SteelRat

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get nissed as a pewt mate
play games like fuzzy duck
Say things on the way home you don't remember in the morning like 'I luvs yas u know us arall me bestsus mates an I luvs yus all so much me bestus mates' /em Liquid Pavement Artistry
You never been to a party?

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Rat faced. Look at my name.

Good grief, subtlety is lost on some people.

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By getting completely and utterly rata... shi-- ...Ratfaced.

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*ahem*.... 'scuse me?

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There is no "Cartel".

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I still don't know if I'm in it or not though.

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I'd say there's the clique, and then there's you

I would like to nominate Shayde for his "Little Old Lady" Mastermind set suggestion, detailed in this thread:

http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...;gonew=1#UNREAD

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Its as bad as your net being down and told to go to a website....
-FUME-

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Or perhaps "No Keyboard connected. Press F1 to continue"

/signed. Perhaps in conjunction with the proposed website improvements?

Very little practical use, but I think it'd be a nice little touch.

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Big reason why you don't get that much lag in EvE is simply down to player numbers per zone; there are so many zones, that the player population tends to be rather thinly spread across them. Want lag? Fly to the Jita system and try and dock in one of the Naval bases.

I like the idea of "similar back story where one decision makes them into completely different characters".. Red Dwarf did that very same with Ace Rimmer!

Interestingly, two of my very first characters one a Claws / Reg Scrapper (Tiger Slash, my first ever lvl 50), the other Tiger Doom (who got to lvl 33 as a Claws / SR stalker, before I deleted him and remade him as a Widow have a very similar idea.

Both were born as twins to Julie Larcen a geneticist doing experiments on mutated Tigers to discover the secrets of their strength and agility, but such was her dedication to her work she continued long into her pregnancy. She survived being mauled by one of the animals, and the tigers DNA was absorbed into her unborn children.

The larger of the sons, Hans, was visibly affected at birth, and her Crey employers who also helped her delivery told her he'd died during birth, when in actual fact his mutations had attracted their interest for use in Project Revenant. Growing up in a cage being prodded and poked by researchers didn't give him the most balanced impression of human kind, and aged 8 he escaped killed his captors and began earning a living in back street fights before being hired by Arachnos, first as an assassin, then trained under their blood widow program.

Kieran on the other hand, seemed perfectly human and normal, with his Tiger-like appearance, markings and above all his claws not starting to manifest themselves until he reached age 5. By this time he and his mother had fled to Paragon City to seek a new life for themselves, and Kieran was enrolled in a special school for mutants to help him deal with and make use of his abilities. (Yes, yes, I know.. I can hear you cringing from here. Give me a break, he was my first one.. I had to start somewhere didn't I? )

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But I've actually deleted characters in the mid teens and remade them because everything was working fine except that I was starting to dislike the name - so nowadays I make very sure the name fits perfectly before I spend any time on a character.

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Phew! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I had a Sonic / Energy blaster that was originally called "Sigma Screech". Didn't like that, so paid for a rename token and renamed him to "Technosonic". Didn't like that either. Re-rolled as a Sonic / Elec and he's now called "Megafone". Much better

Have you tried the usual clear out cookies and temporary internet files thang? Sometimes corrupted cache files can do odd things to web pages.

I've never played WoW and only occasionally get the odd lag spike. Maybe that's 'cos I did actually consider trying WoW out yonks before I started playing CoX. I get a mild pennance for even considering such heresy.

You know, it really is a testament to a games community spirit when this kind of news directly affects the members of it in such a profound way. I know that I've often been (perhaps overly) critical of CoH's players, but there is no other game (let alone MMO) that I've ever played where there is a genuine feeling of loss when something like this happens.

I am personally not affected by this news because I've never really chatted to RJ or the others at Memorabilia and such like (even though I've lurked by the NC stand now and then ), but I know what a good community can do for people that do have social confidence issues, and what it means to the individuals affected when something like this happens to the driving force behind their "recovery", be it direct or indirect.

However callous Sings post appears, in some ways I can understand the message behind it. The skills that have made our community as good as it is will surely sell themselves for any prospective employer, and so people like RJ really don't have anything to worry about in the long term.

I would like to echo the well wishing though, and hope that this is the start of another series of glittering doors opening for the guys affected, rather than a big black closing one.

Whilst I understand why you'd want to keep characters in their own indiviual "universes" as it were, do you never get ideas for other characters from the IC actions of existing ones, or maybe as an extension of their own bios?

I'm not an RPer by any stretch of the imagination, but I do often find when I lose myself in the origin and general "character" of a toon, these kinds of ideas often spring up.

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Like me in particular. I just know they (The T&J Horde) hate me.

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Hate is just Love in another aspect

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Sorry and you are? How do you know it is not happening any time soon.

I will discuss in a reasonable manner anything I see fit to discuss wether you like it or not.

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Because a representative of NC told us it isn't.

You're free to discuss it anyway you see fit, just as we're free to disagree with you anyway we see fit.

Freedom of speech isn't just one way yanno

Wait a minute. Dangling Carrots, and the cake being a lie.

Does that mean future progression of community and the CoX License can be classed as Carrot Cake?

I like the idea, I just don't think it's going to happen any time soon.

One thing I will ask vis the "one server, but lots of legal background issues" thing, is how do CCP, the makers of EvE Online do it? I think I'm right in saying that their cluster of servers (aka Tranquility) is located in Scandinavia somewhere, yet serves clients all over the world. I believe their maximum number of concurrent users is somewhere in the region of 30,000 - although admitedly, they have an awful lot more zones to spread the population over than we do in CoX.

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I'm going to answer the questions regarding "why the heck are NC starting a marketing campaign?" with a question of my own. (I know they were a few pages back, but this is something I've considered a little bit this evening).

Why would any company run a marketing campaign for an existing product?

I have some answers, but I'm interested in other people's thoughts - but here's a little question to get you pondering: When was the last marketing campaign for CoX?

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Come to that when was the last time you saw an ad for ANY MMO other than WoW? I've seen the odd ad here and there for Lineage and Aion, but other than that nada. Never seen an ad for SWG, AOC, DAoC, DCUO, UO, EQ or any of the others. The only time I've ever seen these games promoted is as magazine cover disk freebie trials. I only found out about CoX from a mate at work who gave me a buddy code.

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But then "there's no demand" for a transfer tool....

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Which is the reason why there isn't one.

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Read the threads - two people have asked, and I know others.

Thereofre the IS a demand. As I said above - maybe not a big demand, but there is one.

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Oh! Two people! Wow! They are really going to spend money on two people! I know! If I ask for a pony, they're going to spend money on just me as well!

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Only a pony? I'm sure we could have a whip round if 25 quid is all you want

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All hail steelrat his opinions reflects everyone.

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Heh. I'm glad that isn't so. Where would be the fun in that?

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Send me on the way to get me away from you lot. If you refuse to see that there is something wrong then I am better off away from you.

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Admitting things could be improved is one thing, knee jerk ridiculous "solutions" that will never happen and never need to happen is quite another.

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Let all the toy throwing kids whine their way across the atlantic and let the grown ups play in peace.

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I like referencing my other characters in bios as well. For example my brute Atomic Demon was created when Dr Hooked (my mastermind) cloned Black Karhu (my tank).

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Oh yes, I love doing this with my characters. CyberDeath (Bots / Dark MM) is Sigma Suits (En / Fire Blaster) Uncle, and Agent Sky-Angels (En / Dev Blaster) Father .He thought she'd died during a test flight of one of his gizmos. The feed back from the monitoring equipment gave him his dark, soul manipulation abilities and sent him a bit doolally in the process.

In the short period of time after the accident while he still had an ounce of his sanity, he left his latest project the "Sigma Suit" to his nephew to help combat what he knew he was going to become.

Illuzi-One (Ill / Rad Trolly) is Ben Travis (Sigmas) college sweet heart who volunteers to be a test subject in one of his experiments, just so she can show him she's interested in him (hitherto expressions of her amour had failed due to his concentration on his work).. a pair of energy gauntlets capable of projecting holographic illusions.

Unfortunately a malfunction in the small fusion reactors that power them, result in her body absorbing large quantities of radiation. Remarkably, instead of killing her, her body is able to utilize this radiation to help her combat evil.

All suitably ridiculous story lines befitting of comic characters, I'm sure you'll agree

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ok, now i sound like an anime nerd........AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

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You are...

And why isn't the Tactical Rifle in game yet?
Rhetorical.

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Because guns are naff in a super hero game.

Remember?

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Do you think about the background before you design the character? Does the character background come after you’ve picked the AT or before?

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All of the above! Sometimes I'll get the idea for a character from a name I like the sound of (was in Tescos this afternoon with the missus and started talking about 80s American Soap stars - from that came "Big Hair Girl". She'll probably never materialise in game, but it's that kind of randomness that can often spawn toon concepts). Sometimes the whole concept comes from the backstory. Other times the name and story come from the powersets.