Zombie Man

Basically, the EULA claims that everything you do on CoH is now owned by NCSoft... local law notwithstanding. And if local law withstands, then you are agreeing to voluntarily surrender all rights to NCSoft... local law notwithstanding.

You see, the "local law notwithstanding" is the fudge factor. US law gives creators automatic ownership of their creations. So, while NCSoft may *claim* to now own it... do they really? Will that claim hold up in court if challenged?

So, let's say that claim is not upheld by court and they can't simply claim your creations as their own. The next part of the EULA says you agree to give it to NCSoft anyway as a contractual agreement... local law notwithstanding.

For now we get into the part of copyright law that deals with signing over rights and what conditions must be met for that to happen. Is clicking a check box sufficient for transfer of copyright?

And then local contractual law comes into play: Your local state may not recognize clicking a check box as the same thing as a contractually binding signature.

On top of restricting your rights to use your own creation, the EULA gives NCSoft unlimited rights to use your creation as they see fit. You may find your character, which is your creation, plastered on billboards advertising the game. The EULA claims NCSoft has the right to do it since they now own your creation and if local law prohibits such claim, the EULA is set up as a contract where you give NCSoft such permission... local contractual law notwithstanding.

Regardless of what the law says, NCSoft is a business. If you don't follow their rules, they'll kick you from the game. And there's no recourse to that. They're not obligated to do business with you. That has nothing to do with copyright law.

So, if you use your creations on CoH for a for-profit venture and NCSoft finds out. They could *try* to sue you over it. They might win (but more than likely lose). But whether they win or lose, they can kick you from the game for sure.

That's what they *could* do. Now, *would* they? If you used images for personal use in a not-for-profit way, it would be unlikely for them to pursue... unless it became very famous. If you used the images for-profit... then there is a higher likelihood they will pursue. If it seems you made big bucks, they would be wise to sue. If it's just a rink-dink operation, they'll tell you to stop and if you don't... kick.

OR.... you ask for permission in advance. Send a PM to a form mod about it.

The only reward where swinging the event to one side over the other has an effect are the two emotes from the Neutropolis Event. Help the PPD and get ;tantrum. Help the Ghouls and get ;ghoulflex.

Weird.

I can defeat Trapdoor on any one of my 50s by going toe-to-toe and running off to defeat each bifurcation and coming back to Trapdoor.

I have also defeated Trapdoor by getting him in the lava.

I have also defeated Trapdoor by pulling.

Pulling is now disallowed.

Why?

Shall we make a list of all the other missions where pulling makes the encounter easier and handing that into the Devs so they can 'fix' that 'exploit'?

I'm pretty sure if you seem to get a shard from a Rikti that is not a heavy or a bomb it is because you or a teammate did damage to a heavy or a bomb and when it finally died at someone else's hand, you got the shard reward even though someone else got credit for the kill.

When a shard-dropping critter dies, every level 50 that had a hand in its death gets a roll for a shard.

You can tell the 'invisible level' of a 'levelless' critter by the level of recipe it drops.

I predict the servers will go wonky over the long Christmas weekend and they'll extend the Winter Event as a compensatory gesture.

History repeats itself.

Thanks for the third build, third respec, and the patch note clarification!

This coming Tuesday.*



*95% likely

The third build was inexplicably never mentioned in any game notes. As much as I kept including such a fact in my corrected patch notes and many of my other corrections made it to the real patch notes, the devs seemed to have an aversion to mentioning this feature.

MMs are at a disadvantage in the last mission since pets don't get the buff like the MM themself does.

Next Beta I'm bringing up the issue of MMs real hard with the Devs and the problem with game buffs ignoring the pets.

Let's aim higher:

Make all the legacy arcs exactly like the zone-arcs of the new zones (CoV, Striga, Faultline, etc...).

Chose one and only one contact (instead of 3 or 4) who can give out that arc, clean it up and limit it to that zone and one adjacent hazard zone.

Then move all the one-offs to another contact to be the zone's perpetual-mission machine.