Dogface

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Well, do you need to do the first mission from your side?

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No. You just need to do the Lockbox and Cauldron missions. Thus, someone else could get the initial missions on each side, finish them, then unite with other characters to do the last two missions.

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er, because the traditional toga goes across the chest diagonally and usually left one breast bare on women and this is a pg13 game.

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That's irrelevant, since only a freakjob like Cato would run around in a toga and nothing else. Anyone who wasn't a lunatic wore a tunica under the toga. Of course, it doesn't matter, since the garment in question IS NOT A TOGA AT ALL. It's a tunica, maybe a chiton.

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I completely concur. It's a shame the devs seem to have an issue with giving male toons a shorts or bare leg option of any kind, especially with this toga deal. I dunno about you but I've never seen a toga over tights, pants or anything else other than bare legs.

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Toga over tights? What kind of bizarre Con costumery was that? Toga over tights? That's just way too sick. Of course, there's no need to complain, since the costume piece in question is not and in no way at all resembles a toga. It's a tunica or a chiton.

Oh, and one more thing, IT'S NOT A TOGA! If anything, it's some one-shouldered variant of a TUNICA or perhaps some kind of Greek chiton, but certainly NOT, under any circumstances a toga, in any way, shape, or form. Bah! 3D Artists are remarkably ignorant little vermin, aren't they?

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Am I missing some Roman holiday that would warrant a toga/tunic/dress? Or is it just because?

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Valentines day -> Cupid.


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Valentine's day: The martyrdom of St. Valentinus, a martyr within the city of Rome. (The romance stuff is purely medieval legend, though.) There's your toga for the Feast of the Martyrdom of St. Valentine.

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That was the plan. As everyone knows, though, plans only work until you actually engage the enemy.

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That would cast us, the paying players, as the enemy...

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* Bug: When an attack misses its target, aggro is generated when the attack begins. This is problematic when using a power with a long activation time (such as Ice Arrow); aggro is generated and you are subject to "return" fire before the attack is actually launched. The character is rooted in place until the animation finishes. (If the attack actually hits, no aggro is generated until the attack lands; this is when a miss should generate aggro as well). This bug is not limited to the Trick Arrow set, but impacts the set more than others due to its many powers with long animation times. (Concern, Goofy_Parrot)

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This is the way the combat engine works. Fixing this would require rewriting the whole thing. This is not likely to change.


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Translation: We were utterly incompetent from the very beginnign, so screw you, players. Just give us your money and shut up, we're not going to fix this.

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* M-1 was a World War II hero, not a World War I hero. It's not a retcon, it's a typo in the Tank badge.

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Yeah, a typo. After all, can't have any heroes around before Mary Sue--I mean Statesman--showed up, can we?

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I have it on good authority that Satanic_Hamster is in fact and Angelic Gerbil.

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He's actually Positron.

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Actually, I'm Positron. He's Brawler, and you're Manticore.

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I thought I was Positron?


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No, I'm Positron! And so is my wife!

Or am I Spartacus?

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Only on Tuesday nights.

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Well, as long as it's in a manner that is not socially disruptive, a bit of harmless crossdressing hurts nobody.

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So, is the whole "Statesman was the VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY FIRST EVER hero" schtick just a Mary Sue event?

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No, he was the hero that basically kicked off the *modern* era of heroes in current times. Ie. he's the guy that inspired Paragon Earth's heroes to be heroes instead of just being in the background.

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Right, and that sort of strikes me as a very Mary Sue sort of thing to have happened. You do know what a Mary Sue is, right?

So, is the whole "Statesman was the VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY FIRST EVER hero" schtick just a Mary Sue event?

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I just read the plaque in Eden last week about Galaxy Girl staying behind to hold off the Rikti and saving her best friend Ms. Liberty.

This is a good story, too, though.

And I could have sworn M-1 is referenced in-game as being a WWI hero, not WWII, but I could be mistaken. anyone else remember?

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History geek chiming in here...

Hopefully M-1's name comes from WWII because the earliest reference I can find for M-1 that a hero would be named after is the M-1 Garand rifle which entered service in 1936, after WWI. If it's in reference to the tank, then we jump to the 1980s.

Now I have to make a trip to Galaxy tonight and look at the plaque.

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Or the rifle was named for the hero

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http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m001.html

Discovered in the 1700s.

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The point about M1 and the Web of Arachnos is an interesting one. I hope that the background of the game isn't being changed so that no heroes existed before Statesman's "discovery". IMO, that'd be lame.

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Except that it's the novel that is making the lame changes to background, since M1 as a WORLD WAR ONE hero is older than the novel. Therefore, since making changes to background is lame, it is the novel that is lame. If changing the background is lame, then Web of Arachnos is lame as a limping man who stubs his toe on Lame Lane while wearing a fencing lame and painting lamellar coating onto silver lame stencils.

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SJ is the most flexible and cheapest travel power. Thus it is selected at a rate that FAR outstrips its presence in the comics.

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The only time I do not select SJ is when I'm playing a "concept" character, and even then I consider figuring out how SJ could fit the concept. That's how much better SJ is than all other movement powers.

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and by that logic "issue 5" was thoug of with ED in mind...EXCEPT

the devs said outright that if you 6 sloted defensive powers your be fine....

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What, developers lying to players? Next, you'll say that the sky is sometimes of a bluish hue. I've given up in expecting even basic decency. After all, basic decency would dictate that a comprehensive list of "play as intended" would be published and not kept secret from players.

There's a fairly well-known guide to Golden and Silver Age characters for City of Heroes called "Doc's Guide to the Golden and Silver Ages of Comics for CoH" While it is an acceptable splash of what the colors and names of Golden and Silver Age characters were, it doesn't get into what kinds of power mixes and origins were more or less common in any of those ages.

I did a little bit of examination of actual Golden Age characters, specifically, if I were to guess what archetypes and origins they had, what the sample would be. I got information on over 100 different golden age characters (defined as "first publication before 1950"). I culled any that had only appeared once or twice. I likewise culled those that I couldn't fit at all into the CoH rules. In addition, I took care to eliminate all "retcon" characters--characters invented in the 1960s or later and back-dated to the Golden Age. At that point, I was left with 89 characters originally from Marvel (sometimes called Timely or Atlas), DC, Charlton, or Quality. Marvel and DC made up the bulk of the sample. I then just counted what archetypes and origins were represented. Some characters could fit two archetypes, so I counted them as 1/2 for each.

This is what I found:

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Bla Con Def Scr Tan
Magic 0 6.5 3 2.5 7
Mutant 0 0 0 0 1
Natural 1 0 1 33 8
Science 4 2 0 7 5
Technology 3.5 1 0.5 0 3
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As you can see, scrappers, specifically natural scrappers, are extremely common, outnumbering anything else. It should be noted that the lonely mutant was only arrived at by process of elimination--didn't really fit anything else. I'm not going to get long-winded on this. I just wanted to give people an idea of what kinds of characters were common, what was rare, and what seems to have been positively unheard-of in the Golden Age. However, my list is not comprehensive. It can still be used as a very loose rule of thumb if one is considering a new character. For example, when in doubt, a Natural Scrapper (bare-fisted, of course) is good to go in the Golden Age. Blasters mostly came from what CoH would call "Science" or used doodads. Defenders and Controllers were almost always magicians, but tankers pretty much came from across the spectrum, with one exception not visible in the table. All of the Technology Tankers were robots. The powersuit was more of a Silver Age concept. Anyway, this is just to amuse people. Feel free to reproduce elsewhere.

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Neither are in I7 (fyi)...BUT Geko and I have talked a little about Shields. We're thinking that Shields would be a Primary AND a Secondary Power Set for Tankers - and a Primary Set for Scrappers...but this thinking might change. I'd imagine the set is mostly about Defense, but again, nothing has been designed yet.

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I DO hope you meant to say "secondary set" for Scrappers. As a primary set, it would be too silly for words.

Of course, you did decide to take an excellent Blaster secondary (Trick Arrow) and make it an exclusive Defender primary.

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So, it's done by making broad attempts to legitimize the exploiting of obviously broken game mechanics in order to gloss over a lack of coherent PvP ability. Gotcha.

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Its a "mommy didnt tell me it was wrong, so it must be OK" philosophy.

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When son #2 was caught years ago drawing on furniture, his mother told him "Don't draw on the furniture." Ten minutes later, he was caught drawing on the wall. Before my wife could say a thing, he blurted "It's not furniture!"

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Something tells me you work in IT

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Could it be his whole "screw the customer" attitude?

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I'm not an economics major, but as far as I'm concerned, the consumer only has one right. To purchase, or not to purchase. If you don't like what is being sold (continuing access to CoH), then don't buy it.

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Do other consumers have the right to tell said consumers to just shut up and go away?

Superman's Fortress of Solitude (Silver Age and Bronze Age). It's probably the most extensive base ever--more extensive and elaborate than the JLA's, even had an entire staff of Superman Robots attached to it. It even had its own miniature CITY within it for a while.

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Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Oracle, Azrial, Huntress (not full time), Spoiler (now deceased). Sounds like a supergroup to me.

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And Batman recruited these individuals BEFORE the construction of the sumptuous and very functional Batcave? What's that? No, he didn't? You speak out of the backside on this? I thought so.

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I'm also aware that TP Foe is a big issue in PvP. In our internal testing, my Stone/Stone Brute used it to great affect on opposing targets.

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If your Brute "used it to great effect", then your Brute greatly under-utilized it. Teleport Foe owns the field in PvP. It owns the field, owns the bleachers, owns the hot dog stands, owns the parking lot, blockades the streets, has an option to buy on all the surrounding blocks, and is able to block any other transactions for a mile radius around the stadium.

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Right now a lot of posts have talked about the high Prestige cost of Base items - and that they're bringing in a ton of Salvage but can't really do anything about it.

Bases, as they currently stand, really focus on mid and large sized groups earning Prestige - so the complaints have a good point. We're trying to work something out so that a smaller group can get something useful quickly - and also put Salvage to use! Can't promise a timeline, but we are working on it.

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About frackin' time! Not everybody is in a gigantermous 75-member group, after all.