Rainbow Avenger
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The-Server-I-Roll-Alts-On-Because-I've-Run-Out-Of-Slots-On-Virtue-Server server.
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Quote:Indeed. I have no sympathy: none at all.Originally Posted by DocBenway
the sense of entitlement here is sickening.
For weeks (indeed a couple of months) pre-launch I listened to players both in these forums and in game channels brag about how they were going to go premium and get everything for free, how clever they were for punking the system and how subscribing was for suckers.
Now they've found out what Bob Heinlein knew fifty years ago: that "there's no such thing as a free lunch." Boo Effing Hoo. Want your VIP goodies back? Pay up. Simple as. -
I just got booted off of Virtue. Same deal. Server still shows as up on the status page.
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As I recall (and it was a while back) when flight poses were added back in I9, the devs attempted to implement a system whereby any one of the five pose animations would be randomly applied when you activated Fly. I recall this actually being live for a brief window of time.
Problem was the RPers whined about how this or that pose wasn't in character for this or that alt and how it was breaking their immersion. So the devs responded by removing automatic random poses and kludged up the current system that requires client-side macros, at which point everyone in the game (RPers included) stopped using them altogether. They are now so rarely seen that most players who subbed at I10 or later can be excused for not knowing the functionality even exists. Classic "dog in the manger" behaviour really. -
I just saw a grav/time controller named Gravy Time. Well done, sir/madam, I pointed, I loled, I grabbed it on Virtue. :P
Got Devshirmeh, not that it was liable to be snagged in a hurry. -
Quote:And every one of them is a science origin Dark/Axe Tank.
Oh, oh! I'm the second one from the left! I'd know that black body suit and *** anywhere! -
Quote:I was standing next to MARTy when I logged in Rainbow Avenger (#11). That name was gone inside two minutes of the server being switched on. I got:Originally Posted by Bubblerella
What I got:
To late for:
Exalted
MARTy
Saving the last spots I have for transfers.
Equinoxe (I didn't even try to get Equinox. It looks cooler in French: Jarre FTW.)
Janissary
Rogation
Katyusha
Jukebox
Jaggernath
The launch of Exalted just reinforced my opinion that most people have no imagination. Post-launch I saw Mis-Spellingz, Fake Spe11ings, xXFramed SpellingsXx, and the Plain Lame in under an hour. Fourty-five minutes into the server's existence and a noticeable proportion of the players had already run out of ideas. -
I'm camping several "high profile poster's" names (including SnipeFu) but all by request pending them re-subbing.
Thanks to Ustream I had my global notched on Exalted's headboard within minutes of the server start. If you meet a Rainbow Avenger anywhere, it's me. -
Quote:Themselves.Originally Posted by BuckNaked
can we talk about why the word naked was gened? now you can go into supermarkets and buy naked juice and bear naked granola... who are the devs trying to protect here???
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Quote:That was sponsored by R.A.F. on Victory as I recall, although it had wide cross-server coalition support via Pride global. (shameless plug)Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
The new people weren't around for it but a few years ago a friendly group of players sponsored an ingame event and invited everyone to join the party. Much fun was had by all who participated.
About a month later, and this is important, a month after the event was over!!! an article was published that praised the event that was sponsored by Gay players. I forget if they were a single SG or a group of SG's.
That's when the forums erupted in a hate fueled flamewar. Blinding stupidity like if the gays can have events why can't heteros have hetero only events, and ingame christian prayer meetings. The event should have been banned because they were recruiting. Thankfully the mods started stepping in and locked/deleted threads.
So why is Queer banned? Because if idiots like that.
I recall that the same haters who flamed the forums also joined and lurked on that channel, waiting to hear goodness knows what: our secret world domination and mass recruitment plans or something. They left when they figured out that Pride mostly hosted the same LFT and job-moaning chatter as any other global, except with slightly more mention of penises.
I also recall that the whole tit-for-tat events war ended about the time a group of Satanists announced an in-game Black Mass under Atlas the same day as the Christian revival event. Too bad, would have been quite a scene. -
Quote:A few unrelated thoughts:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Offensive
Raging Queen
Flaming Fairy
Nancy Boy
So out of curiosity what unoffensive names can you come up with using queer? Cuz honestly I'm drawing a blank.
1. Ironically I've seen versions of those three names several times in chat binds on Pride global and/or loitering in Virtue Pocket D.
2. I can see "queer" being used in the older sense for a steampunk-themed character but that's about it.
3. Banning "queer" but not "gay" smacks of a double standard. Getting the latter word off of the naughty list took years of nudging and nagging of the devs before Ex Libris finally removed it. It's not like the game devolved into barbarism as a result.
4. In the UK, the word that rhymes with hag is a cigarette. The word that rhymes with baguette is a bundle of sticks (with one G) and a variety of pork meatball if spelled with two. Add "ing" to the latter and it's a embroidery technique. For all those reasons, the banning of these two words has always struck me as both culturally imperialist and anti-intellectual.
5. Remember when "fist" was briefly a banned word? Made it dirtier didn't it?
6. I am no kid, but I had no idea - not a whisper of a notion - that "cracker" was a naughty word anywhere in the world until I played CoH. Were it not a banned word, prompting me to ask someone "what the heck?" I might still not know. I know the pejorative now because it was banned. -
Quote:Seconded. A Warshade can do it all. Darkhorse points to a well-built Incarnate Huntsman. Hell's lawnmower on wheels.Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy
A Warshade can do everything but solo Giant Monsters... And that can probably even be done with temp powers/lore pets. Either way, that's my choice.
edit: Also, my Tri Form build does 54x8 Fire Farms. -
My level 38 dom is level-pacted to the alt of a friend who plays about two hours a month. The "long dark teatime of the thirties" doesn't begin to describe that grind.
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Electric/* seconded.
The sleep and the confuse make melee safe, and the aura rewards melee by buffing regen and recovery. My dom has had zero endurance issues almost from day one. Conductive Aura also drains endurance so anything awake and not punching its neighbour will be drained and slapping at you ineffectually with Brawl. I went with elec/eng for the stuns. -
This game has PvP?
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Quote:Or for that matter a bad excuse. "Sorry, porn star needed back on set." works for me. Or just say "no." It's your fifteen bucks; you don't owe them an excuse. Hell I'd play this game offline if I could.Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn
Think of a good excuse to decline invites and put it on a bind,just send that each time,ie "soz logging soon RL inter-fears again
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Apollo from the Authority. It would probably re-energise him if he was depleted.
Also Jenny Quantum, who's been known to absorb universes, Jack Hawksmoor if it's a big enough city being nuked and any version of the Doctor, who is just magical and does whatever the script demands. Although in the latter three cases, their powers are so nebulous one could argue either way. -
You went triform!
This build is solidifying now. Minor things:
1. Orbiting Death is under-slotted but that's ok because your Nova attacks are over-slotted. The six-bonuses for those sets are mediocre and the added dps is mostly being eaten by diminishing returns. Remove a slot from each and add them to OD.
2. You've already got +59% accuracy from bonuses so you can probably sneak that accuracy out of Eclipse. Two options here: Expensive - add it to OD and five-slot Obliterations for another 3.75% melee defense. Cheap - add it to Gravity Well and slot another set of Crushing Impacts instead of the Basilisks. Seems a shame to waste a high damage attack and with a 6.3 sec. recharge it's already stackable.
3. Some may scoff but I don't think you really need that Miracle +recovery unique. If you have it, use it, but don't spend influence on one. If you want a unique in that spot, consider a Regenerative Tissue +regen instead. Ditto the four-slotted Stamina. Two is plenty (I only use one.)
4. Inky Aspect does require a tohit check, so add one more slot there. Which brings me to:
HOs are a Warshade's best friend. The old school hami-O is a great way of stretching slots. Inky for example: two Endoplasms (acc/mez), BAM. Don't want to waste slots on Shadow Bolt or Ebon Eye? Toss in a pair of Nucleoli (acc/dmg), WHAM. Double your power, double your fun. -
A few things are leaping out at me. others no doubt will follow anon.
1. Eclipse can be perma'd fairly easily. No six-slotting required - I manage perma with four.
1a. Those four being Performance Shifter (acc/rec) and three resist set IOs (the res/rechs). Get whatever's cheapest because it makes no difference. It's not like your mom's going to check them for holes. I hate set snobbery.
2. Alpha slot: for the love of seafood, drop Cardiac and get Spiritual, stat. "Endurance starved?" Stygian Circle, my friend. Spam that puppy when it's up whether you think you need it or not. Endurance is other AT's problem. Also, I checked Mids: with your current posted build, Spiritual at tier 3 will push you over the permaclipse threshold with no other changes. Congratulations!
3. For a pure human build, you're hampering yourself not taking Orbiting Death. You'll like the extra DoT damage. Lovely synergy with Inky Aspect. All that wobbling around stunned and dieing.
4. Recharge recharge recharge. Yours is weak, and weaker still when Hasten is down. Tweak your IOs and cherrypick sets with global recharge when possible without distorting the essence of your raison d'etre as a Doomsquid, which is to kill in style.
5. Don't turn up your nose at Stygian Return. What? A crappy self-rez? No young padawan - a mag 10, 15-second untouchable buff. You can cause a lot of mayhem in fifteen seconds and all you need to do is allow the mobs to imagine for a brief moment that they've won. Then you destroy them.
6. The MFing Warshade. Go. Kill. Be purple. -
Dosadi, cribbed from the eponymous warrior planet in the novel by Frank Herbert. The name was the gift of a friend who snagged it back around CoV release and who later purchased a name change so I could use it.
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Quote:1. Mini Galactus.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Actually, rocket-less flying chair works too, for that New Gods Möbius Chair effect. I would so make a Hovering Barcalounger Cosmic Character. Unfortunately, all the animations would have to be redone so he could fire his Energy Blasts from his forehead, but...
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Quote:I do have a 50 fire/rad. Can't stand him. If I ever have the stones to delete one of my 50s it will be that one.Originally Posted by ultrawatt
This, a cor is like 75% blaster and 75% defender.
I can see why people wouldnt like them though, scourge takes awhile before its really all that good.
But yes, this list is very subjective. Notice how many people list MMs at or near the bottom, and yet there are a not inconsiderable number of people who adore them and play nothing else. -
Quote:All true. And where's "Golden Girls?"Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
A gross error compounded by the pandering inclusion of Family Guy, a show whose jaw-dropping comedic laziness was definitively deconstructed by IGN's #4 pick, South Park.
But really, isn't the 'Of All Time' List Broken Up Into Multiple Segnments for Page Views becoming a rather tired web article tactic? This one's geographic and historical unevenness only highlights its shoddy desperation. Despite nods to some UK comedies, The State beats out Canada's Kids in the Hall? I Love Lucy's token inclusion only underscores the absence of The Honeymooners and The Ernie Kovacs Show in the black-and-white era category. Most remarkably, despite the blinkered IGN editors' assertion that their list spanned "almost 60 years of television", an entire decade apparently vanished from cultural memory, to judge by the omission of such Sixties standouts as Get Smart and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour?
P.S. I'd complain about the lack of inclusion of Mr. Show with Bob and David, but its fans are used to its slighting at this point.
EDIT: Despite the IGN editors' criteria for "legacy factor, impact on the genre, re-run factor", their choices seem short-sighted and parochial in their deference to contemporary sensibilities. The Odd Couple, Bob Newhart Show, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show are all incredibly whitebread, but they're undeniably among the the best written and funniest TV shows. Do we really believe that Futurama will be considered better than them in another "Of All Time" list a decade or two from now? -
Quote:Wasn't a fan of having to temporarily unblock scripts from six different third-party domains to find out that the last pick was a video that I couldn't be tossed to watch.Originally Posted by Xzero45
Eh.
Wasn't a fan of the last pick having to be a video.
If it wasn't "WKRP in Cincinnati" it was wrong. -
1. Warshade - That other people find them "too complicated" is often satisfaction enough.
2. Dominator - DOMINATION.
3. Blasters - "Kill me if you caaaan! Bwahah--" *splat*
4. Defenders - "Can this combo melt faces? Ok then but I' not healing ****, understand?"
5. Tanker - "You died where? Was I tanking that when you ran into it? No? shut your pie hole then."
6. Stalkers - "Kill me if you caaaan! Bwahah--" *splat*
7. Scrappers - "I dunno, got no ideas..." "Roll another scrapper." "Oh whatever." *yawns*
8. Brute - "I dunno, got no ideas..." "Roll another brute." "Oh whatever." *yawns*
9. Soldier/Widow - "Stay alive, we need the buffs!" *sighs. drinks more.*
Finally:
10. Masterminds - *ping* DemonKitty has joined the team. *ping* Thugmaster has joined the team. *ping* Can Has Robots has joined the team. *ping* You have quit your team.
11. Corruptor - half second-rate Defender, half second-rate Blaster, all suck.
12. Peacebringer - Oh what might have been. *sighs*
13. Controller - an AT whose job is to make things not move. Wheee.