Ravenswing

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Dinah: Coming, dressed to kill, not literally

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As she demonstrated on Columbia, Ni is never unarmed, but I figure she'll be carrying something small, sharp and pointy somwhere on her body.

I don't think any of my others really know Richard that well, and none of them know Cass, so I think Annette will come along with Libby and not worry about it.

Annette will, of course, be replying in the positive.

Aside from anything else, it's an ecuse to not do a boring WoW guild meeting.

The most important bit is it's within travel distance so I wouldn't need an overnight stay. Money being a concern currently. We shall see. I'd like to come.

Is that the one in Brum?

I might be able to swing a trip to Brum, and it would be nice to get a sketch of Nitoichi...

All those folks out there who are amazingly rich and roleplaying problems caused by the current econmoic problems...

A law firm named Conworth, Frederick and Nash contacts your companies regarding the purchase or putting money into any and all assets that have been advertised at all widely as for sale.

They are paying very competitive rates, and seem to have excellent intelligence on any competitiors.

Anyone wishing to discuss matters with them may post here or PM me.

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If you don't cry, you're inhuman.

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Phew! That lets me out then.

Hmm, I'd need to be 40 years younger. I'm 44...

Nice, but it does kind of make it look like we're getting the Going Rogue system.

The Phantoms:

Try here: http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Ingame_References

And here: http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Easter_Egg

There's a LOT of in-game jokes.


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I think there's a big risk of ruining immersion, here. The current in-jokes (It's all a Nemesis plot) fit in with the lore well, any new ones would need to be similarly in-character.

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There used to be rather more references from some NPCs to in-game things which simply should not exist as far as the entities in the game are concerned. I remember Hellions making jokes about Inf. These seem to have been removed. I certainly haven't heard any since I've been back. I know I complained about them on the forums, but I really didn't expect anyone to take any notice of any player whinges about immersion destruction.

Some of this kind of thing can be dropped in anyway without causing problems. Some can't. It's a matter of someone tasteful picking the references that get used.

I doubt anything we suggest will scrape in. If, for example, I heard an NPC muttering something about heroes gathering at the Galaxy Girl statue every night and why weren't they out fighting crime, I would immediately go to the US forums to see which of their servers had a Galaxy Girl meet.

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How about a Pocket D version of second life or sims online ...
and then say it has a online chat room with avatars where people go to arrange meets and party detail ...

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This I rather like. A Pocket D meeting room of some form. Hmmm...

I'd be dead interested in seeing this happen in general. Aside from anything else, Operative Seven is heavily based around Motoko Kusanagi and the though of having her rez her avatar into a setting like that is almost too good to miss.

However, I hate forum RP and the last Dr Mechano thing I tried to get involved with just reminded me how much and why.

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I am a bit of a data freak... have build many data bases and websites.

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And I'm a programmer, and I know to understand my data before applying blanket changes. The system was flexible, and you've made everything nice an unified, but removed the flexibility.

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I gave Pocket D the Category:Business. Is that wrong? A nightclub/Disco is a business. it makes money. Not only a location.


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It can be both. I believe the Barrington Club was marked as both. See, flexible.

Not to mention text changes, adding graphics unasked, etc.

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And I haven't touch data of the page.

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The graphics changes are data changes, so I'm afraid you're just plain lying there.

I mean, one of the ones you came up with for my pages was fairly appropriate (though thinking back, not as appropriate as first looking), but the others were just... naff. Sorry.

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This is a wiki. And I did some without serious data change.

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Yes, it is, but it's a small community wiki and you changed the structure of it unnecessarily. There was no way I could revert the changes you made I felt were not required, so I'd say that was a serious data change. The Barrington Club is never going to need a category and, frankly, neither did most of the other changes you made to the business section. You just applied the same rule to everything without knowing anything about the subject. That's bad practice and should be left to the people who originated the pages to handle.

Did you really expect wholesale structural changes to go by without question?

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Therefore, one can only conclude that said user either doesn't give a stuff about the rules, or doesn't have any comprehension of propriety.

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Meh, that's the trouble with wikis. The whole point is that it's a community editing project. You end up taking the rough with the smooth and vandals hit even the most famous one. Fairly active moderators is the only solution, and we can't expect the poor mods to be watching 24/7.

Essentially, the level ranges are to broad. They cover about 10 levels, which is enough that people just entering that range can't handle the upper-end spawns. If it was 5 levels, it would be doable. Might need more zones though. Not going to work red-side.

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Holy jebus: so the coming storm will mostly constitute zombie vomit and cadaver peices?....Is that why the Rikti invaded?...To actually try to prevent this threat by wiping out all the potential zombies before the doc got chance to create them?

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Well... ever seen a Rikti zombie? No. They're immune. The Rikti are there to save the world and we keep trying to stop them... Oops!

Because I'm stupid and out of work... if it really has to be done totally manually *takes deep breath* if someone gives me temporary admin powers, I'll see if I can work out how to manually revert the categorised stuff before we resort to killing the thing and starting again.

I'm still hoping they can revert changes made by specific users though.

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Fan-bloody-tastic. Trust this to happen the one day I manage to input my first ever handbook page for a character.

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Well, look at the bright side: you just have the one page to replace. Just grab the page into a text file (from the edit screen) and see what happens.

I've grabbed all my pages. Rollback as required.

If we can just rollback a few days, people out of the game shouldn't be affected, but that might be pretty hard. The best hope is that they can revert specific user's changes. I'm afraid this was my first ever active Wiki-type thing, so I know next to nothing about what's possible.

*nods* I'll snapshot my pages.

Can you just revert all his changes? Or revert the database. It'll be annoying to have to put the stuff back in that should be there, but...


And while you're at it, Z, get your entries updated! The New Vigilants don't even exist in there!

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Also, adding business logos of YOUR design to OTHER PEOPLES projects without asking first is stepping over boundaries.

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I tend to agree, even if I did like the one you found for one of my projects. The others were terrible generic bits of rubbish I could knock up myself in three seconds. Totally unnecessary and just aiming to step on people's toes.

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Changes to how the wiki is set up is the job of the wiki admin, not any individual who takes it on themselves to "improve" it.

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User:Stephen Strange does seem to have decided to totally rebuild the entire structure of the Wiki without bothering to ask anyone about it.

But then, that's the trouble with Wiki.

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swear sometimes iv seen like a level 13 mixed in with some level 30s in missions before!!!!

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You will have. The slim-build exploding cadavers only scale up to level X, but get put into missions at level X++, which means you'll have the lonely gray-con mob tottering around in some upper-level Vazy missions.

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Is it feasible to create SG/VG populated entirely with your own alts?

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No, unless you have two accounts.

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How much effort that would be?

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My Sg has most, but not all, of my alts in it, and a couple of my partner's alts (though she doesn't currently play).

It hasn't actually taken much effort to get a functional, but basic base going. I have two teleporters, basic workshop, enough power to keep me going forever, med bay, a control room with enough control in, invention station and salvage storage... And they're reviewing the prices for I13/14.

It won't be fast, but it's not horribly onerous either.

It's usually called LFM, looking for member. Most of the more modern games have it. It doesn't work any better than LFT...

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if a bit one sided as it's only people bringing the girls.

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This is partially why I considered a colaborative fiction project. OTOH, we could probably take it in turns to 'attack' other people's characters with bad pick-up lines. I pity the poor fool who gets Sam...

You have a point.

Also, there's the Don't Let Me Get Me one, which seems terribly appropriate for Ni, but we won't go there...