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If Knockback is gone, Forcefield needs some major tweaking to get competitive (read: desirable to ever pick) again.

The buffs are fine, but Forcefield benefitted in solo/specific team play from knocking back the target causing both a knockdown affect, and a delay where the melee attack target also had to run back to the group. This might have slowed the fight down slightly, but in solo play it gave a breather space, time for powers to recharge and it meant melee targets with self-buffs wasted those buffs' time limits.

Not all Forcefielders use Fly/Hover, nor should they be expected to to fix the set itself. With an AoE buff as well in Forcefield, it benefits from being lower to the ground anyway.

Perhaps if they want to get rid of FF's knockback, they can add a hold element to the knock<whatever> powers, so the target is thrown down and pinned in place for a moment before being released.

Meanie!

YAY! Z's Back!

All I have are bourbon biscuits though. No kippers.

Last night:

Alexia watched Rauri and Richard posturing and being generally 'male' at one another, then dismissed Rauri's attempts to flatter her and Richard's attempt to apologise to her (or was it the other way around...) with a comment regarding being used to male posturing.

Then she discussed various topics, including illusions helping with hiding from Zombies, and why Artifact Stone is cumbersome. She also could barely see a foot in front of her face due to the darkness from the Banner Event. Tarvin completely missed the point that this was a joke about her wearing -dark glasses- (look at her costume). Oh well. Puns flew everywhere.

Alexia is out this afternoon, having being portal'd over to meet with Minister Dunne and cover that end of the mission tonight.

Shanna is going to be mission-control for Secondary Team (she gets to listen to Theo swear a lot and curse out Squish's behaviour... good thing she's stubborn enough to tell him to shut up ) and Richard offered any help he could. There was talk of being Tea-boy.

Because brilliant billionaire genius mansion-owning englishmen make the best tea.

If you don't like reading long bios, or won't read a bio that scrolls. Then don't.

Let us enjoy our longer bios. People do appreciate longer ones as well as not.

Perhaps the Bio doesn't need extending, but let's have a "Backstory" Tab in the bio between Bio and Badges.

If you don't want to look in that tab, it'll never offend your TL;DR senses. For those of use that like to write and read longer pieces, we can look there.

And then! ...

Oh wait, darn it. Then that's the end of the thread.

Well Phooey.

Oh no Poor Z.

Hope to see you back tuesday then Z! Fingers crossed it's not too broken a line-fault.


Edit -

Final test of the mission was complete, and it took me 30 minutes to solo on Tam. Nothing was impossible to defeat solo, though some things are tougher than others (ahem, Brutes and their leader). So... RP time and the fact it's a group added on looking at 1 hour.

Hopefully, all going well, I will be around from 8pm tomorrow. Mission start pencilled in at 8.30pm, for a finish time of around 9.30pm all going well. Shouldn't eat too much into other RP event attendance that way.

If anyone's got any last minute things to check with me please let me know.

Just a reminder for everyone, the Better The Devil You Know finale mission (aka "A Will To Be Free") is on Monday 7th November.

Maps would have been delivered to interested parties today/yesterday. If you're interested but didn't talk to Tam or Toppa about the topic, then feel free to have come to get one, or got one by whatever means you wish.

The maps are quite detailed floor-by-floor plans that have been hand-drawn (though not sloppy looking), with only a few vague sections with question marks denoting where there may or may not be walls (Tam can't remember -everything-). There's also a breakdown of what the mission entails.

Main Team are the ingame team, they will be lead by Tam - the job being to clear a route through the complex and take down any leadership within the Mages to allow the Rebel Trollkin to get out without further injury/loss of life. Their contacts in the complex are one Commander 'Koops' Cooper and Head Medical Officer Scott 'Pemby' Pemberton.

Secondary team is currently comprised of: Theo Dray, Martin Krannock, Simon 'Squish' Quinn and Tarvin De..volva? (Meep, sorry Welshie). Their job is to disable the security systems, unlock any lockdowns to the transport systems and clear the infirmary of injured rebels. If anyone else wants in on the Secondary team (Which may have some fiction later for their part of the mission, or may be restricted to ingame chatter through the 'Radio' system) let me know.

Anyone with further questions or more details needed drop me a line via PM or nab me ingame.

I think it was something to do with the 'Honour' topic coming up again, though Tarvin received plenty of persuasion this time to just drop the 'workaround' he tries to be sneaky with.

Or something like that... or was it scaring kids?

Tam had hotdogs. He's not Sonic, though the guy was packing up so he didn't have any chilidogs left. He talked with his mouth full, and got told off.

Also, he's not revealing his costume early, and he's ignoring the current situation of the character he's dressed up as (who's currently dead).

I would like to note (before I get the next piece of fiction up):

The finale of the Better The Devil You Know plot will now be happening on the 7th November 2011 ~8pm GMT (Time to be confirmed).

The date given in the cryptic message (24/10) is still plot relevant however, and the date has been shifted in-story as well by Minister Dunne's promise of military backup for the heroes. I'm just putting the date out there now so people are aware of it. Yes, it's the day after Theo and Issa's wedding anniversary!


ETA - Thanks Z for providing a BRILLIANT opening to our new recap thread. I hope the old one isn't lost forever, because it contains so much wonderful time the RP group have spent together. I look forward to even more great times with everyone (and new faces) in the future too!

ETA 2 - And it's up, a look into the mental state of one of the new antagonists in the Forseverse, Muzzle. Who's been mentioned in a couple of stories so far, but hasn't been the focus just yet. He's not very nice.

I've not recieved any extra tokens since the system went live. Unless I mis-understood something (Because this system is INCREDIBLY COMPLICATED TO LAUNCH ALL AT ONCE), I got my September token early because everyone got one when the headstart started. So, my thinking is...

I will wait until Christmas. If I've not recieved an October, November and December token by the new year, I will contact them and ask for the tokens they promised me.

If I don't get an adequate response in an adequate response time for a VIP customer, I'll leave.

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It's as simple as that. Now that we're on the hybrid model we're on even shakier ground when it comes to voting with our feet because now they can say "But they still get free-access to stuff if they stop paying subscription!". Essentially the ability of small groups of customers wanting to make a change has been nullified; those cases can be absorbed and covered by the premium system and purchases.

Slightly confused as to why you need to be level 5 to get an arc that teaches you (as part of it) how to visit new trainers to level up...


But beyond that, yup. Time-investment for a bit of XP, or a tutorial extension.

Yes, we know. We're reminded routinely.

Don't mind us.

When Zwill appeared on Union recently and said hello, the collective flinch from the RP channels looked like a Mexican wave.

Then we timidly, carefully, and slowly approached, uncertain what horror was about to befall us.

Then nothing happened, and we felt a little cheated. Yet scared, should he arrive again and the sky begin to fall.


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Whatdayamean I'm overly dramatic?

How about...

When a custom Chat Channel is created, a toggle can be put on that allows Free Player Access. A command that can be switched on and off by any nominated moderator of that custom Chat Channel.

Then, y'know, people that have created their own Chat Channels can decide for themselves if they want to see F2P accounts speaking on their channel or not.

Also gives a chance for Community Leaders to create havens for the F2P players, promoting community cohesion and giving chances for new community groups to form. New community groups including F2P players would encourage them to stick around, and gives them exposure to customers (Premium/VIP) that are actually positive community examples (because they're taking the time to willingly interact with the F2Pers).

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How about that?

Then if they can't offer exclusive competitions for all major regions they should take a serious and long look at why they can't, what options are available; then talk to us through our community reps to explain and explore other options.

Seriously, this "necessary evil" has other options. There are european gaming sites they could also host contests via, or allow to host contests. There are -options-. NA is just the easiest and least fuss because the managers are most comfortable and aware of them.

I won't care enough about EU being treated badly when it comes to service to complain as long as PS promises not to completely destroy another RP venue for us, severely shaking the RP community that called it home. I'm probably getting the short end of the deal, but I never win contests anyway, and I'm never going to enter into a Facebook contest to get the facepalm emote or costume code out of principle anyway, so bah.

Deal?

So that when the inevitable flood of Street Fighter Character Knockoffs come about, the Devs can put their hands in the air and say "We did nothing to encourage this".

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And something about "Justice" being a more heroic sounding term than "Fighting".

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Like how Martial Arts isn't "Kick them in the lower regions a lot Justice".

Apparently so, but I'm too busy soaking my head.

Whatever that means. I hope it's like bobbing for apples!

How is she even still on that thing?! Her spine would just... snap... if her boots were rooted to it. Even as a robot!

At least the cape's hanging down. So gravity works.

Oh yeah, that is a HUGE bugbear of mine. It feels like the advertisers are hiding behind the CGI, offering it up instead of daring to let customers see what they're buying.

I wonder who designed all those costumes for it though? Several seemed a little... bland. Couldn't we have had a Cossie Contest? Not to win a place in the advert crowd, just to win having your costume used in the advert?

I mean, creative license already means our costumes are property of the Devs right?

No belt, No hat, No purchase.

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Also, please stop deciding for me what I want to spend my money on. Now that I have to go out of the way to buy costume pieces - usually when they work and as I need them - I would appreciate if the Devs did not hold my hand through it.

I don't need the Devs playing fashion police 'for our own protection'.

Because... what exactly is it preserving? That we might get turned off the game for daring to see an obnoxious costume match-up?

Also, there's this guy on Union, who can go invisible because his costume makes your brain not want to register it... and... he's awesome.