DumpleBerry

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Doesn't look that way to me.



    One common, two uncommon, four rare, two very rare.



    Not really. In game, the lines leading up from the Rare row all combine into one line which branches off into two Very Rares. On the website, each Very Rare seems to connect to only two specific Rares, but every one of them has text saying "Ability cost: Any 2 Rare" (emphasis mine).

    EDIT: I see where the confusion might come from. the line connecting the Rares goes *behind* the actual slots, so it's not very clear. It would be more helpful if it looked like this:

    After my last post, I checked in game and discovered I was wrong. Hard for me to see those tiny lines. I came back here to correct myself, but not only had you beat me to it--you had awesome pictures.

    Thanks!
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by warden_de_dios View Post
    That is awesome.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by serenityblaster View Post
    I would like to make a suggestion for new VEAT classes. This will entail restructuring of a sort with Hero VEAT's. Longbow have been a mainstay for hero's and would make a great hero VEAT selection such as Wardens. Warshades should be villain and peacebringers hero. Would fit into the storyline well since arachnos is the main villain group and Longbow are hero's main group. my friends and I have all talked about it and i have heard the same from others. Just makes more sense. Thank you for your time.
    How does it make sense for Warshades to suddenly and collectively all go bad? You do realize that PB and WS have their own background stories and plots, right?
  4. Empathy.

    I'll wager my mother there was no eight second countdown till the blue popped, not for me.
  5. Hey GG, I didn't know you were a Rowan Atkinson fan.



    Alyssa--if it helps, many of us despise the Primal Earth Marcus Cole also.
  6. I recently failed the Apex TF the other night, and there was never any indication that the blue fields were coming. After the near instantaneous death (they appear to have -travel debuffs), I could see them--but there was no way to anticipate them. "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, DEATH, oh...a blue thing."

    Bugged? A bad graphics issue?
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
    I haven't looked into it very hard, but from what I can tell, the differences are that the website is upside down.
    The big thing for me is that the game tree appears to have four different possible endings, two rare and two very rare (with two rare predecessors). The website seems to suggest that there are four rares, and a variety of them combine to form the two rares.

    The upshot being that BOTH the game and the website currently indicate a combination of rare boosts to achieve the very rare, but they both indicate different ones.

    What gets my goat is that all the components and shards and such are all specifically labeled "for the Alpha slot." I don't know if I can take farming up a storm of beta shards for the beta slot. I'm already disinterested in all the Incarnate content.
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Actually, no. No it's not
    Alright, fine. Explain how you are right, and the entirety of Paragon Studios is wrong. Please, we're all waiting.

  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RuaBas View Post
    I tend to take very long breaks. As sad as it may sound, I would be heart broken to come back to the game to find one of my high level characters generic'ed. I would leave and quite possibly never return. I am a fairly casual player and to have a character I've worked so hard on be so drastically changed without my knowledge; it would be very difficult to come to terms with that. It would feel like someone else is now playing MY character.

    Not that anyone would want any of my names but you know what I mean.

    I do feel as though there does need to be a different way of releasing those names stuck in the void of lost players. I think those without globals should very certainly be deleted, period. They aren't coming back. And I feel as though the "safe" level should be higher and there should be a more set schedule of release. Though I do feel that level 40 and higher should blocked from ever being deleted.

    In the mean time, until things are changed (which the devs are usually pretty good about), there is a fantastic community on Virtue that is always willing to help with name ideas. As others have pointed out, please check out the Virtue Name Watch sticky and post.

    DIBS ON SORSHA!

    *evil*
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
    Maybe I've always had exceptional teams, but those two have never taken more than 40 minutes. One hour and a half would fall into "sucktastic team" for me.
    After 3.5 hours, our Apex TF team the other night gave up. It was pretty demoralizing, considering most of us are seven-year vets playing with purpled builds, and equipped with uncommon boosts.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rajani Isa View Post
    Well, from the website, we see the note that the Very Rare boosts will require 2 rares.

    That's all we really know at this point.
    The website and the in-game Alpha tree disagree with each other, so I would advise people not to make any plans based on either of them. We don't know anything beyond the common and the uncommon. Rare and very rare are still a complete mystery.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    Yeah, I spoke with one of the Devs at a recent convention. It is as cut and dry as that. He explicitly said the words "We retconned it."
    See? That seems pretty "cut and dried" to me.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by xeaon View Post
    2 nice Hami Raids, last night.

    Lot of new ppl at Hami Raiding, still it was nto an issue. I'm Glad we pulled new Blood into Hami raiding ^-^


    Tonight is the big Night, its been 4y since i formed Global Co.

    To celebrate the event, will do this : http://tinyurl.com/Jan7th-RedSideHamidNukeRaid

    Be there, have your WB nukes
    I was at last night's raid, on the "Just play it be ear" team. Thanks for an awesome raid--definitely my best Hami experience in the game, ever.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    How many times is that series going to be re-re-re-re-re-released? Each time with yet more commentary by the 2nd Assistant Sub-altern Vice-Gaffer's Cousin's Nephew's Former Roommate?
    Until it stops making money.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    It's not quite as cut and dried as that
    It's not as cut and dried as the Dev's saying, "That never happened"????
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire View Post
    Does anyone remember me at all? Yes, Professor Backfire, as scatterbrained and reckless as ever, is back on the streets of Paragon wasting time and money on costumes and getting killed a lot!

    Now I just gotta kill time while waiting for this monster download that I hope doesn't kill my connection for a month again. So, what's new?
    Welcome back. The community continues to be incrementally less important than the acquisition of new players as time goes on. You may find that to be the biggest change, considering your history with the game. Good to see you again, Prof.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    i can find nothing anywhere that corroborates your claim that lifetime subscriptions have ever been available for City of Heroes. In light of there being no evidence to support your statement i have decided that it must be true.

    See? i'm starting to get the hang of this rumor and doom stuff. Eventually i'll be making my own foil-lined hats and posting (even more) incoherent rants.
    Having been invested in the game since February of '04, I can tell you that there weren't any from that point on. Before that, I don't know, but I certainly don't recall hearing about it in the last seven years.
  18. It wasn't explained--it was one of those off-hand posts in response to a thread just like this one. "It's not worth doing, because it's not effective, because it doesn't free up as many names as you think it would." As I said, maybe it was just an excuse to not run the script.

    But yeah, eight to forty eight. I would never have dreamed I would have filled all eight back in '04.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kelenar View Post
    Interesting. That runs counter to my expectations--that the majority of people who have subscribed and subsequently left the game for good did so in the first few months, and that a lot of the really obvious names that are taken would have been snagged within the first few months, so a lot of inactive accounts would also have obvious names on them. I'd love to see the hard data on things related to this (percent of total accounts that were deactivated in the first few months and subsequently deactivated for good, percent of total characters held by accounts deactivated for over a certain threshold...), but I'm a fiend for statistics.
    I totally agree with you. It makes no sense to me, but there you go.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GreySquirrel View Post
    Quite true. I'd love to have a non-nameless non-theoretical non-fictional redname come on and verify one way or the other though.
    Hahaha, yes, I made it up, because I derive a fantastic ephemeral satisfaction out of lying on the internet. Oh no!
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Klaatu View Post
    Oh, you mean like City of Heroes did before its launch?
    You mean the other one.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bosstone View Post
    I'm still giddy over having gotten Electrofyte.

    He's got what plants need! Now in Punch flavor!
    Ha! Nice name!

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Warp_Factor View Post
    Exactly. More power to those who want to use more unusual names, but there's no good reason why other great names should remain locked up. It doesn't really benefit anyone.
    I can't disagree with that. However, the problem (as has been explained to me by rednames, I don't have any personal evidence myself) is that running the "free up old names on accounts that are no longer subscribed" script releases a surprisingly trivial number of names.

    By and large, a lot of the names that are "taken" are taken by existing players who are playing them. Right now.

    Of course, if that was just a PR line (no reason to think it was, mind you), then go on--free those names up.
  22. DumpleBerry

    I'm rusty

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scooby_Dont View Post
    Hi Rusty, I'm Scooby!
    Darn it, Scoob beat me by a whole 45 minutes.
  23. Scoob, Gob, and the others are right. You don't have to like it, but them's the breaks. Entering a PvP zone means you are PvPing.
  24. This is my new favorite thread OF ALL TIME.

    OF ALL TIME.