Ebon_Hawk

I can't see why they shouldn't be able to pre-flag it as available for sale from a specific time and date... if this kind of thing actually needs manual intervention then their back end systems need some work on them.

Coin_ and Zortel,

Thanks v. much for reporting on your tribulations but ultimate successes in doing this. I know it will be useful to members of our SG who have tight finances and can't really afford the booster packs at their standalone price.

So, possibly a stupid question, but I'm presuming you still require an NCSoft master account and get provided activation keys from Steam that you apply to said account.

Basically what I'm getting at is that buying the Architect Edition is better value for money (1 month play plus booster pack of choice) than buying the booster pack standalone, but as NCSoft have so far not offered the Architect Edition as a digital edition on the EU NCSoft store Steam appears to be the only game in town for this route at the moment.

Can anybody confirm that purchasing through Steam would behave as expected (ie much like purchasing from the NCSoft store as far as being provided valid keys to upgrade your CoX account with)?

Have to say, this is a great idea for a really useful, but not game breaking, vet reward.

/signed

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Unfortunately, due to a bug, completion of the requirements for the badge was not being recorded until recently. Unfortunately, those who completed the requirements before the bug was fixed will not be automatically awarded the badge as the game doesn't know you earned it.

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Well... considering you get the Temporal Strife badge for completing the Imperious Task Force (or Impy's TF as I like to call it), wouldn't it be easier to check if the player has that badge and if so, award the other?

That would be easier to do then run the TF again. Having said that, already have done it on my controller (again) and got the badge. Just needing to do it on my corruptor now.

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This seems the obvious solution... there are other flags set on completing this TF (which I believe can't be done without beating Rommy), which seem to be set correctly, so why can't the system just cross correlate and award the Roman badge where the TF completion badge flag or roman costume option flag is set but the Roman badge flag isn't?

It's not rocket science

good to see this back... now we just need to be able to join more global channels

Is the 'Union has more PvP' situation just a side effect of the (it would seem from anecdotal comments) 'Union has more players' situation?

I only play on Union, I've never even made a toon on Defiant, so I can't speak from experience here, but I've seen lots of comments that Defiant has a lower number of active players on it. Is this the only reason for TG's differences in PvP activity?

It's been mentioned already that Union is the unofficial RP server. I'd always been under the impression that Defiant was already the unofficial PvP server, but I may well have been mistaken on that. But I guess one thing I'm querying is, do we really want Union to be the default 'Unofficial X' server? That's surely just going to become a positive feedback situation where Union will attract all the new players, because it will be the Unofficial server for their playstyle and Defiants population will lower as a result.

Surely we want to make some efforts to even out the playerbase...

They are tending to be about 2 hours... with a start time of 7pm (and that's kinda team building start time) we're usually finishing up with jelly and ice-cream by about 9pm

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"1. AOE Heals will not root
2. Self Buffs will not root
3. Self Heals will not root
4. Everything else will."


so... pretty much every kin power will root you... except transfusion. ah well, there go my dreams of reapplying IR mid jump

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But surely IR is an PBAoE Buff, not simply a Self Buff?

So doesn't that put it back into the rooting category?

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Apologies for slugging at Hami at that one point. For some reason that I don't know (likely explanation is a feck-up on my end of some sort) I lost the targeter as my target and just did not have the presence of mind to check it. Thus Hami had ended up as my target.

After that I kept losing the targeter frequently, sometimes after only two shots fired and not having touched anything but attact keys. Also relocating the target seemed to be an issue towards the end. On a few occasions I had to resort to finding the mito that had a dropping health bar and target that mito directly in order to keep dealing damage.

Did anyone else suffer from this or have a good explanation? I'd like to avoid these things tha next time.


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I has similar problems with losing the targetter at one point... infact prematurely throwing a single char at Hami as a result.... I don't think he or anybody else noticed

I actually noticed at one point I seemed to consistently lose target when Streekz was jumping (presumably with half a dozen IR's on him). I wonder if he's actually managing to jump out of target range?... anybody got thoughts

Second Sun will generally be there to act as Team Raz mascot

They are special titles... usually given for winning some competition or event (for example, I believe Mothers Love got her special title for winning the design an ad competition).

I think that's the case anyway... oh and while I'm on the subject, I know it's pretty late, but congratulations Mummy on that ad... it was fantastic and I love the special title too

Given that Cryptic is the developer on Marvels upcoming MMO I don't see a "CoX suing Marvel" coming anytime soon

Sorry I missed the last one, but double xp was just too good to turn down and anyway, I figured I let some others work on their debt badges for once

But Second Sun will be there this friday, ready to take those hits on the chin!

given the double xp has just gone onto test I don't think we're quite looking at a live double xp weekend yet.

Who's with me in thinking that the weekend will be the 10th/11th

Second Sun reporting for debt *salute*

The link you provided says that these zodiac based characters were villains tho, not heroes. I have a feeling that it's out and out copying that's the major problem.... otherwise we'd all be stuffed. There is very little left out there that hasn't already been used in some work of fiction somewhere.

For instance, many would suggest that I lifted the name of my scrapper Ebon Hawk from the KOTOR line of games (I didn't, but that's another story). I've even had one suggestion in game that my use of the name was copyright infringement. I'd argue he'd need to be a spaceship to cross that line

I know this is a finer distinction, but I'd tend not to worry if I was Sagittarius.

Not a bad idea Duckdee.. save me having to leave the last Hami raid channel to join the new one too

Oh.. and since last night Second Sun will now have Power Boost as well as Vanguard for the Holding phase (of course, he has to get to the holding phase, which will undoubtably involve the debt cap again )

Second Sun will be back to take the deaths for the team

from memory the bind is:

/bind key of choice target_name nominated targeters name

Sorry it's so generic, but I don't know who the targeter is tonight

Thanks for organising this guys... it was a real blast and great fun

I'll certainly be joining again

I know that many reckon Posi should be done with a smaller team.... but I like a challenge

I would have loved to get in on this... but seeing as my fire/rad controller is not almost 46 seems a little late...

but from playing him I can just imagine that a full team of 8 fire/rad trollers would just be insane!

we look to have 3 or 4 at the moment...

and thanks on the name (although oddly I didn't lift it from KOTOR, but a P&P character I'd had years ago... I had one of those D'oh *slap* moments the first time somebody in game said .. oooh.. KOTOR... cool game!)

But it's become tradition now for it to be assumed that's where it's from, so I just go with the flow