spice_weasel

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Maybe I'm blind, but is the chat bug fixed in either build?

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Not unless it didn't make it into the patch notes.

*shrug* Might be harder to fix than anyone realizes.

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wwwwwwwweeeeeqqqqqqqqqqqsssMaybe so.

You'd think it would be high priority since it can actually "remember" your password from the login screen. If someone isn't paying attention, they could pretty easily broadcast their password to an entire zone.

It's not just a chat bug. It's a security issue, imo.

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interesting perspective on the chat bug, and one that needs to verified. to date i have seen a very few instances of captured text from a previous text session showing up due to the chat bug. at most it's been the last few letters of the previous text or a string of movement/action keying.

have you had it happen to you or have you seen it happen to someone else?

under what circumstances was a password revealed?

did it include a user name?

are a significant number of global names and account login names the same? (if yours, the reader's is, then obviously change it for your own peace of mind )


inquiring minds and all that.

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tl;dr


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+1

i would love to see a version of this 'thing'

http://www.otherlandtoys.co.uk/images/thing2.jpg

in such a way that it continues to morph, and absorbs certain power functionality from whomever it's fighting.

would make for an interesting foundation to work through shape shifting/ power shifting for use as a power structure for players.

/2inf

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I was getting greedy in the Inf Destruction Project, trying to shuffle things with really high priced tags AND make money. I've pulled in my horns a little (where does that phrase come from? It makes no sense. They're HORNS, they're fixed, that's how they work. Right? ) and gone back to making 5-10 million on a 5-10 million investment, per item lovingly handcrafted and sold. (I don't like "Crap" as a portmanteau word. For some reason.)

I would like to go through ten slots a day a character. Also I would like a pony.

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just fyi Ful:
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pull in one's horns idiom
Also, draw in one's horns.
Retreat, back down, restrain oneself, as in The town manager wanted higher taxes but public reaction made him draw in his horns. This expression alludes to the snail's habit of drawing in the soft projecting parts of its body when it is threatened. The idea was first expressed in the 15th century as shrink one's horns, and the idiom with draw developed about the same time. The idiom with pull did not appear until a century later.
Reduce expenses, as in That drop in profits will force the company to pull in its horns. [Late 1800s]

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http://www.yourdictionary.com/idioms...in-one-s-horns

was an interesting question, thought i'd look.

i'd heard of twixt from the pvp forums and always found it interesting to note the high end ego venom from those who fought him. that's the one thing that always bothered me with pvp, the attempts to move the fight to verbal ground.

if it wasn't obvious from a few months of playing that he was basically trolling pvp for personal use, it certainly is now. in this case though, trolling in pvp amounted to playing unconventionally (according to players) but well within the defined rules of both the engine and environment.

i can't tell you the number of stalkers my claw/sr scrapper used to deal with in siren's call (i6-i12) while being lashed at for not only beating them, but beating them with an unconventional character. lol claws / lol sr / etc.

of course, now, i wouldn't bring E within a stones throw of most pvp zones unless i was helping a friend after the debacle known as DR.

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I'm still kind of confused why heroes are launching the missile though. Unless it's assumed that we are launching an payload-less missle into the sea where it will only cause a small ecological disaster instead of the huge catastrophe it would cause if the villains launched it into Paragon City with its payload intact.

[/ QUOTE ]Heroes are launching the warheads into space, where they can later call them down on their desired target... generally always in Paragon City.

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you'd think there would be a conflict of interest there...somewhere....

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That said, it's coming to a point where they may as well merge the markets. After spending some time on the Hero side of things and enjoying my many millions made from selling things cheap and snagging huge bids, the harsh truth of the Villain market is starting to depress me. Few items seem to sell at all, and when they do, they sell for very low prices. Most salvage that even has anyone bidding sells for below vendor price, and most doesn't have a single soul looking to have it. Whether that's due to population differences or the fact that people are off grinding the AP Architect, I cannot say, but I'd enjoy a unified market. We might as well.


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i'm neither for, or against, merging the markets.

i would like to specifically rebut the suggestion that there is no stock, or worthwhile opportunity, in the redside marketplace however.

over the past few weeks i began to replay some of my villain characters and market dipping for recipes/io's for personal use, not for resale. duirng that time i played a lvl 30 brute and lvl 50 corrupter. a few sf's or hami raids here n there. by few, i mean less than 5 apiece for both characters over several weeks.

in that time, through regular drops and random rewards rolls via the merit vendor, i've made approx 300,000,000. just from recipes, no premade io's, no salvage sold or even posted.

the possibilities are there and patience is the key. obviously the system was not designed to create billionaires overnight, despite the grandstanding of market forum goers about the many billions won or lost in tussles over the price of lucky charms.

the tortoise and the hare my friend, it has some application here.

why is it i keep hearing his posts as if a voice from west side story, complete with the gang dance fight and the snapping of the fingers....

theme song for going rouge.

possibly worse than a rick roll.

you were warned.

<----really needs to type faster....


you can get your story bearings while another leads a task force by looking at the mission text present during the active mission and the clues text.

another way to get the same text experience of the leader is paragon wiki to give you a complete view of the story as it is given to the leader by the contact, as well as some supporting information.

have fun


edited for self deprecation

makes me wonder about the more insane things people have tried to use in the ww/bm to transfer influence.

personal best was doing it with inspirations, and i was sweating it the whole time. i have no idea what the next person, who tried to buy a medium green, thought of the multiple 90,000,000 inf sales.

anyone else have a radical vector they've used to transfer through?

with july 4th and the current bug to repairmen that hit with the i15 drop i'll assume no mostf runs this weekend?

for those unaware: a bug has hit in the stf that allows repairmen to heal the tower upon spawn, but before you can do anything about them.

there have been some anecdotal posts about being able to finish anyway, but i'll wait to hear from the regulars who participate/lead.

thoughts?

thnks.

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EDIT: I'm not trying to be a fanboi here. It *IS* upsetting that years of negative feedback on things like the Posi TF and the Shadow Shard TFs have resulted in no changes at all. I am disappointed in the current state of the Hero TF and hope they make some key improvements. I'm not trying to say that the devs are infallible. I'm just saying that your extreme position of "the devs never listen and don't give a rip what we think" is absurd.

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jet pack vendors were added as a 'fix' to the shard allowing all players easy access to the zones themselves. it was a simple, quick fix that did not require 4 hr meetings that likely sound much like the feedback forums except spoken in math.

speaking of math.

i sometimes get the feeling that, much like the operators onboard the ships in the matrix films, the TPB in CoX see it in terms of cascading code that suggests: blonde, brunette, redhead. except the redhead has a crooked nose, the blonde's ears are high on her head, and the brunette always wanted to be blond.

interesting thread, hate to see it drop.

might make for a neat project to have customized cursors reflecting a power attribute of some kind. flaming, sparkly, whatnot.

it's been 142 years.

the botox has really helped around the eyes.

happy canada day guys n girls from the best country in the world.

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Discuss!

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no, and you can't make me.

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Power of Scirocco (Special) Corrupters/Dominators
Using Sciroccos's Power grants you the ability to Hold or Kill all 5th Column enemies present.

Note: 80 ft AoE Mag 3 Hold and defates held targets and Summons Sand Devils which will kill any held target.

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the dominator version looks like electric fences, holding a good majority of the present ambushes. this power should be used first, if no dominator is present to have received the power, then any hold will allow the 2nd part of scirocco's power (the corruptor version of the scirocco power) to spawn a series of whirlwinds, which will then defeat all held foes.

if the hold is not present, all you'll get from the corr is a few dust devils and sinking feeling it wasn't enough.

edited for swine flu.

yes, handel is a global issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJq2MwI9IPg

but if it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

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Now that Im more relaxed, cuz I was mad as a hornet last night.

Still borked, period. Hour & Half fight to never see him drop below half & watching him phase & go to full again. This fun how?

Why does redside become forced to have very specialized teams, while blueside can bring whatever, have a costume contest in middle of the fight, while half team is dancing, still win this? Makes no sense(yes bit over top, but folks are calling this the new Katie, gotta be a reason for it)

If this all broken, why was it even released? If folks pointed this out to Devs, bemoaned about it in the Beta, still pile of poo, then why was it released again?

Fact there is a requirement to have specific A.T.'s to make this work, again screws people over, imagine if your on a lower pop server for some reason you can't find a Stalker or a Mastermind or whatever, then how can they have fun doing this?

Why are we forced to have Shivans, Vanguard Robots, "insert random temp power here", to even do this Strikeforce, when said powers are suppose to be optional in this game, then all sudden becomes mandatory? (Sounds like LRSF doesnt it?, which is whole another angry)

At what point does this become a Fun SF? As I stated I enjoyed the first 2-3 mishes(when he woke up, kicked our but in the cut scene) I thought ok that was neat, then it went downhill from there.

All these are valid questions.


JJ

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My guess is the TF is borked. My team didn't have the problems you did. Once we started fighting Reichs it took 10 or 15 minutes to kill him. I'm not sure why....

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just a note to point out that the initial greeting to the imperious tf had many scratching their heads and calling down fire from the sky for a while as well.

happy duemsday

will be interesting to follow.

i wonder if this might be followed up with changes in the great fire wall to block mmo servers in some way or another to 'save the children'.

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Hmmm that new TF can be done in an hour :l I was kinda hoping for more out of it....

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damn, was hoping the latest feedback would promote a few changes for kahn. i still like the first mission though.

the 'cuda sf is fun with the steamroller the 5th bring onwhile fighting reich. at least it keeps one on one's toes.

annnnd good morning from the pacific.

carbon credits are not a neutral commoditization of resource and waste management issues with real world effects. expect a completely new transactional authority within an indexed framework where the only change is the fattening of the index traders wallets.

in this case 1-1 does not equal 0.

this has always been doubleplusgood.

happy sunday from the carbon trading arm of monsanto.

yes, this has been a troll. does that make it implicitly false?

why, good morning mr.mod.....no, put the stick down....

if it's on virtue i'd be interested as well.

i was part of an all scrap stf a very, very, long time ago and we were stumped at aeon on that one. iirc it was the first all scrap stf scheduled as every other a.t. had done one by that point. glad to hear some groups made it and i'd love another go for pride's sake.

@neural overload

E-Razor 50 claw/sr/body (io'd out the wazoo now compared to then )
Blazing Blood bs/fire (not so much in the io dept)

give me a shout if you have a space and a time.

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Since I'm not sure Memphis_Bill is gonna chime in here...

One of the most used Cut/Paste replys out there.
Thank Memphis_Bill for this...



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tl;dr


this is a conspiracy theory thread.

reasonable thought is not appreciated.

i understand going rogue has a built in feature that utilizes a virtual overlap via goggles and a 3gs iphone to allow you to turn new york or kansas into atlas park or mercy island at your whim. as well as a disclaimer that you are not actually a superhero/villain and to be responsible when taking anyone into custody when using this feature.


ty, and good night.

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BLATANTLY INSANE CONSPIRACY THEORY:

This time next year we will have one "Uber server". No more Freedom, Virtue, French, German, Heroside, Villainside. Just the City of Heroes game.

The entire game will be on "one server" (may not be one PHYSICAL server, but everyone can play with each other at the same time)

You log in, pick your character, and start playing. If you're a hero you may start in a hero zone, but you can go anywhere from there, and vice versa. The Euro servers will also be merged in as well and there will be one gigantic "City of" world!

All the changes so far look like they are leading up to this, all little steps that hint in the way of "consolidation" of everything.

One "server", one "forum", for everyone.

*adjusts tin foil hat and wears it with pride*

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i recall a red name post some time ago that discussed the possibility of merging all servers into one environment, including the ability to travel on foot/flight/whatever from atlas to peregrine (give or take a war wall). i haven't been able to find the post since though dammit.

it really has me curious for what tricks going rogue brings to the table. an early rollout of a single server environment in the subset of rogue owners?


/tin foil hats off to you