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Quote:This movie should do well...even with Fox behind it. The Pre-stuff is always interesting....Originally Posted by Inazuma
I just got back from seeing it. Glad I did. It was a very enjoyable film. Great addition to the franchise, and redeems it for X3. Loved the cameo and the easter eggs.
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Quote:I won't argue with you on the first point but the rest I will make comment on. If you want to control your team, you will get less merits Period...but you get control.Originally Posted by MindGame1
The issue isn't closed until we see how the 20.5 system works. There is still the option to form closed league which will need a place to gather. While greed will be a motivating factor for some I still see many Lambda Sector trials that don't bother with the merit bonus for dispatching 30 reinforcements during the final stage.
If you can form your own league you have greater control of how may +3s are in it and the group make up. I think many will still want this control. Merit bonus is a poor reward if you fail the trial. I have seen noobs do all sorts of strange things on trials that cause them to fail, the foremost being not listening to the leader.
About the noobs, many just want the merits, man!!! They don't give a flying.... about the trial's success. Seriously, many are just trying to keep up with the content. I have friends that aren't even doing alpha because of its rigors. I have several 50s now I just minted that I won't be able to do alpha until 2012....it's just that demanding. -
Quote:Watching people make choices whether good or bad is always enjoyable. I see it tomorrow.Originally Posted by BlueBattler
I enjoyed this movie much more than I thought I would.
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Quote:I don't and I'm betting on it. Greed will force you to work with anyone. The LFG queue will allow others to join in progress...this won't work quite like you said. The control freaks won't do the open LFG.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
All that this is going to accomplish is that there will now be a faction of players that will leave their leagues open so they can get the increased merits but the Team Leaders will have a list of who they are allowing in the League and they'll wait to actually form the league until the last possible second and start immediately, then they'll simply kick anyone else that gets put into the league by the queue.
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Quote:Nonsense...SGs only make sense if your the leader.Originally Posted by Redlynne
The Devs would be ... excessively clever ... if they made Supergroups the "go to" location to form up and launch Incarnate Trial Leagues.
Of course, that would require Supergroups to function as Co-op Locations, so you could invite anyone from anywhere to your League (not Team, League) from your SG Base. You could then use the Mission Computer (Base Item) to sign up for an Incarnate Trial, and it would open the typical LFG window to do so. People would have the option of using the Raid Teleporter to get to the Incarnate Trial, instead of just waiting around for the counter to complete.
Seriously ... the entire "Functionality" needed to form up and launch Incarnate Leagues is sitting inside the Supergroup Bases (which are gathering dust after all these years of neglect).
By no means am I saying that SG Bases ought to REPLACE the Incarnate system we've got now ... just merely that the Incarnate system we've got could be EASILY EXPANDED to make very good use of SG Bases, and their built in resources. -
Liars have a lot to to with this. All of those players that quit are usually people who ran out of time and dropped. Have you never played Tfs? They come on and to get a few threads or shards and drop. I tell everyone when I play that my runs are 2 hours just to weed out these types.
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Quote:My only comment to this is the PUG queue needs to be set to the highest setting not the minimum or allow members to join in progess. If you want less then go to Pocket D. We can't fix liars...people who lie to get on a team with no intention of staying the whole time. 20.5's solution is progressive.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
That is true, however a zone specifically designed for league formation could potentially have a power suppression field in effect which might then allow for a larger zone cap alleviating the problem somewhat. For example on Virtue I rarely see more than 3 RWZs so a single zone with a size cap 3x-4x the normal could probably hold all raiders in a single instance.
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20.5 will change that. PUG LFG will award more merits than private ones...Issue closed!!
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Why do we need a zone? The LFG will activate wherever you are. So just start it next to the market and you'll go back there after the trial. Why are you posting this?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Residentx10
She had blonde hair, right? lol
I don't need to be so crass. This is a big film. Personally, I think they should use nobodies and bring up the next generation but these type of movies always use the "hot" actor/actresses at the moment. The sould have used someone younger for Emma but January probably made a personal plea and "a visit" and got the role. This is Hollywood. -
Quote:She had blonde hair, right? lolOriginally Posted by Dark One
They did Emma's diamond form pretty well. They showed her machinations decently enough. It's the actress we were discussing. She was simply, IMO, wrong for the part of Emma Frost. One can play the role "right", yet still be the wrong person for a part.
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Quote:I haven't seen this, I see it tomorrow. What did you want from Emma/Jones? She's just eye-candy anyway. I mean in the comics, Emma was like a Sister Psyche but with better clothes and more money. The stuff Emma did, how can you show in a movie? Her world is mental. If Jones was subdued/stoic then she played the role right.Originally Posted by Agonus
As far as Emma Frost goes, Jones was a little underwhelming, yeah. Visually, I have no complaints, mind you.
If memory serves, around the beginning of Generation X, Emma was strongly implied to be in her mid to late 30's. From that point I took her to be that age, until a recent comic where she whines on panel to the effect of "26 isn't that old!" -
Quote:This is a movie about "young people," this is usually their mindset. The movie isn't about the which side is right but the "choice."Originally Posted by MentalMaden
1. At times characters seemed too easily persuaded to one side or the other.
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What's really sad is that I was online enough this weekend that I could see and "mark" these types.
I started using the notes under each character and added "doorsitter" to several so I know in the future to not even contact them.
It got to be so bad this weekend that on Sunday I recruited only Under 30. -
Quote:I understand your delimma, Dr. G. I did 4 days hardcore this past weekend and the stuff I could complain will fill post after post. I have never seen so many doorsitters and TV watchers. I finally became the monster and started kicking people. I was as patience as possible though. I asked them if they were ok? I asked them if they knew how to get to the zone? I asked them if pizza was being delivered? I asked if they were dealing with wife aggro? When they said no to all of my questions I asked the team if I could kick them and they said, "Hell yes!"Originally Posted by DrGemini
What I find funny is this is on page 4 long after things have run their course. If anything, this kind of late post shows that there are, indeed, some people who just can't seem to wrap their mind around whatever the original post was intended for. And, by the time a post like yours pops up, the original argument is so far in the past that it feels like it is desparately trying to be relevant.
Thing is that my post seems to have drawn out quite a few people who are finding ways to create more of an enterainment factor than I even imagined possible... -
Quote:Farscape vs. Firefly? Firefly was too country for me. It felt like a "Hangover" in outer space(with humans only). I watched it completely but I can't watch it a second time. Farscape the series I own. Soundtrack and everything. The crew in Farscape were so different(all aliens) from each other that the interactions were just priceless,Originally Posted by Mister_Laser
So I just got my Firefly complete series in the mail today after getting back from vacation. I have no idea what it is, I've never seen an episode. Is it anything like Farscape?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUOsN...eature=related
Firefly is must see for the reason mentioned above...lots of big stars now got a start/boost there. -
Quote:Yes. Also, the game will run better under win7Originally Posted by McNum
I'm sitting here, frantically copying out files from my PC to temporary storage as my PC most likely won't be booting after the next time I shut it down. (Moral of this story: A PC that occasionally fails POST is not "cute", it's your first and possibly only warning.) Got everything vital just about done, so I'm moving on to the rest, which includes City of Heroes.
Can I just copy the folder out like I used to be able to with the old launcher? You know, copy out the files, run the launcher and point it to a folder, then copy everything back and let it verify the files? Does that work with the NCSoft Launcher?
Also, since I'm asking, anything I should know about running CoH on Windows 7? Getting a mostly new PC tomorrow, only carrying over GFX card, my DVD drive, and harddrive. Are there any compatibility issues I should know about? I remember when Vista was new. That was "fun".
1.Copy over the folder first to the same location.
2.Then install the NCSOFT installer.
3. Run the updater to verify and it should work, it may even go right away if you current with the patches. -
Quote:Never a dull moment with you on the post, USCIOriginally Posted by U_S_C_I
I find it funny that someone feels special enough out of the tens of thousands that play on the Freedom server to actually post something like this. My friend Sean Morey couldn't have sung it better (it's a clip...if you like the song, it's available on his website or go the Bob and Tom website):
It's All About Me
Laser, spot on.
Lieran, it's state law that you and Morna have to be on the same team.
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My weekend had mixed results. I didn't reach all of my goals this weekend:
Summary:
-I got 110 shards this weekend. I migrated 12 slots totals(created 8) and moved them up the trees. I thought I could fill out the all of the missing slots in a weekend but I underestimated how much actual work it is.
-My WST tuesday morning didn't hit/award on the villain side. I got a B.S excuse on why it didn't award from the helpdesk. My case is pending.
- I learned a great deal about the hero corps and how this affects the drops. I should have paid more attention to this. My weekend could have been more productive.
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Notoriety. I still wish I had a clear understanding of these specific settings and how drops are affected:
-- Does not prefer to fight Arch-Villains. Does this sound correct?
I want to change the level I fight- I want to fight enemies that are -1 to my level.
- I want to fight enemies that are +0 to my level.
- I want to fight enemies that are +1 to my level.
- I want to fight enemies that are +2 to my level.
- I want to fight enemies that are +3 to my level.
- I want to fight enemies that are +4 to my level.
- I think I'm as good or better than 1 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 2 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 3 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 4 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 5 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 6 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 7 standard heroes.
- I think I'm as good or better than 8 standard heroes.
- Ouroborous needs to be merged into the same instance for both villain and heroes Period. Recruting for this TF was hell.
- On Saturday, I was running an ITF which I posted the results for. I think I could have broken all records if the devs wouldn't have posted an "instance closing" message during the end of our run.
- My results/shard drops diminshed when I ran the other tfs. I might have been able to farm them better if I had higher quality players. I have to do a better job of planning next time. I need farmers.
All in all, I felt my progress could be better. I'm wondering have to move this thread forward. I can't do this with speed runs only.
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Can I ask you guys a question? I play this game heavily during holiday weekend breaks. I've started playing my under 50s more because the cooldown timer is bugged and I feel these incarnate powers are glorified temp powers.
Also, the lag and now this "abundant amount of pets" is just rubbing me the wrong way. I did a Shard run this weekend and got 100 shard and crafted barely 12 slots(migrations). -
Quote:Lot's of gaming news today. Let me review this some more.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That would be valid if the retail market didn't already have an ala carte model in place in the form of DLC, and if CoDE didn't have a free to play option in its structure. According to the currently released information, CoDE will be free to access with a premium subscription option, and DLC will still exist for purchase ala carte but premium subscribers will be allowed to bundle the costs of DLC with their subscription.
That is *exactly* the hybrid F2P model that most subscription MMOs have converted to recently, including Turbine.
If you read the article carefully, you'll see that they take it completely for granted that free access to multiplayer and ala carte pricing of DLC is a given: it already exists and is wildly successful. What is being discussed as being the huge gamble on the part of Activision is fee-based premium subscription services. In other words, CoD is already based on the F2P model (at least, for online services beyond the box purchase, just like Guild Wars). Nowhere does anyone within that article question the F2P model, because its already a proven quantity for CoD. The big question is on subscription services itself.
They are coming towards the hybrid model from the opposite direction: from F2P adding subscription, rather than subscription adding F2P. Far from supporting your contention that F2P is a "faith-based model" the CoD situation is one where F2P is *the* model, and subscriptions are the novelty leap of faith.
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Quote:My point in posting this is back to my argument that "business" wants a for profit model. F2P is a faith-based model.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
CoDE is less about a subscription service investigating F2P, and more about an F2P service investigating subscription service. Retail gaming already has microtransactions in the form of DLC and online multiplayer is generally free to play already (mostly). But most don't have enhanced services that require a subscription to access which is what CoDE is all about. Its the reverse of an F2P MMO conversion in a different gaming space.
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Quote:Hit the hammer on the head of the nail here. I played last weekend with a guy who swore by it. He didn't know that his minions will appear next to him at 179 feet automatically. I told him this but he keep using it. I finally told him it reduces accuracy but he just didn't get it...so I kicked him. Group fly is like a beautiful woman. It looks sexy until you start to interact with it. Group fly is for the inexperienced.Originally Posted by Johnny_Taxibot
It's -25% ACC (I was looking at it the other day), which reminds me of the other hassle that is somewhat contrary to being accepted. It can be often the case that Group Fly is being used to help the team over terrain, though under fire. The team can be doing quite well, though there will always be someone that complains about the Group Fly on account of the ACC hit.
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