Kitsune Knight

Cole gets to pretend that he drove back the Hamidon, while the Hamidon gets 99.9997% of the Earth. The remaining 0.0003% would be run by Cole, and be used to churn out delicious human-meats for Hami to nom whenever he gets hungry.

Dell and every other OEM have no trouble not formatting disks. Hell, my Dell laptop got sent in literally dozens of times (the entire model was defective... enough so that the had to recall it in Europe when they got in trouble). The only time I received it back with a fresh OS install was when they finally broke down and replaced it with a different model (which, fortunately never had to be sent in again... sadly, the POS ATI graphics couldn't actually handle CoH...).


Besides, that's what booting from external media is for

Hahahaha... HP support...

I had just gotten a new HP laptop, and after about 3 days the GPU fried, so I sent it in to be fixed... they wiped the drive, and, somehow, switched out the screen for the wrong one... so after getting it back and realizing everything was WAY too big, and then fighting through their techs... was able to get them to let me send it back in, only for them to wipe the HD yet again... having to reinstall CoH and dozens of other applications repeatedly was quite annoying (fortunately didn't really have any accumulated data). It would appear that, regardless of what the reason is, standard operating practice is to nuke the HD with HP's people.


And that is why I love Time Machine Apple definitely got that one right... That's one feature that Microsoft needs to immediately rip off (they already have the low level stuff in place, just not the final unifying piece)

I think he meant the first sentence sarcastically, given the second sentence.


Of course, all the changes the Devs have made to the game so far were pretty easy...

There's not supposed to be a new iTrial in i24.

It's because they've been in the Zig for so long that they don't know how to function out in normal society, and are actually afraid to actually leave... so they just stand at the edge, waiting to be taken back inside.

I think you just figured out the REAL thing this teaser is showing: We get the Seer flight pose in i24!

I definitely like this suggestion. It certainly makes sense to use a quasi-predefined map for raiding (RP explanation: Different section of base, or even a different, more 'secure' base), letting the players choose a variety of defenses as well as having spots to put them.

Draw lots of inspiration from the Tower Defense games, and basically having a path (that can't be built upon), but leaving space around it for defenses. This would also allow the possibility of having NPC invasions, where you basically have a stream of them trying to break into your base, having to depend on a combination of your defenses and SG players to hold them off / do something.

There could be a few classes of items that could be built, including offensive turrets (wall turrets, big ones on the ground / ceiling, etc), defensive systems like 'shields' that block (a 'force field' that could be destroyed) / slow down (repel / knockback / slow field) / weaken enemies (any other debuffs). Each map would also have a maximum amount of placeable items (different items hit the quota a different amount).


Seems like it shouldn't be too insanely difficult to come up with a system that'd work fairly well for both NPC and player invasions. Hell, it could be recycled for player invasions of NPC bases as well (Mission Architect, baby! ).


Based on everything the Devs have said, I think the OP's assumptions (/source/whatever) are true, and that really the only way to 'fix' bases is to create a new system from scratch (that the old bases could be migrated to). Although, 2 engineers taking 6 months is probably on the conservative side of things (fragile systems like the base system is often have very convoluted data formats that have tons of oddities).


Until a red name comes out and basically says any of this is what's happening (or we get a reliable leak ), I think it's best to not start counting your chickens, and just continue on as if it's not going to happen.

Edit: Redlynne scooped me on the MA part! The fact that it could potentially be recycled for multiple things is probably the biggest pro to the whole thing.

Me thinks this. (the date seems rather suspect even)

It also messes with the doppelgängers technology used in that hero TF... if you successfully confuse one of the shadow doppelgängers, once it ends, they un-shadow!

It would also make an interesting player power... use it on an enemy to summon a clone of your target (except at one rank below their natural rank). Might be a bit OP when used against enemies with cheat-powers (I'm looking at you, Hamidon!).

Note: "Announcing" as in merely stating the existence of, not as in giving any details about.



Anyone that takes 'fix everything' as completely literal will make a fuss anyways, so trying to put disclaimers on it is a bit silly. Anyone that puts a cat in a microwave to dry it, will put it in there whether or not there's the stupid sticker.

I think I saw a few 'FPAA'... that is, people following hers up with 'First Post After Arcanaville'


(and if I recall correctly... at least on red name!)