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I'm not going to renew my sub for something that might only keep me interested for an hour or two...

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On the other hand, it's equivalent to about 3 pints of bitter, which would last no more than, and probably a good degree less than, a couple of hours. So instead of going down the pub at 8, resubscribe to CoX and go down the pub at 9.30

This has put me in mind of this Adam Hughes sketch of Power Girl - as it usually does.

Back On Topic, I think she really does look like she's about to smack bad guys. Thanks Birdy!

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...whats she spotted in the sky above her?

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If she's lucky it's a squadron of Sky Raiders or an Arachnos Flyer. If she's having a bad day it's a flock of seagulls shortly after they've been feeding on a mountain of waste curry.

There are clearly times in a heroine's life when going one-on-one with the Hamidon is the lesser of two evils...

WOOT!

Fandabidozi! A bit tiny at 80x80 but I had to make her into a forum avatar

Thankee kindly, sir!!

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...I just came off a Team Leading course at work and...

Sorry....!

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*stifles chortle* Don't you just love the way corporate management lap up these flavour-of-the-month management tools? Now if only they paid as much attention to running their businesses efficiently as they do to paying consultants to sell them manuals that describe exciting new ways to reinvent common sense, wouldn't it be nice?
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I'll be creating the Allies of Earth for my back to World War 2 missions:

Captain Washington (MA/SD), Yeoman(TA/Arch), Woadsman(BS/Regen), Le Renarde(Something with pistols), Ddraig(Fire/Fire Tank), Norweigan Blue(Sonic/Sonic), Red Star(En/En blaster) and Molly Malone(AR/dev).

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What about Ann Zac and her Tasmanian Devils? (What? She could summon Warwolves! No? Billabong Bruce and his XXXX exploding tinnies? Kiwi Kim and her wooly commandos - each one a sheep of the line? OK, how about Vic van Couver, the polite paratrooper?...)

Oh, why do I have to be Switzerland again...

Tommy Steele, the British Elvis...

Although you can never go wrong with Max Bygraves championing "froffy beer" over "froffy coffee"



Seriously, what would they change the music to? Just looking over three pages of this thread and everyone's choice is different. It seems the only answer is to turn the current tripe off, or give us the power to turn down the music alone.

One scrapper primary is Martial Arts, that's all. Maybe there are quite a few MA scrappers based around or inspired by Asian culture - maybe Korean or Chinese martial arts, or Japanese manga or anime - but it's not to everyone's taste. Superheroes are an American thing, and this is a superhero game. My scrappers dress like comic-book superheroes, not anime sci-fi brawlers. The presence of so many "Dragonball-Z" toons may be disproportionate, but I wouldn't say they're a stereotype.

I'll take a crack at something... March 30 might be a tad tricky, but you won't hit a target without aiming at it

I liked it at first, but I stopped playing my Inv brute at level 33 and rolled a WP brute instead. WP manages end so much better, and for me it's more fun (it also has fewer mind-meltingly ugly auras). Inv brutes can take a certain amount, but the endurance drain is a pain, and once the damage veers away from s/l it's a hard world - and in the 30s, the foes have largely moved on from simple s/l damage.

It's all very well holding forth on matters to do with set bonuses, but really - apart from those with a bazillion inf accumulated on all their level 50 farm toons, who can afford a range of adequate sets?

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Currently it's actually rather tough for a new player to get an EU account anyway....google and the other search engines don't help at all , tap city of heroes into any of them and your taken to the US site where you can purchase the US client and make a US account.

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If I google "City of Heroes" here in the UK, the top of the list returned is uk.cityofheroes.com. The US site comes second. It's easy to follows links from the first to make an EU account, but what's interesting is that the familiar EU and UK flag icons have been removed from the US page, making it difficult to navigate away from there to the appropriate EU page.

Anyway, like FFM I would have really liked new disks When was the last time? Issue 7?

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He does, indeed!

Very, very nice indeed. I don't pretend to understand any of this 3D stuff, but I'm pretty certain that aside from having to have the creative bit, you also have to have the patience bit.

Once you've made a Ni, for example, that you're happy with, can you save it and then recall it later, reposition/re-pose the model in a new environment, etc. - or do you have to rebuild from scratch every time?

What DD said. We all know that there are plenty of more urgent issues going on over there, at the moment...

Thankyou very much! Gratz to all! This is a very pleasant way to start February

I think we're reading too much into it. I think the issue is that the game plotlines got scrambled and it only becomes a problem when we go into geek overload to try and explain it to ourselves I'm thinking that there are just a few essential elements in this:

1. Longbow are the good guys. They fight evil.

2. Recluse and his followers are evil. They really do have an evil empire.

3. It's not the real world, so (as has been said before) the niceties of real world diplomacy and law count for nothing here. It's one of the great things about a superhero game: you can exact spectacular revenge upon evil without worrying about getting sued afterwards

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Also there are some work arounds for that bug.

1- If you recieve a broken tell, you can reply with typing /r <your message>

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Actually, that has never worked for me. I've never been able to reply to broken tells.

I had it in my head that Freedom Corps came under the wing of the FBSA; is that wrong?

If Freedom Corps is Federal (which, by the sound of what's been said here, it ain't), then Longbow is Federal, which makes its presence in the Isles either an act of war or an internationally recognized crime. If Longbow are not Feds, then surely they fall under the blanket of "super powered illegal organization" and would be viewed and treated by the inhabitants and government of the Isles as such - much like the denizens of Paragon City would consider their own illegal and dangerous gangs like the Council or Fifth Column.

Consequently I imagine Longbow have their own holding cells much like the Council have theirs. If they wanted to pick someone up then it would be as dirty an affair over there as when the Council kidnap someone in Paragon City. I don't think that Longbow do what they do in the Isles with a view to repopulating the Zig (although its possible that they might feel an urge to do so if they nabbed a "Destined One" - I guess it depends on the overall strategy they're pursuing, and maybe reward payments help fund pay for thei spandex and bicycle helmets ). They're declared aim is to destroy Arachnos (local turf wars with other gangs, like Sky Raiders or whatever, are by-the-by - there's bad blood there, ain't there ) so I would assume that everything they do is pursuant to that purpose. If they seek, therefore, to make a specific effort to kidnap someone in the Isles, I would assume that it's got to be because it would aid them in that struggle - and that (s)he'd be held wherever the hell they thought was most convenient - either locally or in the States, or on the Moon - wherever they thought was best. If they kidnap anyone in the Isles, it's illegal, after all.

But this is all speculative waffle at the end of the day. There is no Game Canon or anything else to guide us, so, as it's a world of fantasy adventure, I think that under the circumstances you describe, Ghostie, Longbow can do whatever you want them to do

1. They proved less popular than John Sergeant and were voted off by a public telephone poll.

2. Someone made them into jam.

3. They cause hearing problems in dolphins.

4. They couldn't get them past that awkward corner in the stairwell.

5. ITV came up with a better offer.

6. "You are Number 6." "Who's Number One?" "You are, Number 6."

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Problem with arena events is that they disable emotes and you can't talk to anyone outside of the arena.

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Yes, you're right - I'd forgotten about that. So, why is that? I'm having trouble understanding why it shouldn't at the very least be optional. With the Arena being the white elephant it is, you'd think someone amongst the devs would have an idea to release as many turn-offs from it as possible and encourage casual use of the feature, rather than continue to deter it.

How big can you make Arena events? Am I right in thinking that Arena maps are selectable? To avoid the level issues, maybe a big Arena event?

But since I don't know what I'm talking about, feel free to point and laugh...

It's probably helpful to take the game mechanics less literally. In game, an adequately enhanced level 30 brute on the right setting can mash Aurora Borealis and her Longbow escort. In character, that's probably highly unlikely, if not impossible. In game, if it couldn't be done, the mission would be unachievable. Consequently the game has to make it possible for any Power Tom, Mighty Dick or Super Harry to whack any signature hero/villain. That's down to game mechanics, not story canon, surely. Of course, even IC, an up-and-coming brute can take down Aurora Borealis if she's having a bad day and the fickle finger of fate suddenly points in the brute's direction; Hulk will whup Spider-Man 99 times out of 100, but the fun is in finding out how Spidey used his smarts to whup Hulk on that one occasion he needed to.

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Personally I like to treat Statesman and Recluse as the pinnacle of power in the CoX universe.
Otherwise there'd be no point in Recluse with cronies being the number one feared enemy.

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True enough (I'm not quoting the rest of your post, because I tend to agree with it, despite having not less than two characters who patently fall into the "uber-mighty-world-destroying-powers" category).


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Of course, the other problem with considering States etc the pinnacle of power, is the Praetorian Arc. Just how many of us have actually beaten the snot out of the evil versions of our uber heroes, and rescued Statesman? Not to mention beaten the big bads/goods directly in Recluses Victory?

Kinda puts the kybosh on PC's not being stronger, really...

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Not necessarily - if you accept that the signature heroes/villains are uber but with flaws, as Shadowe suggests, then it's feasible for a team of relatively underpowered heroes/villains to defeat them with a sound plan. That's how heroes save the planet every month in the books, isn't it?

I think just about all my characters are clobberable (is there a prize for inventing a new word?). I have two who I'd prefer to avoid having any IC humbling - but they do that by using their wits to try and slip out of the kind of trouble that might embarrass them. They're not gods, just slippery. Another character of mine - Doctor Bindweed - is indeed unkillable: his consciousness can recreate another body from any organic matter if needs be (an idea I blatantly ripped off from Swamp Thing ) but he is certainly not "godly". Far from it. He's constantly being forced to rebuild himself from compost because the Council, for example, may have armed themselves with Weedol...

My take on the hero thing is that their vulnerability makes them all the more heroic. Any indestructible demi-god can break up a fight between flame-throwing gang-bangers, but it takes guts and brains to do it if you're more than likely to get killed should anything go wrong. The fact that they get knocked down, then get up again, is part of what makes them heroic, I think.

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Just live and let live

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