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Interestingly, though, the original post that this is based on spelt "the" correctly, just as Coin has, above - it got changed at an indeterminate point later on to the ubiquitous "teh".


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It loses some of the quirky appeal without the typo.

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Aside from the fact that I disapprove of the thread title they're carrying (I most certainly am not a Brit!)

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IIRC It's a reference to the popular image of Paul Revere at the start of the American War of Independence (from Britain) who rode to towns/villages warning them that the British are coming!

So I guess it's a warning/rallying cry to prepare to fight us for US independence... time to don a redcoat and check my powder's dry, I guess

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this what happened in the last forum i played posters ruined it for everyone doubling posts and pyramids and just anything to spamm there no extened moderating there trying to catch the spamm and we pay for it so unless people don't let Mod'S know of wrong doing's in the forum it we ruin it and there we not be a FORUM IT WELL BE GONE TO THE AMERICANS!!!!!!!



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You spooled TEH wrong.

And I think FFMs been duping posts for years now...

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Ok, so the forum merge is happening very soon.

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Very soon?!?! Does that mean by Q1 of 2010?

Do think we'll see a dilution of the EU community spirit - unless there's a 'Weird Euros' section of the new boards. Server based boards just aren't the same.

I know from reading the US boards that it's going to be darn annoying for me seeing the sheer number of:[*] +1/IBTL posts that crop up on the US boards[*] posters coming in after a couple of hundred posts saying couldn't be bothered to read the thread and spouting a misunderstood view that was put straight by the 20th post[*] TLDR posts - why do so many posters seem to want to post the fact that they can't be bothered reading a post. Seems ignorant and proud of it.

The quantity of posts falling into the above categories can make popular threads grow at such speed it's nigh on impossible to follow them and sort the wheat from the chaff.

There's also a whole host of posters who know what they're talking about - but I often get the feeling that the signal:noise is poorer on many US threads.

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So... when do we get more hints? We needs more to speculate on!

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I'd guess that we don't see any new info to feed speculation until the boards are back up after migration.

It'd be cruel to release new info whilst we didn't have an official place to gossip about it.

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But those who have an appreciation of what the work will probably entail already know this and hoi polloi would see it as technical gobbledegook - so nothing was gained by pointing this out.


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I gained a +1 to my soon-to-be-deceased postcount. Plus it passes the time on my last day before hols since I'm not allowed to do any actual work in case I break something.

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But...

If you can't do any work today (in case you break something before your hols) did you manage to not do any work yesterday (in case you broke something before today when you can't do any work (in case you break something before your hols))?

And if that's the case:
Did you manage to not do any work on Friday in case..?

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...and maybe this means that construction site in P.O. will finally finish off whatever they're doing, meaning you migh be able to go to the moon(?) as early as lvl 5-10(?)!

Isn't there a construction site in Steel - still - as well?

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Yes there is.

The workers got unionised (or defiantised on some servers) and then striked. Been in a standoff since GvE - the workers still turn up and pretend to look busy, but no work's been done.

Think the last speculation that the space zones were coming soon was last years wedding/Valentines event, when we learnt of (iirc) Gagarin Space Station and Armstrong moonbase. Suggests that these may be new zones/areas when we finally do get into space.

Shame that they didn't get the moonbase ready for last week - would have been nice to visit Armstrong base 40 years after he went for a stroll there.

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I assume they also have to change database layouts as well as just merging, I can't imagine the two BB apps use the same db schema.

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But those who have an appreciation of what the work will probably entail already know this and hoi polloi would see it as technical gobbledegook - so nothing was gained by pointing this out.

Although I did actually allude to this sort of change in the phrase 'effective merging' rather than just straight 'merging'.

Done a fair bit of web work but last year I performed an 'effective merge' of 2 large financial reporting systems for a private health company. The board migration should be a smaller (and less business critical) task - but I don't really envy them.

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If GR is an expansion that requires CoH/V to play then why would we be paying extra subs? I'm assuming people are implying that the cost of the subs would increase?

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No AP - no-one's mentioned additional subs or any increase in subs.

All we were speculating about was whether or not GR would include a months CoX subs as part of the package.

Since it is a true expansion it doesn't need to, but my guess is that including a months subs could be a smart move to boost sales (or move them to earlier sales) at very little cost to NC/PS.

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Imagine NC look at the pack without a 'free' month of CoX subs and decide it's got a pricepoint of £20. My belief is that rather than selling it like this at £20, they'd do much better to sell at £25 with a free month, as people get entranced by the word 'free'.

Much as buying the Mac pack or full GvE edition (with a months subs) was more cost-effective for existing subscribers than just buying the add-ons (the powers and costumes). It probably didn't cost NC anything to do this (else they'd probably not allow the codes to be applied to existing accounts).

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Freaking.. 3 days? Thats long

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Indeed. To "copy" all the mails they must be typing them out by hand again


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Or [*] Effective merging of 2 reasonably large databases with re-assignment/re-mapping of key data (I'd guess at least user, post and PM IDs)[*] multiple backups for that little bit of extra defence against Mr [censored]-up[*] Testing/Verification[*] a little contingency time built in

Not exactly a business-critical change either - so no need to have people working 24hrs a day on it...

I wouldn't say 3 days was a particularly long time for it.

Look at it this way: Would 1 day be reasonable if it was just migrating EU boards to new software? If so then imagine that they've got 1 day for EU, 1 day for US and 1 day to sort out conflicts/clashes and test/check the merge.


Yeah it won't be quite split like that - but just showing that 3 days isn't unreasonable.

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I think she's east coast, or at least EST timezone, as she only seems to have about 5 hours difference...

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Just wink 3 times into a mirror

If that doesn't work, do it whilst brushing your hair.

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If you're going to compare CO with CoX then do it with CoX when it was at the same publication age.

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Whats the point of doing that they'll never be at the same point CoX will always have X months/years on CO so its pointless comparison CoX at launch to CO at launch because that's never going to be the case. that's why new MMOs have to work all the harder to compete.

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Also somewhat pointless as the market has changed and lessons have been learnt since the pre-WoW days when CoH launched.

Of course CoH and most heroes aren't actually white - even if they think they are. They're normally just the lightest of greys. And the villains are the darkest range of greys.

The GR expansion may be introducing going rogue, but it's possible that some level of grey may be available to players not buying the GR expansion. Future non-Praetorian content may feature multiple outcomes/arc branching and moral decisions (even if the existing missions aren't altered - maybe they just get seen as 'good' for CoH and 'bad' for CoV).

If that is the case, then I'd love to see the inevitable issue alongside (or just before) GR being called 'Shades of Grey' as a thematic successor to 'Power Spectrum'.

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Still no clarification on what we're supposed to do if we have both EU and US names the same?

I'd really like to know before I go off on hols for 3 weeks.

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If I were you, I'd assume that no answer is forthcoming, backup what you can, if you have a US account name, change it to something else, and then expect a fight with customer services when you get back from holiday.

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Even if there is an answer given today, I'd expect it to be within 24 hrs of the boards going offline for migration/merge - which may not be enough notice for others in this position.

A little poor as the question was asked/raised several times in both this and previous threads about the merge. Surely NC must know what they will be doing about name clashes and could advise us - it would probably ease their post-migration support if we know in advance what to do to make it easier on them...

All great if they were used purely as intended... but we all know that temps would be mainly used for explots...

Maybe temps could be implemented easier if there was a series of buffs/debuffs (and effectively temps doing buff/debuff to player and mobs) and you could choose to have a mixture as long as you had a number of debuffs equal to or greater than the number of buffs(from a player standpoint).

i.e. you could make missions harder or with a mix of buf/debuff, but couldn't use the system to just make missions easier.

Could stop it being abused, but would, no doubt, take far more dev time than was worthwhile.

Don't understand why, if you were adding these missions to Ouroboros, you'd look to do anything other than award the temp as it is awarded now - i.e. the first time you sucessfully complete the safeguard/mayhem whilst above the minimum level you get the temp. You don't for subsequent completions.

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If you take all your primary and secondary powers and 4 epic/patron powers, you'd still need to take 2 pool powers at lvl 24 and lvl30.

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There's no real problem with sticking to primary/secondary/APP for gfx - the fitness pool has no gfx (or none that I've ever noticed).

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- Quality check by Company before any MA can be played by others than creator. Meaning, that company check players ready made mission, before it even shows to others in list. So, that players knows that it's okey mission. No missions where all enemies are just green balls. After MA is accepted to public list, it can't be changed by it's creator. Player can test MA's with others, while creator is team leader, but no-one gets rewards or exp while doing it.

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And that's the perfect solution that should be implemented iff NC/PS resources are limitless.

As it happens they are not limitless.

So NC/PS decided to have the first pass of content filtering performed by the community. If you find MA arcs farming exploits report them. That works if the community want it to - but it fails miserably if you just turn your back on the MA system.

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- Level limits, no auto sidekicking or allow 1-50 be in same teams. Example, zone limits could affects MA missios what you see in the MA list. So, In Atlas zone, MA's enemies are between level 1-5. Just put MA offices in other zones.


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Doesn't stop abuse and it appears to be a cornerstone of MA that it's easy to use (both design and play) and open to all. That means even lvl 1s. I also believe that auto-SK/exemp is part of that ease of use making all missions accesible to all characters.

The problems you see are not due to AE being in Atlas, but are due to the system allowing missions to be set up so that they provide a risk:reward ratio that is skewed far from the accepted range.
That's the issue that needs to be tackled. And there are multiple ways to tackle it without completely removing auto-SK or nerfing MA into practical non-existence.

And acting (and being seen to act) upon the threats of retribution that Posi (iirc) made could help deter abhorrent misuse of MA. Heck - it's been long enough. Punish people for actions in the past month and they were given fair warning.

I'd actually guess that it would make sense to do GR with a free month. People like things that are perceived to be free.

Even if they just pop in a months sub and add the price of a months sub (so that NC doesn't actually lose any money per sale) I think they could end up with slightly better sales as people convinced themselves that it was a bargain due to the sub. Only slightly better, as I already expect this to be bought by most people who have subbed for more than a couple of months.

I could see a 'free' month just persuading people (who weren't buying it immediately on release) to buy GR slightly earlier than they eventually would have.

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It's FFM mk2

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LOL not sure if that's an insult or not

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It's either a compliment, or mereman's going to be meeting my friend Mr NailInACricketBat.

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This is a topic about custom colours not custom weapons so please try to keep it OT Ty



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/em wonders what colour FFM is painting the cricket bat to keep it OT...

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If you're at Comic Con make sure to stop by and get your own Awesome Button.


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You're really taking the [censored] now, aren't you?

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You'll notice that the link ends /b8gwm

I'm guessing that's a special graphic just for players unable to attend (probably everyone on the EU servers/boards and most on the US) and stands for Bait Gamers With Merchandise.

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You cant enter the events?

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events are atleast 150KM out of reach, and i don't think there is any chance they are gonna give some codes to pc gameplay(dutch magazine)

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The events mentioned (for EU players to get codes) seem to refer to ingame events, Sorudo. So if you can get to the EU servers at the right time then you can get to the events.

EDIT: And happy cakeday to you!

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I like browsing in black and white

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Fiddle with the contrast/brightness/colour controls for your display device of choice?

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As for your handles, we will be giving you more information on name conflicts and what to do to change yours after we have made sure that everything is functioning properly on the new vBulletin Message Boards. We appreciate that this is a serious concern, but rest assured we are aware of the situation and will endeavor to minimize any impact this will have.

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This does give me cause for concern. As we have been told that we can't change ours after we've been merged, the above would seem to imply that we would need to if there's a conflict.

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Maybe we can't change our names, but board admin can.

Guessing that in the case of conflicts they'll give a temporary name (genericposterxxxx) and you'll have to PM the admin/mods with your preferred name to change to. Admin then changes the name. But obviously they won't want to be doing changes on a regular basis so, other than initial name conflicts being dealt with manually, there'll be no name changing facility.

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Maybe they could modify it to work as a short location AoE from a 1 hit defeated mob as well as a target AoE...

Damaged mob = Target AoE
1 hit Defeated mob = Short Location AoE (Location of defeated mob, until the mob fades)

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Surely if it was being changed then a location based AoE (or pbAoE) is preferred for both cases if for nothing but having 1 method that is applied in all cases should simplify its implementation (i.e. less chance of odd bugs).