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Ericson,

I am sorry for your loss. I have a couple cats myself, and I love them, I love animals in general, including dogs, (just don't have time to give one a good home right now.) and it is very sad to lose them.

It's a special bond between an animal and it's human companion, and it's sad when that companion is no longer there. Anyway, I feel for you and I hope your heart ache dulls soon, though I will say I looked up the image and that was one nice looking pooch, I want one like that when I am out of school and have more time to properly care for a dog.

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Didnt stalker players freak out when they buffed your dmg and then in a consequent buff, buffed the PvP res?



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Yes we did, but to be fair we were so used to sucking that when we actually started doing damage and being okay, it felt really broken.

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Doom crying has never been my thing since it is so hard to laugh and convince people of the end of the world at the same time.

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I've had that same problem, maybe share tips with how you over came that? I may like to do some doom crying at some point.

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You'll forget who your allies are and the entire City of Universe will become one big co-op zone! Dogs and cats living together! Mass Hysteria!

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Not only was that a great use of a Ghost Busters reference, but I find the idea of the entire City of game becoming one big co-op zone a little scary now, well played.

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Starting out a character in the Praetorian world? Extra-planar DOOOOOOM!!... Dear lord, I have alt-itis!! We'll all spend so much time playing these duplicates that we'll all not have time to work, eat or sleep! The player base will all die of starvation and the game will end as we know it!

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I too have Altidos and I am now wondering if I should gorge until Going Rogue comes out and save up lots of cash so I can live for months without eating or going to work, just to be on the safe side. Also bonus "win" points for "Extra planar doom."


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MA Tickets? Skee-Ball DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Soon they'll replace all music in the game with the Carnival calliope sound track because every zone will be one big Chuck-E-Cheese sponsored carnival game zone!

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Not sure if that was a direct nod to In game advertising doom or not, but certainly the thought of all the music replaced by calliope sounds is making me quite a bit afraid. Also, more points for "Skee ball doom"... And for pointing out that we have too many type of tickets.

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MA Badges? Deletion DOOOOOM!! One day, I will open up my childhood scrap book and find all my boy-scout merit badges missing... only a note will be between the pages reading "Sorry, but we had to nerf these... Synapse."

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What happens if I wasn't a boy scout?

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Ponies? Doom with hooves.


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Word!

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Epic Archetypes? Uber-Powahed DooOOooOOooOOm!! ... Infinity Archetypes who can shatter an entire continent with one punch. One missed foot stomp and we don't have anything left to stand on. Just sayin'... don't come crying to me.

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Friggin genius. Made me laugh out loud and more bonus points for "Ubah powered doom"

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Champions Online and DCU? Competitive Market DOOOOOOM!! First one will offer Arch-Nemesis. Then one will raise with Power Customization. Then one will come out with complete character creation details. One will offer a free figurine of your first created hero. Another will counter with a free sized cosplay costume of your first. Finally they will all create a machine that will actually GIVE you super powers so you can live the game for real! Anarchy will sweep the streets as the three companies create massive super-powered armies and wage war against one another! The world governments will send out nuclear missiles in an effort to maintain order only to irradiate the entire planet, creating mutant zombies who feast on the living.... we all die in horrific cataclysm and the cockroaches inherit the earth!!!


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So worth it to have a chance to have super powers for even a short while.


All in all I give this post 9.8 Dooms out of 10.

Also about 127 "Forum point tickets"

Wow, I must be playing my PB wrong, because it isn't as uber as what people are talking about here.

Diet dew and Diet Dr. Pepper. Had to stop drinking the regular kind I was gaining too much weight.

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[*]Power Sets - Should we expect JUST Pistols and Demon Summoning in this expansion? Or are there several other powersets or some power proliferation coming with this expansion? I don't mean to sound ungrateful. Two entirely new sets is big for a free issue release. But then again, CoV brought about over a dozen new powersets upon its release.

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Going Rogue is a paid expansion like CoV was, it will not be free.

I would guess more power sets than just the two announced, but I have as much information as you right now, (IE not much) So you're guess is as good as mine.

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Your Mind/Fire will serve you well. Mind/* is a fantastic control primary and */Fire is among the best in single target and AoE damage (if not THE best). After you kick the dickens out of every challenge the game throws at you with this pairing, challenge yourself and roll something a little off the beaten path.

Rumor has it these combos are fun, effective and not FoTM.

1. Ice/Psi

2. Earth/Thorn

3. Fire/Nrg


Bon Apetite

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Is Mind\Fire a FoTM? If so it'd be my first, I have a habbit of somehow always picking some of the weakest sets for an AT when I first start with them. (I always find out way too late.)

I kind of picked Mind\Fire because those were really the only two power sets that appealed to me that I haven't tried some other version of.

So what's the deal with dominators? They seem like Offensive Control\Offense, but why are they so popular?

Whats the deal with perma domination?

Any tips on how to play them etc?

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I have a sneaky suspicion that "Power Customization" is goign to end up a jazzed up version of "Costume Change Emotes."

Open the power Info Tab, select one of 3 or 4 preset "emotes" and then that emote replaces the power animation up to the point where it "fires."

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This is more than I'm hoping for (this is what I expect, at best, from COs "Full Power Customization"). Being able to choose from a selected list of animations for each power would be amazing, and unlikely. I don't think Champions is going to be able to pull it off despite the promises (at least, not at launch, even in September).

My only expectation of Power Customization here is the ability to change the colors of the powers. (This is is also what I expect, at worst, from CO's Power Customization).

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All I really want from any power customization is the ability to make it any color I choose. I don't mind the animations and I don't need to be able to make fire shoot from my forhead or the middle of my back, but I would like to make my energy blast red, or purple, or white or tie die or something.

Hey guys,

So I have been playing for going on 42 months (Officially at least.) And I have toyed with every archetype in the game, most of them at least twice, except dominators.

I had a grav dominator a while back but made a grav controller and experimented with that instead. I never really got into Dominators before now but recently rolled a Mind\Fire Dom, and I was basically looking for some tips.

Seems like there are a lot of loyal Dominator users out there, so I figured I'd see what's up and if anyone has suggestions on Dominators in general, I'd love to see them.

Thx.

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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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The Dev's read the boards... Their has been rampant speculation (Well founded in my opinion) about Power customization since the Going Rogue announcement. They can't have missed that and I'm sure they have gotten some PMs over it. Add to that the last paragraph of this dev diary definately points in that direction.

The Devs have to know this is the conclusion people will draw and I can't imagine they are going to keep making hints like that and the finally say. "Ohh, you get new auras and a new poodle purse option". They are going to end up with a lot of dissapointed fans if they keep up hints like these and don't nip power customization speculation in the bud. I just can't believe they would let the speculation go like this on such a majorly requested feature then not deliver it.

Ohh guys seriously? I can't believe you are all missing the obvious.

The map is a Nemesis plot.

Hero side has more zones, more content and not the same 2 arcs over and over for new heroes.

Hero side zones, are also a lot more varied, have more range to them and look unique. I can tell the moment I log in what zone I am in even if I didn't see on the log in screen what zone I was in.

Red side, Mercy - St. Martial all look ridiculously alike. Not completely but there are too many areas where the same gray drab buildings appear no different than the same gray drab buildings of any other zone. Also perma gray and drab isn't all that fun after a while.

Hero side also feels way more heroic, than Villain side does villainous.

I play my "Destined One" villains, who all are simply tools for Arachnos only to have every freaking 2 bit contact I meet talk down to my villainous "destined one" no matter how powerful. I'm sorry but am I playing a Super Villain or a low level goon, because that is how the char is treated by the contacts.


In all honesty, Villain side has some good stuff. The Archetypes are a lot of fun and they do have some really good mission arcs. Though they have some bad ones too. I just object to this whole idea of one side being better than the other, they are both different and both have good things and bad things about them, but if you are going to sit here and gripe about why blue side sucks, let's mention some of the short comings of red side while we are at.

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In addition to the overall buff, is it possible you've gotten a move speed buff without noticing it? The Independence Port Safeguard mission gives a move buff and so does one of the Mystic Fortune effects.

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Wouldn't that show in real numbers though?

I mean, according to the real numbers, I am flying as fast as I should be. about 3mph below the cap. The character feels like she is traveling faster, but like I said, it may be in my head. But it seems like the power Icon part that says 96 MPH is a well known bug, so I'm not worried about it, and thanx guys.

Okay. Good to know. My main still feels like she is flying a bit faster than normal, but maybe I'm just imagining it.

I just logged into Virtue with my main Level 50 Blaster. She uses Fly as her travel power. I noticed she seemed to be flying faster than usual. She has the full "Freebird" level 50 set and usually travels around 55 MPH with swift and what ever.

Real numbers says im still doing 55 MPh, but the fly power at the top right, when I right click it, it says

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Fly
Toggle: Self Fly
Flying Speed +96.42 MPH

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I don't normally look at the power's stats. But I don't think it should be giving me + 96MPH should it? That's well above the cap, and doesn't match what real numbers are telling me.

Is this a bug or just something weird with the numbers I failed to notice before?

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Whatever everyone speculates here, remember one thing. Look at the page with the trailer for the expansion. Look at the bottom of the page. Cryptic logo=Cryptic game engine.

Keep that in mind.

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No.

Sorry but the Devs have said before, they left the Cryptic logo in the game and on the site because Cryptic helped develop the game, that is pretty much it. They have full rights to the game now, they can do what they want and they don't have to keep the Cryptic engine if they don't want to.

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Graphical update = Power customization.

Mark your calenders so you can look back to this post when you see I am right.

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or you can look back further, to the announcement thread where a bunch of other people (myself included) called power customization.

predicting the obvious isn't much to hang your hat on.

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I was one of those bunches of people.

I was one of those bunches of people several times.

I am predicting it right and left.

This whole thing reeks of horrible make up product placement.

Graphical update = Power customization.

Mark your calenders so you can look back to this post when you see I am right.

Okay, i find it amusing that anyone might think it's the firewall, sorry. The random Roll is calculated on the server, and the results are then sent to you. The server decides the results and puts the item in your character's inventory, all that happens on your end, is you see what the server picked for you. So unless your firewall has hacked the server and is trying to sabotage you, then no..

I've litterally rolled 5 or 6 LotG 7.5s in the time Ive played this game. All of those were back when the task forces themselves rewarded the roll, before the merits. I figured I was pretty lucky for those, but then count the fact that I have rarely found any other good recipes, good salvage or any costume piece recipes, it all evens out.

Unless some one hacks the game and include a virus in the auto updated... And the developers completely miss it. And it goes through the test servers and no one notices anything, then it goes live and the virus is downloaded through the update....

You know, I was going to right out this thing of , if such and such events happen then it could, theoretically be possible. But as I write this, thinking the the number of things that would have to happen for a virus to get packed into that game.. No it's not possible.

Also don't donwload unknown materials from the boards and youll be fine.

Thanx for everything Mids. Thank you for passing the torch, and Steiner, look forward to seeing your work!

The mystery is solved, thank you.

Now knowing that all those civilians are Supers in disguise, maybe I won't be obsessively compelled to stop every purse snatching and mugging I see...

I try to stay as high up off the streets or run through them as fast as I can for a reason, and not just to get to point B faster.

Male Face 18 has a scar on it, I think this should be changed to a "scarred face" instead of just a generic one.

Right on battlebabe, this has annoyed me since I started playing my second toon. I know where the hollows are, I know where perez park is and I have no interest in any of the PVP zones, stop wasting my time you worthless contacts!