Schismatrix

*snerk* Nice mischaracterization of Edison and Tesla there, almost as accurate as the rest of your post.

Yes, Edison was a jackhole who did his best to smear and undermine Tesla, but your version of it is about as accurate as someone's senile great-uncle telling the kids how Christ put two of every animal in the ark so that they could go retrieve the ten commandments from the garden of Eden.

Are you absolutely sure you didn't buy the original City of Heroes box and are allowing it to apply only one patch every other day? Because that's the only way i can think of that you would be able to get even slightly close to an update every other day...

In other words the "Q" resembles an eye with tears coming out. Just another emoticon.

The funny thing to me is still that so many assume that closed betas are done in a few mass waves. The City of Villains beta was a closed beta, and while there are phases to the beta that are pretty clearly defined, like going from Friends & Family to inviting Players, the actual process of inviting players happens in many waves over many weeks, and could be anything from a few dozen players being invited to hundreds of players being invited, depending on how stable the beta currently is and what the Devs want to test.

i was not in the first wave of the City of Villains closed beta, more like the 5th or 6th, and it was tough to play it even at that stage. Lag and/or latency were frequent and sometimes severe to the point that it was almost impossible to test things in the game because simply crossing a zone was a test of patience. Client and zone crashes were frequent and often the server would roll back everything you'd done in the last half hour. At that point it was usually more about filling out bug reports on the latest crash than trying out the new powersets or gawking at the new zones. Closed betas tend to have lots of incomplete and buggy systems as different systems are tested, reworked and tested again. Anyone who joins a closed beta thinking that what they see is exactly what will go live, or that all they need to do is wander around and then boast to their friends about all the sekrit new stuffs they saw is an idiot.

The biggest wastes of air are those who join a closed beta fairly early on, see that something is different from what is on live and then promptly goes screaming to the public boards (probably using a trial account as a proxy if their IQ is larger than their shoe size, but smaller than their waist size) that the Devs have nerfed accuracy or gutted [AT name] or that [new powerset] is an overpowered/underpowered mistake. Closed betas up until shortly before they go open are by default in a condition that is not representative of what will go live. Especially for new game systems, powersets and ATs since there is no "cottage rule" during beta.

There is no single factor that determines when you will be invited to a closed beta. While veteran/loyalty/passport/llama status might help bump you to a given bloc for invite priority, things like past contributions and random chance probably play larger roles in when the invite will be received. The fact that i've been invited to some of the previous closed betas alone might imply that it's an imperfect process.

Wait, so you don't ever train or buy enhancements?
That's a true MAN approach.

Or do you mean you disregard/handwave/turn a blind eye to those aspects? Because "throwing out" implies you refuse to acknowledge or interact with the systems that involve experience and influence. So no training above level 1 or purchasing anything in game, ever.

True enough. That said, i still play on Virtue more than Freedom.
Maybe you do, but for me the earliest times start blurring together, and to be honest it's not like you had the skills or knowledge to make it memorable for any reason other than it being the first time. A better first is the first time a teammate said of your performance, "Holy ****! That. Was. AWESOME!"

Well i can. i also play on Champion, Victory, Guardian and Infinity on occasion. All have good points.

Seriously: whiskey, tango, foxtrot?!

And to think that my thought when i saw the picture David posted of the missing sword was, "Hey, it looks like the grip on that is longer than usual so that Katana/NB wielders can use the new swords as well."

Still buying the pack, but, considering that i would think at this point the art/design Devs would be well aware of the Katana/NB sets in the game (and the comparative paucity of sword options for them), i have to admit that i'm a bit nonplussed that they're increasing the disparity.

Not that my cursed-blade-wielding-drunken-cyborg-buccaneer Katana/Invuln Scrapper needs anything but the Chinese and Rularuu blades, but my someday-to-be-made heroic Praetorian NB/Ninutsu Stalker would like more options.

i am asserting that it is my belief that that is your opinion which may or may not be factual.

All i know about asserting that beliefs are merely opinions and only facts when they are my opinions asserted with full belief i learned from Ultimo_.
(Johnny_Putane helped.)

Believe it!

Mine always skip the second Tactics. Otherwise it's about the same.

Now i'm going to buy the Mutant Booster anyway just for the the new sets, but i really think this should just be added as a standard option like the other tails already in the game. Partially because it doesn't really fit with anything else in the pack, and partially because this is something that many people have requested since launch for general use.

Hell, several of my VEATs double up on Assault and Maneuvers with the Leadership pool.

h4x!

i know this is a silly question, but you don't have Noscript filtering the site, do you?

i disagree, but not for the things he is apologizing for.

i also disagree with Ultimo_'s initial premise, but i've basically kept out of this thread because... well... because of the many examples of previous vicious windmill assaults. Err, i mean battles with giants.

So far Ultimo_'s activity in this thread has been according to well established patterns and expectations. Now anticipating a resumption of more of the same.

So i'll just go back to occasionally lurking and seeing what new variations on the same theme will crop up. Carry on.

Don't forget Katana/Ninja Blade. Still, those animations are mostly unusable for a staff/polearm set.

With any luck staff/polearm fighting will eventually make it onto the schedule, but realistically it's at least a year until i'd hope to see that happen.

Whatever it was.

No, it hasn't. As far as i know there are no plans to add the capability to do so, so i'm not sure that there's a 'yet' about it either. Then again, maybe they'll add a tool for that in Going Rogue. Unlikely but possible.

;juggalocats?
AKA the "dance without rhythm" emote.
Wormsign!