Miss_Kitty

Noooooo!

I come back.. only.. to find.. THIS?!

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We can argue with the specifics all we want, but the game is a better place all around.

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Except for The Hollows... I can never forgive him for that.

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Notice I avoided saying that EVERYTHING was better..

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I'm still one of the few who thought the nerfs were a good thing

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Yeah.. looking back it makes a lot more sense now than it did then. The game was seriously out of whack. The differences in relative player power could get insane.. and some of the things we were doing were crazy. Jack and the gang had to choose a relative level at which to set the game. He made a choice in order to preserve the future of the game. I can live with that choice, and anyone still playing is obviously still enjoying themselves despite all their kicking and screaming.

We can argue with the specifics all we want, but the game is a better place all around.

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LOL. No stock options for me. I'm one of the founders here!

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So in other words <@,@> you already own most of the stock <,< thus it'd be hard to get more? <,<

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Hey, Statesman! Can I borrow a few bucks? I will pay you back.. honest!

Alright alright! Hold your horses!

*KRA-KOOM!*

::Flaming1 gets hit by a bolt of lightning.::

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Not gone, promoted more like.

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Yeah.. promoted right out of our hair!

Um.. I mean.. that is what all the meanie heads would say!

You know we love you.. right States? The game is still here isn't it?



::Gets hit by Lightning of Zeus.::

......

::Puffs smoke then falls over.::

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That is one doozy of a necro.

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Actualy I think we have had worse!

Beware the Necromancer!

Bwahaha! I am evil!

::Kicks over a trashcan.::

Take THAT!

::Runs off into the night.::

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now that is odd, Miss Kitty, because i've done the AP mayhem in a duo and we got pretty much every bonus we could get except the ones for cars, vans/trucks, and the big steel shipping containers (and that was only because we were too low lvl to put much of a dent in them)

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Someone said we got a PPD Swat Van and didn't get a bonus either. Someone said they always got a time bonus for one of those.

Eh.. whatever. Never go beyond a duo for a mayhem mission.. lesson learned.

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We did complete the bank robbery with only two or three minutes to spare, but where unable to complete the jail side mission with those scant few minutes remaining.

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Mantid.. We didn't even have time to GET the side mission much less complete it.

You only get a side mission if you defeat zone related villians. Atlas park only has one side mission, and you need to find and defeat a small group of skulls to get it. When you defeat them you get a key for a mission in that zone.. or a clue. I think the side mission is randomly generated. It isn't always a jail break. My Atlas park mission was an arson.

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Really? Huh... What setting are you running it on?

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8 people on the first level!

God.. I thought the first time I did it SOLO was a rush. That was mostly because I wasn't used to the rules of it. After that post I did it with 8 people on the first difficulty. My previous post STILL stands.

Atlas map. After destroying a whole street worth of items and cops we were already running low on time. We had received no time bonuses not related to resisting arrest(which take to long to get for their bonus). I pretty much told everyone we had to gun it and assault the bank right then.. forget the side mission(which turned out to be a wise choice). We decimated the bank, got the loot, flattened the hero, and got out.

At that point we tried to cram in as much destruction in the time we got left. Mantid dropped his malefactor. The mission was set to level 8. We had a level 30+ Brute running around one shotting everything in sight, taking out whole spawns of police with a single AOE, and we still couldn't get good time. The police spawns didn't add up to much, and we got literally NO time out of objects. Countless objects were destroyed and none of it counted for jack. We were trying to bash up to the last second too.

Ugh.. horrible. At first I was inclined to say give us more time. After that.. why are Mayhem missions timed at all? Sorry to everyone that was on that team. I should have listened to the warnings about team Mayhem Missions.

So then can we get more time? I would just be happy with getting additional time no matter how many times I have gotten a bonus for destroying a specific item. As it is there isn't nearly enough time to simply enjoy the mission.

It is all.. run run run.. find spawn.. kill.. no.. kill faster! Oh! Destroy this! No bonus?! DAMN! RUN RUN RUN! Need time need time! Oh side mission.. no! Taking to long.. gasp gasp gasp.. go go go.. run run run. NO! I can't get a bonus off anything! I destroyed to much! Ahhh! Run to bank.. go go go..! Oh there is a swat van.. no no no.. to long to long! can't destroy it! run run run!

Needless to say I aim not enjoying Mayhem Missions. I was looking forward to them.. but I am dissapointed.

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Am I the only one who wishes we had a little more time on this? Then maybe I'd have time to actually explore, rather than rush everywhere.

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No kidding. I decided to do my Mayhem Mission on test first because of all that I heard about them. I am glad I did now. I didn't really have time to just sit back and ENJOY the mission. With the "you only get a time bonus for each item one time" crap there is no room for wanton desctruction. I thought wanton destruction was the whole reason these missions were added.

Either add more time or let us rack up as many time bonuses as we want. Honestly.. untill something is done I am doing these missions on test first so I know where to find things first. The skulls seem to be in the same place each time I do the Atlas mission. That should be rather helpfull.

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In my 11 thousand + posts I haven't done anything productive.

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You've made me smile on numerous occaisions.

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Bah! Any idiot can post a bit of random nonsense and get a laugh or two..

I mean just look at Foo..

A few things.

As others have said.. this makes a lot of sense. It always felt like defense insps only worked half the time.. but that was because they were only half as powerfull as we thought! Why has no one thought of this before. We have had TWO YEARS and no one thought of this? Amazing. Behold the power of blind faith in text descriptions of powers.

Posts like this always make me feel so horrible! In my 11 thousand + posts I haven't done anything productive. I'm not good at collecting info. I don't post anything insightfull, and I can't even argue various important points right. At best I am just a forum oddball, and all that does is get my unusualy high postcount pointed out to me.

Blah..



::Goes to try and do something usefull.::

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Errr... maybe I'm being stupid, but surely the fact that an Arena is being built IN THE GAME is pretty big proof that its being worked on?

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If they build it, will we come?

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Most foul necromancy.

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Wise fwom your gwave!

Meh.. We waited this long. A few more weeks won't kill us..

::Falls over dead.::

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::Looks at the pre-download.::

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I hate to burst everyone's bubble here - but I7 is not going up before the end of May. We have a few more things left to fix/tweak.

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Well at least it gives me time to finish this.. BIG [censored] DOWNLOAD you people dropped on us. Give a dial up girl a warning.

Agreed.. Not everything needs to have some super special in game reason for happening. Halloween is enough reason to party down. Same goes for the other holidays.

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::Stares at Athyna's avatar.::

Can't... look... away.



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Darn! I knew should have used it for myself!

*Starts juggling muffins to try to get Miss_Kitty's attention*

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...Muffins... or Statescrotch...?

RAWR!

::Eats Mantid and his muffins then goes back to staring at Athyna's avatar.::

::Stares at Athyna's avatar.::

Can't... look... away.

(Note.. First draft of this guide. When I get a version that can be easily understood then I will link to it in my sig for all to enjoy)

Occasionally someone will take notice of my avatar(or how often I change them) and enquire how I get such great avatars. I just find a picture I like and make it myself. Sometimes this is followed by a request for avatar help. I'll happily oblige by making anyone a simple static avatar, but I would love to see people start doing it for themselves.

It isn't that hard. The only program I usually use is MS Paint. Yes.. it does have uses. I sometimes use a second program to properly preserve the quality of the image, but avatars are so small that it is rare that I ever notice that it made a difference. These days I don't bother transferring it to a separate program.

Step 1- What do I use?!

Finding the base image you want to use. This can be easy or hard depending on how you handle it. I am a picture pack rat. I usually have what I want already on hand on my hard drive. If you aren't a pack rat then Google will happily oblige you. This is really the only step that I can't help much with. If you don't have the image you can't make an avatar.

Step 2- Selecting the avatar area and squaring the image.

I will go ahead and declare this to be the hardest step in the whole process. Seriously.. once you jump this hurdle it is easy. What makes this so hard is that you might need to work out your artistic eye.

Open your selected image in MS Paint. Use the button with the dotted rectangle on it(located at the top of your side toolbar). This will easily select and copy an area of an image you want the avatar to be. Try to square it up by eye right now, but don't worry about exactness. The difficult part comes in deciding how much of the image to include. To much of the original image and people will squint trying to figure out what they are looking at. To little and you miss the important details. Once you are at least somewhat satisfied go ahead and select copy. Don't worry.. you can do this step again if you are unhappy with it later. Open another window for MS Paint(makes it faster if you want to go back to the original and reselect the area). Use the blue boxes on the edge of the white field(middle of the bottom.. middle of the right side.. and the corner) to shrink the white field to smaller than your copied area then paste. The white field will grow to accommodate the pasted image. This is so you don't need to worry about moving the sides till you don't see white.

At the top hit Image then select Attributes. Make sure the Units selected is pixels. Here you will find how large each dimension of your image is. You want to get both numbers the same and have the image square. It doesn't matter how large overall it is at this point. Just try to get the height and width the same number of pixels. In this process you might need to shift around the image itself to cut out various sides(you can use select all and then drag it around before moving in the image area smaller with the blue boxes). This is a bit trial and error. Move and shrink a bit. Check the new pixel size. Use undo from the edit menu if need be. If you find the squared area isn't suitable looking then you might need to go back and select a new area.

Once you have the image squared you are home free. The hard part is OVER.

Step Three: OK.. it is Square.. now what about 80 x 80 pixels?

Once your height and width are the same it is easy. Take note of the pixel size in Attributes(write it down if you need) and grab a calculator(just for ease of the exercise.. your computer should have a built in calculator program).

Divide 8000 by the number of pixels wide(or tall.. doesn't matter because it is square) your image is and round the number you get till there are no decimal points left. Why? Well this is pretty much the end step of an easy process. If you are good with blind devotion then skip past the explanation and save yourself time. 8000/Squared Image Dimension = X. X being a number you need to remember.

The current image area your image is will be represented by Y. You only need one number because.. gasp.. it is square! We did that already so no worries. X is the percentage of the size you need the image to be for it to reach the desired 80 by 80 image. The dimension you want is 80. 100 is the percentage of the size your image is.. to.. itself.

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The left side is pixels. The right side is percentages. You supply the number for Y yourself because it is the dimension of your squared image. What you want to find is X.. the percentage 80 is of Y. This is just simple cross multiplying Don't worry, the purpose will be clear in a moment. Because, for this board, you will always want an 80 by 80 image and the squared image is always 100 percent of itself you will end up with 8000 after multiplying the two together. You then divide 8000 by Y. So.. 80*100=8000 then 8000/Y=X.

Round X off till there are no decimals left(MS Paint doesn't like them for this part for some reason). Write down the number or just remember it. Now click Image and Stretch/Skew. A window will open with four fields. You want the top two. It will shrink or grow the image depending on the number you put in. It works off percentage. 110 will make it 110% the size it is now.. thus growing it.. and so on. Put X in the top two fields and just press OK. Check under Attributes and the image should be at or near 80 by 80 pixels. Because MS paint doesn't like decimals.. you might need to press undo and increase or decrease X by one. Preferably, if you can't get it right on 80, you will want it at 81 for height and width. The forums will except it.. it will just compress it unnoticeably.

Appraise the image.. check to see it is the proper size under attributes. Make sure you are happy with what you can see. Now that you know what to do repeating it will be easy. Just find something you are happy with(this is why the second step is so hard.. selecting the initial area to edit down determines what the avatar will be later on). Click save as and save it somewhere you can find it. Make sure you change it from the default format to a jpg image format.

Upload it to photo bucket or image shack or any web space you can link from and upload the image. Insert the proper link in the options for the forum and you have yourself an avatar. It might not be animated(there are some very helpful folk which shrink animated images down very fast), but you made it yourself. Thumbs up.. you have self reliance!

Before I forget!

::Passes out party invitations to Cricket and CuppaJo.::

The Litter Box is a year old!

::Puts on her party hat.::

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Mantid now has a possibly love interest. Run! Run while you can! *runs away screaming*

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I am not telling Miss_Kitty.

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Telling me what?

Welcome, Cricket!

Yeah.. you guys are no fun!

I mean Babbage.. Pally.. Lusca.. everyone wandering around! Make them aggro eachother when they wander into eachother's paths! Make the zone split up into their various natrual habitats!