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Whatever news might come out next week, whether it's Ultra mode....and that'd be a possibility...or more GR info (also likely), at the moment more news is good news! -
I've now played through all three of the new guest author arcs and here are my impressions.
Playing on a team I didn't get to experience much of the mystery of Mystery on the Boardwalk. As I wasn't seeing many of the details of the story as such it was a bit confusing. That being said, the enemies came thick and fast, in nice big clumps just the way I like 'em. The tunnel maps can be a little claustrophobic at times, but they suited the story. I plan to rerun this one solo to do it justice.
With A Little Night Music I ran solo on the Killbot (L50 FM/Inv Brute). I got to read the tale as it unfolded this time which made for a totally different experience. Without giving away details, the premise of your adventure is laid out by your contact in a clear cut way, and yet I still entered the missions unsuspecting of what horrors Hickman had waiting. The two strongest aspects of this arc are the custom critters and the story itself. The critters have intricately detailed backgrounds and nifty costumes with the trademark brand of Hickman humour. The tale leaves one with a sense of a job well done and a slight lingering doubt of your sanity.
Return of the Crime Cabal was a real stand out arc for me. I found the story compelling in a way that most arcs don't quite achieve. The use of complex mechanics, characters with some depth, and the writing all came together in just the right amounts.
Edit: Only Noobs watch the Tube. Aeon Entertainment for all your entertainment needs. -
Quote:I help supply the glut of Pangean Soil and Mu Vestments, does that count?Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
ya know, maybe people could just play red side more and put more things on the market. there is that option too. if everyone who complained would take an active role rather than asking for people to do the work for them, we might see some supply finally.
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Quote:So what you're saying is the reason the markets haven't merged is because some of the Devs are using the villainside market as their own personal mini-game? If that's what you're saying, I'm calling bull.Originally Posted by Atilla_The_Pun
They've already said no merger for GR.
As for better position to judge, not if their own personal agendas blind them. For example if certain of the devs like the villain market as a mini game, financial PvP if you will, then they are biased against anything that would stabilize the market or otherwise ruin the mini game.
The market in ANY MMO should be a tool for ALL the players who care to use it, not a mini game for a few to play. If you want that sort of a mini game then add a separate stock market type of affair and let crafters register their businesses with it for tradable stock or some such. -
As a member of Freedom's UDTA I'd like to thank the good Doctor for sharing the experience of the new Guest Author arcs with us. It was a load of fun with critters flying in every direction.
As for Television, well, we all know it's our grandfathers' technology, I mean really, only TWO dimensions for the image? I much prefer the 4D Surround of Dr. Aeon's holographic projection systems, now with more FREEM!
Edit: I'm the big robot on the right. -
There are loads and loads of custom critter arcs in the MA. They can be selected as something to search for under the advanced search options. If you dove into the Guest Author and Dev's Choice arcs I think you'd find you have a chance to choose standard rewards. Regardless, don't let it put you off making something really good. I'll play it!
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Welcome to the briar patch Mad Briar.
Hope to see you in Paragon or the Rogue Isles sometime. -
Quote:If all those years in close proximity to the aroma of marker pens has anything to say about it...yes.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
You know nothing David! NOTHING!!
You think he'll fall for it?
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The timing of this is the coolest thing. David Nakayama has already posted that a 'ton' of more info on GR would be forthcoming in the near future, so...
Carpe Diem! -
Excellent customer service! *pats Avatea on the back* Well done to you for responding and the techies for correcting the issue. We like that sort of thing here. Sam and all others in his situation will be very happy.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Maniaxe
3070 MB of RAM and I am using Windows XP. My graphics card is Geforce 6800.
Okay, you've got plenty of RAM, XP is a supported platform for the game, so that's a good start. The 6800 is quite an old card now (by technology standards), is it possible the card is overheating or beginning to fail? Would you feel confident in checking the airflow to it's fan? Or even just looking 'under the hood' while the machine is on to check that the fan spins well?
Could you describe what you mean by a crash? Is it a spontaneous reboot? Or does just the game client crash (Not Responding)? -
Quote:Seems likely things will head that way, I mean, one of the benefits of the internet is allowing access to information for people from any place on the globe. Why go mess with that and call it localisation? Admittedly I'm sure some businesses benefit from it, but this one...I'm not sure how.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
If theres one merge I would ever call for, it's the website to be merged.
I mean, since the get go the US version of the site has been BETTER. Not 'It looks better' (Well, it did...) or 'It works better' (Again, even though it did..wait) it had more info, better layout and ALL the things needed to know...except for EU related stuff.
Just make it www.cityofheroes.com and MERGE them so that EVERYONE, like on the forums, gets ALL the information and updates in one go, rather than *someone* (invariably Europe) getting the shaft.
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You can use:
/em flypose1
/em flypose2
/em flypose3
You can even bind these to a key or macro button;
/macro Fly1, em flypose1
These work only on Fly, not Hover. -
That's a real pain Sam. Luckily they haven't done the same to us Oceanics, not that I don't like you guys in the EU, but I play the US version so would be in the same pickle. Bookmarking an alternate page to the mainpage of the US site seems the simplest work-around, a proxy service would work too, but seems over-the-top.
Ya know Sam, sometimes it's the little things, right? -
Quote:The answer was yes.Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000
I appear to have missed this opportunity. Is Dr. Aeon still making an appearance on Freedom RWZ AE at 7pm PST?
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Quote:I appear to have missed this opportunity. Is Dr. Aeon still making an appearance on Freedom RWZ AE at 7pm PST?Originally Posted by Niviene
I will be in the Rikti War Zone MA Building for anyone that would like to run one of the arcs. Lets play!
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It's transmuting into a Praetorian Clockwork, that shade of blue looks disturbingly familiar!
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Essentially I would like to think that it, "would be cool", if;
- In Praetoria, the counterpart to the individual who becomes CK on Primal Earth, is still alive and psychic.
- Even though Praetoria is an alternate, not mirror, world, it is very easy to imagine the origin story (what's been crucially different in Tyrant's/Statesman's bio's is all about the origin story) for Praetoria's counterpart where Blue Steel doesn't lose control, and so that individual doesn't become the CK as we know him.
- That still leaves a powerful psychic out there. From what was revealed at HeroCon about the Psychic Friends Network it's concievable he'll either have to join them or avoid them.
- So, good stories might be that he is held prisoner and made to 'power' the Praetorian Clockwork - but their claimed creator is a scientist, and they look like robots with circuits and everything, so how could they be psychically controlled?
- The Supers programme in Praetoria has a disturbing inability to return 90% of it's mandatory applicants to their families. If their families enquire, they too go missing.
- It would be very inefficient to simply kill off 90% of your Supers when you have a very powerful psychic lackey and a genius scientist working with you. Now if only Tyrant could find a way to harness this power....for good!
- Two divergent options occur at this point; either Mother Mayhem and the Psychic Friends Network control the minds of these failed Supers and they all get crammed into Anti-Matter created Clockwork-suits. With this option the man-who-would-have-been-CK is aware of the situation and joins the Resistance, convenient if you need to hide from psychics.
- Option two would be that our CK-counterpart is captured and made to control the grotesque previously-people automatons.
Yes, this is all speculation based on only the scant information we have at present. All or some of these details may be wrong, but that there was no comment made on the CK, rather than the released response about Nemesis at HeroCon, makes me think the character hasn't been completely written out. -
Quote:I'm not sure where I read it (somewhere on the web probably) but I believe he had an overbearing brother who through his treatment of the man who would be Nemesis, turned him into something far more sinister. So, it makes sense that if that didn't happen in Praetorian Earth, maybe his brother was just never born there and he remained simply Gerhardt Eisenstad?Originally Posted by Gotterdamurung
I believe at one of the Herocon panels, Posi said that there never was a Lord Nemesis in Praetorian Earth; whatever factors made him megalomaniacal just didn't occur there. I believe Posi said that they liked to think that in Praetoria, he just died a brilliant and beloved but otherwise unremarkable old toy maker.
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Yep, the Community Reps do a good job. It's a hard job and they do it well. I'm sure Triumph will get some dynamic ComRep action soon. Freedom's turn is tomorrow!
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You could use all of the above tips to find yourself a great AE-PUG team, and then you find some good missions. To help you with the second part; I'd recommend "In The Darkness Creeping" (see signature). Yes, glorious self-promotion at it's best!
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Hi Sin Stalker, here's what I've found works for an Xmas confetti explosion;
1 0 Version 2
0 0 Map maps/City_Zones/City_03_00/City_03_00.txt
0 0 Time 0.000
0 CAM POS 970.000000 13.000000 7700.000000
0 CAM PYR 0 -1.5 -0
0 1401 Player
0 1401 NEW "AC -DC"
0 1401 COSTUME 0 9bd2ff -2.015267 0.406593 0.000000 -0.296703 0.629121
0.660439 0.076922 0.020000 0.000000 0.470000 0.020000 0.000000 0.460000
0.020000 0.400000 0.500000 -0.500000 0.180000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME Tight leather_01 !Hips_Lightning 00000000 00006666
0 1401 PARTSNAME Tight leather_01 !Chest_Lightning 00000000 00006666
0 1401 PARTSNAME V_MALE_HEAD.GEO/GEO_Head_V_Asym_Standard
!v_face_skin_head_03 none 00cc0100 00310099
0 1401 PARTSNAME Smooth smooth_01 !glove_Lightning 00000000
00006666
0 1401 PARTSNAME Smooth smooth_01 !Boot_Lightning 00000000
00006666
0 1401 PARTSNAME Retro_01 Retro_01a Retro_01b 00000000 00006666
0 1401 PARTSNAME Long_01 Long_01a Long_01b 00000000 001f1f1f
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME Goggle_07 Lens_01a Lens_01b 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME Tight base Lightening_1 00003d3d 0000cacc
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME Full Cape_Top_01 none 00000000 00009998
0 1401 PARTSNAME Full_18 Generic_01a Generic_01b 00006666 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none Cape_01 Cape_Lightning 00000000 00009998
00000000 00000000 capes/CapeLongMale.fx
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00cc4500 00000000 00000000
00000000 Auras/Male/Electricity/ElectricBody.fx
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 PARTSNAME none none none 00000000 00000000
0 1401 MOV READY 0
0 1401 POS 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0 1699 NEW "Puddle O Confetti"
0 1699 NPC Puddle
0 1699 POS 990.000000 10.000000 7700.000000
0 1699 PYR 0 1.583068 0
0 1699 HP 430.00
0 1699 HPMAX 430.00
400 SKYFILE SKY 2 0 1.000000
400 1699 FX Maintained 539781
EXPLOSIONS/CONFETTI/XMASCONFETTIEXPLOSION.FX 0
0 1699 FXSCALE 10.000000 10
0 1699 ORIGIN ENT 0 0
0 1699 TARGET ENT 1699 0
0 1699 HP 1325.20
0 1699 HPMAX 1325.20
10000 SKYFILE SKY 2 0 1.000000
What I've found works is using an FX (visual imagery) rather than a MOV (physical motion through space by a model). So, EMOTE isn't used. Instead the end of file activates the Xmas Confetti FX. It seems to need a target which can be itself, specified by the EntityID in the TARGET ENT line.
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Quote:Silence on the issue only feeds my rabid paranoid fantasies that he has a huge role to play on Praetorian Earth but that its' being kept under wraps at the mo. What's my speculation you ask? That being the immense psychic that he is, he'll be able to hide 'under the radar' from Mother Mayhem and the Psychic Friends Network. The King is in the Resistance, hiding them from Tyrant and his cronies. What's that? You didn't ask for my opinion? Then what are you doing reading it?!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That got a "no comment" from Hero1 at Hero Con
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I play a Scrapper but I'm not a min/maxer. Go figure, just about takes all sorts to make a world eh? To answer your question with my opinion; not common, but vocal!
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Maniaxe: Sorry you're experiencing this issue, but as others have said, it's actually part of the game design rather than a bug. The real issue you have is that your computer keeps crashing. If you post some details about your computer and what occurs when it crashes then I'm sure someone will be able to get you on the way to solving that. How much RAM ya got? Operating System?