Harry_Canyon

My Bio For She-Blade:



Cindy Bates was a supermodel on her way to stardom, until a seedy implant surgeon put her under and sold her to a criminal organization that was experimenting with nanotechnology in order to create super criminals. During the procedure Cindy's head cleared enough for her to break her restraints and kill the lab technicians. finding no one else around, Cindy went home Horrified to find that her looks had been scarred so badly by the monsters, "I'll show them." she said putting on her skimpiest bikini in the hopes that eyes would be focused on her body rather than her face.
She now prowls the streets of Paragon City, using the "Gifts" she has been given both by science and nature to fight crime and find the surgeon that sold her out. She is the Cheerleader of Justice. She is She-Blade!

Truly Tragic.

You know, it occurs to me...

Things must be sad indeed when Steelclaw has to add a disclaimer to parody. I blame the puppies. Puppies and Broccoli.

"Infernal intelligent implants are insidiously invading our inner-sanctum and inserting its inhuman intent into our infrastructure. Indeed we infer this incursion to include infants and the infertile, implying its inside impulse into our intuition and inebriating our inclination to interpose their injurious inclinations. Inept; our invulnerability to infiltration, Impotent; our insurrection. Inside our independance is isolated and our intestines irritate at the irrepressible infection. Inevitably, infusion is imperfect as internal ire impeaches the intruder until its intricate intention is imposed internally."

I HATE Broccoli! (unless you add cheese.) Oh no! It has me!

"Let's just comply with their line idea so we can sneak up behind the big one and attempt to pry Jim's head out of its molten armor."
~Jessup Thurman
1985-2009

"This looked better on paper."

or...

What I noticed most, (and I hope I am seeing things as they are as opposed to how I would like.) is that there does not seem to be any War-Walls in Praetorian Earth as in CoV...

Perhaps a series of zones like Croatoa, with the walls being a simple barrier. heading off to one side would load up the next zone when you reach the edge of the map instead of just bumping into the wall like a doofus. maybe a warning message like in instanced areas [Warning! You are about to exit this zone.] And maybe weather. And Pie...

Gonna answer for myself to get the ball rolling, and since this looks like fun.

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1. What is your favorite word? Ecstatic

2. What is your least favorite word? Hyperbole

3. What turns you on? Intimacy

4. What turns you off? A lack thereof

5. What sound or noise do you love? Rain on a tin roof.

6. What sound or noise do you hate? A dying giraffe

7. What is your favorite curse word? [Censored]

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Medicine

9. What profession would you not like to participate in? Plumbing (Again)

10. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? "You got past St. Peter? You are the first one to do that."

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Yep. Plenty fun. Now a dev can do it.

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But yeah, I need to win the $61M powerball so I could just make videos and not have to worry about bills and stuff and a real life job. *sighs*


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You think too small...

$1 To be in the credits? $5 to be featured? $61mil.?

Now get back out there and be a Graphic Artist for [censored] sake!

Honestly though, in a game where people are willing to pay $10 to get a handful of perks, I think having your name attached to credits should net you just as much. Welcome to stardom!

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Hey guys, I have a neat idea for buffing Propel in Gravity. We all know it's a long-activation attack with so-so damage.

Well, I've always thought that it's neat to pick up random things and throw them at the critters. What bothers me the most is that all the Objects deal the same damage. Are you telling a Chair does the same damage as a Car?!

I think it will be an even more fun power if some objects in Propel can deal more damage so it becomes a "gamble" power. What do you guys think? Is this possible? I would set it as: Weak, Heavy and Extreme damage. All the objects are classified under these 3 types in terms of Size. Of course most of the time you would only see Weak and Heavy damage but rarely you would see a big Truck that does Extreme damage.

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Not possible (unfortunately). The object that gets thrown is purely a graphical decision made by your game client. The server doesn't even know what got thrown and everybody on your team will see a different object.

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Bummer... I kinda figured that, although I thought with the additional of "proc" damage, maybe the power can have a built-in proc so bigger objects can proc more damage or something like that.

I would totally take Propel if different objects do different damage. It fits the theme so well. Oh well...

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Now just a second...

Based off of my admittedly limited programming knowledge and bits and pieces I have gleaned from developer conversations over the years, it is quite possible. Theoretically It could be feasible to restructure the power to randomly select a Weak/Heavy/Extreme (though I would add Moderate in there too.) attack, and then launch an item from a separate list of objects created for each attack. But it is entirely possible that this could extend propels already long animation time. But maybe if it was a Weak/Moderate/Heavy/Extreme/Superior attack, that could even toss out ginormous objects of inordinate size... Though I digress.

OK, BAB's would be screaming my curses over having to copy/paste one whole list of objects into five separate ones, or maybe that is Castle's job? Castle would have to rewrite the power to randomly select the damage level for sure, but like propels list being ported into /e alakazamreact, I assume It would be the "Beguantleted One's" place to put in the objects. I don't know, I just play here.

TL;DR version. It COULD be done, of that I am sure of. But do the ends justify the means?


[EDIT] Broke my own protocol, and threadjacked a bit.

Under-performing sets based on MY playstyle:

Spines (Scrappers)
Anything/Stalker
Devices
Dark Armor
Thugs
Fighting

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You lost me at Hal Jordan. Should have put Kyle Rayner in the movie instead.

And the writer for that article overlooked Halle Berry as having starred in both a Marvel and DC movie.

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UNTRUE!!!

She did not act in either of those movies!

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Gorgeous Glenda is scary enough, thanks.

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You know, I always wondered where she moved her Bits and pieces. Those straps just don't cover what should be covered. The only explanation is that she simply moved her parts about because she just didn't want to re-tailor the suit.

I still Prefer "Buggo" The Araclowntist!

Market saturation was too focused. I myself introduced someone to this game just 6 months ago that would have been all over this at launch if they knew it existed. I myself was a gamemaster of a super-hero PnP RPG, but even though two of my players were in beta, I did not even hear about it until I2 (Must have put the fear of the almighty into players with the NDA. ). Only after I joined up did I find ads in a few comic books, and most of those were in CoH books.

No matter, I surmise that the longevity of this game will be a factor when CoH gets advertising simply by being the Competition to the New Kids despite its age. New players to the genre who leave CO for one reason or another may just give that older game that everyone keeps talking about a shot. We win when they loose, But I feel that perhaps a more Shotgun Market strategy would have been more effective. Not all those that would enjoy this game read comic books regularly. Maybe if we got Kevin Smith, Vin Diesel, or Meagan Fox to do a couple of commercials, we could get some more market play. Cross-Promotion would have been good too. Imagine getting a free trial card with your Baskin Robbins sundae, Or a free month of play For every 150 dollars spent at Hastings *available at participating locations only*.

I could only wonder what it could look like?

Got a couple saved already...

(H)Strong Box=(V)Pyx Chest
(H)Pennant=(V)Pennon
(V)Cut-Throat=(H)Lunge

I am holding (V)Opposite Number for a friend for his Praetorian version of (H)Battle Ender

(H)=Hero
(V)=Villain

Hmmm... A question to tease the most hardened alt-o-holic.

One each, Hero and Villain...

Hero: Strong Box

Villain: Iron Onslaught

My friend has great ones:

Hero: Superstructure

Villain: Trouble-Seeker

WooT Grats on the new nick. Wear it with pride... Or at least tenacity. you got 5 months and 29 days left. :P

PistonKnuckles
PhantomKludge
PlaidKnight
PlainKrazy
PaidKiller
PainKnight
PyroKlast
PoorKid
PryKill
ProudKinsman
PhantomKick
ProtoKlown
Pragmatic_K
PurpleKhaki
PhasedKilowatt
PowerKill
PlumedKrayt

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Yeppers!

Was not interested in CO in the first place, but this assures I will not even glance at a trial. why bother setting up shop for five years in another game to get where I am now? Always was of a mind that this game would hold its own, but now am sure it will hold everyone else to a higher standard as well. You raised the bar years ago, and now you just chucked that sucker straight into orbit...

Good luck Jack. I hope you are proud to see how your baby has become a man.

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Uh yeah, sure... Why not. :P

Yeppers!

Was not interested in CO in the first place, but this assures I will not even glance at a trial. why bother setting up shop for five years in another game to get where I am now? Always was of a mind that this game would hold its own, but now am sure it will hold everyone else to a higher standard as well. You raised the bar years ago, and now you just chucked that sucker straight into orbit...

Good luck Jack. I hope you are proud to see how your baby has become a man.

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Trying to make a majority of you guys happy.

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ZING!

/em rimshot

Climbing the ladder, doing the bull dance, feeling the flow.

Life!

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One Reich to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them?

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You heard it here, Dark Bondage powerset

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Long as I get to pick my own safe word.

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Sorry, no powerset customization yet. Everyone's safe word will be "Banana".

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Awwww....


It's always banana! I can't wait till I can use Broccoli or Nee!

Honestly, there may be something to this. Up until this thread, I was of a mind that your very first piece of salvage was a Luck Charm. You know, just to get you going. That is always my fist piece of salvage on every character I can recall it on. I never knew it was a random roll...

Then again, I do tend to get costume pieces I want and usually get at least one great drop per play-session. Added to that, is the fact that I stick a fight out to the bitter end. This leaves me in situations where I am at a sliver of health and up against odds, yet wind up walking away wondering "How the heck did that just happen?"

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July 14th, 2011

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With Going Rogue going live December 22, 2012?

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Isn't that the day the whole world goes rogue?

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actually, you are. What is a rental contract? an agreement between 2 people. The laws vary from state to state, but I know from personal experience that evicting someone is not as easy as calling the police and saying the other person is trespassing.

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Allowing someone to stay at your residence is far far different from renting someone a property, money aside. I also know for a fact that in the situation we're talking about, the police can and will remove a no longer desired "guest" whether they paid you some money to cover your expenses or not. Perhaps, as you note, it's a difference in our state laws, though, and we've gotten WAY WAY off on a tangent so I'm just going to jump off this derailment. Feel free to have the last word (just to note that I'm not trying to grab that and run).

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Preach it brother! Just did this myself last night. I don't care if you are a preferred customer, you don't walk into MY house and openly abuse and berate anyone. We are employees, not targets for your hostility. We are trained to be polite, hospitable, welcoming, and to a degree subservient. But that is a courtesy we extend in order to garner a name for our brand. To make you feel at home even when you are miles away. Offering to fluff that pillow, or leave you a specialty gift in your room when you arrive. It's our pleasure. But treat me or my staff like you own me and cuss us out because the weather is bad, or because we don't serve some special dietary requirement we were never informed of, or because we ask for a photo ID AND a Credit Card unless an authorization is sent prior to arrival, and I become a very unhappy pappy.

There are policies in place, and though I do not control what they are, I am the one who must enforce them. Have I at times been a bit heavier handed than I should have? Sure. Once a fella decided that being asked for an ID was cause to cuss out every employee he saw and make gestures wildly around him that looked like he was wanting to fight invisible ding-dong soldiers. After finally stepping out from behind the counter, I informed him that his reservation would not be honored and he could walk out or fly out (He decided walking would be more dignified.) College graduation insured that only a buddy with a couch would hold him there for the night.

Heavy handed? Sure. but would you have wanted to have that guy on your property?

The main point here I think is that the term farmers has been attatched to two different groups of people.

Farmers: People who bloat their missions with mobs to maximize their rewards. Some missions prove more lucrative than others, ergo; they find popularity among this group. They commonly find ways to optimize their team builds, and form groups or clicks that spend their time enjoying content provided. Surplus is unloaded onto the market, and they are the taskmasters that any MMORPG need for a backbone. They do the grinding that some won't go near. If a preferred mission is made harder, they cry foul(*) and move on to the next best thing.


Farmers: This group finds loopholes and exploits for the express purpose of breaking the intent behind the game. They find out that Winterlords are broken and engage in a frenzy that quickly consumes the populace, drawing them into mob mentality. They usually result in broken upper-level builds and may have little play experience with that class. If they are unfamiliar with the market, they may sell valued drops at a vendor or place dropped recipes at higher than usual cost, giving the market hiccups. If their exploit is Fixed, they cry foul(*A common thread, and one of the few that connects the two.) and make empty threats.

Maybe we need clarification before we break out the pitchforks?