The_Killbot_5000

You make good points. I guess what I was trying to say was that I would like more variety of things to spend Inf on. Purples don't really appeal to me, I slowly grab one or two as I go, rather than making a concerted effort to get them which would require a large Inf balance. The other things I either have, or am satisfied with on this toon. I'm still grasping for an idea of what those new things to spend Inf on could be, perhaps purchases of temp emote powers (the hire-a-limo emote that also doubles as a zone transport method), or an amusement park (good both to spend Inf on rides for your toon and for saving people from the roller-coaster), maybe charitable causes (fixed in-game charities). As you can see, I'm struggling.

Considering how many different ways there are in the real world for a fool and his money to be parted, having less than a dozen in-game strikes me as odd.

There ya go, that's my 2 Inf.

NCSoft have branched into T-shirt merchandise with the standard Arachnos or Statesman Star T's. Then there are the Hero-Con T-shirts as well. They don't do what you suggest though, and I agree, they should! It would be quite the project, but would make many players gleeful.

Oh, you think that sucks? I'll tell ya what sucks, having a bunch of money on my Visa Credit Card ready to plonk down on a 5 mission slot MA expansion at the NCSoft store and getting the response, "Payment could not be accepted for your order."

Ya know, I'd feel okay about this if I had no credit on the card, if it was an obscure card, or, and here's where things get me really quite irrate, IF IT WASN'T THE EXACT SAME CARD THAT I USE TO HAVE MY SUBSCRIPTION PAID EVERY MONTH!!

So, I feel for you, I'm in New Zealand, and I suspect that is the issue, and I'll wait for Niviene to read her PM's and respond before I get too annoyed about it, but this is the sole outlet for these products, and I can't use it. Colour me miffed.

Out of curiousity, what's a Lvl 50 Luck of the Gambler Recipe worth on the open market at the moment? I got one dropped a while ago and vaguely recalled that they were platinum-covered gold bars of silver, but haven't checked, are they still worth a gazibillion inf?

I may be able to make it to part of this test. If so, I'll see you there.

Ooo, had forgotten about this. Badgey Badgey!! *waits expectantly*

So, to summarise, Walk is a much-requested "Power" that allows people to move their toons around at a sedate pace instead of looking like hamsters on uppers all the time. You can jump over low objects with it, but cannot activate any other powers because it is not intended for combat use.

If at some stage they ever get the chance/time/resources to create the many additional animations required for it (and that's a big IF), then they may do that which would allow Walking into combat all staunch-like and then kicking some butt.

The argument that it is a 'waste of resources' is incorrect, as no resources were assigned to it. It was created using 'spare time', that being time when unexpectedly the animation team had a little gap where they were waiting for another to team finish their part of a project.

Have we covered everything? Okay. Now get out there and strut your stuff!

The only addition to Walk that I'd really like to see is the facility to deactivate it by simply clicking Sprint or using the key command for same. Mainly that's because if I'm walking somewhere and I then want to 'leap into action' Sprint is the first power I instinctively go for.

Essentially the idea that roleplaying is like pizza with everyone liking their own mix of ingredients is a nice one. I like pizza. I like roleplaying. I've never roleplayed a pizza though, now there's a challenge.

I thought you were refering to the ikee iPhone virus that changes the users background image to a pic of Rick and the phrase, "ikee never gonna give you up". Guess it goes to show we're not safe from rick-rolling anywhere!

Thanks for suffering through the second half of my story GlaziusF. I appreciate you playing something that was obviously not very satisfactory.

To clarify the plot; In Part One Nemesis gains access to Rikti mind-control technology and uses it to control the mind of the Clockwork King. With this control he gets the King to create Amped Clockwork who are indirectly under Nemesis' command. This has the unintended consequence of compartmentalising the mind of the Clockwork King causing his psychic powers to begin affecting regular electronic devices and sends him off on a psychotic rampage across Paragon. Your contact 10N3R is a new Amped Clockwork who the King has actually managed to maintain partial control over, and hence he asks for your aid to sort the situation out. He is a Spanner In The Works.

In Part Two with Paragon's technology back under control and the Nemesis plot foiled you are contacted by Nemesis as he doesn't want anyone other than himself to have access to the Amped. Through the course of the investigation you learn that Black Scorpion, chief robo-master of Arachnos has also discovered the Amped's existance and is funding the Clockwork King to create an army of Amped Arachnotroopers. Luckily you investigated despite being contacted by Nemesis who at first blush is a villain a hero wouldn't work with/for. Because if you hadn't then the self-replicating Amped Arachnotroopers would very soon have spread across the globe with the aid of Arachnos.

tl;dr version: Nemesis gains control of Clockwork Kings' minions and creates new ones, Nemesis loses control of said minions, Black Scorpion gains control of the Amped, you pummel Black Scorpion to stop them.

Hope that helps understand a plotline that I now see was too convoluted.

They turned that off huh? Meh. I have much more important things to worry about.

I see that power description of Walk says, "Activating this power enables you to walk at a relaxed pace. You will not be able to activate most powers while walking."

• What are the powers you can use?
• Also, we canz have low jumps while walking nao...awesomes!
• Transition to Falling animation mucho better than the speed-pedalling of last patch! Somehow I'll kinda miss it for the lols.
• Jumping while in Walk mode (Walk + Forward or R + tap Space don't hold) from water to land results in a little 'walking on air'.
• Jumping from land to water (actually occurs with any jump) while Walking backwards (Walk + S + Space) results in character spinning to face backwards as they go through the air, looks weird.
• Can still get targetting reticle for Assemble the Team in Walk mode, although actual power isn't executable.

Oceanic heroes have to six-slot Sunscreen with Protection from Melanoma IO's!

Welcome to the big time! Nobody said heroing was easy!

I'll admit there are plenty of moments when you just have to suspend disbelief in the game. Actually, considering it's a superhero MMO, I think you agree to suspend disbelief in the Terms and Conditions.

Oh, one more thing that'll freak you out. You know those bus stops that you always get caught up in when you're running somewhere heroically? Well, where are the buses man? Where are the buses??