Rebel_Scum

Yeah, they're the ones who force the devs into not telling us anything about upcoming content. Aside from that I'm not sure I've ever seen or heard of them doing anything.

I wasn't, I was using the old mids and just substituting another set and referencing the forums for which power was what. Never used the unofficial version. But it's still giving me that error, only on builds I've saved with the new version. Builds saved in the old one load fine.

Quoting myself in the hopes of getting an answer to this, and to provide additional information. It doesn't seem to be limited to DP builds, but rather ANY build created or edited then saved with the new version. It opens builds from the old version fine, but any build from the new one gives me that unable to read beyond end of stream error.

E: Oh, I should mention I'm running this on windows 7. And yes it's in administrator mode - I have UAC disabled so it wouldn't matter anyway.

So, basically wormhole? But instead of targetting enemies you target friends, and instead of stunning the target after teleporting it summons a pseudopet at that location like shield charge and lightningrod do, which damages enemies at that location. Doesn't sound too ridiculously hard to me, just using existing mechanics in a slightly different way. Of course, not having seen the code myself it may in fact be far more difficult than that.

"Sounds like a good enough idea to us", Paxtera answered before considering and adding, "Though, if the whole peace idea works out, you might have to eventually welcome them. Just a thought." She shrugged, looking around at the group. "Whenever we are all ready..."

Ildela and Kethara meanwhile had finished cleaning themselves off. There was perhaps the odd bit they'd missed here and there, but it wouldn't be much if it remained at all. "Jade, you're scaring her. The blood on your hands, I dunno why but it scares the piss out of her", Ildela told the metallic dragon.

"You think?", Ildela seemed unsure. "Kind of a weird ability to have.... not unheard of I guess." She looked down at Trisys, who seemed to be mostly clean now. So both her and Kethara proceeded to clean themselves off, of course noting that no additional water was being produced. The cloths were wet enough as it was anyway.

"That could be arranged, if you really want", Paxtera informed him, not seeing the need to explain that if she could get them here she could easily get them back or to just about anywhere else. So if he knew where a waterfall was, she could get them (Or just her and Trisys, if needed) there. She trusted in his intelligence more than enough to assume he could work that out.

"But at the same time we'd be weaker", Paxtera commented to him. "Surely as a hunter you understand the concept of strength in numbers? Also, she may be weak in one way but undoubtably she is strong in another. Like how we may be far better at directly attacking something than our daughter is, but her ability to turn invisible means she doesn't need to attack things in the first place. Just as an example." Just as with him, there was no hostility in her voice. She was merely attempting, however pointless it may be, to explain their point of view to him.

"Sounds like a plan to me", Ildela replied, reaching into her pockets and producing, of all things, a pair of cloths. She offered one to her sister, who took it and joined her in helping Jade and Lazardarus clean the blood off of Trisys.

Paxtera, meanwhile, saw no reason to join in. Too many people trying to help would just get in the way, really. Instead she watched the interactions between the Gre'shil and the Khelari, a faint smile crossing her face.

"No, as far as we know we've never been there", Paxtera replied to her. "We did meet another of your kind once before, though, a long time ago.... for us anyway. A man going by the name of Acid Zero, though we doubt that was his real name."

"I remember him. He was weird", Ildela commented. "Gave me this", she continued, fishing around in a pocket and producing a small device somewhat resembling a watch battery. What it was, she didn't bother saying.

"And no", Paxtera continued. "We didn't seek to hunt you or your people. As the elf said, we wouldn't do that to any sentient creature... And we're not gods, either", she added after the Gre'shil spoke. "Try convincing them of that though, see how far you get."

Kethara meanwhile had tired of the conversation of which she only understood a little. Instead she went over to where Jade was cradling Trisys. She didn't bother asking if the satyr was ok, that was obvious. "Anything I can do to help?", she asked. Paxtera and Ildela followed the Khelari over, with much the same request.

"No... We sort of got the impression it was about you become yours", Paxtera answered with hints of amusement. "We must commend your skill in bringing down such a creature on your own", she added. Especially as the smaller creature didn't appear to be injured. Doing it was one thing but doing it without taking a few scrapes in return was quite another. "One question though, if you would... Are you by chance a Khelari?", she asked. Ildela didn't appear at all surprised by the question but Kethara gave her a curious look, clearly wondering what the hell a Khelari was. ....Well, this creature in front of her, obviously. Or something that looked very much like it.

Ildela went over to Lazardarus, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Relax.... this one's friendly, I think", she told him.

Dual Blades is the same, has no legacy sword option. Mostly because there is no 'legacy' option for either of these sets, as they were made after weapon customisation. There's no old default model to be the legacy one, so there's no need to have a legacy option.

Also, someone with a thugs mastermind on Test needs to see if they animate now for Thugs too, or if it's just for Dual Pistols characters.

I run the game fine on Windows 7, here. Officially the game doesn't support Win7, but it does run more or less fine in most cases.

"They have their rules, same as you have yours", Kethara told him, almost exactly what Paxtera would have said had she not been engaged in discussions with Jade of transporting themselves and the Gre'shil to this hunting ground. She didn't seem to have any objections to the idea. "And what woud we use as a trophy, anyway?", Kethara continued.

"I'd suggest the dead lizardmen from before, but somehow I think that might give the wrong impression", Ildela spoke up, a faint tinge of amusement in her voice. Her sister just gave her a disapproving look, at which she couldn't help but chuckle quietly to herself.

"Alright then. Gather around, and hold on to your lunch", Paxtera instructed. She waited for them all to be ready and gathered, then closed her eyes and concentrated. Moving herself through time and space was relatively simple, but all these people took a lot more effort. Especially if one wanted them to come out in one piece and not spontaneously aged a hundred years or any of several other quite unpleasant side-effects of getting it wrong. So she took her time. After a short while though, the now familiar golden light engulfed the lot of them and they were abruptly gone.

Somewhat later, they were back again. Appearing in what would be a near blinding flash of light, close to the hunting grounds Jade had told her of. She and her two children were unscathed by the trip, but for the others it might be a different story. See, what Pax did wasn't an actual teleport. Rather, it was time travel. Space and time being merely different dimensions of the same thing, it was possible to move through space at the same time. However, for the inexperienced it tended to be rather disorienting, as their bodies had to get used to the fact that they were no longer when they had come from.

Specifically, they appeared precisely when Trisys arrived at the same location by more mundane means. Probably surprising her a little in the process.

I really hope they make this reasonable, rather than the current system where customes need to have two or three times the number of powers as most normal mobs to get full xp. Also some way of seeing how much xp a mob will give while creating it, instead of making it and testing the mission only to find some of your mobs give no xp.

"We'd need you along anyway, gotta have some representative from the other side if we're gonna make a peace that has any chance at all of lasting", Kethara told him. Ildela just sighed quietly to herself, she'd admit the idea was admirable but she had her doubts as to whether these lizardmen were even advanced enough to properly understand the concept. But why not, it was something to do at least.

While Kethara again pulled out the cellphone-like device she'd used to send her message, Ildela spoke up. "If I know her, and I do, she'll show up right about..." She paused for just a moment, and as if on cue the same golden light appeared nearby. Out of it walked Paxtera. "...now", Ildela finished, before laughing quietly to herself. "You're getting predictable in your old age, Mum."

Paxtera just gave her an amused look. "We arrived, as always, precisely no earlier nor no later than was necessary. Now, you said something about transportation? To where and why?", she asked Jade.