GhostRaptor_EU

(Post originally made by Cherry in the Registration thread and copy/pasted here.)

First up heres the cheat sheet's.
Light Weight Draw
Heavy Weight Draw

For the longer version including a little background on each fight.

Heavy Weight

Fight 1: Team 1 : Not Team Pyroz Vs Team 2 : Cannon Fodder
Team one with the artist formally known as stryker on board how can they fail, and is team 2's name prophetic?

Fight 2: Team 3 : PillePalle Kasperkoeppe Vs Team 4 : Les Nouveaux Midgardiens
Battle of the unpronounceables as our foreign server entrants face off.

Fight 3: Team 5 : The MPP Reserves Vs Team 6 : German Psychos
This one sounds like something out of an Alt-History book with a flying tank fighting against the Germans.

Fight 4: Team 7 : Generic Jousters Vs Team 8 : Mighty Morphin' Flower Arrangers
Will team 8 need Zordons help to beat the villain heavy team 7?

Fight 5: Team 9 : PvP iz SRS BZNS Vs Team 10 : The Outsiders
Team 9 have recently lost some vowels, if anyone finds them please contact Glby.

Fight 6: Team 11 : The College of War Vs Team 12 : The Supernation
2 old school teams face off in this sure to be interesting match.

Fight 7: Team 13 : LNM Xtension Vs Team 14 : The Mighty Mighty Echelon
Team 14 may tro spines but team 13, another of our french entrants, may be unlucky for them.

Fight 8: Team 15 : FoTM Vs Nobody (Team 15 FoTM have a bye to round 2)
Max powerz his way through to round 2, but will the competition be to hot for his untested team?

Light Weight

Team 1 : Ninja Elite Carebears Vs Team 6 : Team Smurf, Winner Fights Team 3 : The ****** ****
The carebears face off against the smurfs in a battle im sure weve all been itching to see for years, the winner face team 3, will these **** prove bad for anyones health?

Team 2 : Pirates of the Paragean Vs Team 5 : The Golden Girls, Then the Winner Fights Team 4 : Space Dudes
Pirates Vs grandma's in the second fight, will team 2 be consigned to davy jones locker or will it be nanageddon for team 5. The winners then face team 4's space dudes who's roster reads like a scifi show from yesteryear, lets hope they dont get cancelled.

Good luck to all who enter.

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And how you think keeping it off the forum is going to stop in game arguments is completely beyond me.

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And, as I clarified after you initial response ... I'm not saying don't raise it publicly. I'm saying raise it and then let the judges make a decision. There's absolutely no need for player vs player arguments about rules questions, which is what I was seeing develop.

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Im not bothered about team changes, but i dont see why problems should not be aired and resolved in public.

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It's not the rules question being raised in public I'm concerned about. It's the arguing about it publicly (forums and in-game) without consulting the appointed impartial judges and awaiting a decision from said judges.

Myself and the others were appointed impartial judges in order to rule on questions exactly like this one. Let us do our jobs before getting worked up about it.

Globey has raised an issue with the team submitted by MaxPowerz requesting a character change after registration closed (and with other teams clarifying correct names).

After reviewing the rules and discussing with the organisers, I have made the following decisions:

1. Those teams clarifying correct character names (but no actual character change) may do so without any penalty.

2. The team submitted by MaxPowerz has changed after registration. While I recognise that at this point in time the change makes no difference, the rules were posted and need to be followed. As such, MaxPowerz' team may continue with the change however they will be deemed to have used their one allowed substitution for all matches (unless the originally listed character plays).

For future questions on rules disputes, I request that all concerned do so by contacting the organisers and myself as one of the listed impartial judges with your concerns and not air those concerns immediately via the forums. This is intended to be a fun event, let's get it started in a sportsmanlike manner.

In the spirit of sportsmanship, I would like to request that Globey (and any other concerned team leaders) consider retracting the complaint and allowing the change in character to occur, given that the change has occurred well before the actual tournament commences.

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There really isn't any other way to do it with it being an odd number after the first fights. Count yourself lucky if GR picked a good number for you

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I didn't pick anything (other than which random number generator to use) . Consider yourself lucky if you got a good number randomly assigned to you!

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How much more fun would the game be if all the bugs were fixed like the new one that crashes the game if you have an invite of any kind up on the screen while loading or the lag on "lag hill" on the 3rd ITF mission or even the small but annoying wrong mission door bug i petitoned in villain beta that's still around. There's many more but there the 3 i have most dealings with....

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Re: the invite crash - that's a relatively new bug, as far as I'm aware, which the team are aware of and will fix as soon as they have a working fix.

Re: "lag hill" - may I ask when was the last time you played the ITF, as there have been some tweaks made to the ITF specifically to address lag issues reported with that mission. If it's still lagging in the current builds, then posting a detailed report of where (and under what conditions / how often) that lag occurs would be useful.

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It also needs to be posted up here please, cos all of us maybe cant be in PD at 8.00pm.

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It will be, once the announcement is made in Pocket D.

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Ok people the contest tree is finished.
Heavy Weight Winner Side
Heavy Weight Loser Side(Starts after round 1 of the winner side is finished).

The team number assignments will be announced shortly once I have got them from GR who is randomly assigning them.

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The numbers have been assigned and sent back to Cherry to insert the teams into the tree. I used a random number generator to produce a sequence of numbers, which were then assigned to the teams. This is therefore a purely impartial method for assigning teams to the tree.

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I hope the power ISN'T the PPD power.

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Hope: Confirmed


The PPD power is not the power in the Cyborg pack

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Not only have they stopped being bothered about adding new content to the game, there not even giving out full mission rewards for missions the players that can be bothered are making.

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There's new content already announced for Cimerora that will be added with Issue 13, and I can assure you that there's plenty more new content in the pipeline for the future.

The reduction in rewards for player created content is part of the over-all goal to encourage the content submitted to be as high quality as possible. With full rewards being offered, the potential for the system to become clogged with missions created solely for farming becomes far too high. I know I'd far rather run a fun, unique Player Created Mission with reduced rewards then browse through thousands of nearly identical farm missions with full rewards.

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I seriously hope the and more part at the end of the announcement really means MORE not just something silly like "we're adding more badges earned, badges".

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You'll have to wait and see, however there is definitely more to be announced. Whether these features will meet your own personal idea of what should be in Issue 13 may or may not be the case, however you should keep in mind that the dev team have a long term plan for CoH and the size of the team has been (roughly) doubled since NCsoft bought the IP. Doubled team size means more ... more of everything.

The features already announced aren't exactly a small amount of work . Those already announced, and yet to be announced, are a first step along a long term plan that's going to provide plenty of really fun new content and features to CoH.

All of the really cool stuff we managed to get on video is now known (we had a few tidbits about I13 stuff, most notably the Day Jobs), so unfortunately the video is rather outdated now and I've not heard whether it will be released or not. We'll see if we can find time to have a look through and pull out some of the cooler stuff for a forum post instead.

And the winner for July is Federico, for the great artwork and humour that is BBQ!

Congrats!

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People who you've never talked to before who call you mate immediately.

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You must hate Aussies then... G'day mate!

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it's better to just make the GM names red above the character, so you know for sure.

[/ QUOTE ]With 95% of your petitions, you're not going to ever actually see the GM, just talk to them through tells or (out-of-game-)e-mail, so that's fairly pointless.

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its not as pointless as you tihnk considering the problem being discused is people pretending to be a gm so if the gm names apear in a different color like red or whatever that gamers cant copy then it makes them stan out all that more and alot harder for people to try and scam there way round it

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This is accomplished with the GM_ prefix already: it is unavailable to players.

For everyone reporting crashes in this thread: have you all contacted our customer support team (either with an in-game /petition or through the Knowledge Base on PlayNC)?

Diagnosing the cause of repetitive crashes is more easily done through the Support team, as they keep records of solutions to all the problems which means that if your issue is similar to someone elses they'll be able to find it more rapidly than via a forum thread.

Also please note that this forum is for community assistance and is not routinely monitored by support staff (though they do drop by if they have time).

A few malicious players have recently tried to impersonate GMs/NCsoft representatives in-game. Our real GMs were able to locate them and the culprits have now been sanctioned.

A few facts will help you recognise a real GM/ NCsoft representative:

1- A real GM will never ask you for your account details (username or password). Be wary if someone does!

2- A real GM can be recognised by their name preceded by the "GM_" prefix. For instance "GM_Name". This prefix cannot be used by any player.

3- A real GM can be recognised by the colour of their private messages. These messages will be displayed in blue instead of the usual yellow.

4- A real GM will contact you by email before any in-game action is taken, and afterwards to confirm that it has happened.

Should you ever come across a player trying to impersonate a GM/NCsoft representative in-game, please do not hesitate to let us know either by typing "/petition GM Impersonation" in-game, or via the "Ask a question" tab in the Support Centre.

Funny, but ultimately it's all just spam.

In the excitement of announcing the many features of Issue 13: Architect we included a reference that the Shield Powerset would be accessible to the Stalker Archetype. This is actually not the case. Shields were always intended to be a melee set, but not for Stalkers. Stalkers work more from the shadows, making lethal strikes to quickly overcome their targets and the concept of doing so from behind a shield doesn’t quite fit.

Our apologies for any confusion that this reference may have caused. We’ve updated the Issue 13 announcements to remove Stalkers from the Shield Powerset list. Thanks in advance for your understanding.

There's a good chance it's related to the Intel graphics. Make sure you have the latest drivers available. Unfortunately there's no guarantee this will fix the issue, as the Intel graphics solutions are rather problematic when it comes to compatibility for games.

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Mother does the phrase 'spamming' not mean anything to you?

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On-topic posts are not spam.

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Correct. Although, where possible if you have the latest post in a thread an edit is better than posting a new post. That, however, is dependent on the edit timer allowing an edit to be made.

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Would be nice to have something more to look forward to.

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From the announcement: "... and much more!"

There's much more to look forward to finding out about .

Day jobs is what I was referring to, BTW ... if you consider "living" as where a character gets logged off normally .

Just to clarify: my comment earlier was far more cryptic than the initial response assumed .

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Shame moving this post hear

If you don’t play PVP then you would not necessarily come into the PVP area and so would miss this post completely!

Considering how much debate it was generating were it was…..

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I haven't actually had time to read the thread yet, since the entire thing appeared while I was away. It is a PvP thread, however, and has been moved to the PvP forum on that basis. I may well move it back once I've read it.

Both, although if the same team wins both divisions I reserve the right to re-allocate the Featherweight prizes (most likely to the runner-up).