Avernal_EU

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Proverbial is definitely active within the game, but I dont think shes keeping the list updated anymore.

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She hasn't done for well over a year infact. Surprised it's only being noticed now, but let's be fair, it's not as if it's her sole responsibility to maintain a record of the server's level 50's. Even without RL responsibilities it was going to reach a point sooner or later where she couldn't justify the effort.

Sounds good to me. You have a specific alt/global we can tell to let you know we're about on the day, Omega?

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Think I may put the culprit on global ignore, I have resisted as I don't like the thought of stuff being said that I cannot see, but to be honest, I can't see what I have to gain from seeing what is said.

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Global ignore is a bit of a misnomer, all it does is ignore them in global chat channels, not ignore their entire account regardless of alt as many would instantly think to be the case. Unfortunate as that would be a hell of a lot more effective.

I put in a petition about Lui's usual gobsh*te nonsense over /broad about 20-25mins before it deteriorated into a free for all slagging match. Myself and the others on the PA team didn't involve ourselves with it but it was a complete blight on the raid as a whole, and as per usual proves that kid just cannot learn his lesson no matter how many disciplinary measures are taken against him.

Wouldn't mind joining in on Ave actually, available most evenings but preferably weekends.

Got them all last year but time permitting I can always volunteer a hand, only got low-level neglected villains but they seem to have been sufficient for the event missions with guildmates when LKed up, could always bring a heroic alt though too.

Vanguard.

Enjoy yourself, Aerie. I doubt we'll be seeing the last of you so will simply say see you for now, and hope to see you turn back up at some point in the not too distant future.

That and there were only seven PA droppers as opposed to the usual two full teams, one of which repeatedly kept suiciding because he wanted a closer look.

There were more than the usual number of screw ups this time around, and pretty much all of them could be attributed to the groups on the ground. How many NON-HOLD players did we have arsing about during the hold phase for example? Ice Patch, Fulcrum Shift, and a number of Spines attacks for example were all going on during that phase when the people responsible shouldn't have been anywhere near Hami.

Congrats, Scarlet.

Congrats Pink, was good fun teaming with you on several occasions over the weekend.

Thanks guys, and apparently I've unlocked Kheldians... again. Whoopie! Now I can run four of them.

Currently have both DAM/RAN and DAM/MEZ spare, will consider any offers but I'm primarily looking for DAM/ACCs at the moment.

See you around, Carni. Congratulations on the upcoming little one and hopefully we'll see you stick your neck in for a peek around come Issue 9.

Very smooth going with this so far, I stuck around for six spawns personally and kept people updated over broad but am bowing out for a breather. Robbie's been a very bad boy this year, so far pretty much every present he has opened has been an instant GM spawn, so he's taken on the official position and is now heading up the main team.

Lot's of people coming along for it of all levels and each spawn had several new faces appear, quite a nice little event we've had going over all. I believe the group is still going as of the time I'm posting so if someone catches this at the last minute feel free to head in and join them.

Good to know, would've assumed otherwise that AP wouldn't spawn them. Possibly got one more interested, they're West coast US though so it's dependant on them dragging their backside out of bed at a respectable time of day instead of late afternoon.

Still haven't gotten it on Ave so I'm game, I believe you need a team of 5 people at least in order for him to have a chance to spawn from presents. There may also be a limitation on which zones you can spawn him in too, due to the level range of areas.

After the false start they had a week or so back, Adobe have actually got CS3's beta online for testing now, so anyone else who's been looking forward to it as much as I have head over and check out the new features.

Lots of nifty additions in there like non-destructive filter capability and a new cross-platform approach since the advent of Intel Macs, they've also added a lot of very clever calculation algorithims for stuff like smart selections and automatic image blending, I can see myself chomping at the bit for this version's release already.

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Does it not depend on how low/high your floor and ceilings are?

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That and the size of the decorative items, think a test server experiment in cost vs. reward for both the AES and a 2 supercomputer with aux setup is probably something worthwhile doing.

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Ceiling mounted sounds interesting - how much space doed it take up vertically?

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You can walk underneath it, it's kind of a load of electronic wizardry and video screens hanging down from the ceiling like a command centre. Problem is with the way bounding boxes work in the base editor at the present time, placing it means nothing else can be placed on those tiles. So it near enough writes off a whole control room if you wanted to place much else or decorate.

Possibly bigger, I've seen the thing on the test server and it took 2-3 control room replacements before I found a plot that fit the damn thing, it fixes to the ceiling and near enough fills the entire room.

Went pretty well considering the smaller turn out than usual, good job all.

Wings and trenchcoats, since they're both back options with extra animation associated. Would imagine stuff like kilts is ok though.

Have you tried simply moving the portal to the corner-most tile of the room? You can centre it within the tile to avoid removing the skirting board area of that corner, and as far as I've experienced it's always caused me to enter the base facing one of two correct directions. Can't recall ever entering looking at a wall.

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Actually, several of the people who've answered you here, myself included, are people who don't play much PvP, but prefer PvE, so your argument doesn't really hold.

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That, and I happened to chance upon a Corrupter at around 4AM this morning in Warburg, before we exchanged looks pending a possible battle; and they sent me a tell saying they were just killing boredom and wouldn't interfere with my scientist escort. That same villain and I teamed up to do the Toothbreaker Pocket D mission I still had active not fifteen minutes later. Don't let on though, wouldn't want the claim that anyone decrying Amellie's comment isn't infact an immature 14yr old, and completely incapable of playing under a truce with the opposing faction at the mutal agreement of both parties. Far from it, we're all "script kiddies" and type in l33t speak if we enter a PvP zone to PvP. We're also completely incapable of respecting each other's wishes.

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Have you tried going in to the minefield and shouting out that you're only there for the potatoes? Some mines might leave you alone...

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Almost fell off my chair laughing at that one.

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Little did I understand the complete lack of tollerance for the way other people, who pay as much to play this game as everyone else, may like to enjoy the game.

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Now read back your own words and apply that same situation to what you're demanding here. More than a little ironic.

Before you go off on a rant about being harassed by other players who are simply there to indulge in the zone's purpose. Again, I'll repeat, if anyone is in the wrong in the scenario you described - it is you. It's the other player's choice whether they wish to disrupt their own play experience in a player vs. player zone to leave someone who outright refuses to accept the zone's purpose alone, if they choose not to do so that is their prerogative, and here you are ranting about tolerance for the way others choose to play the game.

Your argument is moot, the zone is a PvP zone as you recognised in your first paragraph, and you get numerous warnings when entering PvP zones that others can and will attack or kill you. It's not "morally indefensible" if they attack you despite your protests, if anything you are the one in the wrong for expecting them not to. It is entirely up to the other party whether or not they choose to leave you alone, and if they don't you just have to live with it, because that is what the PvP zones were created for. Feel free to petition them if you like but whichever GM answers you will simply repeat what has been said here.