Killobot

Actually I'd be more worried about that guy whose name rhymes with phail.

posted it in the suggestions board, they recommeneded I move it here though...

Hey guys.
My searchfu is weak and it's probably already been thought up and shot down a hundred times over, but I just came up with a cool new item to put in a SG/VG base.
All the parts to it are already there too.
Tech wise all we need is one of those 10ft tall glass tubes you see in Crey maps from time to time.
Magic wise you'd just ned a someone clearer version of the 10ft till crystals you see on the CoT underground city maps.
The item is pretty simple, but could add a bit of humor to the base.
You take one of these tubes/crystals and put it in the base and when a player loads in a "hologram" drawn inside of the tube/crystal of a random enemy doing a random emote.
Yeah, it would be a totally completely useless feature, but ya know what? I'd have rooms in my base FILLED mwith these tubes back to back if I could. Hallways of Holograms if ya will.

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Ok Question, if Manticore flips in i11, what happens to his TF?

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Nothing.
The devs arent going to rework the entire game, this is all most likely going to invlove a new co-op zone set in an alternate timeline with a new TF open to "mixed" teams.

Could you even truely begin to fathom the outcry from all the obsessive-compulsive badge hunters out there if they changed everything around to the way it is now being represnted in the papers?

No sucsessful jail break = no jail bird badge.

Outbreak not contained = nearly impossible to get Isolator badge.

Manti being evil = no Manti TF, hence no badge for that (possibility of it being retconned out of existance).

Arachnos not running the Isles would mean an inability to gain a ton of badges villain side since so many of them require interaction with the members of Arachnos who in one way or another are helping to run the show on the Isles...

I seriously doubt that what is about to occur in I11 will change the 2 games in such a way that 1 of them (red side) would need a complete makeover. It would really piss a lot of people off.
Story arch, sure.
New Co-op zone, possibility.
New Co-op TF/SF, this has my vote for most likely to occur.

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Mere speculation and highly unlikely. Positron and Statesman have learned their lesson several times about badge hunters by the thousands storming them with emails and pms about taking a certain badge out. They would be fools to do all that you mentioned. YOU may be thinking on a much grander and impossible scale. Not that it wasn't a good idea but unless there's been a time line variation in my world, no that would never happen

Too much public outcry means unhappy players, badge hunters being a group of them, and thus, possible loss of accounts, defeating the purpose of developing new content.

Conclusion? Highly Unlikely.

-C.A.

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Ok, my apologies if you take this the wrong way, but you seem to be argueing a point with me that we both agree on.
If you had read the begining of what I had written you would see that I was ALSO explaining I do not believe that they would make any fundemental changes to the core areas of the game, everything that came after were examples of things that could be changed and why they would be bad ideas.
I am not as you said "thinking on a grander scale", I think that if at most a new co-op zone with new story archs and a new TF are involved. Thats about it.
Please read everything a person writes before argueing with them in the future, kthanxbi.

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Nice article.

I know it's too late at this stage if they aren't in, but I'd love to see the Blood of the Black Stream brought into I11. They'd be very unhappy that someone is screwing with the Giant Circuit.

Also, there have already been hints that most zones are going to see at least minor changes as a result of I11.

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Yes. It would be nice if the villain EAT was something other than a rehashed third flavor of the space squids. I doubt there will be wholesale changes to many zones, it would break a lot of story arcs, badge hunts, and the like. I think we will find that temporary protection from temporal disturbances will have been set up and maybe a co-op task force brought in for players to help Recluse and Manticore get the correct timeline reset. Things will likely be back to normal with I12. Just my take on the whole thing.

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Well, we kind of know what's going on there. Posi has said that Villains will get Khelds, and that they're trying for it sometime early next year. (which basically rules it out for I11.) He also said that they won't just be carbon copies of the hero versions, so, hopefully, they'll be different enough to keep them interesting.

As far as further EAT's go, I don't think we can look for those until the villain khelds come out.

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Technically he never specified kheldians.
All did was say that the villain epic ATs were in the works and would be released early on next year.
Personally I *SERIOUSLY* hope the khelds arent turned evil.
I would much rather have something comepltely new for us all to tinker around with.

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So, what did we do when the game had no badges? Poor babies miss out on badges?? badges are only bragging rights, with the few exceptions being accolades that actually do something for your character before badges became completely useless ;-)

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Nice point, and I can understand where you're coming from, but the world without badges went bye-bye with the advent of I2.
And believe me. I pvp in zones a lot. Ive seen just how vocally hostile the majority of badge hunters can be when they go for thier objects of obsession... The devs dont want to piss them off.

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So the Paragon Times article mentions it'd be disasterous if they reached a major city like Chicago or Empire City. I've been to Chicago, and it rates "major city" but never heard of an Empire City. Searching on the internet turns up a place in Oklahoma, which seems a bit away from RI. Also only showed a population of 734 for the 2000 census.

New fictional city?
Empire City = Nemesis Empire? All automaton population? FTW??

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Empire City...
Nickname for New York, New York.
Dont forget, New York *IS* the Empire State.

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So, Back Alley Brawler dead, huh??? And you thought the lag was bad in Atlas Park before! Check it out when there's only one trainer to go to from Outbreak zone.

And Noooo! No more Manticore TF?

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Uhh, what outbreak zone?
They said in the last Paragon Times that they were never able to contain the spread of outbreak...

Then again, as I already stated before, I just can't see any drastic changes being made to any preestablished zones, tfs, what not... Of course that's just imho.

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Ok Question, if Manticore flips in i11, what happens to his TF?

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Nothing.
The devs arent going to rework the entire game, this is all most likely going to invlove a new co-op zone set in an alternate timeline with a new TF open to "mixed" teams.

Could you even truely begin to fathom the outcry from all the obsessive-compulsive badge hunters out there if they changed everything around to the way it is now being represnted in the papers?

No sucsessful jail break = no jail bird badge.

Outbreak not contained = nearly impossible to get Isolator badge.

Manti being evil = no Manti TF, hence no badge for that (possibility of it being retconned out of existance).

Arachnos not running the Isles would mean an inability to gain a ton of badges villain side since so many of them require interaction with the members of Arachnos who in one way or another are helping to run the show on the Isles...

I seriously doubt that what is about to occur in I11 will change the 2 games in such a way that 1 of them (red side) would need a complete makeover. It would really piss a lot of people off.
Story arch, sure.
New Co-op zone, possibility.
New Co-op TF/SF, this has my vote for most likely to occur.

After having read every responce in this thread thus far I just wanted to point something out.

Almost everyone who brings up BAB keeps talking about how he is supposedly comatose... Am I the only one who read the whole edition though?

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Back Alley Brawler, the Guardians member charged with escorting Recluse to prison, was killed in the skirmish.

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He will pay for what he did to Back Alley Brawler. No one kills one of our own and simply disappears.”

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Yes, according to the articles he is mentioned in the BAB of this new dimension (timeline?) was comatose at one point. However he managed to recover, returned to active hero duty, and is most certianly dead now.

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/waiting for patch note to say pkpkg spammers have had their site shut down and their bodies dismembered/

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/signed

I've got 2 accounts and 7 characters that I use on an extremely regular basis, best I can figure I've petioned these dolts at leat 10 times in the last week for spamming me with tells about thier stupid site.

BTW, is there a way to global ignore someone without knowing thier global handle? o.O
I'd really love it if I could just ignore them globally instead of having to ignore 1 toon at a time on each toon I have when they seem to create/delete toons on such a frequent basis