Fleeting Whisper

The text says it extends a 'probe' and starts probing, IIRC.

You get to beat up Crosscut, Graves, and Dollface once; the others three you beat up twice. In the end, none of them are dead.



Overall, I find the arc amusing. There are spots that I really don't like (mind time-bomb? Really? And even assuming my character believes the existence of such a thing, I can't figure out the truth from Dean John Yu's reaction?), but there are other parts I really do like (I found the whole playing-dumb-for-the-Arbiters hilarious. I also really like the dialogue from the Technology Quartermaster).

No, they sold the "Hero Gear Kit", which was basically the Collector's Edition without an install disk. It included all the physical goodies (HeroClix, map, CoH PvP Online comic), and a code to unlock the in-game stuff. The Hero Gear Kit was little more than a repackaging of spare copies of the Collector's Edition.

If you're going to make this argument, compare the CoH CE goodies to something more similar, like the stuff in GR CE: you can get the GR CE enhancements via Paragon Rewards (I didn't bother checking on the Alpha/Omega/emotes, though).

Do note, though, that GR CE is the "Complete Edition"; CoH CE and CoV CE are the "Collector's Editions". There's different intent behind those names. GR CE is like getting all of the addons for your car. CoH CE is like getting the first steering wheel off the assembly line. The addons are awesome, and everyone can have them if they pay; only one person can have the first steering wheel.

These are the enhancements you got if you purchased Going Rogue: Complete Collection. One of the Paragon Rewards gives you access to them, so if you were veteran enough going into CoH:F, you get them automatically. Otherwise, you can get them with a Reward Token when you're at the appropriate tier (I believe they're in T6 or 7).

For those who haven't seen them, they're basically 5 Dam/Rech IOs with ~16% for each aspect. 4 of them have a damage proc for different damage types (IIRC it's something like 5% chance for about half the damage of a normal proc), and one of them procs for knockdown. They can be slotted at level 1, but the procs go away when you train to level 21 (the enhancement values remain). Like just about everything else given to every character, they can't be traded.

I use them, though I have two problems with them:
- They use up half my inventory, and I can't slot all of them for several levels. Since they're all Dam/Rech, some characters may have significant problems slotting all of them quickly. This can be mitigated somewhat with Freedom, since you can get more enhancement storage space, but these have been available since GR went live.
- They reduce recharge, on characters without any means of endurance management yet. This can cause endurance problems if you're not careful.

Amazon has 2 copies of the Collector's Edition (Well, they've got 10, but 8 are listed as 'used', so I'd advise against them)

Well, Paragonwiki (another Titan Network project) is part of the loading screen tips, that's as close to an official stamp as Mids' has gotten, and probably as close as it'll get. The devs have admitted to using Mids' themselves, though

No it wasn't, that's an internet joke claiming to be a study by Cambridge. The closest thing to truth in the paragraph is a PhD thesis from Nottingham University.

Before I go on, here's an article from Matt Davis at the Cognition and Brain Sciences unit in Cambridge University, UK talking about the paragraph and breaking it down on the technical level, from someone who's actually qualified to talk about such things. The link also has the paragraph in Spanish, French, Dutch, Danish, German, Czech, Icelandic, Protugese, Swedish, Bahasa, Russian, Albanian, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, and Polish, as well as two links to a Finnish version, and a link to a Hebrew version. According to the people who sent the Finnish and Hebrew versions to Matt, they're totally unreadable.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

Red is a word unchanged in the text
Green words have a single pair of adjacent letters transposed
Black words have a single letter shifted more than one space

That leaves 11 words which are jumbled more than a simple typo we've been trained all our life to fix automatically.

1. Aoccdrnig = According
   'rd' and 'in' have been transposed, and the 'o' has been shifted two places.
2. rscheearch = research... right?
   Except the best correction for rscheearch produces 'researchch'. If you cut the extra 'ch' from the beginning of the 'jumbled' word, you get 'rseearch', which is research with the 'es' transposed.
   Note that in addition to the misspelling of the misspelling, the sentence doesn't make much sense: "According to a research at Cambridge...". It could be fixed to become "According to a researcher at Cambridge...", but that would require an additional 'er' added to the jumble.
3. Cmabrigde = Cambridge
   'am' and 'dg' have both been transposed.
4. Uinervtisy = University
   'ni' and 'si' are transposed, the v and t are both shifted two places.
5. iprmoetnt = important
   Again, this is misspelled -- the 'e' should be an 'a'. However, this is more jumbled that the previous 'hard' words, since one of the transposed pairs ('or') has a shifted letter (m) put in the middle after the transpose. 'et' (really, 'at') is also transposed.
6. wouthit = without
   There is no transpose here, the 'ou' is simply shifted three places.
7. porbelm = problem
   'ro' and 'le' are both transposed.
8. bcuseae = because
   Like 'important', this one is trickier than the rest, because the order the changes were made matters. Transpose 'ec', and shift 'us' two spaces to sit between 'ce'.
9. istlef = itself
   'ts' and 'el' are both transposed.
10. wlohe = whole
    'ol' is transposed, and 'h' is shifted two spaces.
11. Amzanig = Amazing
    'az' and 'in' are both transposed.

Note that using a limited number of these simple changes and using fairly short words, you don't even have to maintain the first/last letter of the word. Try: Alptop. Hint: that's one transpose.

If you use long words and follow the written rules of the paragraph (keep first/last letter, randomize the rest), things become completely unreadable. Try: Mliamoganea, or maybe Ducaosbltimboe.

Sorry for the large derailing post, but this paragraph just annoys me to no end.















(That's Megalomania and Discombobulate for the curious)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century!

While true that there's no mothership in Boomtown, it's also true that Baumtown became 'Boomtown' during the First Rikti War.

How do you get 'BBB' from 'Back Alley Brawler'? It's not like you can pull that abbreviation from his plainclothes name, either; that's Michael White.

I don't think so. The animation design of Flurry/Sands of Mu has the character moving his hands fast enough to leave afterimages. Yes, technically the character model is moving slowly and little purple images of hands are appearing in the air around the character's arms, but the design is afterimages-level speed, however that flavor is implemented by the animation team.

Yeah, the only time I've been on a team in the tutorial was with my gf on a pair of level-pacted characters.

Though I was under the impression that new-GC was going to be available outside of the tutorial, it just wasn't going to be a starting zone.

Boxes come with 1 month subscription; someone who purchases a box will be VIP, at least for a short time.

They did the same with Dungeon Runners.

(This isn't a quote from a redname, it's just the way I've seen every single other F2P game with shelf presence do it)

Within the launcher, you can also right-click a game to make a shortcut directly to that game. Using the shortcut will open the launcher, patch if needed, and then launch the game. (And if you have the launcher set to close after starting the game, it'll then close.)

If you want to get this by modifying your shortcut properties, you just need to use the /LaunchGame switch, with the correct value:

/LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes
/LaunchGame=CohTest
/LaunchGame=CohBeta

Use it just like you'd use -project coh, except with the NCSoft Launcher executable, instead of the CoH executable:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NCSoft\Launcher\NCLauncher.exe" /LaunchGame=CityOfHeroes

Well, the real-world holidays are what players are used to. And for many of the holidays represented with MMO events, players are taking vacation time or have time off from school, an opportunity to play more.

How the hell is 'dodging a bullet' pistol defense?

What about Forbin's suggestion of a Premium server?