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Heck yeah. Go McBeast.

Another Monday without heroes is coming soon... more links please!

SuperSilver >>> Lighthouse.

Run across a skiing bug and a couple other in my sg have as well.

If you enter a mission or zone out of Pocket D while your ski counter is still going you will be unable to ski again. It will not start your timer when you go through the first gate. This persists through a logoff and login.

The fix seems to be you go ahead and start the run like normal. And even though it doesn't start, it technically does start. You hit all the gates and get a "run complete" message. Then you can re-ski like normal.

The announcement says:
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By simply logging in and visiting Paragon City or the Rogue Isles between December 17th, 2007 and January 6th, 2008*,

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But there is no explanation for the * after the date?

More hints at the sekrit project that Ex Libris already hinted at.

They may not be Cryptic anymore but they are still cryptic.

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All of those things that we've had to push back or write off as taking too many resources to get done in the limited time frames and limited manpower. All of the bugs or QoL issues that have been lingering for what seems like forever because the programmers were too busy fixing the major bugs. All of those really big pie in the sky ideas that we've dreamed about for so long and couldn't do because there was no one who could implement them...that's all back on the table. The sky is literally the limit.

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... I could listen to you talk like this all day.

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To quote a famous villain ... I'm still geeking out about it.

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The villian respec is extremely annoying.

and tedious, did I mention its tedious.

Orenbanga is not fun, never has been.

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As is the hero respec trial...
Sitting afk for 2 hours while you wait for the next ambush (placed at 30 year intervals for your safety!!) is extremely annoying, tedious, and a huge waste of time.

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When the hero respec was first on test, it was nail-bitingly tough. It was also fun. You could barely keep up with the spawns unless you used a lot of teamwork. But it was too hard for some so it got nerfed to the snorefest it is today.

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which, of course, they had to do as it never made sense to make a respec trial that requires teamwork and good builds in order to earn the right to respec your possible crappy build.

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True, but I wish they would speed up the spawns on the second the third one. Even the crappiest teams I've been on have had no problems keeping up.

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Yeah it'd be nice if they could tweak it to "max 3 min between waves" like it currently is, but if you clear a wave in less than 2.5 minutes, the next wave would spawn in 30 sec no matter what. It's so boring the way it is.

Yes it was hard when it came out, so was the cape mission. Now they're both pretty much a joke. In typical fashion the devs go one way too far or the other. Kinda like the GMs that people have mentioned in this thread. When's the last time anyone even thought about taking out Lusca?

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I like the costumes, but again the mechanics of getting them are less than fun.

Please consider getting missions involved somehow. This stand click, wait, wait, click gets old fast.

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Well considering the devs idea of "holiday" missions is having to kill Snaptooth 5 times in a row... no thanks. This is honestly less monotonous than that. There's at least some surprise what you might get when you click, and having a full team of 8 chattering can make the time pass quickly and be fun.

Good to hear the lag is being looked at. PI was so crowded tonight. My Phantom Army was recharged before they disappeared, yet was not even close to being recharged. Some wacky stuff going on with powers and even doors. Got some clicks that said trick but then nothing came out of the doors.

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... Besides, we just like to give the game away

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So... you'll be paying my monthly dues from now on Lighthouse?

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We have e-mail notification going out to that group of testers shortly, but if you patch up and can connect and log all the way on to the Training Room Test Server, well then you are in.


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So am I correct in saying that the majority of the testers probably haven't gotten a notification yet?

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Correct. The e-mail spooling just got going about an hour ago.

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/em crosses fingers...

Lighthouse... scooped.

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* +1
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or other such “fluff” posts that do little to contribute to the discussion. Continued such posts will result in action on our part to curb the behavior.


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You forgot to include "first post after dev".

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she actually had that in her first edit of this and then it disappeared in the re-write

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Well I hope she re-edits. It's one of the most pointless and annoying types of fluff posts.

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upcoming Halloween event that will be taking place from October 22nd until November 4th

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Blam! Bring on the ToT.

Also, yeah saw the part about teleporting to the Ouroboros Citadel. So, is that a new zone? Co-op but without teaming? Surely they wouldn't make two different citadels for heroes and villains.

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Might want to update this, Snow... after the I9 beta, at least four people were awarded the badge, that I know of, definitely moving the number beyond being able to count on one hand

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Noted. How about a dysmally small percentage of the population?

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still more than the number of non-distracting animated avatars that have ever existed

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And a couple more people got Bug Hunter with some recent stuff. Might be hands + feet now, or whatever appendages you use to count.

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If those glimpses from the alternate Paragon Times were meant to represent the Flashback system, does that mean we'll finally get to flashback to our Outbreaks and Breakouts? Will villains who missed it the first time at last be able to get Jailbird? Will heroes no longer have to stalk RV for Isolator? (Please say yes on both counts...)

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They have said badge and story arc missions only - so no.

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Yes, but remember, we're getting NEW missions and possibly arcs as well -- help Recluse take the Rogue Isles, stop the COT demon from the comics, etc.

If so, that means we may also be taking on missions from the alt-timeline Paragon Times as well. I mean, they wouldn't talk about "Recluse and Manticore searching for something in South America" if it wasn't gonna tie into the game, somehow.

Therefore, it's conceivable we may get a "Go back in time to help someone break out of the Zig" where Jailbird is available, or "Go to the alt timeline and contain the massive amounts of Contaminated in Talos" to get Isolator.

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Let's hope. I did miss Jailbird with my first villain and didn't know until level 14. But with them putting out the fake stories about no one ever breaking out of the zig and contaminated not being contained in outbreak, it seems likely that there will be some missions setting things back on track. Whether they are kind enough to put in the exploration badges or the right kind of contaminated enemies to count for the badge... well, time will tell. But at least there's a possibility.

Awesome reading. My SG is on session 6 or so of a SuperTeam. It's quite a bit of fun, but I hope we can keep it together for enough sessions to make 50. We have done builds heavily dependent on each other, having Kins so no one takes stamina, and things like that. Stacked maneuvers and tactics. Makes things interesting.

Amazing that you have stuck together all the way through heroes AND villains. Good sg/vg.

Although there are some CoVs on there too... like Mikey the Ear, one of my favorite brokers. WTH?

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From what I gathered from it is:

1) It seems the contaminated will filter in small groups around select zones in both sides of CoX. Thus making the badge attainable for past heroes who did not have the opportunity for it and for villains to now attain it. (i.e. City Sewers, hanging out with Lost...and "heading to Sharkhead Isles")

2) Maybe the loss of contacts means there is an overhaul to the contact system in CoH to make it more streamlined, like CoV.

Oh BTW AS....there is a typo in the article:

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“We must continue to be vigilante,” Coyote said

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Maybe the editor is one more of the fallen ones (I am assuming you meant "vigilant")

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I agree with 1 and 2 as possibilities. If they are revamping contacts, perhaps it ties in with Flashback as well though. /em crosses fingers

And darn, you beat me to pointing out the typo.

Whoa. Yeah Paragon Times is up. Any theories on this wallpaper need to be combined with this article

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Bye Arctic Sun

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If I were arctic sun, I would have it say "Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom" in 38 point size, bookman old-style font and color as bright red as the monitor can handle.

This is probably why they don't let me talk to people in my current job...

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I think posting something as simple and yet as mysterious as this - the day before I leave - is tease enough!

cheers,
JS

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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

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I call upon the great and mighty Floyd to bring back the awesome to this thread.

Post something awesome, dude.

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Okay

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"No capes!"

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Darn. I was gonna say that.

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Freedom Floyd

or

Justice Josh

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He said you're right. But he didn't say which.

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... There are clues to identity in Castles office look particularly at the signed pictures of Miss Liberty and Ghost Widow.

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/em squints
/em removes glasses
/em squints again

/em throws his last Halloween Rock at Ex Libris