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Other locations: I think we'll quite possibly get something with any boxed expansion, but...

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No thanks, revitalise the currently dead zones instead!

/signed

This would be a big QoL improvement and would therefore be worth the effort.

I recently had a discussion about typed and untyped damage, and noted that my DEF(All) abilities seemed to then list all the damage types. To clarify, rather than being actually DEF against all typed and untyped damage (which is what is suggested by the word "ALL", it is actually just DEF against a list of damage types, which does not include untyped.

I think it would be more accurate to list these as DEF(All Typed) instead of DEF(All).

Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick?

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25.13 for the old course. Stinking course!
New course seems impossible, can't get anywhere near gold for that one.

UPDATE:
Thanks to Shiftbreak spamming IR and SB all evening and a few racers to give me some fighting spirit, I got a best of
00:24.88 on the old course. Cigar!
00:50.50 on the new course. Close, but no cigar...

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UPDATE:
Played it on my fire/kin. Both courses are a piece of cake with SS and IR. I still don't get close to the fastest times though. HAXX?
18.38 on the short coursea and
47.13 on the advanced course.

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44.38 on the advanced course.

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Normal sized statues should be much easier to implement. after all we do have the engine to do just that. Just check the tailor for example.

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I am dubious about the "easy" ability to turn a "toon" into a statue. Even in Warhammeronline, they didn't do statues like that. See >HERE<

I draw your attention to exibit (a):
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art was commissioned for statues of every class in game in both male and female varieties (where applicable). With plan in hand, the artists went to work and created some great statues that look very much at home in the cities.

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With less variable character "looks", it seems relatively easy to make statues.

My guess is that in CoH the way to do it might be replicate your toon, meaning your character's body, with all it's dimension changes and all of your costume pieces and make them all the same shade of grey.

Technically doable, particularly at small scale but as you say above - very very difficult to make into a huge statue as pixellation would probably occur at the larger scale. To accomplish large statues you would have to rebuild every costume part in the game at an enormous size.

Just a guess, though, I know nothing about it really.

/unsigned.

Too much effort for too little impact on the game.

THe best times are a whopping 7 seconds faster than us, GG. What is going on?

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25.13 for the old course. Stinking course!
New course seems impossible, can't get anywhere near gold for that one.

UPDATE:
Thanks to Shiftbreak spamming IR and SB all evening and a few racers to give me some fighting spirit, I got a best of
00:24.88 on the old course. Cigar!
00:50.50 on the new course. Close, but no cigar...

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UPDATE:
Played it on my fire/kin. Both courses are a piece of cake with SS and IR. I still don't get close to the fastest times though. HAXX?
18.38 on the short coursea and
47.13 on the advanced course.

Adding some racing track suggestions here:

IDEA 1:
Duel racetrack, so players can race each other. Racers are put in boxes and gates open at the same time so they both set off at the same time.

You can then have the two tracks doing either 1:same tracks side by side, or 2:Completely different tracks which twist and intertwine, but are ultimately the same length and difficulty. The winner is calculated by the computer.

Perhaps provide computer opponents, maybe known heroes/villains?

IDEA 2:
Loop-the-loops and hugely banked bends.

IDEA 3:
A huge free-for-all race where players register at a NPC for the "next race" and then get a countdown... then a barrier raises or disappears or a door opens and out they all pour. The winner is calculated by the computer.

At the very least, there should be more varied ways to get candy canes. I'm farming that one fricken mission over and over...

... and over and over...

...and don't suggest clicking boxes, as I'm not lucky enough to get canes at a quicker rate than by doing the mission.

I've been playing for Halloween and Winter Events 2008, and it seems that more and more things are being added each year for players to do during these times.

Shouldn't the event durations be lengthened to reflect the fact that there's more to do?

25.13 for the old course. Stinking course!
New course seems impossible, can't get anywhere near gold for that one.

UPDATE:
Thanks to Shiftbreak spamming IR and SB all evening and a few racers to give me some fighting spirit, I got a best of
00:24.88 on the old course. Cigar!
00:50.50 on the new course. Close, but no cigar...

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Hell, I even had fun going down the slope...got silver on my first try but no way I was going for that...

Fun does not necessarily mean being the best at something...
(I'll need to stop gaming then...or quit my job...)

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I got silver just by using FLY around the course (old short one), but I'll be damned if I can get close to 25 secs flying or otherwise.

Why not give us a choice of animations for the existing powers?

So you might pick a magical magician waving arms type animation, a tech-arm-panel type animation (already exists), a gadget in hand animation (something like aid other/self thing) or ... well you get the idea, there's loads of things you could do with it, the gist is that we've not got choice in this regard at the moment and would like it.

Which faction is awarding the merits? Shouldn't they be wearing that uniform?

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Rick O'Shay - I've been waiting for AR/Kin to appear as a proliferated powerset since I came up with this name, but It's never happened , so if someone else wants it - it's all yours!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_O'Shay :/

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Does it look any good?

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I refer the honourable person to the post I gave just moments before he/she/it asked this question.

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Questions regarding the Winter Event:

1) Frostbitten Badge
This is a new one, right? There are so many 'frost' badges, I find it hard to keep track - and for some reason I can't get to badge-hunter at the moment. I believe that it is...

2) The Holiday Cheer temp giving 'Winter Themed Hat'
This is the old 'santa hat', right? The one that has been available previously?

3) Ski Challenges
'Enhanced Ski Run' for 2008 - Do with think there will be more badges? Or the same Gold/Silver/Bronze from last time?

4) Holiday Auras
From the way it is written, I assume these are two seperate 'items' to buy?

5) Winter Themed Enhancement Set
I heard this mentioned when people were discussing Mids (the latest version). Is this 'set' shown there?

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All of your questions answered.

When I clicked this thread title I was looking forward to a string of music-hall style jokes.

Icey, icey, icey...

-My wife's gone mad in Venezuela
-Caracas
-Yes, absolutely loopy

-My wife's gone to the Indian coast
-Goa?
-Phwoar! I'll say!

-My mother-in-law has gone to St Petersburg.
-Is she Russian?
-No, she's taking her time.

-My wife's gone to Northern Italy
-Genoa?
-I should think so, We've been married for 20 years.

-My wife's had an accident on a volcano
-Krakatoa? -No.
-She broke her leg.

-My wife's gone to the Welsh border.
-Wye?
-Search me.

-My daughter's gone to the botanical gardens.
-Kew?
-Yes, it was rather busy.

-My wife's gone to Malawi
-Lilongwe?
-Yes, about 5000 miles

-My wife's had an upset tummy in Laos
-Inkhazi?
-Yes, constantly.

-My son's gone on a singing tour of South Korea
-Seoul?
-No, R&B

-My wife caught a cold in the Gulf
-Qatar?
-Yes, she was coughing up greenies for weeks

-My father-in-law had an accident in Slovenia
-Bled?
-like a stuck pig.

-My son's parents are from Croatia
-Split?
-No, they're still happily married.

-My wife went to a very bad concert out East
-Singapore?
-Terrible. Yes, and the rest of the band were rubbish too.

-My daughter went on a sailing course in Poole
-In Dorset?
-Yes, she' d recommend it to anyone.

-My wife smoked a joint near Manchester
-In Hale?

(Copied off http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/jokes/jokes_I_say.htm)

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(Just so you can satisfy your "omg the community's beating me down" expectations - victimhood ftw! )

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Hah! You presume too much.

Just a couple of suggestions, probably already thought of and dismissed by the devs, but here they are for the community to beat down, too;

Enhance ReTick Time
Enhance Radius of Effect

-Bear in mind that you don't have to be able to double the effects with enhancements (as you can with three Damage, Accuracy, Healing enhancements, for example), and could offer less (as with Resist Damage enhancements), or even less that this.

How about changing the chance to psi damage in perfect zinger (taunt) into a chance to blind, instead?

Does that mean anything?

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Power customization. Likelihood of it happening: near 0.

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I think you are wrong.

I refer the honourable person to this interview and specifically these quotes,

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"We've hired some new programmers to look into sprucing up our graphics," Matt answered.

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"Beyond Mission Architect, which is a huge initiative coming in Q1, we have content that I can’t talk about yet," he stated. "But I will say that there are things coming, some of which we have been hinting at, or maybe even flat out denying was even possible, for a long time.

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The general consensus that this is a reference to power customisation, though of course it may not be.

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Icompletely agree with everybody above.

Looking at the need for Stamina in nearly every build, doesn't this suggest a certain balance problem?