Rodoan

agree on Nemesis as overused. Though I kind of like it.


Underused: also agree about the Korean-based W.I.S.D.O.M. (gotta ask: why do they have an English name?)

Also underused, and I've not seen him mentioned in the thread, is Ajax, initially the only known survivor of Omega Team. Come on, that has got to beg for a follow up story of coming to terms and moving on.

not for use by postal workers and meter readers. At least, not if they value their lives.

I've got two stand out concepts, but I'll just share one for the moment. Ray Gunn (energy/energy blaster) has received a lot of positive feedback for both story and costumes. You've probably seen him before over on the costume thread:

Gordon Rodgers, a dedicated fan of old-time serial movie sci-fi, is living his dream. Calling in several markers, he was able to obtain a powered undersuit, the latest in retro-engineered Ritki technology. In addition, he spent a sizable chunk of his modest wealth to purchase the rights to Ray Gunn, a nearly forgotten "space ranger" serial movie hero. Combining these, he has rebooted the Ray Gunn franchise, becoming the living embodiment of the character. He deliberately targets villain groups that draw parallels to his character's adventures. Clockwork, Pumicites, and Sky Raiders he has referred to as "killer robots", "alien monsters", and "space pirates". He's probably pushing it by calling Trolls "green men from Mars" and is definitely wacko for calling the Banished Pantheon "space zombies". Still, his exploits are gaining fans, and his small franchise of products is taking off. In truth, he cares little for the money, He just wants a new generation to appreciate the great old heroes.
(Another part of his concept that I dropped from the latest retelling of his backstory, because it wouldn't fit, was the idea that he was testing various retro-futuristic costumes over his powered undersuit, including a reproduction of the original serial costume, with the intent of adding these variations to future collectable action figures).

umm, did you ever get to see the old Paragon dance club? Pocket D is bleeding edge design for years to come next to what used to be.

Do you known how to operate System Restore? If not, its a feature in more recent versions of Windows that allows a reset to an earlier point if something goes bad, effectively neutralizing the bad software. There are some auto-saves that can be accessed by the calendar in S.R., and you'd select one from before when the trouble started. The trick is getting to S.R. when Windows is inaccessible.

I'm hoping this will work for you. These is not my instructions, I was just aware that it could be done. I pulled these from the web. http://www.internetfixes.com/questio...er/IF00328.htm

Run System Restore From The Safe Mode Command Prompt.
System restore is extremely handy when things go wrong. However, there are occasions when trying to restore the system from within Windows fails and you may have to resort to trying to recover your system using System Restore from the Safe Mode Command Prompt.

To start system restore from the safe mode command prompt proceed as follows:

1. Boot your PC

2. During the boot sequence constantly tap the F8 key on your keyboard

3. If all goes well a type written menu will appear

4. From this menu select the Safe Mode with Command Prompt option

5. If asked to log on as Administrator, then do so. If you have not set an administrator password then simply press Enter

6. The Command Prompt should now appear

7. Now type %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe and then press Enter

8. The System Restore Wizard should now open and you can select a suitable restore point.

Good perspective, S_T.

My church has had a significant mission and relief effort to Haiti for years. In fact, a support team just flew back hours before the quake hit. We've not heard from the permanent director who remained down there. No one's panicked yet, since we all know how bad communications can be in such a disaster. Assuming she's made it through, we'll be utilizing her and her staff to coordinate our relief efforts.

The problems seem to be far more dramatic in the south part of the island. My sister-in-law has a sibling with family living on the northern arm of the island and she was able to call. Remarkable, considering how difficult living conditions are around there under normal circumstances. They were rattled, but the damage up that way was minimal in comparison.

After playing with some of the physics games (World of Goo, Crayon Physics) my sometimes CoH buddy convinced me to re-enlist in the WoW ranks on his Ally guild. Problem is, my 80 death knight is a Horde on a different server. I added up all the costs for converting him to new server Alliance side and...

...Sigh. I'm working on a new Ally death knight. The cost would have been roughly the better part of the price of an MMO expansion. Now if some bright MMO shop were to decide that in their expansion the player's characters could switch sides whenever they liked all for that initial expansion cost, imagine how cost effective that would be!

So meanwhile we play both while we wait for the release of some of the other MMO to replace our WoW time. We both think Star Trek and DCUO might work. Of course, we'll be here for Going Rogue. Not giving up on CoH.

or, have the events ramp up. Don't have everything from day one. If you intend a 3 week Winter event, have items that appear in Week 1, items for week 2, and of course, items for week 3. That way interest is maintained for those that play all three weeks, and there's still a week 3 with everything for those who've been traveling.

Marvelous, just marvelous!

The market's always tweaking things and coming out with the "latest and greatest", but are there any new advancements, things we've not seen that might be coming out by early 2nd quarter that would suggest one wait to get a vid card?

I'm toying with replacing my rig, too, and although I know legacy and business systems pretty well, I'm not so much up on bleeding edge gaming stuff. In addition to Going Rogue, I'm looking to tinker with several of the new MMO's and expansions on the horizon (Star Trek, DC Universe, Star Wars, etc.) so I'm wondering how the cards stack up to those games special needs as well (such as je-saist's comment "The GTX card isn't DX11 / OpenGL 3.2 compatible". that kind of info is quite helpful)

Yes, I'd PvP if PvP were better.

I did a lot of it on WoW and found it more exciting than anything else I did. The only thing that ticked me off was gear twinks. I played so much better than a lot of them, but because they'd camped out the fishing hat for 52 weeks or whatever, all my efforts couldn't penetrate their armor. I'd even have some stand there not playing while I attacked, just to prove their "superiority". Strip us to our skivvies and I'd pwn their miserable posteriors.

So I guess what I'm saying is find the way to allow skill, rather than enhancements to be the telling factor. Have the devs create a "locker room" where the character is stripped of every enhancement and dons a "wardrobe" of his selections from a pre-ordained set for his class created by the devs. Everyone has access to his/her archetype set pieces and can mix and match within that selection to their heart's content. Give each character three "uniforms", or pre-set enhancement selections, so that you can arrange and save your enhancement settings days before you battle. With everyone given access to the full pool of their archetypes enhancements strictly within the arena, then even the enhancement choices you make become a test of skill, rather than endurance waiting for that rare drop that no one can beat.

The few times I've made them, its been either concept or tactics related.

Concept: once felt my all-guys stunt pilot SG, Flying Circus, needed a break from the relentless Y chromosome. So I made Memphis Belle. (And deleted her after a relatively short time because it was totally freaking out my lifelong friend that I "was" a girl. But I always saw Belle as just another character, not an opening up to my supposed feminine side.)

Tactics: over on WoW, I had a 19 twink Alliance shaman for PvP battlegrounds. Those who've played the game know that means it was a Draenai. So I could either go thundering down the field in an oversized barrel-chested monstrosity of masculinity, or I could create the much more diminutive female version, with exactly the same abilities, but much more likely to be overlooked sneaking down the far side of the field. And underestimated. I found all too often the "male" toons came at me like I was not a fighter. Big mistake. I got a ton of honor points that way.