Electric-Knight

Originally Posted by Turbo_Starr

Best I can do with clear windows.

Clear Windows 1
Clear Windows 2

Originally Posted by backalleybrawler

i sure hope power customization is going okay...

Originally Posted by Liquid

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So very, very cruel.

Originally Posted by Niviene

lol I'm pretty quick for now...

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I think you should either keep this offer open until I16 goes live, or maybe open it up again with each of the next few Issues, as there will be quite a few people who take advantage of the reactivation weekends who will come here and find their names have the "NA/EU" tags on them.

Originally Posted by Dispari

If France lands on me, I would hopefully be killed upon impact.

Otherwise I'd be stuck under all of France (under an undetermined amount of land mass/rubble) without the promise of a rescue team. Although, France is kind of a big place so I suppose I wouldn't be the only one crushed, so they may have a lot of people trying to unearth everything to get to us. Even then there's no promise I'd get rescued before I ran out of air or starved. That's assuming my lungs weren't crushed and fill with blood or something.

Then again, even if I did survive and was saved, it would only be to meet my inevitable end as whatever caused France to rocket across the planet and land on Texas would also probably cause polar shifts in the planet and possibly the melting/incineration of the planet as it's thrown off balance and thrust into the sun.

Originally Posted by SinergyX_EU

A few ingame things i have noticed:

If a EU player will go on the US server, or talk about gameplay, know this:
-Its common as blaster to have tough, prefered weave
-You are gimped if you are not softcaped or at least purple IO'ed
-Badges are nothing, as long u got the basic ones of AE you're good.
-Without a kin, dont even start the mission.. you will loose, or everyone leaves after first mob.
-If you are looking for a group, use /b, /l and request channel, 5 times, by default.
-If you are a kin troller, you better be fire/, else welcome to City of Solo.
-Even if you are just lvl8, you should be a full tanker from lvl1 and tank 53bosses without problems.
-Knockback equals kick
-If you are sonic, thermal, frost or FF, dont worry about shields, nobody will noticed. If you are Kin, DO YOUR FREAKING JOB. (aka, SB everyone, FS every group).
-Defenders do _not_ exist in City of Heroes. If they do, they are gimped blasters. Trollers do just perfectly fine for support.
-Never.. i mean never, serious never, mention that it might be better to lower the difficulty a bit to speed things up, you are soooo wrong. Purple mobs equal exp, got it?
-As british, dont try funny jokes, they just wont understand
-There are no travelpowers, Atlas aint that big!
-Learn the 'convert 3 insp into 1' rule, you look stupid when you reply to 'what u need?', 'a rez?'.
-Never make jokes about Obama sounds like Osama. Ever. (this apply to forum rules 31: when WW2 is dragged into the conversation, the whole conversation reached its end).
-Nobody knows Golden Girl..serious, they dont. (really? Impossible!! i know.. weird people).
-Blind teaminvites equals AE missions.
-Chimora is actualy populated, it is not a ghost town.
-If you do the Chimora TF, pretend u spamming powers, even though the whole time you never see anyone moving (LAAAAAAAG).
-If you only do AE, never put enhancements in your powers, you look silly.
-The avarage framerate on peekhours in AE Atlas - Freedom is around 0.25.
-You never crash, you DC.
-Buff random people fighting on the streets, you get very friendly replies (serious).
-It is common to use a dot or a misspell in your name, it makes you look 'veteran'.

probably more, but this should be enough a

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

OK, I've had about as much as I can take of this nonsense. I try to be a reasonable person, when my first reaction to the new boards software was "What the hell, man! What the hell!" I thought I'd keep my cool and just give myself time to adapt. New forum software, new interface, a lot of stuff to learn. It'll be all good, right? Wrong. Not when a basic functionality such as going to the first unread post completely and plainly doesn't work.

What should "Go to first new post" do? Well, judging by its name, it should take me to the first post made into a thread since I last checked it. Fat chance. Not only does it not take me to a new post, it actually counts posts I made as new. Um, hello! They're not news to me. I made them. But, OK, technically they are new, so I can roll with that. But even that aside, this still doesn't work.

Here's how the forums have been working for me all day: I haven't logged in for around a week, so when I logged into the forums today, there were a lot of new threads and a lot of old threads with new replies in them. I used the microscopic little triangle to go to the first new post in them and, lo and behold, it took me where it was supposed to. So I posted in a few threads, took a stroll around the house while the windows in my living room were being replaced, came back to the forums and decided to check out what had happened in the past half hour.

You'd think the posts made AFTER I posted would be new, but no! The little triangle thing kept taking me back to the OLD posts that had been newest when I first came online today, but were no longer newest or unread. I read them. In fact, I quoted them. It's kind of hard to quote someone if you haven't read his post. The "Quote" button is right next to each post, so I have to at least have had the post drawn on my screen. But no, that's still undread and the damn function keeps bringing me there, so I have to scroll down, flip through the pages and manually find the last post I read. Well what the HELL is the point of having an option to take me to the first new post if it doesn't take me to the first new post but some random location in the thread so I have to manually look for the REAL first post? At that point, I may as well start from page one.

I tried to give these forums a chance, I really did. But it's just one thing after another. The colour scheme sucks, the functionality is down the toilet for the most basic stuff, direct-poster replies and multi-level quotes are gone... And now I'm finding that the most basic functionality of any forum - finding where you left off a thread - isn't working right. Oh, and the Dev Digest is still gone, to the point where players are having to make their own. Now, I'm grateful to the many people who have rigged up versions of the digest, but come on! What did this forum shuffle fix that was worth breaking practically everything?

I'm sorry. I just finally feel fully justified in being very loudly indignant. This is an absurd, embarrassing step down from what we had before, and it's only getting worse.

*edit*
And for the love of pi, where did the link to the official game site go? The old forums had a link to the effect of "Go back to City of Heroes" which brought you back to cityofheroes.com. No such thing exists now, and even clicking the banner up top brings me to http://boards.cityofheroes.com/index.php, the root of the forums (for which a link already exists) rather than back to the official site. Since I don't have any tabs with it open right now, the only way to check the server status is to open a brand new tab and write in the url by hand. Why was this functionality removed? Was it a problem to have a basic link of convenience?

Originally Posted by MsMisery

I recently posted what was clearly just a rant in this topic, I apologise for wasting time and forum space and will attempt to provide helpful opinions and ideas in future post's

Originally Posted by Haetron

The mod has spoken man.

Originally Posted by pohsyb

The concept if anyone is curious for, pohsyb or (pohsib):

A dilapidated and malfunctioning robot abandoned by his inventor (a different character that tries to mix magic and technology, but usually fails). Left alone, the robot has an epiphany and becomes a religious zealot believing that the universe is really a giant computer and that god is binary.

This half-mad glitchy robot begins proselytizing his beliefs (with violence if necessary) and soon begins to work actual miracles (explaining any powers he has whenever I roll him) indicating there may be something more to his beliefs than pure lunacy.

Originally Posted by Tripp_Hazzard

Give the 50 the star.

Edit: Strike that. The 50 will have quit the team but stay in the mission, because it's "to the mission owner" when you're in a mission.

Originally Posted by Dark_Quill

I'd like to say how very nice this system will make non-AE teams for my RP SGs. We've got a lot of characters of a lot of different levels. And until AE, it was always a challenge to find something for us to do together (if we didn't have half the team in the right level range), and mostly we ended up Flashbacking down to an arc that the very lowest level could do.

When AE came along, that problem was solved by AE missions with limited level ranges. And with i15, it got even better because the designers didn't have to play tricks to limit the range. But now, with i16, we'll all be able to do non-AE arcs with anyone, get xp with anyone, and rp with anyone while still 'playing the game.'

Thank you so much.

Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler

I think this is uncalled for. MMOs are a social game, and the forums are a social environment. I certainly don't look at people negatively for wanting to communicate and socialize with other human beings, even if it is only virtually.

Having met a number of people that post regularly on the forums in real life, I can attest that most of them seem to be perfectly normal people, with family and friends, more than capable of having a life outside of this game and these forums.

This post, btw, is being made on a Saturday night at 9:03 pm. Take that as you will.