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Agonist_NA

By Agonist_NA,
Posted on: 2012-10-11 18:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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its amazing that even sitting in an ocean of power effects and so much lag that my powers activate 20 seconds after I press the button

its still more enjoyable than CO

 

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Two screenshots from the event are available here:

http://t.co/MqjKxeTC

http://t.co/Ii8oYR32

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Thanks to everyone who made tonight a blast. Your hard work is appreciated.

It's not over, we're just fighting evil in another dimension!

 

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Thank you so much for this, Arcana, everyone, this was really what I was hoping we'd have at the end. The onion ninjas have invaded my house in force tonight, it seems...

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Two screenshots from the event are available here:

http://t.co/MqjKxeTC

http://t.co/Ii8oYR32

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
whoa if I squint really hard I think I can see me!

 

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Two screenshots from the event are available here:

http://t.co/MqjKxeTC

http://t.co/Ii8oYR32

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Oh my word. I'm there. I'm actually *in* the photo. Heh.

(Sorry guys. It's a first for me. I'm a complete, totally unimportant nobody in this game. So this is kind of cool.)

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Two screenshots from the event are available here:

http://t.co/MqjKxeTC

http://t.co/Ii8oYR32

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
I can see FemFury, even though she's towards the back! (yay for making her really tall!)

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Originally Posted by Liquid View Post
That was a great way to see the game off. Thanks so much Arcanaville and everyone else who was involved.
Yes, the lag with only 100 or so players in the zone was exactly as I've come to expect from this 8-year-old engine.

Thank you Arcana for your efforts. Too bad the game ends with a wheezing gasp.

 

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Originally Posted by CyberGlitch View Post
Yes, the lag with only 100 or so players in the zone was exactly as I've come to expect from this 8-year-old engine.

Thank you Arcana for your efforts. Too bad the game ends with a wheezing gasp.
I won't be missing this kind of thing at all.

Edit: And just to be clear, I'm not talking about the lag. Or any other limitation of the game engine...

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Intended for low level play: "Learning the Ropes" (Arc #100304), "Cracking Skulls" (Arc #115935), "The Lazarus Project" (Arc #124906)

 

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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post
Two screenshots from the event are available here:

http://t.co/MqjKxeTC

http://t.co/Ii8oYR32

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I got the same shot of RulaCole. Since I'm in yours, I know where you were.

Be well, people of CoH.

 

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Briefly, thanks to everyone that helped put this together, and thanks to the players that showed up and patiently waited while we worked out some of the glitches. We honestly didn't expect to see so many people for an unofficial informal end of game event, but I'm glad we were able to accommodate everyone that showed up (at least until we started - we had to lock the zone for technical reasons once it kicked off).

I'll have the next part of the story posted some time tomorrow, along with some credits for the event, but first I'm going to sleep. This has sucked up most of my nights for the past week or two.

I do have sympathy for the devs running live events. I'll post what my (main) screen looked like during this event tomorrow: if you squint hard, you might actually see *the game*. I have some appreciation now for how hard it is to keep it all together and running and resist the urge to just sledgehammer things. My hats off to the devs there.

Except for Black Pebble, of course, who's idea of fun is to drop a squadron on Extinction Warwarlkers in lethal mode into the middle of the players. He's a psycho.

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Sorry I charged at you Michelle, was trying to turn on the demorecord and slipped out of chat mode and well R is run ... plus I had the camera all turned about to look at the group so left was right, right was left ... and so I Leroy Jenkins at you.

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Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down View Post
My Demorecord file of the event is broke... it keeps crashing before we really get started. Sigh.
Any chance the file is just too big?

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Originally Posted by Alannon View Post
Here are a few post-event lineup shots. The original images were 3600x1860 but Imgur scaled them down a bit:

http://imgur.com/a/LrQIr#0
yay Im in these

 

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Thank you again so much for that wonderful sendoff. It was fun and crazy and unexpected--and yes, laggy--but my first thought was, "Holy cow, this reminds me *exactly* of the Rikti invasion on the last day of Beta before the game went live." That was an terrific bit of symmetry, and one that really helped give me some closure for a game--and community--that's come to mean more to me than I ever expected. It really meant a lot!

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mine too. crashes just before we heroically leap towards the ship together. :/

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Originally Posted by Black Pebble View Post
Any chance the file is just too big?
Always a possibility. Having never played around with demorecord tool, what is "too big"?

I'm seeing 45.7 MB, so would that be too big?

Throwing darts at the board to see if something sticks.....

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Originally Posted by PapaSlade
Rangle's right....this is fun.

 

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Here is a partial shot of the gathering from the back row. Hopefully it will help the short people find themselves in the other shots, since Imageshack love to shrink things.

And for those interested, The Battalion!

 

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Originally Posted by Llydia View Post
Whew!

That was fun.

One of the craziest things to be successfully produced in-game. And did I mention fun?

WAY FUN!

Thank you again so much Arcanaville and Co for hosting this last great hurrah!



PS Thanks for the post-party bash and door prizes. All the shinies are very pretty.
Aw, I wish I'd spent more time finding out who was who! You didn't even say HI!


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
Briefly, thanks to everyone that helped put this together, and thanks to the players that showed up and patiently waited while we worked out some of the glitches. We honestly didn't expect to see so many people for an unofficial informal end of game event, but I'm glad we were able to accommodate everyone that showed up (at least until we started - we had to lock the zone for technical reasons once it kicked off).

I'll have the next part of the story posted some time tomorrow, along with some credits for the event, but first I'm going to sleep. This has sucked up most of my nights for the past week or two.

I do have sympathy for the devs running live events. I'll post what my (main) screen looked like during this event tomorrow: if you squint hard, you might actually see *the game*. I have some appreciation now for how hard it is to keep it all together and running and resist the urge to just sledgehammer things. My hats off to the devs there.

Except for Black Pebble, of course, who's idea of fun is to drop a squadron on Extinction Warwarlkers in lethal mode into the middle of the players. He's a psycho.
Thank you so much, Arcana!
Haha, obviously I have never put anything of this size together, but even just the SG events and arcs that I was running some time ago... WHEW... I spend so much time working on everything beforehand... and then the process of running it, I can only imagine on this large of a scale!

Sleep well!
And thank you so much!

Also, I told ya... throw us in with the monkeys and hope we enjoy it, haha (best laid plans and all that).
(Of course, I full well know that all the planning and coordination that went in helps every bit towards what it becomes)


Blah, blah, blah... GREAT TIME! Thanks EVERYONE!

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To Arcanaville and company: thanks so much for putting this together. I can only imagine the amount of effort it has taken on everyone's part! The event was fun, and the unbridled chaos that followed the "official" event was great too! I mourn the loss of the heretofore unheard snark of the Coralax Amulet...

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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
Aw, I wish I'd spent more time finding out who was who! You didn't even say HI!
Oh, yes I did! You personally invited Dynexus to your league when I sent you a private tell confirming I was @Llydia.

Of course, that was during setup coordination happening in at least four chat channels simultaneously, immediately followed by a mapserver lag which threw half of us out and we got redistributed to new leagues, so I forgive you for not remembering or saying "Hi!" back. :P



Back on topic: Arcanaville, I wish you deep and restful sleep. You accomplished a momentous feat! One I hope you are proud of for many years to come.