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It would also completely break canon. The Rikti are generally not aggressive and only briefly attacked/scouted in Praetoria while tracking the attack on their world back to Primal Earth. (In case there was any doubt: Nemesis did it.) Basically, after Cole and the Praetorian crew hit the Rikti advance force so hard that they were farting teeth the Rikti said, "Bad: ours. Apologies: to you. Returning: never." They then eventually found the trail to Primal Earth and the First Rikti Invasion started.

You have to contact a moderator and ask them to do it for you. i forget which moderator is the best one to contact, but i'm sure someone will be along in a second to tell you.

Edit: Sending a private message to Avatea would be my first guess.

Booze. Or as Antiseptic Poetry put it, "Ale and Whores."

It was announced as going into beta some time ago.
However, they're apparently still using the closed beta servers unless the standard test server was closed off to regular access very recently. In any event the test server was publicly available last week, so obviously it hasn't been on the regular test server for the first part of beta.

Edit: Just a bug that i've found with this predownload is that it downloads the patch again every time you log off even if it was already downloaded. Also, the first time it tried to repeat the predownload it tossed out an error message and sat there until i closed the updater myself.

Edit again: The fourth time i exited the client it closed as normal.

Very true. Just look for a guy who needs rescuing, save him and move to the next until you're done. If you only defeat the mobs guarding the objectives you can be out and done in a fairly short while if you don't need/want the defeat badge for Contaminated.

Apparently there's a bug in the predownloader that it doesn't recognize that it's already downloaded it before and it sits there attempting to download the same patch again before eventually tossing out an error message and sitting there until i click the "Quit" button.

i endorse this standard. It's fully compatible with my current system and thus must be desirable.

In my experience the predownload usually happens at least two weeks before the issue goes live, so i still don't consider the 8th terribly likely.

i was going to say that all powers with a "% chance to" component do not have that % modified by tohit or accuracy because it's not a tohit/attack roll, it's a just a % chance that something will happen if the trigger conditions are met. (In this case simply being inside the radius of the power when it ticks.) But i can't compare with Castle's authority.

Eh, like ID4, he's only ripping off the original master of biomechanical art, H. R. Giger, one of the greatest surrealists still alive.

Ah, yes, like Warlock, who originally appeared in the New Mutants.

No, it is not. You go and talk to an Arbiter like the other earned respecs. So, really, it's not a freespec.

Actually i don't see why we wouldn't. The Wedding Pack included a hair with veil option that is mutually exclusive with capes. Hair like Ghost Widow's is basically like shorter version of the cape rig with a different texture.
Also slightly less wavy, rippling moving hairstyles like ponytails, braids, and dreadlocks could use a rig like the tails.

This doesn't mean it's likely to be a Dev priority, nor does it mean that it will happen, but it certainly is feasible.

Speaking of feasible, a dreadlocks hairstyle that looks like actual dreadlocks and not spiky gutterpunk hair would be nice.

No no, the term with an "o" not an "a" is the racist term. A fairly old one and not often used in the US, much like blood clot.

i just set Noscript to allow all for the transaction page and it worked fine. While you can disable Noscript globally it's generally not recommended.

Yup. Couldn't remember his name offhand, but i added the info after a quick look through Wikipedia.

i could swear that Jack Emmert joined the CoH development team a year or more after development was already started, so he would've had nothing to do with pitching the initial concept and the initial hiring, but perhaps i'm mistaken.

Edit:
From the Wikipedia article on Cryptic Studios:

i think that's only really true of developer studios whose business model is based on developing and releasing new MMOs constantly.

Get funding and licensing from IP owner, build them a game and leave it with a skeleton crew to maintain it, and move on to the next. Previously most developers had a vested interest in making sure the game continued to attract players beyond the release month since the title was intended as an ongoing revenue source.

*looks*
Huh.
*double take*
Uh...
*triple take*
Yeah. i... i can't even really...
Yeaahhhhhhh...

Except, of course, advantages can halve endurance cost, or even make it zero, if you want to spend the points. It's sort of similar to how CoH players can slot endurance reducers.

And you can put points into increasing your endurance pool and/or recovery rate. Spending points on +rec in the Hero System is very similar to slotting Stamina. Spending points on getting more endurance in the Hero System is very similar to acquiring +max end accolades and set bonuses. Of course even better is that you can buy separate pools of endurance and recovery for powers so that you don't have to spend your own to use those abilities. There is no real equivalent to that in CoH beyond using pets, and even those cost endurance to summon.

Even with the standard guidelines regarding what and how much players can spend points on the Hero System pretty much requires the GM to participate in character creation and to approve characters before they're played. There are so many ways to min/max and game the rules that GM oversight needed to maintain balance. Having a GM on hand to approve each player's power selections and slotting is not even a faint consideration in an MMO.

Incidental note: You do recall when you were insisting that your FF/EB Defender couldn't defeat two even con minions without running out of endurance, right? You insisted that you would be almost out of endurance after defeating one minion. A bunch of people did the math in the forums and couldn't figure out how that was possible even with unslotted powers. (Math, something not completely foreign to the Hero System.) Then some of us created FF/EB Defenders in accordance with your assertions and still couldn't replicate the results you claimed. Entire enemy groups kept being defeated before running out. That's one example of what i was referring to when i said that in the past you've been so far from correct that you weren't even wrong. "I can't defeat two even con Rikti minions without using up all my endurance and then having to run or die." That's hardly an exaggeration unless exaggeration is a code word for a lie.

That's why i think there's something rotten in Denmark. The Hero System has formulas that link damage and endurance costs, along with ways of modifying the ratios. So does CoH. Frankly, there are so many similarities between the Hero System and CoH game mechanics that i simply can't understand how someone can claim to have been designing and playing various game systems for almost forty years, but be unable to adapt between such similar equations and values. (Ignoring for a second that RPGs were first created in 1974, making it unlikely you were designing playing RPGs for more than 35 years (at most) unless you were one of Gygax and Arneson's wargaming buddies.) When you compare the sheer variety of p&p systems and diversity of associated costs for using their various skills/aspects/powers/spells that you would presumably have tried out to have the past you claim it's hard to comprehend why CoH endurance management is so incomprehensible and crippling to you. To me it was almost intuitive when i started playing CoH because it was so similar to Champions in many of the basic game mechanics.

Anyway...

A few more thoughts for the thread:
Inherent Fitness will be very nice.
Endurance usage in the game now isn't terrible difficult to manage if you take the time to learn how it works, or ask someone else for advice.
There are a lot of people on the forums who can and will help if you're willing to listen and understand, or at least listen and use their advice even if you don't understand.
Most of the people posting in this thread are nicer and more tolerant than i.
i like cheese.
i'm going to stop hectoring Ultimo_ in this thread and just stick with the reading and popcorn from here on out.
Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.

For the most part enemies are supposed to prioritize who they attack when aggroed by the threat levels of the team. If you're running Superior Invisibility and *not* using any offensive powers your threat level is set to zero, which should make you the lowest priority to attack on the team. Of course if you're the only other person on the team and the Tanker hits the aggro cap you are probably the next highest threat, even at zero. (i don't know how the game's AI works well enough to say for certain.) Personally i've found that my illusionists almost never get attacked when they aren't doing any offensive actions on a team. i can't speak for how long that lasts since i don't think i can go more than 20-30 seconds without using an offensive ability. (i'm not counting non-aggro powers like Deceive as offensive abilities.)

Only the old fashioned clocks with mechanical displays. Most other types of clocks show no time at all when broken and are are never right when broken.

Still, i do get where you're coming from with that somewhat archaic analogy.

Ultimo_ gets flamed at least as much because he frequently exaggerates, lies and distorts when attempting to support his positions even when there is some validity to his complaints. Although it does almost seem as though he's actually posting from a parallel reality when he's presented some of his "facts" in the past, so sincerely he seems to believe them. Though the odd thing has been that when his assertions have been tested and disproven in game he's then backpedaled and attempted to claim he posted something other than what the record clearly showed. Maybe his parallel reality is more of a quantum shadow that is collapsed into congruency with ours when closely observed? The implications if this is true would be fascinating.