Liz Bathory
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Assuming there are no legal international laws blocking this...
* Merging the accounts of NCSOFT NA and NCSOFT EU
+ Easy access to the forums (no selection where you are)
+ Access to EU and access to US game
+ Easy administration on the Account site of NCSOFT
+ All bought expansions available on EU and US
+ If done right all vet rewards on both games
- Lesser subs. As EU subs and NA subs seperate will give twice the money if both accounts are active.
- Possible that a big part (prob. EU) will have to change their global name.
If this is done then it would be technical absolutly no problem to merge the list of servers in the game and make transfers between EU and NA simple and possible. Meaning everyone can play with everyone and choose which community he/she likes best. One global makes global tells possible between all players of the whole game.
* Merging the websites...
+ Easier administration and updates. All data has to be only added once.
+ One list of servers in the server check. Incl all servers with COX on it.
+ One URL www.cityofheroes.com. Easy access all over the world.
+ One look and feel. Better and proffesional publishity.
- Harder administration and updates. All data entered has to be translated to german and french.
- More data to browse through incl. events. This will make it harder to find the data relevant to EU or US.
- No auto help to get to EU version or US version of the game. if the accounts are merged as option 1 suggests then that would be the same game and irrelevant though. -
What I was meant to say is that I am comletly for merging the whole website part.
I cant understand why it was splitted anyway to start with. One site with several translations. Working flags to switch language and news for all regions at the same time. Server status including all servers running COX.
Like the one forum. That still has a splitted part for the accounts. I have my account at NCSOFT. And I am completly oke with that account to be merged with the US account. removing the need to add NA or EU choice on top of this forum. It would be one step further up the road to one server list available to all. Something I have been fighting for for years now. -
Quote:I have a better idea...Originally Posted by Supafunkadunka
As another option for my European brothers, you can become Canadian. We're like America, only without that bitter American aftertaste!
As all americans aside of the Native American where original from Europe. And Canadians and South Americans the same. All come from Spain, Ireland, Portugal Italy, French etc.
It would be waay more handy to just have that whole continent become part of Europe and be done with it. -
Quote:Statesman and the original lead designer of City of...Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
Jack who?
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Quote:This was copied from Ultima Online which could do the same.Originally Posted by Kierthos
Dark Age of Camelot has housing it in which (back when I was playing) was frequently used as guild housing. (You could set permissions on who could enter your house, and one of the options was 'only people in the same guild as me').
Basically, you could buy different sizes of house (from small cabin to multi-story house), and decorate both the inside and outside (all houses come with a yard). You could set up a Consignment Merchant to sell goods for you (think of it as a Wentworth's, but the only things for sale in it are things you put up for sale), and you could have NPC merchants on the inside of the house that offer various services (weapon/armor repair, selling basic items, etc.).
There was a pretty wide range of decorative items, including trophies that you could fashion out of the remains of some defeated enemies (dragon heads, taxidermied critters, etc.), and you could even put decorative weapons on the walls.
Now, one thing you really couldn't do was change the floor plan. If you had a particular size of house, it had the same floor plan as every other house of that size. But you could change everything else... wall color, floor color, where you wanted your NPCs to stand, etc. On the outside, you could change the wall color, roof color, etc., and even have stuff in your yard. Most people went for a decorative garden or things like that. I, on the other hand, went for 'redneck'. (Outhouse in the side yard, broken wagon wheels near the front porch....) -
Quote:Funny thing... now that Star Trek Online is in need of attention because of the coming launch... the updates of Champions Online has been low to non-excistent. Dev's are being pulled away from CO to STO. As STO is a far better and more promising franchise...Originally Posted by PumBumbler
That is a pretty serious allegation. Do you have any direct proof showing that Cryptic was actively attempting to kill CoH? NCSoft would probably sue the pants off of Jack/Cryptic if there was any such evidence.
I would presume that CoH was suffering from quite a bit of neglect because Jack Emmert was busy working on securing DCU and MUO, and diverting resources to land the 'whales', but that would just be trying to bite off more than he could chew rather than claiming he was trying to commit suicide.
From an external perspective (at the time), it would make more sense to build up the CoX customer base and then sell them the idea of transferring over to something like MUO after it was launched. To try and kill your only cash income stream before the other product has launched makes no sense whatsoever.
Cryptic probably just couldn't afford to keep the development pace of 2 MMOs but their greed forced them to divert critically needed resources from CoX to MUO.
That does sound extremly formilliar to me with what Jack Emmert has done before. Doesn't it? -
You can still do Ourobourous at high repp.... and have a challenge. Or do high repp Mission Architects.
Try mine (look below)... If you like a challenge. -
Its easy here.. youre right in some aspect.
This game needs a larger pool of instance maps or one that randomize builds them. For the immersian its also neccisary that the mission door fits the zone scren and that descides the pool of maps. So that it is not possible to enter an office building... get a rikti zone scren and a COT cave map. -
Take care Pious.
Suraya will take care of business for you at the Nighthunters (helped a lot by the people around her).
Pistol can wander around but her room will stay free in the Castle Bathory. Elizabeth likes her new BFF too much.
A break is always good. And if you come back during Going rogue... who knows?
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Thinking of a fitting name and not be afraid to have to change it to alternative ones. It keeps working.
UNION toons...
Bathory Erzsebet (Erzsebet Bathory was taken, but she wrote it like this herself backthen)
Countess Bathory (Elizabeth Bathory and Blood Countess where taken)
Cher Nobyl (taken on most servers by someone, same as Hiro Shima. Fire/Rad)
Nightseye (took me a few comboes to get. Egyptean catwoman)
G.I. Camouflage (Camouflage was my 1st idea)
Dr. Eugene Silver (robot mm.. Dr. + nerd name + Metal)
Uebermensch (Ubermensch was taken... but the Umlaut is not available in the name... and then the official spelling is Uebermensch)
Desert Princess (can you believe this was in one take! Illusion/therm arabian)
Aludra Stellaris (its not esy coming up with an alien name, But google on star names helps)
Shannon O'Banshee (Banshee, Fae, Irish.. 1st and last name is always easy to find one)
Tom Orrow (time traveller, first idea was Justin Time and was taken)
Thinking of the concept and then trying out names keep working every time. I dont have guessed or simple names.
Wanted to make a psi/mental dom... Thought about her looks. Copied Nancy from Sin City... Nancy was first name... Mental powers..? Mesmer was the man who invented mesmerism (what later became hypnose)...
Nancy Mesmer
Tarana (Taranis is a celtic god. The toon is a huge female brute with SS/WP)
Lilith Desdemonia (Lilith is an easy name to link to a demoness... Desdemonia came almost naturally. And the toon is 3 years old. So no link to the Going Roue one)
I have a spider free. Deleted the guy... his name was... Taran Tula. Maybe its still out there.
Some more from history... Yim Wing-Chun
She is the legendary developer of Wing-Chun Kung-Fu who I trasported across time to Paragon. And it was ok on first hit.
Marie Laveau the witch-queen of new oleans. Free too!!! And she is just perfect as Necro/potion
Nope.. you are forced to think and be creative. But names are still there. Remember that internet is youre friend in finding a good name.
Make up youre power set you want to play. Then think of a concept for the hero. The name will come too you
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08/01/2010, Twilight, Castle Báthory, Cap Au Diable
Báthory Erzsébet rose from her carved wooden coffin. Though she preferred her large bed enourmously to the hard wood and desicrated soil it was one of the periodically needs she had as a vampire. Her bare feet touched the stone and slowly she walked towards her office. The candles ignited by themselves upon her passing them. The moment she actually entered her office the fireplace bursted into flames leaving an eery light of the flames. Her black nightgown slightly transparant.
Her undead eyes saw her daily posts... a small stack of letters and some news papers. Amoung them was a copy of 'The Informer'. The image with the frontpage article already made her hiss with anger...
Back in the Game
In what is probably shocking news to vendors of cheap spirits, ladies of loose morals, and of course not forgetting angry mobsters whose name starts with the letter 'M' we at the Informer have the pleasure to report that one of the Rogue Isles most colorful personalities has finally decided to get off his backside and get back to work. Tiger-striped pants wearing monster hunter for hire Big Game has...
She could stand no more... As if the Nighthunters wheren't enough... now HE has to be back too! She threw The Informer into the fire... slowly the flames burned through the image of the monster hunter. Elizabeth looked at the flames and tried to calm down. She will have to make plans that involved him now too.
But she had time on her side...
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Quote:It would be nice for Desert Princess to have her own personal nemesis. Maybe we can even make an arabian looking/feeling arc or mission for it. So.. let s see how we do thatOriginally Posted by Rock_Powerfist
..sorry was away over xmas and no PC ...
no the reason i though my of my villain as a Dread foe type is he is a Djinn , a ghul ( Brute ) and a magic using (Dom), demon assasin leadering ( MM ) criminal...seemed a good foe link to Liz's NH toon ..
as for baddiy NPC types to kill , i have a couple of defunked alts i can clear out to make up some bots..
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The date of the opening changed to today.... As the store manager (me = Suraya) isnt in the country even this weekend.
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Quote:The problem is that for survival of a game we need new starting players. The old ones will have at least a 75% of staying subs like you. So no problem there.Originally Posted by Desmodos
For the sake of clarity; Going Rogue will not make or break CoH for me personally. I expect I'll be playing CoH until they shut down the servers and kick us out. My hiatus has nothing to do with GR. GR is just a convenient point for me to jump back in to the game but any arbitrary point would suffice.
Ultimately, existing players don't care about any of this. Yeah, CoH may be over 5 years old, but it still looks great. Pretty graphics are nice and all, it's not what current CoH players looking to have improved. We need existing content revamped and stream lined. We need new content.
To keep old players in the devs kept the option to turn ultra mode off. It is also the reason why its based on OpenGL. That way the effect on old riggs will be the lowest.
Have you noticed that all updates till now involve QoL, old things that where asked for for years... and stuff that is now in modern games. Making it possible for COX to hold its own on the shelves next to the modrn games. THAT is what the devs want. A new start.
That doesnt really involve what the few old school subs on the forum think. -
I can set up a normal tf in 10-20 min flat on union villains.
What youre suggesting here is diff. Also... the members on a forum is maybe not even 1/4 of the total community. -
Quote:precicly what I wanted to say. Completly agreed.Originally Posted by Jophiel
Encouraged grouping. Where "encouraged" is somewhere on the spectrum between "hey, it'd be nice..." and "You won't make it out of the newbie zone without a full team" depending on the game.
One of the complaints I kept hearing about [that other game] was "Everyone's a tank-mage and can solo just about all the content. There's no reason to group and you might as well be playing a single player game." -
Why does everyone here misses the point that GR is not merely there for giving new content... but is meant to be upgrading the whole game!!!
As it is the game we play has 3-5 year old tech. GR will upgrade a lot of that starting with a complete gfx upgrade. It also will bridge COH and COV as it has become clear that the hard border between those two splitted the community in two.
The 2 power sets dual pistols and Demon summoning are actually 2 complete new sets. Not rehashed stuff. The powers are completely new.
COV hardly had new NPC groups. GR will be swarmned with reworked/new NPC groups.
Also the new zone may well be without any war walls. That is also new tech that maybe reproduced later in the old zones too. A zoneless environment is one of the impossible features we received lately. Like colorisation of powers. Something that was impossible to do before.
All upgrades we had till now have been working on kicking this game to modern levels while trying not to loose old ones. I say lets give the dev's a chance. That is a huge undertaking. -
If Pistol asks Elizabeth... She will get the support she needs from the Court of the Blood Countess. Elizabeth would probably try and use the confusion to get ridd of some key heroes that are specialized hunters of her and her kind.
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Quote:Remember and own them all on dvd.Originally Posted by beyeajus74018
Big starring Tom Hanks
Short Circuit 1 & 2
Monster Squad
I don't know if you remember any of those but they were great!
Back to the future
Vamp
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Well.. I will pre-order on the info we have now without hesitation.
The price alone is low for the hours I spend in it, and the free month that will come is already worth a good amound of the cost. Win-win...
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Quote:Originally Posted by TeChameleon
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Magic
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The Amulet of J'gara - Heroic
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Mystery
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Military
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Comedy
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The Great Chicken Caper of '09 - Heroic
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Comedy/Drama
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Lawyers of Ghastly Horror - Heroic
How to Survive a Robot Uprising - Heroic
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Crime/Gangs
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Classic Super-Hero/Super-Villain
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Mythology
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Anactoria's Descent Into the Underworld - Villainous
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Character/Supergroup Origins
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Horror
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Small Fears - Heroic
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Holiday
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Sci-Fi
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Adventures of the Space Marines --- Neutral
Adventures of the Space Marines 2 ---Neutral
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Un-themed Survival/AV/Time Challenges
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The Meatgrinder - Neutral
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Historical (Realistic)
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Historical (CoH Lore)
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Drama
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Misc. Adventure
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The Portal Bandits - Heroic
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Global Domination
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I think you have too many categories...
Rise of the blood countess part 1 easily fits in Magic, Historical (Reality), Hostorical (COX) and Horror
Rise of the blood countess part 2 fits in Historical (Reality), Historical (COX) and Horror -
Just got a new vampire in the court... and her sire is an npc killed off by the Nighthunters offscreen. This will start happening more from now on.
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This already done before.. And you could join the bandwagon so to speak. The Paragon City Rockscene is active in the Union Roleplay community at least.
I can give you an excample... http://union.virtueverse.com/index.php/Dee_Dee_Diablo
Not sure what server youre willing to play with this concept though. -
My main has been 50 for years and not yet finished...
Step 1: Make toon looking as good as you can with Biography
Step 2: Level to 50 using normal content
Step 3: Work out youre biography even better... And you re different costumes...
Step 4: Build an SG and base
Step 5: Do all Task Forces and Raid...
Step 6: Get high enhances. The Inventory System will give you powers upon powers above lvl 50. And the prices will have you working the game for months afterwards.
Step 7: Get Purple lvl 50 enhancements. More costly and even stronger
Step 8: Get special Temp powers.
Possibly coming... Rumours...
Step 9: Global Enhancements only available from lvl 50. GR content rumour.
Step 10: Getting as many Badges as you can...
If you done all this... youre toon is strongest as you can get and you have done all the game can offer. Are you there already?!
Step 11: Doing challenging Mission Architect content on higher repp. Try those in my sig on high repp and let me know what you think. And the good arcs never get old. Search for roleplayers made content. Those are often very well written. -
there are three ma arcs you can already use that has you fighting the court and liz. And i may set one of the courts meetings in warburg