MoonBear

that's the Kronos Titan kill?
I must be brain dead

forgot to add...this week I finally managed to team with Ms. Snazzzy. Actually 2 nights in a row.

The usual fireworks these days of WHo pulled it?

Yukon was sitting in one of the common areas, unwinding after a night's work Outside, when he watches a pile of guards dragging someone down the hall. Stepping into the hall, following the mass of guards, he ended up outside of HD's cell, The guards, ignoring him as usual,(he being seen as a non-threat and inconsequential compared to most here) dropped a limpy, bleeding pile in the cell and walked off, smiling that they had the chance to beat up on a FORCE member and commenting things like "he should have known better than attack Ms Swan like that. He'll be lucky not to be confined for a few weeks in solitary at the least."
Yukon got in the cell before they closed the door and ised HD down. "You fool, confronting her about some medicinal herbs..or was that all? And how does someone with as little fighting ability as Raindance survive even a small attack by you? She's only a little girl playing with big shaman powers, after all. Maybe I need someone other than you to look at ...shh, stop talking to yourself, the walls, especially the ones HERE, have ears." Yukon frosts the room for a sec adn for that small sec while the cameras are adjusting to the temp change, leaves a small package under HD's pillow and walks out.

it gets bumped back to the top..not even threats of cyberstalking can deter it.

the Lament Configuration?

I'll just take that
btw: would you mind moving to storage?

oh..staples
a red Swingline?

No, that was Cal Ripken?

who is this Cal Worthington?

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Oh my deity! XPP01 is Cal Worthington!



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And his dog Spot!!! Man...we used to love misquoting those commercials when I was growin' up...

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You grew up? Man, what a bummer!

I still keep forgetting if PS is male or female since the toon gender is "none of the above." Makes it real hard to describe things that happened in teams though.

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After last month I'm almost sorry I answered that post by xpp, keeping detailed information about yourself Secluded....aside for close, well known friends.... is not a bad thing in the cyber world.

"anonymity is like a worm blanket" vanessa redgrave, mission impossible...how I love english women,..though she's a bit 'mature' for me.
~A

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ewww..a worm blanket?

I believe a few on the list have said who they were. Umann, I think, Dinah and lil mama

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you know this is a list of the most common of the posters that have never stated who they are.
Ultraamann
Dinah might
Upsen down
Acemace
Marut
wittylibrarian
lil mama
myrmydon


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hehe still haven't made the list.

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Me neither, Cereberus. But I thought I'd bump this since it's on page 22

The arena?
the echo would be deafening though.
I check my drops all the time and on the off chance I get a usable one (about 1 in 50) it gets slotted, or if I get one a friend can use, I gift. TOs aren't even worth carrying to sell post SO level.

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Yeah, Kronos/Saturn. Zeus was kinda annoyed his Dad ate him and his brothers/sisters when he was born (or something like that) so after beating the heck out of him, he chained him up somewhere to suffer forever.

It's where he's chained up I can't remember.

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Typically it was uranus that swallowed his sons, because it was prophisized that his son would overthrow him. One of his sons was powerful enough to crawl out from his belly and slay him. This son was Chronos. (in other stories he was just a son who castrated his father and destroyed him.. no swallowing involved) He was also prophisized to have his son slay him, and he thought it was still a good idea to eat his kids. however, Zeus' mom (various names depending on who is telling the story) wanted Zeus to live (I was just way too cool to die) so she wrapped a stone in a baby blanket and fed that to her husband. Zeus was then raised by goats.. or fae, depending on the version. As a teenager he slew his father Chronos, and upon slicing open his father's stomach his brothers, Poseidon and Hades, came out.

It's odd... the more you look at various sources, the more varied stores you find. There seems to be no one right or wrong greek mythology - there are numerous stories, many of which contradict each other. So if you're SURE that the mythology went one particular way... You just only heard one version of the story. Other versions are usually just as correct, it's mythology after all.

Oh, and the god who made the lightining bolts was Hephaestus. God of smiths and metalworking.

Zeus - god of right and wrong

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Hephastus did not craft the lightning bolts.

The cyclopses did.

They are cousins of Cronus iirc.

They also made posidens trident and i think hades magic helmet that turned him invisible.

Oh yeah, and the reason i compared Hades to Hell is to kind of make the people who dont know greek mythology less confused.

And I for one consider Hades a little evil because he didn't care about anyone but himself and getting more souls for Hades.

And maybe Persephone.

And alos they're evil gods. Ares was always considered evil and bloodthirsty (but also a big [censored]) and have you ever heard of Discord? She was mad cause none of the gods liked her so she basically was the cause of the Trojan War.

I like this thread. I never get to have a discussion with people about mythology.

I finally get to show of my knowledge!

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Actually, there again you are confusing the Christian Satan with Hades. The underworld of the Greeks were where all mortals went after death, not just evil ones. Hades tricked Persephone out of loneliness for another non-dead person to be with and from infatuation. Otherwise, Hades had no need/reason to care about 'what' souls were coming into the underworld. They all did eventually, barring the immortals. I imagine it WOULD get pretty boring just talking to dead people, though.

it's just deja vu all over again.

Fleetwood_Mac and blackbird7, that's why most have stressed that it would be set at default at no threshold and alterable by the group leader or founder to a 30/60/90 day threshold.
The said group then, knowing that most of the SG were military and possibly on detail, would leave it at the default.

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The Nemesis concept:

Each individual player and/or supergroup may declare a specific villian group their "nemesis." By declaring a group as your "nemesis", you gain certain abilities (possibly based on AT), and potentially certain weaknesses.


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Brilliant!

To expand on this idea and also bring in some vision. Think about the new Justice League unlimited as an SG in COH. They have what at top level SG should have. A base with teleportation/vehicles to get to any area (or mission) and the ability to hand out missions to its members.

So how do we take these ideas and turn them into a system that starts out small and at the top level gets to JLU status or beyond?

Level 1 SG. When making an SG, its currently free to register. Thats fine, thats level 1. Currently just a way to have a new list of friends and a chat. (I really think the current SG system is pretty poor)

Level 2 - A base of operation. You need to buy a base and as touched on in COV it costs influence to persuade the city to give you a place rent free.

Level 3 - A SG needs to expand, but just using each members influence is.... boring and puts the burden on some level 50s that already have super bucks. What we need is when you get your fist base its a run down building in KR or Hollows, its a small room with a table and one NPC. This is your Paragon city liason that the SG members must do missions through in order to increase the SGs influence. This NPC is able to give out missions to each person based on thier level. When you select this mission only SG members can be on your team or added to the team. Any influence gained by the team members is added to the SG's special influence that can be used to purchase:

Purchasable items using SG money (the same NPC as above has a list in which only the SG leaders can access).
1 Move your base to a different area.
Cost based on zone, and distance to train. (Low cost up to Moderate)
2 Add a trophey room to your SG.
On high level SG missions if your SG beats an AV and you have a trophey room a statue version of that AV is added to your trophey room with a plaque that lists date of capture and all team members for the first capture.
Cost - Moderate
3 Crey teleporter - Can send anybody that clicks on it (think crey portal in PI) to the enterance of their currently selected mission.
Cost - extreme
4 Crey personal teleporter - accolade that is given to each SG member once when they enter the base. Click this power and you automatically zone to the SG base.
Cost - extreme
5 Select a SG nemesis - as stated by solo_4114
accolade with a perm power given to each member as they enter the base for the first time. Increases the number of missions versus that nemesis as given out by the SG NPC.
Cost - high
6 SG supercomputer - replaces the NPC with a super sized computer and screen that has more missions to select from The NPC has 2 at a time, the PC has 6. This simulates the SG being hooked into more Crime prevention systems.
cost - High
7 Crey portal - Only able to purchase after you buy the nemesis. This portal acts like an instanced hazard zone (think of a tram mission with hazard zone spawn sizes). The portal only spawns mobs from the nemesis. The level of the spawns is based on the team leader that enters the portal. This portal leads to a dimension where the nemesis has taken over. Your SGs goal is to clean out the dimension and free it. On the flip side for COV the villans also get this portal and their task is to make sure they keep this dimension. This could get really complicated but could end up helping define the push and pull for PvP in COH. Because this is not in our world nobody gets any influence for any "kills" in these "missions"
Cost - extreme
8 Expand base by one room.
Work out room - just for looks, no usable features.
Dance party - smaller version of the current Rave, no exits.
Coffee shop - just for looks, no usable features.
Computer room - just for looks, no usable features.
Magic room - just for looks, no usable features.
Science room - just for looks, no usable features.
Vehicle room- just for looks, no usable features.
etc...
Cost - moderate per room added, max of X rooms.
9 Labs - these are like stores, they buy and sell enhancements based on origin.
Science lab, Magic lab, Tech lab, Gunsmith, Genetics lab.
Cost - high
10 SG vault - an NPC "store" that buys and sells enhancements for 0 infl. Great way to unload unused enhancements for other SG members without worrying if they are online.
cost - high
11 Training room - Arena so SG members can PvP spar with each other with no benefit or loss.
cost - moderate
12 Holo(Danger) room - 100x100 area that creates spawns in the center based upon a selection entered in by a person at a terminal outside the room that can look in through the glass. Through the interface the user can select spawn size, level and enemy type (council or vahz, etc). All spawns count as pets(no exp) and any defeats gain no debt. The spawns despawn when they get close to the door.
cost - high
Hospital - Instead of getting transported to the city hospitals your SG members zone to this room in your base upon defeat.
Cost - high.

Remember folks things like kicking SG leaders, changing colors etc are needed, but they should be obvious to the devs now. What this game needs more of is focused content that brings an SG together with a united plan. At first it starts with just getting enough cash to buy all the cool features, then it turns into a turf war with a COV ?SG?. This kind of content keeps the game interesting at all levels.

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my idea to add on to the SG bank thing, when you click to deposite there would be 5 choices :
Deposite Influence to Super Group (accessable to all membersif a member needs money they can take some but no more than 10% of what is in the bank)

Deposit Personal Influence (only you can retrieve from your own account)

Deposit Enhancement/Inspirations to supergroup (if you attain a insperationor Enhancement you dont want to sell but you cant use, put it here for an SG mate to take and use, they cant sell it, they must place it on the spot)

Deposit Enhancement/Inspirations Personal (only you can retrieve these form your box)

Cancel (duh)

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To add to this concept(and no I haven't managed to read all the suggestions yet, so my apologies if I reiterate anything)

Maybe once a base is set up, have prospective members able to go to the base to sign on rather than hope to get the leader online. He can then, when he signs on, look at a prospective list each time with notes added and say yea or nay. It beats having to lurk and hope you can catch the leader.
Also, with the SG bank idea, in order to keep abuse to a minimum, allow enhances, inspires and influence to be 'borrowed' for missions/purposes and returned within a set frame..with a similar ranked or higher enhance or inspire or more influence than was borrowed.
I also liked the idea of SG missions to get SG Influence to buy things for the SG, but maybe also give the hero 10% of the influence or something..after all, yes, it would be a member of the SG, but it would also still be recognized as Joe Blow...