Hobbes

*wave

I'm 36.

I really like the tiger, who is named after the philosopher...


The _NA is not supposed to be there.

I'm playing HL2 for the first time and some Rainbow 6 Vegas 2.

I just bought Mercenaries 2 World in Flames and TimeShift.

After 2 AM...

As others already said, for CoH, Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa, yes right away. I would pay it by the year too.

Otherwise nope I'm not really interested by the other pay to play games.

Thanks a lot for these infos.


Also If you happen to try the new character creator yourself, can you look at the new MA and SS animations? Pretty please?

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I prefer the small, fairly frequent free updates with a fat paid expansion in the pipeline over infrequent but more substantial free updates with nothing else happening.

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I absolutely agree.

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Me too.

For example, I wouldn't mind a space or undersea expansion in late 2010.

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A space expansion in 2010 doesn't strike you as remotely ominous?

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It would be sooo cool!

We would go around Jupiter to poke in old computers, visit Europa's seas under the ice.


And at the end of the last TF, BOOM! LIGHT!

Aaah! Power Customization with a choice of animations would just fix this.

I hope we will get this one day... soon if possible.

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The line of differentiation that I use is this:
Using technology: Tech Origin.
Having Technology fundamentally alter you: Science.

Which one you want to use for your guys is up to you.

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A better distinction in my mind would be that Technology requires constantly using said technology while Science would only require a single application. If the virus hit your character and then disappeared, then the origin would be Science. If the virus hit the character and stayed, and the absence of the virus would remove the powers, then the origin would be Technology.

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*golfclap*

Bravo! That's also my point of view on the subject.


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My main (Umbral Fist) is technology because his blood was replaced with a highly potent, multi-purpose nano-fluid. It rebuilds his body and themselves, speeds up his synapses, stores his memories, and gathers external resources for the body itself. If all of his nanites were removed and the ability for the nanite factory in the base of his skull was nullified, he wouldn't have powers any more (and he would be dead rather quickly because his body can't regenerate or fight off infections on its own).

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Wouldnt a sudden lack of oxygen carrying medium be a more pressing problem then potential cuts and bruises or eventual micro-organisms invasions?

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City of Superpowered Personages who do Good or Evil. But that seems rather cumbersome.

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CSPWDGE?

Errr... how do you pronounce that?


KSSPPWEDGE?

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My friend and I had a long discussion about influence. Here's how I undersand it based on our conversation.

Influence is not money. It's how well known you are and how willing people are to give you things... for free.

Imagine you're actually a superhero and you live in a world where people could help you fight crime by giving you things. You don't walk into a store to BUY gadget DOs. They actually give them to you. For instance, Bill owns the shop and last week you saved his friend from Hellions. He has a business to run and can't give you too much for free. He also has thousands of other heroes coming and going. But you've done him a service, and he's read about you in the newspaper, so you're worth a few free gadgets.

Word of mouth travels fast in CoH, which is why passing NPCs always talk about your exploits. It takes no time at all before people know you got some free stuff. They know you're awesome, but you've already been given things, so you don't need more stuff right now. At least, until you save that shopkeeper's uncle next week. A typical conversation when you're low on influence may sound like "Listen man, I know you're Superman, but I have a family to feed. I gave you all I can spare, but I'm hanging on to some things for Ultradude who destroyed that giant monster yesterday." After you do a big deed, people want to help out.

Why do you get no influence from fighting grays? Because, honestly, the city expects more of you. If you're Superman, they want you to be saving the world from metorites and cosmic death rays, not muggers on the street. There are thousands of heroes in the city who can do that. Get back to work. The exception here is that if you're exemped, you DO get influence. The reasoning here is that you're helping another individual (exemped to a person) or a group of people (task force) using your knowledge and expertise. Superman teaches a new hero how to save the world. There's influence to be had there.

You go to the market. People are still trading things for "free" there. You meet another superhero who invented an awesome invention, and is willing to give it to you. It's SO incredibly awesome and powerful that the city doesn't feel the need to help you out for quite some time, because you're ahead of the game and there are other heroes they need to tend to. As for the inventor who created the awesome gadget, the city says "Wow, that guy totally invented something that helped out SUPERMAN!" and now they're willing to help YOU out.

You find a lowbie friend, and vouch for him. Your influence is now his. Word spreads around town that Superman is supporting and promoting Sidekick Lad. Anyone who wanted to help out Superman should focus their efforts on the new, upcoming hero that Superman is endorsing instead.

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Very nice, well said.

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And yet, it's just a small part of what Inf is.

Even Paragon City, as the busy center of commerce it is, cannot support 17 freaking million parasitic heroes draining shops of their goods all year long...

Manticore does not run around flinging arrows because people like him.

Tony Stark is not flying around on citizens good will.

Nor does Batman or the Fantastic Four.

Nobody gives ammo and grenades to the Punisher when he walk down the street.


Influence / Infamy is also cold hard cash.

And services traded between heroes, gear "borrowed" from the bad / good guys, you taking the time to train, build / upgrade equipment, summon weirdos from another planet or dimension.

It's anything and everything you want it to be, but it's not just one thing.

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Second, and it's a close one, is Siphon Life. "Soul STEAL!"

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Amen to that!


On my Inv / Axe tanker I like to finish with Pendulum, the great massive axe swing. Especially against Nemesis buffing Lts. I'll whittle all of them them down to almost nothing then drop them all at once with one swing.

I also like Cleave if there's 2 of them close by and I can line up the strike.

Sniping a runner is also great. Boom! Headshot!

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They would either need to have a bunch of animations of certain lengths and then allow you to swop out for animations of the same length, or have some way to speed up/slow down animations so that they fit the activation times of the powers.

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Or stick a pause at the begining and/or end to make up the difference.


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Yeah, though that would limit them to only allowing you to choose longer animations, not shorter ones. And look clunky.

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IMHO, they should just make animations of the same length and allow you to choose the one you want from a list. No alterations what-so-ever by the players.

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I used to be a loading cursor. But then I got a faster computer and stopped feeling the need to curse every time I zoned.

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Lol

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Hm... I don't think I've farmed this thread for post count nearly as much as I could.

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don't bother post count badges are being removed in I15

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Not entirely.. You'll still get the first post count badge just for logging on to the forum and post one post.

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Fix't for you.

Post count is the number of post you made, not read.

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Get rid of upkeep altogether.

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QFT!

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Typically, gingerale mixed with fruit juice from concentrate (orange, grape, or Fruitopia Strawberry Passion Awareness. Dunno what hellhole you live in, PK, but here in the real world (aka 'Canada' ), Fruitopia is still going strong- to the point that I just kind of stared at your post in incomprehension for a while)

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QFT!

I have 1 empty Fruitopia Fruit Integration and 1 Strawberry Passion Awareness 2L right here...

I drink many kind of fruits mixes, like Tropicana or Oasis.

I also drink ice tea, I just love the Arizona Ice Tea. They have them huge cans for 99 cents and now that I looked for their website, I saw new flavors... Gah must find them!

I also drink soda, Coke or Pepsi most of the time.

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I can think of only one type of customization that would truly require an entire expansion and gobs of developer man hours to produce... especially if conversations at Comic Con last year still hold any water...

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Yep.
Given the weight of circumstantial evidence we have this far out I'll be shocked if power customization isn't a feature of GR.

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Keep your hopes down Boys and Girls...

If they do make Power Customization a reality, you'll be happier.

If they dont make Power Customization a reality, you wont be as disappointed...


I will believe in Power Customization once I have used it myself. Before that it's still pipedream.

Plus, to me, just changing colors is kind of meh... I want to change animations too.

Damnit Lady, dont say the C word just like that...


My first idea was that it was about power customization...


Anyway now I cant wait to see the other goodies we'll get, more options is always great.


And since the article also talk about costume change emotes, I'll mention that I like to delude myself into thinking that I made the thread / post in S&I that inspired this feature. You are welcome.