Freedom_Force

Sorry for the delay, messed up day at work - FFC Vol 6, Chapter 4 is up.

Freedom Force Chronicles, Volume 6 "Threads," Chapter One is up. More to come later today (I hope).

Chapter Two is up!

Aaaand Chapter THREE!

*passes out cold*

Chapters 4 and 5 are up. Some random thoughts on the current Volume will probably be landing a little later.

Thanks again to Major T for the loan of "Bounty-Killer." It almost makes me want to play CoV for a change.

I don’t know what’s worse, that your posting at 12:30 at night so I can read it the next day, or that the first thing I did when I got into work at 6:30 this morning was to see if the next chapter was up.

Hopefully I can finish Vol.5 today, since we're leaving for vacation this weekend. As always: You got me inspired!

Freedom Force Chronicles, Vol 5 -Prologue & Chapter 1 went up yesterday and Chapter 2 this morning.

The ending to Wild Irish Rose's story (and some random thoughts) are posted!

Teaser for Freedom Force Chronicles Vol 2.5 is up.

Doc Combat's story is complete and up for your reading enjoyment.

To distract himself from his morbid thoughts, he turned on the radio.
"...are advising motorist NOT to pick up hitch-hikers. We repeat, police are reporting an escaped mental patient in the area of Sleepy Hollow Group Home on Old Fork Rd."

Hmmm interesting...

Freedom Force Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the Angry American) – Toby Keith.
as soon as we could see clearly, through our big black eye, man, we light up your world like the Fourth of July

Doc Combat : Second Wind – Billy Joel
don’t forget your second wind. Sooner or later, you’ll feel that ol’ breeze kick in.

[color=lt blue] Jack McCool [/color] : The Stand – The Alarm
Come roll out the red carpet,
Come bugler sound the horn
Cause the hero is returning
Gotta welcome him to his home
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
This prophecy’s coming true
I can hear the cavalry thundering
Riding over the hill
Riding over the hill


Guiness-Man : The Gartloney Rats – The Pouges
they play away, they play for the pints and not for the pay, and the pints they go down in the usual way, and they never get drunk, but stay sober.

The Nittany-Lion : Fight On State – The Penn State Blue Band
Victory, we predict for thee. Forever we’ll be true, dear old white and blue.

help me... I need sleep..... screw it, I'll be on after work

Good thread, I think I’ll bump it…
Just a couple things (sorry if I duplicate earlier advice):

1. When grouping and things are going bad, pressing “F6” (on it’s default setting) will say “RUN!” without you having to type it out.

2. When soloing (or grouping for that matter) and things are going bad, hitting “F8” (default) will cause your character to say “HELP!” in the local channel and make police whistle sound. Especially useful for lower level heroes who don’t have speed/jump/fly power to escape mobs easily. Most nearby heroes will be happy to help.

3. I have “If you need help, press F8” bound to a key. So if I come across a hero, low on health and fighting several baddies, I can ask before jumping in and there is no issue about “kill stealing.”

4. If you come across a high level mob in a low level zone, get on the “broadcast” channel and let people know where and what level. Usually a high level hero or four will swoop in and take care of it.

5. Something I just learned – holding down the “ctrl” key and clicking on a power in your tray will set it to auto fire/active as soon as it recycles. (provided you have a target chosen and in range and available endurance).

6. Bind, bind, bind! Binds are your friends. Use them wisely.

I know a lot of this is right in the manual, but you’d be surprised what people don’t know.

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Quick question (hopefully)-

I know there is a “Ready” emote, and I could just bind that to key, but I would like to have a (large) set of toggles that I could use, chock-full of witty sayings. I have a lot of time on my hands at work to do this, but before I did, I wanted to make sure I did it right.

1. On my C:\ I’ll create a file called “ready”
2. Inside the “ready” file I’ll create many, many text files called “ready1.txt” “ready2.txt” “ready3.txt” etc. etc.
3. Inside “ready1.txt” I’ll type –

t “local I’m ready when you are$$bind_load_file c:\ready\ready2.txt”

4. Repeat, changing text and load file number
5. Once I’m in-game, I type in /bind_load_file c:\ready\ready1.txt
6. Just hit “t” when I’m “Ready”

I just wanted to check this before I went ahead and wrote them all out. If this isn’t correct, please(!), use small words/simple terminology as I’m not too computer savvy.

I just get bored saying "ready" all the time when I'm grouping....
Thanks

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I went home and I tried this and I got a message "Unable to read in keybind file"
I tried to copy my "ready1.txt" etc into the keybind file but it wouldn't let me. I went over Curveballs directions again and it says "The first thing you need to do is create five keybind files." So I tried making a "keybind" folder and then loaded the "ready" files into the "keybind" folder. That didn't work either.
Like I said before, I'm not to savvy, so I'm pretty stumped. Anyone have any ideas? (please take it step by step)
Thanks

Ok, thanks. Yeah, I meant "folder." See, I told you I wasn't too tech-savvy!

Quick question (hopefully)-

I know there is a “Ready” emote, and I could just bind that to key, but I would like to have a (large) set of toggles that I could use, chock-full of witty sayings. I have a lot of time on my hands at work to do this, but before I did, I wanted to make sure I did it right.

1. On my C:\ I’ll create a file called “ready”
2. Inside the “ready” file I’ll create many, many text files called “ready1.txt” “ready2.txt” “ready3.txt” etc. etc.
3. Inside “ready1.txt” I’ll type –

t “local I’m ready when you are$$bind_load_file c:\ready\ready2.txt”

4. Repeat, changing text and load file number
5. Once I’m in-game, I type in /bind_load_file c:\ready\ready1.txt
6. Just hit “t” when I’m “Ready”

I just wanted to check this before I went ahead and wrote them all out. If this isn’t correct, please(!), use small words/simple terminology as I’m not too computer savvy.

I just get bored saying "ready" all the time when I'm grouping....
Thanks

I’m working on actually writing out the origins for these guys, so I’ll try to keep to just doing the “inspiration” thread…

I grew up in a fairly large family (6 kids) and always loved the idea of a “Super-powered” family. The three heroes I play the most are all inspired by my own family – me, my wife and oldest son. (I have another son, but he’s just a baby, and I’m having a hard time developing a personality for him as an archtype.)

Character: The Nittany Lion
Server: Triumph
Archtype: Science/Scrapper
Inspiration: I am a full time police officer, so I based my character on the premise of a police officer gaining his powers accidentally while attempting to stop a crime. I am (as is my wife) a Penn State graduate. I was disappointed to learn that the last native mountain lions in the Nittany Mountains disappeared years ago. I thought a great origin would be a police officer responding to a break-in at a University research lab (that was attempting to revive the native population of lions) and getting injected (or blasted or something) with lion DNA.
Basically, you have man who was already “fighting the good fight” against crime, now endowed with super powers, taking up the mantle of the school that he graduated from, and going after the people responsible for his change.

Character: Wild Irish Rose
Server: Triumph
Archtype: Magic/Defender
Inspiration: My wife’s mother is from Ireland. I thought it would be interesting if my wife would inherit a totem or some Celtic jewelry that gave her powers. The Defender archtype is perfect fit, as my wife is the definition of “mother-bear-defending-her-cubs.”

Character: JackaRoo
Server: Triumph
Archtype: Technology/Blaster
Inspiration: I began calling my son “JackaRoo” almost as soon as he could walk. He was constantly jumping all over the place, with the boundless energy of all children. Blaster type was good, considering that he is a wrecking machine. (Tanker probably would have matched him better, as he’s constantly running into things, but Blaster is working pretty well so far.)