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I just want some idea of wether there's a community out there I could actually get involved with.

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Well, fear not; there is!

In fact, Zortel is running that SpeedMeet thing in Pocket D tonight. I'll be there, you coming? Good chance to get to know other characters IC!

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Thursday..thats today and not yesterday See clever am I.

To be honest I cant see the people hero plot impacting any of the groups i usually RP with anyway, as the 12 or so people I RP with rarely go to GG/PD and have not been involved in external (outside our group) plot for ages.

Well I just totaly dominated RV on union, there was me (Mercy Knight) and a rag tag assortment of heroes.

All in all they only defeated me five or so times and I got one of em too. So a clear victory for the foces of Villainy!!!111!!

Now I just need to wash these boot marks off the back of my head :P

--There was only a few people in, it is daytime though so I was not expecting many in there, all good humoured people it seemed too. Means I might have to go into RV and die at people a bit more

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I was having a slow moment again :P


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You forgot to ask for SB again, didn't you?

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I was so slow the rest of team had gone on to the mission and left me while zoning..I was being overtaken by tortoises using Hover!

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It's open to all, it's in Pocket D.

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I was having a slow moment again :P
I really should visit PD and GG more often instead of getting distracted by alting and helping out with supergroups

This open to villainous types too?

Merc/poison.

Yeah the temptation to just buff/debuff is strong, but I still find that those extra bits of damage I can throw out help, and its not as if there is anything else I can take in place of my three attacks (5 if I include my shark stuff).

I do tend to do "hot dumps" as well, where I provide covering fire for my minions while they equip or to keep that pesky AV off of my commandoe for a second while my medic heals him.

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I've always wondered how 'villains' are percieved by the populous in the Rogue isles where they, not heroes, dominate the social landscape.

Dr Mechano wants to produce his own set of toys but currently lacks the funds to do so. I'd like to imagine him doing the villains equivilent of a kids science show with his robot helpers, can just imagine the advice.

"Remember kids, science is all about experimentation for your own ends, whether that be creating an army of mutants with your studies in genetic engineering or simply a robot to help around the house. Sometimes you're parents will try to stop you, but pah i say to responsible parents, continue to develop your project and then use it to crush them so you can continue your experiments..or better yet..use them as experiments...have a nice days kids and DR Mechano... AWAY!"

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The whole politcal and ecconomic structure of trhe rouge isles and its play in global politics confuses me..
Is Arachnos the legitimate government there?
If not where are the signs of UN activity,where are the UN "sponsored" sponsored missions into RI to help resolve matters?
Where is the "UN" armed responce?

And no I dont count Long"we're an illegal army"Bow as a UN reacion..

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Back to the comics in CoX, I think they would happen, the argument that "because heroes are common place so comics wont happen" fails at one crucial hurdle..

In the real world in which we live in we have very succesful War comics and crime comics..Hel there are even football ones :P

Group name : Freelance Felines Inc.

Server/Game : Union,coh,cov

Theme : Cat-person and affiliates themed SG.

Contacts:
: @Spurr , more to come we have only just got started.
Usual Activities: Missions and general chaos, once the existing chars have developed more we will attend more stationary roleplay venues


Background & Structure:
Formed in the late 1950s by Feral Rein, Freelance Felines was origionaly created as a non-national support network for "supers" who did not want to be restricted by being under the dominion of a single nation state.
Activities:
-Mercenary operations.
-Security solutions.
-Rookie training and support.
-Legal and financial support for all members.
-Medical insurance and support.
-Pension fund.
-Living wage with bonus for active employment/contract.


Admission Notes/Requirements:
There are no real requirements other than the feline-theme, if you join the SG side we would like you to create an alt for the villain side to, if you have the room.

No more than 2 alts in one SG/VG too.

It really does depend on the badge, I tend to use "factional" badges a lot (hero corps insider,honorary space squid that kinda thing) but most the others I just ignore or use to reflect specifics about the chars influence/fame if people ask/research.

And you have Absorb energy, since I got this one power playing my tank has become so much simpler. I hardly ever have to worry about endurance and have not had to waste slots to get the fitness pool.

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I think there is two different types of going pass the in game rescritions.Things that can be achieved through fudge, and things that never can be disproved. A player can die, if such players are created to do so , or if the said play deletes him or her, they are dead. A city can be destroyed as long as its a frictional one, or one that the GM is certain that no one uses/knows about. (Like genosha city, or the floating avian city of narina..). However as Raven said I would refrain from saying Paragon will be destroyed, Icon will be destroyed etc

Also there are certain things that can be achieve in game I believe, typically the whole unmoveable object/ irresistable force. Unless Forumn RP or an agreement between characters, it is much easier to say I am Invulnerable, save such a such, rather than I can kill anything. Unless such a party godmods, saying "my sword pierces your armor and you die"

You can't disprove the person is nigh invulnerable, as you can't force him into a situation in which he isn't. But as raven said I would say refrain from using such characters, unless its a closed" plot that you are GM of.

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Characters get killed, people might get worried if we started "deleting" players

Even then the character does not need to be deleted, I have several that are now no longer RP chars and have had all the RP tags removed to avoid any IC interaction, that way I did not have to delete characters I liked playing the game with

Leveling up is sooooo last year too

The key thing is to have fun, and if you do want to get up a few levels quickly then the best bet is to get together a team and really punish those missions! P

I only play about 4 hours a day with DefConOne and we try to ensure that someone levels up every session, while still enjoying the story arcs and having fun.

The bigger the team the better too.

Silence filled the park, a stark contrast to the harsh gunfire and energy blasts that had but moments ago indicated another battle of good against evil.

Lightly stepping over the piles of spent ammunition cases, Mercy Knight headed over to the statue that was clearly the target of this attack, like many in Paragon City it was of a hero who sacrificed themselves to save the world in some way but now the name plaque waws obscured by what appeared to be some form of petition.

His curiosity piqued for a moment, Mercy Knight shouldered his rifle as he peeled the petition off to read what the inconsiderate peons of Paragon city had to say this week.

".....Oh my...."
The soft english accent seemed out of place, comming from someone who had only moments before been fighting in a pitched battle, looking around he spied a cowering citizen hiding behind a bench.

"Tell my citizen, do you know about this petition?
Ah, dont bother answering of course you do....Your kind allways do. Well take this to who ever is collecting the forms, as petitions go it gets my approval."

He threw the petition at the citizen before turning to his team who had been standing silently behind him.

"Sitri, Scatter-cat finish of this statue, I have to talk to Dr Quantum.."

As his team hurried off to do his commands, Mercy Knight strode over to the bleeding form of Dr Quantum who was amasingly still trying to crawl away despite his wounds.

"Now now Doc, its me Mercy Knight. You know how this dance ends by now surely? I must admit I was suprised you lasted this long, the vomit usually finishes you capes off.

Never mind, I have plenty more"..

..Then there was screams..

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Didn't take me too long. Ten Blast spells a day. Oh yes, the spell list includes other things than Blast, but who cares!

Incidentally, we worked out you need 12 mages to red mist an unarmoured target with only level 2 mages. I consider that a major improvement.

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The rules are good, though the new rules on oving people are going to cause more character deaths than any other change.

Now I just have to decide wether to go with my old faction or a new one, I would like to go with the Tarantulas again but I shall have to see what info I can dig up at the convo of guilds and see if anyone remains from my years in the faction.

I did not want to spam the recruiting thread to much but I could not edit my post soo here are some more details on DefConOne.

We know have a guildportal site, its still a work in progress but is running.

http://defconone.guildportal.com

And we have seperate forums at

http://forum.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=defconone

Also we are looking at a myspace site,more info on that when it is done.

We run regular Taskforces and are starting to organise and run internal supergroup competitions (With prizes ranging from inspirations and enhancements to healthy amounts of influence/infamy).

Also we are looking into running a regular security patrol of Paragon city, this will be in the form of a Giant monster hunt (my fav) starting in IP and then doing the usual route

Like all my characters my villains on Defiant are role-play enabled

I think most role play in cov in general is based around individual rp supergroups as opposed to any set meetings (unless the clock tower meets on union still happen).

Im sure IP port authorities would ofthrown a hissy fit with the about of debri we left in the water too..pesky controllers :P

I took a load of screenshots last night, but most of them ended up as just pictures of my Ice tankers [censored], so not overly good :P

Still there are some with other people in, not enough from the lusca hunt though And I was to busy during the Hydra kill to take pictures (other than some ones of my tanker being dead :P).

Was good fun pity we were not able to take down the two paladins but by then our numbers had dropped off.

http://s47.photobucket.com/albums/f154/Eldergod12/

The other night in SC on defiant was fun, I was popping inspirations by the bucket load to try and stop the doms from killing me
(seriously I need the purples, a dead slug can mez my blaster).

There was no visible compaints about peoples inspiration usage that I saw then so it looks like some people just get bad luck with who they pvp with.

In BB on union the other day there was a lot of the anti-inspiration crowd but they seemed to quieten down once we told em the error of their ways :P

I dont mind the heavies, they are easy to break or avoid. Personaly I like to have them around just to keep the AVs busy while I run away

Out of interest what are the rewards in RV?
Cant say I have ever really looked at the rewarsd side, beyond xp/prestige and the joy of killing heroes :P

CE seems to be working fine on my Icetanker, of course any blaster that so much as thinks anywhere near me draws all the aggro but that just means I hit someone, or pop taunt/icicles for an extra bit of attention grabbyness.

Of course a lot of the time my taunts cannot stop something that a blaster has blastvoked.

A dom has burnt through stacked cm on me before, dont know about pb+cm though.

"CMbots" are a waste of time and team space dont see the point of them. Only time I go back to base is when Im dead

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Hi there new supergroup is looking for more members, we are very active and very socialble

Name: Def Con One
Server: Union.

At the moment we only have about 20ish players and are looking for more, any level,any archetype.

At present we are heavily pve but we do make regular trips into pvp land mostly Sirens Call at the moment, and once we get more SOs on our characters I am sure we will be there more often

Recruiter types:

@Spurr (thats me).
@Girl Friday
@Raging Tiger

I can be found most days in game or on the Forumites channal.

Laters

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Edit:
Forgot to add the addy for the SG forums:

http://forum.freeboards.net/index.php?mforum=defconone

I've got the TF bug recently so expect some posts begging for TF members from me or others in Def Con one, at some point soon

We did one of the Striga ones last week (the Arakyn one), so should be comming up to the Hess TF soon.

Obviously it depends on your team.
I got a blaster to lvl 40 with no stamina issues at all, but then I was part of a regular team and we all complimented each others play style.

The only times stamina became an issue was in long fights against AVs, but then a few blues in my tray sorted that out.

PvP can use up a lot of endurance and is the only reason my sonic blaster took the fitness pool. I was fed up of not being able to finish off an enemy before they healed (mainly running on tripple ACC and Triple Damage).

I personaly think that NOT takin the fitness pool teaches much more about powersets and ATs than automaticly taking it.