Dr_Mechano

"Oh no, I'm kind of a fan of all of them, I was just going to follow you to see where you went, I'll try not to 'geek out' if we someone really famous like Statesman or Back Alley Brawler..."

Terrance let out what can only be described as a cross between a chuckle and a schoolgirl giggle.

From paragonwiki and the Crab spider info box.

One of those nutjobs right here...before I quit WoW I had over 75 non-combat pets and I went to some extreme lengths to get the rare ones...grinding for days on end in certain spots.

The worst one was 5 hour grind for three day solid in a team of three people...but by god did I finally get my pirate hat and pirate parrot at the end of it...and a nifty achievement + title when they added them in.

wow that actually makes you look even more like a moron...congradulations *slow clap*

Edit: In order to keep the discussion on track...about the only thing wrong with CoH currently to my tastes is the lack of map diversity AND the old pre-faultline/striga content.

Oh god the '*click*...ok that's cryo...didn't want that...*click*..that's fire...I wanted toxic...*click* FINALLY'

And it took what was it, over 10 seconds to cycle through them all, 2 second recharge and a 2 second animation time...

...oh and it didn't stick around when you zoned either so you had to go through the whole thing again each time you entered a mission...

Amy smiled and shook the offered hand, "It will be a pleasure."

She looked over the shoulder of Portia and had completely forgotten about the queue building behind her.

"Oooh sorry hun probably going to have to part ways here...they look like they're getting rowdy..."

8 man team of Thugs MM with Gang warfare taking on Lusca please!

Amy grinned widely, "of course...though I am a genetically engineered cat person as opposed to those that are born this way naturally so I fear you may be disappointed in that regard but I shall go more into my origins whenever you wish to set a date..."

Amy swiped one of Georgies business cards from his pocket much to his annoyance and scribbed down her cell phone number.

"There we go, I'm free most of the time, tomorrow perhaps?"

Several metafans looked on with wide eyed envy at the catgirl infront of them...she probably had no idea how many of them would want Amy's number.

Hmm normally it's two weeks for closed beta, two weeks for open beta then a live release.

So that's still not long and puts us in the first two weeks or so of April IF that's the case.

Unfortunately for Georgie the display was not a well rehearsed act...she would be having stronger words with her Agent later in private.

She smiled and signed the autograph book, 'To Dr. Carr, don't let their preconceptions about our kind ever get you down, stay strong and continue the good work, hugs and kisses Amy Zon.'

Amy was 'built' different to most catgirls, Amy was built more akin to a big cat such as a lion or tiger than the slim cheetha like build of most catgirls, toned but not overly muscular. She smiled as she handed the autograph book back, "there we go Doctor, as the note says, keep up the good work..."

It was nice to see another real catgirl in this place, not just someone with fake ears and a tail.

"Oh I wouldn't want to be a bother, you're probably busy trying to get autographs of your own...I mean if you're going to a heroes booth then sure I'll come with you, this place is huge...I wouldn't know where to start!"

Terrance was as chipper as ever, his voice having slightly electronic undertones to it, there was so much to do here and certainly not enough time to do everything...he decided to just follow his new friend and try not to make a nuisance of himself.
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Amy smiled, "certainly Miss, who do I make it out to?"

Her agent gave her a nudge and she looked at him with sigh.

"I'm NOT charging for my autograph...I don't care how many times you say it Georgie...there's tons of other things for fans to spend their money on...an autograph should not be one of them..."

She turned back to Portia, "sorry about that...agents...always thinking about their cut of the profits first and common human decency second..."

Wow that is an AWESOME costume Samuel...definitely see the Tali resemblence...not sure about Positron but she definitely looks like Tali...

This...oh god this...

In both CO and STO the lack of real numbers actually makes things even more confusing than if there were proper numbers and descriptions about what powers affected what, how the power worked beyond a vague description. Jack (and thus Cryptic) seem to have this love affair with being...well..cryptic when it comes to abilities and it's so far been on the major complaints on every review site about both CO and STO.

His audio receptors picked up the compliment and spun around to seek out it's owner...spotting Becky through the crowd he very carefully maneuvers his way over to Becky.

"Oh thank you miss, they can be a bit hard to stablize at times but you learn fast..." He held out a small mechanical hand for her to shake.

"My name is Terence, are you a superhero? can I have your autograph? I get so nervous around people..."

From what I can tell all the experienced dev team (not just the freem 15 but most of the other staff involved with CoH) jumped ship to NCsoft which meant that he was left with a bunch of new hires for replacements. Since Jack liked CoH back when it was 'his game' and liked that way of gaming he ended up making the very same mistakes he made with the first release of CoH and there was nobody experienced enough to question his descisions.

Jack then fell into what I like to call the 'Peter Molyenux lead developer trap' how he would go on and on about how awesome his game was going to be, how it would be the best thing since sliced bread and made a LOT of promises...

...unfortunately like old Peter M. most of those promises he couldn't keep or they didn't pan out the way he said they would.

This...NCsoft is smart enough to think of something like that. Infact it was probably one of the first things they thought of.

CO was an uncertainty...if it tanked and tanked HARD (like it was such a failure they had to shut it down within the first six months aka Tabula Rasa...) then Cryptic would have probably been dumped by Atari and gone into liquidation, this was a very real possibility at the time of the NCsoft purchase.

I imagine NCsoft actually have 'first dibs' on owning the CoH engine if Cryptic do go into liquidation and lets face it...they're probably more of a force to reckon with than Atari especially thanks to the big success of Aion out east (they launched at a time when WoW was suffering major problems in China to the point where the servers had been shutdown due to fighting over who had the rights to run the game so that netted them a sizeable chunk...was 3 million people at the time IRC).

Atari meanwhile has been facing financial difficulties for quite some time (almost all their games have been poorly recieved and sold poorly, they have a bad reputation among gaming circles unfortunately) and the speculation is that the company is only just about treading water. They needed STO to be a big hit but that looks somewhat unlikely due to the rushed release (the game is fun but is basically half finished) so the future of Atari isn't really certain itself.

However Atari's situation is merely financial speculation at the moment.