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Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Castle once told me he was heading to a meeting to discuss scheduling meetings to discuss how often they should meet for a couple of projects. I don't think he was joking.
That seems Kafkaesque in the extreme, hopefully they became more streamlined when Paragon Studios launched. -
Hey all.
In an effort to get people any missing Master tf badges, I'm going to be running these at 9 PM daily, Monday through Sunday.
I will edit my original post with teammates as they sign up, just show up on whoever needs the badge.
Monday September 3rd, 9 PM Eastern:
Master of the Imperious Task Force, Cimerora levels 35+:
@Neuronia - Mind Control/Bubbles
Tuesday, September 4th, 9 PM Eastern
Master of the 5th Column, Founders' Falls, levels 45:
@Neuronia - Mind Control/Bubbles
Wednesday, September 5th, 9 PM Eastern
Master of Miss Liberty's, Independence Port, levels 45+
@Neuronia - Mind Control/Bubbles
Thursday, September 5th, 9 PM Eastern
Master of Lady Grey's Task Force, Rikti War Zone, 45+
@Neuronia - Mind Control/Bubbles
(I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two..
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ANyway, bring whatever you need the badge on. Ultimately I'd like to have a nice mix of debuffs/buffs and so on but we'll make with what we have. Incarnates are not essential but will GREATLY help completion.
Master of Apex and Tin Mage will be done at a later time. Tin Mage (Midnight Dodger especially) is a little tricky so I'll ask for some extra preparation on that one. -
I can't believe it's happening but I suppose it was inevitable with the declining subs and increasing MMO competition. It hasn't really hit me in game yet but it sure will in December when I can't log in to my namesake or any other alts. Only then will the enormity of this cruel act from NC Soft finally kick in.
I'd like to thank everyone but my memory is about as good as my emping or bubbling, so please don't take offense if you're not here:
Shotty Mario: A lifelong friend I have made here, just a hilarious and creative guy that has kept my ego in check (hard to believe I know) and had been a lifeline for me.
Ring, Dinah Might, Myrmydon, AceMace, Pep Rally and the rest of the Tanker Tuesday crew: Thanks for showing us how it's done.
Web Chambers, Bronx, Saturn's Rings and the rest of Team Web (FTW): The first to break any part of the game and the last to get caught. Thanks for Master States on the first day, Web made it an absolute breeze.
Captian Blaze and Lord Stryker: Aaaah the Hamidon Honeymoon as I call it, arguing over raids, over leadership, over costumes, over supergroups and still arguing as our corpses were overcome by a Yellow Dawn. What's a game without rivalry? Stryker made himself into the server's villain and say what you will but we were poorer for it when he moved to Virtue.
Steel Brigade and UHB: Honor Before Glory.
It, Heart of 1c3, Shadow Striker, Birdo and their extended friends and family: Just great, down to earth people that you'd want to meet. How many times did It farm that Dreck map to get me levels? A lot. He figured IOs a lot quicker than I did too, heh. Oddly enough they'll never find out CoH closed down because their family has become a greater blessing.
Witty Librarian: October won't be the same without your enthusiastic Shard runs.
Amygdala and Disciple of Horus and the whole Veritas gang: Thanks for making hard content look like a piece of cake and thanks for being a cornerstone of CHampion.
Cobalt Azurean: Boy have we butted heads eh? In the end when PvP and other sgs have taken me away from Champion, you've remained. If anyone has this server to heart it's been YOU, Big Blue! And for that I and we all owe you a debt of gratitude.
AngelsFist, Biotron, Blazing Blue and the HVND crew: Thanks for rolling our PUG 100+ to 2 and getting me hooked on PvP.
Budweiser: I don't think anyone outside Lord Stryker has divided the community so much. I've gone from bemusement to annoyance to hatred to respect all in the time I've been here. Just so many zany ideas, so many crazy schemes and so many PvP events, it's been great.
Marut and ReDorthy: You want bubbles? They've got them...
Earthguard: My new home away from home, Snaz, Marut, Dr. Cobalt, Silas and the rest: Just a great bunch of people. Marut could crack hieroglyphics in no time flat, let alone the new Hamidon encounter.
TrixieBot: Where are you now? Met briefly in 2004 and you said you were going to college...
Void: Just a beast on Stalker in PvP and the global channel shenanigans are endless.
Twixt: Annoyed the hell out of this server, especially...
Dollmistress: Remember her well, her RP flavoured Dominators, her clones and her love of villainy:
Demoniker: If anyone could lay claim to "Badass Villain" it was him.
PantherShade: One of the few to try and keep RP alive on Champion.
Ashcraft: The forum posts and internet meme world will miss you a ton.
WhiteHotFlash: Pure class and all flash, just one of the regulars you'll miss forever.
Demobot: No one breaks Blasters like this guy, who said they need to be improved?
GenderPoison: Adds so much humanity to a videogame...no one will replace her.
Placta: Always first in line to help with ANYTHING, especially trials.
Iltat and the Pingus: Foumouthed and hitting the debt cap like no one's business.
SteelDominator: The ultimate quiet and lethal weapon.
Sepultura: So much evil cannot be contained in this game or any other. Sorry I missed practice Saturday.
ComixGeek: Just an absolute treasure trove of information and so much class to go with it.
Cherry Cupcakes: Just so much zaniness and so much effort put in and outside the game through CAPE, the radio and just the ENERGY. I'll never forget it.
Netminder: Old School and one of the original Tankers. Will miss him so much.
Artic: There aren't enough memes in this world to express how absolutely ******* crazy you are.
Fanged Knight: No one could gather resources or throw a party like Fanged. Will be sorely missed.
Shadow Wail: Breaking TFs, making busted builds and holding his own on the forums, going to miss him a ton.
And there was that one guy that made it big as a real life superhero on TV hmm..
I'm sure I've missed a ton (probably in this thread too ) and I will miss all of you...but even when the war walls come down we'll have the screnshots, the memories and our friendships.
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Yahoo Messenger: fuzzykitty234
That's about it.
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*hugs*
You were always a great advocate for trial simplicity as well, which is fantastic. -
@Shotty Mario was here on Day 1 but he doesn't log in much anymore. You might still see him on Infinity on one of his Dominators (Relentless Desire, Dark Mistress Amour) and so on.
His first toons were an Invuln/Axe Tanker, Lost Woodsman and a Storm/Elec Defender, Lightning V5.3 on Champion. -
Quote:Aion let you fly but it wasn't enough to let you overcome the massive rat-killing grindfest. It's not just flight, it's what you can do with it.Originally Posted by Rusted_Metal
And sadly cruise Steam for any type of MMO that will let me fly. -
Zwill is a beast.
The amount of abuse he took on PVPEC Vent, Victory PvP Vent and just ingame...wow. An angrier man would have spawned giant robot form and nuked us all. -
Quote:You can still hit 50, you just will not be able to Incarnate or do trials.Originally Posted by Recluse90
Lucky. Mine went down a week ago, I waited to pay day to renew... and well we all know what happened I may never reach 50 and I've been playing off and on since 06c
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Quote:Lib, when I saw your picture the first thing that came to mind was:Originally Posted by MrLiberty
The saddest part is the game I love is closing down, the second saddest thing is there is no other game that matches it out there. Yet. Feel free to get moving on that one though.
"Wow, he looks exactly like I pictured Slax."
The second thing was:
"There's a dude that's gonna break a lot of hearts."
I'm hoping Secret World with its multiple builds/pvp advancement/etc might do it for me but it definitely does NOT have movement speed on its side. -
1. Fast movement.
Every other MMO I am looking at has you walk, don't know how I will keep my sanity.
2.PvP
Fast movement + quick attacks = awesome.
3.Global channels
LOve that I can have all of these across servers.
4.Loot isn't tied to encounters for most part.
Can get purples anywhere.
5.PL
Being able to PL anything I want anytime I want is awesome. -
PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE go to another MMO after you've taken a well-earned break. It would be an absolute crime to have you and the rest sitting idle when you've held this game together with chewing gum and duct tape for the past eight years.
Seriously, someone out there has to hire you. -
Quote:There are no cliques.Originally Posted by Killerkitty
Why hide them still now, I don't get it?
If these people won't release the info publicly, will anyone?
This stuff should be for everyone, not just one small group... that always turns out bad. :/ (The Stanford Prison Experiment or youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE "Free flow of information is the only safeguard aganst tyranny [..] Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.")...
The cliques, power structures, smear campaigns, grudgematches, etc like it's some kind of realpolitik were the absolute worst thing about the community at times, but the best was when total strangers would happily work together, let's not have some kind of Committee with close friends running things only or it's bound to go bad :/ I've already heard there have been private, invite-only forums been set up :/
RIght now we're at stage one and that's the bomb hitting Paragon Studios.
NCSoft will release a statement about the loss shortly after. A few months down the road we'll learn the truth.
The private forums have always been around. Philotic Knight set one up ages ago and I'm sure the community will gravitate toward others. -
Please join Funcom and make a certain MMO even crazier than it seems now.
Mmmm Positron and War Witch spawning the unthinkable and Dr. Aeon planting seeds of hellish disinformation. Not likely since they cut staff but you can always hope!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
Man, I'm definitely not going to Champions Online after this. I've spent the last hour or two playing it, and ...
Well, the costume creator is not only sparse (with I'd say at least 60-70% of the pieces locked in some way, either behind quests, in-game currency, or real cash moneys), but the options utterly baffling. I couldn't recreate even the most basic of my characters' appearances from CoH. My character has one robot arm because I got fed up and hit "Random", and there is now no way to NOT have a robot arm except to hit Random again (which I didn't want to do, since I like most of the costume). There's no categories for that. (Or, there's a category, but "Robot arm" is the only option).
All of this plus a dozen more.
Downloaded and installed Champions Online, the costumes were way too limited in f2p mode and the lack of powers/choices was pretty appalling.
The intro missions were super confusing and I learned you couldn't level up until 5 and I was 4 so...it went into the uninstall pile pretty damned quickly.
I'd tell all of you where I will be going come November but it's a Secret.
Fnord!
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Quote:Wait...Originally Posted by Zwillinger
So please, let's not go hog wild.
Let's keep the forums a place where everyone can share their memories and plan for the future.
On a personal note, I've got a lot to work on right now, so please help me out here in any ways that you can. I empathize with the feelings some of you are going through right now. I understand it.
Help us all go out on a happy note
If you're still here, that means that the soda mini-fridges are still fully stocked!
GET 'EM!!!
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/load up DrAeon module in AE, finds it free of high-reward mobs and shrugs.
Thanks for the writing, which has become progressively better over the years.
Dark Astoria was crazy good. -
We had someone on Champion called @Genna and @Genna H4Z3 that was purportedly the adult actress but not sure if anyone verified/found out and that's probably a story better left for another (perhaps more adult-oriented) forum.
And of course no one can forget Troy Hickman... -
Quote:He's from Pinnacle, be glad it wasn't 7 cases of Wild Turkey.Originally Posted by TheNet
Bass gets 7+ pages of replies...Oh no no no this cant stand!
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Reading all the stuff from other people has me tearing up occasionally but the game had become super repetitive for me.
I'll seriously miss the community though, what's horrible is I'll likely not see any of you around other games to hang out with so I'll wonder where you all are.
I need to fix Zombie Man with an Arcanaville Tracker so I can find another quality MMO... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Kosh_Naranek
"WHERE R THE LOST IN KINGS ROW"
"If we told you that, then they wouldn't be Lost, would they?"
I remember rolling into the game on my namesake Mind/Bubble Controller and having NO freaking idea how to slot enhancements. The tutorial made references to accuracy and damage but when I looked at Levitate (for example) I saw Knockback, Damage, Endurance and so on so I thought you had to slot every one of those types. My fights lasted forever...until a friend saw my enhacement screen and laughed then helped.
I remember Croatoa when it came out, Katie's TF was rough with Mary spawning 10 times but eventually it devolved into a speed run to get recipes.
Speaking of recipes, I remember a certain EvilRyu being cursed with the worst luck on his random rolls and lobbying nonstop for an alternate way to get drops. Seem to recall him being very happy with Merits, must have been even happier when they introduced Alignment Merits.
I remember CuppaJo trying to spawn Caleb... -
YOu're likely never going to get your money back.
Think of it as if you had invested in Pogs or Doomtown CCG or some other hobby. The hobby wasn't sustained and now your money is gone.
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Quote:Yeah...it's like a good friend has a terminal illness, has three months to go. You try to make happy and optimistic but the doomcloud hangs.Originally Posted by HardRider
i dont have the will to continue atm. and i dont see the point either now.
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Quote:I think Pilcrow can get a fair amount of credit for ED...seem to remember he suggeested a few things in that vein didn't he?Originally Posted by Smersh
That's okay, I think I may be responsible for the GDN.
My post was something along the lines of "I would gladly give up every bit of resistance in Unyielding for the ability to move while tanking."
They just did it in two stages: Stage One, you can move. Stage two, two issues later... -
Quote:I remember lobbying incessantly for male/female references in the Archetype descriptions. Won't take credit for it but I can only hope I helped.Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Just curious, but what do people think they suggested that actually made it into the game?