QueenVoodoo

Sweet. Congrats!

And happy b-day.

Husband and I play together all the time, we're both hardcore about our gaming. Don't really create characters that "go together", we usually just pick whatever interests us. Usually, it almost always works out well.

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I mean... What the??? States who most likely is getting emails daily at least with connection numbers says that there are more people connecting right now then ever before... Yet someone thinks because they don't see a lot of people States is either lying or doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Yet another reason why I love these damn forums.

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The servers aren't yellow because they had their capacity increased before CoV was added to the existing servers, unlike companies like SOE they don't like to see the servers buckle under the pressure of players before they decide to fork out the cash to upgrade them.

If there was actually a number counter for the active population you'd find that the number of players has actually risen quite sharply.

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Ding! We've got a winner!

We substantively increased the number of CPU's in our servers to account for new players....We've hit new highs in active concurrent in the past 24 hours.

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Statesman, what the heck are you doing in my nice EBIL skinned forum? Where's Lord Recluse?

Out States...out out out, before I have my zombies puke on you.

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My ninja's pwnt statesman!!

pwnt statesman

Nerf Me :P

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LOL. Good pic.

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Actually, I managed to score a critical on Synapse.


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Who CAN'T score a critical on Synapse, LOL. Synapse = The Whipping Boy of the Freedom Phalanx

I did manage to punch War Witch in the face once. Unfortunately I got no screenie on that

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Isn't there a hero called Ghost Rider with a skull head ?

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Yep, plus the Punisher and The Phantom have skulls. Liquid pointed out that they are vigilantes, but nearly all superheroes are vigilantes. Yes some do "get a pass" from the authorities, or have been officially "ok'ed" by the authorities, but a lot of them fight crime because they want to, not because somebody gave them the authority to.

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Ever seen R.O.D.? If not, think about using electricty to attract the bullets with out them hitting you. So it'd be like defense, with energy resistance and possible negitive energy and fire resistance.

But if you haven't seen R.O.D. go see it now!

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Okay, I'll bite. What the heck is R.O.D.? Besides a potentially pornographic spy organization?

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Read Or Die (it's an anime)

At first glance (paper masters? COME ON) I thought it sucked, after I saw a few episodes (got past all the "intro" stuff) it was "ok".

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*bubble officially burst*



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LOL

Dang it Statesman, you didn't let us get a good argument going first.

My Doom post was wasted! WASTED man!

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Not to be a bubble buster but.... how can anyone get giddy when we are still suffering with the I5 bugs?! Yeah they may get MOST of them fixed by then... but then just another wave of the same in I6? I5 was promised to be "ready when it's ready" and it has been the most bugged yet! AHHHHHHH (runs screaming into the night)

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Welcome to the boards man! Come on, we have to start whining and arguing over I6 now! This is a warm-up session before the real [censored] 'ing starts!

"I6: The End of CoH"

"I6: Statesman's Lost His MIND"

and so on.

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Is there a superlative for DOOOOOOMMMMMM????

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OMG! I forgot the most important bit...

DoooOOOoooOOOOooooOOOOOOOooooMMMMMmmmmMMMMmmm!!!11 1111fordfocus!111statesmansuxxors!!11

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Not to be a bubble buster but.... how can anyone get giddy when we are still suffering with the I5 bugs?! Yeah they may get MOST of them fixed by then... but then just another wave of the same in I6? I5 was promised to be "ready when it's ready" and it has been the most bugged yet! AHHHHHHH (runs screaming into the night)

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Welcome to the boards man! Come on, we have to start whining and arguing over I6 now! This is a warm-up session before the real [censored] 'ing starts!

"I6: The End of CoH"

"I6: Statesman's Lost His MIND"

and so on.

Hmm, no Water AT or Magnetisim AT (guess the latter got scrapped completely), and no talk of the Epic ATs. Interesting post.

I am eager to find out wha the "theme" is gunna be for I6.

Sweet!

Since I've been putting a lot more effort into this section of my web site lately, I figure I should post it up:

Wallpaper, Screenshots, and More!! Oh My!

See link in sig for whole site.

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Powerlvlers

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Honestly even if you base everything off of prestige and not influence, you'll still run into the same scenario. In the new scenario they'll be farming prestige instead of influence, that's all.


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Wouldn't that assume that Prestige is given in the same way that XP and inf is today? What happens if it's given by mission completions, story arc completion, TF:s done, badges collected?

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It can assume that or not. Mission completion, story arc completion, TFs done...that's all irrelevant to a true powerleveler (or powergamer for that matter). If your main goal is to farm prestige, you will do any task ad nauseum to get that prestige. If I have to complete missions, then I'll dump all street sweeping and do missions only. If I only have to complete arcs, I'll make sure that all my PL'ed alts have varied and completed storylines. Based on souvieners let's say, fine..I'll do every story arc that leads me to that end and nothning else.

I read the whole post, but snipping down to address the main points...

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Honestly even if you base everything off of prestige and not influence, you'll still run into the same scenario. In the new scenario they'll be farming prestige instead of influence, that's all. I can easily setup a character to race through to 50 in purely SG mode and I can do that with 10 other alts in the same SG to get the prestige I need to make a base. Using prestige alone as a way to stop people from powerleveling to gain large bases for little effort really isn't enough.

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Also does a higer lvl toon get you more prestige?

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It shouldn't really. Prestige should be based on what you do in the game while in an SG, not what level your characters are. If they base prestige on level you'll just get more people wanting to race to 50 and more potential PL problems. Also when people make the mad rush to 50 to get that nifty cool base, they will soon find out that they've reached the end of the line and content is slim...that'll only end up with bored players and cancellations, I think the Devs are smarter than this.

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And what is a motivation outside of the small interest in Hami-raids or future base raid for ppl to log their 50's on all the time?

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The age old answer really, more content...more of the things mentioned but have not yet been followed through on...like SG only trials and TFs, SG only missions, SG only zone ( ), Coalition TFs/missions/trials, etc. etc.

That's what is going to breath more life into SGs in general. I think the Devs have to know this as well.

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Is it time for an official declaration of DOOOOOOOOM yet?

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I'll second it

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*pounds gavel*

So let it be done. Secretary please enter this into the minutes....we have now officially declared DOOM.

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It still seems silly to me.

Why introduce a whole new (complicated) system when there's a perfectly viable one in place already. And we NEED more things to spend influence on, one can only stand so many costume contests under Atlas.

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It does seem silly, but why waste a perfectly good bit of code that his been there since the beginning. Anyone remember the old SG value of "Time" (i think), this was supposed to be time in SG Mode. Now it is being recycled into "Prestige".

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I agree that SOMETHING needs to be done with SG Mode, but I just think this is a silly thing to do with it.

Now if bases cost influence, but things you PUT in the bases cost prestige, that would make more sense to me.

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Seems I forgot my sarcasam tags.

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I'm sorry, those Tags expired in July.

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Um no, those tags are covered by the NDA. Which you have both now broken. I have alerted the authorities.

Ok to all the other points, but this one...

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- The people who were planning on being a one man SG and just buying themselves a personal base just got boned (until apartments proper come out.)

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How so? A one man SG is a one man SG. If that person was always in SG mode and Prestige points are based on how long you were in that mode, then how are people like this boned? The system doesn't really care if it's one guy, the system just cares how long that one guy was in SG mode. No?

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So wether or not we run around in SG mode, which I do quite abit just to change colors, will become pointless with a new SG.

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I don't think so. For sake of discussion, let's assume the information we have on this is true...We all know that CoH bases are coming AFTER CoV bases, not at the same time. So I think if you started now with a new CoH SG name and costume you should be able to scrape up some presitge points rather quickly in the meantime. No, not as much as you probably would have originally, but at least you'll have something. Also, remember we really don't know how much rent will be. We could be getting 100 prestige points for every hour we stay in SG mode, but rent could be something like 5 points a month. Just speculating here, but you see my point I hope, it's too soon to say you're going to get hosed or not on this.

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George Perez will be doing cover art for all three.

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That's pretty damn cool.

First, God bless America and God bless our troops and allies.

Anyway...

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I certainly didn't intend either...but here's the reality. I do NOT pass my posts through PR, community relations or anyone. I post, well, exactly as I think.

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And don't you ever consider doing so. PLEASE. If I wanted to hear the standard and approved company "good speak" I'd go to work. This game, for me, is pure enjoyment. I appreciate your candor and your posts.

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Planescape Torment was one of the best RPG computer games ever. Great storyline and interesting, fun characters (loved that floating skull guy).

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One of??? BEST PC RPG EEEVAH!! Heck, if it had Minsk in it I wouldn't even have to think for a second.

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EEEVAH!!? HELL NO!

Fallout I and II are the BEST PC RPGS EEEVAH!! (Yeah I know Wastelands came out before it. Fallout I and II are still better )

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Planescape Torment was one of the best RPG computer games ever. Great storyline and interesting, fun characters (loved that floating skull guy).

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Morte!!!

He was my favorite too. Litany of curses RAWKED.

God I love that game.

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You guys seem to be luckier than me then. It is extremely rare I get a drop that is useful. I was doing a TF last night against mobs that drop my origin and still only managed to get one drop I could slot (which was passed to me by a mate).

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Yeah probably is a bit of luck mixed in there.

One other thing that occurred to me after reading this thread is what about the upcoming SG bases? There was talk a loong time ago (by players, not the Devs I believe) to have a "vault" or "bank system" in the SG base so people could leave enhancments, influence, inspirations for any one of their SG mates to have.

If we had a "vault"/"bank" in the SG base it would make the random drops a bit more useful. For example, instead of hoping somebody on my team can use it. I can drop it off at the "vault" and an SG teammate can use it, or one of my alts can use it, or whatever.

At least it would give you something else to do with a dropped enhancement that you can't use.