Texas Justice

No.

None that I can recall either.

I know that I didn't see a pre-release download with Issue 21.

My first impulse was to find a picture of Jimmie Foxx in his A's uniform.

My second impulse was to find a picture of Reggie Jackson in his A's uniform.

My third impulse was to find a picture of Sal Bando in his A's uniform.

I even considered looking for a picture of Rollie Fingers in his A's uniform, but he was a pitcher and not a hitter. I considered Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Blue Moon Odom and Dennis Eckersley as well, but passed on them for the same reason.

Others that passed through my mind included Bert Campaneris, Gene Tenace, Joe Rudi and Blue Moon Odom.

There wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that I was going to post a picture of either of the Bash Brothers.

I'm not as familiar with any of the modern era of A's players.

Rickey Henderson won out in the end since he is ocnsidered one of the greatest lead-off hitters of all time as well as one of the greatest base-runners of all time. His 4 stints with the A's will have him forever in green and yellow in my memory.

Aw come on. If a cranky old curmudgeon like me can socialize for this short of a time one weekend out of the year then you can too.

Besides, I'm the one that is solo only. You are willing to team.

I haven't spoken to Red_Gren yet, but I assume he'll likely be looking at arranging something for Friday evening. It's traditionally been a Justice Server dinner, but we've always welcomed all players, Devs and OCR members.

Once he starts working on it I'm sure he'll start a thread and link to it from one of the official threads.

I do know that I'll be having a Fred's Steak sandwich for lunch Friday and if you are there you are welcome to join me. I'm sure others will be there as well. Schaub's Meat, Fish & Poultry at the Stanford Shopping Center.

<--- Has a programming degree.

Anytime I make comments about the code they are based on what we've been told about the code in the past, some things we've been told in the past, and things I've observed in the past.

From some things we've been told, the code is not as simple as people often think. What seems to be something that should be simple to implement from our perspective (our perspective meaning people that understand programming fairly well, not the Average Joe without any programming knowledge) is often not a simple thing or even possible in this code without huge amounts of work.

Understandable.

That is one of several reasons I fly in early morning on Friday and don't leave until as late as I can on Sunday.

To get a flight from Texas I'd be lucky to get a flight that arrived before the Pummit starts. Since Registration opens at 8:30 (I think that is what I read on the BPT site after booking) I prefer not being rushed.

Of course, not everyone has the ability to take off for Friday or rent a hotel room for multiple nights. Since this is my only vacation each year, I splurge a bit. I'm just wondering what I'll do for a vacation if this ends up being my last trip to a CoH event.

People keep trying to make this argument that "they should just change how IO's act on non-VIP accounts" as if that were a simple proposition.

I'm not sure that they have the capability to do this with the code they are working with. You are asking for the same item to behave in two extremely different ways under different circumstances. SCR definitely applies here.

Having them be "off" or "on" based on Subscription status was likely an easier way to code things than trying to figure out how to turn off the the set bonuses and reduce the value of the enhancement and disallow procs and ... well, you see where that is going. That's a rather comprehensive set of rules to try to implement.

If they did try to put something like this in the code, it would likely create a nightmare for making sure it didn't cause problems in other parts of the code. We've seen enough instances of them changing something and it affecting something seemingly unrelated or worse, things that on the internal test servers and beta server worked fine but when put on the Live environment had some really unexpected side effects due to population size or other factors.

I'll go back to what I said previously upthread. The intent of the Hyybrid model was to provide value to their subscribers but at the same time to offer incentives to non-subscribers to either subscribe or make purchases in the Paragon Market. They could have made IO use exclusive to subscribers or only available to subscribers and a specific Reward Tier with no license purchase available.

They had the same decisions to make about several parts of the game that some people consider the "important" parts. What is important for one is not important for someone else. I know of long-time subscribers that haven't gotten interested in the IO system, simply because HO's and SO's worked for them and they had fun playing their characters. I know of long-time subscribers that had no interest in the AE offerings, the incarnate system, the new costume options, new powersets, or any number of other subsystems of the game. They all have different items that are important to them, but not all things in the game do they consider important.

It's a balancing act and I think the Devs (and marketing) did a pretty good job in trying to give a good play experience for free with incentives to either subscribe or purchase items from the Paragon Market.

Scooped.

And while Captain-Electric gave excellent of examples of disclaimers and/or statements that could be made by the OCR team or the Developers, that would do nothing to stem the tide of rage posts.

People that continually whine about certain items are not detered from their whining by logical statements of fact, developer statements of functionality, or any other reasonable response.

We've been seeing it for nearly 8 years on the Live forums, and could actually count farther back than that if you want to go back to the original Beta forums or even to the original original CoH forums while the game was still only in development.

Actually, no, I didn't know it came out. So, not all know.

Before your post I'd never heard of it.

Some of us have no interest in consoles, especially handheld consoles.

I have a computer for the games I want to play.

Because many players would want to customize it.

And many players would then be making posts like this:

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and many more along similar lines.