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Abraxxus

By Abraxxus,
Posted on: 2009-05-29 10:25 in Developers' Corner

 

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Just a quick question: How old is the Clockwork King?

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I asked Hero 1 that question a year or two ago, and he stated that the Clockwork King was in his early 20s while Penelope Yin was 18 and just entering college.

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The beta for the came ended with a massive invasion that killed off all the heroes at the time in preparation for the live game in May of 2004.


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The Rikti invasion that happened on the last day of CoH Beta never happened. That is, it's a non-canon event. It was just a big send off for everyone that participated in the beta.

 

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perhaps you hadn't noticed this about the Tarantulas, but all of them are shaped like a human being riding a racing motorcycle, with their legs bent and their heels tucked up behind their buttocks. For the most part, a tarantula is just a modified human being in an armored suit. This thing is just a head and a ribcage in an armored suit. Only the head and the spider legs are common to both as far as I can tell. [ QUOTE ]
she appears to be a corruption of the tarantula mistress in the foreground. the face chest and for lack of a better word hips are near identical to the tarantula mistress seen in the center right foreground. The shoulder cowling, legs and arms are markedly different in their placement and she seems to lack the abodomen of a tarantula. That may be hidden in the light behind her. I would put her closest in game analog to the arachnoids but even that is a stretch. In any event she's a nasty character very inhuman and not a thing i would want to meet hero or villain side.

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Just a quick question: How old is the Clockwork King?

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I asked Hero 1 that question a year or two ago, and he stated that the Clockwork King was in his early 20s while Penelope Yin was 18 and just entering college.

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You know, I always just assumed he was some old guy. This would make his amorous intentions towards Penelope Yin make a lot more sense.


Unless he's a creepy old guy.

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What is the population of Paragon City? Census type population I mean, I know there are a lot of transients from other worlds, other dimensions, etc.

Same question for the Rogue Isles?

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NYC is at #3 for 21 million people. I don't think it's much of as stretch to say that Paragon ranks as more or less the same in the CoX-verse. The Etoile Isles always strike me as sort of a Hong Kong analog of sorts--epicly tech-advanced island and all. Hong Kong is actually only #42 on the same list with an urban pop of more than 7 million.

Eh, I know this is for Manti to answer, but that's how I always looked at them.

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I have to say I'm very surprised to see NYC at #3 on that list. I thought for sure Mexico City, Sao Paolo and either Mumbai, or Delhi, or both, had surpassed NYC.

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This is pop based on urban area. If we based it on something different, like density, then NYC is #169 on the list.

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Who exactly is Nathaniel Frost and what is the nature of his relationship with Spanky Ranibowitz, Sebastian Frost and Harry Frost?

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Heh, just saw this pop up on the wiki as I was researching the pop density of NYC on the other wiki.

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I want to know more about Darrin Wade. What was the "falling out" that Darrin Wade had with the Midnight Squad? What led to this falling out? Do they have any plans to elaborate on this character in the future? Any additional information about the Midnight Squad would be awesome as well, will Dream Doctor ever return? What happened to Pontice Doub. How did Montague become the current leader?

I am asking because of a storyline I am working on and if a story for Wade pops up then I don't want mine to contradict it. I know Manticore has his work cut out for him, four pages of posts to be answered. But as much as you can reveal about the Midnight Club would be great.


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Why is there a section of Crey's Folly called Carnival Town that is entirely populated by Freakshow instead of Carnies?

Y'know, just saying... the name's kinda deceptive.

 

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How could Spanky Rabinowitz (sp?) grow up on the streets of an island that did not exist at the time?

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Where are the gas stations in Paragon?

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What's the deal with volcano in Grandville, and is it still considered canon? How come it's never referenced?

http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_inf...olonial_p.html

"On April 3rd, 1833 an eruption shattered the nighttime calm. Over the course of the next few weeks, the previously un-volcanic main island of Grandville recoiled from ash, thunder, and fire as a mountain grew where none had been before. When it was all done, much of the old city was half-buried in ash. Lava flows had destroyed farmland and choked the harbor. Even more dramatic, Grandville was broken into four islands now known as Cap Au Diable, Port Oakes, Bloody Bay, and Grandville."


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A couple more questions.

Are the Nemesis Automatons that pose as real people powered by steam? Or do they use some other power source? Since they don't belch steam, and they fool so many people, I'm thinking that they don't use steam at all.

Second question, how exactly does Rikti telepathy function?

[/ QUOTE ]A really efficient steam machine wouldn't need to expel the steam, but would instead allow it to cool and condense internally and re-use the same water again.

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Which would violate 2 of the 3 main laws of thermodynamics.

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Some Striga questions:

Where is it geographically?

Did the Council base belong to the 5th before the Council took over, or was it all built after the takeover? Or was it a Council base that the 5th didn't know about?

Did Burkholder start working on the giant robot when he was still with the 5th? How long has the factory in Mt. Richardson been there?

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A couple more questions.

Are the Nemesis Automatons that pose as real people powered by steam? Or do they use some other power source? Since they don't belch steam, and they fool so many people, I'm thinking that they don't use steam at all.

Second question, how exactly does Rikti telepathy function?

[/ QUOTE ]A really efficient steam machine wouldn't need to expel the steam, but would instead allow it to cool and condense internally and re-use the same water again.

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Which would violate 2 of the 3 main laws of thermodynamics.

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Don't tell the people on nuclear submarines.

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A couple more questions.

Are the Nemesis Automatons that pose as real people powered by steam? Or do they use some other power source? Since they don't belch steam, and they fool so many people, I'm thinking that they don't use steam at all.

Second question, how exactly does Rikti telepathy function?

[/ QUOTE ]A really efficient steam machine wouldn't need to expel the steam, but would instead allow it to cool and condense internally and re-use the same water again.

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Which would violate 2 of the 3 main laws of thermodynamics.

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They drink cold water and pee hot water. Problem solved.

Or would that be drink hot water and pee cold water?

It's been a while since thermo.


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Where are the gas stations in Paragon?

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Whoa I can't believe I have never thought about that before...lol


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My map of the Rogue Isles shows a small island just off the southwest shore of Port Oakes, halfway between the two ferries. There is a little rocket drawn on this island, and the key on the post-it note attached to the map indicates that little rocket is a "Launch Site." A launch site for what?

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A launch site for what?

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Loaded question!

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