Taiyanna
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Quote:Dude. He plans to screen every person and to outright kill anyone who *may* be a dissinter when he conquers the planet. Of six billion plus people, nearly all of which are extremely used to a large amount of freedom, and will not like his ideas. He is going into this war with FULL AND COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE THAT IF HE WINS, HE WILL BE KILLING MULTIPLE BILLIONS OF PEOPLE.Originally Posted by T_Immortalus
Because those are not moral descriptors. They are just descriptors of a type of government that becomes bad if the dictator does the wrong things because they let themselves succumb to the corrupting temptation of the power they have.
That is why there are phrases such as "evil dictator" because "dictator" doesn't mean evil. A dictator can still listen to the people and do what the people want, just without needing a vote.
Honestly, I think things through, and use proper meanings, a lot more than most people.
I can easily see the moral gray of Praetoria.
By the way, Britain used to be a monarchy for a very long time, which is a dictatorship, but they had good times in that history where the people liked it. There are still countries in the world with monarchies that aren't horrible.
I don't like Emperor Cole, FYI, but only because he is too extreme. He makes choices I would not immediately make because I would give Primal Earth a chance to accept my help in pacifying the threats on their planet instead of just conquering saying "they would never change".
He doesn't seem as wise or patient as he probably should be as a leader. Thus, I don't like him.
I don't think he is definitely a villain yet though. He's a vigilante for sure, but not quite a villain yet. That can and will change as more story is revealed, likely.
He.
Is.
EVIL.
He may have STARTED as good but extreme, but he is so far beyond it now that the fact you even question whether or not he qualifies as evil would make me very, very nervous to know you in real life. -
Quote:You'll get one of the new tokens, which can go into any of the available rewards you have.Originally Posted by nytflyr
Does this mean that I will not get my vet reward that is due to come up on the 1st of October?
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For the record: The minimum amount you'd have to pay starting fresh to get all the permanent bonuses out of the reward system as a premium player is 345 dollars. That'd buy you VIP status for nearly two and a half years, during which you'd have access to things you straight up can't buy.
I guess I'm mainly not buying the "premium is better value than VIP" because by the time you actually GET those reward tiers that let you skip purchases.... you've already sunk enough money in to get a lot more out of it, and there's always going to be stuff you can't get. Unless you honestly believe they're going to be doing BOTH A: Making tons and tons and tons of new content, and B: Charging everyone for all new content from now on and making nothing free for VIPs (which has been directly stated as false), then the people that actually get any money to content value out of dropping to premium are going to be very rare. -
Even if you completely ignore all one-time purchase things that VIP already gets that premium doesn't, and will in the future- and the things that premium CAN'T purchase, like Incarnate- VIP still has an edge up from the free monthly server transfer. Fifteen a month + 400 free points is the equivalent of 1600 points- the cost of a single one-time transfer, which VIPs get monthly for free. That may not be as big a deal for some as others, but on a purely cost-based level, a premium player would have to pay more to get as close as possible to VIP as they can, and can never get some of the stuff.
End result: Even WITHOUT continual new free content for VIP, it'd still be a better equivalent value. -
Quote:Glad to see I'm not the only one! Although I mainly do it just so I can have the giddy feeling of knowing when they make a huge update to the beta, which means major progress.Originally Posted by TerraDraconis
If you haven't updated the beta server for a few weeks there is a 1.8 Gig update to apply. If you have applied that one and any later updates there was an 8 Meg update to apply from yesterday.
And yes I have been patching the beta server religiously so that I can play it when I finally gain access. -
Quote:Because busting out mind control, clones, and evil duplicates as a means to an end instead of as an end in themselves is ridiculously hackneyed writing, and demeaning to play through?Originally Posted by KidLazarus
Two words: Mind Control.
(I hate to be snarky, but I never understand why RP'ers have such a hard time RPing their way through scenarios.) -
(Neuron - ron) + (Metropolis - Me) = Neutropolis. Which just flat out sounds better than the other portmanteaus you can make out of Neuron and metropolis, or city, or polis, or other such things.
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Quote:Sure, answering stuff that's only been on the forums makes sense on the broad appeal thing. That still leaves the mass asking/answering of questions that have been answered on the official summary page as kind of annoying. >.>Originally Posted by Zwillinger
This has never been the intent of Freedom Friday. The intent of Freedom Friday has always been to answer questions from folks who otherwise wouldn't have their questions answered.
Freedom Friday is another way of reaching out to players outside of the forums. The forums hit a limited segment of our Community and Facebook has broad reach. This combines with the fact that a considerable number of folks who follow us on Facebook are not current subscribers to the game, as evidenced by many of the comments.
Not everything has to be a reveal. We've been doing quite a bit of revealing as of late
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Quote:I'm guessing it's the mass quantities of players cluttering the session up by asking questions that have already been answered.Originally Posted by Thany144
what makes you sad?
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Quote:Last I checked, server status has shown all servers up continually since something like January. Including during scheduled maintenance and crashes.Originally Posted by Rial_Vestro
Server Status shows that all servers are up. But I can't get on the game! I keep getting that dialog box that normally only shows up when the servers are down. I did manage to log on once for about 10 min. and hardly anyone else was even on. I crashed and now I'm back to being stuck at the log in screen.
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I know someone asked it earlier, so information from the uStream:
For the people that have multimonth subscriptions already, wondering what will happen on switchover: They don't actually know at the moment, but will research and get back to us on it. -
Quote:And the current usage of beg the question is of the logical fallacy one. Using it in place of 'raises the question' will confuse a fair number of people.Originally Posted by Silver Gale
And the original meaning of "decimate" was "to kill exactly one-tenth of", not "to kill most of". If you try to use the first meaning now you'll only confuse people.
Language is determined by usage, not by some arbitrary Platonic ideal of correctness. -
News from the ustream chat just now: Apparently our testing last night uncovered an egregious bug that they didn't know about yet, so- success!
My guess would be something to do with the "this character is still logging out". -
Out of curiosity, how many people showed up? I saw myself and three others in Atlas.
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While I remain curious as to what those issues may have been, thanks for the update. You may want to poke the OCR team to say something to that effect on the facebook and twitter feeds.
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Eleven AM on a Wednesday is scheduled for westcoasters?
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Quote:Well, they did have 5000 to give away (supposedly)... that's a fair amount of the player base, and I imagine a lot of people are still unaware of it since the frontpage of the website is a giant redirect to the Freedom overview. Frontpage news is going to get overlooked by a lot of people until that stupid splash goes away.Originally Posted by StormyDarkness
Quick note, I just unlocked mine, so this is evidently still open.
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Quote:There's nothing amusing about living in Rhode Island.Originally Posted by Linten1
Did anyone else find this amusing and ironic?
They even block Comedy Central on their TV broadcasts. -
Quote:Important information, this is!Originally Posted by Buxley1
Um... will this be handled like Incarnate Trial testing and costume code giveaway of a few months ago where some of us ran a bunch of trials and then found out the costume codes only went to those who stayed and partied with the Devs in Pocket D?
Not that I'm still bitter or anything... :-P
-Bux
Maybe they'll be given out to the people that are on the devs TF teams. That'd be an awesome way to insure almost nobody has even a shot at them. :-D -
Quote:Just because no malice was intended doesn't mean they can't do something to make up for the inconvenience folks could have been put through. Heck, just make something as simple as having it last an extra day or two.Originally Posted by SBeaudway
I don't think that anyone is owed double xp. It's a bonus you may oy may not be ablt to take advantage of. While it's a shame if you made special plans and can' t change them, it's not worth the vtriol. Certainly no malice was intended.
It's not like these XXP weekends are intended for *our* benefit. They're used as draws to hook old players into resubscribing. Adding on a bit extra would certainly help bring in more people that were teetering about whether to pay or not- or convince people that bought a month for a postponed event that it's worth buying the month after this one too. -
Quote:The thing is that when they announce and then reschedule, they get a lot MORE people that can't join in- because they could only make it by rescheduling in the first place, and now they have no opportunity to schedule for it. It's not a case of "not everyone can make every time period", it's a case of "a whole bunch of people could make any time period, but suddenly can't because of the change". Of course there's a fuss. People went to specific effort to make it, and they can't do it again at the drop of a hat.Originally Posted by Zerlina
Honestly I really don't get the fuss. Yes people make plans for 2xp and it sucks they canceled it on such short notice but at the end of the day its just a game. For every weekend they could possibly pick there is always going to be people who wont be able to participate for a variety of reasons. What works for me doesn't work for others and what works for others doesn't always work for me. Sadly they can't schedule these things at the convenience of every single person who plays this game.
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Did the color dropper test on their faces, the only body areas that are positioned for about the same light exposure as far as I could tell... and while he is darker, it's not by much. Anything enough to lighten him that much should have had a pretty damn noticeable effect on SP as well.
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Quote:Just saying- if it's meant to represent 'psychedelic', or anything of that nature, than a chaotic, splintered array of lines would work a lot better, and *wouldn't* end up like that. As they are, they come off extremely indicative of order, more than anything else. A structured framework.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I said "sylized"
Plus, the lines go to different points - like the ones on her sleeves run down to her gloves, the ones on her thighs just blend in to knees and boots, and the ones on her lower torso run towards her stomach - so it's only natural that the one son her upper torso would run towards her chest - when you're curvy, a lot of patterns end up like that, even if they weren't intended to
Never claimed it was impractical to do physical activity in- it's the design, not the amount of skin. An outfit doesn't have to show a lot of skin to be hyper-sexualized; Power Girl, for instance, shows less skin than a *lot* of other comic characters, but there's no denying that she's built ground up to be the "sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex" superheroine.Quote:Her outfit really isn't that skimpy - the way Swan dresses is way more impractical
Sister Psyche's outfit is similar to gym-wear, so it's quite suitable for physical activity.
And yeah, Swan's is pretty bad. But she at least gets a small bit of justification in her costume being very definitively swan-ish. Especially in official artwork- the in-game outfit is really bad because the white skintight stuff in-game comes off as nearly see-through. -
Oh, and another small note- if her lack of composure is because of being forced to listen to thousands and thousands of peoples fear and panic all at once, I'd think her response would be less "oh noes!" and more like... oh, I dunno... curled up in a ball screaming, or something.
Quote:Sets of straight lines, in a regular pattern, symmetrical on both sides, representing psychedelic? Not really seeing it. And yeah, they gotta meet at some point- but they don't necessarily have to all *concentrate* onto the same (pair) of point(s). Especially if it actually were a psychedelic one, which would be, well... random. Or emanating *out* from a specific fracture point.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I always assumed that the pattern was meant to be a kind of stylized psychedelic pattern, as a kind of play on her name and powers - plus, when you have lines on curves, it's very hard for them not to meet at some point.
And for earlier: She's flirty, yes. Her outfit is not. Her outfit is the superhero version of wearing short shorts with "Juicy" written on the *** in the middle of a snowstorm. 'Flirty' doesn't even begin to cover it. -
Quote:I've got to put another 'agree' behind that. Just because it's the way things traditionally are, that doesn't mean we have to hold to them with it gets just so over the top blatant. The problem here isn't even so much the pose- it's that the pose and expression just exaggerate the problem that's always been there, with her costuming.Originally Posted by _Toxa_
^^^^^^
Paragon, you've revamped signature costumes before. This illustration drives home the need to give Sister Psyche a -real- costume. She's a super hero, not a porn-star. Or is that forever the role of females in the comic book universe? She's running around the city, almost completely naked with nothing more than a few bits of electrical tape for clothing, and people are supposed to take her seriously?
Her costume is an embarrassment.
She's a heroine. A member of the Freedom Phalanx. And she is wearing a costume that is designed pretty much from the ground up to force you to stare at her tits and not look away- and even then, her costume lines direct you to the tips of her breasts specifically. I'm sorry if this is coming off as overly sensitive, but it's past time that it gets changed.
The pose just makes it even more exaggerated: That costume does not say anything real about the heroine she is. It doesn't suggest mental abilities, or an 'old soul' type thing. It says sex, sex, sex, and more sex, and it's a complete embarrassment. I'm not saying that costumes can't be designed with a visual appeal in mind- even a relatively sexy one, at that- but that costume has NOTHING else to it.