Umber

Overall I like what I see, but then again I never attempted to abuse dominators by pushing towards tri-stacking domination. I'm greatly looking forward to playing an AT I'd mostly abandoned until this point.

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Any chance that change finding its way over to blasters pls?

Sent in an email, doesn't look like a fix has went through.

Happy for all the other _NA-sufferers tho!

EDIT: woot !

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I don't know why you think anyone else is comparing it to the system that came out with the PvPOs.

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He is being willfully ignorant because its in his personal best interests to do so, consider it forum PvP.

You people with your ebil logic arguing that PVP IO prices will go down in price after the patch are rudely hindering his personal economy. Bad! Bad marketeers!

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Just bought two of 'em.

Gotta admit this one feels a little liteweight. Not quite a full set's worth of costume pieces and it lacks a new power like Self Destruction and Mystic Fortune from the two previous boosters. The lack of a special power is where I think this booster will suffer the most, I know too many players who only picked up the previous boosters for those powers.

After a week or two has passed would one of the devs consider posting sales numbers for the three packs? Would love to see how they stack up against each other. If the specific numbers are something that they'd prefer to keep private how about just a sales ratio?

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I've helped judge a few CCs and have ran a couple of my own, I've seen so many sore losers declaring them to be rigged and that the winner's costume looked like a Random creation. Usually I re-check the loser's costume to discover that its simply awful.

So one of us has incredibly poor taste in design. I'm willing to consider that it might be me, but forgive my bias in suspecting the person willing to whine on broadcast might be equally immature in his fashion sense

Most-used: Luminary just because Talos is the center of the CoH universe.

Least-used: Infernal or Foreshadow. I never seem to ding while in Founder's Falls and try my best to skip the Hollows entirely.

Favorite: Blue Steel is cool.

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I don't think Ohsirus spent 900M on generics, Umber. I could be wrong.

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My bad, was thinking of early-MA-insanity prices

Sure, we do all the work, we sell the crafted IOs more cheaply than joe average can pick up the recipe and salvage, and WE are supposed to be grateful?

You're welcome right back atcha

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I'd ran the arc twice and took careful notes of all clues, withheld a guess to the murderer's identity as I didn't feel the clues completely eliminated all doubt as to the culprit. I would've guessed the secretary if for nothing else than everyone else seemed to be weeded out but in the end it would have been just that, a guess.

That the supposed smoking gun of clues was that the secretary was working late when the Scoop was finished just wasn't enough to set off alarms to the reader. Won't their be future scoops to work on? Secretaries have no paperwork? Just the simple fact that Snow Globe was there explains the sec's presence. "We're indivisible. If I'm workin' late, you GOTTA work late! If you can't work late, I can't work late! If I can't work late, I CAN'T WORK LATE!"

Means, opportunity, motive. That Globe died from fire and blunt trauma would seem a significant clue, and the lack of info on the secretary possessing any meta abilities left a big gap in the Means department.

An awesome arc that I thoroughly enjoyed, it turned the MA into an Experience. I don't envy Azrhiaz making a run at a murder mystery, I've seen so many highly paid authors try and fail pretty badly as its brutal task to nail.

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The problem with crafting 40 per day and filling up slots on multiple characters (for me) is just that it's SO time consuming.

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Hmm... how long does a portable workbench last anyways? I can collect the pieces of salvage bid on the previous day, craft the 40 common IOs, and distribute them across 3 alts on 2 accounts before the thing goes blammo. I'm sure your way in indeed faster but my daily visit to Wents sure doesn't feel time-intensive.

Oh, I forgot what got me started down this path in the first place - the Fabricator badge. Was initially willing to take even a small loss per transaction while working on the badge until I quickly discovered its a viable source of steady income while making decent progress on that badge.

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Was that those Devastation IOs, Stillhart? I loved that. Buy for a half mill, post for four, sell for six. Now there are a ton for sale.

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Yes, yes, there are. I'm trying to be veeeeeery patient to offload the last of my inventory of them without taking a loss now.

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This is why I remain hesitant to enter the uncommon/rare IO market in favor of crafting oodles of common IOs for a modest but safe profit. The profit margin might potentially be much higher with Obliterations or Touch of Deaths but I just know the second I stock up the bottom will fall out from under me.

So I stick with my little common IO niche, craft 40 of 'em a day and bring in 7-8mil daily. The 200k profit per market slot is teeny compared to the typical flipping stories here but it adds up and its just about the most risk-free investment you can find.

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Same here. i have noticed a couple occasions where movement as you triggered a cone seemed to effectively increase its range and arc, but i always thought it was just an artifact of latency while player and mobs are moving.

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I've wondered if its latency itself or a result of the game's design to respond to latency. Eh, maybe thats an academic distinction but I seem to have an easy enough time to force its appearance with my normally-solid connection at home or even at my awesome connection at the university workplace. I actually have more problem forcing it to appear on larger teams where I'd expect more lag than when soloing.

Regardless of origin, have been pulling this stunt with Shadow Maul for years now and have recently discovered a large amount of insanity possible with Thousand Cuts. Seems to me to represent the flip side of what enemy factions pull on us all the time, being hit by ranged attacks through walls and such. Is it abusing the game engine, even an exploit? I dunno,maybe, but since the devs seem to be in no rush to fix either side of the equation (or is potentially unfixable) its hard to consider it an outright exploit when the mobs are performing their own version of the behavior on us.

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Good to know. Whats the source ?

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Rush Limbaugh. He frequently quotes the 20 million/week figure, altho he generally leaves out the "week" bit or just assumes his typical listener will confuse the weekly total for the daily count as you appear to have done.

His actual current audience size was a hot topic of discussion last year when he landed his 8-year contract extension with the 14mil/week widely agreed upon as the best estimate. Google should turn up plenty of hits for you on this matter, and Wikipedia references both those 20mil/week and 14mil/week values with citations.

Thats more than I'd normally offer to someone who didn't list any sources for their own claims before demanding to see mine.

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Way off topic but the man has an audience of between 20-30 million people on a daily basis

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Rush has always listed his audience numbers per week to skew perceptions five-fold in his favor. His largest audience was in 2003 with 20 million listeners per week (4mil/day) and the current stat is 14mil per week (2.8mil/day). Impressive numbers but nowhere near this 30mil number you've imagined into existence.

On topic: makes me wonder how much of your market claims are likewise exaggerated or pulled completely out of thin air.

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Uhmmm... without attempting to play for days on the same character... what now about the Buster Badge?

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It didn't take *that* long duoing with the wifey's new alt, YMMV. I'm happy to see the devs admit that there was a problem but its not that big of a deal.

I didn't realize this was a bewbs and pretty DB poses contest

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Though the colors make me scream "My eyes, my freakin' eyes! Ze googgles, zey do nossing!"

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Your sig just called and wants its irony back.

/probably less painful with the CoV red background

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This afternoon I'm going to update the guide with better screenshots that don't use an eye-bleed inducing color combination as well as higher graphics settings.

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I was just going to suggest that perhaps the voodoo2 running at 640x480 wasnt quite up to the screenshotting task but I see you're already reached that mental junction as well

Despite the snark thanks for the information-pooling!