Shadow_Fire

Great guide! 5 Imaginary Stars for you!

The speculation goes up to 11! Its one higher!

Greatest. Build up. Ever!

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... We'd love a girlfriend for LiquidX >.>

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No, we don't want to be guilty of crimes against humanity by allowing you to procreate .

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Quick to the Invention Lab! We'll build him one, solves the problem without creating that other one.

I promise, I won't add any weapons to the android.

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Only correction I have is replace "BMZERO by John Becaro" with "Turbo-Ski by John Becaro"

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If it makes you feel any better, I noticed the character's name was wrong. Lots of Turbo Ski art in the Scoop to remember you by.

Boy does Arctic Sun know how to go out with a bang! I feel like I'm in Crey's Folly with all the bees swarming around.

Every time the Forums implode a Dev gets a raise.
Oooh, another Tax Bracket!

Fun times.

Fare well Arctic Sun! Enjoy Canadia and your new job. You and your contributions will be missed.

/e salute

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However, I know of no powers in the game that generate other powers, so this is probably something they'd need to code. (Heck, if powers could generate powers, you could have Group Fly create a toggle for everyone in range instead of people asking you to turn it off.)

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Weren't the presents during the winter event like this? I believe that everyone got a power that they could give a gift to someone else with. Honestly I'm not too sure how it worked anymore, hopefully someone else remembers. At the least I believe it showed that the mechanics are in place for Insperations to grant temp powers.

It would be nice if Speed Boost could drop a +speed toggle in an ally's tray too, solve those complaints.

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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement:


I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but I just found this hastily scribbled note on my desk from the City Scoop, our player publication for Supers, by Supers. It says:

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"Don't have long. They're coming. No Scoop this week. Send our regards.

-Scoop staff"

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Heroes gone missing. A mysterious note. Paragon City. This can only mean one thing! A foul plot against our freedom of speech by the vilest of villains!

Heroes, to Action!
Lady Sadako, question the h33lors.
Tundara, find out form your otter friends if anything is afoot in the seas.
Pants_Stealer, start snatching villain's pants. Hopefully someone left a note in they're britches.
The rest of you fan out! 04 registration dates to the north, 05 to the south, 06 west, 07 east.
I'll hit Portal Corp and see if anything major is happening on the dimentional front.

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are trenchcoat interiors still buggy, too?

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Yep, still no interior option for trenchcoats.

Acutally, with slash commands we could make our own hotkeys. If Cryptic felt like taking the time they could add an extra built in macro that switched to a base editing key setup, and back.

Honestly though, slash commands should be easier to set up than a second key setup for the editor.

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I would like a second set of beacons that are freestanding (in much the same way you can get freestanding SG banners) instead of only having wall mounted beacons. I've found that wall mounted beacons force you to do ugly things like raise the teleporter up 2 levels from the floor or weirdly construct your base to always have open walls next to the teleporters (not easy to do).

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Duplicate freestanding versions of each existing beacon would be great for making it more apparent which teleporter went to which zone.

Slash commands.
Currently everything in the base editor is operated with the mouse. Providing slash commands could make editing easier for those dedicated to the idea. Slash commands could also be used to allow fine manipulation of objects if the developers wanted to include such. (/move_object 10, /rotate_object, ect.)

Looks good so far.

<ul type="square">[*]The Mission Computer should always offer one mission that lacks the multiple click glowies, to give small SGs something to do. Lower, or even no, Prestige bonus is fine.[*]Some SG missions should trigger the usual civvy chatter, with the SG mentioned instead of the character.[*]Mission Computer Aux. could be a way for SGs to customize their opponents with one available for each enemy group. It would be great if there was a story arc for each too. These could be unlocked by completing an SG rumble (Safeguard/Mayhem).[*]Base Invasion could be done as a series of spawns. Defeating certain groups triggers spawns by the usual base objectives with associated ambushes. Destruction of the objectives fails the mission. Success comes from fighting off all the waves, including the enemy raid leader (EB or AV).[/list]

Its the defense. Vanguard spam -resist as part of their melee attacks, switching from regen to defense means you don't get hit and debuffed to high hell. Now if only Vanguard were in more than one arc MoG might actually have a real purpose...

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One question. IF I wish to rename a toon, and the name still isn't available, then what? Currently you can check to see if a name is taken or not while logged on by sending a tell to 'xxxx' named toon, but this wouldn't tell you if name was in unreserved status would it?? So how will we know if the name we want is available without actually going through the process of renaming an existing hero??

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Wait till the patch on test reaches live. There is a new feature on the character select page that allows you to check name availability. It only took 3 years to get it!

A great choice in levels for reinstating this policy! I doubt many folks will ever notice or care if these names are taken, and there are bound to be plenty of names opened up by this. Not that all of them will be winners.

A great start, balancing retaining active players and avoiding alienating potentaly returning players. If the need for names proves higher, the level can always be increased in the future.

A good guide, as I expected FashionSense. Clearly written, and as elemental of a strategy as I've ever seen.

Regen Scrappers should consider carrying Respites, these can dramatically lengthen the amount of time a Regen can go mono y blobo with a yellow unsupported. It takes practice, but its one great way to lower EoE usage. Just use the respites between click heals to fill in the gaps in recharge of those powers.

Agreed, if its not in the Guide to Guides, or the I9 thread, it hasn't been written.

On the upside theres a brief summary here.

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So why can't you make a whole set of "new" powersets? For example. WE have a fire blaster. Why not add Fire-Blue, Fire - Green, Fire - Purple, etc etc. It would be power custimization that would work with this system. For the engines pueposes its a new powerset calling on a specific FX for that powerset useing the animations you guys use. From our end we have green fire.

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This hack is a great idea. Can it be done?

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I've brought this particular varient up a few times in the past. Not only can it be done, it has been done. Just take a look at Luminary's powers in CoV, or Electric Melee compared to Electricity Manipulation.
The two big problems with the simplified version are providing an interface to impliment it, and far, far more difficult, actually redoing enough powers like that. How many hundreds (thousands) of recolors would have to be done to provide even 3 color options per set?

Then again, we are in a thread talking about player creations...

Since coordinating the Yellow Agro teams seems to be the bane of the new Hami Raids, and as I just had a raid fail for that reason, here are a series of screenshots to help.
These are from the hive and mark each of the six yellow mito antibodies. Get your tankers and scrappers to look these over to be clear on who has to take care of what.

Hamidon From Above
Hamidon from the South Rock
Here are the closest cover spots to each of the Yellows. Take a tour to get your team ready.
South West mito view
West mito view
North West mito view
North East mito view
East mito view
South East Mito view
I hope that helps.

A good, concise guide Rooftop, a perfect starting point for those looking to raid the new Hamidon.
Definately worth putting in my sig.

For section VIII Missions, Aa Hamidon guide to tide you over till a better one is written.
A Quick Guide to I9 Hamidon

A Happy 3 to CoH!

Remember kiddies, Run Faster!

It also took a bit to get anyone teaming too. I finally just started inviting whomever was in the melee with me, then broadcasting. Somehow I wound up with 4 controllers on the team, and we still couldn't lock em down.
I wonder if anyone was suprized to see a scrapper with leadership and Stimulant.

The worst part? Peolple begging for a rez. Damnit boy! It took you longer to ask for that rez than it would have to run back from the hospital!

Best part? Everyone running to the Ski slopes when someone announced Recluse was back. Punk'd!

Definately fun. Need more events like this.