Welcome back dude, as I said already!
Nice looking specs there mate, I recently (few months back) upgraded my PC too, and holy-damn am I glad I did... especially since my laptop died soon after, heh heh. Hey it still managed to whop through our S4 matches 
Will catch ya round in game. I've not long ago met some new people who used to know you. I'm not sure who you knew them as, but 'Gard'? Shrug.
Haven't been able to get into Oblivion myself. Still stuck in CoH.
Anyway, will prolly catch ya up tonight matey.
Woohoo, welcome back. Now more importantly you can finally honour the deal we had with our S4 match
I still get asked whether I got it. My diary has an opening slot on saturdays 
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Max Powerz: Lv 50 Tanker
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Max Khaos: Lv 50
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Welcome back mate remember teaming back when we were all noobs 
. . . fine when I was a noob 
thePhilosopher Martial Arts/Regen/Fire Scrapper
theRegulator Empathy/Energy/Soul Defender
Total Inertia Ice Blast/Kinetics/Psy Corruptor
Total Inferno Ice Blast/Thermal/Leviathan Corruptor
welcome back mate
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fine when I was a noob
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dude, you never stopped being one...
"god, how many devs did hami have to sleep with to get ED?"
Total Cat @Stagefright
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welcome back mate
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fine when I was a noob
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dude, you never stopped being one...
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Seconded 
And welcome back J
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CoH Union: J Dogg - Claw/Invuln (50)
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I'm not alone anymore!
Not sure we've met, but hello and welcome back .
Lo again
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Woohoo, welcome back. Now more importantly you can finally honour the deal we had with our S4 match
I still get asked whether I got it. My diary has an opening slot on saturdays
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Hehe, hello Max, nice to see you're still around.
I'm in Cambridge this saturday dude (gotta go see Craig David 
) but next saturday I should be free.... Breakfast at the Tudor Fish Bar wasn't it? hehe
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I've not long ago met some new people who used to know you. I'm not sure who you knew them as, but 'Gard'? Shrug.
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That would be Gorduz Swolocum. great guy, I still gotta catch up with the old SG. In your other post you said to add you to my 'globals'.. I'm a noob again mate, i'm guessing this is some kind of new friends list?
Is it me or is Paragon quieter these days? There doesn't seem to be as many heroes running around as there used to be...
Thanks to all for the welcome, it's good to be back.
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In your other post you said to add you to my 'globals'.. I'm a noob again mate, i'm guessing this is some kind of new friends list?
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Yup pretty much. The Global Chat system that the US has had for ages made it over to the EU servers a little while back, and is very useful.
Everyone has a global handle now, which is unique per CoX account across all (EU) servers, for example I am @Tech Tower, and if you /t @Tech Tower from any EU server, it will pop up on my screen no matter the toon I am logged into, and no matter which server I am connected to. If that makes sense.
So when you open up your friends list next, you'll notice a drop down at the top which says Server. If you pull that down, you can select Global, which will then display your global friends list. Defaultly it shows you the list of global friends, and the toon that they are currently logged in as (<bug> below). At the bottom of the global friends list screen, there is a little triangle >, which if you click will give you loads more info about your list. So in addition to the global handle and toon name, you can see which server, AT, origin, toon level, current 'map', and team size. I might have missed something, but that's pretty much the interesting stuff. They are bright green if they are online on your server, and dull green if they are online on another server (<bug> again). Very helpful to keep track of mates without needing to know all of their toons!
The <bug> is that sometimes you will see them as dull green even if they are offline, so it's better to check the server they are logged into before sending a tell. The server name is blank if they are offline. Shrug.
You can add people using the buttons, right clicking on a toon and adding global friend, or typing /gfriend <toon name or @global handle>. If you try to add someone, that person will get a prompt saying that you want to be global friends. If they decline you will be told about it. If they accept, you'll find them in your global friends list. Note there is a link between you and that person. You are on their list, and they are on yours... If either of you delete the friend, it will be removed from both people's list.
Last night I sent a global friend request to you I think, just a /gfriend @J Dogg. It will pop up saying @Tech Tower wants to be global friends, or something like that.
Oh, one more thing. If you /t a global handle, if that person is not online, they will be given the message when they come online. It's a pain if you do it accidentally, but nice to leave a message to someone.
Anyway, I think there are loads of guides out there. This was just about the friends stuff. There's also global channels, which are neat (Union Badgehunters, etc) and let you keep in touch no matter what toon with a group of people. Currently limited to 5 channels per account, so kind of meh. But still nice.
Far too much info right now I'm sure
Catch ya online dude!
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Is it me or is Paragon quieter these days? There doesn't seem to be as many heroes running around as there used to be...
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An interesting time to come back Currently a load of the population is mashing the Test server since Issue 7 is up there, so you might see a lot less around, yup.
I had a play, and liked what I saw, but don't have time to spend on there currently... Hopefully will do some 'testing' this weekend.
Shrug.
That was one of the things I always thought would be useful, cos you could never tell if someone was logged in as an alt etc. I'll have a fiddle with that tonight and work it out. Thanks for the detailed description dude.
I've seen a few threads about I7, but I ain't gonna bother installing the test server again at the minute, I only ever used it for the S4 training. I missed I6 didn't I.. How was it? I ain't really noticed any major changes...
I will be on a little later tonight, probably around 10ish so when I get the global thing working i'll give you a shout dude.
Hey Lekto, welcome back! o/
@Synaesthetix
"Here, take some more bees with you. You may need them."
Union: FU//LoUD
"that Syn is that that" - Mothers Love
Welcome back Dogg. IIRC I teamed with you in The Hollows when you were first starting out with your Scrapper. I'm pretty sure you wont remember me (It was an alt - Cardinal Syn) but welcome back anyways. You need any help, drop me a line @Green Jet.
Hiya syn, good to see you're still around, how you been?
I remember you cardinal, that was a loooong time ago! haha. Long live the Hollows!
My global is @J Dogg (I think) haha, gis a shout if you see me.
Hi all, I have returned after 4 months of Battlefield 2 and Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
And I am now sporting a respec'd machine with a P4 2.6, 1GB RAM and GeForce 7800GTX. I can't believe the difference from my old machine, so much smoother graphics and now completely LAGLESS!! woo hoo.
To anyone I used to play alongside hope you are all well, and look me up if you need a "good" (note the inverted commas haha) tri-form warshade, J Shade, currently around lvl 22.
Look forward to seeing you all in game.