May 23, 2002


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Just a reminder for the players (and perhaps for the current Devs):

We're now just two months away from the tenth anniversary of the start of the Rikti invasion, a very significant event in the history of Paragon City and Primal Earth as a whole. If you intend to make any special observance of this date and/or Memorial Day (it's May 28 this year), now might be a good time to start making plans.


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Why, when I was but a young'n', we'd have Rikti Invasion weekends every few months!

Thems have stopped now. Think we c'n ever take the fight back to them?


 

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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
Why, when I was but a young'n', we'd have Rikti Invasion weekends every few months!

Thems have stopped now. Think we c'n ever take the fight back to them?
You whippersnappers and your "Rikti"....

Back in my day we called them The Lost!


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In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Rikti invasion, we should invite all the Rikti to a memorial service in Atlas Park, where we will all gather around and have a moment of silence, and then proceed to kill them all until the bodies pile higher than the Atlas Globe.


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THIS JUST IN: In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Rikti War, The Paragon Market will be release the limited edition Leprerikti! This magical unkillable, untargetable, undimissable, alien pal has a +1000% bonus to taunt and a-500% stealth mod. And the great part is that EVERYONE gets one for free! Listen to it's lovable howls as is summons new friends for your character!

IN another announcement, NCSoft announced that they will be offering Lepererikti Removal Tokens for just 5000 Paragon Points or 15000 Paragons Points for Two! (This is an Account Item)



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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
Where can I find Lost in Kings Row?
*grandpa voice*

Well son if you found them, they wouldn't be called The Lost, now would they?!?! BUWAHAHAHAHAH *teeth fall out from laughing too hard*


*/grandpa voice*


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Originally Posted by Jet_Boy View Post
THIS JUST IN: In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Rikti War, The Paragon Market will be release the limited edition Leprerikti! This magical unkillable, untargetable, undimissable, alien pal has a +1000% bonus to taunt and a-500% stealth mod. And the great part is that EVERYONE gets one for free! Listen to it's lovable howls as is summons new friends for your character!

IN another announcement, NCSoft announced that they will be offering Lepererikti Removal Tokens for just 5000 Paragon Points or 15000 Paragons Points for Two! (This is an Account Item)


I'm not sure that does quite what you think it would.


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I'm not sure that does quite what you think it would.
Jump up and down and draw everything around you until you want to pay just to get rid of it? Did I get the numbers reversed? (not much of a number-cruncher, as far a CoH is concerned)


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Originally Posted by Jet_Boy View Post
Jump up and down and draw everything around you until you want to pay just to get rid of it? Did I get the numbers reversed? (not much of a number-cruncher, as far a CoH is concerned)
Increasing taunt +1000% would only affect the strength of powers with the taunt effect. Things that don't have taunt would not be affected. Even things that do have taunt would not have the range of those effects affected nor would they have increased aggro limits. There's probably some tankers, brutes, and scrappers that would welcome the effect.

What you were probably thinking was something that granted a zone wide taunt aura to the player. That would cause the player to attract the attention of everything in the zone, closest things first, seventeen at a time.

Which would be a farming bonanza the likes of which we haven't seen since Rads stopped herding all of Perez Park to the gates with debuff toggles.

Logging in your Blaster would be suicide, but logging in a high level tanker with a damage aura would be an ATM machine. If anything, the problem would be getting enough things to aggro you, with all the other farming tankers logged in simultaneously. That would be a strange, strange week before the devs reversed that one.


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Originally Posted by Jet_Boy View Post
Jump up and down and draw everything around you until you want to pay just to get rid of it? Did I get the numbers reversed? (not much of a number-cruncher, as far a CoH is concerned)
An account item would remove it account wide.


 

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Fine...

... you guys suck.


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Increasing taunt +1000% would only affect the strength of powers with the taunt effect. Things that don't have taunt would not be affected. Even things that do have taunt would not have the range of those effects affected nor would they have increased aggro limits. There's probably some tankers, brutes, and scrappers that would welcome the effect.

What you were probably thinking was something that granted a zone wide taunt aura to the player. That would cause the player to attract the attention of everything in the zone, closest things first, seventeen at a time.

Which would be a farming bonanza the likes of which we haven't seen since Rads stopped herding all of Perez Park to the gates with debuff toggles.

Logging in your Blaster would be suicide, but logging in a high level tanker with a damage aura would be an ATM machine. If anything, the problem would be getting enough things to aggro you, with all the other farming tankers logged in simultaneously. That would be a strange, strange week before the devs reversed that one.
It actually vaguely made me think of two old bugs:

Getting your O-portal to tank for you

CoV beta where assassin strike did the right amount of taunt for its damage and pulled the next 4 rooms


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Rikti invasion, we should invite all the Rikti to a memorial service in Atlas Park, where we will all gather around and have a moment of silence, and then proceed to kill them all until the bodies pile higher than the Atlas Globe.
Level 50+ Rikti : chances of purple drops and catalysts.


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Originally Posted by Neuronia View Post
Level 50+ Rikti : chances of purple drops and converters.
Fixt.


 

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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion View Post
You whippersnappers and your "Rikti"....

Back in my day we called them The Lost!

OMG! Thanks for the spoiler alert. I've been here since beta in 2004 and can't get past level 3. Damn you and your spoilers!!



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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
In honor of the tenth anniversary of the Rikti invasion, we should invite all the Rikti to a memorial service in Atlas Park, where we will all gather around and have a moment of silence, and then proceed to kill them all until the bodies pile higher than the Atlas Globe.
I cried tears of blood when I read this. Thank you.


 

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Maybe that'll be the day we find out that Zwillinger was trolling us when he asked us how much we'd pay for a new archetype, because that'll be the day that the Rikti Epic Archetype appears in the Paragon Market?


 

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Originally Posted by Jet_Boy View Post
THIS JUST IN: In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Rikti War, The Paragon Market will be release the limited edition Leprerikti! This magical unkillable, untargetable, undimissable, alien pal has a +1000% bonus to taunt and a-500% stealth mod. And the great part is that EVERYONE gets one for free! Listen to it's lovable howls as is summons new friends for your character!

IN another announcement, NCSoft announced that they will be offering Lepererikti Removal Tokens for just 5000 Paragon Points or 15000 Paragons Points for Two! (This is an Account Item)


I can haz for my tank? WIN!!!


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Well...

The Sentinels of Liberty SG will be hosting events on Liberty as always and may even include costume contest Been kicking around ideas and even now discussing them witjh other members.

for those on Liberty MSR Sunday at 9:00pm est 04/01/2012, Be prepared to make the master of Arms look the fool on all's fool day.

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Well if they do make an event I hope it lasts a week or two because the weekend of May 28th is my hubby's 40th B-day.


Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!

 

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I still cry because I got denied permission by a management company to license a song for a Rikti War video. It was just so perfect, but they couldn't allow me to do it. ARGH.

May have to come up with something else, though.

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Originally Posted by Neuronia View Post
Level 50+ Rikti : chances of purple drops and catalysts.
Level 42 Rikti - start playing jazz/pop songs (with a great bass player,) forcing everyone in range to auto-/em dance. AV: Mar'kng.


 

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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
Level 42 Rikti - start playing jazz/pop songs (with a great bass player,) forcing everyone in range to auto-/em dance. AV: Mar'kng.
Oh dear, old enough to get that joke, but as somebody of that vintage, today I did have the opportunity to talk briefly to Annie Lennox.


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10 years ago I was a junior in High School (and no major medical issues). How times have changed... Though I never knew of CoH until the day before it launched, thanks to IGN. Now I feel even more old.


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