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I like the sane one with the fruit better.



Especially considering that candy rots your economy along with your teeth.

This error also occurs if you put in a line break with too few characters left. When the game automagically goes and puts in the < br > if you don't have enough characters left, it'll push it over the line, and typically cut off part of the HTML, breaking the code while leaving you over the edge.

No, legitimate means not using an exploit. Meow farms were not farms, they were an exploit because the communication officers gave entirely too much XP compared to the risk they posed, and it would be impossible to get from 1 to 30 in an hour and a half without meowing, and to claim they got to 50o would be silly.

Yes, it is unfairly to level that quickly exploiting the system.

The law set down by the developers, yes.

If you try to make a pawn use a sniper rifle in a game of Chess, that's generally considered an "illegal" move, as in not acceptable by the players or creators of the game.

Illegal is a word, a perfectly acceptable word with meaning outside the realm of criminal and civil law.

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The issue is the Devs have been doing this for 5 years... They give the players something fun, something exciting, and then when they realize people are using exploits to level too fast...they nerf the crap out of things, ripping the shiny new toy from the hands of the players... The Devs are gonna kill this game, just a matter of time now... tic toc tic toc

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But...you just said they've been doing it for five years...It hasn't killed the game yet. You mean "tick" which is the sound a clock makes.

I know what you mean, it really sucks when things work as intended.

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Is there a lower brow then genitalia?

Erotica is low brow, if Shakespeare had written a scene involving a pizza guy, a pool man and all of King Lear's daughters in King Lear, it probably would not be considered quite as good as it is. But low brow isn't a bad thing, I've read a lot of high brow stuff, it used to be all I read until I found comic books, film noir, detective stories and all that fantastic low brow stuff that isn't even aiming for your eye brow, but your gut. One of my arc's, it's name is a reference to a Coleridge poem, but it's actually referencing a reference, and a distillation of that portion of the poem from what would be considered a low-brow Science Fiction movie.

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This is funny -- someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Shakespeare was rather successful because he was "low brow" and spoke the common man's language.

Also, I take exception to your assertion that comic books are universally "low brow".

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I take critical error to your exception and I'm not even Vista...



You're correct, but I just liked the idea of porno music playing while King Lear sits there, horrified, looking exactly like Patrick Stewart.

Sequential art is a exactly that, an art form, and art has been created within the medium, but it is low-brow art. Eisner created art, but low-brow art, Neil Gaiman, not a fan, but he could be considered to have created art, but it was low brow. The term lowbrow, to me, at least, doesn't refer to "stupid" but rather to more visceral works and limited in appeal to small sections of society, as opposed to what is called high brow, which the term denotes should be loved by everyone, and if you don't, you can't understand it.



Sequential art is lowbrow art, but it is still art.

Are you sure all references to it are gone? Every single "Enemy Group" and so on? I think your best bet would be to open your local file in a text document editor and look for references to the group name/critter names.

Is there a lower brow then genitalia?

Erotica is low brow, if Shakespeare had written a scene involving a pizza guy, a pool man and all of King Lear's daughters in King Lear, it probably would not be considered quite as good as it is. But low brow isn't a bad thing, I've read a lot of high brow stuff, it used to be all I read until I found comic books, film noir, detective stories and all that fantastic low brow stuff that isn't even aiming for your eye brow, but your gut. One of my arc's, it's name is a reference to a Coleridge poem, but it's actually referencing a reference, and a distillation of that portion of the poem from what would be considered a low-brow Science Fiction movie.

New content is always more important then rehashing what already exists in multitude. You're trying to shame him into being silent by claiming his remarks were fueled by ego, but they most likely weren't. His complaint is a logical one.

I design my missions to be soloable for all classes, and the level range for which my mission falls into. I don't use custom critters because they are so overpowered with the exception of bosses and non-combat NPCs like contacts, hostages. I don't believe that they should be a cakewalk with no badies (unless the story calls for it) but I don't think there should be a definite likelihood of anyone that plays it getting debt.

I've leveled an alt from 1 to 34 since AE came out, and I've seen AE spam in every single location that I've been to. I play on Virtue.

It won't stop people from spamming in Atlas, because they spam where the people are, and if AE is in one spot, and all the spammers magically go there, then people won't be there and the spammers will follow them back to civilization.



Watch a freaking zombie movie, man! It's the fundamentals. :P

The problem with the theory that "hiding" AE will stop people from spamming about needing an AE team is that people do it in locations that have no AE building to begin with.

Are you using a power set that can use them? Katanas can only be used by katana wielders and so on.

That'd be as easily as creating a glowie and listing it's singular as "Locate The Boss" and causing the goal of defeating said boss only spawning after the first was completed.

Don't worry, he's wrong.

Body type is the only important thing, no large costumes on females, no male costumes on females.

Sliders don't matter, preset doesn't matter.

Unlocked stuff does but that is a different error then yours.

Actually, though, there are times when the the NPC's directions can be pretty confusing. I spent a month not leveling my first character because I couldn't find Wolf's Throat, the map says it's in the middle of the woods, but I'd go there and nothing I found would count against the group I was supposed to hunt.

Finally, I looked it up on the internet and got directions.

But that's an extreme example, there are times when mobs are simply called confusing things or you're told to hunt a specific type, and in those situations, I'd try knocking off a bunch of different groups until I found the one I needed.

Comm officers are like defenseless kittens is what my SG figured out.


It's a horrible, horrible slang term. I like cats.

Then the field you're trying it isn't one of the acceptable fields for color adjustments.

Farming is wrong, sir!


Meow Farms do this to make it even easier, and I've only ever seen it on Meow farms...


How do I know this? Farming...

I have a plan for an arc where instead of being you, you play as a young boy, tormented by the ghosts of famous murderers and taunted until you in the final mission, decide to kill Statesman, never knowing if they are ghosts or delusions. But in order to enforce the powerless nature, I'd lock the player at level one through each of the five missions using the Infected and Flower Knight...


I really think people would hate it but the idea appeals to me a great deal.

I can only think of two or three groups in the game that really are military or intend to act as an army.

But, y'know, all of them have minions, and lieutenants. Not to say that minion is a military rank...

Statesman isn't my boss, and he certainly isn't my elite boss. Who calls someone an elite boss? "Yipes, Ted, you better get those 409s done before Nancy, the elite boss fires you!"

Who would allow themselves to be called a minion? "Yeah, I'm a minion for hire, it's like being a gopher but you get killed more often."

The Skulls are an inner-city group of hooligans, how do they even know the concept of lieutenants? How about the Devouring Earth? Did they devour a library? How about those zombies? Did someone stop them before they went out to eat people and said "Hey! You're a minion, that means you min!"


None of the ranks make sense, none of them, but they are an unimportant portion of the UI, and quite frankly, you shouldn't encounter an archvillain as your ally, they are too powerful and they will finish the map before you do. If you need to help people face your twelve AVs by giving them one, make those AVs into Bosses or Elite Bosses.

I don't care if your character is so powerful that they could rip the Earth in half by sneezing, they should never be more then an elite boss because they aren't going to rip the Earth in half. The arch-villain/hero rank is for those superheros that are above all the others, we aren't ever supposed to be Superman or Batman in City Of Heroes, we aren't, we are Aquaman, Blue Lightning, Blue Beetle, Green Lantern, She-Hulk, or Hawkeye. Our characters can never attain that level of power or popularity. Lord Recluse is Lex Luthor, Statesman is Superman, so on and so forth. Sometimes on certain difficulty levels, those rules will bent, or the developers will bend those rules to make something seem important or exciting, but that's within their rights as the overlords of the universe that's been created.


I love this game, I love my characters, but within the structure of the game, they will never have a statue in Atlas Park, they will never be anything more then a second-stringer that a degenerate writer could kill off without even asking the editor.

Just a thought, but wouldn't 25 be a better testing level? That's the middle between the minimum level and the maximum level. You don't have all your powers, but you have most, you aren't stuck with training enhancements, but most won't have the best IOs.

Most people like to use MA to level, something that a 50 can beat but they can't is useless to them.

That will never happen, I tell you what, the developers don't get assignable spawn-points, why would we?

My best suggestion? Change it to a bank map, make her into a collectible object (there actually was rumoured voodoo practices in the 1860's of killing young women and girls inside wooden barrels to keep from making a mess beyond what the ritual called for.) the bank can have been built upon an important location/landmark/fey line/Axis Of Pithia and cleared of civilians prior to the event.The barrel can have all of her dialogue, and you can explain that she was/is too weak from their treatment to walk out of her own accord.

The bank maps only have one floor collection spawn point and it is always inside the vault, the boss will reliably spawn almost directly in front of the vault, making it almost impossible to rescue her without fighting him.

Sure, it's not as exciting to stop a ritual about to happen, but y'know.

You could also try making her a defendable object.


Just suggestions though, and this will fix your ambush problem.