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I'm excited!

I've been wanting to make a mind dom for a while but never had anything to pair it with (I don't really like replaying sets), so yay for my upcoming mind/earth ^___^

Happy birthday!
<3

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Was this you?
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Posted by StarkFist on 07/06/09 at 3:27PM

I am a COH player and veteran of other online games. I'm not a huge fan of PVP, but even though I rarely go into the PVP zones, I had heard of Twixt through the grapevine. However, contrary to this article, Twixt was never the most reviled person in the game or even on his server, just a minor annoyance to the small PVP community with delusions of grandeur.

In my experience, in game or real life, you get back a lot of what you put out there. If you treat people with kindness and respect, they tend to treat you with respect in return. On the other hand, if you treat everyone you meet with contempt, you should not be surprised when people start to dislike you. Or to put it even more simply, what goes around, comes around.
This rule of "social groups," to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, did not originate with video games.

The article makes it sound like "magically transporting other players to a robot firing squad" takes some kind of skill. It does not- even a non-PVP player like me could sit around and do that all day if I wanted to be as scorned as Twixt. In the game it is generally considered cowardly since there is not any actual fight or skill involved. Yes, it is technically within the "rules" but is not considered sportsmanlike or honorable. If what this article claims is true, it wasn't Twixt's "skill" that kept him alive, it was his ability to hide behind the robotic skirts of the zone drones.

His "experiment" seems to be to test the hypothesis that if you behave like a jerk in a video game, people will treat you like a jerk. Shocking, groundbreaking work there. GG Prof. Myers.

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Very well said. Quite honestly i feel the tone of the article and the Professor's own words show him to be very lacking in even a pretense of objectivity or awareness of how many others actually viewed him in regards to his own behavior.

i also recall him being a topic of humor and mild annoyance for most, not "the most hated player in the game". True, some of the PvP types might have felt that way, but even most of them just thought he was annoying or amusing IIRC.

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/agree
This whole book thing surprised me because I thought that the paper was a joke in the first place. This "study" still seems ridiculous, unoriginal and poorly executed to me.

Hide doesn't cost end anymore, iirc.


http://coh.redtomax.com/data/powers/...nse.Dark_Armor

I read the paper, but I can't believe that he's doing a book.

I love it <3

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

I always do Billie Heck. I like his missions - Family and Hellions - and the fact that he gives you three EBs to fight.

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Sound like fun, I may join this with a mind/something if I can think of a costume/concept

Just a reminder, guys, the point of this thread is to post feedback on someone's story and then ask for some on your own, rather than just asking for feedback. This isn't supposed to just be an "OMG DO MY MISHONZ" thread, because then people just post their arcs and few of them actually get run...

That way, it is much more likely that your arc will be reviewed because if someone wants to ask for feedback they have to do someone's arc first!

Arc Name: The Pale Horizon
Arc ID: 6859
Faction: Hero
Creator Global/Forum Name: @Lovelife (I think that it has Like Flames as the creator.)
Difficulty Level: medium - I found it easy on heroic solo, but cranking the difficulty can make some of the mobs pretty nasty. I haven't done a team run with bosses, but they may be a bit of a challenge if they work how I mean them to!
Synopsis: A new villain group has been amassing magical artifacts and you need to look into it before it gets out of hand.
Estimated Time to Play: Stealthing 3/4 missions solo, it took me about 15 minutes. There is only one defeat all (on a small map) and the others are on medium maps with an objective at the end.

I just published it the other day after working on it for only a few hours, so there is almost definitely room for improvement. I haven't had a chance for extensive testing, just a few runs through solo, so I never encountered one of my custom bosses, so I'm hoping that they work out fine! Overall, I like how it turned out, but comments are always welcome

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3 for both, then?

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That's what I was thinking. It might be a personal thing, I just don't like having that many glowies if there aren't clues with them. I guess it could give it a more epicish feel, like you're stealing a lot of stuff from the lab, which would work too

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Maybe I should talk about him more in previous missions, but where should I put him in?

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I'm not sure, but maybe in the beginning when the contact is talking about the Contessa (sorry when I was writing the review for some reason Countess came out :P) throw in a sentence mentioning him.
It is kind of easy to confuse me sometimes, though, so it probably isn't a big deal.

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Would you believe that's what I was going for?

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Haha, yes! I figured that that was the point, and I thought that it was well done

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The first thing I noticed is that the contact talks to me like she knows me. What the heck, man! Is it too much to ask for an introduction? :P

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I guess that is true, I'll work on that!

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The glowie in the first mission gave me nothing; no system text, no clue, not even text in the progress bar. So I don't know what to make of it. Since the only other goal in the mission was to beat all the enemies, for all I knew I was going into an abandoned office and smacking around some squatters because they were there. Also, at the end of the mission I get some papers for a clue, but no mention as to whether it was on the enemies or lying around or a previous tenant's grocery list or what. That could use some clarification, and maybe a boss to drop it.

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Oh noes, haha. I didn't even realize, I must have put the clue in the wrong spot. It was supposed to be found at the glowie >.<

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The clue at the end of the third mission just cuts off without finishing. It goes "Em said that she took the necklace when she". When she what? Come on, don't leave me hanging!

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I had all of this written out in word, so that must have been a copy/paste error that I didn't catch.
edit: ah, I had hit the 300 word cap editing time!

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By the fourth mission I realized I didn't really know much at all about the Pale Sun. I gathered that they somehow distributed magical energy throughout their ranks, but they didn't seem to have any motivation. For all I know they could've intended to bring water to orphans in Africa. They did take that woman's necklace, but there was only a brief mention at the very end why it was special. That's one of the challenges in making believable characters; they need to have motivations, personalities.


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I had a lot more written, but going through I felt like it was just a lot of reading, although, in hindsight, I guess it was important reading!

Thanks for your help! I'll go review it again later on today

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Anyway, here's my stuff.

Arc Name: The Bravuran Jobs
Arc ID: 9257
Faction: Villain alignment, Bravuran Militia (custom group), Wyvern, Legacy Chain, Carnies
Creator Global/Forum Name: @Zasani/GlaziusF
Difficulty Level: Easy/Medium (stock some CABs for the last boss)
Synopsis: The tiny sovereignty of Bravura arose in the wake of the Rikti War. While it claims an ancient ruling dynasty, it's an open secret that its holdings are products of military conquest. Sounds like your kind of place. And even better, they're looking for freelancers.
Estimated Time to Play: 30-90 minutes, depending on how much fighting you're up for

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((includes spoilers))

-mission 1 --> The Countess made an interesting character. I liked that she'd put herself in danger in order to assess your skills.

-mission 2 --> Something that I found odd was that the triggered hostage spawns were untargetable until they were aggroed. I wasn't sure if that was a setting that I didn't know about (and there are many of them) or a bug?

-mission 3 --> I liked this, the Countess kind of overruling the government for her own agenda - she reminds me a bit of a medieval Countess Crey.

For the third and fourth missions, I thought that 6 glowies might be a little much. If there are x number of clues, there isn't really a need for the excess glowies, in my opinion.

-mission 4 --> I was a little puzzled by parts of this. It made sense, and I enjoyed it, in reference to the whole newspaper job line, but I really wasn't sure what the Duchess was talking about with lines like, "step aside and let me shine," "glorious production," I'm not sure what she was referencing. She also mentions, "The Comt," who had never been mentioned and I didn't know who she was talking about, but then even the contact only sort of alluded to him.

-mission 5 --> This mission seemed to continue from the first better than the other ones. While the others gave the impression that you were being tested without explicitly saying so, I liked that this kind of pulled it all together.

Overall, I really enjoyed that "this is what you're doing" *winkwink* feel of the arc, it made me giggle. The only thing is, though, that it kind of felt like, literally, a bunch of newspaper missions. Out of 2,3,4, 3 was the only one that seemed to have any connection to the Countess story, even though, as I said before, it was alluded to that she was keeping an eye on you and your abilities.

Your custom group can hit pretty hard! I was on my blaster, whose only form of crowd control is holds, and the mez protection made them a bit of a challenge since I'm so used to just mezzing lieuts and bosses - once I adjusted I didn't have a problem with them though.

4 stars

The only spelling mistake I caught was:
-Mission 3, clue: "Experimental Medicine": "the egg heads get"





mine:

Arc Name: The Pale Horizon
Arc ID: 6859
Faction: Hero
Creator Global/Forum Name: @Lovelife (I think that it has Like Flames as the creator.)
Difficulty Level: medium - I found it easy on heroic solo, but cranking the difficulty can make some of the mobs pretty nasty. I haven't done a team run with bosses, but they may be a bit of a challenge if they work how I mean them to!
Synopsis: A new villain group has been amassing magical artifacts and you need to look into it before it gets out of hand.
Estimated Time to Play: Stealthing 3/4 missions solo, it took me about 15 minutes. There is only one defeat all (on a small map) and the others are on medium maps with an objective at the end.

I just published it the other day after working on it for only a few hours, so there is almost definitely room for improvement. I haven't had a chance for extensive testing, just a few runs through solo, so I never encountered one of my custom bosses, so I'm hoping that they work out fine! Overall, I like how it turned out.

Arc Name: The Pale Horizon
Arc ID: 6859
Faction: Hero
Creator Global/Forum Name: @Lovelife (I think that it has Like Flames as the creator.)
Difficulty Level: medium - I found it easy on heroic solo, but cranking the difficulty can make some of the mobs pretty nasty. I haven't done a team run with bosses, but they may be a bit of a challenge if they work how I mean them to!
Synopsis: A new villain group has been amassing magical artifacts and you need to look into it before it gets out of hand.
Estimated Time to Play: Stealthing 3/4 missions solo, it took me about 15 minutes. There is only one defeat all (on a small map) and the others are on medium maps with an objective at the end.

I just published it this afternoon after working on it for only a few hours, so there is almost definitely room for improvement. I haven't had a chance for extensive testing, just a few runs through solo, so I never encountered one of my custom bosses, so I'm hoping that they work out fine! Overall, I like how it turned out.
Comments more than welcome here, the critique thread or pm me

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Lovelife, how many 50's you got now? I know you got a few with the themed teams.

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6 - 3 hero (blaster blaster emp) 3 villain (corrs)
Only the fire/rad and ice/cold corruptors are from superteams - I do have a dom that got semi-close with the burning bush. I've never done any of the hero-side ones though.

My forum namesake ice/mm/cold hit 50 on Saturday! Woo!

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I suggest you try anyway. You've got enough skills that they might just let you pick up the package on the job, especially if you're a fast learner.

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I agree. Apply anyway.

From what I've seen of your videos Samauraiko you could barf on the keyboard and make a better video than the person that made that I13 video.

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I concur!

I was kinda like lol but I was moar like wth

Star Strider Forces Registry
Name: Like Flames
Global Contact: @Onora
Level of Classification: 50
Origin: Science
Super Rank & Super Group: Leader, Count Three and Pray

*Other member of Count Three and Pray will be waiting in the wings as well.


I'm still not sure what this is, but I must say, I'm intrigued.

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Temporal is the only person that I have on ignore.
I still read his posts, I just like to be able to keep track of him easily with all the name changes




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and that's just because they decided they didn't like a black character i made and wanted to let me know "da sous will rys agin."

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haha, that's ridiculous- people really scare me sometime though >.>
a lot of my characters are black






and, yeah, I'm really excited about the new io sets and thanks for the post Talen <3

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Lighthouse: Have a good one. I'll remember when Rick_Astley sent you that CD...and RickRolled you in the office.

That was grand.

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I wish that thread wasn't deleted

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Maybe I'd feel bad if you'd accepted my facebook friend request


seriously though, good luck with whatever the future has in store
&lt;3