Discussion: The City Scoop July 6th 2007
By
Agahnim,
Posted on: 2007-07-06 24:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
Double art section FTW!
I also loved the Liz interview and the Bayani one was quite informative too! 
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Hmm, I think the lead story should have mentioned that the Steel 70 thing happened on Test and that the strategy employed has already been negated by the Devs.
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Yeah, we've been talking it over amongst ourselves, too, and we can't figure out why we didn't mention that it was on Test. Good call, Ironik, thanks.
Mentioning the patch, though that's tricky. We posted at 12:09 PM, but Lighthouse posted the updated patch at 2:50 PM. Darn those sneaky devs!
Considering that the news of the Steel 70 event took place last week, it wouldn't be suprising that an "interesting development" took place shortly after the print (or, in role-playing terms, beforehand if you want to amend the issue in some way).
I would suggest removing the paragraph involving the strategies we mentioned such as the "Slow" powers. You can fill that space if you have to by mentioning how "Before the attack began, several Heroes removed their capes, a symbol of dedicating the battle to Hero 1 and all who the Rikti have taken from their loved ones. It was a clear sign of Humanity's defiance against the alien threat, recalling the original act of commemoration that was made in the wake of Omega Team's sacrifice." That should fit nicely and remove the problem about the strategy fix. Besides, the cape thing is partually true: Several of us removed our capes and wings to try and reduce lag (hense why I'm not wearing mine in the screenshot).
Raid Leader of Task Force Vendetta "Steel 70", who defeated the first nine Drop Ships in the Second Rikti War.
70 Heroes, 9 Drop Ships, 7 Minutes. The Aliens never knew what hit them.
Now soloing: GM-Class enemy Adamaster, with a Tanker!
Thanks for the suggestion, Sylph. In my limited experience in fooling with the "post as HTML" function on these boards, it's pretty danged difficult to edit HTML once it's been posted it tries to re-format as UBB code.
We'll see what can be done, though.
Awesome. Again, just a suggestion. The complete version of the revision might be worded more like this:
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The Heroes of Task Force Vendetta are now calling themselves the Steel 70 in reference to the place and number of Heroes involved. And before the attack began, several of them removed their capes as a symbol of dedicating the battle to Hero 1 and the sacrifice of Omega Team. The act was a clear sign of Humanity's continued defiance against the alien threat, recalling Omega Team's valiant sacrifice in the first war once again.
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This is fairly close to the length and size of the original text. It should hopefully ease some issues regarding the strategy that was woven into the story by replacing it with a meaningful reference. Again, like you said, not sure how well this can be implemented, but hopefully it will be of use.
Raid Leader of Task Force Vendetta "Steel 70", who defeated the first nine Drop Ships in the Second Rikti War.
70 Heroes, 9 Drop Ships, 7 Minutes. The Aliens never knew what hit them.
Now soloing: GM-Class enemy Adamaster, with a Tanker!
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Valks Behind the Mask interested me
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>.>
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Freedom/Victory/Repeat Offenders/Hot Bods REPRESENT!!
*throws up an attempted sign of some sort*
*is the sign for 'I love you'*
*shrugs*
Thankies Tundie.
"A good Defender is the battle hardened Corpsman who will kill a Nazi with a tongue depressor while putting a splint on your leg, then hand you a fresh clip of ammo." ~Jock_Thompson
Repeat Offenders, TNT Profile, My little hero
Found another typo. Hopefully the last one.
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Researchers from Vanguard, the special UN organized sent in to aid the city, have expressed much excitement since the wreckage was brought into their laboratory the following morning.
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Organized should be organization.
Not an important typo by any means though. Again, great job Scoop Team.
Raid Leader of Task Force Vendetta "Steel 70", who defeated the first nine Drop Ships in the Second Rikti War.
70 Heroes, 9 Drop Ships, 7 Minutes. The Aliens never knew what hit them.
Now soloing: GM-Class enemy Adamaster, with a Tanker!
Another great edition. I really missed the advice column from LiquidX however. Hope that comes back next time as it is often my favorite section.
This was a pretty good one. Arguements about its appropriateness aside, that was a great article about the attack on the drop ship. Though I noticed the "State of the Archetype" column was missing this week. That one's always interesting.
Currently published Mission Architect arcs:
Arc ID# 70466: From the Abyss.
Arc ID# 403174: The Serpent's Revenge.
Arc ID# 534236: The Clockwork Angel.
Yup SotA was one of those 'real life' things that came up, same with Liquid's column I think. It should be back next week.
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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We'll work on getting that fixed for you. We're not quite at the stage where we can triple check every name we get, but you have my apologies.
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Completely understandable...I know that typos can happen and it's impossible to check every little detail (heck, we're all only human!). Many thanks for working on getting it fixed Lemur_Lad! I really appreciate it!