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I wonder if Avatea missed her wake up call?

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Nah, she's just giving you one last chance to up that post count before the reset it!

Ohgod, here cometh the +1 pyramid stacking wave!

No, you're thinking of "customer service"

..um..
"I wanna do bad things to yooouuuu!"

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He'll be back - they always come back - eventually

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Surprisingly - or not - that is as we all know far from true. I could list about 50 people I used to play with that wouldn't for the love of God, or any other reason, come back no matter what sort of rabbit they pull out of the proverbial hat. ..ergo, I don't find those post amuzing at all, since we've lost some seriously good people.

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They might sitll come back

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Um... No!


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Never say never

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Changed email, adress etc, don't remember account name or password and pretty much hate eerything NC stands for due to customer un-service! Trust me, once you really leave you really don't come back!

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He'll be back - they always come back - eventually

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Surprisingly - or not - that is as we all know far from true. I could list about 50 people I used to play with that wouldn't for the love of God, or any other reason, come back no matter what sort of rabbit they pull out of the proverbial hat. ..ergo, I don't find those post amuzing at all, since we've lost some seriously good people.

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They might sitll come back

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Um... No!

Good bye everybody..
..it's time to go..
..Gonna leave you all behind and faaace the truuuuth!

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He'll be back - they always come back - eventually

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Surprisingly - or not - that is as we all know far from true. I could list about 50 people I used to play with that wouldn't for the love of God, or any other reason, come back no matter what sort of rabbit they pull out of the proverbial hat. ..ergo, I don't find those post amuzing at all, since we've lost some seriously good people.

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For the database, both UBB and VBB have great migration tools to transfer the whole database and make it compatible with the new one.

But 3 days.. thats friday then. But same day Aion beta starts again! And today Fat princess is available on PSN, i got 2 TF's on the US, i can survive 3 days.. for now.

(and i hate TWIFFER!)

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Remember, it's not one board migrating to another, it's two boards merging and migrating. That's a small nightmare and I honestly can't see why they bother really. Yes, a few would be upset about a total cleanout, but...

I'd rather go with Smurf's gone pink!
Seems to be the correct description anyway!

Delete everything and start a-new, reset ever post count to zero! Yeah, that's the way to go. Everyone hangin' on the lock to reserve "their" handle!

Special titles to first registrant, first poster etc! And a very special title to the one first being banned for +1 posting...

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Villain forum version possibly disappearing. I refuse to post on blue forums!

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You're a smurf.. now how can blue not suit you?

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Would you like your skin plastered to the monitor everytime you make a post?
...also... I'm an eeeehvil smurf!

Well-balanced prophetic post! I...urhm... don't see the fun in it!

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BlueRabbit, Londoner and I all with the same line of thought? Just doesn't seem normal to me

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Scary isn't it!

Well, I've been playing a new fire/kin alt from level 1 (skipped tutorial) to level 43 (I think) Almost totally MA only. I haven't joined 6+ teams and I haven't really looked for the greatest MA farms. It's been nice not having to travel/zone all the time (one of the main reasons I don't do much hero side stuff), but sure, I've done a lot of repeats.

Now; does my lack of badges etc and me repeating missions constantly make me a farmer or PL'er? As I see it it's pretty much the same as I do with my 50s: ITF, ITF, 5SF, ITF, ITF, RSF - and repeat.

Among other things, I've been trying out a new arc, but instead of "testing" it, I publish it and get some XP out of it. The current iteration, marked as work in progress could easily be called a farm/exploit, because it currently only has loads of lieutenants and a single mission. Should I loose a slot for that? I've died on several occations while trying it. Does that make it ok? I've levelled faster with this fire/kin troller than usually solo - should I be spanked for that?

One man's farm is another man's serious mission with the emphasis on fun: Another example: One mission I found had TONS, LOADS of liutenants that also spawned LOADS of ambushes, even on solo play. It was hard to take it seriously, but it was also some of the most fun I've had in a looong time trying to stay alive, spam transference, fulcrum, holds while shewing purples madly. For once, I was really happy, I had really, really enjoyed CoX. Even the faint memory of it still makes me smile.

(Sort of like the P.O. mission at level 15 that had Elite PPs only, lvl 52 that Dark Zzorg (aka The Collector) and me actually finally finished, God that was a great bug)

Thing is: There's always gonna be a farm, a grind, a way to PL. You can keep "balancing" forever, but eventually you make the game bland and "flat", it's "all the same" boring repetitive stuff without any surprises. The MA is indeed a PL/farm tool but keep changing it backwards (e.g. removing stuff) and it'll be totally useless, except for the 3-4 ppl that enjoy doing generic, random cave missions or something.

Leave it be and it's a problem until we get the new diff settings (and might be after that as well since people don't notice new stuff) but at least it's still useful and possibly fun. Just give us some proper search tools and a favourite/bookmarks tab (Yes, I know you can search "voted" arcs but that's not the same when you've tried a lot of arcs).

Another thing would be to give us some incentive to try different arcs instead of grinding the same 5 repeatedly.

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But I'm looking forward to the number of misunderstandings due to sarcasm!

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Now when do we ever get sarcastic?

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FYI: According to modern science (at least as it's presented to future teachers) Sarcasm is something you can't understand until you're about 18 years old. It takes experience and maturity, something sorely lacking most players!

They seriously suggest a teacher should never ever be sarcastic. Apparently I'm a very bad teacher. Yes, I'm baaad. Spank me!

I... urhm... fail to see the fun...

More news faster!
Accurate News!
Possibly answers from devs/rednames
Modern interface, less bugs/problems, faster browsing/searching, better moderation control

Possibly serious moderation. Don't get me wrong, Avatea's great and I like that we get away with a little sillyness, but there's a limit. Also all those sticky/locked threads that are soo old and inaccurate might benefit...

What I don't look forward to:
Possibly less moderation, totally unusable forum because threads get derailed within seconds.
Possibly more anonymous users, but I think we'll find our own little spam corner. Spam spam spam!
Another great-guide-whipe. Sure I've got binds etc covered somewhere on the HDD, but it's easier so search the forum!
Possibly even more sluggish forum server
Name issues and all the whining about not getting "My name" and not being able to change the handle.
All the "the old forum was better" useless posts and the whining about EU ppl drowning in the "massive US player base".
More +1 posters building pyramids about nothing on really, really interesting threads.
See you in an issue or two posts increase
Can I have your stuff posts increase
Random pointless joke posts increase
Weekend epic threads - oh, wait, that might actually be really, really, really, really fun! ...and useless
Villain forum version possibly disappearing. I refuse to post on blue forums!

It would be cruel, yeah!
...So I guess they will...

Well, some of us still insist on making team builds, so I sure hope any unlockable content can be done in teams. My poor, friendly neighbourhood healing villain would stand little chance against most EBs. When I faced Silver Mantis it turned out to be a hopeless battle for both of us. I had no problem staying alive, but couldn't do enough damage to take her down.

...and maybe this means that construction site in P.O. will finally finish off whatever they're doing, meaning you migh be able to go to the moon(?) as early as lvl 5-10(?)!

Isn't there a construction site in Steel - still - as well?

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Give all the zones the destructable stuff like the Safeguards have for a start

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Yeah, that wouldn't lag the servers out at all, would it?

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Kings Row already has some objects like that (and has had it for a long time now). Just an hour or so ago, I saw some skulls shooting at a car then getting themselves killed when it blew up.

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Yeah, remember when that happened... I just flew around the zone and enjoyed the view!
...guess there's a reason why it only happens in a small scale, and only in one zone...

colour.... customization???
..any thoughts about that subject?

If not, get a room, girls!

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Does this expansion then come with an added 5 characterslots as well? I don't want to go deleteing characters obviously just to start in Praetoria

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That would be very smart indeed, value/money = high, cost for NC/Paragon = Low. if they slap that in, and a free month it might basically pay itself for many players.
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Of course CoH and most heroes aren't actually white - even if they think they are. They're normally just the lightest of greys. And the villains are the darkest range of greys.

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Indeed, many heroes I've met seem to be on the lower end really, and I've always concidered the longbows to be at least semi-fascist, sort of like homeland security!
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If that is the case, then I'd love to see the inevitable issue alongside (or just before) GR being called 'Shades of Grey' as a thematic successor to 'Power Spectrum'.

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Such a natural Issue-name it would be a shame not to use it. I'm guessing they're saving this for the inevitable "We feel so good that we're opening up GR for everyone" xmas present of 2010. Yup, I pretty much expect that, unless they decide to go for the Anarchy Online approach (standard game free-play with ads, pay for the rest) which I doubt.

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the power effect is very cool but the colour...

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We're not joined with the US boards yet

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Yeah, I want to keep my aluminIum armour

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Just remember that tomato rhymes with potato

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You don't say potato like that.

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Are we back to pyramid stacking off-topic single line jokes again?
Let me see if I can turn it back: I like red! Yes, my communist heroes will have a blast with red tinted blueside powers.

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The truth is, you don't buy a great, ugly looking, old game when there's a shiny new one out there.

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Far from true! I have bough many "old" games in favour of some newer "all graphics and no gameplay" games. As some people have said, shiney graphics does not a good game make... yes, nice graphics can enhance a good game greatly, but if the other elements are lacking then it is just dire. some of my favourite all time games are on the SNES, final fantasy VI and chrono trigger to name but 2, both of which later got a re-release on the PSX, (And CT recently on the DS) and with the exception of a few nice looking cut scenes to please the 10 second attention span generation players, largely remained untouched. (CT did get an optional extra final dungeon on the DS, but nothing else)

I frequently trawl through the pre-owned sections of game and gamestation, as well as a few others for games i missed out on when they were first released, mainly because they appeal to me more then a lot of the new titles coming out. and about the only new game i have bought recently was fallout 3, which i didn't buy for the graphic, which, although nice, paled in comparison to the the open world, free roaming gamplay where decissions you make though the course of your adventure effect the game world around you.

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Now that was taking a quote out of its context! ...rather big time!
...stuff like that makes me give up trying to get my point out and I go say silly stuff like: If you like doom, then play doom. 99.9% will buy the new shiny FPS, but you go ahead and play doom all alone! It's d0000m time again! ...or you could go play the MA once they've nerfed it back to useless with the other 3 ppl still using it.

Grabbling hook is the new retro FTW!

I still enjoy it, or the company really...
...but I don't get that endorfine kick out of it!
(Point being, it's not all black or white, as the reverend Jackson said)

I need something new and shiny!