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The Royal Positron Acting Company Wants You!

Yes, you heard that right. We want YOU! Specifically we’re looking for people who would be interested in playing extras for an RP event to be held on Sunday, April 25th. This event will begin at 6 pm EDT. Extras will only be needed for half an hour at most; it’s likely that you’ll be finished within 20 minutes of the start.

Extras will meet shortly before 6 pm and then make their appearance “on stage” together. They will be given a stock character to play and a set of phrases to use. The only real requirements are to be able to create a new villain character and show up on time. You can customize your extra a little if you wish, however the point is to have them all look very similar to each other. We will provide both the basic costume description and macros for your lines.

So what is this event?
This event is going to be an open RP event that will lead to an in-character scavenger hunt style “rescue mission” culminating in an AE mission. Prizes will be given out to the first teams to finish. More details will be posted later once I can get a final head count of actors involved. The event itself will be open to both heroes and villains.

If it’s a scavenger hunt what do you need extras for?
For the set up; once the plot gets moving the extras are free to go.

So if I’m an extra I can’t participate and win prizes?
People who start as one of the extras are more than welcome to switch to one of their characters and join in the event. Since your part will occur so early in the event and I’m not going to be telling you any details you aren’t going to be able to cheat your way into finishing. Extras won’t know any more of the plot than those who were part of the audience from the beginning. I’d love it if everyone stuck around to join in the RP fun.

Why a villain character?
Because we’ll be using a VG base as a green room to house you prior to your entrance. Coordinating via SG chat also makes life easier on everyone.

What the [censored] is the Royal Positron Acting Company?!
It’s the name for a small group of people who have decided to put on an RP event for their in game friends and invite all of Virtue to attend. The name is what it is because I’m easily amused.

If you would like to volunteer to help or have any questions, comments, or random insults you can post here, send me a private message on these forums or send a Tell to @Bedloe in game.

Global channels. Valkryja gave one, but there are many more. Once you get the hang of using them you'll never want for a team. Your best bet is to head to the server forum appropriate to your scrapper and ask them which ones are popular there.

Global channels are just that though, they cut across servers and the hero/villain divide. One of the great things about this game is that thanks to instancing you don't have people camping around waiting for one critter to spawn. You just go out and start playing. The downside is that it can make the game seem empty since there isn't always someone crowding around you.

With global channels you can see people putting together teams, raids, Task/Strike Forces and just chatting. It's sort of the behind the scenes hang out for CoX. Because of the rampant altitis here most players are more than willing to swap around to join in on something and with the sidekicking system levels aren't really a barrier to teaming.

Not that I have any real desire to see a naked Maelstrom, but Issue 9 is going to help GG's case more than yours.. The goon butt-kickery takes place inside a strip club. >.>

It's the box.

I don't know about the Dom version, but the Stone Melee one does require you to be on the ground.

Actually, that's probably not a major problem. There's reason to believe that they could set it up so holsters/quivers/scabbards were appropriately empty or not. It was discussed recently in this thread.

It's just that it would take up a ton of animation resources. How long it would take is anyone's guess but it's got to be at least an issue's worth (and most likely much more) for BaB, almost like doing weapon customtization all over again. With back items being messed up there's little reason to think the Devs would want to spend so much time and money on it.

But which Dev's signature do you get on your *ahem*? I'd suggest Sexy Jay's, because if there's a Dev with practice at autographing body parts it's got to be him.

If he ever makes it to 50 I'll have to try a TOGGLE MAN build.

That room is simply known as "that room" amongst the people I usually play with. People will talk about the cake room or the fascist pools, but when somebody gets that room there's no need to explain. It's ineffably evil. Usually usage is "[censored], I got that room."

I don't know what's worse though, having a kill all in there and finding out that one lone Longbow Eagle has decided to hover in the middle of the room away from everything else and hidden behind a pillar or watching a MM henchman fall to the bottom and come rushing back like an eager puppy bringing the entire map with him.

Okay, I don't know if it's intentional or not, but you seem to be mixing Power Customization, Weapon Customization, and Alternate Animations all together. While the end result is similar, they're different things as far as what they mean in this game and the programming for them was largely different. (That's why we didn't get all three at once)

Power Customization is where you get to choose the colors of your powers. Note that this is combined with Alternate Animations but not combined with Weapon Customization.

Weapon Customization is selecting a new weapon skin for your powers. All of these have the weapon acting as a costume piece and the animation for the power is you swinging your arm with the effects occuring. You could have an invisible weapon and it'd work just as well. This has occured on Test at least once due to a bug and there is no functional difference, it's like saying powers work the same with or without a cape.

Alternate Animations is a whole new animation for certain powers. So far the only sets with this available are Super Strength and Martial Arts and even then not for every power in the set. It's combined with Power Customization but not with Weapon Customization.

So your suggestions to add Alternate Animations to Archery and Trick Arrow would require new animations all around as well as altering things to allow Weapon Customization and Alternate Animations, something currently not available. This is a lot of work, whether you're ready to acknowledge it or not.

Your new suggestion, add a crossbow to Assault Rifle, is straight Weapon Customization. This is much easier, although how much we haven't been told exactly. If it's really a spare time kind of thing I'd have expected much more of them then we have. Since they aren't handing them out like party favors it's probably a non-trivial task, albiet not on the level of recreating the wheel like Alternate Animations.

This would also mean that your new crossbow would have nothing to do with Archery or Trick Arrow. It would be an Assault Rifle. It'd shoot bullets, fire grenades and have a flamethrower. You'd machine gun the NPC's as your tier 9 with a spray of gunfire. And no, you don't get new sounds. It still sounds like a gun.

This sounds really strange to me, but if you'd like to see it there is an official place to request this kind of change, the Official Custom Weapon Request Thread.

Swan says yes, better than even chain mail bikinis.

Six demons is a good bet. 9-10 power animations each? Not so much. Tier 1 henchmen typically have four or five attacks when fully upgraded. Tier 3 are typically have six to eight.

And they do not have 3 costumes. They have one model. Models that are the same can reuse the same animation even if they have a different "costume look". For example the power animations for your Thugs Bruiser are all the same regardless of what model the game has in place. So the Bruiser does not have 24 animations for it's powers. It has 8. (That's fudging a bit, since it doesn't count combat stance or other transition animations. But that's getting too technical for me.)

Which has nothing to do with BaB.

While animations have changed in Beta, they are pretty much set by the time they get there. In any case this is based off of performance, which again, is not BaB.

As before, not BaB.

Nope, still not BaB.

These same "cheats" are available for MM sets too. It's not different. They still need to be adjusted.

You did. That'd be much easier too, like you said. It'd look pretty odd with the AR powers, but just adding a new weapon pick would be a lot faster. It's also not your original complaint.

Sound effects would be the easiest to change if it's possible to tie them to alternate animations. So far there is no example of this so I wouldn't want to bet on it.

Paragon Studios is hiring though. Tell you cousin to send in an application. I'm sure programming the game is a cinch.

BaB's workload would be identical to creating an entirely new powerset. So for instance instead of Demon Summoning he could do this.

Edit: Could have done this, I should say. Since Demon Summoning is already mostly done.

Not quite that specific, but we at Cocoba BoWartvar (ClOwns COvered in BAgels in BOer-WAR era TransVaal Republic) would be happy to invert a few images on our VG forums for you.