Garielle

With Niviene's announcement earlier today...

Some people will argue my logic, but here is how I usually slot.

Up until level 12, I slot TOs that I find. I don't actually PURCHASE any though.
From 12 - 21 I slot DOs
From 22 - 31 I slot SOs
From 32+ I start moving over to IOs as I can afford them.

The reason for this is that IOs don't surpass the bonus of SOs until about level 35, which you can start slotting at 32. If you slot IOs before level 32 and then decide to replace them with SOs, you're throwing away that money. The ONE exception where IOs would be better below 32 is SET IOs. On the other hand, most of the low level sets don't provide significant set bonuses, so even then, it's iffy whether or not is better to take lower enhancement bonuses in favor of picking up the set bonuses. That's something that you need to consider for yourself based on your own playstyle.

One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is the ability to logout to the login screen from the command line without having to go Menu->Quit->Quit to Login Screen

During one day at the height of summer, six glittering starships appeared out of nowhere. Suddenly everything went dark. It was the curse of the evil monkey that eats cotton candy!

The people all fled in terror at the sight of the sticky-fingered monkey. It hurled large chunks of cotton candy at the innocent Omegatron Zeta Warbot, "Koo Koo Katchoo", who, caught unprepared, pulled up his iron underpants, and ran screaming into a brick wall.

Then the monkey laughed and said, "where's my punchline?" A man named Alfredo von Wigglestein appeared and said, "I think, therefore... I don't care. Now, you need to go to talk to the guy about registering for the special buns and thigh class. After all penguins have anurisms and I wear polyester thongs to school. Where was my jar of Honey Bees? Who will not drag my fat butt? Now what was the price of eggplants and bees again? I forget things quite quickly since I'm old. Although old is relative."

So then my sister Bruce bought a banana from a passing street vendor. He grabbed a dictionary and started to read aloud the definition for monkey curses. He then looked at the crumpled warbot, pointed and said, "Beware! Chaos is brewing beer!"

Then the warbot stood and drank beer.

Then my sister stripped naked and started to dance a sexy dance.

But the police helped her undress. Afterwards they ran in circles chasing Folonius while yelling the words to that pop hit polka song by the Andrews Sisters. That made Folonius roll out barrels of Rikti Monkeys. This proved problematic for the newly created government of the Rikti, for it had finally caged all of the barrel monkeys.

Lady Grey said, "I like to do weird stuff in the nude with the Rikti." So I took out my camera and filmed her from within her secret monitoring station. "I will never spy on her," said blpup pervertly as he passed out from poison. But just as he died, a passing noob stole his influence. Then burnt his body.

Soon the monkey scattered the ashes and ran home crying to mommy he'd been Riktirolled. The momma monkey ate Chaos Creator's little can of sausage to get even. Suddenly, the sausage regurgitated itself out of the monkey and said this, "Let my people go you jerk!" But then the Freedom Phalanx came and revealed that Chaos was happy. This surpised noone.

Then Chaos died a little inside. Later, he got on the interwebs,but got lag when he tried to look up sheep tied onto a kite. This saddened the chickens who wanted to eat sheep.

Suddenly a man wearing a big target on his jockstrap with three arrows on it, all pointing to his third nipple, busted into song:

"I can't get any more funny during this chaotic event, please help!"

Suddenly, Statesman said, "He who laughs first loses their chance to punch Defender in the genitalia! Don't laugh!"

Not laughing, Manticore took off his ill-conceived costume and started to dance like a meandering lama in split pea soup. Swan giggled and got naked before Popeye the Sailorman had a chance to eat spinich. This left him an opening to get Olive Oyl in the mix. Bluto was furious. Wimpy ate burgers.

Meanwhile, back at the hall of justice, Betty Boop was preparing to bath her puppy in a vat of boiling oil. She was killed by a man wearing a yellow sweater with matching socks. He also rode a Harley that did not stop eating Statesman. "Lego my Statesman!", he said. Shortly, a big red ball appeared and killed him too. The ball muttered its disappointment with a spatula.

Ghost Falcon appeared and began to remove his clothes so he could show off his new shiny and improved green toxic suspenders. They not only allowed him to run away with Numina's clothes but also with Positron's sex toy collection. His favorite toy was left behind a pillow so he reached back and brought sexy ' Bulbous Bobblehead Bertha' onto the bed and began to insert it into his very large pillowcase.

Meanwhile in Never Never Land, The Lost Boys, Mr. Rogers, and Arnold Schwarzenegger played City of Heroes and Arnold said, "Let's get naked!". The boys cringed and then took a bunch of underaged girls to Wendy's house for family boardgame night.

I am predicting next week or the week after. I am basing this on a couple of things. First, we know that they plan on doing a Double XP weekend after the launch of I16. Double XP weekends always draw a huge crowd. If they are figuring CO into the mix (and there's no reason they should not be), the optimal time for that Double XP weekend is either the 25th-27th of Sept or the 2nd-4th of Oct.

With some folks making a decision between one game or the other around that time, they want everything to run smooth as silk. They don't want the new issue to be buggy or, even worse, unstable in any way. Therefore, they want to keep a "buffer" of at least a week to get any kinks ironed out.

If they are shooting for the weekend of the 25th for Double XP weekend, they want to get I16 on live next week. If they are shooting for the weekend of the 2nd, they want to get it out the door by the week after next.

Please excuse me for going off topic for a moment, I only do it in the interest of saving this thread.

There are some (and will likely be others) in this thread who view it as an excuse to flame NC Soft and/or other members of the community. They will bait you into turning this thread into nothing more than a flame war. Don't let them. Instead just click "USER CP" at the top of the screen and add them to your ignore list. Let them spew forth their flames, while you stand safely behind a shield of immunity.

If you feel like this is backing down, it is not. You see, anyone who is capable of having an intelligent conversation or debate, is able to do so citing their reasoning. They don't make up facts and figures. They use real facts and figures. They never result to personal attacks. Personal attacks only display the attacker's lack of intelligence. Show yourself to be better and don't take the bait.

Now... to get back on topic...

"I trusted him like a brother--which is to say, not at all."

- Lord Corwin, The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

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