Colorful Humpday at the Rookery.

Energy melee that isn't pink? Awesome sauce.

Hey Petey Pete, hi BeckyNinjaPixieKitteh! Hey PogoPogo!

Then I grabbed my 39 ill/ff troller and hoped into a team in PI. Apparently there are zones outside of Atlas. Who knew!? Also, what's this invenshun salvagay? Did that just go in with Issue 16?

Funny thing is... Pink is entirely appropriate for my EM Brute, Clockwork-Angel. She's an android powered by kinetic energy you see, with a bright and cheerful personality. She likes to play with people, but just doesn't understand that when she 'plays' with Longbow troopers they can't take the damage she can, and they're not just 'taking a nap' when they stop moving. That and the fact that as she absorbs kinetic energy through being hit or hitting, she gets more hyperactive. She doesn't have a 'Rage' meter... she has a 'Spazz' meter, like a four year old on a sugar rush.

So cotton-candy pink energy punches are appropriate for her.

So it sounds like I'll be working 12 hours shifts for 7 days starting Sept 25th through Oct 2nd, including the weekend. Ideally I'll be staying at a hotel on the clients dime but it really puts a crimp in my life. That's 2 Friday's that are shot to bits (2 D&D 4E sessions as well as fringe benefits), and all I'll have with me is my work laptop which is meant for games... seriously. The video card is... uhm... nVidia Quadro NVS 320M. So sub par in most respects. Dang.

Ow.. sucky news BP. Time to explore some of those old 90s era games again?

Apparently the card can support things like Doom3 and WoW. It might support CoX and Guild Wars. I predict some GW action for that week, and movies/books at work when things are slow (the whole 12 hours).

Oh, I'd need to do a Posi if I have stamina. It'd be so much more bearable to actually fight in it with Stamina (so I don't need to take a knee after every spawn, or even might needing it during the fight itself).
I appreciate them doing this to exemplaring, probably because if you're in a team where all the members are around your level, and you're doing a mission and the guy 1 level below you (ex... you're 32, your teammate is 31, you're doing his mission), you'd lose your tier 9. Of course keeping your powers up to +5 of the mission level is nice, too.

For me, power customization wasn't a huge part of this issue, that'd have me come play. It was me trying to get on some teams and finding out that they're either too low level or too high level. Now since I'd get xp either way, and there doesn't need to be a minimum of 4 mentors for a 8 man team, it'll sure help me actually get back into the game.

As long as the team is not 1 50 and the rest level 1s.
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In non CoX related news, I picked up: Lost Odyssey, Eternal Sonata, Burnout Paradise, and Saints Row 2 this week. I spent around $80 for all those titles. Approx $20 a game is not a bad deal. I'll be set until Dragon Age Origins (but I have paid 100% of that and will pick it up on release day)

Massively.com reports that besides power customizations, there are things still to be uncovered with I16?

Rumor? Speculation? Anyone know?

/e noms on chocolate chip cookies.


Nice bargain Rad, yeah I am tempted to do the same with Dragon Age. It looks really nice.

Damn that's a lot of working Bpp.

Some things in the new issue sound good. Do villains get APP's now as well? I thought I heard something about that.

*Pounces Neko and Becky both.*

I'll also mention I paid for the collector's edition of Dragon Age: Origins for the X360. I'm not bothering with it for the PC (because my PC probably can't run it)

I'm sitting here in school, and this teacher doesn't mind if I'm on forums, chatting, etc. I mean, it's my time, and I'm not distracting anybody by doing so. It's only a problem if you distract somebody by doing it.

No APP's for villains with I16. Aside from the power colouring there's the super sidekicking, hazard zone level restriction removal, AE bludgeoning (yay!), costume display in the login screen change... Lots there, mostly QoL. Honestly I love it, just wish more people were around and that I wasn't going to be taking a month off for Aion.

Well, colors were the big announced feature for I16. I didn't care about colors, to be honest. Sure, they're nice and pretty, but they weren't my main focus on watching the issue. Mostly I was waiting for the super sidekicking, as I said before.

The best part of the issue to me was all the QOL updates. AE changes making Atlas Park actually able to be navigated without being bombarded with AE team requests for boss farms... able to find teams in other zones. Able to team with almost anybody in almost any zone (not sure if Ouroboros is locked to people under 25, or if the Midnight Club got it's door unlocked if you're not a member, and then there's the issue of Cimerora).

Sure there is an issue if, say, level 5s team up with a couple of 30s to tackle some level 30 content. While this can be done now, before I16 you'd need at least the 4 30s to tackle it. I'd still prefer sitting around the same ratio depending on the team. I wouldn't pack a bunch of 1s with a 50, however.

I colored my powers.

Then I got bored and just stood there like a zombie.

I'm having lots of fun with the new difficulty settings.

Long day. Got home, had to spend an hour on tech support. The solution? The disk had a fingerprint on it so the drive didn't read it properly. At least the software is now updated so I won't have to spend hours on that again.

I hate school yet I enjoy it. I have a group project to do. My group size is 1. Everyone else has a group of 2. I'm used to always working alone. 2x the work, and half the grade because I need to do more work than anybody else. Also I got the last choice on the topic to cover. It's going to suck bad.

I bet the final project next semister I'll need to do alone, since every other project I've done alone. I hate it. Nobody in classes ever considers me as a group member. I'm just there. An obstacle. I hate that part. I pay my money and get ignored.

hello pumpkins....

Rad one of things i learned if u want a partner for group projects you kinda have to put yourself out there and ask people
its kinda hard and annoying but try it
sometimes when i was in my bachelors and didnt have partner id raise my hand and ask the professor in front of the class anyone without partner?
also helps to make friends in your classes
shy silent type doesnt annoy other people is allright but you need 2 for a group

Groups of 2 only. The class has an uneven amount of people. I'm the odd one out.

*gives everyone big squishy boobie hugz™!!!*

YaY!!

*sighs* I hate RL