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Jonathan "Sunstorm" Courney... welcome!

I made you an avatar!

I hope you'll use it, at least until something better comes along.. having no avatar is a no-no here!

Oh, and
Here is the bigger version for when we move to the new forums.

Background image courtesy of NASA.

From one Phil to another, I welcome you, our latest Red Name Overlord.

Don't be a stranger! I'd love to see you get into a contest with BaBs on who can post the most times on the forums... and he's got a head start! Better get moving, I heard that Forum Games is a good place to start padding the post count...

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11. HAVE FUN. If you aren't having fun go find something else to do. I get an adrenaline rush from a great run because its fun. The reward is just an added bonus.


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OOps, I must have missed this part.

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With the introduction of the merit system in CoX its important for players to learn the skills and tactics needed to maximize the productivity of their gaming time.

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That's all well and good in the business world... but isn't this a game? Played for entertainment and fun?

Well, I suppose some people's idea of fun is to be the most efficient at grinding to get imaginary rewards.

Nevermind, forget I said anything. You guys do what you do, and I'll be happy with my running around in fake tights fighting fake thugs in my pretendy fun time game.

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Despite my post count, I've been hanging around these forums for awhile. Before you, CuppaJoe set a high standard for the work you followed her in doing; you then met, and in some ways, exceeded that high standard.

I'm very sorry to see you go; Godspeed.

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Cuppajo... no E... she was a lady if I remember right from oh so long ago...

EDIT: Yeah, I'm right... she was a lady. Well, IS still, but you get my point.

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Personally I hope you have a wonderful life and a great new job. "or have found one already"

I can not say I am sorrry to see you go. I feel that the forums have been handled poorly by you for 2 years now and I look forward to hopfully someone taking control that can turn around all the hogwash you have allowed to go on for far to long. And I am sorry but I feel you leaving will be a step in the right direction to solving a lot of the problems the forums have.

Anyways nothing personal. I wish you all the luck in the world.

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You [censored] piece of [cinsored] [sunsoared] your [simsurred] before I [son sired] you in the [sorcerer]!

See? We don't need no stinkin' moderator!

First!

Once again, BaBs is a beacon of light in the darkness, dispelling rumors and taking up massive amounts of space in the forums with his huge biceps and Walls of Text.

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Community manager on a Forum isn't a career.

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Test Rat on the other hand....

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I'd say good luck but whoever posted that wasn't Lighthouse.

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*pulls the tin foil hat off of his head and hands it to James_Donner*

Here, I think you need this more than I do.

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others for seemingly trivial occurrences.

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Those "seemingly trivial occurrences" most often have much larger reasons behind them that the ones fired have no idea about.

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Considering that it's my job to investigate these claims, I'd say I have a pretty good idea what I'm talking about.

Best Example: I had a guy working for a defense contractor (that will go unnamed) who was fired because he didn't ask his boss for permission to go to lunch. You'd think there would be something deeper to this, right? Nope. The boss was just a [censored], yet well within his rights to do what he did.

There isn't always a larger reason. Sometimes you get fired because your boss has a petty personality conflict... or you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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What does any of this have to do with this thread?

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I dunno, but I do like chicken. Not on pizza though. That's just wrong.

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Ignore this fool, he doesn't know what he's talking about!

Mystic Pizza's BBQ Chicken pizza is the best tasting pizza in the world!

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others for seemingly trivial occurrences.

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Those "seemingly trivial occurrences" most often have much larger reasons behind them that the ones fired have no idea about.

That's true, but unless SuperModerator steps up, I honestly won't believe that's the case here.

People don't get fired for so little as a few comments. They would usually get some sort of warning, or several, first.

Saying that he got fired for a few comments, well, I think that's just a naive way to look at things. As a business decision, it makes no sense. With the cost to find, recruit, and hire a replacement, and the business COST of not having that replacement ahead of time... it's just not worth it.

Not when you can give out a few warnings first, start looking for possible replacements, then replace them if they mess up again.

One or two instances does not a job lose... unless you happen to spill a ton of oil in the Arctic.

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But if it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and acts like a duck.

It's a... whale?

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So you would make a judgement based only on what you see, given little to no evidence apart from assumptions?

Wow, I'd hate to have you on my jury if I was the Defendant.

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So Lighthouse was scapegoated for all of the PvP hate because he had the audacity to speak candidly about the process?

Good luck wherever ya land, Light.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

No one has proven any reason for his leaving, and no one has given any reason so far aside from him seeking "outside employment". Just because one thing happens after another, that doesn't mean that one caused the other.

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know that I will be right there beside you playing and enjoying the fruits of the Development Team and NCsoft’s hard work.

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Well you know now having said that, that it is now your obligation to reveal your non-red name and global name so that you may attain instant celebrity in-game and let us all play with you... right?

Don't be like some of those other former NC/Cryptic employees that just disappear on us. We want to see you posting on the forums and complaining just like the rest of us!

Now that you're going to be just a customer like us and all...

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I am now off my kick to clean up the background. Thanks to AdBlock add-on in Firefox, I can do that myself.

Here's what a 'clean' version of the website looks like.

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Ooooooo .... pretty. I hereby vote for Zombie_Man as our new official Fan Webmaster!

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Why so you can remake your permadom/Kin? And build it just to farm for your other toons that are made just to farm/itf?

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No, so I can sell it and buy some respec recipes for my Defender that burns through 3 respecs a month. And he doesn't farm. And I've run the ITF a total of one times. And I don't play villains, and I've never made a Kinetics character.

Any more questions?

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HEY! People mite actually take this game seriously and actually play it!!!!! O wait no they wont because besides the new style to the website its still the same old repetitive game play with a lack of new content.

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Can I have your stuff?

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Locking up IE for me as well...

Version: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254

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Our apologies for the continuing issues with browsing the new website under Internet Explorer version 6. We're working to resolve the issue. If you want to see the site now, you may consider upgrading IE to version 7 or downloading FireFox, Chrome or any other popular web browsing software.

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Will do, if you will also consider taking my cat that considers litterboxes optional.

Some of us do not like FireFox nor the tabbed browsing interface/look of IE7. I hope the trouble-shooting moves along and that you'll update us when the fix is found.

And FYI, Safari 3.0.4 (523.12.2) works fine with the new site.

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In the future, ALL browsers WILL be tabbed. You'll have to switch eventually, and by not switching now, you're only delaying the inevitable.

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Locking up IE for me as well...

Version: 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254

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Our apologies for the continuing issues with browsing the new website under Internet Explorer version 6. We're working to resolve the issue. If you want to see the site now, you may consider upgrading to FireFox, the GREATEST BROWSER EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!1!!!!!ELVENTY-ONE!!!!!!!!

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Fix'd.

*Jedi Mind Trick, waves hand*

There is no cityofvillains.com....

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Wow! I love the new website. It's so cool.

A question though: the www.cityofvillains.com/ site currently redirects to the main CoH site, will there eventually be a CoV site again?

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The main website covers both aspects of the game. We've given anyone who ever had access to both sides, so they are both sides to the same coin that is the City of Heroes franchise.

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Final proof that the devs hate villains... CoV.com automatically redirects to CoH.com.... muhahaha! Take that, villains, now you all must play and browse under the banner of the Heroes!

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Wait, wait. . . .as long as I rebubble before the original PBU Bubble fades, then my new bubbles will be buffed as well?

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Not exactly - it's that the original PBU'd bubbles have their duration refreshed, they aren't 'new' bubbles. If you or your target zones, you'll have to do the whole thing over.

But yeah.. it's fantastic.

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PBU'd Short Circuit is better. Enemies with no endurance can't attack.

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Yet Short Circuit isn't a FF power or available in an Epic power pool.

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What can I say? I love the Electrical Blast set. I don't leave home without it!

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Wait, wait. . . .as long as I rebubble before the original PBU Bubble fades, then my new bubbles will be buffed as well?

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Not exactly - it's that the original PBU'd bubbles have their duration refreshed, they aren't 'new' bubbles. If you or your target zones, you'll have to do the whole thing over.

But yeah.. it's fantastic.

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PBU'd Short Circuit is better. Enemies with no endurance can't attack.