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Quote:But that's the beauty of the Doctor. Don't like a personality? Wait a few years and roll the dice again. Though its hard to roll the dice again after you've witnessed the 10th Doctor.Originally Posted by Starsman
was a bit disappointed (didn’t get to finish that episode) mainly because the personality of the doctor was not as quirky or sarcastic as it was on the show I been seeing (I read already on the regeneration and personality changes that come with it.)
(and that thought, despite the fact that Doctor 4, Tom Baker, was my initiation to all things Who)
I find it hard to believe though that Doctor 4 wasn't quirky. He might just be the quirkiest of all. (I tend to see rockabilly Doctor 6 as unbalanced, egotistical, even bizarre, but not so much quirky)
As for sarcasm, didn't Doctor 2 and Doctor 3 not like each other very much and let fly with a lot of barbed sarcasm? -
Quote:I wondered about it being random, but when I saw the wiki list of "named enemies" towards the bottom of the Sky Raider page, it noted specific types associated with the names. Which helped in pushing me towards the thoughts in my OP.Originally Posted by Creole Ned
I think the reason probably has nothing to do with the lore itself, but rather the fact that the jump bots are designated as bosses and as such the game will sometimes grab one and make it the named boss in a Sky Raiders mission.
The lore possibilities are more interesting, though.
And on a side note, Lemur Lad, that new video avatar you have is the best! I think it might just beat Primal's cat!
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Still have the Coming Storm to deal with. User base has wanted an epic showdown with the ultimate mastermind, Nemesis, and it seems he might be tied to CS.
There's a lot of interest in tackling some of the great historic events via time travel. Like Brass Monday and Atlas' last stand at Independence Point.
There's several lore supergroups to explore indepth, ala the Midnighters' Club.
Villains still want full access to the Shadow Shard.
There's always hope, no matter how thin, that some of the "broken" things in the game will be "fixed", such as Baumtown, Ruularu and the Cathedral of Pain, and PvP. I'm not saying these won't happen, after all, we got power customization after all the talk of how difficult it would be to pull off. -
Tried to find the answer for this on the wiki, but the info doesn't go deep enough.
Many of the Sky Raider Jump Bots have names, rank, authority and appear to communicate intelligently. Does the game lore point to a reason why? Two theories I have are:
1. The jump bots contain some sort of technology allowing the imprint of memories of fallen Sky Raiders. Once the bot is, more or less, the original man in mind and deed, it is given his former rank and authority.
2. The bots are controlled remotely by the actual officer, and therefore are designated by his name and rank.
Since the Sky Raiders are limited in numbers, both of these would prevent the loss of critical leadership and braintrust in the event of capture or worse. This doesn't seem to explain why Captain Castillo is (fairly) easily found, unless his massive ego rebuffs the idea of "hiding" behind a bot.
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that reminds me, must dump last year's excess halloween masks into WW/BM right away.
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Quote:I do see your point, but I don't find the trick shooting an entire suspension of belief. Not after reading what the real Annie Oakley was capable of doing.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
See, that's my BIGGEST problem with non-lethal force - taking lethal weapons and cheesing your way out of using them as intended. Shooting enemies' guns away, stunning them, blowing up vehicles as people clamber out, or out and out hitting people with your gun are just cheap. If you're gonna' use a gun, frikkin' USE it! Like I said, I don't necessarily need to see blood and guts and death, but any time I watch a cartoon or read a comic book where a character passes up a perfectly good opportunity to just shoot someone and instead tries to, say, shoot a rock high above so a boulder will fall down, or shoot a rope so the trap door under him will open, it just ruins my suspension of disbelief.
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Quote:So neither the Phantom nor the Lone Ranger are heroic heroes? 'Cause they are both packing heat, use their dual pistols regularly, and the bad guys almost always live another day (usually dying through some other means, often an accident of their own bumbling creation).Originally Posted by Arnabas
I have no problem suspending reality. I just can't picture a heroic, typical good-guy hero setting villains on fire or stabbing them in the head just because thay can be 'ported to a hospital quickly. (It's also mentioned a few times in-game that the teleporters don't always work, or sometimes just aren't fast enough).
Do you think Batman would suddenly start using a machine gun just because he figures the bad guy will get to the hospital before dying? I doubt it. I'd just like to have more options for non-lethal force.
In fact, both characters go out of their way to train to skillfully shoot to disarm, not kill.
Didn't the DC Timmverse Vigilante operate under similar rules? I've never read his comics, so I don't know how he operates there.
And then there's Doc Savage, who fires guns all the time, but with bullets that he specifically designed to incapacitate, not kill.
Now what I could see, though it would be very hard, if not impossible, to pull off in the game, is addition of trick shooting, which would allow, say, a chandelier to come crashing down, knocking the villains unconscious in an AoE. -
finally 50'ed my second Virtue hero, Streetwise Hercules. He'd been at it for a couple of years now (altitis with no farms).
Also, so far this weekend, have moved one of my Virue villains, Fightanic, up 10 levels in a bid to take over the world (and unlock VEATs for the first time, pesky little details like that). -
Even if the game eventually opened up the entire planet for exploration, it'd still be perfectly fine to call it City of Heroes, because Paragon City is the launching point for everything to follow.
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Quote:Isn't Hickman creating some as a player?Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed
Apparently, they will be going live on Tuesday
They all sound pretty cool, but the one by Bill Willingham sounds the most interesting to me. I thought Fables was really well written.
Now, get Hickman to do some!
And in a way, you could say the Cyrus/Breakneck story added to the game from the comic is Troy's story, though its not AE. -
despite the length of animation, I always loved the original Eagles Claw kick. There's just something about the way Ace's silk scarf floats around him during the attack that's really cool.
but I deliberately chose to not get the original crippling axe kick because of the animation. I found it annoying. The new punch, feels better, not spectacular, but comfortably better, so I think I'll be picking that one up on my alternate build. -
Quote:That's the Barney Fife editionOriginally Posted by Lazarus
No wonder that pistol never made it into production, some idiot forgot to include a trigger!
So no hope of getting a car on a stick?Quote:Originally Posted by Vanden
There's quite a few weapons used by enemies that we as players aren't allowed access to. The devs have decided that they'd like to keep certain weapons like Scirocco's scimitar and Manticore's bow unique to the signature characters, ... -
Quote:There is a chest icon of infinity (the horizonal 8) that reminds me all the time of a mobius strip.Originally Posted by Tir_McDohl
I woke up maybe twenty seconds ago with the name Mobius on my mind (I sleep next to a laptop). So while it might seem appropriate to me now, it very well might be horrible. Sure, it could be chalked up to the fact I spent a few hours playing Ace Combat 6 last night (though Mobius was from 04), or the fact that I've spent a combined total of entirely too much Legacy of Kain, but the concept of a Mobius strip might serve us well.
Basically, a Mobius strip is a simple ribbon that has a single twist built into it so that, as Wikipedia puts it, an ant can travel the entire surface of the strip (both sides) without ever crossing an edge. It has been used before to symbolize a slip in time or simply an alternative to an Ouroboros (hey, time travel AND a Nemesis reference in one!). It could be borrowed for its concept of being a loop that's just a little different, sort of like the concept of Victorian Steampunk itself.
You could really call it anything, but I figure we should go for broke and make it absolutely clear that the SG's not from the 21st century and give it an outdated feel by flat out calling it a Gentlemen's Club right in the title. Depending on just how Victorian we make this, there actually could be an element of "sophisticated sexism" to it, though we all know full well there's a good chance over half the characters could wind up being female.
Just random ideas spewing out of someone who isn't even half awake yet. -
Quote:My earlier suggestion of Anachronistic Adventurers' Society, pretty much means "out of time adventurers", not unlike your suggestion, though I can see that both would be awkward in-game for typing and, in my case, pronunciation.Originally Posted by Ninth Cloud
Well the name should to encompass both genres. So names like "Brass Kickers" or "Steamworks" wouldn't really work because they are too oriented towards steampunk. Course, we also dont want a name that caters to the Victorian side of things as well. Unless we totally want to go down the steampunk path... while not the original plan, would still be kickass.
I came up with "The Society That Time Forgot" I'm not so sure I like it, but at least it gives you guys the general idea of what I was hoping for.
As for a overarching concept for the SG, I wasn't planning on one, but it would sure make the RP a little easier. Maybe something like one of us built a time machine that each member found in their subsequent time and took to resent day Paragon City. It needs to be broad, and I figured that most, if not all, will have some sort of time travel aspect to their character's concept. Perhaps someone who has skills will be able to make a "mock" time machine in our base. Just an idea.
Keeping both Victorian and Steampunk concepts in mind, might I suggest "The Brass Lion Society" instead? It is short, easily read, & covers both concepts (lion for England). I suppose "brass" could be replaced with "mechanical" or "clockwork" or some such. Just a thought, please feel free to tinker with it.
I also humorously note that there was a fictional club in the Sherlock Holmes stories called The Tankerville Club, which with a bit of tweaking might apply here. Holmes also had his street society, The Baker Street Irregulars, for spying and information gathering. Perhaps that name could be the seed of an appropriate name.
Lastly here is a list of London's gentlemen's clubs originating in Victorian times, both real and fictional. Maybe something will strike your fancy. I've been looking for a similar list of engineering or mechanical societies, but so far, the names tend to be a bit straightforward and bland. -
Ok, since you asked for ideas, tossing out SG name suggestions then:
Steamworks
The Works
The Anachronistic Adventurers' Society
I suggest the Gears chest detail as SG logo. -
Perhaps safeguards should be run in reverse? Not identical to mayhems, of course.
What if the bank robbery was the capstone to everything else? Or at least a percentage of it. Set a point system for NPC villains stopped, higher amounts for completing the side missions. Once the team reaches X number of points, they're rewarded with the bank alarm and the final scenario. -
Normally, I'm not overly fond of any of the safeguard content after the bank robbery. However, I've noticed that, solo or group, my xp winnings seem to dramatically increase by clearing all. So I never object if asked to stay.
This is anecdotal at best. I'm not one of the number-crunching crowd and cannot explain why this is. Perhaps its simply remaining in a concentrated area for longer, as opposed to waiting outside the door of the next mission for many minutes. -
Saw a SG invite on Virtue tonight for a steampunk/dieselpunk SG called something like "League of Extrodinary Gentlefolk" or some such. Is that the blueside sg suggested here?
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Any further developments on this? I've been following the thread with curiosity. Have you settled on a SG/VG name?
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Quote:That's what the Devouring Earth believe.Originally Posted by BigFish
Wouldn't a "world without evil" require the extinction of our species?
The backstory of Ace Barnstormer and his technical-based crew is that they were stunt pilots and support crew for the globe-hopping Ragwing Aerocircus until shortly after Rikti War I. I believe they'd return to that life probably doing airshows for charitable causes like the orphans of the Rikti Wars. But they'd probably keep their powered armor undersuits handy, just in case.
Of all my others, probably the only other one to comment on would be Ray Gunn. The man spent a small fortune acquiring rights to reverse engineered tech and also a formerly obscure 1930's serial movie sci-fi character of the same name. The hero has been using his adventures to relaunch the franchise, from costume to lunch boxes to movies. If all evil ended, I suspect he'd continue promoting the Ray Gunn brand, though he'd spend more time on the convention circuit than seeking trouble. -
I haven't seen anyone mention trolls. I've fought a lot of trolls and seen only guys. I would think street superadyne wouldn't discriminate. I realize testosterone might amplify the results, but I'd think lady trolls could be found in the low to medium levels at least.
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I should probably add if you've avoided contacts so far by doing radio/newspaper missions and such, you might start by going back to your first contact in either Atlas Park or Galaxy City. Even if you've outleveled them, they'll often direct you to a contact working an arc at your current level.
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Dr Mechano has some excellent suggestions.
there's also the Vazhilok plague story arc, given by Dr. Ann-Marie Engles in Skyway. It is...well...interesting. Do it, and you'll see what I mean. You might wish to team for some of the latter part of the arc, but its not required. -
Quote:should've not said anything and instead offered a bet. Easy money.Originally Posted by Leandro
Running my level 19 defender around Steel Canyon, I call my contact and he tells me:
I take two steps, and I see a group of Council being decimated by 5th Column forces.
Hey, Cho? They don't look so consumed to me... -
Quote:is that only for the mission holder or for all teammates?Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Always has. Was one of my preferred ways of getting a quick boost of prestige into a small SG