FloatingFatMan

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But IIRC they usually tell us in advance something along the lines of :
* it's going down at 12:00 for an extended downtime
* downtime expected to last up to 5 hrs

My old memory certainly thinks we've usually been told in advance that it's going down and an idea of when it's oplanned to be back up.

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The whole thing is probably a CoX up at their end. Usually, issue updates to NOT happen on a Monday, when there's no one around for a few days to tell us what's going on. Odds are it got OK'd for live, and the folks who do the patching decided to do it Monday and sent an email to the Customer Relations folks to let us know; but there's no one there at the weekend...

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Alright...everyone...place your bets!

IF the Science Booster pack does come out today...how long do you reckon for the store keels over and dies...I say..20 minutes for 10 Internet points!

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600 quatloos on the new.... wait, I've been watching too much TOS again...

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Nothing wrong with that!

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This is taking the [censored], hopefully we'll get a free double xp weekend from this downtime

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Welcome to the forums. Read the game EULA.

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You guys REALLY should take a week or so off from CoH you know... All this stressing out over a game. It's really not good for you, you know!

Avatea will no doubt post, with an apology, when she actually GETS to work. It's currently 8:30am in California, she's probably still on the way in.

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Not really a good enough excuse TBH. If this was in fact a planned release something should have been posted either by someone else or back on friday evening. The devs must have had plenty of notice that this was going to happen today.

And if it wasn't planned (which is unlikely) then I think it would be even more important to have said something by now.

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Oh, I agree, and posted a few mins before that one saying that this was no excuse for SOMEone there to not make a post... It's just a good excuse for Avatea not actually having posted.

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You guys REALLY should take a week or so off from CoH you know... All this stressing out over a game. It's really not good for you, you know!

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Errrm didn't you do basically have a massive stress-induced-paddy just like that a while back FFM - http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...Number=1355177

....just an observation of the worlds many roundabouts...



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Indeed I did. And since then I've taken a couple of breaks from the game and feel MUCH better. You should try it to... Does you the world of good. I've even been playing EVE...

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They might want to surprise us - it's an anniversary/birthday Issue, so this is the surprise party

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Some surprise.. 2 months late.

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You guys REALLY should take a week or so off from CoH you know... All this stressing out over a game. It's really not good for you, you know!

Avatea will no doubt post, with an apology, when she actually GETS to work. It's currently 8:30am in California, she's probably still on the way in.

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So you're saying I've your permission to skip work and duck out early to enjoy the evil daystar?

Cool!

So long suckers...

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Go for it.

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Oh look news! Link

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Looks like someone finally turned up at the office then.. Guess they start at 8:30!

Still... It's taken them a bloody long time to release what is a comparatively tiny issue update. Just goes to show, the team working on it must be TINY.

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RSF is used for Recluse, yeah... Not many say LRSF, that's one letter too much to type, for cryin' out loud!


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Yeah, I don't say LRSF, I say MoLRSF, always.

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Seriously, once you got the badge, what's the point? You actually think a Mo-run is funnier? The SF is boring enough as it is, no point making it even more boring.

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Who cares? Just call it the i15 flopforce.

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The info blackout is a bad show - especially when the messages stated to read the boards for more info.

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Indeed. You'd think after all these years of foot-in-mouth syndrome, they'd actually go, "you know what, if we do this we're incredibly dumb" before doing it, but hey, they're still managing to surprise (or disappoint us).

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Now now Aardy. Are you REALLY surprised at the lack of a post about the downtime? Truthfully?

You guys REALLY should take a week or so off from CoH you know... All this stressing out over a game. It's really not good for you, you know!

Avatea will no doubt post, with an apology, when she actually GETS to work. It's currently 8:30am in California, she's probably still on the way in.

There's always the old unofficial off-topic forums.

They still exist you know...

http://z6.invisionfree.com/cityofftopic/index.php

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You need the Scroll of Putketlon to (summon) Avatea, followed immediately with the binding spell of Wytwythtushgers.

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I don't think that works during the sacred hour of Lun-chbrek

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Well, seeing as it's 8 hours ago in California right now (currently 08:22 am), perhaps waiting until she's completed the morning rituals of Sho'wer, Bre'akfast, and Dri'vetowork?

Of course, that's no reason for someone ELSE there not telling us what's going on; but it's a perfectly good reason for Avatea not to have posted yet.

Well duh... We always knew GR wasn't Issue 16... Issue's are free updates, GR is a paid for expansion.

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I grew up on a diet of console games and came to learn at a young age that using cheats seriously harmed a games longevity. I haven't used cheats for years and definately wouldn't use them in CoH. It would kill the game for me and I'd probably end up moving on.

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You wouldn't say that if you grew up on 8 bit computer games, especially if loaded from tape!

I'd only start worrying about it if you start doing it in RL.

Nah, I wouldn't cheat. This game is easy enough as it is!

Though your post does pose another interesting question...

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3)You have been digging through the game files and found a slash command that awards XP or Inf of any amount. Tested it and it works. (Command for XP exists BTW.)


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Just how many PM's have you had so far asking you for this command?

Roleplaying is easy. All you need to be able to do is place yourself in the shoes of whatever character you're playing. It also helps if you can do "stream of conciousness" story telling, where you just make it up as you go along. Writing helps a lot with that.

As for the rules/guidelines to it. They are many and varied, but the only one that is likely to get you ostracised by other roleplayers is god modding (forcing an action or consequence on another player without their consent).

There's nothing crazy about roleplaying, even if you're doing it subconciously!

Yes, my Peacebringer, Tiger White.

Oh, and your linky is brokey.

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though I doubt ill ever try the game as I just cant take a knight riding a giant chicken seriously.

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A Knight? In shining armour? Riding on a giant chicken?

Well... Of course you can't take that seriously! That's just... silly!

*Goes to sub to it*

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You realise it's considered taboo to go to another MMO's board and tell people to sign up to your game right?

I doubt Kerensky would approve.

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Even if that were true, who cares? It's just a game...

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<QR> Issue 14 was in Beta (Closed and Open) from 13 Feb 2009 to 8 April 2009, which was nearly 8 weeks.

Sure, Issue 15 is smaller and doesn't have such massive game-changing alterations, but it's a little much to expect it to go live after a mere 3 weeks. We can safely expect at least another week or so of Beta testing on the issue before it goes live.

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Well, considering half the bugs from i14 closed beta actually made it to live, I won't be surprised if i15 goes live next week...

Oh, I can't possibly say.

If I tell you, you'll tell someone else, and they'll tell someone else, and pretty soon Paragon Studios will be knocking on my door and be inserting red hot needles under my toenails trying to find out who my sources are!

All will be revealed... But not Soon™

That price (which seems a bit high to me), also includes 30 days of game time, so you're only paying a little extra for the costume bits.