Kitsune Knight
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Quote:Maybe somehow your character fell under the map, which at will result in your being teleported into a certain location (often the center in my experience), kind of like what happens in Ouroboros (although they have to explicitly set it that way, I know Cimerora wasn't originally like that, nor the Abyss).
Last night I got stuck loading for a long time, had to kill the game via task manager and log back in. The weird thing was that when I logged in, rather than being at the mission door in Fort Darwin I was instead in the center of Mercy Island, nearly a mile away. -
I've farmed a certain item from vending machines (mmmm... Milk Tea!) through an entire country before. I got madz lewtz (the a-fore-mentioned Milk Tea). Totally worth it.
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Quote:Hopefully the devs will get around to implementing a system that takes difficulty (SRSLY/4XP, as well as the TF modifiers like buffed enemies and no deaths) into account when awarding the merits.Originally Posted by tanstaafl
I can see taskforces at -1 are gonning to cause big merit readjustments -
Quote:Oh dear GOD yes!
The last mission of the first Vivacious Verandi arc. -
Quote:Ripping the first two paragraphs of an encyclopedia (not dictionaryOriginally Posted by AlienOne
By the way, using a definition from the dictionary to clarify a meaning is not "plageurism."
) is indeed plagiarism.
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Quote:He was challenged on whether he knew what it meant, so he plagiarized wikipedia in an attempt to look like he knew what he was talking about.Originally Posted by AlienOne
As if that's got some sort of negative connotations attached to it? You expected him to have his own special definition of socialism, so you could rip it to shreds? But, because he used a definition by which *most* of the general public can agree on, the most you can do is.... Point that out?
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Quote:You were challenged on whether you understood what socialism was, so you plagerized Wiki as if you'd written it yourself. A block of text does not equate to understanding.
Yes, I did copy and paste the definition of socialism from Wiki. What better way to make sure everyone was on the same page as for the definition of something?
Your numbers for this are...? Do you mean, the numbers of people standing in Atlas's AE and Cap's AE is down? Is that your metric? I've taken a few random samples of Freedom's Villainside population, and the numbers are upQuote:Why is it that the population on every server completely tanked since I16?
Also, don't forget that over the last couple months, schools all over the world were starting back up, seriously cutting out a lot of playtime for many of the gamers, which'll cause a decline in activity of EVERY game... and it always happens every year, so don't let that fool you. -
Quote:Wow, you FLAT OUT copy pasta'd this from Wikipedia.Originally Posted by ThugsRus
Socialism refers to various theories of economic organisation advocating public or direct worker ownership and administration of the means of production and allocation of resources, and a society characterised by equal access to resources for all individuals with an egalitarian method of compensation. It is characterised by unequal distribution of wealth and compensation according to work done. Contrary to popular belief, socialism is not a political system; it is an economic system distinct from capitalism.
Most socialists share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through exploitation, creates an unequal society, does not provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximise their potentialities and does not utilise technology and resources to their maximum potential nor in the interests of the public. -
Animations and FX are only one piece of the puzzle, there's also all the coding that has to go on to add support for the pools (and adding a hack to only support one pool then rewriting it will only slow everything down, and double the stabilization period). If they'd decided to also add the Flight pool, we may not have had Issue 16 for another 2 months... and then we'd have all the people complaining about how it's unfair that ONE pool power gets to be customized (when it already had some options already!) while none of the others do.
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3 PPCs? No no no! I had NINE! I remember more than once instantly exploding after taking a shot! It was pretty damn hilarious
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Quote:I remember modifying the Nova so it had only the lightest weapon in the game, and the entire rest of the weight was jump jets. I could fly SO FREAKING FAST, nothing could hit me (not that I could do much damage, either... but hey I'll eventually win
I will point out, sir, that in that *very game* (or rather the free Netmetch/DOS download addon - over 14.4 modems no less) I defeated much larger mechs with a Nova loaded down with machine guns. ).
Once, I also took ALL the armor off of an Atlas, removed all the heat sinks, weapons, etc, and just filled it with the PPCs...a single shot would destroy most anything I encountered (and put me WAY past critical levels of heat, forcing a shutdown!
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The Timberwolf is just by far the most badass locking one. -
Quote:Or, this is what BackAlleyBrawler told us alreadyOriginally Posted by 7thCynic
At this point, it just sounds like your guessing.
Calling 'VBA' 'programming' is like calling paint-by-numbers art. Technically correct, but only a childish imitation of the other. I'm very familiar with "programming" in Excel, since that's what I did during an internship at least 6 years ago... and it's nothing like C or C++. Any macros Castle wrote would have been for power balancing, nothing that'd ever end up on our systems.Quote:They WERE refering to programming in the the example I was citing, not spreadsheets. This is where i am SURE i have lost you. When I was hoping to 'recall correctly', I was being modest. I was sure of what I read. Perhaps you underestimate the power of Excel.
You're saying 'it should be easy because of X!' and I'm pointing out how X is fundamentally different, so such logic is unsound. I'm also pointing out how it was told to us that one of the major issues with pool customization would still apply to adding a customization option for the flight pool.Quote:Have you? Because I would think that would apply the same for assuming its possibly harder than it is.
Except they already didQuote:Anyway, I guess these are questions only Back Alley Brawler, or maybe Castle, can answer for us. i thank you for your time tho.
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Quote:You mean, like drugging him?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I think less violent ways could be found
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Quote:Because you choose power pools at 6+, not character creation.
I guess Im not following the difference between the regular powersets and pool sets (not APP/PPP). Why would they involve that much more work? And even if there IS alot of work CUSTOMIZING said power pools, why would adding the code to the customization screen be any different?
No, that IS the issue.Quote:The only real difference with pools should be that theyre 'unlocked' later, but that really shouldnt be that big of an issue as you suggest.
Castle has the power numbers stored in an excel spreadsheet. Castle does NOT program. Excel is not used for programming, just as a dumb database, which is then converted into the ACTUAL data (not code!) files with the power numbers. So again, no, excel does not enter the equation.Quote:(And also, if I recall correctly, there have been excel programming references made by the devs before. :P )
Never assume that something should be easy in software development if you haven't seen the project's code base, it's just a bad idea. -
Quote:Anakin is just way too emo. You'd stab him after an hour just to get him to shut up.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That makes you wrong, in a very physical way
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Quote:Yes, countless times. If you've ever SEEN red, you've seen red light
2) IRL has anyone ever seen red lightning, or is it just usually a bright white light?
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Isn't the Omega System something for Champions...? Meaning, an entirely different game? If so... yeah, that's not what they're talking about
They've mentioned a few potential post-50 methods of advancement in the past, but we don't have any information about what he's talking about. -
Quote:Here's the thing: IT'S NOT. Weapons are costume items, while power animations are not. It's a DRASTIC difference, and is a huge chunk of the reason we DO NOT have power customization for the APPs/PPPs (in addition to the pools).Originally Posted by 7thCynic
I think you misunderstand.
Flight poses were also ALREADY done. They're in game now. And auto switching into one is nuthing a macro couldnt do. Tho the programming Im refering to is a FLIGHT POOL drop down @ the tailor. Wouldnt it be easy enuff - think unlocking capes/back detail - for the drop down in the customization screen to trigger once someone has opened that pool? (Then just throw in the pre-existing flight poses there for now). Sure we're talking weapons vs powers, but it shouldnt be that different. Seems like basic EXCEL code. :P
All the pools (including APP and PPP), require extra code that the primaries and secondaries don't, which is something they still have to implement because it takes time. CoX isn't a trivial 2 page excel spread sheet, this is tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lines of code in low level programming languages, as well as a variety of other languages! -
And also not scheduling it immediately after they push live a massive change to the code base that'll already be stressing the servers
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Quote:Some what of a tangent... but no... actually, that hair is possible, I've seen hair you wouldn't BELIEVE in the trendy areas of Tokyo! Hair that says '[CENSORED] YOU!' to the laws of physics... It's quite a sight to behold!
an impossible hairdo
But yes, abnormally stylistic characters are awesome
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Quote:Nope, it's notOriginally Posted by 7thCynic
I guess it would depend on how hard it would be to program, OR, the angle they were going with. It just seems like it would be easy enuff to open up a FLIGHT category (in the Power Customization screen), when someone has opened that pool - similar to how WEAPON opens up for an AT that accepts weapons customization. Weapons were ALREADY costume items. There's a reason the Standard Code Rant exists
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Quote:The animations might be done, but the infrastructure for Pool Power customization isn't done (such as, dealing with pools that may or may not be there).Originally Posted by 7thCynic
Understood. But why would ALL of Pool Power customization have to be done just to release the parts that are already done (flight poses)? You could always just add other poses (see my examples above) when the next wave of customization is done.
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Quote:Because they don't yet have Pool Power customization done (which would take something like 2 1/2 times the work of the ones they already did). It likely will be a part of the next iteration of power customization.
I dunno if this has been brought up anywhere, but why werent the fly poses part of i16? I understand that the OTHER travel powers may not have options yet, but these poses are done. Should have been simple enuff, no? -
Quote:Atlas was an oversized piece of crap.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Bah. You think too small. Atlas or GTFO!
You want *** kicking awesome sauce? Timerwolf.
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Quote:I'd recommend stabbing him in the eye with uncooked noodles. Far more effective in my experience. And yes, take out does not count as cooking dinner, it counts as... TAKE OUT!Originally Posted by Lightfoot
Unless this was the standard alerady established in your household when she requests that you "cook," you should be beaten with a lasagna noodle that has only been cooked for 4 minutes until you see the light.
Surprise her and make something nice