Schismatrix

Did you already buy them? If you didn't and they've been removed from the store you'll have to unlock them on your characters using the traditional level 35+ route of running the ITF.

The Olympian Guard set is a new costume set that came free with i22. For VIPs at least, not sure if Freemiums get access.

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*facepalm*
So, seriously, Scrapper Kinetic Melee underperforms by a large margin every other melee set in PvP unless CS does far more damage than the formulas say it should?

Wow, that really does suck.

Here i was hoping it was just a bunch of over the top hyperbole by people who believe that everything has to be exaggerated or it will be totally ignored.

Has a minor itch on their ankle="MY FOOT ITCHES LIKE A THOUSAND BURNING WEASELS!" while screaming and writhing on the ground.
Is starting to feel like they'll need to use the bathroom sometime in the next hour="HEY! IF I DON'T GET TO USE THE BATHROOM IN THE NEXT TWO SECONDS MY BLADDER WILL EXPLODE AND KILL AN ENTIRE CITY IN PERU!!!" while throwing themselves against the car door and flailing their arms.

Oh, hey, neat. i'm starting to see the appeal of ludicrous hyperbole.

The funny thing is that no one really minded the movement sounds, they mostly just thought the impact sound effects were too soft. So the Devs altered the movement sounds to sound like an airplane propeller in a sheet metal factory during a windstorm while keeping the impact noises the same. (Okay, i'm exaggerating about the movement noises a bit, but they did make them much louder while keeping the same hit sounds.)

Sort of like how Niven's ringworld required stationkeeping thrusters to keep the star in the center. Without stabilizers a ringworld's orbit would fairly quickly shift until it brushed the star. Something Banks' Orbitals and Halo's Halos avoid by being smaller rings that orbit the star instead of being a ring around the star.

*huh* i thought a polar orbit was quite possible. After all, other satellites follow polar orbits. Then again i'm not enough of an expert on orbital mechanics to know why polar orbits are impossible for larger things like the moon. Still, it would take a wizard to casually change the orbit like that if it was recent. i always thought that the Primal Earth moon must've always been like that, at least for recorded history, since no mention of the odd orbit is made anywhere in game or in the lore.

Honestly i've never seen the problem you describe in an actual iTrial. It's true i've seen the occasional call for specific ATs when a league is already heavily weighted towards a specific AT type, but i've never seen an AT excluded. Admittedly the only servers i've joined iTrials on are Champion, Justice, and Virtue. Although based on the other posts in this thread it seems like the only place this is a real issue is around the OP, which makes the solution obvious.

Ah, but how things will settle out among the larger playerbase has yet to be seen, and there are bugs from the beta that still need to be fixed. How well received the rate of progression for the new DA is viewed by the larger playerbase is another unknown. The new sets and content are nice of course, but since i like to team what really interests me is how other players will respond...

i don't know, the barrels of monkeys were an effective cautionary tale.

By expanding player options and game content each issue improves the game, but it's hard to evaluate how much better when the new issue has just launched and the fresh crop of bugs is waiting to be addressed.

Offhand i'd say it's interrobang better at this point.

Wait, they sell purples for Paragon Points. *huh* i totally missed that.

She's not simple, she just ignores or misrepresents facts that don't support her opinions. There is a difference.

Damn your eyes! i was about post this exact statement, but when i scrolled down you'd already done it.

Ah well, i'll do it anyway...
Well said, JohnX.

Broodcloud? Really? Right, now i have to find and read this novel out of morbid curiosity.

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Broodcloud. Too many horrifying puns come to mind just from this name alone.

Yeah, i think he's been told that multiple times... See, when some people decide to blame and/or hate a group for some perceived wrong it doesn't matter how many times they're told that the group has nothing to do with the thing that pissed them off. Hell, even if they refocus some of their vitriol on those actually culpable they'll still insist the first group is THAT WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED regardless of all info to the contrary. A sort of cognitive inertia.

i call it "being a bit of a thick."

Still, at least he's not the twit who was in the last supah-sekrit closed beta that promptly started spamming the public boards with info from the beta because some goobers were loudly arguing about inaccurate speculations regarding what was in the beta. That was a truly remarkable level of dumb that makes this seem minor in comparison.

Ooh, very nice.

Also, happy birthday!

He either ate too much lead-based paint as a child... or it was aliens.

Congratulations Melissa and Nate!

Wasn't Melissa already at the helm once already for a while? Welcome back to the wheel!

i'm now imagining City of Heroes as a wheeled battleship rolling across the Northwestern prairies making pirate sorties before returning to its lair in the Northern wastes.

Sort of like this...

Run, Sparkly, run!

Personally i was pretty confident it wouldn't be this week.
My money would be on either next Tuesday or the Tuesday following. More likely the second Tuesday in my opinion, but i'll happily accept next Tuesday.

Well, if i was going with more conventional beauty i'd pick Mirror Spirit as well.

She and Foreshadow remain some of the best-looking NPCs in the game.