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Beast ( Bee-east) doesn't rhyme with Saist (Sy-ice-st) either.

I am NOT an Ebil Beast!

I'm a cute floofy kitty!

oh! oh!

*grabs a fire tank and runs back*

I'm ready for the grilling!

Again. you are Assuming.

You are assuming that the Reichsman world was like our world.

We don't have any proof that their timeline follows our timeline.

Again. You are Assuming.

You are Assuming that the Nazi party in the Reichsman dimension happened at the exact same time as the Nazi party in our dimension.

You also Assume that the events leading up to the creation of the Nazi party as we know it were identical to the events that formed the Nazi party in the Reichsman Dimension.

You Assume that Hitler was responsible for the rise of the Nazi party from obscurity into popularity in the Reichsman Dimension.

You Assume that without Hitler, the Nazi's would have not used the term 3rd Reich in the Reichsman Dimension.

Again, all of this is based on the assumption that Marcus Cole was inherently good and that the history of the Nazi party and the World Wars is identical to our own.

We do not know that. We can safely PRESUME though that the sequence of events and timings were different.

Again, you Assume.

You Assume that Marcus Cole from the Reichsman dimension is the same exact Marcus Cole from our dimension, and that at some point after Marcus Cole went to Germany, the timelines diverged.

QUIT ASSUMING

If we accept the presumption that the timelines of the Reichsman Dimension, the personalties of the Reichsman Dimension, and the events of the Reichsman is inherently different, which is a presumption we can safely make based on how we know how the Multi-Verse works in-game cannon...

Reichsman is Reichsman because He's Reichsman.

There doesn't have to be some magnificent event or brainwashing to convert our Version of Statesman / Marcus Cole into Reichsman.

Quit. Trying. To. Fit. Our. Timeline. And. Our. Dimensional. Events. Into. The. Reichsman. Dimension.

There. Did I spell it out for you enough this time?

And no. I'm not wrong. Get over it.

... that tells me you didn't read his post, or at least did not understand it, but I will grant that this is actually a hard concept to work around.

They don't do one because just one archtype affects all of the archtypes.

Let me try to put it like this.

Ever build a birdhouse?

Okay, you have 6 square walls, a large hole in one wall with a small hole underneath, a little peg that goes on the front, and a wire hanging from the roof.

Now, cut out all 6 of these walls, but you only put 4 of these walls together. You have the roof, the floor, the bit with the hole in the middle, and one of the side / back walls.

You put the project aside because something came up... and go back to it later.

When you pick the birdhouse up, you find that you cut the roof and floor segments un-evenly, looking more like a trapezoid. The panels are also poorly trimmed, so there are various bumps, ridges, and indentations in the already built construction. So the last two wall pieces you cut... don't fit. You also found that the hole for the peg for birds to perch on is too large for the peg, and the whole for birds to enter in is too small for the birds in your area. And you accidentally put the panel that was supposed to be the roof, on the bottom, so the whole contraption would hang upside down.



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This messed up birdhouse is pretty much the state of the Dark Powerset today. The sets mesh and work with each other as is, but not all archtypes are covered.

Now, lets say that Dark Control is one of the side walls that needs to be put on. Fine, it could easily be sized to fit the odd shape of the birdhouse and put into place.

However, now you have the other wall to worry about. Will it fit? Will the contraption make sense?

So in order to "fix" the birdhouse, you'd have to redo both panels at the same time, making sure to match their build to the existing structure.

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What you want, to put this analogy for the Dark Powers, is you want the developers to go ahead and cut a panel for dark control and smack it on the birdhouse and say "job done" and just get on with it.

The reality is, at some point, if the devs want to complete the job, their going to have to go back and metaphorically, put that last panel into place. What happens if they measured again on Dark Control? What happens if Dark Control has metaphorical bumps, ridges, and indentations?

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The blaster set is really the peg and wire hanger. They aren't big issues, and rather easy to fix, but even if you did them first, you'd still have an incomplete birdhouse.

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This is why the developers can't do just one and get it over with. They need to do all three power sets at once:
They need to make sure that the power-sets don't overlap infrastructure that is already in place, so they don't do things twice.

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And no, shattering the metaphorical birdhouse and starting from scratch is not an option.

Durakken : you are missing the point.

You are assuming that at some point the Primal Earth history and the Reichsman History were one in the same dimension.

You are assuming that this point of history is comparable in the terms of the two dimensions.

You are also assuming that Marcus Cole is inherently good and noble in all of his dimensional incarnations.

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We, at this point, don't have any proof that the history of Primal Earth and the Reichsman world are linked. As far as the game's current lore dictates, there is no distinction upon whether or not the Multi-Verse as we experience it through the High Level Peregine Island arcs is indeed a splintered possibility of various realities stemming from a common timeline: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Multiverse

The only indication that their might be a splintered timeline can be found in the Shadow Shard, where there is only one Rularuu the Ravager out of all of the dimensions, and that a portal to the Shadow Shard would take entities to the same Shadow Shard, regardless of their starting dimension.

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As we don't have any proof that the worlds are actually linked at any point in a relative time line, their histories cannot be compared.

The History of Reichsman's world does not require Marcus Cole to be inherently good. It does not require Stefan to have been present. It does not require the advancement of George Hamidon.

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Since the history of Reichsman's world does not require that Marcus Cole have been inherently good and noble, there's no reason to think that he was good and noble in that dimension.

It's very possible that he was downright twisted and evil from the start.

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So, we get what your going for. You are looking for some kind of massive reason "why the good Marcus Cole would do something so evil and become so evil"

Well. Drop that thought. Consider the possibility that Marcus Cole was evil from the start, and Reichsman is Reichsman because he's Reichsman.

what is so wrong is you are missing the point. You need to go read what Sunstorm said: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=213

ack! He noticed!

We've secretly replaceds the cream filling in Fedor's donut with Tapioca, and the glazing is made from Tapioca as well... lets see if he notices.

quick! rub her tummy! sooth the savage kitteh!

Need more information on your computer before we can answer: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219502

Although I'm going to go out and limb and ask in the most tired voice I can... Toshiba Laptop with Intel integrated graphics?

ack! She's a clawed kitty!

there aren't any to be had.

rumor has it that Chris Hook is still holed up in a German Biergarten muttering "that bloody Saist won't stop sending emails... won't stop sending emails... won't stop sending emails...

I think I've also caused Terry Makoden to run screaming out of a building at least once...

In all seriousness, I'm a "source-based" writer, and try to get answers on questions from the guys who actually make the hardware / write the drivers. So sometimes I send emails^^^^^^^^^^^(harrass the living daylights out of) specific people at AMD when it comes to ATi hardware. One of my big issues with Nvidia is that they barely ever return emails or try to explain what they are doing / why they are doing that. Even in person, locking down answers on the functions of an Nvidia product is like trying to get the history out of a car at a used car lot.

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Beyond that, I mostly keep track of the x.org mailing lists: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg :: http://lists.x.org/ :: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org :: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau

Keep an eye on some hardware review sites such as HardOCP, Phoronix, and XbitLabs...

And probably my favorite (and most annoying) place to link to is TechArp's GPU lists:
Desktop: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88
Mobile: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=98

eh. In all fairness. My bad experience with a Sapphire fan was the 4850, so it's possible that they did "fix" the noise problems when they got to the 57xx series.