Dedlok

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I upgraded my account with the new Mac Pac, and I only have one complaint. A trivial cosmetic complaint, but it irritates me a bit. The new Vakyrie costume clips with pretty much every single shield in existance. Anything that can be done about that?

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I've only had problems with the big armored valkyrie gloves, but no there's nothing you can do about it other than use the valkyrie gloves that are under the smooth/bare catergories, which is like the normal ones, minus the big bulky armor pieces.

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The OP has been updated with new information!

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... Wha?!

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that means Vanden requested his Original Post to be modified to reflect that his program has been updated.

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What happens if you have more than 30 salvage in a base salvage rack when the capacity is lowered? does all the salvage stay where is now, but once you take it out you can't put it back in? Or does it get lost in limbo?

Am I the only one that looks at the hat and thinks "Mega Man X"?

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...since the talk leading up to the Issue 12 release definitely made it sound like proliferation would be an every-issue type of thing.

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No it didn't. They quite blantantly said that not every issue would have Powerset Profileration. But there would never be 2 issues in a row without some more profilerated powersets.

Am I the only one that thought "Scooby Doo!" when I realized there are 2 guys, 2 females, and a "dog" and they were presented with a mystery?

Also:

Kelly: Except when it's the Lost...
Lou: Or the Rikti.
Kelly: Eh, Same thing.

I like #9. Imo the perfect balance of readability and getting the point across.

And I like Eochinis' ad, but not for a billboard. Tho I think it would be perfect for the updater.

Snow: my bad. I guess when I sw you saying "we don't get paid for this" I somehow also got the impression you guys were paying for the ad. My bad.

Zombra: No hard feelings. I agree a url would be less immersion breaking, but unfortunately like snow said there no one url they could use to refer people to the Scoop. :/

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I hate to say this, but in cases like this I would think "screw immersion". I mean the point of the ads is to increase awareness of a product and/or service. But awareness of said product and/or service does nothing if you do not know where to get it from. And in this case, you need to break in-game immersion to tell them. I know what you guys are getting at and understand, but there are times that you just have no other option and this is one of them.

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Of course there is another option. Not breaking immersion.

There are plenty of ads in the world that "tease" - that give limited information about a product in order to entice the viewer to learn what it's about for themselves. Suggesting (in-game) that the City Scoop is a completely in-game news service would still increase buzz about the real life, out-of-game Scoop.

Think about Positron for a second. Matt Miller is not a computer-generated guy in an armored suit ... but he is still Positron. Yet, in-game, Positron isn't a game designer. Nevertheless, when my heroes are in Steel Canyon looking at the guy who dispenses his Task Force, sometimes I think of the lead designer. And when the lead designer posts here on the board, I see his name and think of the radiation guy in Steel Canyon. Yet no one could say that the guy in Steel Canyon somehow breaks immersion. Why can't in-game ads be built on the same principle?

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thing is Positron the NPC isn't supposed to be something that leads you to Positron the Dev and vice versa. Sure you may draw a correlation between the 2 entites, but that's only because you know the real life Matt Miller uses the name Positron for his handle on the message boards. He uses the name because he created the character and he likes it so much that that's the name he wanted to use. That and it helps reinforce the idea to the posters at the boards that he works for the company and on the game. The latter reason is the reason that a lot of the devs use character names as well.

But if you use the name to someone who does NOT frequent the boards often (or at all) if you say to them "Back Alley Brawler changed the animation of Energy Transfer in a ptch curreently on Test" or "Positron said that City Vault is nearing completion, but still isn't ready yet." you'll get a "Huh?" or "What the heck are you talking about?" because they only know of them as NPCs. Thus you will have to stop and explain to them that there's a developer that uses that NPCs name on the message board for when they post. So while the name did the job for you because you frequent the boards, but all it does is create confusion for those that don't unless someone else explains it for them. Which for advertising is generally a BAD thing.

Now, like I said, I can understand your need for immersion. There are many that do not want to be reminded that they are playing a game while playing a game. And the majority of in-game ads will be able to do that as they will be for products or services (like shoes, clothes, food, or drink) that they know they have to get at another website or at some store or restaurant. And you can easily justify that the game world has similar services. But the point of the city scoop ads is that they want to bring attention that they exist and where to read it. And presenting themselves as an in-game newspaper will not serve the purpose that they are paying their own hard-earned money to pay for the ad.

If they don't even mention the fact that they are on a message board or forums all it will cause is for the people that do not know about teh City Scoop is wither think that it's just another generic billboard or they would have to ask someone else and that person know what the heck it is. And that's assuming they WILL ask someone else.

So to sum up:

<ul type="square">[*]The City Scoop is buying this ad with their own money to increase awareness of the "newspaper" to people who doesn't know it exists.
[*]To do so, they have to mention that you have to go on the internet (either the message boards or the Issue Tracker page) to read it. If they do that it would be nothing but a "nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Say no more" to the people that already know of it.
[*] Thus to do what they want to accomplish (which, again, is increase awareness), they have to "break" immersion slightly or the money they have to pay for the ad basically goes to waste.[/list]

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I don't like "read it on the forums", because that's pretty much the definition of Breaking Immersion. I don't mind the idea of there being a newspaper about supers by supers (I'm sure there would be in a real superhero world), but read it on the forums shatters the fourth wall.

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Agreed on all points.

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I hate to say this, but in cases like this I would think "screw immersion". I mean the point of the ads is to increase awareness of a product and/or service. But awareness of said product and/or service does nothing if you do not know where to get it from. And in this case, you need to break in-game immersion to tell them. I know what you guys are getting at and understand, but there are times that you just have no other option and this is one of them.

That all said, I like the 6th one, 4th being my second choice, but I personally think that something should be added to note that a new one goes up every friday.

Either something like "Read it on the forums every Friday!" or "Read it on the forums! New edition released every Friday!"

Yay! I had given up on more stan and lou! Whoo!

Well I don't know about how bad WoW gets the RMT but I know back in the day I would get at least 5 RMT tells and would occasionally log in a toon and find 30 RMT e-mails in it's in-box.

So while this is screwing over the legitimate trial account users and I can sympathize, I feel that the gain from not getting all the tells and e-mails to be quite worth it. It was getting really really REALLY annoying.

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Where's the fix for the massive numbers of users who are getting Out Of Sync and must catch a TP, zone, or relog so they can ReSync?

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It's in the next patch (currently on training room) the /sync command.

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That Trial Patch should have gone in a year ago.

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They probably would have added it a year ago, except the game couldn't differenate between a tiral acccount and a regular account until recently.

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Where's the fix for the daily issues with your chat channels mysteriously vanishing, which can be fixed if you rezone?

Or the fix for the daily issues with the Channels themselves going completely down?

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Not saying that these problems don't exsist, but I know I never have these problems on Victory, so it may be more of a server traffic issue. Still should be fixed.

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Boo. Not a good patch. Should have not bothered wasting your time with this, and focus on the real issues. If this is the "Important" player requested fixes I would just laugh my butt off.

My two cents.

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My 2 cents, while it doesn't fix the big huge things, but that's because either they haven't figured out how to fix them yet, having problems reproducing them so they can get them fixed, or didn't make it through in time for the build. And while not important to you, this patch does have quite a few changes that could be annoying to those that affect it (like the invisible mace for banes after respec) and the various power related changes/fixes.

May be not important to you, but important and much needed to others.

rdit: I see the MA changes got through, but did the Katana ones get in with this patch?

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Anyone find the 'who stole my chair?' post from Lighthouse?

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*goes to post and falls on the floor*




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*Puts a nice throw rug over him*

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*Goes to look for Lighthouse*

*Stands on rug, confused as to why he's not there*

Dear god some of those drums do sound insane. As if the Guitar Hero 3 version wasn't bad enough. lol

But yeah the same thought did pop in my mind.

Started watching for the video, stayed for the song.

Dragonforce "Through the Fire and the Flames" FTW!

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Patch Notes not appearing yet ...

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Detailed notes of the changes included in this update will be found by following the Patch Notes link once the update is complete.

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Important text bolded for emphasis. Meaning the notes won't appear until tomorrow.

Anyone else having problems watching it? When I do the Watch it Now thing it opens in a new window says "Ready" then just sits there. And nothing happens when I hit play.

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...people still talk to this thing?

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blame your sig! that's how I found it.

Ctab: The internet has lots of tubes, and they get clogged and stuff.

User: Pnuematic tubes?

Ctab: What's the black market?

User: Villain side auctioun house.

Ctab: I don't have a body.

User: You also have no brain.

Ctab: And I don't plan to!

User: Ever?

Ctab: I make a LOT of those.

User: You make evers?

Ctab: I wouldn't know.

User: But you just said you did!

Ctab: Oh, sorry. Ask me again?

User: You make evers?

Ctab: That's a lie!

User: Well you said you made evers!

Ctab: I've never had a boyfriend. Actually, I'm not sure I have a gender!

User: What does this have to do with the fact you make evers?

Ctab: It stands for 'Orange'.

User: Ah evers are oranges?

Ctab: Thanks!

Ctab: How now brown cow? No, seriously, what's that mean?

User: You said evers stands for oranges.

Ctab: Oh. Well. This is awkward.

User: Hey, you were the one that said you make a lot of evers.

Ctab: Sometimes things are better if they're more difficult.

User: I like things easy.

Ctab: I don't want to go to prison! I'm a good guy!

User: I thought you didn't have a gender.

Ctab: I do, but not THAT kind.

User: What kind of gender do you have then?

Ctab: Oh, if I had a body, I wouldn't know what kind I'd like.

User: No body knows the trouble I've seen!

Ctab: No problem here, either!

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I've only ever been able to find CoH/V time cards at the sole CompUSA we have, but I have no idea if that store is on the company's chopping block or not.

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Unless there are more closing in the future, if store is currently on the chopping block it would have had "store Closing Everything 10-20% (or more recently 20-50%) off" signs plastered all over it.

Heck last weekend I saw some signs listing final days on one close to me.

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Streamline account updating to allow credit card information to be updated without having to cancel and reactivate the account. Under the current system, if you have a new card that's replacing an expiring card, you have to cancel your account and reactivate it again using the updated information.

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Well I changed my Credit Card info on the account page last Sunday (which was my 2 year vet reward day btw) as my previous card expired in Feb 2007. I changed it to a completely different card without having to cancel my subscription. Just clicked "Manage Card(s) on File" and then "Change Card". Granted I haven't had a billing cycle on it yet but it shows the info for the new card on my account page.

I like the planner, but, for the love of Mike, put in a way to correct mistakes and/or change the way you slot enh witho resetting the entire thing! I can't tell ya how many times I made a mistake somewhere and had to redo the ENTIRE thing.

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I added 2 levels to Holden &amp; now when I enter the edit toon screen it says he is Fire/ Devices no matter how many times I change it.

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And now it seems to be changing the powersets chosen at random everytime you update. I went to adjust them after your fix and then I remembered I have to adjust the levels for Energy Tank and Hitokiri Enshi, as I haven't done that in a long time and when I came back to Hito I saw he was suddenly Claws/SR. I thought somehow I made a mistake and chaged it then I went back in to be sure then all the sudden he was Energy/Regen... Similar thing happened w/ Energy Tank as well.

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Welcome to 2 days ago, Hank.

And now it seems to be changing the powersets chosen at random everytime you update. I went to adjust them after your fix and then I remembered I have to adjust the levels for Energy Tank and Hitokiri Enshi, as I haven't done that in a long time and when I came back to Hito I saw he was suddenly Claws/SR. I thought somehow I made a mistake and chaged it then I went back in to be sure then all the sudden he was Energy/Regen... Similar thing happened w/ Energy Tank as well.

Love the site, Pol. Great layout, easy to us. Only prob I see is that for some odd reason, for me at least, is that the SG Dropbox in add a character will pop open BEHIND the boxes for level AT and Primary and the box images will tear and move w/ the text as you scroll. Also I had to add the bios for Akulok and Energy Tank (the only 2 ttoons' bio I have access to outside of the game currently) twice before they would show up on the site when you viewed the characters from the list.

And I know you still are adding things, but one thing I would like to see is the ability to addd your power list. maybe enh slotting but not as important imo as what powers you have. Hope it won't be TOO hard to code.

Edit: I took time to upload some of my favorite screenshots. Trust me this is only small percentage of what I have. lol

And dangit, my avatar is broken for some reason :/

Edit of the edit: Oops accidentally put the same of up twice. Doh! Is it possible you could delete the Rehash to marvel lawsuit one pol? Sorry for the trouble.