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Good idea. Make it so.

Ya, 30 Family/Longbow or whatever for a costume slot is lame.

20 tops or how about none?

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Cloak of Fear.

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Correct me if I'm horrible wrong since I'm not sure I'm calculating any of this right but wouldn't the difference between 2 and 3 IO's be 1.33 accuracy for three and 1.22 accuracy for two.

Assuming a base accuracy of .67 for CoF and level 50 IO's.

Edit: If so wouldn't a better slotting involve only 2 accuracies and maybe something like a fear, and endurance reduction, and a couple of tohit debuffs?

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Probably, I was just joking.

Cloak of Fear.

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This isn't needed. When I create a new hero or villain, I'm in the "starter" zones for all of 5 levels.

If you are suggesting this to "save the newbs," then I still unsign. If they want saving, they'll save themselves.

How about we level restrict the low zones for AE? No level 10+ for AP/Mercy? Sounds like a better solution.

You'll get over it, I'm sure. I still have so many characters to play and don't really care if I15 contains 0 proliferation.

I'm jonesing over the new TF/SF for all my 50s. Bring em on!

In before rehashed and tired argument of Ice Armor Brutes and Fury, blahblahblah

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I was never around for CoP so I'm sure how feasbile this suggestion is...but would someone be able to develop a mission arc with MA that is similar to CoP?

Of course you don't get an actual item of power.

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Not very feasible. CoP could allow an entire SG to participate, making the team/co-op make-up of the trial much larger than anything MA could do.

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I meant more along the lines of the story. I've heard about the mechanics but never follow-up on the actual storyline.

I was never around for CoP so I'm sure how feasbile this suggestion is...but would someone be able to develop a mission arc with MA that is similar to CoP?

Of course you don't get an actual item of power.

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Arc 43636 - Find Jack's Hair
Rating: *

There are times as a reviewer I get this occasionally inflated ego that lets me think that by reviewing something that's good, I'm bringing it up from the mire of obscurity. I dialled this arc up and saw immediately, a comical opening. Ho boy, this is going to be rough, I think. With Operative Gallows this time, I drew his knobbly phallic object and started the arc. Then, I read the opening dialogue... this isn't really a story, no. This is it seems, much more about the author fiddling with things. Part of me thinks it might merit no stars, but I just as much suspect it's just another humour arc that I'm not going to find funny.

There are some basic formatting errors - the first mission objective has a period at the end, and the boss name sits in the bar like a squat frog as the author failed to realise what that entry actually does if left blank. The dialogue is brief, the writing sparse - in general, this arc is, well, barely there. I don't want to write a ranting tirade against it because it's not like it's bad, but it's also very much not good, either. At hest, it can be seen as inoffensive, or unpresent. Like an atom or our solar system, it's mostly composed of nothing, but nobody's going to [censored] that either of those two things aren't still relatively effective at their job of giving astrophysicists something to do.

I give the arc one star, not because it's a 'bad arc', but because there's not really much of an arc here at all. I very much got the feeling this is an arc Clouded created to get to grips with what the mission architect could do, and, failing a better reason, just made a brief joke and stretched it out for five pages. It's not high art, and I wouldn't recommend any one emulate it, but the failings of this arc feel like those of ambivalence. The author made a joke, made an arc to fulfill that joke, and it does its job (and I did laugh at points).

This arc is a Bugs-Bunny, 4-minutes-before-the-movie style joke which is polite enough to not overload itself with 'because I can' objectives. I'd love to spend pages ripping it apart, but it doesn't actually have many in the way of failings. Maps are different from point to point, missions are structured in a not-too-annoying fashion, and there's a bit of metahumour I found funny without it being annoying. The arc didn't try to do much, and my god, did it succeed at reaching those goals.

In the end, complaining that this arc is badly written and simplistic would be like [censored] that a twinkie isn't a balanced, substantial meal.

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Very fair review, a bit over the top to make your point but I expected nothing less. Thanks for taking the time to run through the missions.

And you were right...it was just a long joke inspired by Jim Beam.

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You suckers are lining up for Talen to insult you, while I get it for free.

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More or less. I just someone to run my damn arc.

Man, my arc is going to get torn a new one. This should be fun.

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Check out "Find Jack's Hair"

I forget the arc # but you can search by the name just as easily. It's a 3 mission arc meant for all levels so there is only one custom mob/boss. I'm hardly a serious writer but I don't mind constructive feedback even if negative.

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You know what else has been done in an MMO?

Hitler.

This is going to be hard to grasp for some people, but 99% of the people who play this game don't give a damn about you. At all. Let's say you have a hundred friends. No, wait, a thousand friends. Who you play with and care about and are close to and deal with on a daily basis. Great. You have one percent of the player base giving a damn about your existence.

Tanker Tuesday generates what, a hundred tanks every month? Two hundred? Three hundred?

Less than a percent?

Sure, it's impressive. I even laud the idea that TT deserves something, sure, something special. But to act like this game needs to follow-the-leader on ego-inflating bling in a competitive, pvp-based game in this, the individuality-driven, small-and-casual creative game is egotistical to the point of irrationality.

Ironically, it's the kind of self-aggrandizing showboating that I've heard experienced players routinely use as their criteria for dismissing tankers - and this event is at last check about tankers trying to increase tanker popularity and 'have a good time' by ignoring everything in the game that isn't a tanker.

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Just in case anyone has him on ignore.

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I just find it sad that people that do nothing for the community are so quick to vote against those that do.

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So you think because you attended TT that makes you better then those of us who don't care about it or play on another server?

My community involvement is 1) paying my subscription 2) participating in the forums 3) being an officer in a 4.5+ year old SG on Freedom.

Your blankets generalizations and assumptions are not helping your cause.

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Why do there have to be additional plaques?

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Ask the devs that, they keep adding them.

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I believe you but I cannot remember the last plaque that was added. I blame whiskey.

Anyone have a list of recent addtions?

RP your way-points or thumb tacs as thing to visit!

Why do there have to be additional plaques?

psssst, check out my new avatar too!

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Disprove it.

Wait, what I mean to say is...NO U!


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I can't. It is impossible to prove either way. That was my point.

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Actually, it's probably easier to prove that BOTH sides represent a minority of a minority in this game.

I'm waiting for Ace to start spamming Globals channels ingame to rally support...otherwise I don't think 20-30 forumites is going to persuade anyone either way.

Disprove it.

Wait, what I mean to say is...NO U!

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Still a group of players, and NOT an event.

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An event consists of a group of players, jah?

And if you want to get into the Event vs. SG thing then I would argue a SG is far more time intensive and requires much more managing to survive after 4+ years then an one-a-month event.

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(and lots and lots of SMASH!)

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Woah now...SMASH is for Brutes.

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An article in the City Scoop, special forum titles for the organisers, a spot in the game news or some such would be a lot more appropriate

[/ QUOTE ]Sam has it right. Any of those things are far better than a plaque in the game world.

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