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Last spring, a friend of ours (who does the 'Hollywood review and previews" panels at Norwescon) told us that a movie version of "Rock-em, Sock-em Robots" was in the works (under the heading "WHY!?!"). I guess this is it.

My wife and I had the same problem; this took care of it.

In the early days the SFX were very limited: The first few doctors regenerated off-camera. Then were some regenerations where they basically defocused the camera while looking at the old actor, and re-focused with the new one wearing the same clothes (it helped that he was usually lying down at the time).

In the 'modern' series they do it with a gold glowy effect and morphing software.

Ducks.

The new series (post-2005) has never mentioned a regeneration limit, and I believe one of the new Doctors outright stated that he can regenerate an arbitrary number of times. So I've been assuming they are ignoring the "you only get 12" (which, AIR, was said by Dr #4 in the 1970's, and the BBC probably never imagined the show would last long enough for it to be an issue).

The best semi-cannon reason for the change I've seen: Assume that Rassilon removed the 12-regeneration limit as a desperation move during the Dalek war.

Will make Saturday, at least.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs. "

Idea for how Enterprise should have ended:

With Dr. Beckett leaping out of Captain Archer. Into Col. Tigh, just after Boomer shot Adama.

Oh boy.

They would lose *some* money. Mainly, the time and associated costs of their employees dealing with the theft. Not a lot of money, I know, but those bits and bytes don't push themselves.

And in some instances, it might get complicated. If someone used fraud-achieved points for a consumable item (like a respec, or ability to run a trial) it can't be taken back.

How about anything like the "Mehve"; a personal jet-wing from Naussica of the Valley of the Wind. Images:

http://mehve.net/media/caps/movie/im...sicaa_0295.jpg
http://mehve.net/media/caps/movie/im...sicaa_0109.jpg
http://mehve.net/media/caps/movie/im...sicaa_0114.jpg

I'm sure you would not be able to duplicate the way it was flown in the movie (body horizontal), and it's a bit too large, but it would be a neat concept.

I do NOT want to see Snarf turn into a battleship.

Yes, that is correct, nothing can be brought from the training server to a 'live' one. There is a good reason for this:

Moving characters between regular servers is a transfer- they are no longer available where they started. Moving a character onto the training server *copies* them- the original is still present, on the original server. Anything the character has, such as INF, recipes, or enhancements, is copied too. So, you can generate arbitrary amounts of INF and/or any rare recipes/inspirations/enhancements/whatever that you have acquired by copying the same character multiple times, transferring it all to one copy, and deleting the others. However, such "copied" wealth/loot can ONLY affect the training server, because there is no way to get it back to any of the 'live' ones.

If you created the character on the training server, you haven't used this trick, but the game database doesn't know that.

My understanding is that high-end PVPers used to prefer to play on the training server, because that was the only server where everyone could have every power fully slotted with ultra-rare PVP enhancements; they only needed to find a single person who had acquired one the normal way, who would then make copies for everyone else (and give them away, since they were effectively free).

The in-game 'economy' would cease to be very interesting if anyone could have anything they wanted for essentially no time or effort.

If we could only swap this one with the 'rest' emote.

If Shaw had his powers at that point, he didn't have much to fear from the knives and the cleavers.

Although Eric didn't know that, so it did seem odd that he didn't even try to fling something (the file cabinet?) at Shaw.

I see people often enough, although I prefer running old-fashioned regular missions, radios, and the occasional tip.

They were called "Proton Packs", so I guess in the spirit of avoiding copyright issues, we'd have to call them "Spiritbreaker electron modules".

I supposed one way to do cross server-teaming would be to create a merged server with everything on it (using the tagging idea to ID what server it's actually from); activating 'cross-server teaming mode' would log your character onto that server, staying in 'normal' mode would leave you on your normal server.

No idea if that's a sensible way to do it, however.