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I guess it gives you as many options as you can think of plus a few more...
it could be that the "guy with the gun" is a dead shot but the gun is just a gun... and the incarnate somehow empowers the bullet... so a "normal" hero's weapon might be be stopped by body armour but the incarnate's weapon is guided by his force of will and shatters the armour
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Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Answer: You hired Rob Leifeld?
Oh god please no... it'll have 4 spines and elephant hoofs -
Why can't my minions eat soup with a toothpick?
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Tin Mage & Apex...
option?
possible?
achievable?
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That's actually seriously cool
but doesn't go all the way... they should put them on supermarket shelves with a a heroclix toy and a trial CD inside
The effect would be so prestigious we'd be able to not only mention, but laugh at, other video games on this forum -
Quote:Originally Posted by Golden Girl
As there are still some players who don't have GR, I think the Incarnate system will give a little boost to sales in Q4 too
I'm thinking that all new players get GR
at least my friend who joined did - so I'm thinking that new players automatically get it. That actually makes sense so only older players will be without if if they didn't buy into one of the pre-pays -
Quote:Originally Posted by mereman
So far for me the new servers seem as smooth as a snakes inner thigh
actually snakes have vestigial limbs that have regressed back into the body... so technically inner thigh would be kinda... bony and fleshy too and if you got that close you'd get blood on your...
ok I'm just not going there -
Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Computer?
Computer?!
I am Techbot ALPHA! You just met your maker!
Oh and income support too -
Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Computer says No
you on housing benefit too huh? -
Thanks for the feedback so far chaps
Quote:Memphis Bill with your name I'm glad you posted in this thread - but I don't see a huge formation of fortresses as being blasters, though technically they could be I suppose. But your merc point has given me an idea...Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Why do you think a blaster wouldn't be appropriate? They would, after all, have a sidearm at least.
If we could redo the minion uniforms, perhaps a merc. MM.
Flight is clearly part of the build, how could it not be?Quote:Originally Posted by Jasra
You could build off the "Fortress" part of the name and go with a Tanker. Inv or WP for the primary, not sure for a secondary; and Flight of course, as soon as you can.
WP does work - reading the accounts of their missions, Schweinfurt/Regensburg for example are simply heartbreaking and some groups suffered 60% losses there - they needed all the Willpower they could muster, but the primary is maybe lacking.
Lightning Rod might be the "awesome" damage that a toon like this needs? Roll in like thunder, draw all kinds of aggro and then blitz...Quote:Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
A B17 or B24 bomber-themed character
Willpower Tank.
TANK When those things flew overhead, they drew every bit of aggro imaginable.
Primary: Willpower You needed nerves of steel to ride one of those into battle. Heck, just getting the beasts off the runway fully loaded could be a bladder-emptying experience.
Secondary: Your choice
Super Strength-- for the pounding they delt out.
Dark Melee-- for all the blackouts they caused when they appeared overhead.
Fire Melee- for the firestorm that followed.
Here's an idea partly inspired by Bill: How about an Illusion troller - with a solid secondary to back it up (Force Field?) - it gives the impression of rolling in and blasting the zone with PA and then moving on, and the pets and fear would give it the "formation" effect whilst FF would give the benefits of running in formation? The Pets can be given the colour scheme of the 8th AF... PA can be olive drab and desert pink and the later pets could be bright aluminium to reflect the change in strategy. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Sorry, what was that meatsack?
It's cool Tech... humour him it makes him that much easier to manipulate.
Hell he's not even realised his avatar is a Beatles Song... coo coo ca choo!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I wonder if they'd still keep the Euro lounge section of the forums if there was a server list merge?
Almost certainly. There's an Oceanic Lounge for the Antipodeans... and they play on the US servers - and if they posted in here, I'd find it impossible not to mention their dreams crumbling to Ashes this winter
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So I need your help.
I've had this toon on Defiant that I've played only a few times, but he's never been quite right.
Much of my honours degree related to the history of the US 8th AAF strategic bombing campaign over western Europe, and I christened this guy Flying Fortress as a tribute to those guys. I admire them greatly for the courage they showed in one of the toughest aerial arenas in history.
I've been wanting to re-visit him but I can't get the right AT for him. The uniform of an 8th AF flyer is very easy to replicate in the cossie creator - made even easier with the science pack!
But as a crew member of a B17 (or B24) - what AT would they be? Blaster isn't really appropriate even if that was the primary role of some of the gunners.
Today, 11/11 is a good day to remake him so please give me your suggestion as to what he should be and why you think that fits!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Hibernia
Saying that , did we see see the servers being moved as quick as they did or did i miss some news to that effect? , knowing how slow i am at the best of times it's probably been in the public knowledge for weeks
If we did then I never saw it.
Some months back War Witch did promise that she was looking at a way for us to interact with all groups - but she said in her post she wasn't sure how it could be made to happen
This may be the first step - but there are other steps that also need to be taken too I'd guess, as others have pointed out.
@Techbot Alpha - I personally feel that changing my global nick would be a very small price to pay for this. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Ura Hero
What would be nice would be for them to implement one way transfers ala Freedom to Defiant, etc. They should aim for some sort of server balancing to move the consistently red and yellow dotted servers onto some of the green dotted servers.
Granted this might not help, but it could possibly shore up some of the lower population servers.
the danger of that is that players might use Defiant as just a place to dump their obsolete or unused 50s so it woudln't ever really solve the issue.
I know that many of my friends who I connect with in a different virtual environment would very gladly roll toons on Defiant and I would probbly roll a toon on a couple of other servers too but Defiant's my home -
Quote:Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Some Lost-style soapbox prophesizing:
A "serverless" environment comes. One with a more advanced global/local naming scheme, permitting duplicate names but not bogging down chat aesthetics. This new paradigm will be upon us within the next two years.
Really I've no idea what this means. But I have this unfounded feeling in my gut that long term, within the next two years, we're going to see some sort of significant change to how servers and the division between them works in game.
I doubt it... too much work but I bet that CoH2 will be serverless -
The problem is the numbers have no real context behind them and without some additional info they are pretty meaningless.
We can all hope that GR has provided a boost and the anecdotal evidence supports this but that's all it is. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Hibernia
Also go's for me. Server merge for Christmas would be the icing on the preverbial cake however
I doubt that's even on the cards.
There's a lot going on right up to xmas... so I'd imagine if there was anything even planned - which we have know knowledge of and are purely speculating about - it wouldn't be until 2011 earliest. -
Quote:Originally Posted by _gohan661_
I was more referring to the fact that its in the middle of the bloody day, unlike the Americans who get there stuff in the morning
Plus if i19 does go live on the 16th that'll be about 5 hours too so thats 11 hours of daylight play time that we are gunna miss in 6 days. i dont personally get much lag while playing and i play on a wifi dongle so this upgrade seems pointless and inconvenient
Would you like some cheese with your whine? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Judgement_Dave
Which I briefly considered then dismissed, as what sort of MMO player decides to knowingly move from a high population server to a low population server?
I guess that if SGs (including bases) could do a wholesale move then you might get them moving if the high population server is deemed to have performance issues, but otherwise I'd imagine that it appeals most to individuals and small groups who aren't well established/don't have ties to other players on the home server. Does attracting a lot of solo/duo players to an EU server help much?
Better IMO to list merge and have no extraordinary transfer period.
I agree. I'm only putting it out there as an option -
Quote:Originally Posted by Amazing_Guy
What do you think would happen if the game went back to being like pre-ae times and they just removed AE entirely from content. Other than the fact the market would most likely crash, and MANY noobs (no offense), would leave the game because they would have to venture outside Atlas Park for the first time in their lives, Any comments?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
And nearly impossible to do for a decade. Eventually, if you are number shifting, it will crash around you (cf. Enron).
There's a high confidence in the numbers NCSoft puts out. Anyone claiming otherwise is doing so based on nothing more than tin-foil-hat stupidity.
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My concern is that for a couple of years before the forums were merged there was a constant cry from many of the EU forumites for a server merge - and many players on Defiant jumped ship to Union when the slump was at its worst claiming that Defiant was dead - and although that wasn't factually true, it did mean Defiant took a hit.
Even last xmas with the free transfers given out traffic was largely one way from Defiant to Union other than the parking of 50s.
Many people who may not even frequent the forums also still claim - erroneously as it happens - that Defiant is still a low population server and would almost certainly jump to Freedom or one of the others simply because they perceive it to be "better" - regardless of the actual facts.
I strongly suspect that if free transfers were given out with a subsequent merge, only those who had no emotional/time investment - ie those not part of big SGs, server channels, groups of friends etc would feel encouraged to jump - and once it starts it becomes a slow haemorrhage that will bleed the server to a lingering death.
One option - and it would take a lot of doing - following a list merge would be to offer transfers from only the highest population servers to give some kind of load balancing, but that also has some issues. -
There's no reason why it should alter existing back stories. Given that it's only for high level content it can't somehow retro-fit your origin. It's more like an augmentation of your existing powers than changing anything in the basic structure.