Jester

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The pain...I feel so lost....lost....Lost...oh nooooos more withdrawal.....

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I hear ya.

BTW, the new Stan and Lou page over at w00t Studios will be up soon.

That is mighty impressive... holy crap Des!

lol Nice

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SG Name: Department of Inter-Dimensional Defense (DoIDD)
SG Leaders: @Black Mute, @DJ Jester, @Katin, @Flamechill.
SG Website (if any):www.doidd.com
SG Perferred Recruitment Method: Post in our Recruitment Forum so that a Field Agent can contact you ingame.
Teamspeak/Ventrillo Server: We use Teamspeak during teaming events.
SG Peak Hours: Evenings Eastern
Other Info: We've been around in game for over a year now, we are currently around 120 players strong spreading over six supergroups of characters.

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Founded in March, 2004 during the CoH Beta, The Department Of Inter-Dimensional Defense is very happy to announce we're still going strong with a brand new website, 80+ registered members, Large SG base with all the trimmings, small Altgroup base used for Transportation (all beacons to all zones), and 2 level 50 charcter SG's.

We run a regular teaming night where players have started together from level 1 and are now in their mid 40's by playing 2 hours twice a week together in a full team of 8.

Our Villains group is located on the Protector Server to allow us as many heroes slots on Justice as possible.

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Addressing a few things I've seen on this thread:

1. There is no debt during invasions. The Rikti might down you during a lag spike, but it's painless beyond a free trip to the hospital. If it's absolutely unbearable, try leaving the zone or entering a mission.

2. Invasion Rikti personally scale to level like Giant Monsters do, so any characters level-suitable to Kings Row (for instance) aren't going to see any level 40 Rikti stomping about.

3. Frankly, level 40 characters shouldn't be running to Kings Row to fight invaders in the first place if we're really serious about how irritating the lag is. My very first invasion (possibly THE first invasion) was in Skyway with an alt that scaled with the zone and I had a blast. Zero issues. There were some other heroes around but not scads and scads, as other alerts had been going off nearly simultaneously.

Since then, I might as well be a civilian for all the good my powers do in these invasions. Sitting in Cap Au Diablo with my level 14 Corruptor watching a level 39 Mastermind smite foes isn't my idea of a good time. Try sticking to zones suitable for your level and perhaps we might not experience all of the claymation. There are heaps more lower level alts around than higher, anyhoo. Help yourself along with others.

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Actually I was in AP when there was an invasion, there were relatively few people in the zone and it was still a slideshow...there's something else wrong, its not just the massive amounts of players trying to defend the zone.

I have to toss my voice in...

Issue 10 and the Sonics grahpics changes actually brought me back to Paragon City as a full time player for the first time since Issue 5.

I created a new troller a couple weeks ago in anticipation of the new Sonic's graphics and love (despite the complaints of others) how Sonic Dispersion, Sonic Cage, and the other graphics look. To me they're dead on perfect.

I got to play with the Warzone last night and pounded through the first story arc with a team of 8. It was quite fun and the new Rikti Maps look very cool. Playing on my stone tank was a bit annoying though b/c the maps have a LOT of little itty bitty curbs that you can't walkover while in rooted or Granite Armor.

It was a frustration for sure.

The biggest problem I saw was the ADMIN spam. As I've seen many other folks comment on, this was just a bad idea from the start. How can teams function and communicate when the ADMIN channel is forced on every tab.

I realize that we're not supposed to be able to turn it off but they need to make it so that the game allows us to turn it off in all but one tab.. at one point last night during an invasion on Justice it got to the point where all of my Supergroup/Coalition chat died b/c no one could keep up with the spam.

There is no easy solution to this but it needs to be the top priority to fix. You can't destroy our only means of communication and think its ok to push live. This really doesn't sit on the realm of minor inconvenience.. its not just a quality of life issue, this is an issue that halts the ability of groups to function in game.


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I've just found and read Positron's post on this issue.. perhaps instead of trying to make the Admin channel a seperate channel you simply filter it out so it only displays in the default tabs? Tabs that users create are often for team/sg or global channels so if those tabs are ADMIN free the rest would be something that would be easier to deal with.
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Also, has anyone gotten some costume drops yet? I'm curious if they seem more often to anyone. The drops I got last night totaled to 4 IO recipies over the course of the 3 hours we played the first arc of the RWZ.

SO! Bets on how long it takes before Stan and Lou hijack a Rikti Destroyer??

I can see it now... a Rikti destroyer raining down tomatos instead of bombs... ahh the sheer glory of it all!

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New Stan and Lou is now also posted at w00t Radio's Stan and Lou page!

http://stanandlou.w00tradio.net

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Your link goes to an antiques page. Fixed it.

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Thats what I get for posting in the early morning. Thanks.

New Stan and Lou is now also posted at w00t Radio's Stan and Lou page!

http://staandlou.w00tradio.net

Its on w00t Radio now and OMG>... one of the best ones EVAR!!!!

Its now on the Stan and Lou page at w00t Radio.

http://stanandlou.w00tradio.net

Hertz how did you get Bill Gates to play 3l33t Haxx0rz?

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Not those voices, no. Right now I'm playing a lawyer from Mississippi, who works in Memphis. Previously, I've played an Egyptian stockbroker, a London military sergeant, and a New York humor columnist. I've also played a sultan, an oily Russian diplomat, and a Hispanic fire chief.

But I've never used these voices before. I have quite a few voices, you see...

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So are you Mel Blanc and Lorne Chumley's love child?

ROFLMAO ...

"Be on the lookout for a guy with arms and legs..."

Btw... 21 is now available on the w00t Radio Stan and Lou page.

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No, but there is an uncanny resemblance between Statesman and DJ Otto Plair... (perhaps it explains Otto's attitude)

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Now I'm not going to say that they are infact the same person, however I am going to say that there is no conspi..........................






























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*bright flash*

I'm sorry what was I doing again?

LOL GOLD... Absolute gold!

BTW Folks Episode 20 is on w00t Radio for your listening pleasure.

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I think of the ones I've heard so far, the Warehouse is my favorite.

"Does radiation go 'woo woo woo'?"

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My favorite line so far is "Stan if Brains was a superpower yours would have to be a toggle b/c they aint always on..."

Errr and uhhh sorry for screaming in your ear...

Ya totally caught me off guard.

Nice Killbot. Just as an FYI on our server situation, we're comfortably set to handle 1200 listeners tonight so I don't think there will be ANY problems what so ever.

Our listen links will randomly pick a server out of the 5-6 we have available, if for some reason it can't connect it should automatically move you to the next one in line.

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It was when X was on, and everything on my end is set properly. Didn't mean to sound rude.

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I didn't notice any distortion then.. although my bosses were here and I had to keep the music low..

I'll be home and taking over in about 45 minutes.

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Someone at w00t radio needs to adjust the gain on their broadcast...the distortion is quite annoying.

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Perhaps you need to adjust something on your system b/c I'm listening to DJ Screaming Lord right now and not getting a single bit of distortion.

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When I logged on to the Test Server this morning the free Tailor visit hadn't been added. I assume that will happen later today - if it hasn't been added already.

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What free tailor visit?

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Would your hero go clubbing in their tights?

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You're asking the wrong group questions like that.

Dude...

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yeah but Athyna, I wasn't asking if the players would go in their tights.. I was asking if their Characters would go...

But yea I know it was a loaded question

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So, we have to wear tights while playing our characters that are wearing street clothes?

Who thinks this stuff up?!?!?!

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What are you talking about? Its what you told me to post last night!

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Would your hero go clubbing in their tights?

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You're asking the wrong group questions like that.

Dude...

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yeah but Athyna, I wasn't asking if the players would go in their tights.. I was asking if their Characters would go...

But yea I know it was a loaded question

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Costume Theme: ‘Secret Identity’ – Dress like your alter ego secret identity!

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What if we don't have one?

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Stuff your character in street clothes. Would your hero go clubbing in their tights?