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... why do I suspect you took that as a challenge to see how much time you could spend in a Ustream tangenting...

Air Guitar!!!!

Won't be happening.

It's already been indicated that Tyrant will be the final I-trial set in Praetoria, and that after that the next series of Trials will likely deal with the Battalion.

Yes / No / Not Really.

Again, going back to what I said in Post #33:

Okay, granted, Calvin Scott is not a member of the Freedom Phalanx, Vindicators, or Regulators in Primal Earth. He's just married to one of the Vindicators. Insert your own joke here about the marrying for her for her shenanigans. (NO, I'm NOT sorry!!)

By the same token, Calvin's Praetorian counterpart is likewise not a leader of one of the Imperial factions under Tyrant. Instead, the Praetorian Calvin is slowly revealed to the player as a Vigilante who has justified and rationalized every despicable action as the only way to bring Tyrant down. At some point the Praetorian Calvin came to believe that the only way to fight Tyrant was to use Tyrant's own methods.

The Praetorian Calvin Scott is not meant to be a Hero or a role model. In some aspects I think his own fall from grace is supposed to mimic that of Emperor Cole, but it's not quite the same. Calvin Scott still wants what is best for Praetoria, and I think that on some level he understands that what he is doing is wrong. I'm not convinced that Tyrant has considered the possibility that the steps he has taken could have been wrong.

Please read post #33 from this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...8&postcount=33

right now you'll need to do that on the beta server since I21 and the Underground trial are not on the live servers.

reportedly Prometheus has more details on the Battalion after the Underground Trial is completed.

One of my concerns right now is that the Battalion will be "VIP" only. If they are indeed so powerful that players need the incarnate system to fight them, that would prevent any and all Free/Premium players from being able to participate in content with the Battalion.

She's only got two shenanigans.

On the other hand, those are some REALLY big shenanigans.

(and no, I'm NOT sorry)

I find this very interesting.

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I think you read that wrong.

It seems pretty clear that Duray is responsible for letting the Praetorian Hamidon loose on Primal Earth, or rather, NOW is responsible for having done so.

One of the storyline motif's established in Going Rogue is that the Praetorian Faction leaders are not one-dimensional, mirror-dimension, polar-opposites of the Primal Earth Signature Heroes and Villains; but rather have deeper motivations coupled with genuine likable characteristics.

Emperor Cole is a legitimate Hero of the Hamidon Wars, and on some level, he really did care for those under him. However, that care has been twisted and warped to various extremes. One of those extremes is that Emperor Cole has no problems pacifying the population through the Enriche drink. Nor does Emperor Cole have no problems with whole-sale slaughter of other Superpowers. Emperor Cole does not have problem with abducting citizens under his protection, wiping their minds, cloning them, and them forcing them into his service.

Is he as evil and as psychotic as we were lead to believe in our first encounter? Oh Hell Yes.

Every single Praetorian Faction Leader is a VILLAIN.

Not all villains have to be chainsaw wielding maniacs.

yeah. I've gone after Scrappy with my own Bots / Dark multiple times... on most of them he just takes off running and get's himself droned.

At one point I managed to get him as he was spawning over in the Graveyard, far from any drones... except then he tore off into the factory and jumped everywhere in the walls.

You can re-get the mission by swapping sides.

His arc is also being added to Ouro Flashback: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...29&postcount=1

doh. I forget about Trap door's mish.

I think the damage Lava also shows up when Hess TF uses the same map.

oh yes they do.

I got High Pain Tolerance on 3 different characters using the CoT Obelisk in the past 3 months.

just wondering, are you trying to gain the 1,000,000 points of damage badge for the High Pain tolerance accolade?

You'll be better off looking for tips missions in Grandville that pit you against the CoT and getting a damage obelisk.

If that isn't your reason for asking this question, my gut reaction is "probably not"

As far as I am aware Lava only shows up as a damage component in... well... two maps that I can think of.

First map is the Cavern of Transcendence / Cap SF Trial Behemoth pit.

Second map is the Tyrant Cave / Crucible map.

Outside of those locations I don't think I have seen or encountered any other maps with Lava.

I think you would be correct.

Ahem: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/11/ncsoft-buys-cit/

http://global.ncsoft.com/global/

and what did I say?

Yep, I didn't say anything about Korean Developers. I said... let's see... "somebody from Korea" and "dictacted by NCSoft-Korea".

So you think the fact that NCSoft is a Korean company makes them mythical?

You think that NCSoft Korea which wholly owns Paragon Studios has absolutely no say what-so-ever in the running of Paragon Studios?

\ Yes, Yes you do think that.

Okay, let me pose a question to you: How does being an independent entity change the radical changes of behavior of Paragon Studios staff?

Have Positron, Second Measure, War Witch, and Ghost Falcon ever struck you as the type of people to suddenly change development practices and priorities?

Have any of the Paragon Studios staff ever struck you as the type of people who would willingly force players to utilize a software package that is often associated with successful malicious intrusions?

Does the past history of Paragon Studios indicate that they would go out of their way to screw players over with prices?

Oh yeah, there's a whole frigging thread about the change of direction on Paragon Studios part, maybe you should read it: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=268081

Let me quote something I already said there:

Let me be clear here Lemur Lad since I think what I said probably went over your head:

I am saying that the game and it's direction is now being controlled by NCSoft Korea.

It is my opinion that NCSoft Korea is directing the radical change in the behavior of Paragon Studio developers to change internal policies in order to create more content that could be considered sellable through the in-game market.

It is my opinion that at some point Paragon Studios went from an independent entity to one that is being controlled by NCSoft-Korea.

Can I prove that? No, I don't have microphones in NCSoft's Korean offices?

Can you prove that Paragon Studios is not being directed by NCSoft Korea to change the positioning of City of Heroes?

I think you'll have a bloody hard time proving that to everybody who looked at the beta price list and went What the bleeding hell?

Which part do you claim I am revising versus how it happened?

These kind of went together. The "no" to players unslotting tricked out builds typically went hand and hand with "that's why you only have 10 enhancement slots"

As to whether or not a specific developer who said they were being generous with only 10 enhancement slots, or if that was a player interpretation of what the developers said about only having 10 enhancement slots, I'll just pass on giving a specific answer and just point out how often the generous enhancement slots reasoning attributed to the developers gets trotted out.

It is a much different no than has been stated in the past. The previous stance was that such respecs went against the design of the game, as well as invalidated a large amount of work put into the game.

Positron's statement that it had been asked for internally really sounds to me like somebody from Korea was looking for something else to put into the store. That Positron no longer gave a flat "no we are not doing that" is cause for concern, and I think justifies this as a position reverse... albeit one that really appears to be dictated by NCSoft-Korea rather than the Paragon Studios developers.

I forget when the +fear to burn was added. For some reason, the addition is not explicitly noted anywhere in the published patch notes on Paragon Wiki, nor is it in Red Tomax's log files.

So forgive me if I have to go from memory. The +fear effect was added to Burn, reportedly to force Fiery Aura's to team with controller / dominator types for maximum damage efficiency. The design choice was only reversed a little over a year ago: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Patch_No...-16#Fiery_Aura

Fair enough. F.Grubb did indeed leave after this change was implemented, so this could be considered a reversal.

if someone doesn't have Going Rogue then they will not be able to participate in the alignment system.

Which makes your question kind of... well... pointless.

As far as I'm aware the only decisions the devs have really "reversed" on have been:

• Unslotting enhancements

Now in I21

• Extra enhancement trays

Now in I21

• power-set respecs

Not planned, takes a lot of work, but no longer a flat no.

• Fear on Burn

Took long enough.

Outside of this rather small list I'm not really aware of any other game design direction / decisions that the Devs have given a flat no to, or said they were not going to do.

For the most part pretty much every other time the devs have said "no" to something it's been a case of lack of resources, such as Power Customization

As a note, this still does not change the need for players here to post information to AMD.

Specifically, there is still only one other reply to the thread on the AMD forums: http://forums.amd.com/devforum/messa...&enterthread=y

Please, you need to go post your hardware information and crash data to AMD on the AMD forums.

I cannot be the only person on AMD's forums about this problem.

Nvidia cards would be well reknowned for that.

Who made the card or do you know?

If you aren't sure the GPUZ utility should be able to answer the question: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

check out posts by Tunnel Rat: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/member.php?u=489136

She has her own thread about FX improvements for the game: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=260438

Here are some of the things she has said in that thread:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=113

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=217

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=369

I think Tunnel rat explains why power customization is not an easy fix, as well as addressing all other pertinent questions that have been raised in this thread.