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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's "TAH-lohs"!

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--NT

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w00t. I've been pronouncing it right all along.

*does the in your face dance*

Somethign else I was wondering. Is it pssible to slot and IO that would have a 100 precent Proc of changeig the color or the sword or whatever for that power?

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Am I the only one who chuckles everytime someone asks for 'endgame content for 50s'?

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No.

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Seems to me that the ideal way to make the Scoop visible to non-forumers is to put a link to it on the Updater.

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Not really. HEck I bypass the updater most of the time. I only go through it when there is a patch.

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The explanation that the devs gave us as to why power customization was not possible was that the auras and power effects could not be changes, they were 'baked into' the animations themselves.
Of course, redoing the animation without them and adding a way to select which power effects you want and their color and stuff (basically power customizaiton) was possible, technically. But was not realist in term of work load for them.
Now, if there is a way for the player base to give them these animations already done... then, I guess, power customization become doable.
It is one of the most desired feature for the game, from what I read...

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No, the colors for a lot of particles are 'baked in' to the particle's texture. The FX scripts themselves are completely separate from animations. In fact there's a lot of animations that are shared between different powers with entirely different FX.

Power customization has some pretty big hurdles to overcome.

1) Powers currently point to one animation and one set of FX scripts. There's no way in the our engine at this time to have them reference a different animation or different FX without just changing it in the power definition (which changes it for everyone). This isn't a small or insignificant change and without it we literally can't even begin to do costumized FX or animation.

2) Colors in FX are often baked into the particle textures. Most of the time they're not, they use a greyscale texture and tint the color with an RGB value, but there's enough that do use a colored texture that it would require quite a bit of work to overhaul and set everything up for customization. We did test a more global system that could just shift the hue of the entire FX script around the color wheel, but it's not a complete solution to the problem. Namely that FX aren't normalized to a common color, there's no way to dynamically change this 'shift' value, and there's still issues with blend modes.

3) Particle FX most often use an additive blend mode. Additive means that the closer a color is to white (in RBG values), the more opaque it becomes. Secondaries like yellow (255, 255, 0) are more opaque than primaries like red (255, 0, 0). Black (0, 0 ,0) ends up being completely transparent. So to take the Energy Melee FX for example and make a black version or even a dark purple (64, 0, 64) or dark blue (0, 0, 64), we'd have to do more than just shift the RGB values around.

4) Even if the system could accept more than one animation or more than one FX script for a power, we don't have an in game system for allowing the player to choose this themselves. We could make one (probably based off of the costume editor in some way) but it's still another chunk of time to devote to this.

Those are the major issues that I can think of right now, there's other minor little issues here and there but it all adds up to a tremendous amount of dedicated work from multiple departments to pull it off.

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So why can't you make a whole set of "new" powersets? For example. WE have a fire blaster. Why not add Fire-Blue, Fire - Green, Fire - Purple, etc etc. It would be power custimization that would work with this system. For the engines pueposes its a new powerset calling on a specific FX for that powerset useing the animations you guys use. From our end we have green fire.

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You guys should do it in Indianapolis, Indiana. Several reasons why.

Central location in the US. Most travel arrangements will bring you either directly to or VERY close to Indy. (plane, bus, I70, I65, ect...)
Cheaper than Chicago. For every dollar you spend in Indy you'd spend 2 or more in Chicago.
More hotel space than Chicago, and thus, cheaper rates.
More Convention areas. As a city, Indy is used to big conventions, (Star Wars Celabrations, GenCon, Indy500, HUNDREDS more...).
Indy is used to seeing an influx of people for events (see above).
Oh, and Jack's In-Laws live here, so Mrs. Statesman can see mom and dad. And when Mrs. Statesman is happy, EVERYBODY's happy.
Oh, and of course, the best reason....Cause I live there. And I'm poor and want to go, I can afford a 20 min drive.

But yeah, Indy is centrally located, it's cheap, lots of space for cons and lots of hotels.

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Positron (and myself) approve this message.

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PLus I live in Indiana so I approve as well I dont know that I would go though.

I suppose my definiation of a live event diffes from what this poll is about. I concider a live event soemthing that happens in the game. Similar to what MxO used to do before SOE screwed it up.

Eh...It still kidna makes me squirm. I just have a gut feeling that such a thing will only be read by forumites. while a gimmiky litttle thing it wont be really new to those that read it. WE pretty much keep up on updates, patches and whatnot. Now if Positron were to have like an Ask Postiron section that would be new and cool but it would still only attract formites.

I know several people in game who wont goto a forum as a matter of principle. It drives me up a wall. Anyway it's your show. I just dont think makeing it its own forum is the best idea.

I'd rather it not be a forum post. I'd rahter it have more of a newsletter type format complete with pictures and whatnot.

All I can say is Stan and Lou should be a part of the Fan Other submissions I'd be happy to help but I have nothing specific at this time. Only some vague ideas.

You sometimes get rocks as a reward for breaking up weapon deals

Cool. I'll check that out. many thanks.

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Bachelor Party is exactly what I'd call a cinema classic!

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There fixed it for you.

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Um. Did you like go and do brain surgery or somesuch on the guy? How did you fix his likes and dislikes?

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I kinda liked Castaway. Wouldnt want to see it again but I liked it the first time around.

EDIT: Oh and becase it annoys people.
First after Red name! w00t!

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It's only annoying when that's the ONLY thing people say after a redname...

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CURSES!

I kinda liked Castaway. Wouldnt want to see it again but I liked it the first time around.

EDIT: Oh and becase it annoys people.
First after Red name! w00t!

Thanks for the guide. It answers some questions I've had about my Thug/Poison MM

I also enjoyed PLanetside. I'd still play ittoday if I still had Broadband avaialble to me. Can't play it on Dial-up

CoT are everywhere.

You also have Carnies everywhere later in the game.

Nemesis. Malta.

It looks good to me. Sky raiders in the 20's heroside. Clocks and vahz before that.

CoT are just...EVERYWHERE.

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Prisoners should be added to the tech only list. Although only lts and bosses drop salvage. This could be due to prisoners con a rank lower than they actually are. I would speculate that prinsoner lts and bosses would drop at minion and lt rates respectively although I haven't done any testing of this theory.

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Well technically a prisoner could be from either persuation. Are they Ex Sky Raiders or Ex-CoT?

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Yes.

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Okay, fair statement. How is it hypocrisy? This feels akin to your saying "Calling a man who has robbed a bank a bank robber is wrong" to me, and that makes no sense. As Herodotus said, it is no insult to a dead man to say that he is dead. If someone is acting like an [censored]-hat, and everyone recognizes that he is acting like an [censored]-hat, how is pointing out that fact hypocrisy?

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Because dead is a well defined term. Whereas [censored]-hat is not only censoered it is also highly subjective. Your use of the word is engageing in the same activity that is provokeing you to call them a [censored]-hat. I dunno about hypocracy but it certainly a good case of becoming what you behold.

Not to mention in a more dramatic way regarding RV. That backdrop changes as a result of PvP and is something PvEers can only dream about.

I've been working on a system that involves takeing back the city zones from the villains. (Inspired by GTA: San Andreas) My problem is I can't figure out how to do it that owuld be balanced in the PvE game. If it was a simple quesiton of a PvP change it would be absurdly easy and fun.

Content is just so much easier in a PvP enviroemtn because all you have to o is give the players the tools they need. In the PvE game you have to balance it among a thousand different factors and write up AI, missions breifings, etc.

I enjoy both aspects of the game but I think in the long term the OP is right. PvP is just so much more open ended and has a great deal of potential that the PvE game can never have.

I look at the PvP zones and thing they are kinda neat. They have a story around them but that isnt really what PvP is about. PvP is something the players make. I think content like that should be left to the PvE game while the PvP game should just be given the tools to make their world. RV is a great PvP zone. Bloody bay is not.

There will always be a portion of this community that will hate PvP. I dont really see why we need to pander to what they think. Scre em. They wont be happy until PvP is gone. I would prefer a more constructive debate on how to make PvP better.

I tend to look at EVE Online as a good PvP game. VERY open ended. The PvE game is extremely tedious but once you get into the heart of the player community you find something very cool. I really want something like that for CoX. It's not quite there yet and I think alot of the reason is the PvP game is overly restricted.

Heh. No kidding. I thought it was obviously 35+ content.

Aegis REch/Res

End of mission reward. Pool B

So its just for characters specifically?

Whaat kind of information would you be after? Like would you want to know about the final order and how it fits into things on the isles? Thats somethign that is easily subjective to each individual. to me I know how the ored fits in . To another what I concider to be cannon might conflict with someone else