Primal

Pardon the bump, but now there's a new issue, and I'm wondering if it's just a problem for me. Well, I say "now", but this has been going on for a week at least.

Sometimes when I click something, I just get the "Waiting for boards.cityofheroes.com" message, and nothing ever happens. Not even a time-out, it'll sit there for HOURS. Yes, literally, when it first started I opened a new tab to TVTropes to wait it out, and five hours later I realized that one of my many tabs was still the forums, waiting eternally and saying the same thing. The little meter in the right-hand corner never even tries to fill.

Clicking the main forum page in my Bookmarks opens it up again usually, but not always, sometime I have to navigate somewhere else then come back. Using the Forum Jump "feature" has about a 75% chance of hanging everything up, and trying to go to the next page in a thread a 25% chance. I get about 10 minutes of reading in max (if it's a particularly interesting thread) before I have to start over again from the beginning. Highly irritating.

Everything else online is fine, I don't even have the troubles now that I did when I posted her the first time. No bottlenecks, just THESE forums acting up. However, it could be my issue alone.

It never ceases to amuse me how "Primal" is taken on every server I've checked. The one on Triumph is mine, the rest someone (or several) with equally-exquisite taste, no doubt.

Huh, I dunno, haven't read anything by you that'd lead me to either be scared or decide you need to be committed.

...Then again I wouldn't be a very good judge of that, would I? Hmm.

Staff/Spear/Polearm (whichever) Scrappers or Brutes. Might never happen but I'm hoping.

Can't imagine where I'd get such crazy hopes.

You must think outside the dessert cart to appreciate the idea of bacon in a pie. See here. Those wacky Aussies.

Actually I found some recipes for a bacon-and-apple pie too, but that doesn't sound good to me either. And the pictures didn't help.

Ooh, how about this instead.

I dunno, I found that one easier to read than Bill's, three posts earlier. Though "5t3r1l3" took me a bit.

The way I've always heard FFXI described was as follows: wonderful game, IF you already knew who you'd be teaming with before you logged in. RL friends or family, or just people who were really personable and able to hook up with strangers easily, then befriend them. Applies to some other games of the time too, I'd imagine. Soloists and those who are really slow about meeting people need not apply. It took me about three months to realize I was playing the wrong game.

I actually picked up CoH to tide me over until WoW came out. By the time it did, I didn't care about it at all. Still don't.

Heh, no need to take a swing Sam, it's just a matter of opinion. I happen to not see much difference when the end results are similar, just a different way of getting there. Fighting large spawns in CoH is fun with certain characters, like my Fire/Storm, but other characters are not made for that, they actually do better in single combat. In Aion it's similar, some have skills and spells for crowd control and/or damage, others are single-target specialists. (And one in particular is absurdly good at both, and only getting better, while another that was already iffy is getting cooldown times increased, not that I'm bitter.)

I can certainly dig that some might feel like they've suddenly been depowered by going back to the "old style" combat, but I don't. As long as the combat is entertaining, I'm down with it. My Assassin hitting a critical backstab is not a whole lot different than my Stalker getting in an Assassins Shock when it comes down to it.

In Aion when you first start out Elyos side, you're killing those troll-things so THEY won't kill the pigs. Some of them are just wandering, sure, but others are killing livestock and tearing up crops. Asmos get a similar beginning. I grant you that they are not the most vicious-looking of enemies, but story-wise you're a PFC scrub, not actually a hero until a couple of hours later when you save Poeta, which you can do before or after you ascend as a Daeva. Have you not seen the Frillnecks yet? Big dinosaur things? Those are some nasty-looking enemies, though they're not actually that hard to kill, and you see those by level 13 3 hours or so into the game. Are dinosaurs not worthy enough foes for you? How about the Lepharists, humans basically, that you see by 11? They've occupied a farm, it's your job to figure out why they're there, and when you do you exterminate a few then go after the leader.

Personally I don't mind fighting lone enemies, and to say that there's such a big difference between fighting 3-5 and fighting 1 is pretty academic when the end result is the same: 1/3 or so of your hp gone, half your end (which totally isn't mana). It feels different because the genres are different, the whole atmosphere is different, comparing the two is pointless.

I agree with Bill though, Co* could steal a few things from Aion. Like Spear and Staff Scrapper animations. Have you played a Gladiator and gotten that first DP skill? Just...wow.

Hot hot top-hat porn is illegal in several states, I'd like you to know. Having two pairs of glasses, illegal in even more. Sepia tones are forbidden everywhere.

I suggest you hand over all potentially-offending material for investigation. Especially movies.

Prostrating oneself before the DE, much like worshiping Cthulhu, is like flattering the bullet after it leaves the barrel. Probably worse, since if you're just part of the faceless throng, there's a chance you may be eaten (or "prerecycled") in a gulp, but singling yourself out is the equivalent of stamping "I'd be a really [FUN plaything before being eaten] / [FERTILE host for emanators before being prerecycled]!" on your forehead.

If you feel so strongly about it, report the offending threads to the mods and let them decide if it's worth the trouble of moving them. Sorry man, but otherwise it's just you deciding what goes where according to your own standards, and that's not particularly compelling. Sections of the forums will occasionally overlap, that's all there is to it.

I agree with Damz though, the General area has been more interesting in the past few days than it has been in weeks. Thank you, Loyalists and Resistance, for providing some entertainment, at least until you all see where the true freedom can be found.

Come on M to the T, the connection there's pretty obvious. Twitter = tweet tweet = singin' like a canary = little birds whispering about insurrectionists and hoping for a slice.

Not that it really matters in the end, mind you. It'll all burn.

Which would you use?

Now wait, before you just roll your eyes and say "What a load of crap" or "I'd quit", hear me out. I'm not just talking god-mode here, or infinite inf, although those are possibilities too. I mean any cheat, from any game. Sometimes they actually make a game harder (or impossible), or just allow you to do silly stuff after you've already won the game once, to extend the replay value a bit or just mess around. Or just to see just how badly you can break the game.

Here are some possibilites from various games, adapted somewhat for Co*.

- God mode

- Infinite inf

- All contacts available, no level restrictions.

- All powers available from your sets. You can pick a tier 9 at creation if you like.

- ALL powers in the game available, limited only by their level restrictions. In other words, if you've always wondered what a Fire/Regen Blaster would be like, or a Necro/Kin MM. Or a Kin/Necro Defender with Fireball, Integration, and Oppressive Gloom!

- All unlockables, including costumes and weapon skins.

- All TEMP powers only.

- reservoirdogs, my personal pick, and why I think so fondly on the PS1 era game Oni. It made enemies attack each other just as readily as they attacked Konoko, using all their various special moves. It was hilarious to see a cutscene of a bunch of thugs running in and saying "Let's get her!" and then start beating the crap out of each other. (It was only available when you had already beaten the game once.)

- Heaven or Hell mode (also available in Vagrant Story). Everything in the game has ONE hit point, including you. It's the ultimate gamble. You'll just play a Fire Blaster you say? Ahh, but there's always that 5% chance....

- /fallingdamageisdeadly 1. /knockbackdistance 10000.

Obviously you can also make up your own code. Perma-Invis? Perma-Hasten? Inherent Stamina and Health? No end crash on nukes? Infinite endurance? Break the game, fix the one little problem you've always had, or wallow in I Wanna Be The Hero/Villain 3D.

And anyway, it was Mussolini who made the trains run on time.

Yes, I know he actually didn't, the point is...bah, nevermind.