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On a related note: Samuraiko works her magic yet again for Issue 14...

*awed*

No, no and thrice no. We get new boards soon (TM) and we've lost our old mod (*schniff*), though we've gained a new and incredibly tall mod (*waves up at Avatea*).

That is all. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. Do not stare at the fnords. Move along.

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Ooh new box going on shelves, Cox: Architect Edition (from the audio @ 42:35)

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The new box is going to include both the Pc and Mac client as well according to MMORPG.com's coverage.

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Halle-Berry-Lujah for new box goodness

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No, its just glamorised it and made it into entertainment

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...hence why ITV is obsolete

FIESTA!

Happy Chocolate (not Carrot) Cake Day

Loving them, actually. Now that my mighty mountie Canadian Maid has both the security chief and police chief badges, logging off in a police station gives me a ranged AOE hold and a mid-mag disorient, while DW is stocking up on bonus heals and runes of purification.

And for Rangers Emily and Marianne, there's no situation that can't be improved with the judicious use of hand grenades.

I refuse to sign this thread unless the dinosaur wears a fez and can shoot lasers beams from its eyes. And quotes Wash's "This Land" speech from the start of Firefly.

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To everyone saying we EU players never get into Close Beta...

Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh!

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Is it just me, or did anyone else hear Prof. Farnsworth's voice for GR's "Great news, everyone..."

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Wabbit girl!!!!!

Wabbit wabbit wabbit girl!!!!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee!

^_^

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All you gotta do... is make someone happy... just that one person happy...

*goes off to work with big happy grin*

Oddly enough, there was a fascinating post on this from an actual economist a while back - I'm trying to find it...

What we're looking at here is a limited-supply economy, as applied to things like art, high-end mineral resources like gold, footballers (why?) and - up until recently - oil and property.

Because everyone knows the previous price thing X was sold at, very few people will accept less than that as a seller and few will want to pay more than that as a buyer, so there's a (relatively) stable market.

It's only when someone is desperate enough to pay over the odds to get something (eg: a collector's art item, VW shares, particularly nice shoes, dribbling borderline sociopaths who happen to know how to kick a ball) or take less to ensure cash liquidity (eg: property of late) that prices will see significant shifts outside that normalised band.

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An invisibility-themed villaingroup that does NOT spend 95% of combat actually visible would be new and fun (for a while, at least!), though would invoke screams of "The computer is a cheating *******!".

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...you mean like when taking on the Vanguard - with their SIGIL rounds and "Willie Pete" grenades? *grr argh*

Chimera's ninjas are particularly rubbish as they're visible all the time. Proper ninjas shouldn't be seen, heard, or where you expect them to be. (clicky)

More rikti quotes for you:
Imperative: additional intoxicants!
Serving suggestion: Vengeance; optimal flavour: Cold. Space: nippy.
Existence comparative: protein pouch. Contents: unknowable.
Eternal dependance: kindness (strangers)
Arrival: Jhon'ny!

Anyone got a couple of unlicensed nuclear accelerators I can borrow? Got a Ghost Widow mish coming up, and that chick is TOAST....

...so gotta do a Ghostbusters arc in architect now

Wonder if the famed Cathedral Of Pain will be available?

Quick question... Does MA allow you to make your own maps (a la Base Editor) or can you only use ones that are already in-game?

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I hope you have pre-warned Avatea not to feed the forumites after midnight and whatever else happens DON'T GET THEM WET!!!!!

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Ah, but is that midnight our time or her time? She'd better not get 'em mixed up...

All the best to GR and all those going, and best of luck to Avatea in Cali. Be careful around those Americans. They get... emotional.

Also, please can we put the DOOM™ launchers back in the weapons cab again and lock down to Normal Paranoia Level? WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. Not to oblivion. Not to reduced servers. Not even, dammit, to teh Americans. We're still here, and we still aim to misbehave. We live.

*hugs everyone* I love you all. Now back to work.

There's justice to be done.

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Even GR, who's been posting a little today mostly in defense of his soon to be former employer, is making absolutely no comment regarding what's going on. Almost certainly because he's been TOLD to make no comment. This silence is causing NC irreparable harm by the minute.

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GR is probably metaphorically biting his lip.

He realises that saying anything other than just plain factual corrections may not help him find future employment. Would you hire someone in GRs line of work who'd potentially embarassed their last employer on public forums?

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Only if they'd worked for the BBC, Sky or FOX. Then they'd be office heroes

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Look on the bright side... just be glad you're not in the Sir Viv Richards' stadium in Antigua.

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It's kind of the same effect as lag, I think.

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if someone had suggested the game was doomed because they weren't targeting pensioners, the game not doing well now wouldn't mean they were correct.

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Lots of time, possibly have difficulty getting out of the house to socialise, remember Steve Reeves as Superman, would seem like an ideal target market to me.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmm.............

I wonder....

*Phones ITV to sell them his idea about a Coronation Street MMO*

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Nah, sounds like far too much effort and we might actually need something like a plot, dammit. Call Auntie and do an 'Enders one instead - more PvP opportunities.

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Champions online

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*coughspluttergiggle*... maybe.

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I'm glad these puns are equine and not avine. Chicken puns are just fowl.

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Only good yolk I've heard is this one.

Two penguins waiting at a pedestrian crossing. Chicken walks up to them and says, "Guys, you don't wanna cross that road. You'll never hear the bloody end of it."

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All my post means is that yesterday there was a marketing, localisation and community structure in place here in Brighton. We all came to work expecting that structure to remain long term. As of yesterday lunchtime that all changed, and there is going to be an inevitable period of transition and adjustment.


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Thanks GR...
So the game is still OK in the EU (or they wouldn't be hiring more EU S&M* people?), and no planned server merges?


I only ask because in the absence of good info, chaos reigns, with light drifting showers of panic and scattered DOOM™ towards the evening.

*Sales & Marketing, who are almost as painful to deal with as the other kind, but not nearly as much fun to be around

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Shame for the guys, it really is, GR seem to be a nice bloke. Fingers crossed for them when they hit jobsite.com

As for playing on the US, what I would like to see is 1 worldwide server list. We can see the us servers, they can see ours.

If not if the servers were merged, I'm sure they could do stuff with titles to distinguish between US & EU players.

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Larac has a point, actually... WAR had unified worldwide servers from the beginning with no issues. Has the law changed?

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So, as nature abhors a vacuum, it's speculation time!

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untrue! I have never heard of a hoover factory being hit by a natural disaster!

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I hear there are cyclones in Dyson factories all the time.

...I'll get me cape.

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Dr Vazhilok's Favourite Song:

"Leprosy, I'm not half the man I used to be,
Bits keep falling off of me,
Since I went down,
With Leprosy

Why I lost my toe I don't know
It wouldn't stay.
I lost something long,
Now it's gone,
to Leprosy

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Nice. I heard he was fond of "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" too...

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Any word what's gonna happen to us?

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Afraid you'll all need to be patient to find out what happens with regards CoH in Europe. A whole helluva lot changed yesterday, and it's going to take some time for the folks at NCNC to formulate their plans going forward.

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Now that, kids, is a quality DOOM™ post. Learn from the great one.

Any more tidbits we can coax out of you? What changed? Bad financials, copyright claim, change of game direction...?