ImpactHound

This is how it ends(jerk hackin, dupin)

this game is gone to the americans.

Speculation of the identity of the DA ghost is meant to distract you from Nemesis plots, the nature of which is in and of itself a Nemesis plot.

What are the current girlfriend/wife prices in Paragon Points on the Market right now? I couldn't find their listings, and mine was grandfathered in from before the Freedom patch.

Considering one for an alt

I'm still silently intimidated every time I bump into Thor's Assassin in game. I never teamed with him or been his target in pvp, but just knowing he's been in the game for so long...

I was loading into the final "defeat 200 Banished" mission of Dark Astoria on my main for the first time when this happened to me last night. Quite a suspense builder, it was worth the wait today. I'm still geeking out over it.

Get into the global channels and you'll get announcements for them. I'd recommend asking into Justice Badges and HoT; I can't remember for the life of me the actual supergroup that acronym belongs to, but they do them frequently and they're active.

Ouroboros is a godsend. Not that the environment wasn't cool with every 50 being well-known as an elite community in 2004, but MY time in 2004 was spent in warehouse-and-office-building hell. I didn't run every Hellion & Vahzilok arc by choice, I had to because the alternative was struggling through Perez Park without add-on maps and Hydra farms. It's ok to miss that low and mid level stuff because the badges and scaling rewards are incentive enough to backpedal and get them if you're inclined, and they inspire some people like Lycantropus.

I was doing DA and came across Dream Doctor & thought "Oh cool, staffs must have been added, I'll check the Store later!" So I finished the arc and came across this thread, and I shrugged.

I'm suddenly reminded of the Rikti invasions. Do they still happen with no Galaxy City to retreat to?

Star Wars launched with a really atrocious /who window and left people to their own devices with bare-bones interface tools.

I took a two year break from City and have come back on and off, and it's always heart-warming to receive blind invites or tells to do things. And it's rarely to do something hard or intense, just fun normal grouping. I really enjoy the community here.

Tying into obscure content, the newer Shadow Shard exploration badges make a haunting internal monologue when you collect them all and read them back to back. I was pleasantly surprised going back for them to pad my badge count.

If the CoH engine could ever support voice-acting in all missions like I've seen in SWTOR's closed beta, my heart would explode. Their stories are pretty lackluster, but I'd die if a decent voice actor read all the phone calls and discussions contacts have. Especially Portal Corp.

I like that she knows a ton about Incarnates and the Well, but little is known about her. The name Grey and her work with aliens is teasing, but probably coincidental. It's ok, she's satisfying as one of those characters who work best in an air of mystery and are never expanded on; they end up creating threads like these in fallout

I left the game in 2009 to AE broadcast spam looking for farms. I came back to endless Sewer Trial in Help channel. The content added makes up for it though, Incarnate trials are very fun, despite the 'raid objective' windows being so clunky and overflowingly large..

Writing better villain content is definitely harder in the context of the game. There's very few stand-out, villain focused comics in the real world too. Anything Weston Phipps was excellent in Grandville, but there's a strong lack of really 'villainous' content outside of the morality missions and tips. Not that it always requires a choice, but these showcase villainous ends better than most missions.

I've always disliked how great it is to rob a bank as a villain, and not actually get a real windfall of income. I can't really say how big a windfall that should be infamy-wise, and stealth pools sort of trivialize the effort involved, but robbing a bank in this game ought to pay off better than it does. It would offset the hero/villain disparity that's on most servers too.

Reminds me of the Hollows. An awesome, but skippable zone that you aren't led to clearly. Leading new VIP players that got swayed over from Free to it is pretty cool, and people are generally thankful because there is ZERO chance of stumbling into this zone if you didn't know how to get it already. Fighting the GM needs a much more stimulating reward though. The lowbie sewer trial enhancements are awesome and you can sleep through that, but this rewards 5 merits? Come on.

On a side note, the whole "mechanics" window that pops up for complicated things like the Syndicate Event, or Keyes trial or in this case the Seed of Hamidon, are informative but UGLY. I like that these mechanics are going into content to add depth, but the way they strangle my viewing space is deplorable. I really wish the UI was as easily moddable as in WoW, such that someone could take that info and retool it in a less visibly offensive way. It should certainly be an option to default the current window to see every variable in a precise way, but couldn't you trim that entire Hamidon window down to a Hamidon Lifebar running down the right side of your screen, with a colored pip next to that representing each lesser seed buff, and the pips dim and shrink with each kill to illustrate the GM weakening? Likewise Keyes could have Anti-Matter's bar, a 30-sec animated thumbnail of a Rad symbol filling then bursting empty for the Anti-Matter pulse, and a less obtrusive 0/30 and 0/10 counter.

If it's any consolation, I applied for a phone support supervisor position with "x" company back in late August, in anticipation of losing my job at Borders. I get the job, and it turns out they 'over hired' for the position and cancel the 5-week training class I was due to be in. Those classes have typically 15 people, and there were two previous training classes before mine. Lo and behold, over the past month almost a dozen people have quit, were fired, or just became no-call, no-shows and I'm re-hired for a new training class because they're losing call guys left and right. It's not NCSoft I'm joining, but I can just imagine the headache Freedom is for both the customer service and customers(still waiting on my first token.)