St_Angelius

I too have had little trouble comming up with (what I concider) good names over the years. Admitedly I'm an EU layer on an EU server, but even when the boards were seperated and we still had these sort of discussions over there, so it's nothing new and still have the same complaints.

I can see both sides of the arguement, which is why I offered up a suggestion earlier in the tread which could have kept both sides happy. Sadly it didn't seem to go down too well. Oh well. But when I create a toon I always start with concept, and maybe even a basis for a bio before I even choose an AT or powerset, let alone a name. Usually I get a feel for the name from the concept, then as i choose AT and power sets the name starts to take shape in my head. Some examples of my toons, past and present, are as follows...

1: Tess Trueshot, an extreme range archery sniper
2: Psi Fire, a sci-fi geek who after being kidnaped by a villian named THe Blazing Bolt learns she has pyschic powers, defeats the villian and takes his armoured suit and fire weapons systems and customises them for herself (thus making her technically a dual origin character :-) )
3: Loita & Lina Lethal, genetic clone twins that escaped from a test lab where they were being "matured" and implanted to be the pefect asassins but were seperated during their escape, one ending up in paragon city the other in the rouge isles.
4: Nowucimi Nowudont, a stage magician that discovers he posseses real magic.
5: Perfect Pitch, a mutant girl with vocal chords that cannot be used for human speach, but can be used, among other things, to duplicate any musical instument she has ever heard.

I could carry this list on for ages with my other toons, like Terror Poser Blondi (spider), Dread Visage (WS), Primary Star (PB), Pretty Hate Machine (bots MM), Trouble Seeker, Kid Ego, Sergeant Psyche, Microwave Girl (SG in joke) N'Jahl Stormcaller, A Cold Spell, Aspen Darksfire, Kunoichi Jounin Kai, etc. None of those names were set in stone and some were not even first choice names, but they are names that fit and work perfectly for the character.

Comming up with a name then working everything else to fit the name to me just seems odd to me, especially with how long I usually take making a character. The name is usually the icing on the cake rather than the cake itself for me. The name finishes off the concept, the concept isn't made to fit the name.

To my knowledge at least 2 of your reported bugs are not bugs at all. I believe that only the first (extra) cossie slot can be the official arachnos uniform slot and has been since day one of VEAT's, which is why VEATS get 6 slots instead of the standard 5. And the Crabspider back pack is probably tied into taking the crab spider build, as build and and costumes are completely seperate. The pack needs to be there on the cossie for the powers to animate. It's like taking an MM, the MM's weapons is set at creation and is always there (though invisible unless drawn) weather the MM takes the personal attacks or not.

As to your other one, not a clue, though I don't think it is tied purely to CB's as i have had similar issues in the past with standard AT's cossies not sticking! But that cleared up a while ago.

Just because something happens in a way you don't like doesn't make it a bug. I don't like how the prestige power slide power run anim takes presidence over the ninja run anim, which means i'm gonna have to buy another +stealth IO to slot in a different sprint so i can run sprint and NR at the same time (or do a full respec just to change one slot). But it seems that that is WAI so i just have to live with it.

I did a hulk pun a while back for an SG cossie/concept competition o nthe theme of "Failed comic book heroes" Name was Miserable Sulk and was a big blue wp/ss tank. Only leveled him to the late teams purely to get the concept powers for the comp. Came second if i remember, to Iron Maiden, who's concept was Margaret Thatcher in a red and gold armourded battle suit that she built in her basement as a pet project after she stopped being PM! (and yes, i'm an EU player!)

Oh, and as far as creative names go, one of my newest toons is a magic WP/ice tank that I rolled using my own random dice method following a discussion on these boards. The idea I came up for him after his random AT, origin, powersets and cossie were rolled for was he was a technomancer that that had an magical accident that fused the upper half of his body with liquid nitrogen while experimenting with super conductors for a technomagic device. It nearly killed him, but was saved by a fellow technomance who sealed his upper body in a metal armoured suit that now keeps him alive. the name i came up with to go with this toon, A Cold Spell, was amased it was free. And it makes for some interesting NPC chatter. Just beat Frostie and not 5 minutes later a passing ped says "I heard frostfires was beaten by A Cold Spell", or something very close to that at least! :-)

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So, sre you seriously asking that all those that aren't involved with bug fixing or code fixes sit around on their hands until every single last bug in the game is fixed?

Oooo, does that mean I get bug hunter for my badge toon???

Well, about 8 months ago I upgraded for a 7600 of some description to a BFG 9800GT OCX, and I couldn't believe how nice and shiney the game looked with the settings maxed out. Have been running that ever since without a problem. But then, if money is no object for you, I'm sure a GTX 260 would be even better!

I gotta agree here, just discovered that DDO is now free yesterday morning so got an account and installed, had a fun time, though only got to half way through L2 with my first character so far, but it's looking fairly promising. And being that I used to play the P&P game I'm fair familier with the game mechanics so was dead easy to just pick up and play.

Instanced missions and wilderness zones mean no kill/loot stealing and has a nice ballance between solo and team play. Does support micro payment for "Better gear", Character slots (only get 2 on a free account) and the like, and a vip/subscription account so is open to however you wanna play.

7 on each side, flip a coin if you don't want to choose between hero or vilian AT's!

Use Dice, roll a D8 for AT (reroll an 8) and a D6 for origin. Then roll an apropriate die for the primary and secondary power sets (at the number of choices vary from AT to AT). And there you hsve your random toon, done it a few times myself!

Hmmmmmm, how did you manage that? The lowest i could seem to get ouro arcs to spawn me at was 14 (or was it 15? Hmmm).

I love this idea, I really do, and i can see a way of making it work too, but it will never happen! Why?

The advantage and disadvantage system was used by the Hero System games, one particular Hero System game has recently just been turned into a certain other super hero MMO. Also, the makers of that other game couldn't balance that kinda of system in their game.

I don't know why though, it's simple to balance, for each point of advantage you spens 1 point, and gain one point for eace disadvantage. You start with no points, so to gain an advantage you must first take a disadvantage. But as I said, I seriously doubt it'll ever happen due to that other game.

Hey, snap... I recently created the younger sister of my main toon (energy/energy blaster) Who is a FF/energy defender with pink bubbles instead of the dark yellow of her older brother. For both toons the powers are manifest through a mix of over abundant bio-kinetic energy that their "mutant" Bodys produce mixed with latent psionic abilities. There are no rules for what those things should look like, so his were coloured to match his glowing yellow, tendral aura, eyes colour, and pink just fell in on her costume as I created it, so I let the powers follow suit and will add the aura as soon as I unlock it with her.

Had a zombie invasion waiting for us after exiting a mission in the hollows just 2 days ago.

Filed a bug report for this a few days ago. Now, don't particularly mind the language myself but know some people, for various reasons do.

If you were in a super secret closed beta, you aren't now as you just broke the NDA of all closed betas

Well, we know spy has been talked about, but a stalker clone doesn't sound right to to me.

Though I'd love to see a blaster-like toon with more personal defences, this does sound hideously over powered.

So, a whole AT built around the traps set premise? Seems redundant to me.

So, a completely non damage dealing AT that canot solo anything, let alone survive the tutorial mish?

This wouldn't be a heavy would it, because all the other names are right out of Team Fortress.

Sorry if I've missed some sort of joke here, but just reads like a personal wish list to me!

Hmmmmm, don't know if this is related or not, but was running this arc with my SG this week on a mixed team (5 heroes and a stalker). We got right to the end of the missionwhen the enemies started to turn to being untargetable by heros. Then we noticed that they were only attacking the stalker. Other mobs in the room were still flagged as enemies and i pulled a lone straggler over and as soon as he got in range of one of the outer atackers on the stalker was attacked and killed by them. this carried on a while with us just buffing and healing the stalker and as the "Ally" Groups started retraeting now and again one seemed to come in contact with the still ememy flagged mob and slowly they too switched sides and liled on even more against the stalker.

We had already completed the mish at this point, but the mobs that changed first were targetable at first and just seemed to change suddenly as the one i had targeted was nearly dead when he switched.

Oh, and this was run from RWZ not ouro!