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Claudia let herself smile inwardly and wondered vaguely whether she should push Cara a little... No. Not yet anyway. Too obvious, and Ryan would probably do something nasty if he found out.

Later. When things got noisier and there were more distractions.

She doubled up her smile at Richard instead. "Oh, I'm not any trouble at all," she replied, adding a little touch of batted eyelids.

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Annette took the glass and grinned. "It certainly has," she said, even if there was that nagging feeling somewhere in the back of her head that something just had to go wrong soon.

Claudia considered the available selection as she quietly accepted her drink from the Vigilant. The one they called Issac was... ooo, very nice, but his proximity to Juan, not so good. Annette would likely skin her alive if she played with Diana again, or Tabby, actually, and besides Diana looked to be doing a good enough job on her own with Jacob. Hmm... who was that one?

She sidled up to Richard and smiled her best and most winning smile. "Good evening, sir, have we met? I'm Claudia, Claudia Chandris."

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Annette nodded to Richard before turning and spotting Quickfrost. She wandered in his direction as Linda wandered in the other, carrying a plate which was slowly growing in height as she piled food onto it.

"Jacob," she said, smiling, "you are looking most dashing this evening." She smiled at the girl he was chatting to. "Hi, I'm Annette, Jacob's Team Leader." She held out a hand.

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Using only scent, Tabby had located her prey. Now, gaining visual range, she prepared to pounce, judging carefully the passage of various other students between her and her target. With a sudden rushing movement, she sprang. The sausage roll was hers!

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Dane was fully aware that Diana fancied Jacob, but then, the object of his own affections was hardly going to be dragged away from her date for the evening any time soon, so going along with the team's resident fire thrower had seemed a good pan. His own ability to manipulate fire did mean he was in some position to squelch things a bit if Diana went overboard. Well... there was always the chance he might get a dance with Annette sometime, especially if Liberty Girl kept eating like that.

Tabby dodged her way between some of the other students, staying low and trying not to be spotted too much. She was not really sure what this event was all about, but Annette had explained to her (very slowly) that it was a kind of training exercise, and Diana had taken her shopping and bought her some special training clothes. These consisted of a sparkly, strapless top and a short skirt. Diana had said she looked 'very festive.' Tabby thought about her training objectives, and headed for the buffet counter.

Diana herself had persuaded Dane that it was her, or probably Claudia, had kitted herself out in a fire-red minidress and heels, and was doing her absolute darndest to try to make Quickfrost jealous, which meant that Dane looked doubly uncomfortable in a hired suit and with a girl he didn't actually fancy that much draped over him. He did, actually, make the suit look good, but he was a street kid and this kind of thing was not his style.

And elevator dinged and Claudia emerged, pausing in the entrance for her adoring public to take in her new look. A long, pearlescent white gown made her blonde hair and pale skin stand out well. It was rather low cut for her age, but Claudia liked to make a statement. When she noticed that, actually, too many people were busy paying attention to too many other things, she thought about drawing a little more attention to herslef, but then spotted that one of the people that had noticed her entrance was Annette, who had gone very, very psi-blank and a little stoney eyed just at that moment. Deciding to save that for later, Claudia worked her way toward the punch bowl.

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8)How much is Cryptic paying you to make these DOOM™ threads?

Reported thread for lock/deletion, because the best way of encouraging new players to stick around is to have lots of DOOM™ threads in the general discussion board.

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Are you serious? As I'm flabergasted by your stupid comment on me being paid by the original creator of this game to burn it down! Righto whatever!

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He is, essentially, right though. Anyone coming here to see what the game might be like, and how the community is, will have seen a huge great long stream of threads saying that the servers are empty and the game is doomed. You're just adding to the bad press and ensuring that fewer people join the game.

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Global name wouldn't change anyway. It's, um... global?

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Aww, but this one had just desended into absurdity!

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This, without the inflammatory comment.

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My sense of humour is failing me. It's getting near Christmas and I have done no more Christmas shopping than Annette, so sue me.

There should have been some form of smiley.


Anyway, I'd have to see your Golden Girl and raise you one Mother's Love, Guillermo.

(I've seen neither of them roleplay, but frankly, Union has Galaxy Girl, every night, in spades, and Defiant has... um... some costume competitions?)

(( If Dan doesn't mind, I'll put in a bit for Libby here. He can fill in her outfit and any thoughts when he notices. ))

Annette and Linda came in from the elevators having got dressed in Annette's room. Arm in arm, they stepped out of the elevator and looked around.

Annette had been out shopping with Joanna Zicky earlier that week and had come back with what would be best described as a proper LBD. Thin shoulder straps, light, clingy fabric, mid thight length (which was fairly conservative for her) and two-inch spike heels. Her hair was done up in a bun, with a pair of steel pins stuck through it to keep it in place. She was wearing little in the way of make-up, a little lip gloss and eye shadow.

Annette smiled, waved to Ryan, and then followed after Linda, who had spotted the buffet, blue eyes lighting up.

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What liar told you that? Union always had the better roleplaying environment.

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EDIT: And it's not fun for a new player to join a bunch of level20's in a Task Force with side kicking zerging through the levels like a maniac.

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Then don't. It isn't like the level 20s are forcing you to join them. Why are you doing it?

You have you and your gf. I used to absolutely love running duos with my partner. We sit in the same room. Who needs Ventrilo?!

Frankly, most teaming in this game seems to involve a steamroller effect. People seem to like it. Most MMOs are actually based around soloing, so teaming is a steamroller to crack a nut, and if you do street sweeping or the like, that's exactly what you see in CoX.

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It's been a loooong time since I have seen PuG requests in chat.

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Every single day. No, every time I go to Atlas. "Sewer run starting, spaces available." Talk about zerging and power-levelling...

Not difficult to miss. It was burried in one of the discussion threads about the new site layout.

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Most of those new characters I see ARE new subs. I check badges and rarely do I see more than one or 2 vet badges, often none. I often get asked quite rudimentary questions too...

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I did the same when I restarted in the Summer. Very few players with any more than 3 Vet badges. Most with none.

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and yet everyweek someone new comes in here and asks the question.


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That simple demonstrates the level of literacy these days.

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No one new ever comes in here saying "lets keep the servers" it the same people who want to keep them that keep chanting "there is no server population problem". And its these same people who will end up being the death of the game.

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Actually, there have been several posts to the effect of "I had a really great week, teaming was easy, this is a great game" but they don't last as long as the doom threads, because people like doom.


Guillermo: My answer to you is this... Generally, this cry comes from people on Defiant. I would be perfectly happy for NCW do state that they would free transfer characters and SGs from Defiant to Union, name clashes being resolved in favour of the existing Union name.

I think it would destroy the game, since server mergers are seen as a failure and often result in the game dying soon after, and that would be a shame.

However, if they wanted to implement a move from the low population server, to the higher one, then I feel that's reasonable.

Are you happy to move, knowing you might well lose your existing names? It is actually fair, seeing as it is usually Defiant players asking for this?

Or, if you're that bothered, pay for your main characters to move to Union. It's not that expensive. You could spend more on a night at the pub without any trouble.

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That's why the best method would be to open up a NEW third server and open active transfers from both server to this new one.

Then the active players have an equal chance to tranfer their chars to this NEW server and keep their names.


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Unacceptable. If I lose ANY of my character names, even if someone else had that name longer than me, I WILL leave. Many others feel exactly the same way. Your solution is not the best one by a LONG way.

The only acceptable solution is to permit more than one character of the same name, and I don't want any prefixes or suffixes or dots or underscores or anything else, either. My character name, exactly as it is now, or I find another game to play.

But I'm not worried, because as has been said, the official stance is that a server merge is NOT planned.

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Well - there's a reaons right there do the merge.










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And if someone new comes in here and suggests it - lets not insult them.

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It's not okay to insult the OP, but insulting FFM is fair?


Well you may have a point, but I still call that hypocracy.

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Imho. I have yet to see a Dev risking in deleting characters on Retail accounts.

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First, it deletes nothing.

Second: Your entire idea hinges on the devs deciding to do exactly that with potentially half the player accounts on two servers.

Do you not see the FAIL written all over that?

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So I am pretty sure this purging script is for Trial accounts only.

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And you're wrong, it wasn't. There were no Trial accounts when this was implemented.

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This has been argued about every week for the last six months. You pretty obviously are not a member of the forum community, or you would know that.

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Then doesn't that suggest that the issue needs to be looked at in detail?

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Please read thread before posting, not just first two or three posts.

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And if someone new comes in here and suggests it - lets not insult them.

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If they come here, don't bother looking at the forums and just post an idea which has been gone over so many times it got boring 6 months ago... and ignore the official statement saying their idea is not going to happen and post in the wrong forum anayway (this is a Suggestion), then telling them this seems fair.

*shrug* I dunno. His point isn't valid anyway. Most of the names he's talking about are actually locked up in currently used accounts, or in high level characters.

I have one character who I rarely play, Glory, she's level 14. Every time I log her in, someone asks how I managed to get that name. Well, her Defiant version was created on the first day of EU release, and her Union version was created on the Monday after, when I realised RP was supposed to be happening on Union.

Now, I don't play her much, and I can't exactly lose the name due to a basic server merge, but our OP isn't really talking about a merge, he's talking about free migrations to a third server, with the old ones shutting down after. That's even worse, since there's actually nothing stopping someone creating a new character there and taking someone's name that way.

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That's why the best method would be to open up a NEW third server and open active transfers from both server to this new one.

Then the active players have an equal chance to tranfer their chars to this NEW server and keep their names.

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No. You just check activity on the accounts and give priority to the one with the most activity.

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That so many names are taken on this server, is because there are so many low level characters from players and trial players long gone and not coming back.

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Any name like that which is older than 90 days is freed up by automated scripts and can be reused. You'd know that if you read announcements more often.

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With a merger this way you leave a ton of unused non played characters behind and so basically free up a ton of names wich can be used again!

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So... no you wouldn't, unless they decided to archive old accounts.

Now, let's look at that one, shall we. I'm not aware of any MMO out there who has done this. None of the major ones have. Storage is cheap, so holding old database records doesn't cost them much, and those old players might come back for a new Issue, or whatever.

Now, let's imagine that NCW were to decide to merge the two EU-Eng servers (a publicity nightmare, basically stating in no uncertain terms that your game is failing) and, at the same time, declare that to help with this process, they would be dumping a load of old character data which had not been used for (picking a number) 90 days (and they'd be the first major MMO company to chuck player's characters away).

I think CoX would then tank faster than a freighter carrying lead plate that got holed below the waterline by a nuclear bomb. Not pretty.


PS. With CO coming out soon(tm), the last things CoX needs is bad publicity, which is what you're suggesting they make for themselves.

I doubt there would actually be a problem transfering guilds if they merged the servers, aside from the obvious naming issues.

And Z, you probably wouldn't need to worry anyway. Chances are, since Defiant is the lower population server, it would be merged into Union, so even if they weren't going to transfer bases and such, the UV base would survive.

I pity the folks on Defiant thought. But it does really seem to be mostly Defiant that wants a merge...

Nitoichi would be available.

With some advanced warning I can manage any time until we hit January 12th. Then it's evenings, 7-ish to midnight-ish. So, before the 12th would be good.

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Eww! Go and wash your mouth out.

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I personally think that the risk of losing your names and such is not that big, but it will happen to some people.

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Well, Shadowe there has a 50/50 chance of his name going. I happen to know several of mine won't since I own them on both servers, but I also know that if you go looking for a name these days, chances are it's taken, so I think it's actually quite likely that some people will lose out in a server merge.

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How am I rude?

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I explained that. Try reading the post you unnecessarily quoted the whole of again.

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You do know that the majority of players don't read forums, yet alone even post in them?

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Yes, I do. Perhaps if they did, however, they would not sit around the servers talking about server merges because they would actually know more people in the game and be better able to find teams.

They would certainly know why NCWest have specifically stated that there are no plans to merge the servers.

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And that this subject according to you, seems to be discussed each week for the past 6 months, should be a strong signal that appearently plenty of people feel the same way as me and my gf do.

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Oh, it is strongly felt. It's also strongly felt that it would be a bad idea.

And it has also been officially stated that it won't happen. Not any time soon anyway.

PS. Attacking me for having a high post count is crass. I have a high post count because I have been a member of the forum community since 2005, and an active member of the forum and roleplay community for most of that time. The fact that you haven't is your problem, not mine.

A week is massively unlikely and, tbh, as long as we don't get morons popping Winter Lords at GG again, the Winter event can be as long as it likes. It's mostly unobtrusive and can be largely avoided if you don't got to the Chalet.

Rikti weeks and the Halloween events... *shudders*

They're working on it.

Well, that was the last we heard anyway.

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Powers: Illusion/rad/fire
Goals: To be able to solo Monster class villains without the use of perma phantom army (10 seconds downtime, dont WANT no more).

Main2: Noob buster
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Now, those are your goals for your main characters, not your character's goals.

Mine... My current main is Nitoichi, DB/WP Scrapper.
When she started out in life, her main aim was to seek revenge on the Rikti for crippling her brother during the First Rikti War.
To that end, her goal was joining Vanguard.
She did that, and since then she's been looking for other goals. Right at the moment, her goal is setting up a base in case anyone she knows (or doesn't) tries to take over the world.

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Yes telling people that want a bigger better community to go away is sertainly the way to keep CoX going in Europe.

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This has been argued about every week for the last six months. You pretty obviously are not a member of the forum community, or you would know that.

To turn up, having ignored this community, and start going on about how it's such a great idea to merge the servers and it would promote a better community is, frankly very rude.

So, go back to playing the game with your girlfriend. Enjoy it. Have fun. Stop telling people things they have discussed over and over again.

Or, you could actually join 'the community' and then you would know what was happening in the game.

Your choice, but this thread... is exactly what we expect from Friday Posters. (And that isn't a good thing, in case you were wondering.)