RavenSoul

Dinner became an indirect form of wife agro. So, late as usual.

But hey! Still had fun, heads still rolled, and they weren't always mine!

Thanks for another great pvp event, Robo. Hope to see another one announced soon, if you want help finding prize support let me know.

@Raven Lord

And the wolf needs you!

I mean, c'mon, he's a nine-foot-tall, 1,500-pound, sword-swingin fiend of a werewolf, so his calorie-a-day requirement's probably something like 15,000. At that point I can't afford his grocery bill, unless I get help from an organization like the BPRD*.

So, uh... he doesn't send all of his defeated enemies to the Zig. At least, not the delicious ones...

@Raven Lord

* Think Hellboy. I think 'Red' and Watch Wolf might be evenly matched in an eating contest - although it would empty out every grocery store in the Western Hemisphere if it ever occured.

Tonights kickball might conflict a bit with dinner plans. Once again, the wolf might be late...

@Ukase: I seem to have a similar tactic. I show up to pvp and get smacked around until I start retaliating in an effective manner. Sometimes, it even works!

@Hazy: Being one of the people who got AS'd more than once last Sunday, I can assure you it happens.

<level stare> And it would have happened LESS had somebody not kept netting and gluing random targets of opportunity to make the stalkers' night profitable...</level stare>

@Enderbean: Way to go! I LIKE that idea. Wonder if tp foe is still too 'improved' by i13 to work to tp people onto trip mines. I seem to recall they 'improved' that tactic into 'retirement'.

@Raven Lord

Welcome back. I think I recall seeing your name in the pvp circles but I may be wrong, as I'm sure I've slept since then.

Dead West isn't kidding, as much as I wish he was. Zone pvp recently has had a bit of a spike in people. Thursday night I heard about 30 people in the 'burg dukin it out, all because one team came in, got the people there to call for help, who got that team to call in reinforcements.... good times.

Sure, the i13 changes to PvP stink so bad they'd knock a buzzard off of a poo wagon, but zone PvP itself can still be enjoyable at times.

Again, welcome back, and I look forward to teaming with you.

@Raven Lord

Yar. <coughcough>

<ahem> YAR!!

I'll be there pending cooperation between real life and my wonky memory.

@Raven Lord

Currently being 3:30 am here <yawn>, just how wee are the hours ye're talkin here? And which zones?

A big, HUGE, thank you goes out to all the people who came out last night and put the War back into Warburg. For too long, the 'burg, as I refer to it, has been far too quiet.

I'm really not sure how many there were there, either. About a dozen? And I know a few were first timers to PvP, to those: You Rock! And I hope ye come back, too. Was a fun crowd!

I didn't get any pvp drops. I seem to be allergic to those >.> , but oh well.

And Hazy? Not sure if ye caught my comment about Gadget, so I'll say it again. Really don't like that toon, she's become the paper to my rock everytime I've run into you in the 'burg. And I can't wait to be netted by her again, either. I swear, it got to the point where I'd be after someone else entirely and I'd get stopped cold by a net arrow, to which my reply was always the same - G******it Gadget!

I'm thinkin I need to bind the 'shake fist at sky' emote just so I can show my, uh... appreciation... of being caught in a net. I got to where I was lmao at how often it happened over the course of the hour+ we were fightin...

@Raven Lord (Who's toon last night was Carcharias. He started out as a large mutant great white shark, so it's especially demeaning to get caught in nets like some wimpy anchovy. Oi, the irony.)

Event was awesome! Sorry I wasn't there on time. But the 'Showing up late but beheading everyone in sight to make up for it' award had me laughing my *** off.

I had a great time, and look forward to doing something like this again!

@Raven Lord (who hopes that a y2k bug resurfaces long enough to eat issue 13's information and backup information so they have to reset pvp to being - GASP! - the same as pve)

(oh the horror! )

I'll be bringing my BS / Shield Scrap most likely. See you folks there!

@Raven Lord

So, testing the game is mostly complete.

To put it simply, I told support to close the ticket, the game's back to normal.

See you all on more than recently. And hopefully, I'll even see some of you at the 3v3 team pvp event tomorrow!

@Raven Lord

One question...

How many people here have been talking this up ingame? I'm not saying blare it on broadcast in AP, but what about the global channels*? I've seen it in a motd in LB (I think), but not everyone reads those. Probably less than read the forums. The forum readership's a lot smaller than the server population, though.

Think if we talk this up, even if people don't sign up on the forums, we might get a few more show up day-of. Worth a shot? I think it's time for the people who like pvp to start recruiting people again, since otherwise, it's just going to stay dead. C'mon, lets get some new blood!

For those reading this who don't know about pvp, or tried it and didn't care for it, give it a shot, a second time if needed. It's not all bad. Remember, we're all still Liberty people here. Sportsmanship on this server's pretty huge. Not sure what's going on, there's folks who'll help you out.

@Raven Lord

*BTW, by global channels I refer to ShF, LB, and LFA. Others, I'm not aware of, and I'm sure everyone in Robo's Lounge already knows about this so that doesn't really count.

Just got off the phone with the ISP, they confirmed I went over the download cap (by over 2 gb). Reinforces what my gut feeling was on the source of the problem.

@Tax E: On the subject of changing from this usb phone modem to honest to god cable broadband, I would soooooooo do it, in a heartbeat - IF I could afford it. Atm, I can't. So, alas, I'm stuck on this podunk little thing. But, on the bright side, it's better than no Internet at all.

@Ukase: The Blue Screen of Death is not dead, it's merely less common. I know I've seen one myself in the last six months. Sidenote- Microsoft, as an April Fool's gag, 'announced' that they would allow you to reconfigure your Blue Screen to be any color you wished it to be. This was quite some time ago, but I always thought it was funny as hell. Me, I would've changed it to be a nuclear mushroom cloud .jpg, just for laughs. Maybe attach a soundbite of a 5-year-old saying "boooooooooom!", too.

Oh. And thanks for the heads up on the free pancakes... might have to do the 1800's New York voting thing - "Vote Early, and Vote Often" - I've got plenty of beard I can shave off in increments to change my looks between servings. Lol. So, maybe, for me, it won't be just three of them!

Lord knows I can eat enough breakfast in one sitting to choke a Canadian logger.

@Raven Lord (who's still more of a Denny's kind of guy, but IHOP's ok)

So, up until tonight, I'd been extremely frustrated with my ISP, computer, or anything else that might cause an excess of rubberbanding.

Some of you may be aware already, but I'll rewind a bit here for john q public. Feb 15th, I logged into CoH and got a rude surprise when I teamed up for a Posi 2. In the last mission, I got thrown into rubberband-hell for a good twenty minutes, plus. From a point inside the dam, through to the end of the mission, everyone was rubberband fighting.

Now, after that experience I was rather upset. But it never got better. At one Talos Rikti Invasion two nights later, I had two mapserver dc's and two coh.exe errors. All in one event, and the last pair of dc's weren't while I was on the hill, by that point I had made it close to the train.

Anyways, long story short, this hasn't stopped, and myself, real-life & ingame friends, and Paragon Tech Support haven't figured this out.

However, tonight I came across something on my ISP's website that was like an epiphany. I'm on a very tight budget, so I use Cricket Broadband. It's slow, but it's cheap. Well, like any other broadband service from a cellphone company, they cap you at (in my case) 5 gigabytes of download a month. In the case of Cricket, they don't charge extra if you go over.

Oh no.

They dethrottle your connection. It's been estimated at 100 kb/s. Not a healthy bandwidth for an MMO.

So, anyways, while this isn't proven, I'd bet money my sync issue will dissapear on March 1st.

As to why I'm posting this here, well, I was concerned that if I didn't fix this I would no longer be able to attend tf's with ingame friends that have missed having me along, as well as the 3v3 pvp tourney coming up. Suffice to say, this is a hope and a warning. It's possible I'm wrong and this won't change.

But, as I said, I'd bet money come March 1st that I'll be able to team again.

Until then, I won't be around. After that, I hope to be back to teaming with the crazy and cool folks on ShF, LB, and LFA again.

So, adios, I see a sunset needs riding off into. Until we meet again.

@Raven Lord

PS- I also want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who was on any tf that I used as a stresstest that inevitably failed. A few of these, I was able to get back in and quit to rescale the tf to the remainder, most I wasn't. I'm truly sorry, and if any of my fellow Liberty peoples have a bone to pick with me, I fully understand.

Thank you for the shortlist, Robo. Hadn't had time to look up the (hated) i13 changes.

Think the biggest one I'd point out is this. With single target damage based on ani time, some powerset melee attacks become less favorable than power pool attacks. <sigh> So, Flurry, Jump Kick, and such tier 1 / 2 attacks in the power pools can be better than what you chose based on AT, as long as they have long ani times. Something to keep in mind.

One last thing - I think, all things being equal, that anyone who wants to show up with a toon that isn't decked out for the occasion should be fine. This is, after all, just for fun.

First things first, but not entirely in that order...

Stickied! Whoa! I'm pleasantly shocked!

As usual, roughly 5 minutes after I turned my computer off, my crud-fogged mind AS'd me, in a sense, as to why I was playing devil's advocate.

I see an all Stalker team as a challenge.

Think I'm likely alone on that. Maybe as a side event? Kidding!

<runs and hides, hoping that the couch medicine doesn't wear out>

I agree.

But, iirc, +perception has always been kind of a given? That, and AS has soooo many countermeasures to it, too.

I'm not arguing for it, tbh. Think I'm just playing devil's advocate for no reason.

Noticed my pvp toons've collected enough dust they'd probably not be much use. My Dark / Cold Dom Corr's still at 30, and I can honestly say she'd probably not be much help, considering that +def seems less than second-rate.

Might have to look at whipping some of my pve toons into pvp shape. Just so I have a cutoff, what level shoud I not bring anything lower than?

I only have 3 50's - an AR / Dev, a DP / Rad Defender, and a BS / Shield Scrap. So more than likely my 50's won't be much use, unless I pull the AR out of mothball-retirement-land in short order.

@Raven Lord