Shogun_of_Sorrow

Your first post touched on some of the reasons why I still play this game, despite the occasional fit of pique.

This post hits one out of the ballpark. I, also, have tried other games and the things that always serve to annoy me are absence of a sidekicking/exemplaring system and the ludicrous, tedious, frivolous travelling times.

For these reasons primarily, and for all the other reasons you've mentioned, CoX is still, even three years after release, the only MMO that holds my interest.

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If any of you have ever seen a movie called "Hawk, the Slayer" you'll remember how absolutely silly the archer in that looked.

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The worst offending clip is where they had the actor jumping over a fallen tree while shooting his bow and repeated it over and over, and then spliced together several takes to try and make it look like he was jumping over the log while firing the bow lots of times. And it looks worse than it sounds.

The obvious reference point these days is Green Arrow in the recent JLU cartoon. And he ain't exactly quick on the draw.

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My 9 year old is named Wesley.

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That is a very cruel thing to do to a kid. Wesley is a horrible name.

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Wesley is a wonderful name

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Sorry, pedant of the week here to point out that you're thinking of Westley. Wesley is still a rotten name to bestow on a child

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It's a jedi mind trick.

They're just messing with us. Keep us off balance, never know what to expect kinda thing...



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Lulling us into a false sense of security for when Issue 7 hits...

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Not particularly; I'd be more interested in you getting current known issues (invisible Mole Point meshes, the frelled-up exemplar system, etc) fixed first.

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Different departments, dude. Should the designers and content creators sit on their butts until the code monkeys have fixed/tweaked other stuff? In fact, I would guess that the code monkeys working on new stuff are a completely different bunch of monkeys from those working on the bugs.

Okay, at this point I suspect Statesman has quit reading this thread and this is a post that is going to be a waste of my time, but faint heart never won fair maiden (or whatever).

Read the following and then answer the question at the end (or just skip to the end if you prefer).

Here's a mission I accepted friday. Part of the Praetorian arc (which is AV heavy, never mind bosses).

SPOILER!

The mission description is as follows:

'Defeat all villains in area

Tina Macintyre: Guess what, MagIce! Anti-Matter and Neuron come from the same world! It seemed like they knew each other, so I had the technicians take another look at the data from Neuron's dimension. Despite Neuron's dimensional scrambler, we were able to match several distinguishing features with the data from Anti-Matter's dimension. Both villains are from Upsilon-Beta 9-6! Call me crazy, but I think Paragon City got caught in the middle of a power struggle between supervillains.

We're sending you to a remote corner of Upsilon-Beta 9-6 to plant a network of dimensional scanners. That way we'll know if anyone on that world opens a portal to this one, even if Anti-matter gets his stealth portal technology working.

By the way, the techs have come up with a new name for Upsilon-Beta 9-6. We're calling it 'Praetorian Earth.'

Here are the scanners. They feed off the bioelectric energy, so you should find some animals to place them on.'

My question is: Does it mention anywhere in that mission description that I'm going up against a frigging Arch Villain and should bring a team?

If you honestly believe that mission descriptions are providing us with correct and appropriate information, Statesman, then may I respectfully suggest that when it comes to your own game, you don't know jack.

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As an aside on Babbage, is he supposed to spawn in Boomtown in addition to for the TF, or is that just really old design information that is lingering, but no longer true?

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Babbage should be appearing in Boomtown, but he's apparently off getting an oil change (which he's having difficulty actually completing because the Clockwork King keeps getting back out of jail and screaming for help because a few dozen heroes are hot on his mechanical heels!)

There's a storm coming. Watch the skies! Trust no-one! Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!