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Well, being serious, Q1 is the number of days between each issue and the next issue or sub-issue (issue x.5). Can't be bothered to figure out the next one in the sequence: how many days were there between Sept 13th or 27th and Dec 6th? 84 or 70, I think.

IIRC, the half-mile point occurs at 851 yards, which makes it 1702 yds to the mile, thus 5106 feet to a mile.

Other than the "9 powers" thing, I think they're unique to Doms.

I like the previous answer to the next question.

Derp is subjective, so no one can answer it correctly.

The Americans (often mistakenly written as "teh Americans"), and it's all the fault of the jerk hackers. Though we now know they will merely be reverse-jerk hacked, so it's not actually a problem.

So many fire-based powersets, it's unreal.

Don't forget to give all of the Minions the Nemesis Lt Vengeance, just to give everyone that extra bit of pain.

Let me just say welcome to the Unionverse, and we hope you enjoy your stay!

Dante's guide is fantastic as a primer for how we try to make Union one big, shared world (though we're certainly full of little groups that rarely interact with others).

Hope to see you around sometime, and if you happen to drop hero side at all, consider taking a look at the meet held just outside the Founders Falls station (theoretically every night, but it's been a bit slack lately, since TOR launched) at 9pm UK time.

Most of all, though, have fun!

Brawl.

Or cast mystic fortune on him and hope for the Tower.

Skimmed the last few pages, read a lot of the rest.

One thing that I think some people are missing when they say "ignore it" (and yes, that is a valid thing to say) is that pretty much everyone who's saying "We can't ignore the sentient puddle of mild annoyance" is, to some extent or another, a roleplayer.

And one thing roleplayers like is consistency in the world they're roleplaying in.

Take Union, for example, where we have a general RP rule-of-thumb that we are ALL roleplaying in the same world. Events that happen to someone can (for example) appear on the news and other people can talk about them. That's why we have those update threads. It is (to use a term I use a lot) "shared storytelling".

But one thing we all basically agree on is that the game setting is the same for everyone. It's City of Heroes. Canon is canon is canon.

At least, that was the rule until Incarnates came along and the puddle got thrown in our faces.

I don't want my main to be beholden to the puddle for anything. His powers derive from a very specific source, which isn't even in Primal Earth's dimension. But even if that weren't true, when I roleplay him (and he's a T3/4 incarnate in everything out so far) there exists no place in his backstory for the Well.

Yes, I could shoehorn it in. I don't want to, and I see no reason that I should actually have to for a character that has existed longer than CoH has, and who the Science origin fit perfectly before Incarnates came along.

My other option is to ignore the Well, then. Okay, but... what about Hypothetical Roleplayer X who doesn't ignore the well? Canonically, he has the right to say "Shad, your main is empowered by the Well, it can take his power away whenever it wants, do whatever it wants to". Canon says X is right. My character's story says X is not right. Do I, therefore, have to rewrite my character's story, which I was roleplaying in CoH for 5 years before Incarnates hit, to accommodate a sudden behind-the-scenes alteration to the way the entire game-world works?

My character, my background, Paragon Studios' World. But the re-write of how powers exist is incompatible with my character's background. Not "fudgably tweakably" incompatible. No, it's "my character has actually been RUINED" incompatible.

Thus far, I've managed to avoid any difficult situations that would cause friction about me playing my toon is a slightly different version of reality to someone who strictly follows canon, but should I really have to? I had 5 years where my character fit perfectly with the way everyone understood the game world to work. It's bizarre but it fits. Now? Broken. And I either ignore the Puddle (been doing that so far) or I re-write my character (not going to happen - he's existed since 1999). Or, the third option is that the devs make it clear that the sentient Well of the Furies is actually a bluff, and the ultimate source of power in the multiverse is something else entirely, and the "being" we're calling The Well is pulling a long con.

Other people may not agree with me, but that is why I have a problem.

Bad joke inbound! You have been warned.

All this talk of politics is kinda dull, but this bill is SOPArific.

On a serious note, I wholeheartedly support the blackout, thank you to the Titan Network team for helping bring this serious issue to the attention of players who might otherwise have remained blissfully unaware.

Gold time option: Ninja Run+Sprint+Afterburner.

NR+Sprint gives you the speed, and AB gives 100% control.

Try it. It's awesome.

Simplest: copy the game files from an old PC.

Next simplest: download the NClauncher and install it from there.

Under NO circumstance should you need to create a new account.

My bet is that Statesman's power will invest itself in the most worthy group of heroes in the city...

Well, it'll want to, miss, and hit The Shining Stars, instead, except for the players.

Am I the only one who suspects that Zwillinger had that lolcat ready to post at least a year ago?

Well done, Steelclaw!

Post up character information, if you would be so kind.

Okay, assuming L35 enhancements, Smashing Haymaker adds 22.9% Dam for 3 of the enhancements, and 18.4% for one of them, totalling 87.1% enhancement to damage.

If you add an even level SO to that, you get another 33.3%, which would "normally" put it up to 120.4% enhancement.

However, ED reduces the effectiveness of any percentage past 70% for Schedule A (which Damage is), and the final enhancement bonus to damage of those equals 98.06%

If you only included the Smashing Haymakers, though, you would still be getting 85.39% Damage after ED. So that SO, which would be providing 33.3% Damage enhancement on its own, is actually only adding 12.67% - just over a third of its potential effectiveness.

An analogy. We all love analogies. And then I'm shutting up about the issue.

Imagine you're a member of a book club that regularly meets up, and you discuss books.

Right at the start, one member of the club stands up and proclaims to everyone there "Professor Quirrell is possessed by Voldemort. I was surprised to learn this."

Some people say "yeah, I knew that". Other people complain that one of the singular plot points of the first Harry Potter book has been spoiled for them. The people that already knew say "don't bother coming here to discuss books if we're not allowed to tell you about them."

Even the person who originally spoke takes this view, saying that because the book has been out for so long, nobody should care about having something explained before they've read it.

Allowing people the choice to avoid the topic would be the polite thing to do, by explaining that they were going to talk about the plot of the book.

By forcing the knowledge on other people, they are being inconsiderate and rude.

How are the following potential thread titles a "spoiler"?

The Truth about Rikti: possible spoilers
Praetorian loyalist arcs: contains spoilers
Shadow Shard origins (SPOILERS)
The Many Lives of Marcus Cole (spoiler alert!)
Who Will Die: I hacked the game (spoiler thread)

Answer: none of them.

I used to feel a small shiver of excitement whenever I came across a thread that contained <Omega Level Clearance Required> as a replacement for any and all information about what used to be hidden behind it (and I'm still not going to say what it is). It is inconsiderate to spoil plot elements that other people might not yet be aware of, and it really takes very little effort to include such a flag.

It not a case of "removing ourselves from the boards entirely", but instead that we should each be able to make our own choices about whether we want to know the spoilers or not. I avoid spoiler-tagged threads about missions and arcs I've not yet run, until I've run them. For the information to be outed in a thread title actually spoils my enjoyment of the arcs in question.

So those of us who want to avoid spoilers are just asking for a bit of consideration from the community at large - just because you know something, doesn't mean everyone knows, or that everyone wants to find out from you rather than in-game. Let us each make that decision for ourselves.

Edit: I will be PMing Zwil to ask for a new forum section to be added, along the lines of "Missions, Plots, Arcs Discussion - Spoilers", to see if this problem can be effectively eliminated.

Wish I could remember where I heard this lovely tale:

A language professor at a prominent university was explaining to the students about double-negatives. In many languages a double-negative is a positive. There are some languages (I forget which) where a double-negative is still a negative. Likewise, a positive-negative is usually a negative.

"But," he concludes, "no language on Earth has any example where a double-positive is a negative."

And a voice in the room pipes up:

"Yeah, right."

As Damz says, though, if it was on Union and the person's global name begins with "s", then yeah, he's KINDA serious about badges (no, it's not me). So serious that the main Union badge hunter channel has his name all over it.

Thursday is good for me, subject to last-minute hiccoughs like last week. I truly want to mix it up and try to squeeze this in on different nights, to keep verisimilitude, but to start with, having a "regular" night isn't a bad idea.

So, I'm going to again push for Thursday this week, and maybe a different night next week?

Same time, same place, if that's okay with people.

Last night...

Richard turned up at 9 and left when nobody else had arrived by 9.15.