Scarlet Shocker

I shall make a willain called wista but what AT whould it be?

Great work as ever and Cynic has it right Wirelass is an excellent name (but has an arch enemy called Wista )

They look SHOCKING!

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Quite honesly If I want to run an International counterfeiting operation from my bedroom thats jolly well up to me thank you very much!


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But... if you were running an International counterfeiting operation from your bedroom that wouldn't be quite honest would it?

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/Rant

I am appalled.
1. I thought new charecter slots were way overpriced, for a £10 box set that gives you 12 slots, 5 slots for a tenner is a joke and I don't even get a free game!
2. 5.99 for a server transfer. WHAT!! Wish someone would pay me that everytime I do a copy/paste. I imagine rename tokens are also grossly overpriced for the privilige of a server search and file change.
3. £6 one respec OMG what a rip off. Considering with careful planning and a little reasearch you can pretty much get by not respeccing at all, respecs could be seen as for those who have made some sort of mistake (like thpught handclap sounded fun but couldn't stand the flaming!) then NC are actually charging us for our mistakes. Now does that take the mic or what.
4. What does this mean for the policy of providing respecs at issue for those who powersets have been changed will that continue or not as it's now another way to line NC's pockets.
You see this all works on IMO one of the more explotative 'laws' of economics that no matter what it cost for the product to be produced if people want it enough they will pay rediculous amounts in comparison. That's it NC grab em by the dangley bits and squeeze see how long they put up with it, kinda short term vision isn't it.
Hey don't get me wrong some people might love it some people might hate it (like me obviously) but IMO that non of us even knew it was on the horizon is another big black mark in NC's community realtions scorebook. Consulation???, people only found out because of a mistake NC made, WOW now that is slick PR.
And as hopefuly a final stake in this commercial vampires heart. I really cannot believe after all the problems NC had with gold sellers they start selling in game rewards for cash. Oh the irony!!!!
Whats next Purple recipes £10 a pop????

/ end Rant

*Tabs to Ebay to searchs for COX respecs £3 each*

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kthxbai

Have a good one!

Yellow Dog linux and Wine?

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4 veteran respecs!

9, 21, 33 and 45 months!

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I stand corrected. At 28 months, as I am now, I would have to either find close to 20million inf or wait 5 months for my next vet reward.

So, this is all good

You get 3 respec TFs

3 Vet Rewards Respecs (from memory)

a "Freespec" when new issues launch

If you've used the TF and VR then what options do you have? Wait for the next issue release or buy a very expensive recipe

This gives players new options, and also generates some revenue for the game we love so much.

Let's not have people making wildly speculative "Doom" cries about things unrelated to this please!

I use it on Scarlet (El/El/El) and it does make a difference, but not huge. I have Stamina 4 slotted, 3 End Mod IOs and the PS +Chance for End. I'd say go for it but don't expect a miracle but it's enough to give you a bit of an edge

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Well... Just as a generalisation, I'm not a huge fan of ANY of the melee AT's to be honest. I prefer blasting the <bleep> out of bad guys.

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This ^^

Ok I've just deleted a toon so I'm throwing her name up here for anyone else to use:

Psylencer

Hey guys thanks so much for the warm wishes!

I think it was good. My headache tends to confirm that it was

Thanks ML, that's really nice! I'll do my best

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I haven't any active toons on Defiant but wish all involved a great time!... Happy Birthday Music World Radio and Happy Birthday Scarlet!

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Thanks ML and pity you can't join us but hey, there's always next year!

Yep, hard to believe huh, but Music World Radio is 1 today!

Starting out life as RadiOlympus we soon evolved into a station known for variety and quality and we're having a massive celebration tonight and you are all invited

Because of our strong links with City of Heroes and Villains we're going to be celebrating from 6-8pm in Warburg, for some hot and spicy PVP action with great music from www.musicworldradio.com

So come on Defiant Server and run what ya brung to Warburg and let's partaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy with DJ Victory and Yours Truly, Riff

Remember, 6-8, Defiant, Warburg! Everyone's welcome!

See you there good people!

You need to decide what to do and work through Mids. Single Set IOs are very rarely worth anything except and unless they are Uniques (Such as the Numinas heal etc)

If you're going to put Sets in, you need to learn what they do. Otherwise I'd say slot with ordinary IOs

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is there an emote to play a boombox while walking ?

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we've been promised a walking emote since about I4 allegedly but it's not happened yet despite being in official movies and actually has crept into game on occasion

So no

I had great results with a kin/rad defender...

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I ageee, I'm not going to log in if I get half of everything.

But the optional bit would save us all. But put it this way - I'm not sure many would, er, enjoy it - so what's the point of putting it in? Sure the 48 monthers+ can get their teeth stuck into it, but how many people are really going to use it? I think it'll be /unsigned for me, even with optional.

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Well it'd certainly seperate the men from the boys

I bet you'd change your mind if you got a guaranteed valuable recipe or similar at the end of it too

What determines the drops and frequency? It seems to be a bit sporadic and I'm curious. Somebody in game mentioned that it reflects the damage you do but that doesn't seem t be logical, given that tanks would get a lot less than blasters etc

We've had the Double Rewards and they do seem to be a big draw, but there are some amongst us who appreciate things a bit tougher.

So how about this as an idea (I don't know how doable it is so don't shoot me for the mechanics )

Hardcore Weekend: Half XP, Half Prestige, Half Inf, Double Debt

At the end of it, you get a very nice Accolade called "Hard Man/Woman" or similar, giving you a +5% end bonus or similar.

To achieve the accolade, you need to bring your toon through 5 tough missions and get the badge for each one and maybe some new plaques etc, maybe including stuff like MoST, or LGTF etc and maybe an Ouroboros mission or two that are specially crafted for the occasion.

(Which also means you can't just log your toon and loaf for the weekend.)

I guess it would be possible to make this optional if poss, so that only those who sign in for the Tough Weekender get the rewards and those who decline don't get it.

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So, unless we get a substantial engine upgrade I seriously think Animated Hair won't be on the cards.

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CoX could definitely do with an engine upgrade after 4 years, especially with direct competition coming up in 2009/10.

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So approximately 3 months after the "competition" arrives, expect a MASSIVE Issue release including new engine based on Crysis or something

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Kindly leave the stage

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Not sure he needed removing kindly with puns like that


But, to respond to the OPs main point, there is clearly a cost to be borne with animated hair, in terms of resources etc and with the frequent complaints of "LAAAAAAAAAAAAAG" the moment more than three people collect in a zone (largely unwarranted I would say) the real cost of animated hair would be untenable for many.

I don't know if you recall the old Hamidon raids but everyone insisted that capes and auras were turned off before entering the zone and even then it did get quite laggy at times. Imagine people with animated hair as well!

An interesting comparison would be Second Life where you can have all kinds of animated hair (in fact you can have animated everythings :O ) Linden Labs are now looking at publishing the rendering cost of your character in some way when you are in world so that people can see how resource intensive your animated hair, auras, blingy sparkles etc are making your character. This is being quite divisive in world, and from what I can tell, those who are against it tend to be the people who have the most to lose

So, unless we get a substantial engine upgrade I seriously think Animated Hair won't be on the cards.

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Not a terribly impressive mag, but hey, there's no such thing as bad publicity I guess

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Extra Extra Scarlet_Shocker in power levelling scam …..


Read all about it!!!!!!!

www.ifonlyitwastrue.com



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I like chips in gravy she tells the judge