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Personally I think bots are the coolest and most visually impressive MM pets, plus they have the best synergy between the 3 tiers of pets (mainly because they're all ranged and have similar ranges - unlike mercs - so the pets stay together and near you, for bodyguard), so they'd certainly fall under "stylish and functional."
One of the main reasons I've seen people disliking bots is the clanking noise they make when moving, but that never bothered me - in fact it adds to their awesomeness imho, because they sound heavy duty.
I may have no desire to play another MM (felt too detached from the action, plus it was all too easy, yet somehow spawns took longer to kill than for many of my other characters), but I certainly don't regret playing my bot/dark to 50 and having also played /storm to 50 I think bot/storm would work pretty well (better than storm would with melee pets). -
Quote:Yeah I expect that too, so I'm definitely going to wait. I'm going a step further and selling off all the purples I have in storage too, plus my stocks of rare salvage (they should drop sharply in price post-I16 too, as will the commons/uncommons - perhaps even back to pre-AE levels). Sell, sell, sell - here's to affluent liquidity!Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Mayhem:
I'd definitely recommend waiting on any build that involves purples. I'm expecting the new mission settings to lure most/all of the farmers out of MA, resulting in a (relative) flood of purple recipes.
That's why the Goat is so loaded right now- I pulled all my purple bids, sold the recipes I was holding and am waiting to buy them back at a discount once I16 lands.
Of course I expect I16 will close up most of the surprisingly wide niches I've been working on the market lately, so I might as well make hay while the sun shines and store up some capital now for the inevitable bear market post-I16 - save myself a bit of "work" later. -
Most of my tragic bios are on my villains, with the tragedy as the impetus that pushed them to the dark side. Here are the three I consider the most tragic:
Baron Steelfist (50 Bot/Dark Mastermind)
The only organic component remaining in this cyborgs metal shell is the twisted psychotic brain wired up within its steel skull. The brain thinks it was once a man, kidnapped and experimented upon by a mad scientist who had a dangerous obsession with robotics. Sadly the cyborgs memory is damaged so all it remembers clearly now is rage, confusion and the moment it slew the frightened man who had caused it so much pain. In the dead scientists lab were some battle robots which now answer to the cyborgs commands. Recently it incorporated stolen Council technology into its body so that it can project negative energy. Now the cyborg roams, no purpose to its wretched life, yet seeking one. Woe betide those who obstruct its search for meaning in a world that doesnt care what it still feels. It witnessed the start of the Zig breakout from outside of the prison; curious, it broke in to investigate. Now it wonders if Arachnos can grant the purpose it needs and desires with the last of its fading humanity.
Powerbreaker (50 EM/Elec Brute)
Formerly an engineer at a Crey lab, Jack Sutherland was repairing a particle accelerator when it malfunctioned and bombarded his body with subatomic particles. The forces between the atoms of his body were altered, granting him control over energy. Crey held his wife and daughter hostage to guarantee his loyalty then used him for their own ends. After a year of doing Countess Creys dirty work he was allowed to see his family briefly. He rashly tried to break them out of the base, but during the fighting his powers overloaded an experimental generator. The ensuing explosion killed his family, levelled the Crey facility and put him in a coma for weeks. Prosecuted for the deaths and property damage, Jack was incarcerated in Zigursky Prison and seethed with fury as each year passed. Now freed by Arachnos he still blames Countess Crey, seeking revenge on her by any means possible, even if that means working for Lord Recluse. As Powerbreaker he wears an armoured suit he designed to aid in focusing his powers.
Ghost Spider (50 En/En Stalker)
Ryan Kane ran away from the orphanage at 13. That night a cruel Hellion cut him up and burned him, but a primal urge to live drove Ryan to smash the thugs head open on the street before succumbing to his agony. He should have died, but his torment had not gone unobserved. Captain Mako, returning from a mission, had watched it all from the shadows with psychotic glee, yet that spark of savagery suggested potential to him. Dragging the unconscious boy to his submarine off the Talos coast, Mako took him to Grandville. Ryans body was rebuilt with cybernetics stolen from Black Scorpion and he was trained in the killing arts personally by Mako. Excelling as a killer, he is now one of Arachnos top assassins. His bionic implants focus energy to cause or deflect damage and can also project holographic fields for stealth or disguise. After taking out key prison officers at Zigursky on the night of the Breakout, Ryan escaped with the Destined Ones and now poses as one to spy on Project Destiny for Mako.
My Archery/Energy Blaster is also Ryan Kane, but things went rather differently for him in the Defiant-verse than they did for his Union-verse counterpart: Manticore saved him during the Hellion attack, so this Ryan never killed his assailant, and he suffered far less injuries. Manticore paid for Ryan's cybernetic implants (eyes, mainly) and then later recruited him to Wyvern. So Defiant-Ryan still has the seed of the same tragic incident that changed Union-Ryan's life, but having had a different "saviour" made all the difference in the path he ended up walking. -
Most-played for me is Brute, no question - I have 5 of them at L50, more than I have of any other archetype (at L50 or otherwise).
But most often created? Probably Dominator. In I6-7 I made dozens and dozens of Dominators trying to find a combination I liked - 99% of those Doms ended up getting deleted in the mid teens levels (often due to crippling end issues combined with lack of damage). I currently have two Doms at L50, though my next redside levelling project is a Plant/Elec Dominator.
After that it's probably Blasters and Corruptors, for both "played" and "created". -
Quote:Out of my 50s I'd probably have to say my Earth/Fire Dominator and my Ice/Storm Corruptor - mainly for the Earth/ and /Storm parts - those sets just feel "super" because they're very effective in gameplay while also looking so visually impressive.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Random question: What build do you think is the most effective while also being cool looking?
The thought of playing an Earth/Storm Controller blows my mind - I'll have to get around to playing one at some point. -
Quote:^This. I currently have around 1.5billion in liquid inf on both blueside Defiant and redside Union. On Defiant I feel rich because at the moment I don't have anything to spend that inf on and blueside prices tend to be cheaper anyway (except for salvage atm), so I've actually taken a break from marketeering there.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I feel 'rich' when I have enough to get what I want with a surplus.
This can be as little as a million or so for characters I'm just going to slot with generics.
The Goat is sitting on 800 million this morning and he doesn't feel 'rich' because there's still a buy a bunch of super expensive stuff I need to buy him.
So, it's all relative.
On Union I feel poor because I don't have enough inf yet to start on my Fortunata build (I estimate 2+billion required; a little cheaper than her Night Widow build, a little more than each of my Spider builds - though I may wait until post-I16 to start bidding) - plus I'm currently buying recipes for my Elec/Nin Stalker's budget build (i.e. under 500mill) which is slowing down my inf-raising efforts - and so the marketeering continues because I'm not rich enough for what I want to do.
So like Nethergoat I value my inf by what it can currently do for me and what I need, not in purely numerical terms. A rich man is the one who has everything he wants/needs. -
Quote:My threads were all marked as read at some point around 5am today, which is very odd because until 1pm today I hadn't visited any webpage on these forums since Friday afternoon.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Threads get marked as read when you log in, very helpfull.
I had to log-in at 1pm too - the old forums kept me logged in all the time.
It's really impacting my desire to do more than just occasionally browse the forums and check my subscriptions. -
Quote:It was indeed. I'm very glad I joined you guys on it, instead of just helping you to get it started. And I could have done with some warning! I can't be expected to pay attention to onscreen warnings of impending destruction when I'm busy taking screenshots of a MegaMek!Originally Posted by Wolfesbaine
btw, I was the Sonic/Sonic Defender you teamed with on that, and one of the only ones that didn't die at the end. :P Thanks for that TF though, was a blast!
I expect to be playing Defiant blueside a lot more in future (running out of things I want to play on redside... until I16 anyway) and I'm hoping to do a lot more of the blueside TFs - they're about the only content in the game I haven't experienced before (well, along with Indigo/Crimson's arcs - never got around to those either). -
Quote:Like a Death World? The true insidious nature of Australian soap-operas is finally revealed!Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
The only continent that is actively trying to kill everyone on it.
I wonder how long GG's army of smilies would last if dropped into that environment... -
Quote:I always thought the technical term for lager was "light beer" and that ale was a catch-all classification for stouts, bitters, milds, etc. (i.e. dark/heavy beers), but I've met a lot of people with different ideas on that score. Wikipedia goes with pale lagers and ales as the two main classifications of beer.Originally Posted by Lodestar_1977
As far as Im concerned I dont care if most of the world does class lager as beer. Or indeed only has this and considers it the only meaning of beer. To me it isnt :P
You're looking for stouts rather than bitters/milds then - some bitters are opaque and very smooth/viscous/creamy like a stout (but brown in colour rather than the darker almost-black of a stout), but a lot are see-through and just look like a dark lager with less bubbles.Quote:Originally Posted by Oyasumi_Nasai
I prefer Guinness over here but I have only has it cold. What others should I try? I don't drink it if I can see through it so I need dark if possible.
Beamish Stout is a fairly decent substitute for Guinness if you can't get the latter - very similar iron-heavy taste and viscosity. It was known as Beamish Black the last time I drank it (it is now simply called Beamish Stout, according to their website), which was in Dublin, where ironically most of the locals I spoke to recommended it and preferred it to Guinness. As I've only drank it in Ireland (Dublin and Cork) on draught, and have never seen it sold on draught or in cans anywhere else, I have no idea if it travels as poorly as Guinness, but in Ireland I found it was very hard to tell it apart from Guinness (a lot harder than the Pepsi Challenge ). (linky - not much use, as website is under construction).
Murphy's Irish Stout is a little sweeter than Guinness/Beamish, but it is also a nice heavy stout. When I lived in the UK I didn't find it too hard to get in cans and it was pretty good in cans - very close in quality to the draught. In Yorkshire quite a few pubs I went to had it on draught too, but the pubs I frequented when I lived in Buckinghamshire never had it, so it probably has limited regional availability (and consequently is probably not as Internationally-available as Guinness). I can buy it in cans from off-licences/supermarkets here in Guernsey though (and we're pretty much the back-of-beyond when it comes to buying specialised stuff), but nowhere here has it on draught. (linky)
My grandfather (r.i.p.) always used to talk about Mackeson's milk stout as being the best stout - something he had drank a lot in his youth. We thought it was no longer in production until, when I lived in Yorkshire, I found an off-licence that sold it and was able to buy it for him on a semi-regular basis. It came in very small half-size cans back then, and from what I recall it was less viscous than the aforementioned stouts, but it was sweeter too. Nowadays it appears that they are selling it in bottles instead and brew it in the US too (linky).
Those are the only stouts I have experience of, apart from our local brand, Randall's Guilty which I didn't like as much as Guinness, and wouldn't be available outside this island anyway (tbh I don't think they make it anymore). Personally if I'm drinking bitter its because I can't get stout (very few places have Guinness on draft where I live) - on those all-too-common occasions I go for an opaque bitter that forms a nice thick creamy head (like stout's do), which is when I tend to go for Theakston, Bass, Tetley, Boddingtons, etc. -
Quote:Same here, except that I was paying in Sterling and it was EQ2 and Planetside I was playing (though I did log into EQ1 very rarely for nostalgia reasons) - that was the point at which I cancelled my Station Pass too. As it happens I also stopped playing EQ2 and just paid a single sub for Planetside for a few months instead; but with its low player numbers at that time I couldn't justify subscribing to Planetside as my main MMO as there were only a few evenings a week when anything fun was happening, so within a couple of months I had quit PS too. But if I could have continued paying 1.5 times a normal sub for EQ2/EQ1 & PS I probably would have (so I could dabble in EQ2/1 when PS was quiet) - and nowadays I'd be dabbling in Pirates of the Burning Sea too (another MMO that wasn't involved/busy enough to be my main MMO, but that I enjoyed playing in short bursts).Originally Posted by Dersk
When the station pass first came out, it was $22 or $23, which to me justified playing both everquest and planetside. The price later went up to $29.xx, which was the same as two games, so I just cancelled it. Yes, the appeal was that it was cheaper than two seperate games, but it hasn't been like that for a long time, unless went back down, which doesn't sound like Sony. That, and Sony can't leave a decent game alone.
So I think an "all games" pass is a good idea providing it doesn't cost more than 1.5 times a single MMO sub - otherwise it's not really providing much extra value to the subscriber - in my experience people who play more than 1 MMO at a time are in a small minority (unless the other MMO(s) are Guild Wars or F2P titles they use as a "fallback" game between subscription MMOs), and more than 2 subscription MMOs at a time is likely to be very rare (who has the time?).
The Station Pass has worked well for SOE because they have so many MMOs with different gameplay/genres (though they are rather heavy on the fantasy MMO side, like NCSoft are), some of which are skeleton-staffed (in maintenance mode with very little new development) and probably couldn't be sustained if it wasn't for the portion of the Station Pass revenue they receive. Though now one of the Station Pass MMOs has closed (MXO) I do wonder how much longer Planetside has... then Vanguard... then Pirates of the Burning Sea... then SWG... and the Station Pass itself.
I am very curious whether AA and TR could have been saved, or at least given a couple more years of life, if NCSoft had a Station Pass type deal in place at that time. Both offered very different types of gameplay from NCSoft's other titles and would have complemented their other games well. My major criticisms of TR & AA was that they lacked gameplay depth and thus were not worth paying a full sub for as my main MMO, but I would have happily played them in short bursts fairly regularly alongside my main MMO if they had been available as part of a Station Pass kind of package. -
Quote:^This, times several million.Originally Posted by Cynic
Mine marks threads as read before I've read them, I never had problems with the old forum.
This is my biggest problem with the new boards by far.
I'm using Google Chrome on Windows XP - what's your browser/OS and is anyone else experiencing the same issue? -
Lady_Athyna you do realise there's only one "Honorary European" badge in existence, right? If you want it you'll have to wrestle Golden Girl for it...
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Quote:Silly FFM, you don't need to - Penguins already have chocolate coatings. At least all the ones I've unwrapped did.Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Oh give me a break! I only dipped the penguin in it ONCE!
Now the dolphins, we'll definitely need to dip those in the chocolate fountain - after the horses, but probably before the monkeys (they're for dessert, once they've served the between-course cocktails) - unless our Scottish friends were planning to deep-fry them.
We'll probably need a loading dock in one corner as well, so the lorries from the zoo/aquarium can deliver the servants/supplies more easily. -
I may have been too harsh on American biscuits - I suddenly remembered chocolate chip cookies - but honestly I'd still rather have a Custard Cream, Abbey Crunch, Chocolate Hobnob, Rich Tea, Chocolate Bourbon, Ginger Nuts, Malted Milk, etc etc. Martian Manhunter can keep his **** Oreos
Quote:Regardless of the parent company, Budweiser is still technically an American beer/alcopop. I guess it's nice if you like drinking chemical effluent with slightly more alcohol than a glass of lemonadeOriginally Posted by BigFish
Who's sending you the 'American' beer? Miller is owned by SAB Breweries located in England. Anhueser-Busch is owned by InBev, which is a Belgian/Brazillian conglomerate. That means the only 'American' beers are now local microbreweries that won't be seen in the EU
Coors is Canadian, isn't it? Can't say I've tried it. Budweiser put me off the entire continent for any kind of alcoholic beverage. When I drank lager in my younger days I was usually looking towards our Dutch and German friends to supply it (Carlsberg usually).
But I have to agree with Lodestar_1977 - leave the fizzy pop to the kids and get some bitter, ale or stout down your neck. Theakston's Olde English, Bass, Tetleys, Boddingtons at a push (if on draught), but preferably get a nice pint of Guinness down your neck, as supplied by our Irish friends. It may not travel well, but it's still nicer than 100% of lagers. That'll put hairs on your chest! And your stomach... your liver... your gullet ... -
Thanks for this. Bookmarked!
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Quote:^This.Originally Posted by Sir_Troller
Yes bothered, but what can you do about it other then wait patiently.
I just hope it's high up the priority list and will be back soon, or I may start to lose interest in checking the forums daily for info. -
Operating System (Vista, XP, OS X version): Windows XP
Browser: Google Chrome (but happens in IE8 too)
Forum: All of them
Bug Description: Everything gets "marked as read" at certain times (unable to determine the trigger - doesn't just seem to be upon forum visits - maybe it's time-based), seemingly at random, whether I've read the topics or not.
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If Auto Assault and possibly Tabula Rasa were still running then yes I'd consider it (I beta-tested both for over a year, though I liked AA a lot more than TR).
Now? Not at all. There's not a single NCSoft game out now or announced that interests me at all apart from CoH/CoV. -
Captain Mako & Westin Phipps = Big Brother (they'd just thrive on the cruelty of it)
Black Scorpion = Teletubbies (matches his IQ level - pre-schooler)
Viridian = Eastenders and Coronation Street (naturally)
Nemesis = Lost (even he wouldn't be able to work out what's going on!)
Dr Aeon = Scrapheap Challenge (called Junkyard Wars in the US, I believe)
Silver Mantis = [censored] (pay-per-view and X-rated though)
Nosferatu = Angel / True Blood
Vandal & Archon Burkholder = Robot Wars
Lanaru the Mad = Britain's/America's Got Talent (you'd have to be insane to watch it!)
Johnny Sonata = The Sopranos -
I'd like to ask the Devs when we might be getting some new map tilesets and layouts, in the hope that some of them could be retroactively applied to existing content. New powersets are always nice, as are new zones with new contacts offering Dev-created content (remember when we used to get those in issues? ). But I dare say that most players spend most of their time inside instances looking at the same decor we've been looking at for the majority of the last 4-5 years.
I need some new areas to play in. Heck, in the interim I'd settle for some art re-skins of the existing lab, office, warehouse, cave, etc maps (style selected randomly upon zoning in from several choices) so that at least the maps would look different on the surface, even though we'd still know the layouts of the rooms (and likely the whole map, in most cases) off by heart.
Quote:Damz, you're being logical - are you feeling ill?Originally Posted by EU_Damz
But thats the whole point of this forum merge, now ALL players have an equal chance of having direct contact with a dev.
If we have seperate ideas threads for various regions then it defeats the entire purpose of the merger.
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I know you said no more submissions, but at some point in the far future when you have time you're welcome to try my low level arc, if you wish:
Arc Title: The Renegade Rebellion
Arc ID: 117690
Level Range: L1-15
Morality: Neutral
Soloable: Yes
EBs/AVs: None - ignore the in-game EB warning, it's wrong
Missions: 5
Enemy factions: Clockwork, Coralax, Minions of Igneous, Spectral Pirates, Custom Group (no custom mobs in it)
City of Guides link: Clicky
It was designed as an arc to get a completely new L1 character to L6-7 (ready to do 3 newsies/pbands + mayhem/safeguard to get to L10), so you may wish to use a fresh character for it.
It's not quite as epic as my other two arcs (listed in my sig), but they're both L45-50 endgame arcs (or at least the final mission of 220049 is L45-50 - I'd rather it was L30-50 like the rest of the arc, but the levels of some required-by-story EBs preclude it). -
Quote:The question is, would Damz want mint sauce with that? Or lard?!Originally Posted by deathkitten_EU
I'm surprised no one's yet pointed out that the guy saying he'd "never heard anyone say they'd really fancy some mushy peas" is from WALES where they barely even eat fish and chips let alone mushy peas and often despise everything to do with England We all know what mushy peas would be replaced with in the "i'd really fancy some <>" sentence
To our American overlo... errr I mean friends! - you can keep your beer and biscuits (that'll confuse 'em!) - or preferably import some of our superior varieties! - but please continue to send over the southern fried chicken and the key lime pies!
I almost said you can keep your chocolate too, but it appears that Galaxy chocolate may have originated in Chicago - for that I can almost forgive your entire nation for the Hershey bar I tasted in 2005 ...blech.
Starbucks... meh. I find your lack of tea rooms most disturbing! -
Quote:A likely story! You just like taking up more space!Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan
For now. My double posts were CAUSED by the timeouts!
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My friend and I rushed a few new pacted duos to L20/Stamina on Defiant, so we could skip past the dull blueside newbie levels as swiftly as possible. For me that meant getting a Tanker (Shield/SS), Defender (Dark/Sonic) and Controller (Illu/Rad) to L20 during dxp (the only three non-epic archetypes I don't already have at L50 - the Illu/Rad is now the one I'll focus on first to L50), and I even found time to solo my new-ish DB/WP Scrapper from L15 to L20 as well.
I now have rather a lot of blueside Defiant characters at L20, including an Energy/MM Blaster (levelled L1-20 during the last dxp weekend), and an Ice/Ice Blaster I haven't played since I8. I had vaguely hoped to find time to get a Peacebringer to L20 as well (the only other archetype I don't have at L20), but I didn't have time and couldn't decide on a name/costume/bio anyway.
I also did a very fun Hess TF (my first time ever on that TF) with my L50 Blaster (sacrificing my beloved Rain of Arrows when I exemped /cry), for some nice doubled Prestige which allowed me to finish adding storage to the second workshop in our blueside base, completing its layout.
I did absolutely nothing on Union, for the first weekend in a loooong time, except to monitor the ebil schemes of my marketeer characters. I have a stalker in a regular duo with a corruptor there at L46, but didn't rush them to L50 in dxp because my friend and I feel that the Grandville-based content is the best written and most fun in the whole game and we enjoy playing through it at normal pace. We don't mind the redside newbie levels either (despite having played through them dozens more times than blueside), so we were more concerned with using dxp to skip through the dull blueside newbie experience.