rian_frostdrake

we will miss you, good fortume in your future stuff.

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Hey! Don't you guys know necromancy is banned by the mage's guild?

[/ QUOTE ]yeah they got nerfed because the underking was using 'sploitz.

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Costume pieces awarded during the 2007 Valentine’s event are once again available to players that have earned them.



I dont think I ever looked at what those pieces were I earned. So they werent available this whole time? Anyone have pics?

[/ QUOTE ]hearts was disabled when i tried to get them for a new costume for violet. was wondering about that.
bleeding qr, lapped by 2 people with saner work times i see:P

got one tonight about 1030ish on liberty, petitioned his butt.

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*Eyeballs burst into flames*

HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!

AAAUUUUGGGHHH!

[/ QUOTE ]you may recognize him as the bad guy in every single 80's antics comedy ever.

since i apparently didnt answer yet, yes, not that liberty has a very active zone pvp community, but when i do i have fun. kid changed his avatar???????

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Jason Rowe kind of made me feel sad at first, but then I thought, that's who these kind of games are perfect for. In-game, he can be who he wants to be, no one sees his disability and feels sorry for him (like I did when I first saw the picture.) I imagine virtual worlds can be a great outlet, they allow people who are constantly treated as different to be treated just like everyone else for awhile.

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QFT Vox - I felt the exact same way. The virtual world cares a lot less about RL physical handicaps. As long as you have some sort of interface to a computer, you're set.

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He's made news before, I remember hearing about him back when I was playing swg.

I wouldn't feel bad for the disabled who get to play with games like this. I do feel bad for that morbidly obese kid who plays EQ 80 hours a week. I'm not passing judgement, since his weight problem could be caused by other things, however if his sedentary lifestyle is what's leading to it, then he needs to get out more.

I liked the piece, I just wish the screenshots had been a bit higher quality. Also, there are a lot better looking costume options out there.

[/ QUOTE ]actually he was 55, 80 was the swg guy, and really, good on him, in the virtual world he can run, walk, jump, dance, in reality he cant do those things. Its one of those good things that virtual worlds can do. the second life software developer played for 70 hours too.

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It is indeed curious that WoW is represented so lightly. I daresay when the average person (or even gamer) hears the term "MMO", they first think of the most widely-publicized. WoW has 6+ million subscribers, yet has one picture. Co* has 200k or so (arguable but close), and has four. Second Life has five, and it looks like they have 70k or so.

Does it mean anything, this low WoW score? Nah, probably not, maybe the NYT realizes the game gets too much free press as it is.

[/ QUOTE ]i was wondering that too, also the second place online game, guild wars, had none. perhaps they went with people who volunteered, it makes sense that a game that allows you to have more freedom of character creation would have people taking more pride in showing off their characters than one where you can only pick from a few premade templates. I know that i feel like a own rian frostdrake a lot more than seung frost(my guild wars main)

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After I saw Harisu I googled her (..>_&gt Then went to images. And came across this.. =\

Theres even an wikipedia entry on her.

[/ QUOTE ]yeep. eh screw it, shes a she now, im not splitting hairs and besides, shes apparently married anyhow.

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Jason Rowe kind of made me feel sad at first, but then I thought, that's who these kind of games are perfect for. In-game, he can be who he wants to be, no one sees his disability and feels sorry for him (like I did when I first saw the picture.) I imagine virtual worlds can be a great outlet, they allow people who are constantly treated as different to be treated just like everyone else for awhile.

[/ QUOTE ]intersting thing about him, i noticed he was a marksman, and i can see how that would be a good class for someone who had physical difficulties, since if they play like they did when i played, they are very focused on that first killer shot, and he probably got by on the rest with macros.

I felt bad for the poor guy who was the eq2 barbarian, he was brave to put hsi pic up, but a lot of people will probably point out that he looked the most like a steriotyped mmo player, since he was heavier. Gotta give him credit for having the guts to still put his pic out there.
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I'm off to the store, and it's an attention-deficit announcement thread, so it'll be a short post.

- Anshe Chung is known outside the Second Life community as a successful virtual hospitality and real estate entrepreneur. She made the cover of BusinessWeek! Are any of the other photographed people newsmakers?

- There's a significant omission here. The biggest American MMORPG doesn't appear in the slideshow, even once! Is it because of their not-so-customizable avatars? Is it because of their cutthroat IP policy and history of litigiousness? Or is this a good old fashioned press snub?

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He's talking about Second Life I think. I'd call that more of an interactive chat room than a game though.

[/ QUOTE ]they have 4 sl players there, the bhuddist monk,the mom, the blue skinned girl, and ashe cheung

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entrepreneur. She made the cover of BusinessWeek! Are any of the other photographed people newsmakers?

- There's a significant omission here. The biggest American MMORPG doesn't appear in the slideshow, even once! Is it because of their not-so-customizable avatars? Is it because of their cutthroat IP policy and history of litigiousness? Or is this a good old fashioned press snub?

[/ QUOTE ]wow is there, eq2 is there, coh is very represented, are you referring to guild wars maybe? Edit: oh and back off hirasu, shes mine!!! she just dosent know it yet.

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Great interview. The Pain Pads story was funny. Sick but funny.


I'm glad to see there's some one else out there that gets tired of hearing people complain about dubs vs subbed anime .

[/ QUOTE ]me too, that was one thing that used to tick me off in the old diehard gamefan magazine, they were sub elitests. Luckily dvd generally solved that problem, as now we have both, made especially funny in the ghost story anime, where the sub is the actual script, but the dub is outright insane, offensive, and really really funny.

hmm so it looks dim for long skirts. fair enough, im glad he answered. shame he didnt say anything about the oft asked wolf tails question, i was kind of hoping for something on that. and 4 sets for i10, rockin, i cant wait to see them. and im glad he kept his humorous tone, unlike the sticks in the mud, i expect cryptic guys to have some fun with their jobs, so long as they dont sacrifice clarity to do it. oh and did anyone notice that he mentions a cotume set that dosnet mimic the carnies, but emulates them? sweeet. charlie in a box is getting him a makeover come i10 maybe?

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Not to be negative, but is this one of those things that is annoucned now, but we wont see hide nor hair of for 3-6 months?

[/ QUOTE ]depends, if they release an issue and its a buggy unplayable piece of crap, then what did we gain? it will be done when its done, and not before. I just hope they budget their time well and can pull it off in a reasonable time frame. id say a minimum of 2 months before the closed beta starts, but who knows, this dosent seem to be introducing any radical new tech, so maybe it wont be bad.

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Issue 10: Invasion, the tenth upcoming free expansion since the launch of City of Heroes® in -->April 2004<--

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Okay, either Issue 10 is officially over 3 YEARS late ...

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... somebody let Statesman "do the math" again ...

[/ QUOTE ]no, its the tenth expansion since coh was released in april 04, which is when the original game was released. thats not saying when i10 is coming, its saying the original launch date of coh.

AANYHOW lev35-50 content, hell yeah
more dynamic rikti content, oh hell yeah
craftable costume pieces again, bloody hell, ah well, ill deal, i got mine pretty fast anyhow.
co-op, oh heck yeha, violet was always more a hero in bad circumstances than a villian anyhow, time to dominate for heroes.

overall, im impressed, one thing i must ask, after faultline i cant go back, can we please blow up rikti ships, please, they look so cool and evil, and i just want to smash them into pieces.

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Issue 9 has introduced all the worst qualities of WoW. Auction houses and "uber loot" were precisely the things I left that game over. City's main advantage over said game is character customization in the form of costume options. Locking those up as "shineys" was a step in the wrong direction. These new "features" are a incentive to go back.

[/ QUOTE ]are you really comparing the cordoning off of about 10 or so costume options to the entire loot centric nature of wow? thats not a slippery slope argument, thats an atomic supercollider. i dont like costume parts in inventions, but thats a jump that defies any rational evidence. literally 99.9 percent of the options are still open to you, and loot is never as needed in standard model mmo's like wow and eq2, so rationally, if you are thinking of leaving because of the implementation of loot, then you must have other reasons to go.

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A: New Costumes - No contest there for me. However, the drop rates and corresponding prices (30,000,000 for Fairy Wings) are pretty scary. The last option of this poll [Personal Storage] is a joke.


[/ QUOTE ]we need to be fair about one thing, 30 million for fairy wings is only heroside, vllianside it tends to top out at 8 mill.also the price hasnt been true for a several days now. prices tend to spike on weekends and die on monday, but fairy wings tend to float closer to 20-25 mill, still high, but a good bit less than you quote. a few high rolls may hit due to someone with more cash than sense blowing a large wad of cash, but thats a higher than average sale. finally it should be noted that fiary wing are an outlier, most wings are hovering at 10 mill or lower and some boots have often dipped lower than a million. i got my friend piston boots for 500,000 after having the bid up for less than 10 hours. which for a level 50 is 2-3 contact missions(scanners seem shorter) on rugged out of sg mode. maybe half an hour's work

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Second, if I wanted those things, I have two chances of getting them: slim and no. Furthermore, if I get them on a character, chances are that I won't be able to use them on that character. And if I make a character that would use them, chances are that I won't get them.

[/ QUOTE ]just to address this, costume recipies are, like other recipies, tradeable. i have yet to get a costume piece that i used for the character for whom i was using it, but so long as you have one friend who can help you play recipie hocky, you can trade them. thats how i got the 4 costume pieces i am using thus far on the right lowbies..

i gave it a fairly satisfied 4 stars, the costume bits being tied to inventions bugged me, And there really werent any new bits of story or mission content outside of the stf and new hami. but otherwise, i felt inventions were very well implemented and i enjoy crafting, which is a surprise given my past experiences with it in other games. so now lets see about those powersets that were originally supposed to be part of the expansion pack and maybe that epic at that was also supposed to be part of it. and lets NOT tie costume bits into inventions again, ok? I love everything else.

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A Regen, loathes, detests, and hates with a burning passion from heaven, when a defender or controller, especially an empathy, claims that they are keeping him alive and he needs to stay closer. NEVER SAY THIS! This is a stupid and mindless thing to tell a Regen scrapper. The Regen will now hate you. He may come closer but he will loath the very core of that defender forever and into eternity. Regens are fully capable of healing themselves, and they know their limitations and will seldom exceed them. Once a Regen gets Instant Healing they seldom require healing, so never ever claim you are keeping a Regen alive.


[/ QUOTE ]would you be insinuating that empaths only benefit to you is a HEAL? i think you are, and i think a few of my fellow defender players have something of an opinion on that.

EDIT: maybe ill just fortitude and adrenaline boost that nice energy/energy blaster over there, she is offing her targets faster anyhow, and her knockback attacks make the scrappers sputter so...

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*trudge trudge trudge*

Oh, look, there's my objective on the other side of that small hill! I'll just cruise right over. Right over. Hmm. Can't get over the hill. Oh, come on, the hill isn't even waist high, I could hop over. If I can't go over the hill, I'd have to take the loooong way around on the path.

Sigh.

*trudge trudge trudge* *fight fight fight* *trudge trudge trudge*

20 minutes later...

Time to go back to CoH!

[/ QUOTE ]cool someone else plays that wonderful semi-mmo where your assasin/whatever, who hops around like a monkey on crack while fighting, cant jump up a simple set of rocks.

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Controllers will find themselves greatly desired in the final battle if the team wants to have any chance of winning

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Please tell me he didn't just say that you don't have any chance of winning without a Controller?

- Jock Tamson, Who lacks active Controllers in his SG.

[/ QUOTE ]you know, that gave me a shiver too actually, want=good, need=bad

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Many people on these forums are becoming increasingly worried about attacks on developers and moderators. They say it's not only cruel, vicious and immoral, but also blatantly unfair. The moderator is heavy, violent, abusive and aggressive with four legs and great sharp teeth, whereas the people attacking them are usually only a small, greasy Spaniard. Given this basic inequality what can be done to make fighting the moderators safer?

Well, basically it's quite apparent that these little dago chappies have got it all wrong. They prance round the moderator like a lot of bally night club dancers looking like the Younger Generation or a less smooth version of the Lionel Blair Troupe, with much of the staccato rhythms of the Irving Davies Dancers at the height of their success. In recent years Pan's People have often recaptured a lyricism and what we must do now is to use devices like radar to locate the moderator and SAM missiles fired from underground silos, to knock Lighthouse over. Then I would send in Scottish boys with air cover to provide a diversion for the rednames, whilst the navy came in round the back and finished him off. That to me would be moderator-fighting and not this pansy kind of lyrical, evocative movement which George Balanchine and Martha Graham in the States and our very own Sadler's Wells troops could also be used in an auxiliary role in international chess, where... What? ... oh...

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Currently listening to Albert King's Live Wire / Blues Power

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/unsigned.

Seems too many fanbois /unsign everything that people suggest so I'm going to start /unsigning everything fanbois post.

Right back at ya, fanbois.


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How's it feel?

[/ QUOTE ]nothing makes one's rational standing more apparent than their use of the word fanboi, its like a big red sign saying, "Well thought out opinion" you go and shine on you crazy diamond you.

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Thanks for the support!

To be honest, criticism comes with the job. I'm not fond of personal attacks, but I understand that people are passionate. Heck, I worked in a comic book store (yep, I was comic book guy), so I understand the vagaries of working with the customer. One thing is tantamount, however - you guys are the PAYING subscribers. I might not like the feedback, but everyone is entitled to an opinion. Admittedly, honey is usually more effective than vinegar, but I always try to look beyond that...

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Honey was my yearly subscriptions which you wont be getting anymore. Its month to month from now on for me how do you like that vinegar?

[/ QUOTE ]it does illustrate the original point rather nicely.