Sin_Stalker
-
Posts
774 -
Joined
-
Where is it?
Galaxy gets it. I hear Dark Astoria gets it. When do we get it with Faultline?
'Nough said. -
I have one hero who has a secret identity. The organization he works for provided false documents and records to register.
Another, a magic user, caste a spell to create a hero I.D. and within the system.
So both have their secret identities covered up within the registry system. -
Quote:Where did you get Fort Trident from? And where is that?Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I was under the impression it was 'somewhere' in the same building as the FBSA in Galaxy City. (Just one of those 'oh it looks like an innocuous door to an office, then one secret elevator later and WHOOSH FP HQ!')
Now they're using Fort Trident permanently since Galaxy City is off limits.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Not sure if they have put a place in CoH where the Freedom Phalanx's headquarters is located or not? Or any new information on the subject?
It was pointed out to me that in the Top Cow comics, it was shown to be in a building that is the same design as Freedom Corps Plaza in Galaxy City Echo. Was it actually Freedom Corps as their HQ or just another building of the same design?
I do know the original HQ was in Baumtown before it went BOOM but what about now? -
Quote:No story is a bad story until it premiers and sucks.Originally Posted by Night_Hornet
For me I think these companies have lost their way since the late 80s, with so many re-boots (even movies re-boots now), retcons and stuff like the Ultimate universe etc. it makes me wonder if they understand their fan-base at all or whether any large fanbase could realistically keep up with or accept all the changes. These days popular characters appear in almost every title...sometimes more is less. Most titles are now delivering what amounts to the same old slugfest over and over again, whatever happened to original storytelling and real character devolopment?
Ultimate u was good. At least Spidy done by Bendis.
I think there is a lot of good and interesting stories that can exist with these characters. Whether they use those stories is yet to be seen. -
Quote:I won't vote because the option I want isn't up there.Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Last year at the very first Freedom Player Summit, we introduced the design a costume set workshop. After our initial pass, and much discussion between the art team and the Community, we've now narrowed down the selections. Now it's back to the Community to help us decide on the final product!
Between now and Thursday, February 9th 2012, you can submit your vote for which pieces we should include in the finished version.
Of course, should anything happen that would change the outcome of the final selection, we'll communicate this to you.
So get out the vote and help us decide our very first Community co-created costume set!
D. All of the above.
Make all the suits. Then we can mix and match. :P -
Quote:The CCC or City of Comic Creators is an organization. If you make coh comics, you are a city of heroes comic creator or a city of comic creator. The difference is one has caps (since its a name) because its many comic makers bound together and the other doesn't have caps. SimpleOriginally Posted by RemusShepherd
I'm confused. Who qualifies as a 'City of Comic Creator'? Is it:
1. Anyone who plays CoH and has a webcomic,
2. ...but the webcomic has to have CoH characters in it,
3. ...and it has to be set in the CoH universe,
4. ...and the creator has to be part of some club you've founded.
I have one active webcomic that only fits #1, and an old webcomic that meets criteria #2, but I've never done #3 and fuhgetabout #4.
I'd love to give you some material. I just don't have a grasp on how exclusive you are.
The CCC itself:
Its an organization that is banding coh players who make their own comics together. Anyone can join and just because you join, doesn't mean you have to help out or do anything. Its a place where you can talk exclusively to fellow comic makers, whether its to get ideas, advice, help or give help. Or just browse and see what other coh comic makers are doing.
I'll PM you and figure out what youre meaning. There aren't really any set rules. And not all the comics have to be in the coh universe. CoH is the thing that brought us together and its where the majority of our work is.Quote:Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Okay, so I'm hearing '#3' is the criteria. In other words, I'm not wanted. Not a problem. Best of luck with your club.
I know the creator of the Neighborhood Watch didn't really set his in the CoHverse. It was a comic he had invisioned long ago and just used the game as a means of doing so. So even though he has a cameo in my comic, doesn't necessarily mean it has to be in the "official" cohverse or cohverse at all. :P -
Quote:I disagree with the others BTW. You are correct. If we, the creators post in a section, advertising, it should be in the multi media section. but these are comics and if they have actual fans (I'm a major/huge fan of Spectacular Sparky's comics and miss them very much) then its not only appropriate but encouraged for people to talk about it.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
The difference here would be in who is attracting attention to your work. A reader, or an author? There are sound reasons for restricting authors from advertising their own work. Chief among them, protecting the integrity of this forum's intended subject matter, and preventing abusive spam.
Marvel, DC,Top Cow, and the major entertainment conglomerates do not hold a special Family-style territory over this forum. If a fan wants to bring some attention to independently created comics, he or she doesn't need a moderator's permission, or even the author's. If a moderator were to remove my single thread catalog listing from the constant stream of many hundreds of Marvel and DC related threads in this forum, the removal of my thread would not represent the prevention of spam. It would represent a belittling value judgement for independently produced comic books.
Within this forum, myself and others have posted lists of new, upcoming and noteworthy comics for discussion, review, or just to say, "Hey, check this out!" We're all just readers, talking about comic books. That's what the Comic and Hero/Villain Culture forum is for. And a good read is in the eye of the beholder, not the moderator.
In your replies, you both sound satisfied with the way things are set up, and don't seem enthusiastic about further exposure for your comic books through an additional channel. That actually surprised me to read! But I'm not upset, I promise. Awful ideas ought to remain on the cutting room floor, where they belong. What concerns me more is the notion that a fan shouldn't bring attention to independent comics in this forum, because that's exactly what the CCC makes. A stifling notion like that ought to be challenged and discarded in good taste. CCC comics are comics too!
P.S. Kinetic Kitty, I'll PM you later today; it sounds like you may have had a change of heart, but my idea just might not blast off. Right now my PM box is empty of blurb submissions, which doesn't bode well for a catalog listing.
P.P.S. If some of that sounded grumpily terse, it was unintentional, I was in a hurry before getting ready for work.
Whether it was negative reviews or positive, I would be honored and grateful that people not only took the time to read my work but took even more time writing out their opinions about it. Plus I could hopefully learn from it!
Hopefully you aren't offput with others replies and it would be awesome to see someone post a discussion and/or reviews about fan made comics in the comic culture section. I used to have a reoccuring daydream about seeing people talk about my comics without me prompting it, :P -
Quote:Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
Hello, Kinetic Kitten. Yes, those are all sources that I'm familiar with. I use them regularly.
So, what I offered to do is a little different. A single catalog-style post, more akin to the reading chronologies that you can pick up in the comic book stores. The idea wasn't to supplant the official CCC thread and website (both great resources), but to offer something different in addition. A meatier version of the Announcements thread, each issue followed by the possibility for reader feedback and discussion. Where this would differ from the Announcements thread is in bringing more attention to the stories, authors, and readers. Lots of blurbs, lots of images, covers and previews, entire series and arc summaries, lots more of everything. Right here in the Comic and Hero/Villain Culture forum, along with all the other comic book talk. Working in public relations, writing press releases and press kits for a few years taught me that good press is often only a small effort away.
Well, here I am, a fan and reader, telling a CCC founder what comic creators could use around here. In truth, if comic creators felt they could use this avenue, I wouldn't need to talk you into it!
Either way, I'm one of your biggest fans, but I'm not crazy about this idea if you're not crazy about it. I appreciate the honest feedback, and absolutely no hard feelings--this wasn't for me, it was just an idea to give something back to ya'll.
That's great. I've been bugging the Mods/Admins/Devs to add a reply button in the Announcement for the CCC for awhile now, just like the rest of the announcements they do but never get a response on that.
So I think this is an awesome idea personally. I'll PM you shortly.
-
Quote:The taunt for BS is just a wave of the hand like ss or most other generic taunts...Originally Posted by GreenFIame
Sound like a weapon Taunt like DB, BS or Katana taunt emote.
-
Quote:Made a broadsword guy and demo recorded. Its a 1.Originally Posted by Codewalker
Maybe I should have said "correct hand".
ISTR katana animations being left-handed or something odd.
Some of the MOVs should have a number at the end, like 100 50 MOV READY 0
Most of them will be 0, but when you have your broadsword out it may change to a different number. Tack that same one to the end of the MOV I posted. I don't know the exact function, but it seems to be related to helping the game keep track of which weapon you have drawn.
Put that at the end. It has the guys left hand extended in a fist as if it was holding a single weapon and the right hand holds the weapon. Doesn't work XD -
Quote:I want them to point with the right hand :POriginally Posted by Codewalker
Hmm, possibly ENC_CUSTOM_KATANA_POINT combined with whatever number at the end is showing up on the rest of your moves with the broadsword out.
I'm not sure if that will use the right hand, though.
I'll try this out but I have no clue what number you are talking about with broadsword. -
Quote:Thats the one I was using when I mentioned dual blades. Is there another?Originally Posted by Codewalker
Try MOV DUALWIELD_TAUNT 8
-
Well if that doesn't work, I can rework my camera angle and use the gladius in duel wield with the taunt. But does anyone then know if its possible to do the duel blades taunt but sticking out the right hand and blade instead of the left?
-
Quote:Sweet. appreciate it.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I think I have it... lemme check.
Oh, I am GOOD!
0 34 MOV SWORD_POINT 0
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Trying it out and for some reason it reverts the sword being held to a default, none customized one.
Any idea why?
Oh, and apparently the sword switches hands then aswell. -
Quote:Any idea if it'll still work when holding one broad sword?Originally Posted by Gr33n
Its the taunt animation for a dual blades toon... Really cool... I wish it were an emote.
-
Quote:Where in AE? If I can find it, I'll record the demo and try and find it.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I've seen it in AE. I have no idea re: demo-editing, sadly.
-
Is there an action where someone is holding a sword and points it straight forward, as if challenging the foe in front of them?
-
Quote:These work. Thank you!Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Try the DEAD_GUARD moves. Those will give you a bit more variety.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite -
Quote:Completely agree.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
According to the recent interview with Positron, the players involved in the SSA "will be at the vanguard of stopping [Darrin Wade] from destroying the entire planet."
Seriously?
For four arcs, villains get to be actual villains instead of someone's errand boy/a greater villain's lackey/the fall guy. Now it looks like we're being corn holed into "the greater good" AGAIN.
I'm getting really sick of this pseudo-evil garbage the storywriters keep jamming down the throats of myself and my villains. We only get to see the fruits of our labor in the success of other villains. It even happened with Wade! Villains spend all this time with Wade while he says "Just do this thing for me and you'll get some seriously awesome power later" and, once again, the contact turns it around on us.
Now, we'll be "at the vanguard" of stopping Wade. Great! My villains always wanted to play the hero! Wait, no. They don't. THAT'S WHY THEY'RE VILLAINS.
Where have we seen this before?
-Heroes fight the Rikti to save the world. Villains can aid the heroes for the greater good.
-Heroes fight the Fifth Column and the Cimeroran Traitors to stop their meddling with power and save the world. Villains can aid the heroes for the greater good.
-Heroes can stop Snaptooth/Lady Winter from keeping the world in eternal frost and frozen time and save the world. Villains can aid the heroes for the greater good.
-Heroes can fight Praetoria to stop their invasion of Primal Earth and save the world. Villains... can... aid the heroes... for the greater.... ugh.
Is anyone else getting tired of being labeled a hero at the last minute? Some REAL villainy would be nice. Killing Alexis Cole-Duncan? Hell yes. Roughing up Johnny Sonata so he'll record a song capable of trashing Sister Psyche's brain? Alright then! Firing a warhead at Paragon to get the attention of big-name heroes just so they'll look the other way? DAMN RIGHT!
.... having to fight Darrin Wade so he won't destroy the universe because "it's the right thing to do"? What crap.
I have many villains that would want the invasion of the Rikti or Praetoria or bad stuff to happen, not because of the greater good, but to take advantage of the turmoil.
Or maybe my character is an archaist and I want all government and installations destroying each other.
Or maybe my villain really enjoys murder, torture and other evils.
CoV is just City of Heroes that are misunderstood... -
Quote:Makes sense then that they were keeping an eye on it for/if rikti activity started, especially sinse they couldn't get passed the shields. I guess it throws me off because I' imagine the ship surrounded by tanks and governmental science type folks doing everything they can to get it for months, even years if they had to.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It says:
It's part of the Savant badge, and it's located near-ish to Hutchinson Park. -
Quote:All good points. Since I've gotten some good responses all around, I'll just go ahead and ask this question.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
This ^^^.
The conversion from RCS to RWZ was a retcon, not a progression in the story like New Overbrook. If you like, it was the realization of what it should have been all along.
The problem in giving you the information that you seek is that it doesn't exist. We can all imagine all sorts of things but in the end, they're just our imaginings. Whether you're talking Cryptic or Paragon Studios, the company policy has pretty much always been to hand out only as much lore as the players needed to address whatever content was most recently added. They guard the rest pretty jealously so that they have as much leeway as possible in creating content or redefining the lore to fit their purposes.
If you want to see the RWZ conversion as a historical milestone, then it's simple enough to imagine that the ship in the RCS was quiescent and had been for a few years. Therefore, Vanguard had quarantined White Plains but otherwise left the policing of the area to the US military. Rikti sorties were still occuring all over the world; not just in Paragon City where we heroes encountered them. Vanguard focused its attention on dealing with those incursions.
When new activity was detected and the Dark Watcher suddenly reappeared with dire warnings and with the ability to "see" that they were re-opening the portal to their own dimension (perhaps the opening of that portal was an event linked to the Watcher's arrival on Primal Earth; a beacon that led him home), and then certain Rikti pacifists also appeared with warnings about an imminent offensive by the warmongers, they went into high gear and White Plains became priority number one.
However, as I said, it's all supposition. There's no official lore on the subject.
From orbit, a rikti mothership begins a rapid decent into our atmosphere. It crosses over the east coast and crashes into the ocean. The ship remains intact. Obviously most governments, especially the US (since it passes right over them), would stop it. They inform Vanguard.
Question A, I would imagine it to be a joint effort between UN govs like the US and the UK and would show up with battle ships and aircraft carriers and vanguard ops would be with them on those ships and/or on their own copters and hovercrafts. Is that probable or based on known lore on Vanguard would they show up alone or would they wait for the respective UN governments to secure it, at least for the initial response?
If this ship was taken or owned by someone not of vanguard or the UN, how forcefull, based on their known lore, would they be to get the ship? Assume its either owned by another nation that refuses to turn it over to vanguard or a corporation like Crey?
Now, part two of this question is, now imagine it was actual aliens or those good pacifistic Rikti we have all heard about. They are't from earth, or at least not our earth. Obviously, based on any human history of any modern day government/society, Vanguard and those behind vanguard would want this huge piece of tech. So even if those inside aren't a threat, they aren't fully trusted. So do you think Vanguard would want it and if so, how forcefull based on lore do you think they would be with none wartype rikti or other aliens in charge/owning it? -
Quote:Exactly, triage. A crashed rikti mothership is top of the list. It has everything and it high degree. 1. Tech, it has more tech centralized in one location more so than any other. 2. Threat. There are enemies there that could easily rally and setup an enemy beachhead. 3. Casualties. It crashed in a civilian area, not the bottom of the ocean. Lots of life all in that area, trapped people etc. Plus the danger to all life on earth if rikti are able to setup a stable stronghold. Its top of the list.Originally Posted by Durakken
It's called triage... We have several problems. These problems need immediate attention, these problems are too far gone to matter whether I treat them or not, these problems are fine for now.
It could be that Vanguard didn't view that ship as a "This needs immediate attention" situation until they started trying to open a portal or distributing their tech. -
I've tried each of the MOVs that start with prone off the codex yet all of them either do nothing or do the same prone mov.
The prone I keep getting is the guy laying on his right side. I need him laying on his left side.
Can someone help me here? They are obviously the wrong commands in the codex or have been changed since they were put in. -
Quote:I wish CoH would release more lore information for these reasons but it seems like what you are saying tends to be about the same thing, give or take, what other's I've spoken too about say.Originally Posted by IanTheM1
This is more or less where I'd lean towards on the matter. Various bits of incidental or glossed over lore imply that post-Rikti War the Vanguard fell back into a more lobbying/administrative/research role (See: The Herald Division of Vanguard; Incandescent. There might also be some tidbits in the official timeline and backgrounder about it.).
Also, the Crash Site was added during a time when actually putting a proper storyline into a zone wasn't a big priority. I think the fairest "reality" of the Crash Site was that it was devoid of a Rikti presence outside of the ship, which was entirely locked down by its forcefield and was thus carefully monitored by the Vanguard. I believe this is more or less what is said regarding the mothership either in-game or again in one of the official site's backgrounders. I also think it'd be fair to say that the Vanguard base always existed in some form.
(The billboards are possibly an Alpha stage CoH holdover, from back when there were a lot more "active" hero groups. Originally instead of individual contacts, you'd get missions from terminals belonging to various groups. It's likely the Vanguard (and the Midnight Squad) were to be some of the mission givers beyond the Freedom Phalanx.)