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Tankers...Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball(tm)!
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Happy Fun Ball
(kids)
It's Happy!
It's Fun!
It's Happy Fun Ball!
(announcer)
Yes, it's Happy Fun Ball, the toy sensation that's sweeping the nation. Only 14.95 at participating stores! Get one Today!
(background voice)
Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.
Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which if exposed due to rupture should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at. Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete. Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
* Itching
* Vertigo
* Dizziness
* Tingling in extremities
* Loss of balance or coordination
* Slurred speech
* Temporary blindness
* Profuse Sweating
* Heart palpitations
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime guarantee.
(announcer)
Happy Fun Ball! Accept no substitutes!
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-Sandolphan
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Wasn't this on Family Guy or something?
One more vote for the Big Red Ball!!!
Big Red Ball!
Big Red Ball!
Big Red Ball!
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Wasn't this on Family Guy or something?
One more vote for the Big Red Ball!!!
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I think this was actually a Saturday Night Live, or a Mad TV, skit.
That being said...
+1 vote for the BRB!
It was mentioned that the image of the BIG RED BALL would only be seen by you, the user. Well, everyone can see objects left behind from using Propel, the image is just random for each person from the list of objects that Propel can produce. Wouldn't it be possible, in theory, to do the same sort of thing with the BIG RED BALL ? It would have to have its own separate coding from Propel, but the point is, it would have the physics to get bounced around and with only one object available to be produced, everyone would see the same thing. Am I making sense?
=^..^=. o O (Nothing to see. Just a cat.)
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Wasn't this on Family Guy or something?
One more vote for the Big Red Ball!!!
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I think this was actually a Saturday Night Live, or a Mad TV, skit.
That being said...
+1 vote for the BRB!
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It was an SNL commercial parody from around 1998.
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
I concure. Excellent idea!
Man. This is some following. BIG RED BALL FANS, now is YOUR chance to Vote on the Power Sets YOU want to see in CoX
Voting limit was increased to four, so cast two more votes in you already voted.(yes I am checking andpaying attention to revotes)
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Devs, if you don't do this, I will hate you forever. I don't care if you have to hire a whole BRB dev team, WE NEED A BIG RED BALL.
>_> I killed the big red ball thread...I'm sorry...
And for CoV... The Big Red Morning Star Mace!!! yay bring fear and terror! Kick! Ow my foot! YAY!
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Actually I think _Castle_ killed it. Nothing like telling a bunch of overgrown kids that they can't have their ball. 
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They can kill the thread. They can deny the possibility. They can make excuses for why it won't work how we want. They can try to quash the idea and they may hope we forget about it and move on to a new topic.
But they can never take away our dreams of a Big Red Ball future!
Vive le BRB revolution!!!!
"Don't unravel them-- your ears were meant to be that way."
-Steve Aylett
There IS a simple way to do it, but the simple way is time consuming. Give EVERY Power in the game a TINY Knockback component. Then, make it so that it has to be more than that amount to knockback any MOB that is -5 Levels or Higher to the person using the power. This would actually accomplish two things:
1) The Big Red Ball would become possible, if you were to give it a negative number of Knockback Resistance, so that a Broadsword Scrapper using HeadSplitter and something that increases Magnitude of KB would knock the ball against a wall. Using current CoH Programs, the ball would not bounce, true, but it could still be knocked around.
2) When a Lv. 50 Hero goes into Atlas Park to play with the MOBs in areas that nobody goes to, every single power will send the MOB sprawling, as if he were hit with extreme power. Makes more sense that way, anyway.
Besides, I recently noticed a Bug when fighting Lusca that had a Car in the water. When my Character bumped into the Car, the Car went flying. I haven't seen it since, but I know it wasn't on my end, because someone else told me that it was "cool".
To The Devs: You guys are doing a WONDERFUL Job!! In all of the MMOs I've played, this one has the Fewest annoying bugs, the most beautiful design, and IMHO, is the most fun. It may take some time, but if you could just assign one Programmer to the task for awhile, he could even create his own "Test" server of sorts, and mod himself up with all kinds of powers. Time consuming? Extremely. Worth it? Well...Just ask the people who have posted here 
Dont even need a knock back power. Meny items in the game react to your charater bumping into them. Just make the "BIG RED BALL" able to be knocked around just by coming into contact with a toon.
Soccer would be playable (Maybe the DEVs will make a soccer field.
A little harder to do but if they gave the ball a bit of angled knock up, we could play volley ball. (All bikini wearing toons report to Port Oaks)
a PvP soccer game! or even.... dodge ball! woo hoo! tht would rock play dodge ball, or playing medic.
It loops...I was wondering how long it would take. That's the most simple fun I've had since Pong. 
Hey.
that whole Castle thing was a cop out.
As of late, if a grav NPC or player, uses Propel, after the object hits the target, it doenst dissappear.
I have seen numerous couched, tanks, fork lifts, and boxes laying around, that all you have to do it run into them and they move.
The fast you run into them, the fast and farther they go.
why not just make this bug permanent to a new type of NPC.
Call them the ballmasters, they have only one power, propel, that are lvl 100, so you can't kill them.
And when they strike you with the propel or the big red ball, you get seriosu knockback, then the ball is left lying around for people to run into.
you don't have to attack it, then enertia alone would make it plausable.
I have tested this theory.
I had my friend use propel in atlas park, the couch stayed.
I then had him run into the couch, both he and I saw the couch go flying into the air and land in the same place, thus, cross platform/player compatability with both physical and visual effects.
Now that we have the basis for it, Damnit Castle, GIVE US THE BIG RED BALL!
PS: I don't give a damn if your schedule is busy, I can safely say, that we would DEFINATEly allow you all to deticate your time to this ball and push off i8 for a while, considering you develop to make us happy, and the big red ball makes us happy, prioritize man!
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I have tested this theory.
I had my friend use propel in atlas park, the couch stayed.
I then had him run into the couch, both he and I saw the couch go flying into the air and land in the same place, thus, cross platform/player compatability with both physical and visual effects.
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I don't think the objects remaining is a bug - I think it's a feature. But when it first started doing that, testing I did on teams indicated that the graphics were different for everyone (much like how the Propel power generates a different object for each person). If that has changed, well, then, I don't really see why we CAN'T have a big red ball.
Give us our Big Red Ball!
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Who would have thought that a Big Red Ball would sound like so much fun?
Cuppa wants a Big Red Ball too
Exactly how many pages do we have to make before it becomes clear, that this isnt a Joke, set aside time as a dev team and GIVE US A DARNED BALL NO MATTER HOW MANY DAYS IT TAKES TO DEVELOP!
*Ps: If you don't ill put on the chewbacca defense
Silly idea, but I really don't want to read through all the back pages.
I understand that Phosyb posted (or maybe it was Positron) that it is the client side graphics that determines what object you see when an object is subject to physics interaction.
Could, say for like an event, a patch be made that any object subject to physics is a big red ball?
Yes, mailboxes might look like big red balls.
Yes, the signs at some buildings would be big red balls.
Yes, the gates to ceratin park areas would be big red balls.
But what an event.
2 or 3 days of nothing but big red ball kicking.
You probably would have to tie a badge to it...or you could make a time specific badge to it for the time of the patch (i.e. Reveler, Celebrant, etc.)
Sometimes, I impress my boss. Sometimes, I impress myself. The rest of the time, I scare people. I can live with that.
awww.... i really liked this idea