Electric-Knight

HAHAHA

Yeah... Like I said, it's not what you wear... but how you wear it.

Mishii, I tell you what... If you (And anyone else) have any issues with my appearance, feel free to kindly tell me
Heehee!
No one is saying anything about not looking good. Just not into following trends or rules.

Oh, and anyone who thinks about whether a look is dated, is generally not worried about dating themselves to the current time/trends.
Of course... few ever think modern trends will eventually look dated, hehe.

(All of this is with a smile and excitement to meet up on Friday... Especially if James is wearing a red bow tie!! )

It is in the "Post Your Base Pictures" Thread in the Base Construction Forum...
I pinpointed the post:Here you go!
And yeah, I remember that and it is indeed great!

Sam, is this fixed as of now with the new patch today?

And I think the quote mentioned was actually a PM from David that someone posted here.

I haven't logged in today yet, so I don't know what the status of things are after the fix.

Thanks a lot for putting this together.
We sure had a great turn out!

The Purple Stormy Aspect withstood our assault, but we did what we could.
Getting through to the portal went great.

I just hope that my electric blasts weren't holding our damage back.

I did have one awfully shameful moment... After about the 4th or more time of his shields coming down... for my first attack of that round... I accidentally hit WALK while flying up above you all...
I came crashing down... fell into his hurricane... Was whipped and tossed around... During which, I lagged out a bit, so that my pressing WALK wasn't toggling off the power... Ha... Ha...
And finally did manage to get back into the fight, but way too late on that round.

Hahaha...
Other than that, I tried to be as quick and damaging as I could be!

I'm doing this again very soon.

Thanks a ton for arranging this and I look forward to next time (And likely a bunch of times after that).

Hehe, this is the truth, the solution and the problem to everything.

It's all the same thing. The balances of confidence, respect, ego...

Perhaps instead of focusing on SGs, we should work on world peace... Maybe SGs will be helped out in the process.

One of the things that keeps happening in all of these threads is that different posters focus on extreme negatives. When the opposite negative is talked about, the farther extreme opposite is raised as a counter point and whatnot... Hehe, that can be a bit silly.

Bad is bad. Whichever side it falls on. Extremes on either side of any such conversation are obviously a bad thing. (i.e. vet SG members being snobbish, rude, dismissive vs. new SG recruits being too shy, overly demanding, overly-critical anti-socials)

[The following is a combination of being completely messed up on cold meds for a sinus infection that won't go away and a new cold that just came along on top of it along with a healthy dose of perpetual humorous cynicism. So, please keep that in mind.
P.S. I freely admit that the meds may not be playing a factor at all.]

Let's face it... the best and worst part of any collective group of people are... People.
When they're great, they're great. When they're not, they're not.

Humans seem to function best with each other when the interaction is violence.
You hit them harder and drag away their valuables... All is good.
Works nicely.

Getting along... Not so easy.

It's very difficult to overcome these human-based issues in any and every situation. Online gaming interactions are definitely included.
When something goes wrong against what you (the universal you) would like, don't just jump to the conclusion that the reason is some negative factor that you've either imagined or experienced in the past.

The key to working together is giving people some benefit of the doubt.
Is a group struggling? Why? Is there potential there for greater? If so, don't dismiss them as only being that negative possibility... Maybe you are part of the solution that the SG needs.

Is a new member struggling struggling to get involved? Why? Is there potential there for greater? If so, don't dismiss them as only being that negative possibility... Maybe you (Or the SG) are part of the solution that this player needs.

I use this mindset for both joining and recruiting.

I'm a patient person. I don't just join things without looking into it, trying it out... I am a huge proponent of teaming with and playing with groups before making decisions.

Talking about how things will be and/or are is an entirely different thing to how things truly will be and/or are.
There's no workaround or way of discovering the true chemistry of relationships, other than actually trying it out. (That's right, honey! Let's just get it onn and see!! [okay, that was the meds])

Lastly... Never forget to-

[Just chiming to share my view, all in fun]

Lothic, it's all cool and well when there's something that doesn't bother you, but that doesn't mean it's not a legitimately bigger deal (within reason and understanding of all things within a silly video game, make pretend time, nothing really matters vibe) to someone else.
Don't get me wrong... Your main point is completely reasonable and I agree, to a point. If I can't have it in game... Then I can't make it. Period. The thing is... when the pieces do exist in game and you can't get them until level 35... Well, it eventually just becomes a bit silly, to some people.

So, just because I don't care about blah blah blah and never have a problem with it doesn't make it ridiculous for others to have a problem with it and that things can never be changed or done differently in the future.

Now... I actually think having unlockable costume stuffs in games is a good thing. However, I would go about it slightly differently, if I were (What I am not) in charge, hehe.
Just in that I would like to have unlockable costume bits that are more detailed, specific or perhaps a bit more jazzy than more generic versions of the same or similar items that are already available to the players.
As an example... Roman-type pieces: I would have maybe one set of costume pieces available for people who would like to make such a character from the beginning. Just some straight up, somewhat generic bronze-age armor pieces, roman helmet(s) and sandals and skirts and whatnot.
Then I would have more spiffy versions of these things as unlockables from the ITF and such.

Of course, some people would still want those cooler items from character creation (And I do get that point and understand) and so, no, you can't please everyone... I just see having rewards such as that available in game as being good incentive for different styles of players to try things they may not have done otherwise.
Costume junkies may never have done the ITF if it didn't offer costume pieces, hehe.
Still... I would love to see this sort of idea in place... Especially for some of the Vet Reward Costume Pieces (Those are big culprits).
Males have NO shorts... No shorts... Until you unlock the Boxer shorts after 39 months of playing. Hehe, that's a little screwy!
I'd do the same with samurai pieces. Kilts and trench coats come pretty early... Those aren't huge offenders... Although, I could certainly see that going either way.

Anyways, not a serious issue with me at all, just sharing my thoughts on this topic derail... Weeeee!

Hmm... Jack Kirby drew me into it!
Get it? Get it?




Really though... I was happily playing another game, a long time ago... in a galaxy far far away...
And I knew of CoH's existence. I thought it seemed kinda cool, but never checked it out, because I was more than happy with my one mmorpg and had no plans to leave nor play any other ones.
A friend played CoH from launch... I actually got to mess around in the character creator and see it in action. While I was impressed with the character creator, it didn't exactly impress me in game (But I didn't give it much of a shot, in all fairness... as I wasn't interested).

SOmE evil jerkos took away our beloved space fantasy game... And, after giving their new game a try for some time... a break... and one last go with it...

My wife and I left that behind and decided we'd go through every free trial for all the mmorpgs out there in early 2006.

CoH was on top of my list.
I was a bit familiar with the community, just because I had visited the forums a few times and grown to enjoy some of the running jokes, the camaraderie between the Devs and the players and the overall vibe I got from it.

We started the CoV 10 Day Trial...

And we didn't look back.
I think one of the biggest things (Among many) that thrilled me was the Physics system. Knocking people around, up, down, over ledges, seeing them hanging, dangling... having it done to you... It just made (And still makes) every single moment of every encounter potentially something unique. I love that.

During those 10 days, we ordered both CoH and CoV (I guess we got the GvE at that time).
We stuck around for 3 months... and never stopped loving it... But it was too soon after losing the previous game that we loved for over 3 years.
So, we took a break, both saying and knowing that we'd be back.

Sure enough... Less than a year later, we re-upped and we haven't stopped once since.

I think there is a bigger that could be achieved well in this game.
I don't think it is nearly as large as some of the examples here, but I do think there is room for some more.

I'd like to see the huge models able to be a bit bigger all around (Especially with the hands and feet and head).
And really, I'd like that for all models. We've talked about that... glove and boot options for truly massive hands and feet. That fits the general CoH style.

I definitely would love to see even taller options for characters... but I don't know that it would ever happen (It opens up a lot of problems... mostly by closing off doors, since they'd be too small).

As for weapons, that pic of the thin girl holding those two silly fantasy swords... That is just a bad example. It looks bad.
Sam's follow up with the Mutant Pack swords is not anywhere near as ridiculous, in my opinion. The swords just are curved and shaped in a better way than those from whatever game that other one is from. And the way they are being held just looks completely different.
I have no idea how they animate in the other game and all and that pic may just be a bad representation of it... but only having that to go by, those are my opinions on that.


I think expecting or wanting some major size beyond what we have for this game is likely unreasonable, just from the standpoint of the technical hurdles and it not being bloody likely that they'll try and shoe-horn such things in. We're never going to see huge Transformer-types as player characters in CoH. (I know, never say never)

I'm not a fan of the ginormously over-sized weapon style... However, I am not opposed to it existing in this game for those who want it, so long as it fits within the artistic style that does exist throughout this game.
That style is broad, indeed, but it still exists.

So, I don't have much to say about this other than... I think there is room for more bigger stuff... but probably not too much nor too big.

Oooooooooh... Wow
That storm cloud thing is very interesting!

Another cool and noteworthy aspect, of both the Snow and the Fireflies auras, is the inclusion of the individual left and right hand options.
Since getting the Alpha and Omega auras with those options, I've wondered if we may see those options with all the previous auras...
Would be nice, eh?
(One for each eye, like the cyborg combat aura has would be nice too, btw...)

And yeah, QuiJon... Remember all the people who hated the Ewoks in RotJ? Too kiddy and stuff, hehe.

One other note on something you said about the special effects.
While you're right that the general viewer is not going to notice the ground-breaking effects and tech that was achieved (And furthered) in each of the prequels... They actually did continue to break ground and create new plateaus and standards.
Sometimes, the beauty of great magic is when it goes unnoticed.


Anyways... I generally never get involved in Star Wars conversations with strangers any more. It should be lumped in with religion as verboten topics on such forums, hehe. (Although, not that anyone has been overly rude or anything in here... And no, I won't say "yet"!)