Liz Bathory

Originally Posted by Caemgen

Glad you all like Maelfearance, he's been in my head for a while.... As for making him game, it's only slightly the CC that prevents me, it's more because he just wouldn't fit into gameplay well. He is too all powerful, it would kind of be like trying to play Galactus or something. *shrug*



I definitely agree with you! And best part is, the artist (EuROPA777) is pretty darn cheap to boot!

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

The thing is, so much team recruiting is done using the good old, "<Blah> team forming, pst if interested," method that F2P players will be completely excluded from joining teams that form this way (which is most of them, isn't it?).

I predict there will be a torrent of exchanges like this on every server:

[Broadcast] Noobee: what is pst
[Broadcast] Anglyznorgast1cyzm: pst = please send tell
[Broadcast] Noobee: how do i send a tell
[Broadcast] PrettyPinkKittee90210: /tell
[Broadcast] Noobee: it says i cant cuz im on a free acct
[Broadcast] Anglyznorgast1cyzm: pay the 5 bucks or learn to love soloing, noobster
[Broadcast] Noobee: this game sux bye

Originally Posted by Caemgen

Turnaround/Model Sheets done by EuROPA777.

And finally, we have Malfearance. Malfearance doesn't actually exist in game, nor could he... No costume pieces fit for his look and no power sets for him. In my mind and own personal little story lines he is the ultimate bad guy, the Big Bad, the power behind everything. He would never work in RP as he is the ultimate godmodded character... His power is basically infinite though the chains upon him do sap him down to a level where he cannot just destroy the universe with a wave of his hand... Though that is his ultimate goal. Still, he would be lurking behind every great evil... Whispering in the ear of the likes of Nemesis and Recluse and goading them on, subtly influencing them to bring about Malfearance's own goals...

Anyway, he's a character I have had in my head for years and I finally, finally got him rcreated in art!

Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan

So, a 12 hour downtime window, but they're actually physically relocating the servers?

Right, soo... See you all in about 48 hours then (and that's being optimistic).

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I know of a few forum names that were taken:

Snow Globe (multiple variations)
Zombie Man (both Snow Globe and Zombie Man taken by the same user)
Arcanaville
War Wench
Blondeshell
Golden Girl (multiple variations)
Taxibot Belle (taken by a poster that probably specifically targeted the owner)

I'm upset that the Ustream announcement the game was up was delayed by 15 minutes, as I probably could have got my name.

Originally Posted by Sun_Runner

Not so. I'd call them stupid for voluntarily taking such losses unless other factors are more important to them.

Average XP Farmer (w/ Group): 8 - 13 minutes per map, assuming 10 minutes for these purposes.
Ticket Cap per Map: 1500 Tickets, assuming they are doing the useful ones.
Ticket to INF: 550 tickets for 1.5 million influence, assuming the worst possible method of spending tickets
INF per Map from Tickets: 4 million

With me so far? Cool.

Average Ticket Farmer (Solo or Special Map): 3 - 8 minutes per map (no bosses), assuming 5 minutes for these purposes.
Ticket Cap per Map: 1500 Tickets
Ticket to INF: 550 tickets to 1.5 million influence
INF per Map from Tickets: 4 million

Following along are we? Good.

30 minutes of farming: XP Farmer makes 12 million influence. Ticket Farmer makes 24 million influence. An hour of farming: XP Farmer makes 24 million influence. Ticket Farmer makes 48 million influence. Etc. Assuming both are stupid about how they spend their tickets.

Does this mean that XP Farmers who farm for free are generous? Not necessarily. They are either ignorant or some other factor is more important to them than making influence alone. Usually, some other factor is more important. That may, or may not, be generosity. Depends on the player.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

He might have to be dealt with later on if he does something crazy

For example, Vanessa DeVore has been revealed as the guiding force behind the Resistance, and Calvin Scott is just their military commander - but now that Vanessa is dead, and the influence she had over Calvin might be lost, and rather than looking at the bigger picture, he might decide to try and get Aurora back by launching an attack on Mother Mayhem's asylum, with the justification that it has to be done at once because without Vanessa to shield the Resistance from the Seers, the entire movement is in danger - plus, there's also the possibility that Penelope Yin, who also happens to be in the aylum, might be lined up as replacement for her mother as the protector of the Resistance from the loyalist thought police.
So we'd naturally help with the assault on the Asylum, but run into problems with Calvin if it became clear that the only way to defeat Mother Mayhem was to kill her, meaning that Aurora would also be lost forever - and the Resistance commandos that had helped us attack the asylum would probably side with their leader, rather that the visitors from Primal Earth.
And what better place would there be for Calvin's obsession to tip over into madness in the very place where it all began, and faced again with the monster who stole his wife? The final fight would see us versus Mother Mayhem and her Seers, plus Calvin Scott and his Resisatnce commandos, with Penelope Yin and possibly Katie Douglas helping us - it'd be insanity in the asylum

When we defeated them, Mother Mayhem and Calvin could both be fatally wounded, but Praetor Tilman's consciousness would have been destroyed with some kind of mental overload in a last desperate attempt to stop us, so that would allow Calvin and Aurora to share a moment before they both died.
Penelope Yin could then lead the Resistance, which would now have a hgue army of libertaed Seers to help them, and the last major hurdle between us and Tyrant would be gone - we'd have turned back his invasion, and fought our way through his evil empire, defeating his Praetorian Guard one after the other, leaving only Praetor Duncan and her boyfriend in their tower in Nova Praetoria for the final showdown

Originally Posted by Giant2005

They might not be of any use to you but that doesn't mean they are crap and deserving of being rated as such. Surely you can respect the amount of time, effort and clever thinking put into the better farms out there.
I have personally logged over 24 hours of my time trying to tweak my farm to perfection and you know what? My farm is absolutely terrible. I refuse to use it even.
Maybe you should try making a decent farm before you judge them all so harshly just so you realize how much effort and detail is really required.
I am not referring to the plethora of crappy farms out there that you are probably most familiar with. They deserve whatever crappy rating you can give them - literally no thought has been put into them. I am advocating that the masterpieces be treated as such. Those that have been designed to be perfectly efficient with every small detail taken into account and the effort put in to not only do it once but to make a full 5 mission arc.