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Actually, I think this might be related in some way to the patch today that added animal-themed NPCs to Pocket D and Studio 55 - like it might have shuffled the list of Studio 55 NPCs slightly, moving the dancers off the list forthat location, and onto the list of PPD models.
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Aren't those the dancer models from Bobcat's lounge area?
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Quote:Since when has it been un-comicbook-ish to use elaborate ways of carrying out your evil plans? Villains who rpefer to shoot someone rather than luring them into a complex deathtrap really aren't fit to be called proper comicbook villiansSome tips actually get the evil done. Such as the one where you stomp the weakened Longbow Officers flat. Others, like the "give Lt. Demitrovich the gun you rigged to explode" seems less 'actual villain' and more 'guy that likes to kill people with recipes from the anarchist's cookbook'. That CAN be considered villainous, but not exactly in the comic-book-ish way; more like the actually-sociopathic-homicidal-nutcase way. The more evil choice, IMO, would be to USE the gun on Demitrovich and send her to the hospital directly.

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Quote:Development-wise, it's way easier to create content that waySpeaking as a Villain, I'm sick and tired of having to team up with Heroes all the time.

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Quote:I'd guess the Euro verions would have an "EU" put at the start - so if anyonefinds they're in a global channel that gets an "EU"; I'd suggest channel searchign for the Americna version, and containg the channel ops to see if some kind of merger would be ok.Oh, here's another point that's not been answered in the FAQ... what happens to Global Channels?
EU channels like Defiant Events or Union Chat will probably have no collision however EU channels like Masterminds and Mission Architect most likely will.
What's going to be the deal here?
Like the Euro ops can join the American channel, get made ops there too, then send out invites to all the Euro channel memebers to get them to migrate - set it as a perma-MotD too, so no one logging in could miss it. -
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Also, going by what Prometheus says in I20, it seems that we can only go on to face the threat of the Coming Storm after we've defeated the threat of Tyrant and the loyalists - which makes it sound like the post-Praetorian Incarnate content won't have anything for Tyrant's minions either - like if Heroes and Villains had to unite to takew down Tyrant, then it looks certain that they'll have to unite again to stop the Coming Storm.
Also, and non-Incarnate post-20 loyalist content would need something massively evil in it to make them turn against Tyrant so they could feed into the Incarnate path - the devs already added the revelation of Tyrant's invasion plans at the end of the 1-20 path as the cue to turn against him, as well as the earlier exmaples of the evil of the dictatorship during the loyalist path to 20 - and if the mass-murder, torture, brain-washing and oppression seen in the 1-20 content didn't turn people to the right side, then it's hard to see what other evil could be shown as the trigger to get post-20 loyalists to see the light and be able to join in the Incarnate content. -
They might add a 6th costume slot as an Incarnate reward - like demi-goddesses and demi-gods need bigger wardrobes
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Quote:That's possible - but then they'd still need to turn against Tyrant to progress as an Incarnate - unless the devs decide to make a special Incarnate path for Tyrant's followers - which seems unlikely, as they didn't even make one for Recluse's minions, who are much better established as a separate faction right up to 50.I smell an IDF epic on the horizon ala Arachnos Soldier. Probably in conjunction with Praetorian content expansion.
If they'd made it so that Tyrant formed an allaince with Recluse to try and take out Paragon City, and loyalists who went red side at 20 would then be helping their master by working for Arachnos post-20, then that would have ben a sign that the devs were planning for separate good and evil Incarnate paths - but the moment they made Heroes and Villains both be threatened by Tyrant, that guaranteed that the Incarnate content would be co-op.
If they added 35-50 content for loyalists, there'd still be the same problem for the devoted stiff-armers of having to turn against Tyrant for the Incarnate content - the Incarnate system, has massively reduced the chances of separate loyalist/Villain Incarnate content.
For example, the next 2 Trials they're working on are an attack on Anti-Matter's reactors to try and shut down Tyrant's ability to create his war robots and other wepaons, and a Trial against the Praetorian Hamidon, which has just woken up again - there's no sign that they're working on anything that would suit one of Tyrant's thugs - it's all co-op stuff against Tyrant and his dictatorship. -
Quote:I heard that tooAlso, something that hasn't been posted that I've seen: it might have been a slip, but at one point Nate Birkholz referred to the Well as the Well of Eternity. Maybe doesn't mean anything, but it was the first I'd heard of it and he didn't correct himself.

I wonder if that's it's "real" name - like the Well of the Furies is what it's called here because it was named by the anceint Greeks, who would obviously link it to their mythology.
It's called the Well of the Furies on Praetorian Earth too, as their early history seems to be just about identical to ours - but to someone like Rularuu or the Kheldians, it might just be called the Well of Eternity, as they'd have no reason to name it after anything from Earth culture. -
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Ok, I finally got a bit of time to answer most of the questions in this thread - so, in no particular order:
Quote:I'm not sure how you've drawn your comic, is it a mash-up of pencils, Photoshop, and 3D-generated graphics?I'm not sure if it's a real style or not, but I call it "drawn digital" - a sort of combination of a comicbook look, as that's the soruce of the game, and 3D models, as that's what the actual game-world is made of - so I'm using 3D models with quite a lot of postwork to create the look I want.Quote:You had mentioned before that you use Poser and Photoshop software to create your comics. But, can you tell more about your method? For the Paragon City backgrounds, did you take screen captures in CoH and import them into Poser or Photoshop? Or did you entirely draw the backgrounds? For figures (particularly, faces), do you use photo references?
Everything in each panel is fully modelled - I don't use screenshots or background pictures, as these look flat, and don't blend with the actual character models, especially with the lighting and texturing.
Plus, using screenshots would not only be very hard to line up to get the perspective right, but I'd also needs loads of them to cover every angle I might need - it's simply easier in the long run, and looks better, to use fully modelled environments.
An accident - I've never seen that movieQuote:Interesting forced depth perception in the last panel of page 33, where the war wall can be seen behind Atlas' statue. (Kind of like a scene from the Stanley Kubrick movie "Barry Lyndon", where the title character is running ahead of an oncoming army.) Intentional? Or just a happy accident?
Quote:The depiction of Ms. Liberty. Her facial features resembled photos I'd seen of the real-life model who played the role of Ms. Liberty at several CoH promotional functions. Did you use photo references of her?Quote:Did you use a celebrity model as the basis for Flash-Man? His facial features reminded me of Wil Wheaton in some panels.I did base Ms. Liberty on the RL model from Hero Con and other promotional appearances, but I also tried to add a bit of the in-game look, plus a bit of her look from the official CoH comics.Quote:GG looks a bit like Scarlet Johansson in some images. Did you use ScarJo as a photo reference for GG?
Flash-Man is based on a friend from high school - although he doesn't know I've put him in a comic - yet
The reference for me is me
It's how I'd like my in-game outfit to look - but it's simply not possible, as the game has a weird way of showing our busts, so to get that look I'm going to have to wait until they give us a more relaistic lookQuote:And I have to ask what shirt Golden Girl is wearing - I figured out what almost all the rest of those costume pieces are, but the shirt is eluding me (does it actually exist in game?)
My RL hair shown in the comic is also not available in the game yet - it's like a cross between the Shy and Shag styles - but more animated
Quote:The full-page image on page 2 shows GG in a confident stance with a facial expression that conveys--what? Beauty? Sophistication? Savviness? Sex appeal? The inset image shows Flash-Man's rather flabbergasted reaction. Is it meant to be funny that he looks so surprised to meet her because she's so beautiful and glamorous (wearing a costume with a short skirt and a rather healthy expanse of cleavage)? I like to leave these kinds of things up to the reader to interpret for themselves - but generally, if something in the comic seems humorous, it's a pretty good guess that it was intentionalQuote:On page 6, Flash-Man asks, "And what way do you fight? Like do you have any weapons?" GG answers, "Just my body," in a panel showing a straight-on, head-to-toe view, in which she is looking forward while Flash-Man's head is turned to look at her. In the next panel, she explains, "Unarmed combat's my thing," and Flash-Man comments, "Oh," as if maybe he misunderstood her initial statement? Am I reading too much into the exchange? Or is the dialog supposed to be funny because of a possible double meaning?
I don't actually RP, or even have a bio - when I first started playing the game, I just made my avatar as me, but with super powers - the way I act in the comic is the way I'd act if I really was in Paragon City - and if I was unaware that I was in a game
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Quote:I thought it was becuase you were both evil?Possibly because I can identify with his frustration at how shiny-chasers with ADD are rewarded while people who want things done right are ignored....

Then shouldn't two such obviously evil Praetors make your RP character reconsider the "utopia" they thought they were living in?Quote:The same way we can hand over Pyriss to Peter Themari. It's called roleplaying.
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Yes, that whole conquering-the-multiverse thing is such a morally complex problem - is enslaving all of existence under the rule of an insane god-emperor the right choice or not?
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