I Want a Big Red Ball! -YAY-

While I agree with the Big Red Ball...

OMG what a necro post.

I think I see worms in it.

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I want a Big Red Ball!

No, no, not as power or anything, just in the game.

[censored]? u ask

lemme explain

In one zone in CoH (Talos) and one zone in CoV (Nerva) there should be a single big red ball that does absoutly nothing except when you attack it, it gets knocked back a bit. By every attack not just knockback attacks. It cant be destoryed or anything, just a Big Red Ball to hit around, thats it.

How big is big?

Well not huge. Just like 1 meter in diameter. Thats Big for a Red Ball!

The reason for just one and being in just one zone is so you dont run into it every time you log on. Maby you'll only run into it once a month or something, then youll be like "WOW! a Big Red Ball!" then you will knock it around for a few minuties laughing very hard then you will leave saying "What a cool Big Red Ball"

Whats the point?

A little extra thing like this would add tons of fun!

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This would be freaking awesome! Its the stupid yet fun little ideas like this that make games so much fun Waiting for a team? Chuck the ball around.

Need More of This and this.

I'd prefer it to be in Skyway myself. Talos doesn't need the traffic. It's already a central hub. I usually park my toons in Talos because I can get to pretty much anywhere in the game from Talos in roughly the same amount of time.

The Big Red Ball should go somewhere that doesn't currently have a lot of traffic. Not a lot of water, but it should have basketball courts, not that you could play basketball with it but it'd be silly fun to fail at getting a meter wide ball into a foot wide basketball hoop.

w00t Id hit a big red ball!! that would be awesomes!!

I'm a geek. I made a BRB shirt for PaX.

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As usual, Robo speaks truth.

...or maybe the ball should be available in multiple zones. Not at the same time. I mean it could appear in one of many zones and there would be some place where the ball needs to go, that would cause the ball to disappear from that zone. However, the 'goal' would not be easily marked. It could be a door or a building or other object, and once the ball hits that object it would disappear. Then a couple hours later it would reappear in a different zone.

So people would have to kinda happen upon it. It would not be like there's one spawn point in each zone. It could show up anywhere, and any one object or door could be the 'goal' that would cause it to disappear. No points awarded or anything, but maybe if you successfully find the ball and hit it with one of your powers, you get a badge.

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....Can we just let this thread die already? Heck even I have better stuff to do. LOL

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NEVER!

BRB for I 15!

Indig , leader of the City of Gaymers

best idea ive ever heard but there always the bullies who wont share the BRB

We not only need a BRB but they need to design a special co-op zone for it. A zone where its easy to find it and has a sort of skateboard arena feel to it with ramps and loop de loop hotwheels type tracks like a strange Arcade (the criminal mastermind in old Xmen comics) "game of death" would have designed. Maybe we need many BRB in the zone.

I was thinking of the BRB just the other night when I saw it in "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium"

...I so want a BRB now. Vote BRB for president in 2008!

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...I so want a BRB now. Vote BRB for president in 2008!

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Plz plz give us a BRB, this thread has survived for over two years with requests, hwo long would it take to code, really? We already have the code for immune things, give it -kb protection, or some such and give it to us....please?

Edit: Totally brilliant SO had the best Idea for this ever. Make it a Vet reward, can be summonable in any zone, every ~30 minutes or so, and sticks around, maybe lasts like an hour+ can be affected by anyone, but since its a vet reward, would be hard to grief.

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...I so want a BRB now. Vote BRB for president in 2008!

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Plz plz give us a BRB, this thread has survived for over two years with requests, hwo long would it take to code, really? We already have the code for immune things, give it -kb protection, or some such and give it to us....please?

Edit: Totally brilliant SO had the best Idea for this ever. Make it a Vet reward, can be summonable in any zone, every ~30 minutes or so, and sticks around, maybe lasts like an hour+ can be affected by anyone, but since its a vet reward, would be hard to grief.

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Come on, BABs, Castle? Join in some lighthearted talk about the BRB to get your mind off the Flames for a few minutes. How hard would this be?

petcom_all attack BRB

I'll roll a necro MM just to see those zombies go after that Big Red Ball.

BRB > i14 MA

Would this work if they made it an Arena thing? Up to eight people can join a team, go to the Arena, to a special BRB dais, they get transported to a random map with the BRB in the middle.

Or is the point of this to have something in an actual City Zone that we can affect? Maybe they can't get it to code right? I mean if we could get a Big Red Ball in the middle of Skyway City, then we could pick up cars and rip light posts out of the ground or throw trolls through a billboard sign.

I still want a Big Red Ball. It's just that I don't honestly know: is it impossible to do the BRB thing with the current game engine?

The problem is getting the physics effects to be rendered identically across all players. Right now, all physics bits are done locally and then the actual position of the object is later aligned to what the server says.

It usually comes out to about the same thing, but there's no guarantees, unfortunately. Lag or deficient hardware can verily mess with it and ruin one's BRB experience.

It pretty much can't be done for the same reason that everyone sees different objects being thrown by Propel.

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It pretty much can't be done for the same reason that everyone sees different objects being thrown by Propel.

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So i might be the only one to see giant clowns being thrown ?

Top secret info from I14

BRB has been included!!!



Well, I can dream can't I?

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The problem is getting the physics effects to be rendered identically across all players. Right now, all physics bits are done locally and then the actual position of the object is later aligned to what the server says.

It usually comes out to about the same thing, but there's no guarantees, unfortunately. Lag or deficient hardware can verily mess with it and ruin one's BRB experience.

It pretty much can't be done for the same reason that everyone sees different objects being thrown by Propel.

[/ QUOTE ]So when I smash the gate off the frame near Sister Psyche in IP, and kick it around the street for a while, no one else sees that?

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Good question Tripp. I knew about the different objects that propel created. I knew about the different shrapnel caused by invention tables or turrets exploding. But the gate is the gate. I wonder if multiple people can see it or not.

Oh yeah? Well I want a big robot : ) Or dragon. lol.

So we'll need a new physics engine. Then a Big Red Ball. It's worth it.