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Quote:A strategy that works best when you're a sleuthing dog with a stoned companion. Though it helps to have some large Ali Baba baskets nearby as a fallback just in case.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
Run around a corner and they'ld be like huh where he go?
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PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Gen. K Onjob
Heroesway House
Grandville
Rogue Isles - c/o Nigeria
25th August, 2009.
Salutations Mr Tow!
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
I am top hero of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of advanced rikti-fight weapons into our country with funds which are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us RECIEVE the said trapped funds ABROAD.
The source of this fund is as follows : During the regime of our past beloved leader, President Marchand, the government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various Ministries. The NEW Arachnos Government set up a Contract Review Advisory Panel (C.R.A.P) and we have identified a lot of inflated contract funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Arachnos-Nigeria (C.B.A.N).
However, due to our position as terrible ebil villains, I mean civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look for an Overseas partner whose ACCOUNT CAN ASSIST the sum of INF 1,900,000,000.00 (One Billion and Nine Hundred Million INF) to be moved via the CONSIGNMENT HOUSES. Hence we are writing you this letter.
We have agreed to share the money thus:
60% for us (the officials)
30% for the FOREIGN PARTNER (you)
10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses, including but not limited to Wentworths/Black Market fees.
Sadly due to the tight restrictions upon our resources we are needing half of the 10% CONSIGNMENT HOUSE FEES in advance from an external source in order to commit all the transactions. This means we need 5% (INF 95,000,00.00) to enable us to move our funds and pay you back INF 665,000,000.00 (35%) WITHIN 10 DAYS.
It is from this 60% that we wish to commence the importation business.
Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope THAT THE FUNDS CAN ARRIVE YOUR ACCOUNT in latest ten (10) banking days from the date of reciept of the following information by PM/TELL: GENERAL K.ONJOB and TRADE INF 95,000,000.00 TO THE SAME ACCOUNT (GENERAL K.ONJOB) and then we can perform the CONSIGNMENT HOUSE TRANSACTIONS and subsequently INF 665,000,000.00 WILL BE PAID TO YOUR ACCOUNT BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER.
A SUITABLE NAME AND GLOBAL ACCOUNT INTO WHICH THE FUNDS CAN BE PAID. PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO RESPOND BY TELL OR PRIVATE MESSAGE.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way we will use your company's name to apply for payments and re-award the contract in your company name.
We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction.
Please acknowledge receipt of this letter using the above TELL/PM Details. I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when I have heard from you.
Yours Faithfully,
GENERAL K.ONJOB @MAJOR_SCAM
PS - You can trust us entirely, Mr Tow. There is definitely no need to contact any GMs about this. -
The MMORPG.COM article mentions 'improvements' to AE that are all already in-game...
Quote:Since the reporter was given a tour of 'new features' by the devs I'm wondering what new bits are actually coming that have been misreported (maybe even just a new batch of dev choices?) or whether the reporter just got hideously confused.Architect Entertainment also will receive some improvements with Issue 16. Some AE missions will fall under the category of Developer Choice Missions. These missions will embody those elements the developers feel make excellent missions, and will be deemed outstanding by the developers. In Developer Choice Missions, the players will be able to select whether the rewards dropped are salvage and enhancements, or AE tickets. Developers Choice Missions are always chosen by the developers, but there is a Hall of Fame category for AE missions which are completely player chosen. The Hall of Fame will make it much easier for the favorite missions to be found. -
Quote:Only NA server downtime has been announced - and usually, iirc, any patches/issues/hamster-surgery is done on all the servers. I'd guess that the NA extended downtime may not result in any noticeable changes ingame, except possibly less lag problems (if it's linked to the dxp problems some servers had). So I'd guess option 1 is out.Originally Posted by Kryhavoc
Since no one else has mentioned it (that I saw), I am gonna bite the bullet with two possible options.
1. He will announce that I16 is going live on Monday (hence the announced downtime).
2. He will announce open beta on I16.
2b. He will announce the 'Go Live' date of I16.
I16 'go live' is theoretically dependent on I16 open beta (assuming that there is one) - so 2b is out.
It could easily be I16 open beta news.
Though it could also be linked to GR - and since the loyalty scheme subscription period has now started it wouldn't really surprise me if some more GR tidbits (and possibly anticipated beta schedule) were announced soon. -
Quote:It's not actually a RNG that's used, it's a system based upon the observation of buses.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I will go months without seeing a purple drop and then I will get several in a short period.
I know we never see buses at Paragon bus stops, but I'm sure that one day 3 will turn up at once. -
I'm reposting this checklist for the memorisation badges. I'd saved a local copy from the European boards a year or 2 back and the original appears to have been wiped from the boards. I don't actually know who the original poster was - so sorry for not crediting you if you're still playing with us!
I've searched the current boards and can't find a guide to the badges that's as easy and handy to use as this one - and after people were asking about the badges on a EU global channel I thought I'd repost this!
Here is the original post:
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As I badge-hunt on a few characters, I collated this information to make it easier for myself to keep track of which basic IO enhancements I have made, what ingredients I need for each, etc. I hope that this information lay out may also prove useful to others.
There are a total of 45 'Memorization' badges. I'll begin with an explanation to how these Badges are gained.
Once you have made enough basic IO enhancements, you gain a badge, which means you no longer need the recipe, and the crafting cost is halved for making those enhancements in future. At that point, you should be much more able to make a profit selling enhancements you make to cover the millions you spent getting the badges. [IMG]file:///C:/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/IMG]
For example, to gain the memorization Warhead badge (Damage and Knockback IO's) you need to have made 8 Level 25, 8 Level 30, and one more of either Level 25 or 30 ( 8 + 8 + 1 = 17 enhancements in all. ) It doesn't matter if the IO enhancements you craft are Damage or Knockback - both count - just that they are of the requisite Level(s).
Once you have made those 17 Damage/Knockback IO enhancements, you can craft Level 25 or 30 Damage or Knockback enhancements at half usual crafting cost, no recipe required.
In addition to being able to memorize the recipes, you can also gain bonus slots to your characters maximum carrying capacity of Invention Salvage and Recipes. Every Level 25/30 Badge grants you +2 Max Invention Salvage capacity, and every Level 45/50 Badge grants you +1 Max Recipe carrying capacity, meaning from these you can gain 18 extra spaces for invention salvage and 9 extra spaces for recipes. They don't effect the space in your characters personnel storage vault.
Also, there is an Accolade power available, 'Fabricator': if you gain all the Level 10, 15/20, 25/30, 35/40 Badges below (you don't need the 45/50 Badges for the Accolade), and the Master Craftsman badge (for making 1000 enhancements/base components/items), you can summon an invention worktable to you, that anyone can use, for 5 mins, once every hour - and I agree thats not great lol, but it'll probably be quite a 'status symbol' for us Badgehunters. [IMG]file:///C:/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/IMG]
Below is my collated list, with the ingredients needed for each enhancement in that badge 'set' by recipe levels. Copy and paste this and print out as needed. [IMG]file:///C:/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/IMG]
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Badges for Accuracy / ToHit Buff
Major 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Lt. Colonel 15 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Colonel 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Major General 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
General 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Accuracy 10-25: Luck Charm + Boresight
30-40: Alchemical Silver + Scientific Theory
45-50: Fortune + Mathematic Proof
ToHit Buff 10-25: Runebound Armour + 2x Boresight
30-40: Improvised Cybernetic + Inert Gas + Scientific Theory
45-50: Fortune + 2x Silver
Badges for Confuse / Defence DeBuff / Taunt / ToHit Debuff
Declining 10 [_][_]
Decaying 15 [_] - 20 [_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Despoiler 25 [_][_] - 30 [_][_]
Dismantler 35 [_][_] - 40 [_][_] - 35 or 40 [_]
Retrograde 45 [_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_] - 45 or 50 [_]
Confuse 10-25: Brass + Computer Virus + Human Blood Sample
30-40: Alchemical Silver + 2x Masterwork Weapon
45-50: Hydraulic Piston + Regenerating Flesh + Spirit Thorn
Defence DeBuff 10-25: Brass + Computer Virus + Runebound Armor
30-40: Circuit Board + Inert Gas + Masterwork Weapon
45-50: Ceramic Armour Plate + Demonic Threat Report + Hydraulic Piston
Taunt 10-25: Brass + Human Blood Sample + Simple Chemical
30-40: Rune + Spell Ink + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: Demonic Threat Report + Fortune + Regenerating Flesh
ToHit DeBuff 10-25: Boresight + Computer Virus + Luck Charm
30-40: Circuit Board + Demonic Blood Sample + Improvised Cybernetic
45-50: Ceramic Armor Plate + Fortune + Temporal Analyzer
Badges for Damage / Knockback
Mutionist 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Weaponeer 15 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Warhead 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Arms Dealer 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Lord of War 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Damage 10-25: Brass + Inanimate Carbon Rod
30-40: Iron + Masterwork Weapon
45-50: Demonic Threat Report + Kinetic Weapon
Knockback 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Brass + Clockwork Winder
30-40: Circuit Board + Demonic Blood Sample + Masterwork Weapon
45-50: Hydraulic Piston + 2x Kinetic Weapon
Badges for Defence Buff / Intangibility / Resist Damage
Armourer 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Guardian 15 [_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Protector 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Security 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 35 or 40 [_]
Defensive 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Defence Buff 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Luck Charm + Runebound Armour
30-40: Alchemical Silver + 2x Rune
45-50: Ceramic Armour Plate + Fortune + Ruby
Intangibility 10-25: Computer Virus + Inanimate Carbon Rod + Spiritual Essence
30-40: Alchemical Silver + Ancient Bone + Circuit Board
45-50: Mathematical Proof + Spirit Thorn + Temporal Tracer
Resist Damage 10-25: 2x Runebound Armour + Simple Chemical
30-40: 2x Improvised Cybernetic + Rune
45-50: 2x Ceramic Armour Plate + Nevermelting Ice
Badges for Endurance Modification / Endurance Reduction
Energy Conversationist 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Battery Powered 15 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_][_]
Nulcear Powered 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Mystically Powered 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 35 or 40 [_]
Perpetual 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Endurance Modification 10-25: Simple Chemical + Spell Scroll + Spiritual Essence
30-40: Demonic Blood Sample + Inert Gas + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: Mathematical Proof + Ruby + Spirit Thorn
Endurance Reduction 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Spell Scroll
30-40: Inert Gas + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: Nevermelting Ice + Silver
Badges for Interrupt Time / Recharge Rate
Trigger Man 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Hired Gun 15 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Hit-Man 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Sniper 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Sharpshooter 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Interrupt Time 10-25: Clockwork Winder + Inanimate Carbon Rod + Luck Charm
30-40: Circuit Board + Iron + Spell Ink
45-50: Hydraulic Piston + Mathematical Proof + Temporal Analyzer
Recharge Rate 10-25: Clockwork Winder + Computer Virus
30-40: Circuit Board + Spell Ink
45-50: Hydraulic Piston + Temporal Analyzer
Badges for Heal
Medicator 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Mender 15 [_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Rebuilder 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Revivifier 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 35 or 40 [_]
Reanimator 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Heal 10-25: 2x Human Blood Sample + Spiritual Essence
30-40: 2x Ancient Bone + Demonic Blood Sample
45-50: 2x Regenerating Flesh + Spirit Thorn
Badges for Fear / Hold / Immobilize / Sleep / Snare / Stun
Blinding 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Beguiler 15 [_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_]
Charming 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Charasmatic 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 35 or 40 [_]
Mezmerizer 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Fear 10-25: Brass + Human Blood Sample + Spiritual Essence
30-40: Ancient Bone + Masterwork Weapon + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: 2x Demonic Threat Report + Kinetic Weapon
Hold 10-25: Human Blood Sample + 2x Simple Chemical
30-40: 2x Demonic Blood Sample + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: Mathematical Proof + Regenerating Flesh + Ruby
Immobilise 10-25: Spell Scroll + Inanimate Carbon Rod + Computer Virus
30-40: Inert Gas + Iron + Rune
45-50: Nevermelting Ice + Regenerating Flesh + Temporal Tracer
Sleep 10-25: Clockwork Winder + Inanimate Carbon Rod + Luck Charm
30-40: Ancient Bone + Iron + Spell Ink
45-50: Mathematical Proof + Nevermelting Ice + Temporal Tracer
Snare (Slow) 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Clockwork Winder + Spell Scroll
30-40: Improvised Cybernetic + Spell Ink + Stabilized Mutant Genome
45-50: Fortune + Hydraulic Piston + Nevermelting Ice
Stun 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Boresight + Inanimate Carbon Rod
30-40: Inert Gas + Iron + Spell Ink
45-50: Ceramic Armour Plate + Kinetic Weapon + Silver
Badges for Fly Speed / Jump / Range / Run Speed
Pilgrim 10 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Vagabond 15 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 20 [_][_][_][_][_][_] - 15 or 20 [_]
Wanderer 25 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 30 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 25 or 30 [_]
Walks the Earth 35 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 40 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Nomad 45 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_] - 50 [_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_][_]
Fly Speed 10-25: Spell Scroll + Spiritual Essence
30-40: Ancient Bone + Scientific Theory
45-50: Ruby + Spirit Thorn
Jump 10-25: Luck Charm + Simple Chemical
30-40: Improvised Cybernetic + Scientific Theory
45-50: Spirit Thorn + Silver
Range 10-25: Spiritual Essence + Simple Chemical + Boresight
30-40: Rune + 2x Scientific Theory
45-50: 2x Ruby + Silver
Run Speed 10-25: Ancient Artifact + Boresight
30-40: Alchemical Silver + Improvised Cybernetic
45-50: Nevermelting Ice + Silver
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I hope others find this useful. -
Good luck on the course, take care and hopefully we'll see you back in no time!
I still owe you a beer sometime for my secret identity badge for Omega Sektor. -
Quote:Had no idea. Must fire up the client and have a look around.Originally Posted by Vox_Doom
I'm sure many of you know this already
EDIT: Well after best part of 30min searching I've come to the conclusion that maybe, just maybe, the surname that's very similar to mine but has one letter wrong may well be 'me'... It does look like a possible error if the names were handwritten at any point. Oh well - maybe I better consider changing my name in RL.
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Yup - Got that mysef a few times in the past hour.
A lot of 500 Internal Server Errors... -
Quote:Hmmm... Mentor tetris gone. Virtually any player being eligible to join any team for any mission. Exemped characters able to earn xp (and possible not take as big a hit on their powers as they do now).Originally Posted by Positron
The second feature is what we have come to call Super-Sidekicking but actually applies to all types of Sidekicking: Exemplaring, Lackeying, and Malefactoring as well. With this system, everyone in the team will find themselves automatically level adjusted to the level of the owner of the Mission that is currently selected. If there is no mission that is currently active, then the level is set to the leader of the Team.
If you are below the level you are getting set to, you are automatically sidekicked up to one level below the owners level, just as if you had sidekicked to them. If you are above the level, then you will be lowered to the level of the owner, just as if you exemplared down.
The players dont need to do anything for this to happen, it all happens automatically. This means that no matter what level ranges you have in your group, you can ALWAYS play together and you can ALWAYS get XP. Yes, we are even changing the way exemplaring works so that you get XP while you are fighting at a lower level. There will be an option of having the old way of exemplaring, and earning extra Inf. instead, for those players who want to earn some more Inf. instead of levels.
The pool of realistically available players for recruiting teams just got a lot bigger.
So are there any plans in place to revamp the character search interface?
Even just allowing teamed/solo to be filtered and a larger set of displayed results would be starter steps... And, unless it's becoming important in planned future issues, why is origin shown in the search results? Heck - show more of the search comment rather than irrelevant information.
Any hope of a team-based/LFM search (to complement the character-based search)?
There was a dev (BaBs?) commented a while back that they'd had some thoughts about this - did it end up unworkable? Or might we see a LFM search soon?
Just thinking that the changes would seem to make teaming easier - but the larger pool of possible teammates could perversely make it somewhat harder to recruit without improving the search tools. Being able to search teams that are recruiting would be the real icing on the cake once super-SK makes teaming with anyone easier.
Yeah, Okay... I'm being greedy.
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SSers don't run if they also use the prestige powerslide.
And given that we have a range of unusual and alien metabolisms there's no saying that a character couldn't be incredibly fat whilst being a world-class athlete.
BTW - Does fat give res(all but Psi)? I guess it gives a def debuff though... -
Quote:It's about 3 months since I learnt a similar lesson but with a 2 inch mohawk - which will easily spike up.Originally Posted by The_Thorny_Devil
Today I learnt that a shaven head is a lot more manageable then a mohawk that wont stay up straight no matter how much hair gel or wax I use!
Now I just need enough blue bodypaint and I can play at being rogue trooper - much more fun than just going shaved!
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Quote:This.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
HOWEVER, patch notes SHOULD list relevant AE changes that can directly affect author work.
Since arcs are tested for validity, I'd also like to see authors of affected arcs being sent a global tell notifying them that their arc may have been affected. -
Quote:Pretty certain that removing assets from MA doesn't cause all arcs using the assets to become invalid.Originally Posted by Xyzyx
The AE mission interface now tags invalid arcs, so you can tell at a glance that something's wrong. A lot better than having to try to run your missions every few days to make sure they're up.
When Prisoners dissapeared again my arc using them (for a Prison riot in one mission - hell of an exploit that was) was not marked as invalid - but on entering the mission that used them the map was virtually free from spawns. i.e. the Prisoners had disappeared but the arc was still valid.
When generators vanished from the destructible objects, my arc using them (to sort-of-recreate a mission from the Hess TF) was not marked as invalid. The mission that they were used in just ended up having no destructible items spawn. i.e. the objects dissapeared but the arc was valid.
Both of these occured after the devs had started marking arcs as invalid.
Both of these only showed that they had changed (and were not what was intended and originally published) by playing/testing/editing the arc. -
Quote:About time the Rogue Isles got a Hungarian villain who really loves their food.Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
this one's pretty tragic too:
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I had a couple when I was just starting the game...
I'd only been playing for about 5 or 6 hours when I discovered a brilliant exploit to get easy xp - just complete most of the annoying clockwork mission I was on and then, just before completing it, logout and back in and the mission is reset.
I must have done that about 5 times before getting bored - which probably explains part of my aversion to farms - but it was easy-ish xp for a very new blaster who seemed to be more glass than cannon and hadn't the confidence to try teaming yet.
And a couple of days later I got teleport as my first travel power - but didn't know you could chain it before fully materialising and so kept get falling damage every time I took to the skys. Other than the odd in-mission jump to ledges/balconies I only used it for jumps at ground-level, which probbaly took me as long to arrange as running did as I had to be careful not to tp into a spawn.
It took until about late-20s/early-30s before I found out you could chain them... Still think that the hovertime for tp is far too short though. -
Quote:It really takes double the number of keystrokes to write thanks rather than thx. It may well take more than double the time and effort if written by a one-fingered typist on a standard QWERTY keyboard due to the distances betweenthe AS keys and the HNK keys. i.e. the distances moved going from the T key to the H key then to the X are less than half the distances travelled moving T to H to A to N to K to S.Originally Posted by _Zuel_
I'd also rather see more respect for language in general; it really takes no more time or effort to write "thanks" than "thx".
Although it should be noted that neither thanks, nor any of the common in-game abbreviations for the word, takes anywhere near the time and effort that this post did. But I took the pedantry secondary powerset, and I slotted it, so I'll darn well use it!
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Quote:She's not learned that Europeans are weirdo oddballs has she????Originally Posted by _Wyll_
As I sit here to wait for the servers to come back up, it struck me that I could write a little post about Sister Flame.
Sister Flame is the online handle of my middle daughter, currently six years old. She's been playing City of Heroes since she was 4 and 1/2. It was only over the last year we began to team together with my two accounts and have a lot of fun. I thought I let you know what Sister Flame has learned from CoX.
Been a while that we've (the EU) been able to read about Sister Flame but not post back. A heartwarming tale - hope she's still enjoying the game! -
Quote:Actually the censored version shows a 4-letter word being censored (**** not ***) so was that 'thank F***'?Originally Posted by Techbot_Alpha_EU
Given you can turn the filter OFF in game, it makes rather a mockery of anything they could potentially do, ratings wise.
The ENFORCED filter on AE makes me nothing short of outright blooming furious, though.
Hostage: "Oh, thank ****, a Hero!"
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Now, where reality steps in and busts some heads;
Hostage: "Oh, thank God, a Hero!" -
Quote:Finally safe!Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
Obviously any deity/universal power is English* and so they'll be using day/month/year representation of dates but they'll also be using GMT for times.
And we get further proof, if more were needed, that the universal architect is English: Our world couldn't be annihilated whilst England is doing well in the Ashes...
No other nationality of supreme being would have seen this as cause to postpone armageddon.
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Quote:Just realised that I spoke too soon.Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
We made it!
I think.
Obviously any deity/universal power is English* and so they'll be using day/month/year representation of dates but they'll also be using GMT for times. No need to dilute it to British Summer Time when Greenwich is firmly in England.
So it's another 50 minutes or so until the apocalypse. Enjoy!
* not getting into this - if you can't see that it's obvious then there's probably no reasoning with you.
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We made it!
I think. -
Quote:Are all of those straight Australian versions of the given US/British terms?Originally Posted by ElysanWhyte
And to throw a little antipodean style into the mix.....
Automotive
Hood - Bonnet
Trunk - Boot
Gas - Petrol - Juice
Truck - Lorry - Ute
Misc
Bathroom - Loo - Dunny or crappa
Elevator - Lift
Panties - Knickers - Jocks or Undies
Briefs - Pants - Boxers
Sweater - Jumper - Cardy
Pants - Trousers - Jeans
Sneakers - Trainers - Runners
Just going off the fact that many of your Oz versions are common terms in British English as well (but maybe for slightly different things).
Panties/Knickers are female undergarments, but, iirc, in the UK Jocks usually refers to male equivalent and undies is used but isn't gender-specific.
Do Australians call all trousers 'Jeans'? Or just jeans (and possiblt similar clothing - cargo pants?).
Cardy exists in British English as a shortened form of Cardigan - which is similar to a sweater/jumper but features a buttoned opening at the front (similar to a jacket/blazer/shirt).
Is Ute any truck/lorry? The latter terms are for fairly heavy non-articulated goods vehicles, whereas I'd always thought ute (from utility vehicle iirc) was a lighter, more general-purpose vehicle - maybe like a British van/truck.
Just asking more as differences in language variations fascinate me - so I like to try getting them straight in my head.
Still love the early 80's TV shows that the Manchester (England) comedian Mike Harding did after trips to Australia and USA. His disbelief at both the size of Australian spiders hiding under the dunny seat and that Durex* was a leading sticky-tape brand were great: Oh - I see - It's a do-it-yourself job?
As was his (obviously fictitious) tale of buying a creamcake in New York and a dog grabbing the fruit of the top of it - leading to him proclaiming to a shocked shop assistant that he'd just lost his cherry to a dog - it ran off down the road with it!
* It's a brand of prophylactic in Britain. -
Quote:Y'see I was perfectly happy before gay came to mean homosexual and just referred to being bright/cheerful. As soon as words start being appropriated for slang there's going to be misunderstanding and possible offence caused.Originally Posted by St_Angelius
the problem here is the BBC and the rest of the adult community who view the use of the word Gay to mean lame have failed to witness it's evolution to mean such. just because it's it is used by some of the younger generations now who are unaware of it's derivation/evolution and just use it because they are following the words used but their older peers doesn't take away the negative branding of the word. I'm only in my mid 30's yet I remember when the word used in the context of "That's lame" It didn't mean it was just lame, but that it was "Very homosexual like, and therefor lame". No matter how many people forget the usage in the past doesn't negate that past.
Heck - it's not as if we've run out of possible words that can be reasonably pronounced by a tongue attuned to English.
But there's part of me that see that as inevitable linguistic 'progress' (much as I dislike much of this 'progress' made in recent history).
Hopefully, since the gay as just 'lame' definition isn't going to be lost so quickly, the use of gay as 'lame because it's homosexual' will be forgotten quick enough. Maybe it even lingers longer if people get upset about it's derivation and so keep drawing attention to it. -
Quote:But posts on a thread like this isn't a random sample - it's a sample of people who wanted to volunteer the information.Originally Posted by Myrdinn
Edit: Oh, and, assuming the 150k is still accurate or thereabouts for population:
71 people reporting makes us pretty significant slice of the forum-going population (which should be quite a less than the 150k), but .004% of the entire player base. That's a pretty good slice just of the players, and a darn good slice of the forum goers; our error rate is going down quite nicely. We should be fairly indicative of the forum goers, and sorta indicative of everyone...
I'd imagine that it's more likely that you get people who consider their number or distribution of alts unusual.
Much better was the old stats pages on City Info Tracker - but they dissapeared some time ago. Ok - it'd still have a bias but my guess is it'd be more representative of the population than a thread is.
On the OP:
I'm an EU player, so limited on servers as my German/French is poor at best, but play multiple accounts:
Soldiers: 2
Widows: 2
Blaster: 6
Brute: 3
Controller: 8
Corruptor: 5
Defender: 11
Dominator: 2
Mastermind: 6
Peacebringer: 1
Scrapper: 8
Stalker: 2
Tanker: 6
Warshade: 1
Most characters are natural origin - just because it hardly matters in-game and I got used to the SO names!