LegendaryJMan

This is the official announcement for the JFS 5 Year J-Versery Extravaganza: Why you love or hate the J-Force Essay contest!!

The What: This is a contest for the J-Force's 5 Year J-Versery Extravaganza. You will be writing an essay about why you love the J-Force, or why you hate the J-Force.

The Where: All essay submissions must be submitted in this thread. Any submissions entered by an outside source will be disqualified, unless they are really good.

The Why: This contest is for the grand total of ONE BILLION INFLUENCE (1,000,000,000 inf). This is on blue side and is only to be given to a toon on Freedom. We are as lazy as it comes so don't expect us to go jumping around servers.

The When: This contest will run throughout the month of may, or until we declair a winner. Which ever comes first.

The Who: are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon. They became known for energetic live performances. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, their first year of eligibility. According to the New York Times, The Who have sold 100 million records.

The How: The essays have no word limit (yes I tricked you Turg). They can be as long or as short as you like. Just make sure you are disctinct about your reasons. You can submit as many essays as you like, but we will only consider your most recent submission for the contest.

If you have any questions feel free to ask, because we need to keep this thread on the first page.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

I say put it into the SG computer.

-Create a mastermind: Pick MM then pick a enemy set and you get a MM who will summon 3 minions 2 leuts and 1 boss of that set.

-select power pools for your critter. So I can have a phasing enemy or people who super speed.

-create a powerset: be able to swap powers or other of the same teir power. Make a regen who can use unstoppable, or a claws scrapper who might toss in a tornado.

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Badges "for the sake of badges," no.

Badges that work accolade-style so the SG has something to work toward, yes.

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badges for the sake of badges?
Have ya stepped into an AE mish?

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Yes. And I find the "here, have a few thousand badges for standing here, for looking left, for looking right, for jumping in a mission, for rating, for not rating, for using a power twice" annoying.

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Ok as long as you don't support that then I can support you not supporting this.

I support any and all CoH merchendise

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I'd like to see some SG badges that have more of an effect than unlocking a base item.

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Me too!

Like what they attempted to do with the Items of power.
I would love bonuses that are given when working with SG members, especially the more you have the bigger the bonus.

I feel with the day job system they have it would be a great way to unlock those bonuses with out them being a task force item or empowerment buff.

Just saying is all.

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Badges "for the sake of badges," no.

Badges that work accolade-style so the SG has something to work toward, yes.

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badges for the sake of badges?
Have ya stepped into an AE mish?

I'm sure the devs have far more important things to think about the supergroup badges, but pie if I don't want them.

I think every badge tab should have all kinds of stuff there for the SGs. And I do believe they should have all a ridiculous amount in their totals, considering they would be for a supergroup of about 30 people or more.

As an example I am down for the huge total the pvp badge requires, that means we need to work as a group.

Anyways, here are my ideas.

Exploration: This is being done. I like it. All the zones need to be put in there, like the FBZ but other then that its great.

History: Put plaques up that involve the history of the different game groups. For heros it would be learning about the Freedom Phalanx, the Vindicators, Wryven, Longbow things like that. For vils it would be learning about the villain groups: Crey, Nemesis, Devouring Earth, Arachnos.

Accomplishment: Put in the TF badges. Like each TF would have a badge if you completed it with 5 or more of your SG. Also have a contact that gives out SG story arcs, but that is a whole nother thread.

Acchievements: Anything that gives a badge already needs an SG badge of obscene amounts. Where is the Prestige earned badge? Where is the damage taken/given while in SG mode badge? (yes I know we have the fire one, but I want more!)

Accolades: This is where I want the biggest change. I would propose that we change all the badges that unlock the SG's stuff to giving an accolade that unlocks the SG's stuff. Like the exploration badges would unlock the accolade teleporters, and the history badges would unlock an accolade that gives base items of that particular group's theme.

PvP: I think the SG's have one pvp badge right now. Put in badges for taking over the zone in RV, badges for won arena matches, badges for base raids (DEFINETLY badges for base raids), badges for getting nukes (badges for launching nukes), badges for taking out the little bases where you have to refine the shivan ore. More badges.

Inventions: Well ... I guess this is where I draw the line. You don't have SG inventions so I guess there really isn't a need for SG invention badges.

Defeats: More, oh pie yes. Like Kill 2000 hellions. Or defeat all the AVs in the game.

Events: this one would be a little ruff to give out. Sure I would like kill 500 zombies, but that might be a little too crazy.

Ourborous: I would want SG badges for doing the ouros stuff on teams of SGs. So as long as you are with at least 1 other SG member it would count.

Wenthworths: Like inventions there is not SG bank or any way the SG's influence WWs so I don't think there should be badges ... until there IS SGs banks that is.

Dayjobs: I would love to see the day jobs earned while in SG mode give bonuses to teaming with SGs. So say you earn the monitor duty badge it gives a bigger bonus if you are teamed with your SG mates.

Architect: This is a must. Badges for running your SG's architect missions. Badges for testing them, badges for kills in them.

Veteren: I am a firm believer that there should have been veteren SG badges from the begining. Then again my SG (the J-Force) has been around since may of '04 so I might be bias

Let me know what you think of the idea. Pick it apart if you are inclined, or add in what type of SG badges you would like to see.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

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Grief voting? It seems like I can't stay on a 5 star rating for more than 24 hours. Does that mean that people are looking to keep other arcs from staying at 5 stars, just so theirs can be more highly ranked than mine?

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rank to win.

I'm trying to publish an arc but I keep getting the error of "the field deathspeech exceeds the text limit"

Now ok that sounds like one of my bosses is saying something that is larger then the box, but I hav already gone through and looked and I couldn't find anything.

The part that really stinks is that it doesn't show up in the actual errors.

Has anyone ran into this problem, and fixed it?

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Maybe if we get Billy Mays?

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Billy Mays could sell you a third account and you know it!

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Perfect. It worked perfectly.

I had to throw in a few more because my computer is emo and they still didn't load soon enough, but once I did it was all aces.

Pie Samuriko if'n you don't always have the answer.
Has Paragon Studios hired you yet to make official videos?

Thank you kindly.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

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No they haven't. And not for lack of me trying, either. But if you know someone who knows someone who can convince them otherwise...

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I'll work it into my "hire me to make official screenshot comics" pitch.
Maybe if we get Billy Mays?

Perfect. It worked perfectly.

I had to throw in a few more because my computer is emo and they still didn't load soon enough, but once I did it was all aces.

Pie Samuriko if'n you don't always have the answer.
Has Paragon Studios hired you yet to make official videos?

Thank you kindly.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

Aight so I got this video here that I need screenshots from.
Its nothing fancy, but the textures in the video don't load (for me anyway) until about halfway through the video.

If you watch it they load when the first character jumps.
No matter what I try I can't get it to load any faster so here is my question.

How do i go about extending the video. I want to put in some kind of crazy delay in everything that happens after all the characters load. Thus giving the textures time to load before the rest of the video plays.

Is there a way to add a delay in a particular point to make the demo run, but not have any of the camer motions come into effect or any of the characters move, until say 30 seconds later?

Help?

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Turg you shouldn't be thinkin about editin nothing.

Yer mish is OBVIOUSLY good enuff fer the devs, that makes it more then good enuff fer the unclean masses.

What you SHOULD be thinkin about is yer pielovin second act.

Just because people whine about a mish bein too hard doesn't mean ya gotta cave in ta all of'm.

If people don't like it they kin go play the pharm missions an' leave all the real stuff ta us l33t kids.

pie

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

Turg I just realized you dropped the ball.

There is no souvenier. An' now ya can't edit it!!
OH KNOEZ!!

Well it doesn't matter, 'cause witout a souvengier I've already fergottena bout ol' Dana.

*sigh*

Turg I wont lie ta ya, there has been this one sided beef between you an' me that kin only be ended by me an' you in the arena ...

So ya see I was all ready ta hate, oh pie was I ready ta hate.

/em jingles his bag of one stars

but then I played the arc ...

First off you had some good writtin in there, right in the beginning you set it off like there is some kinda comedy feel wit the computers on the fritz, but then ya twist it on me.

There has been only 2 story arcs in this game that have gotten me emotionally involved. That is the Terra story arc on heros, an' the arc in villains that has you being played by both the mooks and the family.

Now there is three.

You pulled off the sense of me feeling like a hero in the story arc.

But I gotta ask ... what if I'm a chick?

Gratz Turg, you begrudginly git a 5 out of 5

/em trudges off wit this unopened bag of 1 stars.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

PS You'll hear about mish4 online from me later

Hi, I'm the Legendary J-Man.
Any of you from Freedom already know me, and know me well. Know me to the point that I will have to admit that I am your favorite person. I feel its safe to say that you love me even more then love yourself.

If you don't know me, well, now you do

I am a part of the City of Comic Creators.
I've been making fan made comics since I discovered the comic book creator program way back in '04.

I have done 90+ screenshot comics.
My format is that I like to keep them only 8 pages long and I try to put one out once a week on monday.

I'm only human and most of the time don't, but hey a man has gotta have a goal right

I try and keep my comics slanted more on the humor side mixing in-game knowledge with my own fiction.

I don't have my own website I instead use my SG's guild portal (which is currently unavailable as I post this hmm) to post my links and the website 4shared to host my comics. Its not perfect, but its what I have for now.

/em sits back down into the circle of chairs

CCC
-The Legendary J-Man-

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Pretty cool, never knew about this before

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That is a mighty keen observation.

The reason you didn't know about the CCC before now is that we didn't really exist.

Sure there were screenshot comic book makers out there, but we were few and far between and didn't even know the others existed.

But after seeing the communities for fiction, drawing, and video we as a collective group decided to fill the void that was lacking in screenshot comic books.

Our goal is slightly different then areas like "Roleplaying" and "Multimedia" in that:
1) We don't have a real "forum" section to post our work in. We could do fan art, we could do multi-media but its not quite either of those and both at the same time.

2) We don't have an easy way to organize, display, or present our comics on the internet. Art has devientart, video has youtube, fiction ... well you can just post that, but comics are a strange medium with no home.

Our goal is to put together our own City of Comic Creator's website that will be a compendium of all the screenshot fan made comics out there. We wont be doing any hosting, because we ourselves are constantly in flux trying to find the best avenue to display our work. What we will be doing is our best to keep the site updated with links to the various authers and announcements about all the new works we can find. Right now its not much more then a work in progress (in fact I think I am going to get in trouble for showing it) but considering it will all be fan made we can definetly use your patience, support and help in filling it out with content.

If you want in all we ask is that you put the time into making a comic, then be willing to talk about it with others to help them gain the courage to make their own

CCC
-The Legendary J-Man-

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Funny, same problem a year later. Lazyness.

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Which is why everyone but YOU was prepared fer it.
Don't let me catch you slippin.

Thats hawt.

Its the exact animation I needed.

Yer the man!!

I have this here demo record that I made as a test.

demorecord

Its lord recluse standing on a truck then laughing.
If you download it give it a sec, it has recluse hovering for a bit then he'll laugh. But thats the whole movie.

I figured that much out, my question is: How do I add animations to the model?

What I want is to have lord recluse punch the truck he is standing on. So I need the Statesman ground punching animation.

Which means I actually have two questions.

Anyone have the animation string for the Statesman ground punch power, and how do I add it to the model?

Thank you for your time.

PS the website I have to upload files is not the best. You gotta click on it and wait like 15 seconds. I know its not the most convinent, sorry about that.

Well if we are saving threads I would like the J-Force Thread saved.

Its very important with all the historical, and mythical relivence to Freedom.

JFS
-The Legendary J-Man-

You are one of the classiest guys I've ever met.
Both online and off.

Stay Hardcore Lighthouse.

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it seems overwhelming to try and learn the coding to such a level that I could achieve what I'm thinking of.


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it is.