

I have a hunch the devs have thier own in game event planned, and are trying very hard to keep it secret.

It could cause disruption.

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Who wants to lay bets on a Rikti Invasion complete with motherships?

Or a 5th Column invasion complete with giant zeppelin's?

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How much do you want to bet on an all star, star spangled party, all comers welcome, with maybe a surprise attack at the end. Just come to Pocket D on Freedom.

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Oh, don't be so cynical. It will be on the test server so everyone can take part...

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And still they charge retail prices.

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Oh the sheer CHEEK of a retailer daring to charge the full retail price for a product! It shouldn't be allowed, you know! I demand that they instantly sell everything they have for a fair price that doesn't exceed 1p!

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I think you missed the point. I believe the issue was that a high-street retailer (for example) will sell you a box with a hard copy of the game and manuals and goodness knows what other stuff with it while, from a consumers point of view about all you get from steam is a code but for the same price.

This is not to say that I agree or disagree with the point personally.

*stays on comfortable fence*

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Archery & Trick arrow for Corruptors


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YES PLEASE!

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Personally, I'm sick and tired of all the "soon" rubbish, and no longer expect ANYthing from NC.

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So just what exactly do you think the 3-times-as-large dev team are doing right now?
Jay previously made costume parts and new NPCs at the same time while working on his own, so obviously with an assistant now he's only capable of making a few costume parts for a booster pack.
BAB used to work alone too - but he's got at least one assistant in the animation department now - so I guess NCSoft really wanted to make sure that /e cardtrick emote looked just right?
War Witch - who does zone NPC tyext and placement - is certainly blackmailing NSCSoft to keep her job, as she's had next to no work in the previous two Issues.
And NCSoft, well aware of the two new superhero MMOs on the way, rehired Sean "Manticore" Fish - the CoH story/lore guru - right after they bought the game, because they thought it'd be cool for him to hang out with his old work team again?
And apparently NCSOft are still looking to hire more for the dev team - just to help out the economy, of course.
So now that the MA is released - quite obviously the last thing left on their "to do" list - they call all kick back with soda or coffee and fully enjoy their renamed studio while NCSoft donates even more cash to them.
Because it's totally unlikely that the devs would actually be working, or have a strategy bulit around the release of possible competitor MMOs, or that NCSoft would even want them to do this.

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OK you Praetorian dopplganger wheres our GG

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While it was an impassioned and impressive post from GG, TheMESS made me literally laugh out loud with that comment.

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btw if 1-34 in one mish and 1-50 in 6hrs is done in ma, imho this isnt an exploit. farming will be around u cant stop it. and if they try to stop it. farmers will just get creative in ma neway. unfortunately ma is just a huge farming area. and the devs brought it in

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Not just, but can be easily used. I dislike sweeping generalities especially ones that label the work I have put into creating an arc as exactly the same as an arc set up specifically to gain fast xp/inf/tickets/whatever.

And as for humility, MA, it was just a way of covering the fact that I hadn't taken a stance on this particular issue one way or the other.

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i have heard that its possiable to get from 1 to 30 in one mish.


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This seems rather unlikely to me.
1-10, sure , but 1-30 in 1 mission?
No sirree.

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Indeed... it should take at least 2 misisons. Pick the 'correct' mission, have a decent sized team and I don't see that being too ridiculous to be honest.

As for my views on it... I doubt anyone is really interested enough for me to make a decision on whether it is terrible or not.

I think the fact that we don't appear to get feedback from the US is the current greatest failing to anyone attempting to write a serious (as opposed to thrown together rather than in tone) arc and improve upon it.

Has this issue been acknowledged anywhere? Do the Devs know and if so is anything going to be done about it? Or did I just miss that info?

It is possible to figure out how many votes you were given by using the extra tickets awarded as a tally. If you have 50 tickets awarded you know you got two 5 star ratings and so can take an educated guess at what the third one was.

Of course, in order to do this you have to know how many tickets you have available to claim from the ticket vendor before the mission is rated and the more ratings you recieve the less accurate the guesses on the low starred votes will be.

Another one to add to your workload, Col.

ID 1444 The Twisted Tongue

Heroic 20-45



I can never remeber who I have coerced into trying an arc so I apologise if you have already had a look at it in your spare time but I believe you need to keep punting an arc out there in order to get the viewing figures much above 10.

Cheers in advance

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I think we've already had some lead-in to the coming storm. It's the "End of Days"

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Ooh, a whole issue dedicated to me? Well, I may have to cease to be in order to achieve this dedication, but I think it is worth it (and many others would rejoyce)

Does the Rikti War Zone not count as story? An almost new zone with new story arcs and a task force. Did it also introduce the vanguard? (my knowledge of the minutiae of the lore is hazy at best)

In general I do have to agree with you that there have been a lot of game mechanics added and I have enjoyed them. I feel the game is better for almost all of them (can't comment on PvP as I don't partake) but there has been less new story add-ons than might have been pleasant to see.

All I can say is we have been promised a lot for I15...even if those promises aren't in any detail whatsoever.

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Anyone else noticed that you move slower than usual for a few seconds after the mission/zone loads, then return to normal speed?

It's not lag or anything like that. It feels like a debuff, but there's no icon to show such a thing.

Any ideas?

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I have noticed a similar thing. It appears that all my speed buffs (sprint etc.) are disabled for a couple of seconds whenever I zone. This is especially noticeable on my /SR scrapper. Indeed, I monitor her run speed and it drops to her base running speed before jumping back up to her normal rediculously fast pace.

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I really don't want to see you in bat themed panties. No offense.

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Perhaps others might though; who are you to deprive the world of that sight?

Gah, I will have to go out to work (again) soon and it still doesn't appear.

Well, I guess there is still tomorrow

Right, I am back from work now (oh what a long day that wasn't)... can I get my costume change emotes yet?