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If you want to see if a certain graphics designer really is sexy, a little Google-fu will answer that question.

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I don't need proof. I have faith that Jay is Sexy.

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And War_Witch is Canadian (I think)!

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I love Cuppa's tats!



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*almost has a heart attack* Good god, when one is tired and reading/scrolling quickly, that can be erm... misread. 'course, I'm sure Cuppa will now pummel me.

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Is Castle's sig quoting everyone's favourite robotic assassin from KOTOR?

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From KOTOR2, and I think it was one of the other HK models, but yeah.

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I just finished playing it again. I love the game.

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I'd probably love KOTOR2 too if it weren't for the fact that one of my CDs doesn't want to be read any more so I can't re-install it. :sob:

Tracing has its place. However, I don't feel it can be the best tool for visualization and concepts nor a the best tool for beginners. Why? Because, to paraphrase a UK game art professor, it's exceptionally important for an artist to -see- the world and not just draw it. Seeing how the world is formed, colored, and shaped lets an artist re-create it accurately and develop their own interpretations of it.

Is Castle's sig quoting everyone's favourite robotic assassin from KOTOR?

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You know what would be cool end game content. And as far as I know no hero missions have this. How about a redeem Frostfire story arc. It could be in the late 30's to mid 40's. Your contact could come to you with a amazing discovery.


Mission 1- Meet with Frostfire

Frostfire- Who escaped again not long after you arrested him last, has turned up again. But get this. it's not exactly what you think? He's willing to come clean and surrender himself to you. That's right, he's asked for you by name (Insert hero name here) and says that he has some important info concerning some major villain organization and some of their activitys. And he's willing to give everything he has and himself over to you. Go, meet with him at this location in Steel Canyon (Could be anywhere) and bring him in for justice. I dont have to warn you that this could be a trap, or probably is a trap. How often does the bad guy ever just turn himself in. But he asked for you personally. So that alone should make this meeting worth your while. Might want to bring some friends though.

Of course it's going to be a trap, but not exactly what you think. (Using the cutscene technology. Show Frostfire defeating a couple Malta and then beating heat out the back of the building.
You enter the mission and fight your way thru Malta galore, coming to the end of the mission you find a Malta gunslinger talking about bringing Frostfire in dead or alive, preferibly dead. After spanking the Malta goons you find a computer with partially erased data on a Malta plot to kill (Insert signature hero name here) and some clues in it that link it to Arachnos or the 5th Column or whatever bigger villain name group you want.

More to come.

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Heh, I was going to suggest something like this. 'course to keep in tune with FF's character, he'd probably have some questionable methods to deal with the Malta. I'd probably also have the end of the arc leave FF's final fate up to the reader ie does FF ultimately turn good or does he fall back onto his anger and habits of however many years and remain a villain?

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Well that is pretty nifty and all, but once the novelty wears off is it still worth buying an whole extra card that you might not even be using in 5 years?

:-/

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The answer is no. Won't see me running out to buy a card till it's a requirement for some new game I want. Thats my measuring stick for when to update my computer. When it no longer runs the games I want to play, it's time for an update!

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Came with my new system by defualt.. It was downgrade processor and gfx card or take the physx card...and well...

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Sure sure, that's what they all say. *teasing*

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You can learn more about Manticore, his mysterious absence, and his hot torrid love affair with Sister Psyche in "The Penthouse Letters of Manticore", coming this fall from Troy Hickman.

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lol now that shameless plug should be enough to draw him out

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"Dear Penthouse Forum,

I'm a superheroic archer at a small midwestern college, and I never thought anything like this could happen to me..."

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Oh, I'm still around. Have no fear about that.
It's an ivy league college...and yes it's difficult staying one step ahead of a woman that can read your every thought.

Did you guys miss the "suggest the plot for a City of Heroes comic issue" contest? I am hard at work on the script for Issue 16 based on an entry I selected from the many hundreds of submissions.

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Wooo!

Sorry, even hearing news of distant Issues makes me giddy.

Yay for planning ahead, very far ahead.

*waits for 2043*

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Comic book issue not MMO issue.

You'll probably want Anti-aliasing and Anastropic filtering on (I don't remember off hand what they may be called in COH). The special effects like Depth of Field you can skip (since you may or may not need background material and you can add in DOF later anyway). Bear in mind that high quality screen shots do not equal playable framerates

Can't wait to see what you come up with , Rowr.

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::Puffs smoke then falls over.::

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Quit bogarting!

Puff, puff, pass -- cummon, already!

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Hey! I'm not a piece of meat! I have feelings, damn it!

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http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Ha, sure you are. Meat with feelings? Pfft.

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This novel, while a good read, still bothers me on the timeline because if its in canon at all, then Synapse, Positron, and Manticore are way too old compared to how they're depicted in the game and the comics. Synapse and Positron are pushing 50 and Manticore's age is never given but he's still got to be somewhere in the late thirties to possible mid-40s.

I mean, maybe Synapse has an excuse for his appearence due to acts of science and nobody knows what Positron looks like, but Manticore is the normal one.

I mean, this didn't bother me too much during the book, but it's still not being addressed. I don't suppose that some rednamed bastion of the Story Bible could clear the age descrepency up?

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Never worry about the age of a hero. Batman has been 39 forever and will stay that way until the storyline needs it to change....:>

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Which reminds me of Batman Beyond.

Which brings to mind a thought for City of Heroes 2, if you guys ever make one.

Modernize the city further. Advance the timeline substantially. Retire the Phalanx (except for Immortal Statesman, of course) and bring in the next generation. Could be fun to think of our CoH2 characters as the legacy of our CoH1 characters.

Just, you know, food for thought.

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Or, instead, make COH2 (essentially) a standalone expansion (but with more!).

Basically, when COH pretty much stable and stagnant, COH2 arrives. It retains everything from COH1 (basic) but advances everything and basically acts like a traditional sequel - when you 'beat' 1, you go on and play 2. Sort of the concept in Age of Conan where you play one part of the game (offline part) and then go on to the next (online part). COH2 however has interconectivity just like you said - legacy and what not, encouraging at least some play of COH1.

On a related note, if anyone can identify this guy, send me an PM so I can thank him for providing a cool screenshot for Warcry.

http://images.warcry.com/image.php?id=77340

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As people speak of using this to play soccer, all I can think of is the movie Shoalin Soccer. And that is what wins my vote.

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Might want to look into the game Soccer Fury.

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Hooray for COV Displays. =D I have one of those in my bedroom.

And... I agree. Cuppa and Pos look nothing like I'd imagined. Posi looks much friendlier and Cuppa looks like my adopted sister. =O

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LOL

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I'm kinda curious what everyone expected them to look like.

Woo woo! Yay for two years! Yay for Positron! Yay for pohsyb ascii art! Woo woo woo! vo.O/ \O.ov vo.O/

I'd say something more serious and mature but I just woke up.

Woo woo! Welcome.

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Valdermic - NCSoft (?)


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Val's still working with NCSoft. He's on the AutoAssault team, I was happy to see him pop up over there when checking out the beta boards...

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Oh, I know. I should have been clearer with that ?; I meant that I wasn't sure what his particular job was.

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I don't see Valdermic on there ...he's got a Wicked scrapper for a Hero
And what about "that chap" who does the Europe community liason stuff?


Hey Athyna, yeah I left myself totally open on that one, but Pat Boone? Come on that's just masochism

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It's an old list that hasn't really been updated recently. Valdermic is NCsoft QA or Community I believe and "that chap" would be Brigader (or something along those lines).

Didn't I just post The List a little whiles ago? At any rate, judging from the number and type of people who have posted, there are quite a few that just don't have red names as Castle mentioned. Most notable being the animation/art dept who have never posted. But only a handful of programmers have posted (3-5); chances are, they have a couple more than that. Only one person from their system/engineering dept has posted and there's probably one or two other system guys/girls. Quite a few (relatively speaking) designers have posted, but even in this case, these designers have generally been from various sub depts (zone design, system design, etc) so there's likely at least one or two others in those depts. And of course only Loki has posted from the business/high end side of things. Statesman and Manticore come close, being both designers and business (both in charge of various aspects of the franchise). And that's not considering people that may be involved in smaller ways such as internal testers and such. There's probably at least twice as many people who directly work on the game at Cryptic as have posted and a bunch more who are somehow involved with the company.

And of course there's also the company that Cryptic outsources their CGI videos too, if you want to count them. :P


Alexa Archer, CoV Online Community Rep – No Villain
Archon Voss, Zone Team Lead
Arctic_Sun, Jesse Scoble, CoH Web Content Developer
Aura, former Community Manager – No Hero
Awry, CoV Web Content Editor
bruce
brucifer
Captain Mako, Shane Hensley (sp) content writer – Captain Mako
Case, Tech – No Hero
Castle, Cryptic Studios Game Designer/Stalker Rep
CuppaJo, CoH Online Community Rep - No Hero
Devastatus, Cryptic Studios Game Designer
Gaffer, 3rd Party Executive Producer - No hero
Galaxy Girl, - Galaxy Girl, deceased (character)
Geko, numbers guy - No hero
GibsonSG, ? - No hero
Gilgamesh, content writer - No hero
Harlequinn
Jex_QACC, CoH QACC - No hero [Possibly Jax? – Ed.]
Jonyu, John Yoo, Cryptic Studios Game Designer/Brute Rep
Loki, CEO - No hero
Lord Recluse, David "Zeb" Cook, senior designer - Lord Recluse, comic book [Retired – Ed.]
Manticore, Sean Michael Fish, content writer - Manticore, comic book, oversees Synapse
Mish, Cryptic Studios Programmer
MYST_2, NCsoft Technical Support
_Nomad_, Moderator
pohsyb, programmer - No hero
Positron, Matthew Miller, systems designer - Positron, comic book
poz, Lead engineer - No hero
Ravenstorm, Game Designer - Trainer in Striga
Spiral, QA Community Coordinator - No hero
Squeeze, NCsoft Technical Support Lead
Statesman, Jack Emmert, creative director - Statesman, comic book, oversees Sister Psyche
SuperMartin, Cryptic Studios Programmer, Martin Simpson - No Hero
The_EMpaler, OCR Team Lead, CoH/CoV Community Team Lead - No hero
The_Zig, programmer
Tisirin, NCsoft Community Relations Manager - No Hero
Visigoth, Hardware Compatibility Lead – No Hero
Vladimir, QA - No hero
Vyvyanne, former QA - No Hero
War Witch, Melissa Bianco, Game Designer, Zone Team - War Witch, comic book, Trainer in Croatoa
Wasteland, Cryptic Studios Programmer
Wierd Beard, ? - No hero, Weaver_One, Cryptic Studios Associate Artist
Wraith, Programmer - No Hero

Josh
Stephen Reid, Content and Community Manager, NCsoft Europe

Hmm... mayhaps there should be like... an electronic version of the card game like MTG Online. You could create your own avatar with lots of neat costume pieces, wander around a lobby room with lots of pretty stuff and chat with people before heading into private game rooms to play against others. It'd be awesome.

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Nah, never work.

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The latest work from MMOArt.com

WarMain

Gill/Jomaro - I love the pose, I don't know if he surprised them or they thought they had the better of WarMain but he's certainly going to have the last word/punch.

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Holy phallic symbol, Statesman!

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You guys need to add Josh to your permanently favourite Dev list because Cap au Diable was his zone and he did the dialogue for the Gold Brickers and Luddites.


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Hense forth, he shall be known as... The Josh! His battlecry, "Are you joshing me?!"

Well, we know we're all comic book fans by all the debating...

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Fundamentally, a proper point blance would be best, allowing the player the most freedom of choice. Unfortunately, it is very tough. Champions / Hero System has had 20 years of tuning to it, and certain teams will reliably take down certain other teams of the same point value. It can't be prevented when a wide array of powers are available. The best you can hope for is to get enough play balance to eliminate the phenomenon of a team that reliably stomps all other teams of the same point total.

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True, but the difference with wargames is that the characters are a known and set quantity. It's like balancing MTG or HeroClix or Warhammer - the pieces are a set and known quantity. While the collection of them may change, it's a little easier since there is no one trying to put uber defense with uber offense as the designers already determined the powers out.