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Yay I am happy now and retract the dipstick wholeheartedly

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You have a retractable dipstick? now THAT is a power I want.....

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It's probably just the cold weather.

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Tragically though this forum/community is geared up to try and crush any form of opinion that doesn't fit in with the majority. Sorry, i don't conform because you try and "prove me wrong" or "make me appear stupid". I voiced an opinion, deal with it.

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Yup, everyone else thinks your idea wasn't a good one because we're all flawed.

After all, what other reason could there possibly be.

Commiserations and happy birthday, JD!

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Hamidon Goo....for a BASIC TELEPAD?

So what we're 'making back' in prestige, we're losing in INF in the auction house - is that it?

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Erm, no - to rephrase what I said, to make a basic telepad you need:

Option 1: Clockwork Winder, Temporal Sands, Simple Chemical, Psionic Manifestation
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Option 2: Alchemical Silver, Symbol, Inert Gas, Black Blood of the Earth
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Option 3: Ruby, Destiny, Silver, Hamidon Goo

If you have Hamidon Goo handy and are already filthy rich, you can use it to make a telepad; otherwise either of the other two options are available, and likely to be much cheaper.

Not that I think the invention salvage elimination was needed, or even an improvement.

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Looking at the costs in terms of Salvage:

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Basic Telepad
Clockwork Winder, Temporal Sands, Simple Chemical, Psionic Manifestation
Alchemical Silver, Symbol, Inert Gas, Black Blood of the Earth
Ruby, Destiny, Silver, Hamidon Goo


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Does that mean a Telepad needs all of these bits of Salvage to make???

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No - the US poster clarifies further down the thread that each line's a separate recipe. You just need the components on any one of the 3 lines to give you the telepad.

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EDIT: YEEEEEEES, 2000 posts Thats a landmark

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Pfff.. N00b.

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The kind of noob that plays for over 2 years?

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Hardcore n00bs hang on to their status however long they've played.

Happy bananaday, Birth - have a good one!

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i know for a fact that Holland at least has the 256 IP at the start.

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Um, for "192.0.2.235"-type representations of an IP address, the highest value any part can have is 255...

Yup - the various thrown/projected spines are implemented as power effects, and these aren't customisable.

And having customised on-body spines change back into standard ones when thrown wouldn't look at all good.

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Lighthouse said it on the American forums after players complained about the spawn rate there.

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(clicky)

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Oh, my PC is definitely way up there in the "good" classification.

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But your double-quotes are way up there in the "amusing" classification.

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Pfft. That's the crappy forum software. I've given up trying to delete the doubles it causes. It's hard enough getting anything to post as it is!

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Well it's the crappy forum software coupled with your crappy browser & Danish HO to be fair.

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Edited for accuracy, and cheap laughs.

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Oh, my PC is definitely way up there in the "good" classification.

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Doubleplus good?

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Why rant about something when a couple of minutes of reading the official announcement thread for this topic would actually give you the answer you're looking for?

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Why? Internet forums - duh!

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It probably costs more to process the requests than it does to actually schedule the name change through the database batch process. This is one of those cases where the price is set largely by external constraints than by the 'work' required to do it.

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Hmmmm? I would have thought the cost of both processing and scheduling would be effectively zero, assuming the latter even exists. From what I've seen the entire business is fully automated, and happens immediately (hence the doubt that there's an explicit "scheduling" phase).

As far as the OP's query goes - I'll second that the cost of this is likely to be what NCSoft think the market will bear. It's probably an entirely arbitrary choice, and could be as cheap or expensive as they wanted (going all the way down to "free").

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Could we have an Arachnos SG icon to use? Given the VEATs and having at least a couple of pure Arachnos SGs, it would be a really nice little touch. Given theres a lot of stuff where you're meant to be helping out Arachnos in Villains anyway...

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I hear Lord Recluse has copyright on that icon. He has a very harsh policy for dealing with infringements...

The details haven't been released yet - the new numbers might be available in the I13 beta, but as that's still closed at the moment there's still no outside word.

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I don't like this Arnold fella... I think he needs a broken knee or two... ¬_¬

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"Won't hasta la vista, baby." <Kick>

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And in my opinion, no a small prestige bonus per member dosent make up for these ill thought out base changes.

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Agreed - almost all the earned prestige (3ish million, IIRC) for little personal villains' base on Defiant was earned by 4-5 of my alts. A "per member" bonus for those few toons wouldn't give much at all relative to the value of the base.

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Eh? Most of Naylors missions are about 12 feet away from him.

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Yes, but miles away from the zone or even SG Teleport entrance.

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^^^ what he said

You're OK for a few missions off his arc, then your personal storage fills up and you need to go sell. Base TP will get you out and to Cap quickly enough, but it's a long trip back to pick up the missions again.

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It'll be useful on those low level missions in Atlas though. The ones where you have to spend 10 minutes jogging across the map to the far corner...

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Or, red-side, those damn Thorn Tree Isle missions that keep cropping up post-30. And the Technician Naylor ones. What is it about Nerva that made them put all the repeatedly-used mission doors miles away from the zone entrances?

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*narf*
but they pushed the mission architect to i14 -.-

moar.........that really really **** -.-

i15? it can't be that players wait years for new base equipment and then nc tells the players , yeah you get new, and then nc want to do some other things and say, oh sry we do it in another year

i don't have an english link sry but here
http://de.cityofheroes.com/game-guid...er_dev_update/
matt miller say new base things for i13

when no new base things come, matt miller is a liar! ... i'm sry but it seems to be so :/

i think they have to check what they can do to the next issue and then tell the community ok thats what we do...after that they can't change it

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That's not how program development works though. For a lot of changes, especially in areas where you're doing things you've never done before (which is what a lot of CoX changes involve), you won't know how long things will take to do until you've finished them.

You can make estimates, and you can often get part way through and realise things are going a lot more slowly than you'd hoped, so you'll have to decide between postponing a release or moving something into a later release.

To call someone a "liar" because things took longer than planned is a bit strong though. "Liar" means something was said knowing it wasn't going to happen.

Is the weather forecaster a liar if he says it will be sunny tomorrow, and it actually rains?

Don't knock it - that'd double the local population if they all started on Defiant!

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Hey, this sounds a bit noobish but I'm going for it anyway.

Let's say I put 3 damage IOs in a attack power. Then I put in a damage SO. Would the SO be considered useless because of the rules of ED?

Thanks.

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It would sort of depend; if you were slotting low level IOs (level 20s, say, giving +25.6% each) they'd only take you up to +75%-ish themselves, so an SO on top of that would make a significant contribution.

On the other hand 3 level 40 IOs (+38.6% each) would take you well into ED's top range, and the SO wouldn't add much at all.

Not sure it that was the underlying question, but for ED it's only the total bonus from all enhancements that matters - you can't get up to the top ED threshold with IOs, for example, then bypass it by adding an SO rather than more IOs.

Yeah, I've been following the US stuff too, and aren't at all impressed by what little the red names are saying. In particular Castle's statement that:

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It's technically not a feasable option to offer rebates on what you have.

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struck a wrong note.

Not a practically feasible option I could believe, if not like - limited staff resources, after all, even though I can't see setting up automatic refunds being that big a job overall.

Not technically feasible, though? It'd involve updating one or two database fields according to the values of one or two other database fields, and that's a pretty basic thing to do in any database system. The only remotely technical issue I can see is if the size of the tables involved were so large the update script would need more time to run than the servers are offline for in the course of the Issue update.

If that was the case the script could always be developed so it was runnable incrementally - all the functional items at Issue update, all the decorative items next maintenance downtime, something along those lines.

Edit: Fixed typo

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It could always be a Nemisis plot...

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I think Nemises is currently sitting in his underground lair somewhere looking at the forums going "Oh yeah. Sure! Blame old muggins here again! Whenever anyone tries to poison the city 'It's a Nemises Plot'. Zombies rising from the grave : 'Nemises Plot'. Whenever someone stubs their toe when going to the loo in the dark: 'Nemises plot'. Whenever a small kitten gets stuck up a tree... "

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Of course, your defending him like that is part of a...