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Quote:After your earlier gem, you have no room to talk about proper moderate replies.The proper response to "It sucks" is "Well, I like it, so I don't think it sucks."
The proper response to "It sucks" is not "until you have a successful game, your opinion is invalid".
Quote:You fund me, I'll design it. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
This argument is petty, small, and pointless; it takes more to "make a game" than having well-founded and solid ideas on what should go into your entertainment. You do not have to be a professional (meaning "get paid for the work"; the amateur/professional divide is a paycheck, and nothing else) to have a valid point; a great deal of our technological and scientific advantages have been made by people that were not paid for the time they put in making them. Do you think Arcanaville doesn't have a deep and solid understanding of this game's mechanics, having never received a paycheck from NCSoft?
For that matter, getting that paycheck, and thus being a "professional", does not necessarily mean you know what you're doing either. As I recall, Castle is on-record has having admitted that Arcanaville understood certain things better than he did - the "amateur" teaching the "professional".
The rest of that post might fly, but you're as guilty as he is with that first bit. -
Quote:Just to show that random is very random, my Inv/SS has gotten several. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, in 30-60 minutes of lazily beating up level 50s in the Portal Corp. parking lot and adjacent area, looking for a few random shards to finish off my T4 Alpha, I got 2, an Unbreakable Constraint and an Armageddon. I broke off from that and joined a team for a LGTF/ITF double-header, figuring I could get enough shards there to finish it up, which I did with breaking down the component from the LGTF, and got another as we were going up lag valley in mission 4 of the ITF. That one was a Fortunata Hypnosis, which is certainly not as useful/valuable as the 2 that I had gotten solo earlier.Purple drops are random. Proximity, damage, killing blow, etc. have nothing to do with it. Although, they jury is still out IMO on how pets affect the drop rate.
The key to getting purples is killing lots of mobs, so running solo, with bosses on, at +0x8 is the best methodology. ( you can do -1x8 for speed, but then you lose out on level 50 orange recipes )
The comment about Tankers getting all the drops.... definitely deserves a facepalm. I dont think my INV/SS has ever gotten a purple drop.
This one, like all 3 of my characters that I have taken through the Incarnate Trials, has gotten a few on those, too. With the way that those trials work, I'd suspect that purple recipes are a lot more rare for the individual members of the league (average size being about 16) than they are even on a full team doing a TF. -
Quote:My pet theory about Psyche and Manticore is that she, as a teenager, had a crush on Errol Flynn, and the diminutive archer reminds her of him.So, I was checking out the calendar wallpapers to get some birthday information, and I found out that Mynx isn't the only cougar in the Freedom Phalanx.
Sister Psyche was born in 1920. Manticore was born in 1968.
Numina was born in 1940. Positron was born in 1962.
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Quote:Right, the cruise ship and her first kiss. That was really brief. I liked his relationship with Wonder Girl better, anyway. Connor likes him some girls named Cassandra.No.
For a very brief time and hardly ever shown Superboy and Batgirl had a relationship. She would from time to time sneak out and visit him which took a few days so it was hardly brought up in the Batgirl comics while I don't know how much or if it was ever brought up in Superboy comics. -
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They already confirmed that Identity Crisis is on the "it happened" list. I suppose it has to be to keep Jason Rusch in the Firestorm matrix, and keep Tim as an actual orphan.
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Quote:Also fits with the de-aging that will have to happen if the whole history of Superman is dropped down to five years or so. Most stories put him at about 22-23 when he debuts. Having him married to Lois already at 28 is pretty early.
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Quote:Dawning of the age of superheroes is from the Newsarama article, and quoted there, as if it's coming from a primary source within DC. That article, which I quoted the link to in my first post, also says that that coincides with five years ago, by way of the internal link to the L.A. Times article, which both Tymer and I quoted bits of in our last posts. That article confirms that the Justice League arc set five years ago is an origin arc for the group, exploring how these new heroes react to meeting each other. Morrison is less-specific when talking about the Action Comics arc, also set five years ago, but he sure does seem to be leading that this is early in Superman's career.Ms. Mesmer, the "dawning of the age of superheroes thing seems to be a quote from a different interview of some sort and plugged into the article by the writer, not a quote from anyone they interviewed right then and there.
The 5 year compression literally can't happen from a "main event" stand point... 1year later, Batman year one, 52, and No Man's Land each take 1 year of comic time
So it would go...
Y0 = Superman Arrives on scene
Y1 = Batman Year One
Y2 = Dick Grayson becomes Robin, is fired. Becomes Nightwing. Jason Todd become Robin. dies. Tim Drake becomes Robin.
Y3 = No Man's Land
Y4 = 52
Y5 = OYL
Y6 = Current Year
it just doesn't work. It would compress all history in the DCU into Year 2, with the comics from 1987-2006 happening between Y3 and 4 and everything after OYL happening in Y6
Assuming that Batman is 23 when he starts that makes him 29 currently. It makes Dick Jason and Tim all 18. Makes Barbara 20 and Damian as long as he isn't a fast grown clone type being conceived when Bruce was 15... or younger, considering training.
I don't see them "keeping the main events" and making it a 5 year history, especially with Zero Hour and CoIE stating a 10/15 year timeline
The JLA forming as far as I know has always been placed y3.
I'm betting that at the end of Flashpoint they are going to post timeline of how the universes all collapses into creating the "new" DCU
I wouldn't call No Man's Land or even really 52/OYL a main event. How many references to each do you see in the past few years? How many of the events in each have a lasting effect? Pretty much none. There's also nothing saying that the timespan of each of the events that they do keep has to stay the same. If they are compressing everything, the few events that are both necessary and give some kind of in-story real world time, which I'd only classify Year One from your list as being on, they could still fudge with the in-story time and still keep the essence of the story. Everything's up in the air here. -
You should try again with the Alpha level shift and the other Incarnate powers. I'd imagine a group full of constant T4 Barrier Cores, for example, would make this much easier for you.
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RWZ on Infinity. A player with the global @VillainTech (character name Armored Nictus) hosts a nightly marathon of Incarnate Trials, usually starting at 7 Eastern and running ostensibly to 11 Eastern (Midnight to 4 AM British Summer Time) most every night.
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Quote:Those arcs are said to be at the dawning of the age of the superheroes, and five years ago. Nothing you quoted, and nothing in them reads any different.Umm... Ms. M, looks like you misread that article.
From the LA Times article:
And from the way the article read, to me, is that the main story in Action Comics and in JLA are gonna be a flashback type stories, so I imagine we'll have a Time Skip in those titles as well.
All I'll say to that, is the editorial heads better have everything planned just right, or otherwise it's gonna be an absolute mess.
Thank you for the time...
This:
Quote:Johns and Lee said the story will be set five years in the past, as will the new Superman tale, which will launch with “Action Comics” issue No. 1 in September. “Action Comics” writer Grant Morrison sent a special video message to Saturday night’s audience at the Hero Complex Film Festival at the Chinese Six theater in Hollywood.
Quote:“It’s not just renumbering all of these books, but it’s also about going systematically through the entire DC universe and sort of reenergizing and reimagining a lot of the stuff that sort of formed these characters, the back stories,” Lee said. “We’re talking about ‘Justice League,’ but there’s never been a really awesome origin for the Justice League. … To me, it’s a prime example of something that we can go in and maybe add something to the lore and add a really kickass contemporary story that feels modern and really shows why these characters need to be together, because this is a such a diverse group of heroes.” -
Quote:No, it really is five years.Ms. Mesmer, You read that wrong...
They didn't say that all of the DCU is going to be compacted into 5 years. They said that Action Comics and JLA will be set 5 years before contemporary, and whether that us when superman arrives on the scene or not is a dif question...
Quote:- Both Action Comics and Justice League are set at the "dawning of the age of superheroes," DC said. (But that dawn doesn't appear to be too long ago, since it's being reported that they will take place only five years in the past.)
I suppose that you could say that the Justice League forms late or something, but the "dawning of the age of superheroes" line implies that it's pretty early. Virtually every version of the Justice League origin to date has been very early in Superman and Batman's careers. -
My Tanker, Manacle, has never done this. Sign me up.
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Quote:Five years....
This is really going to cheese off Durakken and others who chase the fool's goal of coming up with a "definitive" timeline of events. That 12-15 or so years, depending on whose adventures you're basing that timeline on, is now compressed into 5 for everyone.
I'll admit, I even have problems with it, like exactly how the heck can you explain 4 Robins in that amount of time? And then there are the other first wave sidekicks. That's going to be a mess.
For the Robins, I suppose Batman may have only debuted a month or so after Superman now, and possibly Dick's parents were killed only a few months later. Then make Dick about 16 when it happened and you can still have him being adult now, though reduced in age to maybe 21. Jason takes over maybe 2 years ago, and dies within 6 months. Tim takes over very shortly after Jason dies. All of them being older than they were before when they started.
And then there's Damian. Assuming that he's at least 12 now, he was actually conceived well before Bruce became Batman. It can work, if you have Bruce spending time training with Ra's, and having an affair with Talia during that time. Son of the Demon loses a lot of impact that way, but there you go.
Funny thought about that last one: If they're sticking to the basics of Bruce's journey defined in Year One, he's probably only 18-19 when he impregnates Talia.
The rest of the original Teen Titans are all going to be affected similarly. Older when they debut, considerably younger in the current time.
I imagine a lot of the forgettable stories that had mentions of real amounts of time passing will just be glossed over. Goodbye, One Year Later, among a host of others. I suppose Azrael only took over as Batman for like a month, and Clark was only dead for maybe a few weeks. Maybe Parallax didn't happen the same, and maybe Hal didn't die reigniting the Sun. At least that way we don't have cosmic bugs that embody fear somehow being too hard for God's Vengeance to remove from their hosts.
Edit: Oh, ha! Connor Hawke! That one's gonna be rich! I imagine the only way to do it is to have Ollie having an illegitimate child as a young man, then becoming Green Arrow fairly late in life, compared to the other heroes, say already in his early-30s. This is going to be fun just for the justifications. -
Quote:This about sums it up for me, but not for the same reason as above. I actually at least attempt to run every contact up to a full contact bar, and these missions help with the 10-14 and 15-19 hero side ones that don't have a story arc, and thus never get filled by their own missions.i want to sign this, but i know myself not playing a lot of lowbie toons i would end up forgetting about a lot of contacts if it didnt remind me about them lol
perhaps a toggle?
An aside:
I don't believe that I've been sent to the MA or Invention tutorial by another contact ever. MA Tutorial guy just shows up in the contact list when you train to level 5, and University guy pops into your contact list either when you first enter Steel Canyon or Cap au Diable, or when you go there after training level 10. Those aren't like the PvP zone reps, difficulty adjusters, or the side story zone first contacts, where it blocks off any further missions from a regular old contact. -
When new pieces are added, or the list gets reorganized, that is what happens. Your character will look normal in game, but when you go to the tailor, any piece that is no longer in the same position on the list, or has had its name changed, will be replaced by generic tights, among a few other things.
Your best bet is to try and rebuild it by finding where the pieces are now. This is one of the reasons that they give out so many free costume change tokens. -
Quote:Enchantress was a late 60s-early 70s hero turned villain who was used extensively in early Ostrander Suicide Squad stories. I take it that you haven't read many of those. The entity that gave her the Enchantress powers was revealed to be the Succubus, sister of the Incubus, who had possessed Nightshade's brother.The other character talked about in this comic is Enchantress or June Moone... and/or possibly Nightwitch? It's rather confusing to me.
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Quote:Untrue. The Bruins won in 1972, the end of the second season that the Canucks played.Ya the last time the Bruins won there was no such thing as the Vancouver Canucks lol
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Quote:As far as story arcs go, the revamp actually made it worse. Before the revamp, you had to do both Tina's arc and Maria's arc to get every Praetorian AV needed. Since the revamp, you need to do both arcs, and find some other means of getting Siege, as he doesn't appear in either of the actual story arcs. Siege does appear in a standalone mission from Maria.Is this still necessary, or if you do the new Tina arc do you get all the AVs?
A lot of people would just rather do them through Ouroboros, from what I've encountered, probably to avoid the extraneous missions from both of the contacts if you do them naturally. Those people now also either have to go through the old Maria arc up to the point where you fight Siege, or go through the current Maria missions to get the standalone one that has Siege in it, possibly being pushed into running the arc again in order to get to that mission. They could also get Siege through a successful BAF, and will probably soon be able to get Anti-Matter credit from the Keyes Island Reactor trial. -
This. Sorry, not Canadian here. I like Canada just fine. Ontario is about a 30 minute drive from where I sit right now, depending on traffic on the Blue Water Bridge. That said, your team are still newbs to the league, while Boston is one of the Original Six, much like my Detroit Red Wings. The Bruins also have the advantage of not being Conference rivals.
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Iris is an adoptee into the West family, and has now known biological relation to Wally.
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Quote:And most static objects already have -25% or -50% defense across the board, enough to push you to the ToHit cap against them unless they're very purple. There are very few Object class things that are missing this negative defense number, but several other notable static objects, like DE emanators, don't have it.Right, that's what I was suggesting. My point was that no matter how much negative defense they have you will still miss 5% of the time.
I'm pretty sure that the lower resistance to Psi on most objects is a holdover from when Psi was only available from personal attacks by two low-damage scalar ATs, Controllers and Defenders. A rare case of throwing out verisimilitude for game balance reasons when it comes to resistances.
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The full set of Ascension Radiant is 150 Empyrean Merits. That's 50 days of 3 trials, not 134. 134 days would give you enough for both Ascensions and probably about everything else you can buy with Empyreans.
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